Worlds of Higgins!Master

His stage is the whole Universe

[higginsverse]

Welcome to the Higginsverse!

The authors/admins:

Nicole — they/them, @space-glasgow. The creator!

Revan — it/its or more in bio, @r-e-v-a-n. Fully co-authoring since 2022 *0*

Our DW-as-a-whole fanons & meta blog: @whoings-with-nicole-and-shira (there’s nothing on there yet but there will be)

This blog (as well as the other one) might not get updated very regularly — we’ll just post whenever we have the energy, impulse, and of course when the external circumstances allow us.

The layout is made from this artwork by Nicole: (link)

Who is Higgins!Master?

A fan-created (Nicole being said fan) incarnation of the Master, existing between the Simm and Gomez incarnations (the regeneration took place after the events of The End of Time), and based on the actor Paul Higgins, originally inspired by his roles as Jamie McDonald in The Thick of It and Michael Dugdale in Utopia but having grown into a so very much his own character since then.

What is the Higginsverse?

The canon surrounding Higgins!Master — the impact his very existence has, parts of his story that are not just him and what grows from those parts, and even just things that were created as part of his canon/story but they and his existence don’t mutually require each other, it’s just that he is our canon.

Some of the things the Higginsverse has:

Civil disillusionment and turmoil gradually turned civil war on Gallifrey in the aftermath of the Last Great Time War. And yes, the characters from the Gallifrey audios are there.

Workplace comedy featuring the Master, Seb, and Dr Chang (all three of them are fucked up and evil)

Macqueen!Master as the earlier incarnation in the events of The Doctor Falls. We also cannot perceive Jacobi!Master outside of that context anymore.

The Master in the Eleventh Doctor’s era! Occasionally.

And, occasionally, that same Master visiting the other Doctors & their surroundings. “I’ve been up and down your timeline”.

To those who have read Lords and Masters from The Missy Chronicles: Yayani lives. And so much more.

Ace in the Centenary special is from a different timeline than the Gallifrey Ace, but in the Higginsverse, it’s the Gallifrey Ace. And she and the Master have got a lot in their shared past.

Some plot points and character dynamics born from an incorrect quotes generator.

A (complicated) friendship story between the Master and Narvin. It came into existence completely unexpected and unintended, and even more unexpectedly and unintendedly became one of the core things in the entire story.

[higginsverse]

Post by: Leviathan

I feel extremely awkward posting something that isn’t a summary to the story from the beginning on a practically empty blog, but we guessed it’s gonna be something like this from the beginning and did intend the blog to be about like this, so I think I can do it

I’m about to post a described drawing of Kenossium and this is a follow-down to that, but also on itself.

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If gender exists on Gallifrey, it is evidently assigned on the basis of the body — which honestly is extremely weird for a culture that focuses on the domination of mind but let’s forget that for a bit I guess ok…

A transgender/transsexual Gallifreyan with the ability to regenerate and to control that regeneration to some extent can modify their next body upon regeneration, and it can definitely subconsciously go like that too; but in other cases, if you were originally assigned female, were a cis woman, and then regenerate into a body that gets assigned male and your gender is male now, you are now a cis man. And if your gender is still female, you’re a trans woman, even if you were a cis woman half an hour ago. Etc.

The lines said by Kenossium (the General) absolutely were just Moffat’s shitty joke. But if we death-of-the-author them (and only take one half), we see that Kenossium doesn’t seem to have enjoyed “being a man”. Being a woman again was “back to normal” for her; yes, newer incarnations of Gallifreyans shit-talking their previous ones is a classic, but.

In Higginsverse, Kenossium participates in the anti-government resistance and civil war.

“Fuck it, I don’t have to serve Rassilon” would also be the perfect time to decide “fuck it, I don’t have to be a man”!

[space-glasgow]

dream team

[thebraxiatelcollection]

I like the General being somewhat almost gentle, and trying to take Leela under his wings so she doesn’t suffer at the hands of the other Time-Lord’s. They don’t have a lot of choice either way, but I like that the General is defending Leela and demanding other Time-Lord’s finally show her respect when they try and insult her. 

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(Post written by Revan-Shira)

(sorry about how this post is I’m emotional)

(info for the OP: this blog is about a fanverse based around an incarnation of the Master existing between Simm and Gomez, with Simm having regenerated after TEoT. One of the main parts of it is a big arc about a civil war on Gallifrey in the aftermath of the Time War, with the Master, Romana, Narvin, Ace, Kenossium (the General), and Yayani (from the short story Lords and Masters from The Missy Chronicles anthology) as the main characters and a “team” found family on the anti-government side)

(disclaimer: I am only yet familiar directly with the first three volumes of Gallifrey plus the first play from the fourth volume)

I already think, will probably lie if I say “a lot” honestly but, about Leela as a posthumous character in the civil war arc (and in the Higginsverse in general taking in the later appearances of Narvin), and now. Now I’m thinking about it so so much

My first reaction over reading this was just being head over heels about how the General here aligns with our Kenossium, actually when we talked about the War Room announcement and that he’ll be there we were worried that he’ll be nothing like in our verse, and now now now now now

And then I got thinking about Leela as a posthumous character in the civil war arc/Higginsverse in general

I can’t honestly write a lot here at this point because I still don’t know enough of Gallifrey (but I have lately been thinking of getting back & keeping through), and haven’t listened to her appearance in The War Doctor (none of the main civil war arc characters was there to my knowledge, but I was thinking about it a lot in the context of her being a posthumous character here) but b u t

In the past I was mainly thinking about Narvin thinking about her, and Romana of course but I admit not enough (gotta fix that; might be simply because I haven’t been focusing on Romana in Higginsverse enough in general), I knew from the War Room announcement that Kenossium and Leela would have had interactions but I imagined them as formal and probably hostile

My first thoughts here were about Yayani (for OP: in our ‘verse Kenossium had been her parent figure since she was a young teen or younger), but I’m thinking thinking thinking now

about Kenossium talking about Leela with Narvin and with Romana

About Kenossium and Narvin reminiscing about the War Room days from different sides and about Leela then and about their relationships with her then

And generally about Kenossium and Narvin reminiscing about and discussing the War Room days from different sides-- This post is not just about Leela now

Realized that can’t really say anything about Romana here because I don’t even know what’s up there with her at the Time War finale and know that she isn’t in War Room at least yet

Also realized I. Don’t remember what Ace’s eventual fate in Gallifrey was, don’t want to check the wiki bc from some point I now want to minimize DW spoilers for myself, and I think we just Decided She’s There (can’t check the messages where it happened, lost access). And haven’t yet listened to any of her interactions with Leela and don’t remember Lungbarrow well enough… So nothing about Ace for now too sorry :(

Anyway, there’s also definitely Kenossium and Narvin and Romana and Ace telling about Leela to Yayani……,,,,

Probably can’t really expand on it for now but but but but b u t--

Anyway. Protective Kenossium. Leela as a posthumous character in the Higginsverse. That’s it that’s the post.

___ On a non-Higginsverse note, I’m also remembering about s1–2 Brax and his respect for Leela, and having feelings about that and this

[space-glasgow]

best irritating duo