6 // [Video]
[The screen turns on. In front of it, sits Koschei. He looks very serious but he gradually gets more worked up as he speaks.]
I...was graciously informed by Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar yesterday that, in fact, I am not recently uncursed as I previously thought. Apparently, this form is, itself, cursed. My real self is apparently a renegade Time Lord who has concerned himself with...with physical matters. A renegade who calls himself the Master: a potentially unnecessary term, considering that we are already a Lord of Time but no matter. I am not this person. After spending the night deliberating, I have determined that I am representative of a temporal option. Excuse the inelegant metaphor but I am 'the path the "Master" did not take'.
[He calms himself down and strokes at his beard a moment.]
I have often...
[He stops, removes his hand from his face, inhales, and starts again.]
I have often thought that perhaps the way of the Time Lords is...not necessarily correct. That the universe would be better under my direct control.
[This seems to have taken Koschei a great deal of effort to say. He smiles, then, with no real humour.]
That was difficult to say, after keeping quiet for so long. I don't see how it matters particularly, considering that I am really only a concept.
[Koschei has to pause slightly after saying this, looking down for a moment. Soon, however, he is calm again, and looks back up at the screen.]
I am aware that often, curses only last one day but it seems I have been given two. Therefore, I am using this one to say what I feel is necessary; to air my issues before presumably, I cease to exist. I additionally realise that these videos may cause the idiot-child Master potential future difficulties, and while I hardly like to sabotage myself, I cannot help but feel that he deserves it.
[He smiles, a little nastily, then sobers.]
Ah. Yes. I have also learned, again, from the Lady President, that Gallifrey is...gone now, thanks to the events of the War. I am not certain yet what my reaction is to this.
[He looks briefly a little lost and then moves on.]
My last point...I have...always felt...confined within the overwrought trappings of Gallifreyan society. If this "Master" managed to escape it, then...perhaps he has done something right.
[Koschei pauses, thinking for a moment, and then switches the screen off.]
[ooc: Again, Koschei is what the Master would be if he'd never left Gallifrey. He doesn't look like the Simm!Master either, more like Roger Delgado (though not necessarily exactly the same, he's probably regenerated at least once).]
I...was graciously informed by Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar yesterday that, in fact, I am not recently uncursed as I previously thought. Apparently, this form is, itself, cursed. My real self is apparently a renegade Time Lord who has concerned himself with...with physical matters. A renegade who calls himself the Master: a potentially unnecessary term, considering that we are already a Lord of Time but no matter. I am not this person. After spending the night deliberating, I have determined that I am representative of a temporal option. Excuse the inelegant metaphor but I am 'the path the "Master" did not take'.
[He calms himself down and strokes at his beard a moment.]
I have often...
[He stops, removes his hand from his face, inhales, and starts again.]
I have often thought that perhaps the way of the Time Lords is...not necessarily correct. That the universe would be better under my direct control.
[This seems to have taken Koschei a great deal of effort to say. He smiles, then, with no real humour.]
That was difficult to say, after keeping quiet for so long. I don't see how it matters particularly, considering that I am really only a concept.
[Koschei has to pause slightly after saying this, looking down for a moment. Soon, however, he is calm again, and looks back up at the screen.]
I am aware that often, curses only last one day but it seems I have been given two. Therefore, I am using this one to say what I feel is necessary; to air my issues before presumably, I cease to exist. I additionally realise that these videos may cause the idiot-child Master potential future difficulties, and while I hardly like to sabotage myself, I cannot help but feel that he deserves it.
[He smiles, a little nastily, then sobers.]
Ah. Yes. I have also learned, again, from the Lady President, that Gallifrey is...gone now, thanks to the events of the War. I am not certain yet what my reaction is to this.
[He looks briefly a little lost and then moves on.]
My last point...I have...always felt...confined within the overwrought trappings of Gallifreyan society. If this "Master" managed to escape it, then...perhaps he has done something right.
[Koschei pauses, thinking for a moment, and then switches the screen off.]
[ooc: Again, Koschei is what the Master would be if he'd never left Gallifrey. He doesn't look like the Simm!Master either, more like Roger Delgado (though not necessarily exactly the same, he's probably regenerated at least once).]