#hm i might have to clarify a thing or two- a time lord's regeneration is just the number of like. their body

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tell me a fun fact about someone from the cojum who? crew that is unlikely to be realistically mentioned/covered in the actual story?

depends on your standards for “actual story” honestly because if i come up with a thing odds are it’s because there’s Potential in it. but i can be realistic sometimes! things that won’t ever come up unless i lose my mind &/or obtain a time machine of my own to write this stuff out with:

-coral & marcy are both on their 4th regenerations

-i already introduced this in w. xylophone but lucas has synesthesia, of the music & colors (chromesthesia) variety for the most part, with other bits of time-related & word synesthesia as well. if i’m being vague it’s a. i don’t know much about synesthesia & b. if there’s one thing i do know it’s that things are vague with synesthesia

-darius has absolutely braided marcy & coral’s hair before and it’d do it with the others too but they have significantly less conscious control over the growth of their hair than the time lords do.

-out of the entire crew of them, rosa is the one with the least musical experience

-lucas’ nonhuman traits are generally limited to like, internal biology & dna & shit, making hyr separate from humans a la the way snakes can all look almost identical but can’t inbreed. because of this they can eat rocks

-oh also because everyone is nd here: amber stims by like hopping around in place or walking and moving; darius stims by hand flapping & other real dynamic hand motions; rosa stims by shaking eir head and *spoilers but basically ey swing eir legs*; lucas stims by humming and making other noises in hyr mouth (chewlery bay be); the time lords tend to do this stuff on like an ~advanced telepathic or metaphysical sense, but also coral will whistle and kick their feet in the air; marcy likes to run xer hands down xer body and slap shit like bongos; and last but not least jay tends to rock or jog in place!

-marcy & coral do have passing acquaintances with the doctor and probably would go for a meetup of “renegade time lords that do or do not collect companions from time to time” were it not for amber’s (and darius’, honestly) moderate aversion to british people (understandable)

and here i’ve absolutely got to put a cut for spoilers because most of this story is not published! which means from here on out you may find things involving contexts that haven’t been introduced in the main story yet. so either save this for whenever the hell i get the rest of this story out or read on and be spoiled on. minor factoids. minor factoids that mention larger factoids that are connected to major factoids.

to be concise: if you read on you might learn shit that would be built up & played with suspense or as a shock in the chapter it’s meant to be introduced in and nothing a whole lot more deadly than that.

-jay is past their 5th regeneration (though they’d gladly lie about that number on literally any scale). you know i damn near put that above this cut & i’m very glad i didn’t all things considered

-lucas is the only one of the non-time lords to be an only child but they don’t know this for sure & it’s exactly as angsty as you think it can be.

-this one’s less of an interesting fact and more amber’s entire backstory but i genuinely can’t think of a way to integrate it into a story so just imagine this is being told in the T&LDIS library over a cup of 20th century martinellis or something. cw for implied/mentioned death + only other things you’d get in a dw story

he was born an american, of course, you can tell by the accent, but one does not learn a convincing british accent without a good amount of experience- he was sent moved to england shortly before even becoming an adult, and spent pretty much all of his time there learning the ins and outs of capitalism in an almost obviously fascist state. he was a good student, of course, had to get support from his family/the government somehow, but you know, still ended up gravitating towards the types of figures that nobody in the capitalist class ever wanted to see someone gravitate towards. in short, he started attending underground insurrectionist meetings that were dedicated to (in the short term) countering propaganda and spreading awareness/education, and (in the long term) holding an entire revolution. (yes, it was that kind of fascist scifi setting).

considering the whole general state howard was in when the others came across him, it shouldn’t be too hard to guess how that whole thing worked out. still. the details. they were found out, in due time. the whole lot of them. someone caved and ratted them out, of course. well, there was one survivor. one stuck around to tell the tale. one stuck around to personally know exactly what any potential revolutionaries are up against, and provide testimonies if the powers that be ever wanted them, and not do anything to provoke their notice in the slightest, and be nothing more than the best cog in the great capitalist machine the english empire ever saw.

[note from a fog many months later: the following is a bit of lore that is not only inaccurate but irrelevant. i’m only leaving it here, unedited, for posterity’s sake. rosa is transfem and picked out eir own name.]

-rosa is not forrester’s real name! it’s a nickname derived from eir middle name. eir first name is steven. why is this in the spoilers section? because eir twin’s name is also a derivative of hir middle name, with hir first name being steve. their parents though they were being funny.

#hm i might have to clarify a thing or two- a time lord's regeneration is just the number of like. their body #if theyve been through 4 regenerations they're on their 5th body total because they get a new one with each regeneration #that bit about time lords having conscious control over the growth of their hair is mostly fanon but also might as well be canon so eh #oh yeah and ''first initial dot lastname'' is the way i prefer to refer to all these characters outside of the story #just because i want to distance them from yknow. the real people. & connect them more to the fake dw universe & whatnot #tis i #you know it probably doesn't reflect well on me that the main reason this took an entire day to be made is under the cut #eh. i'm slow when it comes to my writing. and this counts as writing because here look at this: #mi wri #personally i hope the story i did tell has a close enough tone to authentic dw stuff because that's absolutely what i was going for #i mean. i don't think many (any) of my actual dw followers are going to look under the cut. i don't expect anyone to look under the cut #but i can hope & i can yine & i can pears from time to time. i deserve it #welcome to questions answered #wait i tag cw? don't i #cojum who? #yep i do. that was a close one #to the world and back again