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RC & Cipher’s Prototype Androids are designed to be a perfect mimic of a person, even a perfect interface for a person to use like a Ganger.   You literally forget you’re not an android once you interface.   To you it’s your real body.

Gallifreyan Biology - Regeneration (pt.1*) 

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*there is far, far too much information on regeneration to combine into a single post!

Regeneration was the biological process by which Gallifreyans could prevent death, and was usually caused by severe injury or trauma. However, it could also be consciously invoked, stalled or stopped altogether.

A single regeneration could last for several hundred years, without showing any signs of aging, and altogether a Gallifreyan could live almost indefinitely. For the first eight years of their lives, Gallifreyans would age at the same rate of a human: the aging process would then slow, meaning that a 90-year old Gallifreyan was still considered a child. Each individual was granted a single regeneration cycle, which typically allowed a total of 12 regenerations.

Forced regeneraton served as a form of punishment, and was extremely painful.

ORIGINS

Rassilon was believed to have first developed the regeneration process during an experiment involving self-replicating biogenic molecules (aka the Immortality Virus, the Legacy of Rassilon, or nanites). He then perfected the method, yet only granted the gift of regeneration to the most elite members of Gallifreyan society - these individuals would later become the Time Lords. It was thought that Rassilon administered the ability to regenerate through the addition of the third strand of DNA to the Gallifreyan genome, which stores regenerative information.

Regeneration may also have been brought about within the species due to prolonged exposure to the Untempered Schism.

THE PROCESS

Regeneration was triggered by the secretion of the lindos hormone. As this hormone travels through the body it weakens the bonds between cells, which results in a period of hallucination as the body loses solidity. Cells within an individual undergoing regeneration were realigned, and errors could occur within the mutating DNA - these resulted in the change in physical appearance. Changes in personality were brought about by the regeneration of the cells within the brain. However, it was only the ‘nurture’ aspects of personality (aspects that had been gained through experience) that were affected, while the ‘nature’ aspects remained the same. This would suggest that all personalities expressed by an individual across their regenerations were merely variations of their fundamental personality.
Though the vast majority of Gallifreyans retained the typical humanoid shape after regenerating, it was theoretically possible to adopt any form.

A huge release of Artron energy could occur during regeneration, which was dangerous and harmful to any bystanders.

A self-administered electroencephallic shock would usually revive the individual after regeneration, though occasionally it failed.

After-effects of regeneration could include:

• amnesia (both short- and long-term)
• muscle spasms
• confusion
• loss of motor-control
• unconsciousness
• violent or erratic behaviour (aka Ambient Complexity)
  

These effects could be lessened if the individual was placed within a Zero Room, where all outside interference was removed. TARDISes were also known to ease the regeneration process.

Conversely, regeneration could also provide several short-lived advantages, such as increased strength and the ability to regrow limbs.

Headcanon 

RC has been very open with CJ in regards to her past, she told him about her ex-husband that had killed her friend Rose in a parallel reality and that the same man had killed her and the ex’s son.

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She and CJ don’t use their nicknames when it’s just them and the kids.   He’s just, Jack Harkness and she’s just Cipher.

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RC does a lot of running, every morning and every night she just runs.

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