#it was never technically canonized but could you imagine the mindfuck

[idkaguyorsomething]

the convoluted doctor who lore gets extra funny when you realize that, at two separate points in the past, two different companions to two different doctors ended up running into rasputin but both came to the conclusion that he was a pretty nice and normal guy. which, depending on how you interpret the power of the doctor, is either a nice subversion of a lot of tropes of stories used in pre-soviet russia, or side-splittingly hilarious as you start imagining the master getting roped into various adventures with different versions of the doctor that he can’t fuck with yet or else he’ll destroy the timeline, forcing him to play nice with the humans as part of his 4D Time Chess Master Disguise Plan #3852

#doctor who #rasputin #in case you’re wondering the companions were #ian chesterton #liz shaw #and #jo grant #who kept explicitly making references to the master throughout the story #but wait it gets better #at one point it was proposed to make a story with this one time lord called the meddling monk #who just decides to start fucking around with the timeline and forces rasputin to listen to boney m #but apparently this actually drives rasputin to the brink on insanity and destroys the entire timeline #forcing the monk to regenerate into rasputin to take his place and live out his life #and that’s why he decided to go by the monk #it was never technically canonized but could you imagine the mindfuck #you have a time lord impersonating another time lord impersonating a normal guy who may or may not have actually existed in the whoniverse #who even knows at this point #the untempered schism didn’t drive the master mad it was a funky disco beat #grigori rasputin #dhawan!master

[v3lveteen-m0th]

*VIOLENTLY THROWS MYSELF INTO THE ROOM-*

hey kids, it's v3l with a brand-spanking new idea! (not new in the sense that it's 100% original, of course.)

here i talk about my interpretations on how my version of a 'humanized au' works:

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so, imagine a normal locomotive, right? i mean as normal as a locomotive with a face gets. anyways, what would happen if, suddenly, a figure appeared right where it was? the result is kind of what i was thinking of.

because as it turns out, these engines seem a bit...off.

spoiler: they kind of are.

how they work, at least conventionally, is a bit of a mindfuck, because nobody exactly knows how their vehicles that are explicitly built could suddenly poof into actual humanoid beings.

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it's speculated that gold dust may be the prime culprit in these apparently magical vehicles turned human. all that's known is that they have three kinds of 'manifestations.' first are the very familiar vehicles and engines in canon, second is the humanoid form, and third is both forms activated at the same time.

since everyone knows about the engines and all of that other claptrap, we'll start with the second form:

• it's not fully developed until a year after the vehicle in question is built.

• it's shape, size, and almost any other variable depends on the size and/or face of the vehicle, if it even has one.

' - sentient faceless vehicles can still manifest a humanoid form, but usually it's either totally blank without depriving the being of most of their senses (excluding taste) or a face is created solely for their humanoid form

• it is definitely a physical being with density and mass, and the weight of each form, again, varies depending on the being.

• there are two separate ages for humanized vehicles, their supposed physical (meaning: how old do they appear to be) age and their actual age (since the vehicle itself was built).

' - in some cases, a humanization looks younger than it really is. for example: a humanization that looks 17 might actually be 23 physically.

• compared to humans, they are very durable and can take a beating, (which helps as most aren't accustomed to a gentler way of messing with each other.) and they have more stamina.

• speaking of stamina and food, they tend to eat (and are able to) some items that are straight-up inedible, to most peoples' amusement. coal is the most obvious (and consumed) contender here.

' - but no matter what, they will never eat anything they consider too disgusting for them.

• they are capable of feeling attraction and all that jazz (and no they do not bone as vehicles get outta here you sick bastards)

• sometimes they puff out tiny clouds of steam from their noses/mouths, usually when they're sleeping or maybe when they're the tiniest bit annoyed.

• it's possible for damage to the vehicle itself to transfer itself to its' humanoid form, and sometimes results vary from lacerations to full-on bloody amputations.

