Hi! I tumbled onto your post about Rory!Master and I maaay have a question or two. But first, I want to take a bit to appreciate that you included River in it because lately the stuff I've seen about the Ponds sort of erases River and I'm š„² because naur River's very much a part of their life and they'd spend Christmases and stuff with her. Okay I'm veering out of topic but I'm curious how Idris (the Doctor's TARDIS) having a thing for Rory fits into Rory!Master? Also, does this mean River and the Master share a teeny bit of DNA of sorts? Or not? Thank you!
hiiiii Iām an absolute champ at letting asks go unanswered for ages hiiiii
ANYWAYS Glad I can do my part because itās a missed opportunity to do stuff with the Ponds and not include River at least a little bit. sheās everything. Even if it doesnāt quite make sense I do not care They Are A Family. The vibes.
First of all itās been SO long since Iāve seen The Doctorās Wife omg,,, My immediate response and feelings about Idrisās attitude towards Rory honestly falls very firmly into āThe Universe just really likes Rory Williamsā. He is one of the Universeās Special Favorites. Look at him. It cannot be helped.
Beyond that I also imagine Idris didnāt see the Master past any perception filters, especially if Rory didnāt have the watch(and at that point he definitely didnāt).
If anything there was more of a draw to Rory that she couldnāt place, had no way of placing thatās just been there since the first time he stumbled inside the TARDIS and knew how she worked because of āreadingā. Just the feeling you get when youāre inexplicably drawn to and fond of a person because of a shared background you had no way of knowing about before one of you brought it up. Or maybe it is just because heās so pretty.
And ! I ! Have ! Never ! Decided ! That !
I do think heād avoid The River Subject for as long as possible once the watch is open and heās still in that face. I think that between all of the factors of Riverās conception thereās like a nonzero chance her and the Master share DNA even if Rory was 100% human at the time. Iām sure it would be confusing as fuck, and Iām sure that in The Everything Else fucking Time Lord DNA wouldnāt be traced back to Rory of all people in anyoneās mind.
When it comes to what the Master says, though. That all boils down to whatever is most convenient and works the most in a given situation. The Master would probably never claim River as like, a daughter unless it somehow held the most weight in a social situation by calling himself dad just to make it sting or something.
Oh, man, though, it doesnāt really work out with the convoluted time line Iāve dropped Rory!Master into, but now my mind is starting to wander into the idea of Missy picking up Melody from Kovarian and that isā¦ An entirely different can of worms that I donāt think I can start to get entirely into right nowā¦ Much to think aboutā¦
