Tag: Simm Master

Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
See the pyramids along the Nile
Just remember darlin’, all the while
You belong to me

See the market place in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it’s wet with rain
Just remember ‘til you’re home again
You belong to me

~Dean Martin 

“  what  hideous  sin  have  you  committed lately? ”

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     “Well let’s SEE.”

The Master begins to impenitently check absurdities off his black-nailed fingers.

    “Didn’t recycle a plastic bottle when the recycling bin was two feet away; stole candy from a baby and ate it in front of his weeping fat little tomato-red face; poured red dye in an evangelical church’s swimming pool, prompting panic over Moses 2.0; put gum under an antique chair; ate fish that wasn’t sustainably caught–in front of a vegan; killed the vegan later; kicked sundry puppies; have you caught on to the fact that I’m taking the piss right now?” 

Headcanon:

Thanks to @trionrevolutionary for articulating this and returning it to the forefront of my mind.  I’ve always implied this in my threads but never outright stated it: 

Koschei was, and is, as the Master, a massively powerful psychic. His capacity for telepathic communication, and control, is beyond prodigal, beyond that of any ordinary Time Lord; why this is has always been the subject both of trepidation and intense study on the part of House Oakdown and the highest tiers of the Time Council, who have secretly been trying to craft ways to control him since before his (provisional) acceptance into the Prydonian Chapter of the Time Academy.  

On his own, he has learned that he can use his psychic abilities to control people even without touch-telepathy being required, especially if they are members of a “lesser” and more mentally vulnerable race (such as the human race).  Only the Ood, ironically, have ever been fully immune to his abilities, which seem to be better primed when he uses self-focusing mantras ( “you will obey me” is the one you see in canon). 

 Fully unlocked, these abilities could effect brain damage to his victims on a massive scale, and already can, at the very least, have affective (emotional) and hypnotic influence.  They also seem to be loosely connected to his mental discipline, which he can use to electively stave off regeneration (seen in The Last of the Time Lords) or control the appearance and even the gender of a regeneration to an unusual extent (see the youth of Simm!Master and the gender of Missy). 

The downside of being a psychic prodigy is that he is never fully certain when anyone is doing something around him fully of their own volition.  Arguably worse, being a psychic livewire to every signal in a vicinity exacerbates Koschei’s existing Sensory Processing Disorder, which is a component of his neurodivergency.  This is in fact what made “The Drums” so excruciating, and it is also largely why he is constantly overstimulated, aggressive, and agitated.  

He is completely unfamiliar with the luxury of a silent mind. 

trion-revolutionary: “I also have him at least unconsciously suppress his own abilities. The timelords see psychic abilities outside of telepathy as primitive and backwards. And if people are better at them they are primitive and dangerous.” 

//Another thing I like about Strangers from strictly a Doctor Who muse vantage point:  I have always played the Simm!Master as a snugglebug with the few people he loves and trusts.  And scenes in Strangers gave me GREAT fodder for cuddler!Koschei images, lol. 

See what he does, is he doesn’t just “snuggle,” he TUCKS IN to his romantic partner.  He whispers in the ear, nuzzles, spoons like a pro: burrows into to all of his lover’s nooks and crannies and lays physical claim to them, making himself as close to them as he possibly can get without merging by like, osmosis or reverse mitosis.

He has a strange capacity to be invasive of another’s space, but for it to feel comforting, to feel safely entitled to their affection, to be not even remotely shy about clinging on.  

This face of the Master is uniquely, extremely physical.  Think about it, it’s one thing that makes him unique from Missy and all other Masters.  He looms large, he glues himself on, he grabs and shoves and embraces and bunts.  Probably the most famous scene of his entire run is when he grabs the Tenth Doctor’s face and shoves their foreheads together.   He is not shy about physical demonstrations, hostile or affectionate.  

Like it’s more than being physical, he makes that physicality meaningful and sometimes overwhelmingly intimate.  

//A follower’s fantastic url just reminded me of this but remember the time the Doctor kills a public camera with his sonic and Simm!Master is watching and he is like, in the tone of a church grandma or a wilting Southern belle, “OH, you PUBLIC MENACE!”, while blatantly turned on, and grinning like a demented kewpie doll???? Remember that????  What a fucking dork I want ninety.