' - instead of the normal red, they tend to have blood that's a light vermillion with some speckles of gold. whether that's gold dust or not remains a mystery.

• they don't need to do any of that human nonsense with the 'loo,' since their bodies use every ounce of whatever they consume to keep going (think kind of a faster metabolism but make it weirder) and leave zero waste products.

• despite lacking true races, they do come in a variety of skin tones and hair colors, some ranging from blonde to brown to sometimes even a mossy green!

• while durable as hell and functionally and effectively immortal, as they do not actually age, they can still die from just about anything, thing is, if the vehicle's repaired, so are they, and they come back to life, looking maybe a smidge worse for wear.

' - the only surefire way to actually kill them is the same way you kill an engine: scrapping.

• their clothes are a part of them, but it doesn't mean they're technically naked, they're removable and can change depending on the paint job or similar incidents be they accident or a makeover.

' - most of the time, they always spawn with hats that resemble their respective transports.

• transforming to-and-from their humanized forms takes just 1 second, but repetitive/consecutive transformation is going to burn them the hell out, and if they can't take any more? they're locked in the last form they turned into for a good while.

• there is generally no limit on how long they can stay humanoid, it's all a matter of preference/practicality. want to experience the joys of having five fingers and jumping everywhere like a rabbit on a pogo stick? go ahead and be human! prefer your chances with speeding down the railway, pulling coaches and in general being useful? wouldn't hurt a bit to stay an engine! the sky's the limit!

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now, onto the third form:

• it depends on whether or not you want your engine to mimic your face while you're talking to your good friend just a few meters away, but it's possible to have not just your humanoid form active but also your regular engine form with a normal smokebox, and vice versa.

• humanized vehicles can actually traverse outside of their respective, original forms--as long as they remain somewhat nearby, or else they're a. forcibly turned back into a vehicle, b. the vehicle disappears, or c. they're teleported back, at most ten feet away from where it's parked.

• people don't know if the vehicles and the people that apparently spawned from them can see through each others' eyes. still remains a heated discussion topic.

• most humanoids wear extravagant outfits with their transport's color palette to further differentiate themselves from humans. sometimes intentional, sometimes not.

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'sodor is such a weird place. there's vehicle-people everywhere.' - some dude

#ttte humanization au ideas/hcs #v3l's trash #ttte human au but not really

[gay-jesus-probably]

Something I feel like nobody ever talks about: In Doctor Who, the Doctor was a grandfather. And I’m not meaning this in the context of all his angst about killing Gallifrey that’s been retconned by Fucking Moffat (my hatred for him is irrelevant here), I’m meaning in the context of classic Who, with the Time Lords and Gallifrey still around.

And more specifically, to have a granddaughter, the Doctor would have had to have been a father. And had an actual literal child that his first regeneration raised.

So everybody with eyes and a functioning brain knows that the Doctor and the Master were absolutely a thing when they were kids, and considering that they’re both impulsive fucks, it’s a safe bet that they might have done whatever the Time Lord equivalent to marriage is. And somewhere it’s canon that Time Lords only reproduce asexually using something called The Loom so they don’t need to deal with pregnancy, so it is entirely possible that the Doctor and the Master, as the Gallifreyan equivalent of teenagers, could have gone and made a kid together. Because again. Impulsive fucks.

And considering the Doctor literally never says a word about his child, and they never show up on his adventures, it’s probably safe to bet that his kid was a normal, stable Time Lord who mostly stayed on Gallifrey and held a respectable position, making them too boring for the Doctor to go out of his way to visit after she was an adult (I’m assuming the Doctor’s kid is a girl because reasons I’ll explain later).

