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s8 of classic who is just the doctor going 'ah shit there goes my ex again' in every serial

the doctor: what the fuck are you doing here the master: rule the universe with me my dear

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Extremely funny that actually watching his first main episodes gives you clear indication that one of simm!master’s key character traits is Horny

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thinking about time lords and their fucked up little society again and i just realized how devastating the revelation of the drums in the end of time is in relation to the master's character.

because of all the renegade time lords in the universe, i think it's the master who most exemplifies the philosophical outlook that the time lords have towards the rest of the universe. they're stuffy observers, administrators, yes - but this position is one they've decided for themselves because of this concept of supremacy over other life forms. imposed and upheld this idea that other species that lack a time sense are less-than, primitive. and the master buys into this hard.

and i mean... compared to the doctor, the master is good at being a time lord. he buys into these supremacist concepts, this idea that every other species (and especially humans) is practically a meaningless ant in the grand scheme of the universe. takes it to the extreme, yes, but its the same underlying principle. he's a good student (despite whatever chibnall might think) - that one time lord from terror of the autons (identity forever a mystery) (its brax) even says "he did receive a higher degree of cosmic science than you." the master could play their game if he wanted to. he's remarkably comfortable with being on gallifrey/the idea of gallifrey(in eot/tlotl) than the doctor ever is. where the doctor avoids the subject of the lord presidency like the plague, the master is like "well if you kill the president you ARE the president! and then you have all of gallifrey!" and when the doctor destroys gallifrey (nominally), the master tries to rebuild it in the sound of drums/last of the time lords. tries to emulate their society. honor them in his little fucked up way. he brings them back from the time war!

and what does he get for it? how did the time lords treat him in response?

they decide to implant the sound of drums in his head, stretching back until he's a child. puts this insufferable noise, this splitting headache, in his head for his entire life. all so that they may live while he dies. because he is diseased, because of them. he has swallowed the pill, bought their propaganda, he has followed the rules, he tried to rebuild them he tried. and in response he is chewed up and spit out like trash so that rassilon's god complex can survive while the universe crumbles.

how crushing must that be to someone? to have your whole worldview - that you are better, you are chosen, you are special - come crumbling down in a few short moments? to see the revered founder-god of the civilization you have so desperately tried to revive look at you and say "you are diseased," even though he was the one to poison you in the first place?

and as his heart is torn to pieces... when rassilon says "no more," and charges his gauntlet, the master - who has spent countless lives fighting death with his bare hands - does not move.

part of me thinks he does not want to.

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Hi. Sorry. Lucy Saxon/Martha Jones parallels rotting my brain right now.

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Liz Fic Masterpost (in vaguely chronological order)

❤️: me 🤍: somebody else (currently only @quietwingsinthesky but I can dream lmao)

doctor of what | 114, G, 🤍 | Ninth Doctor & Liz Davis

two hearts | 650, T, 🤍 | Ninth Doctor & Liz Davis

brain damage | 137, T, 🤍 | Ninth Doctor & Liz Davis

live laughing | 100, T, 🤍 | Ninth Doctor & Liz Davis & Rose Tyler (au)

Extraterrestrial Idiosyncrasies | 527, G, ❤️ | Liz Davis & Jack Harkness (podfic)

Encounter with an Endangered Species | 547, T, ❤️ | Liz Davis/The Master (Simm) (podfic)

sequin stars (so close to home) | 2.6k, G, ❤️ | Liz Davis/The Master (Simm)

always dress for the occasion | 1.1k, E, 🤍 | Liz Davis/The Master (Simm) (podfic)

Pearly White | 619, T, ❤️ | Liz Davis/The Master (Simm) (podfic)

The Elaphant (Cat) in the Room | 758, G, ❤️ | Bill Potts & Mr Razor (podfic)

promises, promises | 982, E, 🤍 | Liz Davis/The Master (Dhawan)

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sequin stars (so close to home) (2682 words) by tedthetalk Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Master (Simm)/Original Female Character(s) Characters: The Master (Simm), Original Companions (Doctor Who), The Doctor (Doctor Who) Additional Tags: Character Study, Kind Of, a character studying another character and accidentally revealing stuff about themselves, The Master (Doctor Who) is an oblivious idiot, Champagne, fancy parties, First Kiss, Self-Indulgent

