#i’m willing to bet some of them regenerate before they even think about proper death

[seveneyesoup]

do you think the time lords even understand death? like really

#regeneration sure #but people just don’t die that much on gallifrey #or the time lords don’t #i’m willing to bet some of them regenerate before they even think about proper death #an end sure but abstract and far away #and even when they do die everyone’s still around in the matrix #so death; in a human sense? hell; even in a shobogan sense #has to be like; a totally foreign concept; or very nearly #only understanding death on your third regeneration sitting up at the end of a hallway while the body of your cousin shudders under a shroud #only understanding death as the body of your classmate bleeds into the river and does not move #and maybe i’m being unfair; people do die on gallifrey but not people the time lords are around; i guess #so maybe there’s an understanding of death but not as something that can happen to you? #i don’t know. but in some sense i think they don’t get it #death happens to other people. the lower castes; the lesser species #except it doesn’t #everything has its time and everything dies #and the other part of my point is i think theta and koschei knew that a long; Long time before any of their peers #maybe even before some of their teachers #having not only a secret between them but a secret understanding #a terrible wisdom shared between them alone #not really them alone. but it must have felt like that