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[glitterateur]

[There’s a lot of noise in the background of this video post. Like, way more noise than usual when Mabel’s face shows up on the network. One could say almost… exactly double the noise?]

Hi! Hey. Important question. I know everybody’s busy with stuff but this is a matter of life and death probably? Through forces beyond our control we have an animal that-- well look!

[The camera pans. Two twelve year old boys (who look suspiciously like tiny versions of the Stans) are riding a magnificent creature around a living room. Dipper watches anxiously, but seems resigned to the situation. He has the look of someone who has walked through the flames of hell and can now withstand anything. The camera stays on the chaos long enough for one of the Stan kids to fall off the… thing. The lower part of the thing. The part you can conceivably ride on.]

It’s a centaurtaur! And we’re not sure how it breathes? Or eats. We have some, um, theories but we can’t test it because we can't reach. So if anyone’s ever had any experience with an animal like this or you’re pretty tall and willing to help us do some research please let us know! Thanks.

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[regenereight]

[ now wait a moment ] Let me guess, Ford's been affected by the temporal anomaly as well? It seems there's a large amount of us who are suddenly younger.

[glitterateur]

Yes! Exactly!

--wait did you say us?

[regenereight]

Oh, I didn't tell you, did I. I'm affected as well. [ and he just gives Mabel a small smile and wave! ] I'm the Doctor. Or, at least, a younger Doctor than the one you know.

[glitterateur]

You're-- no way! [The weirdest thing today: the Doctor... was young once?? What. What!!] You look so different!

[regenereight]

I do? [ oh right, he probably does ] Oh no, you're right, I do! I'm a previous regeneration of the Doctor you knew, it's a simple explanation.

[glitterateur]

....

A previous what?

[regenereight]

To put it simply, same Doctor, different body.

[glitterateur]

[Suddenly: a whole lot of stuff is explained. Sort of. Well, one thing. No wonder cool grandpa Doctor has the same name as that hip young Doctor she met ages and ages and ages ago.]

Wait wait so do you like download your brain into a new body like a robot? A squishy meat robot?

[regenereight]

[ and now she gets to add pretty clueless Doctor to the mix. It's like pokemon. ]

No! It's the same body but just...different. I suppose same Doctor, different appearance and personality would be a better way of describing it.

[glitterateur]

How come your personality is different? Is it just because you're younger?

[regenereight]

That's just a thing that happens with Time Lords. [ shrug! Just roll with it, Mabel. ]

[glitterateur]

[But it's a SAD thing. She doesn't WANNA roll with it.]

Time people lead really weird lives. Are you sure you've never been a Time Baby?

[regenereight]

[ He can't help but give her a small laugh before answering with, ] I'm positive I've never been a Time Baby.

[glitterateur]

Okaaay.... but if this weird stuff happens again and it turns out you were a Time Baby we're gonna have words, Doctor!

[regenereight]

If I turn into a Time Baby, I fully expect you and Dipper to dispatch me in whatever ways you dispatch Time Babies—in fact, you have my permission to do so!

[glitterateur]

Deal! [Mabel has no idea how you dispatch a Time Baby, because she was otherwise occupied when he got dissolved. But she figures between the two of them she and Dipper can figure it out.] We'll save you from a Time Baby fate!

[regenereight]

Precisely what I wanted to hear! [ said with a grin ]