genessia | Video to Friends of the Doctors (backdated to 10/12 before event)

[The video starts on the Doctor, wearing that brown fedora given him by River (although it makes him look less like a rugged manly-man archaeologist, or even a curly-headed grinning maniac, and more like a nerdy teenager from the 1930s who wants to grow up to be a hard-boiled reporter), apparently in the singing meadow. As whimsical and silly as he looks (which is nothing new to those who know him), his expression is one of those half-serious faces which a few people in particular (Amy, Rory, River, his older self) know means he might actually be at his most serious.]

Got something to talk to you lot about, something important, important to me, and I'd like to think to all of you, as well. It's not a reproach, but a warning, try to bear that in mind.

[He pauses a tick, glancing downward, then back at the camera--then tilts its view downward, to his either passed out or very-well-faking-it previous incarnation. He keeps narrating as he goes, holding the camera there for a couple of seconds before turning it back to himself.]

...he'll be all right in a bit, defense against psychic trauma, Time Lord thing, well, lots of telepathic species have them, sort of like how your human immune system sometimes encapsulates pathogens, rather than destroying them or filt'ring them out, but telepathic instead of organic. Harmful memories, ideas, whatever you can't process, they get sealed off, locked in a box in a cupboard in an attic in a house you stay away from. Some of you know exactly what I mean.

[Which, really, in this case, mostly means his future self; or his younger self, if he watches this, later.]

I'm telling all of you 'bout this, because I think we all know what's been causing him problems. ...well, me, but that me, down there.

[He twists the camera again to indicate his younger self, then back to himself once again.]

Bringing back those memories can only make it worse than it already was--enough clues, and he might unlock that box, and--whew--all the troubles come out all at once, so, when I say foreknowledge is dangerous, I don't mean only because it risks paradoxes. I mean because we rarely understand it, and often we can't do anything about it, even without a paradox, even without a fixed point, sometimes there just isn't a better choice.

[A brief rhetorical pause, there.]

So, what's this mean, it means no more spoilers for Sandshoes, and it means you lot are going to have to be careful about what you tell him. It's hard, yeah, I know, been doing it for a while, but if you care about this face-

[He gives the camera another quick tilt downward to his younger self...]

-or about this face-

[...then back up to himself again.]

-I trust you all to find a way. You need to talk to someone, talk to me, pretty sure I'm from after all of you in my timeline, well... almost all, obviously. Let me know if you've got questions, complaints, doubts, all that sort of thing.

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...brain worms, that anything like a Time Head?

[Never mind that it's an actual thing he's encountered, but that's not quite what she means.]

[She burst out laughing a bit.]

"You have to admit, we've seen weirder."

[A check that this WAS actually locked, then a grin.]

"Besides, she can keep seperate who knows what when even better than you can and is never actually late for anything. If that's not a time-head, what would you call it?" [Grin.]

...yeah, well.

[He'd really just meant to tease Amy about making up medical problems, but he really does have some powerfully mixed feelings about the actual topic, there. Everything that happened on Demons Run, his relationship to River and whatever exactly she is, not to mention her relationship to time...

Of course, he just smiles enigmatically through all that.]

...point is, it can always be something simpler, or, depending on how you look at it, vastly more complicated.

"Yeah, it can be. And I'm going to find out what."

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