Series: Part 3 of Liz Davis: professional freak of nature Summary: Liz Davis adores fancy parties on far away planets where nobody knows her. The excuse to dress up, the champagne and hors d’oeuvres, the gossip, the ability to cause a scandal with no consequences as soon as she gets bored… The Master likes them too, until he doesn’t. Both enjoy having someone to come home with at the end of the night, whether they’ll admit it to themselves or not

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“I’m gonna go upstairs and blow it up! And i might well die in the process, but don’t worry about me.” <- words of a man heavily disassociated from life & death from the violent passing of his last companion

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Thinking abt how Lizzie’s nanogenes would probably react to the time war strategy of trying to kill you by doing something that makes her like that one shencomix reality straightener comic

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It wasn’t its appearance that made the woman difficult to look at — though it’s garish synthetic blue sweatervest against the brown-orange-red of the planet certainly did it no favors.

(A familiar voice in his head called him a hypocrite for that thought. He ignored it.)

Its metaphysics weren’t particularly complex either, though it was clearly a time traveler. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The D——— was an impossibly old child, head stuffed full with too many memories with too many holes in them, spaces where there should be something replaced with empty void or worse, pictures from behind the wrong eyes. A single wrong step could leave him having been dead for centuries. The planet was the same, dirt and sand beneath him shifting like water. Ruin, wasteland, town square, ruin, farm, wasteland.

He had his sea legs, an extra wave wouldn’t send him overboard.

But swimming in a storm and seeing a single frozen patch of water as you gasped for air would fill any sailor with dread.

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nineroseliz Bad Wolf has liz get dropped into an ‘american ninja warrior’ spoof with lava instead of water

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nineroseliz liz ends up w time sense by none giving her a little regeneration energy to get her back in her right mind after swallowing the bad wolf

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I love a character who loves killing things with their hands so much they they disdain long-range weapons like guns but let me be clear that is NOT Liz. Give her a tommy gun please she can be trusted with a tommy gun she promises. She promises

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I mean obviously the best way to prevent your soldiers from self destructing from the trauma of war is to automatically alter their psychology to enjoy it right

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VERY GOOD QUESTION BC I WAS JUST THINKING ABT THIS WHEN I REWATCHED THAT EPISODE

So the thing is, bc we’ve got Rose, the Doctor knows — Liz dies before he meets Rose and all that happens in the same order. Rose doesn’t Jack doesn’t but Liz and the Doctor are having quiet conversations Rose doesn’t understand at the same time that she and Jack are flirting like crazy. Mutual jealousy u understand.

ANYWAY she wanders off with Rose to help the kid but goes in a different direction to find a ladder and when she gets to the top the kid is gone and Rose has disappeared via barrage balloon, meaning she gets back with the Doctor and travels with him to meet the orphans and then to the hospital. Her & the Doctor have their conversation with Dr Constantine and she accidentally touches one of the body’s coats while examining them. It starts to itch but doesn’t properly transform — only starting when all four of them are in the kid’s room and becoming a proper body-horror fest once they’re ‘safe’.

She doesn’t transform properly, obviously, instead the chula nanogenes and hers start fighting — undoing and redoing the damage the chula thinks is correct. It only stops when Jack teleports them and his set join the fight, becoming a tiebreaker for ‘what a human looks like’. This is when the Doctor and Liz both realize what’s happened, and have the Plan A to use the chula nanogenes on her that have now been taught the correct human layout to convert the rest.

(This doesn’t work bc the main mass of them just reads the ones on her as corrupted & they do have to use the mother-child link to set it right, but they do end up congregating around her instead of the doctor and she gets to send them out into the crowd so win/win)

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Oh btw Jack teleported away before Liz fell over and started turning inside out so he teleports the three of them onto his ship and immediately goes WHAT THE FUCK as what he knew as 1 of 2 pretty girls rapidly regenerates back from being part gasmask-slug

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ALSO important that you guys know that Nine goes to hug Liz as soon as she regenerates on Jack’s ship but Liz & Rose both stop her (Rose only out of instinct) bc of her potentially still being able to infect people — and then as soon as they know the chula nanogenes are back to harmless he grabs her and spins in a circle in celebration

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So funny that Lizzie’s first impression of the Master is him doing weird gay shit with the Doctor while pulling off the silliest possible world domination plan + having a breakdown about his childhood trauma. Of course she’s not intimidated by him