you asked for asks ten hours ago but that was unfortunately midnight for me so here is an ask now: top ten experiments tecteun performed on the timeless child?
time is a social construct by which i refuse to abide. also, LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
but then...all LMAOOOOOOOs aside, this does give me a great opportunity to think through, in practical terms, exactly what sorts of "experiments" she was doing! because it is this whole trope to have a character subjected to extremely vague unethical "experiments" as a child, but it's extremely rare that this ever gets elaborated on. i don't know a lot about science, including of the physiological and/or biomedical variety, but i'm sure tecteun does.
so in no particular order,
i really doubt she jumped straight to killing the kid just to observe the regenerative process. she can't have known immediately that regeneration was something that could occur multiple times, let alone ad infinitum. the earliest "experiments" tecteun did on her kid were almost certainly before their first regeneration and of the non-torturous variety, more focused on determining how medically similar they were to a gallifreyan child. surely no responsible parent-who-is-also-a-medical-expert-of-some-sort would adopt an alien from another universe without doing some checkups.
taking blood samples immediately before and immediately after regeneration, and comparing the two. if we're studying the mechanism of regeneration, surely it makes sense to check if there might be some hormones or other chemicals involved.
trying to use an EEG on the kid throughout the regeneration process to see what the brainwaves are like during. this is how she learned that the brain lowkey turns into soup mid-regeneration and you can't really monitor it in any meaningful way.
driving herself insane trying to figure out a way to detect and measure five-dimensional objects from a three-dimensional perspective (failed).
measuring the kid's estrogen and testosterone levels, and sex chromosomes, after regenerations that involved switching sexes, to figure out the extent of the apparent sex change. the idea of being able to spontaneously switch sexes would have been seriously groundbreaking, maybe society-breaking, in ancient gallifrey, so surely tecteun's shit-disturbing scientist ass would have been like YO?? about this.
taking fucktons of notes on how the kid behaved post-regeneration. which symptoms showed up most frequently, which symptoms only happened once, etc., that sort of thing. since tecteun was planning to induce this sort of thing in herself eventually, obviously she'd have to get familiar with what might happen if she were to succeed.
not exactly the scientific method, but i feel like tecteun noticed the kid eating weird stuff that gallifreyans don't eat, and was like "this kid seems way too old to still be in the sticking-random-stuff-in-their-mouth-for-no-reason phase" and decided to dare the kid to eat plastic or something just to see if they would. this proved zero hypotheses and yielded zero valuable data. the kid did, in fact, eat plastic. they eat plastic of their own accord without tecteun's intervention. yum :)
so we know tecteun's experiments did involve killing the kid, multiple times. i wonder how many of those incidents occurred because tecteun was trying to test how durable they were. evidently they were much more durable than any gallifreyan, but they also had to have some sort of physical limit, as proven by the fact that they regenerated from falling off a cliff. surely tecteun would want to get a more precise idea of how tough this fuckass alien really is. how tolerant are they to all the most common causes of death for gallifreyan marines at the war front?
with tecteun's utter lack of impulse control, i bet she tried like, touching the kid's hands or something while they were mid-regeneration. to see if all the glowing indicated a change in temperature or not. you better believe she burned the shit outta her hands doing this.
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