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The Eighth Doctor ([personal profile] romanticamnesiac) wrote in [personal profile] thewakemods 2017-03-22 11:17 am (UTC)

Sure thing! I'm happy to have that ability nerfed and also to have the post regarding mind reading, and I'm happy to also lose the seeing the futures thing since yep it can get pretty complex so I'm happy to lose that potential mine field (he can really get far too relaxed about giving away things at times anyway so it's probably just easier to avoid it).

As for Zagreus, it's probably closer to an alternate personality. The scenario is the Doctor absorbed a large amount of anti-time which ended up creating Zagreus within him, but the name 'Zagreus' was taken from a Time Lord bogeyman and wasn't a real figure, and the personality created is essentially the Doctor's darker aspects in one. He's angry and vengeful and violent, unlike the Eighth Doctor's idealistic, gentle nature. Later on in the series the anti-time is removed from the Doctor and becomes a complete entity in its own right (a woman by the name of Perfection) and is markedly different; calmer if occasionally petulant and even flirty, only showing signs of anger and violence when provoked.

The point I chose to take Eight from has the Zagreus personality suppressed (though Wakened) in his mind thanks to the zero matter treatment he was given, so he's not going to be switching between personalities constantly or without warning and could likely keep it under control with Bending (giving him a reason to practise it and seek help from others), but it is currently a part of him and could potentially become relevant.

That said, if the mods would prefer him not to have that personality aspect, I can switch the canon point forward a bit to when he's rid of it.

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