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kellerprocess in best_enemies

Question: Goosnake! how the $%^@ does it work?

Mar 18, 2012 04:23

Hi all:

Uh. To get right down to it, does anyone know exactly *what* Goosnake!Master is made out of? Do any of the paracanon materials attempt to explain this?

It's very important that I find out for a fic I'm writing, you see.

master: goosnake

Comments 11

goo snake predatrix March 18 2012, 14:05:40 UTC

I suspect you have a fair amount of ...wiggle room (sorry!). The movie probably didn't go into it in depth. It's probably fairly limited (leaving the Master desperate to get into a more sapient/tool-using physical form).

X-los has written a rather good goo-snake fic where she's taken it as naturally fairly snake like in a lot of ways, seeking out heat and holes to rest in -- while also imagining it as gelatinous (the Doctor warns him not to sneak under the furniture where he hasn't dusted as the Master would get all sticky).

The opposite way is to imagine it as ectoplasmic/energy-based/not on the physical plane in some way, which would allow for it to be dangerous and sneaky and possibly feed off human energy without being noticed.

HTH.

Re: goo snake were_lemur April 5 2012, 20:58:29 UTC

X-los has written a rather good goo-snake fic

Link, please?

Re: goo snake predatrix April 5 2012, 22:41:03 UTC

On Teaspoon here.

Re: goo snake were_lemur April 7 2012, 07:02:08 UTC

Thank you!

fannishliss March 18 2012, 16:00:08 UTC

I finally watched the movie and now at least I know what "goo-snake" even means. D ( ... )

anonymous March 18 2012, 16:22:40 UTC

I concur with Kellerprocess in this regard, but in regards to paracannon, I thought I could supply some sort of aid ( ... )

innocentsmith March 18 2012, 22:13:46 UTC

Man, those passages really don't make the goosnake any less phallic and bad/dirty/wrong sexualized, do they? o_O

anonymous March 19 2012, 16:23:52 UTC

Seriously! I couldn't take the book any more seriously than the movie. In fact, the book is just...I cannot grasp the word for how ridiculous it was.

The only thing that I wish the movie had that the novel had: an excuse to make 8 even more of a five-year-old ADHD child. In the scene before Grace takes him to the park, the Doctor is given a scarf and mittens in the book, and just as she's locking up, he's zooming about the place. Takes her sometime to catch up to him.

But, aside from that stray tangent, I must say, they did poorly in not making me envision sexual encounters between 8 and Goosnake!Master, nor him with Roberts!Master.

blackrose42 March 19 2012, 07:00:55 UTC

Wasn't there a little bit about the goosnake in the novel "The Eight Doctors"? It was some kind of parasitic worm thing or something that the Master put his consciousness into to avoid death.

aietradaea March 19 2012, 10:24:18 UTC

Ah! Yes! A "morphant", it was called, from Skaro.

And if I'd been a few hours earlier, I would've said the same as the anon above who quotes the novelization. (I far prefer the novelization to the actual movie, for some reason.)

blackrose42 March 19 2012, 16:28:43 UTC

It's because the novel makes 8 so adorable, is that it? That's what sold me. That and the novel is laid out better, what with the Master actually telepathically contacting the Doctor to GET him to come to Skaro.

Seems rather more plausible than, "Oh, my rival died. The Daleks agreed to let his body be sent back to Gallifrey via my TARDIS. Nope, nothing creepy or suspicious about that..." I don't know...

But I agree with you on that basis.