*haven't watched the new episode yet* but-
I've just realised that the only thing the doctor really told her companions back when they were asking who she really was, were those buzzwords, her titles, which planet she was from, etc. Only, after everything that's happened, none of that feels true anymore. The only things she managed to open up about ended up being a lie, to them and to herself. And she hasn't opened up since.
Just a thought...
Yes and no, cus she definitely opens up about some personal stuff in her early life to people re: sisters, grandmothers and fairytales.
But you actually go back to that first series of hers.
I’ll give you a tenner if you can find the episode where she tells them she’s a Time Lord.
I’ll give you another one if you find her saying she’s from Gallifrey.
Those buzzwords? They don’t exist even from the start. Thirteen was born cagey on that score. Given what happened with Twelve and the Time Lords, (and with Clara’s story baring so many similarities with becoming immortal and attempted memory wiping) combined with the shrouds in The Ghost Monument, I think more had already been triggered in her head about this than we thought. Perhaps why she was thinking about those details of her early life so much in the first place.
Oohhhhhh holy shit
