#shalka!master

[corallapis]

[themastergifs]

THREE YEARS OF THEMASTERGIFS (November 5, 2020)

Dearest, I've been thinking. We need your TARDIS. We can't go up, but we can go down.

[ask-themasters]

Happy 50th anniversary of the Master’s first onscreen appearance!

I love this evil idiot

(Bonus:)

(Also, I do plan on reopening the inbox sometime in the future! Idk when, but sometime!)

[finalpam8000]

BABES!!!

WE FUCKING WON!!! WE WON TODAY!!!

[intuitive-revelations]

Now that Shalka!Doctor has been acknowledged in the show, I am 100% back in on my old theory that he:

a) is a post War in Heaven Ninth Doctor (linking with his intended backstory with the Time Lords in the matrix),

b) is the same incarnation as the "Cabinet of Light" Doctor, with the Eighth Doctor being the one who was betrayed and shot in the back,

c) erased himself in restoring Gallifrey / splitting the timeline from the War, but due to the intricate timelines is kinda remembered by the Doctor as another life within Eight's lifetime. This is also why he shows up in With All Awry / Now or Thereabouts in the Eleven Day Empire with the post Ancestor Cell amnesiac Eighth Doctor and the post Time War Ninth Doctor.

(Weirdly this is also very similar to the recent fate of the Nicholas Briggs Doctor - what this means, I don't know. It's interesting that this may be a pattern that repeats: the Briggs!Doctor erases himself to bring back Gallifrey, the Shalka!Doctor erases himself to bring back Gallifrey... if they hadn't managed to 'trick out time' this would have been the fates of the New Who Doctors too in Day of the Doctor... erasing themselves to give their wartime incarnation a new future...)

While I'm all in that he links somehow to the post-War universe, this does leave us in an awkward position where his exact existence depends not just on exactly how that happened, but also leaves us with the question of where exactly he emerges from the whole mess.

My original interpretation was that he was simply a post Gallifrey Chronicles Ninth Doctor, who was later erased restoring Gallifrey,

But I also really like the idea that the Jacobi!Master seen in Scream of the Shalka is the "same" incarnation we meet in the Time War / Utopia, even if his history might be quite different. Compare this with the post biodata virus Fourth Doctor, who was born under very different conditions, but is still effectively the incarnation we know. While this works extremely well with the interpretation that Romana III / Trey's Gallifreys are one and the same and the War started not during the Grey Eminence erased VNAs!Romana Presidency, but the delayed BF!Romana Presidency, it does somewhat clash with my original idea.

Assuming their timelines sync up (which tbf isn't necessarily the case, especially as the War Master has been zipping his way all over the timeline - plus we have the 'child' War Master to account for) this would seemingly place the Shalka Doctor MUCH later in the timeline: nearly to the point of Night of the Doctor (or at least around the time of the current Eighth Doctor audios), with the Android Jacobi!Master still succeeding Macqueen.

But as far as we can tell, Shalka doesn't really fit with the future Doctors during the War (the ones leading up to the Relic anyway, though we may also need to note the rejected "The War" novel that would have featured COFD!Thirteen too). I guess he could emerge from one of the other(?) alternative Eights, like "Grandfather Paradox" or the Infinity Doctor? This does somewhat go against the idea of him still being part of the Doctor's history though.

Hmm....

I guess for now, my interpretation has to be that the Shalka!Doctor is indeed post-EDAs, and the Shalka!Master is a remnant of the War, from the Doctor's future, with the timelines indeed still being out of sync? This does at least continue to work well with the idea that Gallifrey is still around in the post Ancestor Cell Eighth Doctor's "present" but he's still living in the unerased War timeline - so the Shalka!Master is native to the post-War universe, but the Shalka!Doctor is not.

[flammenkobold]

My personal favourite Shalka-verse headcanon is that the Master grows fond of Alison, eventually. He would never openly admit to it, of course.

But he does start calling her 'my dearest Alison'

[masterwhy42]

We all love how much the Master loves to sing and dance.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what other songs the Masters would sing/dance to?

Parker!Master

Delgado!Master

Beevers!Master

Anley!Master

Roberts!Master

Macqueen!Master

Young_War!Master

Jacobe!Master

Simm!Master

Gomez!Master

Dahawan!Master

Gatiss!Master

The Lumiat

The War Chef

Shalka!Master

[moss-under-a-rock]

Rating Doctor/Master ships with little to no explanation

1 Three/Delgado

2 Shalka Doctor/Shalka Master

3 Six/Ainley

4 Seven/Ainley

5 Four/Ainley (Don't see four with anyone really)

6 Five/Ainley (Five is my least favourite Doctor)

7 Eight/Roberts

8 Twelve/Missy (too heterosexual for me; and Missy is mine)

9 Theta/Koschei (I don't know much about them)

10 Thirteen/Dhavan

11 Ten/Simm (I hate Simm fight me)

I don't take criticism, you can hate me for that

[shepardschildofinfinity]

@master-missysversion 's post has me thinking:

Several of the incarnations of the Master are into a human children's show: Delgado!Master is the Clangers, iirc War!Master is In the Night Garden, and Simm!Master is the Teletubbies (I can't remember if the ones for Missy and the Dhawan!Master are ever mentioned)

So, would the Shalka!Master be really into the 90s Moomins anime?

I feel like they'd like the maturity, non-sequitors of the dub acting, and the melancholy gay pining.

[masters-and-magnets]

*keeps them as a pet*

The Master: literally trying to destroy/rule the earth/universe and killing a bunch of people in the process

The Doctor, every time without fail: we used be friends, did you know that?

[corallapis]

He'll never forgive you, you know. He'll never set you free.

[susieredfish]

Thoschei sketches with acrylic markers (+ colour pencils and pens)

[sodac3ndy]

How it feels to be a thoschei fan

[shepardschildofinfinity]

android

things the master has been turned into:

goosnake

furry

tooth

[clowns0cks]

take my hand

[gallifreyanhotfive]

In Boom, the Doctor recites a poem about the moon and the President's wife. This is intriguing, considering that Missy told Clara that she had cared about the Doctor "since the night he stole the moon and the President's wife" in The Magician's Apprentice. However, in Hell Bent, the Doctor claimed that that story had been a lie. Instead, it had been the President's daughter and that he had lost the moon.

Later on, in Rogue, we saw an image of the Shalka Doctor among the Doctor’s other faces. This is relevant because the Shalka Doctor had fallen in love with the President's daughter while he was on Gallifrey, but she had been killed by an alien race. The Master had aided the Doctor in repelling this alien race but had lost his physical body in the process, leading to the Doctor building him an android body. As a result of the President's daughter's death, the Doctor and the Master were sent on dangerous missions by the Time Lords that retreated into the Matrix. The transfer of the Master's consciousness into an android body ties into The Time of the Doctor, when the Doctor mentioned that he had had an android boyfriend. In this essay, I-