Regeneration: Difference between revisions

Forced regenerations could also result in Time Lords losing some of their skills or memories in various incarnations. Some of these changes could be minor, such as the Fourth Doctor reflecting that he was no longer able to make successful [[soufflé]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Heart of TARDIS (novel)}}) while on two occasions, later Doctors were forced to mentally regress back to their [[Third Doctor|third persona]], when they found themselves facing a situation where the Third Doctor's skills would be better-suited to handle the crisis than their own abilities were. This happened during their [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnations]]. The Sixth Doctor required the Third's skills at hand-to-hand combat ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|State of Change (novel)}}) while the Seventh felt that his technical expertise would be useful. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}) The [[Fifth Doctor]] also notably lacked the hand-to-hand combat skills of his two immediate predecessors, though he remained a fairly capable swordsman, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The King's Demons (TV story)}}) and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] expressed uncertainty about his ability to use a motorbike early in his life as he hadn't had a chance to test his current capabilities. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Crawling Terror (novel)}}) Post-regenerative [[amnesia]] could also be a problem, preventing the Doctors' recall of crucial information, such as the [[Sixth Doctor]] forgetting about his predecessor's encounter with [[Katherine Chambers]] when he met a younger version of her despite his past self's attempt to leave a reminder, resulting in him being unable to avert Katherine's interest in acquiring Cyber-technology. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Gathering (audio story)}})

The mental transformation caused by regeneration could also be a problem; when [[Andred]] decided to pose as [[Torvald]] after the two fought in the Capitol basement, Torvald dying while [[Andred (Weapon of Choice)|Andred regenerated]], immediate post-regenerative trauma was so difficult that Andred didn't think about what his actions would do to his wife [[Leela]] before he was too far into his deception, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Blind Eye (audio story)}}) others noting later that Andred had spent so long pretending to be Torvald that his own new personality had never asserted itself, resulting in him still expressing some of Torvald's personality traits even after his deception was exposed. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Lies (audio story)}})