#i will tag you if you like
also how do you guys write about rooms in the tardis. bc i tend to imagine theres like many options of any given room and a number of them in use at any given time like in my current fic i somewhat arbitrarily decided theyve got three kitchens and two living rooms they mostly use for different occasions. theyve got like 5 bathrooms but 3 of them are currently hostile to human life bc the doctor did experiments in them
like just curious how you guys write the tardis as a living space
Like a Minecraft world it’s all progressively generating, and like a Minecraft world the further out you go, the further the laws of physics start to break down.
The TARDIS uses people’s minds to generate interesting content for them, but like any AI this can net interesting results. In theory the TARDIS should only be able to generate things that have been within her confines in some way before. But she’s gotten the gist of this dimension’s concept of reality by now, and sometimes memory can be enough, even if certain aspects don’t necessarily hold up i.e. your childhood teddybear that is significantly bigger than when you last saw him because she used the memories from when you were 4. Also he smells like lavender now.
Main rooms tend not to be too far away except for the Wardrobe (because the Doctor insists they ‘know where it is’) and the Disliked Passenger Toilet that is a five minute jog away.
The Bedroom Corridor is as it sounds to the right, the kitchen is (usually) on the left next to the console room, and there’s a living-room-slash-cinema (usually) just down that hall.
The Medbay is always opposite to the console room without exception, but anything else is up to her discretion. She doesn’t tend to move things like bedrooms around unless she feels you deserve it (positive or negative). If she likes a person this often means a bigger room or more features, and there is a good chance that if that person wants something, she will simply arrange its location to be the next door they open.
She sometimes sends messages this way. Usually personal. Often unwelcome. For the Doctor this often manifests as a shower, a kitchen, a bed, or a sex dungeon that the Doctor then begs her to hide again.
The Doctor believes they can delete rooms. To a certain extent this is untrue. While technically accurate, the TARDIS retains full information of all matter at every point, and thus can generate anything at leisure. However, often this is the Doctor’s expression of unhappiness and grief, so the TARDIS no longer provides her doors to those companion’s rooms anymore.
The TARDIS has a good degree of understanding of linear time. However on the rare occasions she becomes sick, she has been known to generate rooms of companions that do not exist yet, complete with their socks on the floor.
