#Cybermasters

[solitractsaxon]

My handfasting is in August and look what my amazing besties made for me - personalised invites to give out adorned with a hand drawn CyberMaster and ofc a quote from my beloved 12th Doctor!! 🫶💙

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 12x10 - The Timeless Children

[pizzacade]

Story idea: The Cybermasters somehow regain their "humanity," but are still robotic in their reasoning. They end up deciding to become the ultimate judges of time itself, and of course, The Doctors are the first people they put on trial, with the interpretation that their bigeneration breaks the laws of time somehow or that the technique was somehow sealed away and outlawed and they ultimately believe having two unique Doctors would bring chaos and destruction. The punishment that the Cybermasters deem reasonable is for the two Doctors to be merged back into one person again. Fourteen is against the punishment because it was his choice for the bigeneration to happen, and the only person who should be blamed is The Toymaker, who obviously can't be tried. Also, he is enjoying his retirement with the Nobles. Fifteen understands Fourteen's perspective, however, he worries that being split in two may have also split their remaining lives as well, and being merged together again would fix that, and it would be better for the world. Then another TARDIS materializes, and The Curator steps out of it. The Cybermasters chastise him for invading his own past, but he doesn't care and declares himself as The Doctors' lawyer. The Curator refutes the claim of breaking the law of time by reminding them that most of the time it has happened, it was either caused by Time Lords themselves, or someone else unrelated to the actions of The Doctor, then he mentions that their statuses as Cybermen with regeneration abilities is even more dangerous than any of them, noting that if The Master ever return, he would most assuredly take back control. This causes the Cybermasters to deliberate, and they come to a conclusion, not guilty, but before they leave, they all raise one of their arms, and bestow all their regeneration energy to the two Doctors, restoring the regenerations they might have lost due to the split. The two Doctors then celebrate their victories and catch up with each other until they notice The Curator leaving. They then ask him why he appeared to defend them, and he answers that he knew that he would because he saw it happen through Fourteen's eyes, causing Ten's duplicate to become surprised, however, The Curator tells him he doesn't become him until WAY later, and to enjoy his retirement, and then they all leave.

[oututopia]

In line with I think of the Timeless Children storyline (and I need to write something about it if not for people to read it, just for me to make my thoughts clearer) I think the Cybermasters are fascinating.

"You wanted to live longer and you manipulated a child identity & DNA to do it well now you get to do it forever and you get mor DNA manipulation as a reward."

You can say what you want about how it works within Gallifrey lore that's not what I'm interested in here. As retribution it works great.

[wallapology]

Inspired by @fanonical’s post:

[gay-impressionist]

doctor who chibnall era this chibnall era that

you know what this era gave us? awesome looking monsters

i mean??? the Cybermasters? Swarm and azure? Tzim-Sha? The Pting? 💯💯💯

[masterfultm]

nobody ever wins the games. period. there are survivors. there's no winners. / for anyone from wynter

There was a slight grin that pulled across his features. It only lasted a moment before going back to a version of normalcy. Something that he figured would be suitable for something like this.

"And who said anything about a winner? I have an army at my command. My army," Dylan says sharply. "What do you have? Besides words, which cannot do anything besides make others uneasy."

( @wyldefcrged )

[olympain]

the most ridiculous plot point to have come out of the power of the doctor is still graham randomly being in a VOLCANO. have you ever seen a plot convenience be THIS convenient?

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

My issue with the time war is the finality of it all. I’m fine with it in theory, actually, as an interesting part of Gallifreyan history, but that’s only possible if there is an after for them to live again and rebuild

[master-missysversion]

I've been trying to figure out why the master would want to destroy the universe using the cybermen and I just realised. He doesn't. It's all an act. He wants the doctor to use the death particle and he needs to give her a reason to do it

[killjoygem]

I was thinking about TTC and how really every timelord could be considered a hybrid in a way, so it's kind of ironic that Gallifrey was ultimately destroyed by a timelord. And ohhh God. Oh god, I am sick just thinking about it...

The thing the timelords feared the most was their own creation, and the foundation of their very existence. It's just so perfectly poetic

[lazer-screwdriver]

God the cybermasters r so dorky I love them so much. They’re like when kids r playing pretend and r like. Shot u. No I’ve got a forcefield. My bullets can go through forcefields

[deathxproof]

it cycles into something new every other week but if I had to choose a song to be like. a Master Song™️. Under Attack by ABBA is a huge contender in my head rn.

[doctor-the-13th]

I must admit I missed this bit until a few people on here pointed it out. It'll help. Added Ginger. Almost has a double meaning here. The humbug will help Ryan with his warp-travel sickness, but the added ginger is the only thing helping the Doctor get through her day.

It's honestly so sad. But if you think about the fact that she beat the Matrix, the Cybermen, the CyberMasters, and the Master—all the while not even being fully sober—it's low-key funny.

I mean—how embrassing is that for the Master?

[synthient]

Alan is a Master mirror: a masterpost (if you will.)

As many people have already picked up on: yes Alan's whole thing is basically just cybermen/cyberconversion. That's because we're calling back to the toclafane and Missy's cybermen and Spymaster's cybermasters

Shitty high school boyfriend. Enough said.

"Killed by a girl. How inappropriate" / "Please, Time Lady. I'm old fashioned"

Buying a star = "You don't need to own the universe, just see it"

"How can I celebrate your birthday and treasure this moment forever?" Missy's birthday present to the Doctor was a cyberman army for him to take over the universe with

Belinda's first reaction is genuine concern for his welfare. 10 and 12 were both desperate to help/heal the Master

⬆️ Enough said

Guy who relates to the world as a game where he can make up the rules and win. Guy who gets addicted to his first taste of power. Guy who starts vaporizing people for funzies

Belinda rejected Alan's marriage proposal years ago because he was coercive and controlling. The proposal scene the Doctor starts roleplaying in Rogue seems to be a fictionalized version of a conversation he had with the Master.

"How can you live with yourself?" "That's the point. He can't." Spymaster just spent his whole run going "[twirls hair] have I mentioned I'm suicidal," and that was only a touch more explicit than what Missy and Saxon had going on

Alan is simultaneously a shitty person who made his own choices, and a tragic figure who's lost some measure of his free will to the machine. Like the Master and the drums

Alan gets turned into a sperm and an egg. Timeless Children heavily implies that both the Doctor and the Master got memory wiped and turned back into babies. Blon Slitheen is another Master mirror who gets turned back into an egg

Oh btw in case you were wondering: yes, the fact that her shitty high school boyfriend was a villain in disguise who wanted to get her to marry him means that Rogue is the Master

[buggyboba]

Don't imagine reader dealing with the master when he is having his whole breakdown burning gallifrey down and turning everyone he has ever known into cybermen/cybermasters whatever he called them. Don't imagine reader comforting the inevitable realization, coming down, the roller coaster of emotions, the threats, the pleas, the physical response, the clinging. This mess of a man, don't imagine it.