#(/future postcursors with the doctor as harbinger in a bootstrap cycle)

[rowanthestrange]

Do I want Belinda’s parents to be Them, or do I want them to ambiguously be like god-monster-versions of Them? Cus imitation is the name of the game but also… I do stand by the fact that it’s just a funnier story if the Master isn’t involved — be that stuck in the tooth or literally just chilling somewhere else — and the Doctor’s got him so stuck in his brain it keeps warping reality into these Master-themed stories.

Cus in a story where the Doctor’s beliefs are warping reality, gut feel for plot and no themes yet, if I was writing it from scratch, I would have fridged the Master. And maybe be trying to summon through into reality a god that has the powers the Doctor thinks the Master does, after triggering and triggering him. It’s your Ideal Boyfriend but of course isn’t at all. It’s wearing him, conceptually. (But probably have the Master show up at the end like “Bitch!”)