The Doctor and Simm!Master come across a future version of the Doctor, who doesn’t tell them who they are. Who realizes first that they’re talking to future!Doctor, the Doctor or the Master?

//Oh, the Master, EASILY.  The Doctor has never been self-aware in any face, which has effected consequences ranging from being blunt, impatient, and rude toward a Companion who’s scared or upset, to the creation of a number of monsters throughout the universe, including the Master themself.  

The Master is aware of this, and is contrariwise a hypervigilant, fanatically meticulous person.  Whether in love or loathing, the Master has studied the Doctor like a most beloved academic subject, and simultaneously, like a soul mate.  Simm Master has a penchant for rubbing salt directly into the deepest wounds, as well, and that’s not just because he’s spiteful and nasty (which he is), but also because he knows the Doctor THAT well. It’s a double whammy because the Master studies EVERYTHING thoroughly (except maybe the potential heroism of humans, whom the Master constantly underestimates), and also because the Doctor is the Master’s favorite subject in all the universe. 

He would know ages before the Doctor. Ages.   

“Back To You” by Selena Gomez is giving me Doctor/Master feels, from the Doctor to the Master.

Took you like a shot
Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening
Let a couple years water down how I’m feeling about you
(Feeling about you)
And every time we talk
Every single word builds up to this moment
And I gotta convince myself I don’t want it
Even though I do (even though I do)You could break my heart in two
But when it heals, it beats for you
I know it’s forward, but it’s trueI wanna hold you when I’m not supposed to
When I’m lying close to someone else
You’re stuck in my head and I can’t get you out of it
If I could do it all again
I know I’d go back to you
I know I’d go back to you
I know I’d go back to youWe never got it right
Playing and replaying old conversations
Overthinking every word and I hate it
‘Cause it’s not me (’cause it’s not me)
And what’s the point in hiding?
Everybody knows we got unfinished business
And I’ll regret it if I didn’t say
This isn’t what it could be (isn’t what it could be)You could break my heart in two
But when it heals, it beats for you
I know it’s forward, but it’s true

Oh dear ;_; ❤ 

Know what’s sad? I bought the magazine because 1) 13 was on the cover and 2) because there was a section for the Master/Missy. Then I got home and read it ended up just tearing out the pictures I liked and tossing the rest in the recycling. Clearly Newsweek just released this to capitalize on 13’s upcoming season and probably just got a bunch of their writers to cobble together what they could find out online doing a quick Google search. Really insulted me.

I can totally believe that, and it’s pretty repulsive, yeah 😦 ❤ 

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Send a symbol and I’ll answer the question about my muse. (Or answer in character. Whatever works for you!)

💋 – How does your muse feel about people who cheat? Do they see a reason for it, or is it completely immoral?

This one’s simple: don’t cheat on Koschei. Do it once and you’re through. For good.  

It’s not even a moral matter so much as he is tremendously, pathologically possessive. Even in his healthier relationships, he is extremely sensitive to being abandoned in even the remotest sense (this is 100% the Doctor’s fault, tbh LOL, Koschei was always on the clingy side but the  Doctor’s abandonment has augmented the issue exponentially).  Oddly, this doesn’t apply to friendships, or place him in the profile of the abusive spouse: he does not seek to isolate his partner from the outside world or from other relationships.  They can socialize, go out, etc normally with others: it’s more that he’s eager to come with, and be shown off as his partner’s “favorite.”   All reasons why he’s an impenitent flirt with his partner in public, and loves pda.  

Have friends, hobbies, activities, interests entirely outside of your relationship with him, that’s fine.  In fact, he prefers some alone time to obsess over his own intellectual projects.  But a rival romance, however, he won’t tolerate.  

People reading this will invariably point to his brief relationship with his human wife Lucy.  And to that, I say, perhaps indelicately, Koschei was never in love with Lucy. Lucy was (very badly) used as a prop.  Lucy was a revenge relationship on the Doctor.  Lucy was the Master showing the Doctor, quite cruelly, that he can imitate everything about the Doctor’s usual operation (youthful and energetic, charismatic, a human companion to travel with him) and yet be unrepentantly evil and past “savin,” a perverse act of defiance of everything the Doctor, who “makes people better,” stands for, down to the point of suicide in order to resist the Doctor’s promise to “care for” him ( “how about that? I win”).  The Master therefore shows no interest in fidelity to Lucy.  He does not consider her a true partner, romantic or otherwise.  Quite awfully, he thinks of her as part of a disguise, a tool,  necessary collateral, just like his pseudonym, his election, and a tenth of earth’s population.  

For the food thing: pears?

Send my muse a food you think they’d like. 

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      “I find pears altogether disappointing, really.  You expect something that mingles, say, an apple and a peach, and you get a rather earthy, nutty, limp-noodled half-flavor, which dies entirely too soon upon your palate.  Bosque pears, I suppose, are passable, because they’ve a sweeter kick, despite the rather grainy texture.  Really, human.  You must try harder.”