#audio: master

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

MASTER: I think we would've stayed friends, were it not for death.

DOCTOR: I can't think of anyone else I would rather be friends with than you.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The Doctor as the amnesiac John Smith: a DICK 😒

The Master as the amnesiac John Smith: a sweetheart ❤️

[kronos-lungbarrow-oakdown]

What if...

Imagine Jade (aka Death) decides to play with the Master's - and the Doctor's - lives a bit for entertainment reasons and attracts & locks them somewhere remote in a room to play a game (more or less like the trivia game from "The Long Game" from 2005) and brings people from all over their lives to "participate" the games.

The trivia basically works like this: Jade ask the participant something about the Master's and Doctor's lives. If the participant gets it wrong they get a penalty that will apply for the next round or two or three - depends on Death's calculation system.

The companions of course are extremely nervous and so is the Doctor (imagine 13th) because they aren't able to talk while another participant is answering - or else a penalty will be applied for who interrupted and who was supposed to answer until the end of the game. The Master (imagine Dahwan) is mainly mad to be trapped and have his personal life exposed in such ridiculous way.

Let's suppose that there are roughly twenty-five participants in the room including the two Time Lords, and for the sake of brevity let's suppose it's all happening from the Master's point of view. So, of course he doesn't know half of the companions names but he - as a little shit he is - can see familiarity in most of their faces. All of their faces except one guy, of who he quickly becomes aware of when the Doctor gives him a puzzeld look as if also trying to figure out who is he.

They form their suspicions but each and every suspicion one of them has are dismissed as soon as the guy starts to say all the right answers to questions that no one there would know the answer but the Doctor and the Master.

Suddenly it's the Master's turn to answer and the question is a bit different from the others.

Jade: How is the title of Death's Champion is passed on? A) It is transmitted to the child, if there is one, of both parties involved. B) It dies when the Champion dies. C) It is passed on on random order. D) It is passed on to the current Champion's child.

And, as odd as the question is, both, Master and Doctor, knew that this game was to play with their emotions. And that there are a lot of questions meant only to confuse them. So confidently the Master answers "B) It dies when the Champion dies." and - not that he would admit - but he never saw a more cruel smirk in his life than the one Jade gave him.

"Wrong answer." Jade would answer and instantly the Master would brace himself for a punishment but he doesn't feel anything and looks up to the panel to see what punishment has been assigned since he doesn't feel any different.

"Letter A was the correct answer." Jade would proceed as the Master read the letters written in red.

Punishment: double the successor's drum noise.

A scream echoes through the place.

In a snap of head everyone is facing the guy who none of them know only see him kneeling on the floor holding his head with both hands.

It takes the Doctor a moment to process but when she does she throws a desperate look to the Master who can't get his eyes off their son screaming in pain.

How could he not recognize him?

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

the master audio is literally just like the doctor and yana, because in every situation where the master isn't evil, they get on so well, they could be so bloody good together.

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

dude the way he's so fucking adamant that he's not going to kill the master :(

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

"do you listen to a lot of people scream?"

"no, only my LOVERS"

- my sister, about the Master

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

I like the classic villain audios because it's mostly about the Doctor's relationships to Davros, Omega, and the Master. It's also sort of funny because "Master" is here's exactly how these two got fucked up and how it's the Doctor's fault, "Davros" is about Davros almost trying to redeem himself and going yo wait actually?? facism sounds cool, and then "Omega" is just the Doctor fanboying over his childhood hero who he fought in a Denny's parking lot

[i-put-the-aroace-in-outerspace]

So, @roxannepolice, I've been reading the thing you told me about, and would like to briefly freak out about the following.

In certain cases [...] the fact that God does not know where the Devil comes from throws his incapacity and powerlessness into still higher relief. In other variants of the same myth, [...] God fully displays his cosmogonic power but still does not know the origin of the Devil. This is another way of saying that God has nothing to do with the origin of Evil. He does not know where the Devil comes from; therefore he is not responsible for the existence of Evil in the world. In fact, this is a desperate attempt to remove God's responsibility for the existence of Evil.

(Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol, p. 87)

And I was viewing it through a thoschei lense because Doctor Who brainrot, and immediately thought of the audio in which the Doctor killed Torvic and blamed it on the Master. He let Death take him, he is the reason that the Master is the Master. And yet he doesn't remember for years, he is ignorant of his role in the creation of the Master for years, and tries to assume no responsibility.