“How do relationships even work???” for flawed–by–design

Ask my muse for romantic advice.

“Well I only know second-hand, really, beyond the single meaningful connection i’ve made all my long life. It’s said that the key to comprehending a successful relationship, romantic or platonic, put in scientific terms, is symbiosis. You simply … . balance the amount that you give and take, and you try to maintain focus on the needs of the other party. And if they undergo a particularly difficult period in their life, you step oop to take on some additional burdens. Somehow I always manage to muck it up anyway, I think, because I’m too jealous, too anxious to impress, and too … . fearful of being only a destructive force, so in order to not be a failure in the eyes of the person I hold in highest esteem, I throw myself full-force into being an arsehole. And pretend that that’s all I was aiming to do, to begin with.”

A pause, and a crooked, tired smile.

“Or maybe I am just a dick.”

//So I don’t wanna over analyze this but …..isn’t this the first time the sonic has had an orange light instead of a blue one?

Annnnnd the only….other screwdriver to have an orange light was a certain someone’s laser…..

Which frankly would be an incomprehensible choice on the Doctor’s part to me, given their adamant nonviolence policy, BUT. What if Thirteen made it as an ode to all the Masters, who’ve used a laser weapon for all their faces, but rendered no longer a weapon? With the symbolic color? As a tribute to how Simm ~~almost~~ and Missy achieved redemption?

All of this is moot of course if the Doctor’s sonic has been orange before lol.

Dearest Master, forgive me for asking but I saw an opportunity and just had to take it. What is the earliest memory you have that you can remember properly?

“That’s a compelling question. Red. The color red. That’s my earliest memory. Just undiluted deep throbbing crimson. I dunno if it was my mind telepathically projecting pre-linguistic ideas, or a fabric on the wall outside my looming tube, or what. I’ve no context, no person’s face or sound, to accompany it.”

auniverseaway:

Working on an Ad at work and I couldn’t stop giggling.
@masterfulxrhythm

ksljdhfsdfg nyahahahaha anytime I mention the Bayeux Tapestry in a class, I have to talk about how William the Conquerer’s (modern-day England’s “forefather”) enemy was king HAROLD OF SAXONY and if that ain’t a quietly perverse easter egg on the Master’s part when he becomes England’s PRIME MINISTER then idk what is. XDDD

forgediinfire:

“He’s my best friend!”

The Doctor runs their hand through their hair as if to disguise how their fingers tremble with emotion.

“All these years, all these worlds and people and schemes… he’s all I’ve got. He’s all I’ve ever had, honestly, ever since we were kids.”

“I loved him. The universe is big and cold and I’ve made my fair share of mistakes but I still love him now, if in a different way than before.”

The Doctor paces, a manic sort of energy around them. But their eyes are clear and bright as if they’ve seen something that defines their whole existence and they finally understand.

“Where would I be without him? He’d certainly be better off without me. Genius like him, he’d probably have been President. Maybe he’d have been able to stop the Time War. Ah, but things change and people change… The only thing that hasn’t ever is that he’s my friend. I know him better than I know myself. And if we’re to keep playing this game until the end of Time…”

“Well, I can say for certain, it’s a far cry better than losing him altogether.”

“My Hearts and Other Self, you’re such a fool.”

I have feared Death since I was eight and transfixed, petrified, prey trapped, robes soaked in my own urine, in front of a hole in time and space, that called to me.

But you, you spoke my name a little louder than that four-beat call, and I remember the epiphany like it was yesterday: it was a summer morning in the fields of red and you were standing in the light of the twin suns, they were framing you from behind like a gold halo, and I realized you were so beautiful that Death was afraid of you. More than that: Death was irrelevant because of you.

You were the Master far before I was, but I caught and harnessed that moniker, in your honor.

“You’re stupid. So stupid. Stop hating yourself long enough to see that, pain or no pain, my life without you is purposeless.”

It’s not an endless cycle now. I hear you and you see me now.

It wasn’t my idea (even partly), but I saw it on my dash first, so… that’s okay :) Also, I would like to see them as happy as possible and new ideas or/and thoughts about pain… It suits Moffat’s era, but 4 billion years… That’s bad. What more interesting – did the Master leave Gallifrey before or after the Doctor reached them? (it’s doctamastacanon, if it’ll show in ask box as graslistia)

//Let me just make it clear that 4 billion years isn’t what I would want for the character, but it is what I think would fit Moffat’s writing.

