#Romana i

[vanajinn]

Time Ladies 

[ID: two digital drawings of Romana I and Romana II. The first depicts Romana I against a black backdrop lying down in a white dress with a feathered hood. She is gazing at the viewer with a look of superiority. Her white dress is flowing and iridescent. The second depicts Romana II from the shoulders-up, illuminated from the left by the light. She is dressed in a schoolgirl outfit with a dress over a white shirt and a red tie. Her hand is adjusting a straw hat and she is smiling with a knowing look. Both drawings are rendered with pencil, acrylic, and chalk-like brushes. end ID]

[lizshaw]

Mary Tamm for Radio Times (1978)

[doorstovenus]

key to time romana you will always be famous

[benevolenterrancy]

big fan of listening to the Doctor and Romana bicker like siblings

[romanathree]

I never actually posted these all together so here you go!

[dailyclassicwho]

CLASSIC WHO FASHION ROMANA I ◈ The Ribos Operation

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Thinking about the key to time arc from Romana’s perspective is really funny to me, because imagine you’re a time lord, pretty fresh out of the academy, top of your class, are told you’re going places in life and you get sent on a quest that is going to involve the fate of the universe, you get told you’re going to be doing this quest with someone else which makes sense, you’re relatively new to this whole time lord thing and two heads are better than one in situations like these. Then they tell you who the person you’ll be going on the quest with is, and it’s one of the weirdest people your society has produced and he is decidedly not good at being a time lord, in fact he barely even became one, and now you have to live with him, in his Tardis, while you try to complete a quest whose stakes involve the fate of time itself

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

The Doctor: Just tried to make a reservation at the library

Romana I: You don’t need to make a rese-

The Doctor: But I couldn’t get one

Romana I: Doctor, please stop-

The Doctor: It was fully booked

[doctorwhogirlie]

reblog/like this if you're a fourth doctor enthusiast

[joumanadraws]

Lies

Opening scene of Gallifrey S2 Ep1: Lies, written by Gary Russell (who called me insane in LA last week and meant it as a compliment). A fantastic scene I've been wanting to do for a while (Brax!!), only held back by how daunted I was at the prospect of drawing Miles Richardson. Alsop it presents the extra challenge of a long monologue, and how to keep that visually interesting.

As this is a flashback to way way back, when Braxiatel was a modest tutor, I wanted to underline his youth and lack of cardinal's skullcap. Coming across a picture of him with this hairstyle really helped! He's a dream to draw. Young Mary Tamm was more tricky but it was lovely to have a scene with her.

[master-missysversion]

The doctor: regeneration is painful and feels like you're dying

Romana: sounds fun!

[cringecompanionapologist]

Saw One of These for Masters, Made One for Classic Companions

Good night to unearthly children, science and history teachers, plucky space orphans, crashed spaceship pilots, Dodos, sailors who just want to get back to work, dolly rocker duchesses, Jacobite pipers, Victorian maidens with anxiety, girl geniuses in sparkly outfits, scientists who are too good for this shit, cute blonde girls with hidden spy talents, determined journalists, imbeciles (affectionate), warrior women, gorgeous Time Ladies, boys who can make things out of numbers, space princesses whose planets got nuked, Australian flight attendants, exiled space princes pretending to be schoolboys, American(?) girls who never asked for this, 80s fitness enthusiasts, and girls who invent bombs for fun. 

[fourmana]

mary tamm is so hot omg 🤭🤭

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 19: Gallifrey at War Part 3

TW: more gruesome Time War/Civil War shit, lots of death, disturbing stuff

The Last Great Time War had several simultaneous origins for both the Time Lords and Daleks. For example, tensions have been rising from the very beginning for the Daleks since the Time Lords tried to avert their creation.

During the War in Heaven, the Army of One project saw the regen-inf soldier Chris Cwej multiplied into an entire Cwejen army.

The Neverweres are creatures that should never have existed. They were built from pieces of evolution that never actually happened.

The Time Lords allied themselves with the Technomancers during the Last Great Time War. The Technomancers used their magic to resurrect dead Time Lords, providing Gallifrey with soldiers that were eternally renewable and disposable.

In reality, the Time Lords were nothing more than pawns in the eyes of the Technomancers. The Technomancers worship the Horned Ones, and the reanimated Time Lords carried pieces of the Horned Ones in them. Once enough pieces of the Horned Ones were inside Time Lords, the Horned Ones would have been able to rule over all life.

Because of this, the War Doctor used the Annihilator to erase the Technomancers from the timeline. The only thing of them that remained were the memories of people who had met them before, memories of people who now never were.

There have been at least two Gallifreyan Civil Wars. The Time Lady Pandora was involved with both.

After the First Gallifreyan Civil War, Pandora was dispersed so thoroughly she never existed, but a copy of her consciousness remained in the Matrix.

From here, Pandora manipulated Time Lord genetics to produce a host she could use. This is what led to Romana's creation. When the Shadow's torture awoke Pandora's influence in her, Romana I regenerated into Romana II to suppress her.

Once freed by Darkel, Pandora latched on to Castellan Wynter. This made the Castellan consume the Dogma Virus in order to fight back.

The Dogma Virus was created by the Free Time organization under direction of the Daleks. The virus laid dormant in Time Lords until their regeneration. Then, it would hijack the Time Lord’s symbiotic nuclei and basically turn them into zombies (was Time Lord zombie plague on anyone's bingo cards?).

During the War in Heaven, Lady President Romana at one point had an epileptic fit resulting in the release of 300 Shada prisoners, including Grandfather Paradox.

When Darkel tried to remove Romana from presidency during the Second Gallifreyan Civil War, Romana declared herself Imperiatrix, basically the Gallifreyan dictatorial leader.

Pandora used the Dogma Virus and force-regeneration of other Time Lords to increase the size of her army. Romana relied on destroying infrastructure and the Rassilon Imprimaturs to stop this civil war from becoming a time war.

Even after the Second Gallifreyan Civil War, there was still an outbreak of Dogma Virus. A biodata archive was eventually used to restore the Time Lords from a backup (their last save point), but the reset left Gallifrey vulnerable to Dalek attack.

In the early days of the War in Heaven, the "jungle children" experiment was conducted by House Arpexia. The intent was to see how Homeworlder biodata was changed if they were raised by humans. When Kaspar Hauser was placed in 1828 Nuremburg, he remained relatively unchanged, but the timeline around him began to reshape. When the experiment concluded, Hauser was killed.

The anima device was a psychic weapon in the Omega Arsenal that took away its victim's free will and allowed the user to control the victim's mind. During the Last Great Time War, the Doctor used it to try to create a peace where Daleks and Time Lords were farmers.

The War Doctor forced Dorium Maldovar to come with him to Villengard to destroy a bunch of weapons factories before they could be taken by the Dalek Fleet. The Doctor turned the factories into palm trees with a molecular fruit bomb.

During the Battle of Rodan's Wedding in the Last Great Time War, years were used as ammunition. In the one battle, shrapnel aged the Eighth Doctor to be five million years old. The next shrapnel hit de-aged him to a whimpering infant.

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

[romanathree]

old romana drawings

[thirteensfavoritetoy]

Romana I: Princess Astra is a fine, beautiful person and a source of hope and inspiration to her people...I think I'll regenerate to look just like her!

10th Doctor: Caecilius is a good man and a respected member of his community... someday I'll regenerate to look like him to remind me that I should always save people like him!

5th: Wow that Commander Maxil is such an asshole...I hope I never regenerate and end up looking like him...