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My drwho doodles idk

Every time I learn something new about Academy era Gallifrey I have to do a double take. Some of it is cute and very human for a society like that (etc. the Doctor keeping a pet in his dorm he wasn’t allowed, the Doctor and the Master having a band in their youth, baby Doctor being the Time Tot hide and seek champion for 42 straight years which apparently pissed off baby Rani) and then other bits is just like. The kind of straight up insanity I expected. Baby Doctor (or Theta) developing a new kind of bacteria that could render anyone that came in contact with it comatose. Theta’s cousin trying to get him executed as a literal fucking child out of jealousy. Theta’s friend group (the Deca) climbing a mountain with hallucinogenic snow. A student at the Academy turning another student into a crystal and dropping him off a tower. Magnus (the War Chief) rising to prominence amongst the Time Lords and the Borusa (the Deca’s old professor) framing him for treason out of envy, causing him to have to become a renegade.

Like imagine you’ve got a nice and well-appointed government job after leaving uni and your old lecturer who also happens to work for the government starts feeling threatened by you so he tries to get you the fucking death penalty by framing you for the most serious crime you can literally ever commit in your society, all this forcing you into becoming an on-the-run convict.

Honestly I don’t blame ANY of the renegades for running away and just being generally fucked up people. The Doctor? The Master? The Rani? The War Chief? The Time Meddler? Their childhoods were FUCKED dude, no FUCKING wonder they’re all in such desperate need of therapy. Not to mention The Doctor wanting to find The Toymaker to prove to his family that he’s not a screw up, and in that getting two of his friends killed, and then erased from ever existing because the Time Lord government couldn’t bear such a scandal.

If Gallifreyan society and hierarchy wasn’t so genuinely fucked, I don’t think any of Doctor Who would’ve happened.

To survive on that forsaken planet, you HAVE to be an awful person, I swear to god. No wonder Doc wanted to leave so bad because Jesus fuck the amount of assassination attempts and misuses of the justice system I’ve been reading about 😭🙏 basically everyone is just a self-serving dick in this society and honestly it’s kinda funny

The Master making a president die of stress because he staged a fucking rebellion with a load of uni students… multiple times. And tried to get The Doctor to join… multiple times. For which Doc had his memory wiped… multiple times.

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