1. gallifreyburning:

    At eight years old, every Time Lord is forced to stare into the Untempered Schism as a rite of passage — the Untempered Schism being a gap in reality from which the whole of the Time Vortex can be seen. Witnessing the Time Vortex was a highly traumatic event for the Doctor - in The Sound of Drums he says it was one of the reasons he chose to run away from Gallifrey, and he’d never stopped running since. Seeing the Schism played a part in driving the Master insane, as well. Suffice to say it was a highly unpleasant, deeply scarring experience for every little Time Lord.  

    In this moment of becoming the Bad Wolf, Rose has been infused with vortex energy. The same stuff that fills the Untempered Schism, the same stuff that terrified the Doctor as a child, that traumatized him and caused him to run away. 

    I wonder how deep the Doctor’s panic and terror went, in those brief moments when he cowered on the floor in front of BadWolf!Rose. Was he having flashbacks to the primal horror of his childhood and that life-changing moment in front of the Untempered Schism? How much of that repressed fear and that instinct to run did he have to overcome, in order to save Rose?

    I think it’s remarkable that for her, he did face whatever primal childhood terror still lurked in the depths of his memory. Not by physically removing her from harm’s way or flipping a switch or making a speech, but by literally taking into himself the thing that had traumatized him as a child and defined him as an adult. Knowing it would kill the man he was and make him into someone new. 

    The Doctor embraced death at the hands of something that terrified him deeply. That’s how much the he loved Rose Tyler.

    (Source: ghostpoetry, via crazyandsexy)

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