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I bet you all thought this would take months more. If you even thought it was gonna happen. Tbh, so did I. But! Gallifrey Lower Decks chapter two is here! Meet Obnik and Rolenva <3
Gallifrey lower decks OCs gender + sexuality
Keep in mind that I'm using human terms for Gallifreyans here which is going to be not quite accurate
Dela: she's sort of transfeminine. Apart from her first body all of her incarnations have been found close to woman in gender, although bodies do vary. It does depend on the incarnation for the specific level of nonbinary and woman and agender. Her first body was physically male, but whether Baby Dela was a boy or in denial is impossible to say. He wasn't around long enough. What does vary a lot is her presentation though. The second Ardela was very butch, the current one is significantly more feminine. Orientation wise she's generally a lesbian and arospec, it gets a bit muddled sometimes though
Rolenva is transmasc. Always and in every incarnation. This is one of the most important things about her. However, the current, first Rolenva does not know this, hence me always using she/her pronouns. She's in deep, deep denial. In a few regenerations she's going to regenerate into a male body for the first time and he's going to have a lot of realizations. Currently dresses mostly masculine (and alien fashion. Hates time lord robes and collars and such) because 'it's more practical'. Aro and bisexual. More into women generally
Obnik is agender and aroace. Tends to go with whatever name/pronouns fit the body. Does not actually care. Presentation is very consistently Time Lord
Dolin is, uh, it's hard to say. You could describe him as a trans man but that's not really accurate. He used to be 100% a woman for many incarnations. Bodies matched that too. Then some switch flipped in a regeneration and now all his incarnations are 100% men. No bit of nonbinaryness in him. Not into people apart from the weird thing he has going on with Lanro. Which can't be classified in either Time Lord or human terms
Lanro is nonbinary always. Their specific flavor varies, they're often genderfluid too. More into explosions than people, apart from the thing with Dolin
Patok's a dude. A guy. Not a man though. 'normal' time lord agender. Aroacespec but sometimes likes to fuck. Prefers men in that case but isn't picky either
Okay anyways putting my OCs on here
Dela is the first one that moved into my brain. She's a secretary at the CIA and responsible for personnel keeping track of agents and such. Unfortunately for her her real job is more covering up whatever shenanigans are currently going on. And trying to make sense of Narvin's reports. Figuring out if anyone got oublietted is also a big thing because was the CIA always this short staffed? Who is that agent why has he been here forever and why is the vibe in the office totally different than yesterday. Her first regeneration was falling down the stairs. She does not care for politics and has been doing this job for several presidents and coordinators but somehow they keep getting worse at paperwork
Obnik is responsible for acquisitions. He's great with forms but terrible with people. doesn't talk much and wishes people would stop talking to him. Prays to every deity that may or may not exist that Narvin learns to knock. This close to stealing a TARDIS so he can have a break. And also so that he can get stuff for people who need this or that right fucking now but can't fill out a form to save their life. Has to constantly deal with the aftermath of things getting blown up
Patok is Dela's cousin and in the chancellory guard. So nosy and always has a situation that is absolutely not his business but he's deeply invested in. talks Dela's ears of with what he finds out. Only exception to that is Romana because that wouldn't be proper. Would protect her privacy with his life. Also prays that she learns some self preservation skills because he would like to just stand around and eavesdrop on people, not actually have to protect her
The Gallifrey Lower Decks (my OCs) Ages and Regenerations
(these are going to have varying amounts of precision)
Dela is about 1100 years old and on her third body. She first regenerated very young and embarrassingly, she fell very unluckily down the stairs at the academy when she was 90. The other students made terrible fun of her and she ended up getting some revenge by using the rules and playing the system to a terrifying degree, which put her on the CIA's radar. Her first body was a boy and rather shy, her second had a more ruthless edge, which let her work her way into an influential position and figure out a fair bit of secrets (hence why she can fake higher security ratings. this Dela usually went by Ardela (longer part of her full name) and enjoyed hacking a lot). Her next regeneration was planned, and not that long ago, a few decades maybe. She's gentler again in this body, and much happier to work with people as people instead of as resources. She looks about 20
Patok is 900 and has regenerated once before at about 400. It was rather traumatic, a big accident or attack that involved a lot of guards. He woke up confused, not knowing who he is surrounded by other people in the same position, injured people and corpses. He hasn't changed much on first glance, neither in his appearance nor in his demeanor. But this Patok has a hardness the first did not. While he very much has fun most of the time, he knows when it's time to be serious. And he's got his priorities sorted: he will (and has done a lot) do pretty much anything to protect the president and gallifrey. He looks somewhere between 25 and 35.
