how world enough and time/the doctor falls should’ve ended
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Poly, what made you choose to bring in Catnap and Dogday? Is there any plans to drag along anybody else?
Thank you for the question! This one is pretty long huh!XD
Ask info: https://www.tumblr.com/drewmwalker/742347982613200896/since-i-have-trouble-making-a-comic-explaining-how
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I am absolutely incorporating the "Moon and the President's wife poem" into my understanding of the Doctor and the Master btw.
I went down to the beach and there she stood. Dark and tall at the edge of the woods.
"The sky's too big, I'm scared," I cried.
She replied "Young man, don't you know there's more to life than the Moon and the President's wife?"
I cant help but read it as a snippet of a conversation. The Doctor and Master talking after the incident with the Moon and the President's wife daughter. Both still on Gallifrey. Both rebels, causing so much trouble but not yet taking the step to leave.
The sky is too big. The universe too wide. I'm scared to leave. The young man on the beach, clearly the Doctor. Young and afraid, the boy who ran away from what he saw in the Schism. Who wants adventure but had stayed content to mess around with Presidents daughters. Who needed a push to steal that Tardis and run away.
Then the other. On the edge of the woods, already on the cusp of the unknown (Woods are always an adventure in stories). One foot already out the door. A dark and tall figure, telling the one on the beach to just come on. Don't you know there is more to life than the Moon and the President's wife?
The Master, abstracted through the story as Missy. The one who lied about who he stole. The figure who stood in the woods, and who fell in the woods. Just on the cusp of everything.
A promise to run, there's so much more, lets find out what lies in that big sky.
A promise that was never acted on.
A series of events abstracted through layers of fiction, shabogan rumour, and fairytale. A story that helped the Doctor calm down right before death, twice. When nothing else could.
Even now after everything, being saved and kept alive by thoughts of the Master.
I cannot and will not ever shut up about it.
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