But with the demonstrable fact that I love the Master dearly, it’s not what I would like to see made canon (same as I wish they hadn’t done it to the Doctor).

Without getting myself into another fruitless debate with other followers, who stan Steven Moffat’s writing–again, I would ask you to talk to them directly, when you and I are in agreement over more than you realize–I will just say that I think his era is egregiously cruel to a number of characters for the sake of shock value.

I do not think the Master left Gallifrey before the Doctor returned there, no, and I think the fact that the Doctor made no effort to search for him explains a lot of his resentment and rage in The Doctor Falls. The Master was aware that the Doctor was on Gallifrey, but the Doctor was not aware that the Master was: because he didn’t try to find him. He just assumed he was dead, knowing Rassilon’s hatred for them both, and the Master’s unstable resurrection energy, which was killing him slowly, when last he saw him.

Of course, this is all speculation on my part! I’ve never said I was an expert on this or correct, only that I’ve spend hours and months trying to make sense of the Master’s slightly out-of-character tone in The Doctor Falls. I am not the last word on any of this, though it’s flattering that you ask.

masterwhy42:

rundalek:

Simm!Master in The Doctor Falls.

Can we talk about how angry the master was in this episode. I mean he’s always had an angry streak to him but this one seemed like he had delt with something big (maybe even bigger then what when in with the time liars and the time war.) Anyone have any thoughts on this?

@masterwhy42 You should take a gander through my meta tag and also if you like I can give you some headcanon ideas I share with @doctamastacanon @audale and @alez-on-mars

Like I agree with you 120%, the Master’s conduct and demeanor were a thousand shades bitterer and less enthusiastically delightedly wicked. He was miserable and furious and embittered, and since that’s an incomprehensible leap from being on the precipice of teaming up with or traveling with the Doctor in End of Time, that leaves two possibilities:

1) the writing is, in parts, poor, and at the Master’s expense for the sake of other characters seeming sympathetic (I still contend this is partly the case, but we can’t do much with or about that aside write fix-it fics, which hey, I am all for)

and/or

2) something severely traumatic was done to the Master after he drove Rassilon and the Time Council back into the timelock. Because let’s face it, Rassilon saw both the Doctor and the Master as aberrations to be used when it was convenient; tools (hell that’s the reason why the Master had what everyone always thought was an auditory hallucination all his life) which Rassilon referred to openly as “diseased.” Rassilon wants revenge on both the Doctor and the Master; as we know, he gets revenge in the Confession Dial on the Doctor later, with Twelve, so why wouldn’t he get it on the Master, too? Right when he was in his clutches? The Doctor assumes the Master was “fixed” by the Time Council, since his unstable resurrection energy has been calmed, but the Master refers to both that time and his time as a leader on Mondas as something the Doctor “wouldn’t understand,” with an unusual grimness and reserve. To me this suggests the “fixing” on Gallifrey that he eventually escaped with a new TARDIS did not come without catches and conditions. Perhaps he was used as a weapon once again, as they intended him to be during the earlier stages of the Time War. My friends and I have hypothesized that he was even kept on Gallifrey for a time equivalent to the Doctor’s Confession Dial punishment, over four billion years, perhaps imprisoned, perhaps not, but fed incessant imagery of the Doctor failing to ever come to save him, and return the favor he paid him in End of Time.

This combination of factors would explain his incomprehensible rage toward Twelve, when the last time he saw the Doctor, as Ten, they had come as close to a detente as they ever did in New Who, or arguably the entire series, before Missy’s arc.

Source: crowzley

Muse character flaws

tagged: no one i stole it from @canspotatimeagent

“Good grief.. you are utterly -pissed-. Reminds me of the Academy graduation when we both got rat faced and ended up stark bollock naked and dancing in the Council fountain.”

“AUWH, I di’NAH, sugar-tits!”

The Master reels over to the Doctor and unfastens his bowtie with alarming steadiness, and reassembles it, in a bow, around his head. He grins in the nearest reflective surface, sticking out his tongue at himself, and facetiously preening. Facetiously, or who knows, maybe he fancies the look. Maybe he’s having a good old time.

He then smacks the Doctor in the chest, emphatically.

“YYYOUUU got stark bollock naked, I filmed eht!”

What has your favorite disguise ever been, and rank it on a scale of 1-10 on how clever it was/ how effective it was at fooling the Doctor.

“I’ll give you a tip, and in doing so, let you in on a secret: your question
wrongly presupposes that I didn’t want to get caught.”