Obnik is somewhere between 4000 and 5000 and on his fifth body. His bodies change a lot visually, but his character is very static. Most of his regenerations were planned, though at least one was the result of an explosion (presumably caused by Lanro. This has never been proven but everyone suspects). He looks about 40 right now
Rolenva is very young at about 250 and has been recruited only a short while ago. She's never regenerated before. She looks a little older than Dela but not much.
No one knows how old Lanro and Dolin are. They probably don't even know themselves. They're older than everyone else working at the CIA, that's for sure. Most people have seen at least one of them regenerate before, but if you added all of those up you'd get far more than thirteen lives for each, so the rumours of some weird experiments are very sticky. Lanro just shrugs if you ask them. Dolin doesn't say a word in response to that question. Lanro is a very fluid person the only thing that sticks between regenerations is their love of explosives and mischief. Their body is frequently missing limbs whether through accidents or inherently changes. They currently look middle-aged and don't have a right arm. Dolin's early bodies were women but at some point that changed and now they're all men. This current incarnation looks about 60, has short white hair and a very intense and strict appearance. He's blind in one eye.
2 and 9 for the time lord of ask game!
2. Talk about their name. What's their long name? What (nick)names are they called by who?
So many thoughts on names!
I also just realized that all of these have a specific pronounciation to me and I wish I knew linguistics so I could describe it properly because I think not all of these line up with english rules on it. I might have to record their names at some point
Ardelanurvatinan is Dela's full name. Nurva is the name of her house. She recently chosen to go by Dela, in her previous incarnation she went by Ardela, which is a more proper way to shorten her name. Narvin, as her boss, still calls her that though. Her cousin Patok (full name Patokanurvallirto, he's called Patok everywhere though) also calls her Del a lot to annoy her.
Obnik's long name is Obnikolanponvell. He sometimes goes by Vell when his current regeneration is a woman.
Fridolinstarcrestulna is Dolin's full name. Starcrest is his house name. The first part of this (Fridolin) I actually got from a hedgehog my brother, some neighbours and I saved last summer. It's what we named him very quickly when the vet needed a name
Rolenvallenum is full for Rolenva. She does not like anything else currently. If you want to annoy her, you can call her Lenva. I think she changes it completely somewhere during the Time War, when she's realized she never was a woman and also lost all her identity, to something that has zero connection with her. maybe even a title
aaannndd I just realized I never made up a long name for Lanro?
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thank you for asking!!
ask game here
5, 8, 16 for obnik? :0 also meow 🐈⬛
I was hoping someone would ask about Obnik! He's such a non-person at times that I need to dig deeper into him
5. Did they go to the Academy? What are their favourite subjects? How were their grades?
He likes maths. And pretty much everything that has a clear and logical answer. Therefore he did quite well in the academy, but he was a lot worse when he had to write essays or the like, he is very bad at those
8. Are they disabled? If so how?
he's autistic. or whatever passes for autistic on gallifrey anyways. he's also got aphantasia and I think he struggles with depersonalization and disassociation more than he'd admit
16. How do they treat regeneration? Do they consider past incarnations as the same person?
Regeneration is a very natural process to Obnik, at least when going through planned ones. He considers all past incarnations him, though it helps that he doesn't change much between them. It does take him a while to adjust to a new body though, he can't handle the change very well. It's much worse with regenerations that aren't planned too
link to ask game
I don't feel like doing work, so... Kiss, marry, kill for Obnik, Dela and Patok? But instead of kiss, marry, kill it's 'I want them to have a worse time', 'I want them to have a better time' and 'I want them to get a break'.
No pressure doe and feel free to elaborate as much as you vibe with. :)
Oh, great question!
I want them to have a worse time: Patok. He needs to be knocked down a bit. He should be the gossip for once instead of the one eavesdropping
I want them to have a better time: Obnik. He needs to be taught how to have some fun. Chill a little. Have some emotions
I want them to get a break: Dela. There are no weekends in the CIA. and even if there were, Narvin would still show up on her doorstep at all times. She's the secret pillar holding Gallifrey up and that doesn't give you time off
obnik is a sick name
also MEOAWWWWW
Obnik. aka the current bane of my existence. he does NOT want to be written (understandable. I am trying to make Things happen to him. He does not want things to happen. He just wants to be left alone. I am not even filling out his precious forms.)
picrew here
Also Miiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuu
