what seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
Any pleasant downtime spent with the Doctor when they were young boys has lasted with the Master. Watching the suns rise after a night of revelry, stealing TARDIS parts and building their own bastardized inventions. The feel of their hands accidentally brushing together in a society that scorned and condemned physical affection. The look of Theta Sigma’s blond curls damp on the nape of his neck because their Prydonian robes were sweltering, in the back of class. Bad things, too. The smell of the air ascending the hill toward the Untempered Schism. The color of Ailla’s nails when she announced her betrayal. The smell of his daughter’s nursery blanket when he (she) smelled it one last time, before abandoning Gallifrey. The feel of his skin like moldy raisins and beef jerky and sandpaper scraping his muscles when he desperately needed a new body. The sensation of death when the Time Council executed him; the sensation of resurrection, startling and too bright and cold. The clamminess of his skin after his wife Lucy shot him. The smell of the Doctor’s aftershave in the same moment. Hunger when he was resurrected, hunger that could not be satiated.
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