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gallifreyinstituteforlearning · 2 days

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How does a Gallifreyan or a Time Lord experience humans? (or: how would you describe humanity from a Gallifreyan or Time Lord perspective while accounting for their fundamentally different sensory experiences?)

A Time Lord's View on Humanity

Gallifreyans/Time Lords have a wealth of senses they can use in their first impressions when meeting a human.

🌟 Immediate Sensory Impressions

👁️Visual: Time Lords naturally see more enhanced colours and details than humans can, so they can notice incredibly subtle details about a particular human. With a look, they can also read cues about a human’s health and emotional state - this might include seeing the flush of blood under the skin, the subtle muscle tension, and micro-expressions that might reveal a person's true feelings or intentions.

🦨 Scent: Humans stink. Time Lords can detect pheromonal changes that indicate stress, fear, or deceit if they concentrate. They can also detect the unique personal scent that every human carries. This can extend to a deeper picture of where the human has been recently and their lifestyle choices, like diet and hygiene.

🎧 Auditory: Time Lords can hear not just words but also the underlying frequencies of a human’s voice that could indicate mood and sincerity - if they try hard enough, they can hear the heartbeat, a quick inhalation of surprise or shock, or a sigh of relief.

🖐️ Touch: Even through a handshake, Time Lords feel the texture and temperature of human skin, the strength of a grip, and the pulse rate, all of which offer clues about a person's current physical and emotional state.

👄 Taste (if applicable): If you're hitting first base, Time Lords can discern a lot from this sense. Their enhanced taste buds can detect residual chemicals and substances on a person’s skin or breath, providing insights into the person's recent activities, health status, and even emotional state (as certain emotions can alter the body's chemistry).

🕰️ Chrono: Time Lords are 'time sensitive', meaning they can perceive time as a dimension - as easily as humans can see how much wine is left in the glass (not enough). This means when they meet someone, they sense not just who that person is now but the "echoes" of their past and potential futures. They might get a sense of important past events that have shaped the person, or their potential future significance. This probably doesn’t manifest as clear visions but more as a nuanced understanding of the person’s temporal significance. This could result in a particular 'draw' or 'revulsion' to them.

🔮 Psionic: Most Time Lords can't read minds medially or distally (i.e., most can't read minds without touching a person), but they can get a sense of mood or subtle emotional undercurrents from a distance. They pick up on psychic residues that humans unconsciously emit, which reflect their current emotional state and deeper, often unacknowledged, feelings.

🤔 Practical Interaction

In practical terms, when a Time Lord first encounters a human, they process all these details and form a complex, layered first impression. Time Lords tailor their social response based on this comprehensive sensory and temporal analysis, often leading to interactions that seem incredibly perceptive or mysteriously prescient to humans.

Of course, some Time Lords prefer to shut down or ignore many of these extras to be on a more human level for their own reasons.

Hope that helped! 😃

Further Reading

How do Time Lords see the future?

What happens when a human spends a lot of time with a Time Lord?

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gallifreyinstituteforlearning · 1 day

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It's been mentioned in passing that humans and gallifreyans can procreate together. Depending on who the carrying parent is, what would that pregnancy look like, in terms of gestation length, physical symptoms, etc?

Gallifreyan/Human Hybrid Pregnancies

🧬Triple Helix DNA

Successful human-Gallifreyan reproduction hinges crucially on one thing: the offspring inheriting Gallifreyan triple helix DNA. This genetic structure is vital not just for the viability of the offspring but also for the inheritance of distinct Gallifreyan traits such as regeneration. Without the triple helix in full working order, the offspring may face severe health complications, sterility, or a complete/partial absence of typical Gallifreyan abilities.

👶Human vs Gallifreyan Carriers

1. Human-Carrying Parent

Given the complexity of Gallifreyan DNA, a human pregnant with a Gallifreyan hybrid could respond to the pregnancy in very unpredictable ways.

Gestation Period: Due to the human body's influence and biological clock, the gestation period may align more closely with human norms, typically around nine months.

Physical Symptoms: Due to the alien DNA, the human body may exhibit unusual symptoms, such as heightened sensitivity to temporal fluctuations or yo-yo telepathic abilities. There might also be unexpected bouts of healing, linked to artron or lindos energy surges. Increased appetite would also come into play, with some very weird cravings that reflect the baby's high nutrient demands.

Gestation Complications: There's an inherent increased risk of complications during pregnancy due to potential incompatibility issues between human and Gallifreyan biological systems. For one, the human immune system might react unpredictably to the foreign DNA.

2. Gallifreyan-Carrying Parent

A Gallifreyan carrying a hybrid child might face a different set of challenges, owing to the intricate developmental needs of the hybrid DNA.

Gestation Period: The gestation period could extend beyond the standard nine months, potentially up to a year, due to the need to fully integrate human DNA into the Gallifreyan biological framework.

Physical Symptoms: Gallifreyan parents might experience less physical strain due to their superior biological resilience. However, the presence of human DNA could introduce anomalies, such as disruptions in their ability to regulate body temperature or metabolic rate as they normally could.

Telepathic Bond: There may be a developing telepathic link between the carrier and the child, providing early emotional and cognitive connections, and possibly allowing the parent to manage gestational discomfort through direct mental intervention.

🏥Medical Implications

Advanced Gallifreyan technology would likely need to be used to monitor and support the pregnancy, ensuring the stable development of both human and Gallifreyan genetic traits.

Check-Ups: Baby check-ups would need to be very regular and very comprehensive.

Daily Monitoring: General monitoring of the mother's physical and mental health daily.

Gallifreyan Interventions: It's likely some Gallifreyan medical interventions might be required, and these would have to be adjusted particularly for the human.

🏫 So...

Little baby Gallihumans (Humifreyans? I should make a poll) are certainly possible and create a bridge between two hugely different cultures and biological heritages, but it's certainly not going to be straightforward. These are all of course some theories, and theoretically, anything can happen that I've not mentioned.

Hope that helped! 😃

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