#so she switches to the closest shes got. which is just. lungbarrowian

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

only good thing abt the vous situation is that it lets me experience tecteun calling 13 the child that im 100% convinced she actually would bc shes the only one who uses tu for her

#what language do you think theyre actually speaking #bc like on top of all the other um disconcerting stuff abt the whole situation on that spaceship for 13 #iamgine walking into that tree room and refinding that woman there and then she starts talking to you in like. this ancient gallifreyan #like old high gallifreyan hours #a language you only kinda learnt at school a couple millennia ago #im a big believer of the doctor and the master speaking gallifreyan when theyre alone i have fun with that in fic #(i dont think they speak entirely the same native language i think gallifryan is a diglossia but not the point) #but neither of them Speak old high like thats a dead language #i think 13 would drop into gallifreyan after opening in english #'hello im the doctor' in you know good old sheffield english #and then tecteun responds with 'i know' but in like....fucking latin #latin is probably not the best analogy but i dont know the history of english #old english i gues but we dont really learn that in school #anyway imagine how disconcerting #and i imagine she'd switch to gallifreyan sure but like. her modern mountain gallifreyan from lungbarrow right? #that vs tecteuns fucking classical dead textbook gallifreyan #or thats how it would feel to the doctor bc tecteun is pre-timelord. this is just her language #or....her language would be what would later become old high #so maybe she speaks to her Child as she used to actual eons ago #and to the doctor the closest this sounds like is old high gallifreyan bc she doesnt remember this language any more than tecteuns eyes #it's close-enough-sorta-dead-gallifreyan-??? #so she switches to the closest shes got. which is just. lungbarrowian #tecteun trying to rewrite history and the doctor not-entirely-on-purpose re-establishing the one she has/knows/remembers #holding on to her actual history #which tecteun tries to rewrite/unwrite/dig out from under known history with this old old gallifreyan #anyway. more language thoughts of this evening