@crypticcandyman asked: (Canon scene meme) How'd the Doctor feel when he was elected as Lord President of Gallifrey?
I think all sorts of emotions ran through his mind. Consider that it wasn’t the first time he was offered the job - he actually became Lord President during his tenure as Four, and held the title for an unspecified period (although I think by the time he regenerates into Five, he isn’t anymore).
Unlike Four, however, whose presence was always felt in a room and who, I think, had the potential to manage the position quite well despite his immature nature, Five is considerably different. While maintaining his confidence about him - albeit a quiet one - he seldom appreciates being the centre of everybody’s attention, and he knew that he was, above all else, a renegade traveller, and someone who would have been as suited to ruling Gallifrey as a cat is suited to water. He understood that accepting would have meant the end of his days in the TARDIS, and he was in no way prepared to sacrifice everything he had for a job that he didn’t want.
There is also the fact that The Doctor has suffered at the hands of the Time Lords - Two was essentially put on trial by them and “executed”, as well as exiled - and as much as Five is willing to be civil with them, he hasn’t forgotten what they did to him, as well as their inherently selfish and superior-thinking nature. Five is not one of them, and he is perfectly aware of that, and the last thing he wants is to place himself in a situation where he is given the opportunity to BECOME one of them.
Summary: Five reacted with a “fuck you and your stupid ideas, I’m off in the TARDIS.”