Now ignore all the angst and/or fluff that this could turn out, and think of the comedy potential. Because imagine this girl growing up, becoming a respectable Time Lord, and not having much contact with her dad’s because A) one is increasingly unstable and out of touch with reality and B) the other is off running around the universe alone. Then suddenly, she’s getting updates on what her fathers are up to (because while I imagine Time Lord family units to be somewhat loose, you probably at least keep tabs on immediate relatives). Just “Yeah your dad’s been forced to regenerate and is exiled on some backwater mud hole called Earth” “Hey your father just killed your dad but they’re okay and I think they made up” “Did you hear that five different regenerations of your Dad got forced into the Death Zone by Rassilon himself, and your father ran in to rescue them while also attempting to steal Rassilon’s power? It was wild.” “So your father killed the Lord President and framed your Dad for it and now your Dad’s the president, what’s that like?”

Because just. This completely normal and very respectable Time Lord woman getting repeated updates about the fucking insane shit her father’s are getting into, and wondering how, how is this her life and her family. How is she related to those two. Why. Just why.

And oh the family dinners.

And as for the matter of Susan, considering she never brings up her parents either, I’m guessing that what might have happened is the Doctor’s daughter went for single parenting on a whim, got a baby girl from the Looms, and after a few months or so came to the conclusion that she was not a mother and couldn’t give the child a good life, so she called up her Dad and asked him to take his grandaughter off her hands please. So Susan was pretty much raised by her grandfather, and not on Gallifrey, meaning that she wouldn’t have gotten the standard initiation of ‘getting mindfucked by all of time and space’, both of those explaining why she was very very normal seeming compared to every other Time Lord to appear. She was raised by the endlessly traveling Doctor, and never driven slightly/very crazy by the untempered schism.

So quick 180 into the promised angst now and why I think the Doctor’s child was a girl.

Do you remember the 10th Doctor’s last episode (technically episodes, 2 parter)? The one with the Master again and Gallifrey almost obliterating the Earth? And how they kept showing a silent woman with the High Council who just covered her face in her hands, and how seeing her face was enough to make the Doctor decide not to shoot anybody? And how everyone was assuming she was the Doctor’s mother?

Well, the thing to remember is, physical appearance probably means very little to a Time Lord. Sure, they’ll put a good amount of bearing on how you choose to dress and all, but age and appearance have little to no correlation with them. I mean, the First Doctor looks to be in his eighties, and is about a thousand years younger than a later regeneration who looks to be in his twenties. Looking older than another Time Lord means fuckall, because sometimes that’s how regeneration is.

And the Doctor’s child would have had to be a very normal and respectable Time Lord to be having no interactions with either of her fathers, meaning that when she looked into the Untempered Schism, she was probably inspired. If she’d gone insane, the Master would have teamed up with her, and if she’d ran away, the Doctor would have travelled with her. So she was the respectable daughter of two brilliants (albeit differently crazy) young Time Lords, and had probably seen some of universe growing up. And considering the Doctor and the Master’s issues would have been just starting, her childhood home probably got a little cut-throat at times, making her good at staying impartial in arguments, or just dodging the whole thing all together. Perfect for politics.

And, as we all know, in politics, the best way in is by having connections. Like, say, one of your father’s being the former Lord President of all of Gallifrey. That would be a good enough connection that, if you were skilled enough to back it up, you could get on the high council.

Do you see where I’m going with this.

So, my theory is that the Time Lord woman that shook the Doctor so much (and who stopped him from shooting the Master) was his daughter. Because a race of telepaths who naturally change their bodies during their normal life cycle probably don’t go off of facial recognition often. Which might be why the Doctor usually takes a while to remember human companions after a regeneration because really a face is just a face to him.

That’s not the point.

The point is, her appearing older means fuckall, and its very likely that was the Doctor’s child. Which he had with the Master.

I want to see fanfics about this yesterday.

(and look I’m not saying the Doctor and the Master would have been the best parents, or even good ones, but they would have been some very entertaining ones and I would watch the fuck out of that sitcom)

#doctor who #dont mind my tired ramblings here #meta #analysis #first doctor #susan foreman #the doctor #the master #gallifrey #look man its a long rambly theory but it makes sense #everything checks out #fuck moffat by the way #dont get me started on my anger there #fuck me im going to bed