
“Get the hell out. I’m the Head Mouseketeer?”
He looks … diabolically delighted by this.

“Get the hell out. I’m the Head Mouseketeer?”
He looks … diabolically delighted by this.
// :’) thank you <33333
Send Koschei stuff from his kids.

“Hey, flower.”
The Master stops scanning the dashboard the moment his doted daughter enters. He squats and props her on a thigh, licking a finger and tidying her hair. Ferocious and formidable, he’s little more than a gentle giant with his tiny Zinnia.
“Well, sure,” he chimes, as if he’d say no to anything ranging from “I want a pony” to “I want a constellation.” “But! You’ve gotta promise me something: you’ll stay with mummy and me. And you won’t do anything we say it’s unsafe to do. Cause daddy loves you more than anything. Two hearts,” and he places her little hands over each heart, with a refrain that’s clearly familiar, “both of them yours.”
Send Koschei stuff from his kids.
The Master puts up his welding goggles. He grins puckishly.

“Maybe, love. May.” He taps the child’s nose. “Be.”
He lifts the little one into one arm, and carries them to the workbench away from all hot, corrosive, and electrical substances. A peck on the forehead and he places them beside a maze of different colored wires.
“Can you twist the red around the blue? All of them, mind, like this.”
Send Koschei stuff from his kids.
The Master blanches at the gravity of the request. The nape of his neck grows sticky and hot. He who is fearless is now stunned by his own anxiety.
“I’m. Uh. Oh lord. I’m rubbish at this. You’ll want to ask my best friend for this kind of thing, but I. Er.”
But she’s not here right now.
Ask him to calibrate an infinitely complex alien technology, he’s golden. Ask him to hack a global bank, he’ll do it in under sixty seconds. Ask him to run a successful political campaign to be legitimately elected chief seat of a major world power, give him a year and a half, tops. Ask him to build a gun from leaves, a cinch. A robot from toothpicks, sure.
For gentle words of sympathy, not geared at emotional or psychological manipulation? He’s screwed.
Still. Still . . . it’d be nice not to be the slave of one single definition of who he is, or could be. Wouldn’t it?
He sinks to sitting beside you. That’s the first step. Get on the level of the wounded. Right?
He takes your hand, cautiously, making sure he’s not exacting force.
“I don’t know you, and I didn’t know your dad. So I dunno what I can say that won’t sound like empty consolation. But. But to have a child who remembers him with such eloquence and love … both your innate faculties and the comportment you’ve learned to guide you … those speak well of him, and of what pride he’d have in you were he here now.”
He musters a smile that he hopes is comforting. His own face is young and innocent, no matter the wrinkles or silver hairs. There’s an odd sort of comfort in that alone, in the way this Master is changelessly a brash little boy.
“And if you want. I can try to barbecue on the roof of my TARDIS. And not give in to the urge to burn something down. Or fix something you broke. Or … tell terrible corny jokes. Swap blood with you so we can briefly share DNA? No, that’s … that’s rather macabre. Perhaps I’m past due to shut up now.”
He pats your hand.
“You can call me dad if you like. I’m also surprisingly good at hugs. Just don’t stab me in the back with a concealed blade … ! Or, you know. shoot me or. Generally do something to try and assassinate me. Bring it in … ! There we go.”

Send Koschei stuff from his kids.

The Master puckers his lips at his daughter from across the room. He stalks over, and snatches her up.
“Ohhhh, c’mere, you little MONSTER. Daddy’s shirt is yours for the sacrificing.”
He dangles her upside down and blows raspberries into her belly button. Then he hoists her upright and makes vaguely threatening fish-lips at her face, certain that he’s about to get peacock-hued war paint on his own cheeks.
Send Koschei stuff from his kids.
The Master rears upright at the sound of this deeply personal admission. He quirks his lip. He cocks his head.
And then he smiles, beatifically, in such a way you’d never imagine he was wickedness incarnate.

“That’s alright!” he joyously booms. “After all, I’m sure I’m a better dad than he was! C’mere!”
He slings an arm round the unknown’s shoulders and pats companionably.
It was a VERY master-esque move, although my muse was raging with his face pressed against the screen at the entire moment, lol. He protec!
// ._____. Gracie’s death seemed very unnecessary to me. That was what bothered me so much. I feel like women of color already die way too much in Western media….
//Which episode, friend? :O ❤