will, right, responsibility [dw - War Chief!Master]

[fading_echoes]

Title: will, right, responsibility
Fandom: Doctor Who
Character: War Chief!Master (sort of)
Rating: PGish
Word Count: 1650
Summary: Idealism may not die easily, but it dies, all the same.
Notes: I’m playing around with the War Chief!Master piece of fanon (pseudo-canon?), because there can’t be two renegade Time Lords who get that... tactile with

Comments

[edzel2]

I haven't seen War Games yet (or if I did see it when it originally aired, I've forgotten it) but I may just have to rectify that now...

I love this. IMHO it explains as well as anything else how The Master became the way he is... it may not be the whole story but it feels like another piece of the jigsaw and it works for me.

I do hope you write more Master!fic, because I think you've nailed him nicely! Makes me want to tear up and rewrite my own Master!fics... or at least, aspire to go deeper into this fascinating character....

[rhaella]

War Games is... well, my attention starts to drift after four part serials, so ten killed me, but the War Chief is really good looking (*cough*) and there's a lot of really good stuff in the episode.

I'm glad you enjoyed this! I have to ask--because I had my brother read it over, and he got lost, but then he's mostly a Romanafan and hasn't yet watched any of the Master parts of Classic Who--if the end is at all confusing chronologically.

I should end up writing more Master!fic. I've got tons half finished on my hard drive, but much of it has been half finished for about four months now. =/

[skipthedemon]

I just finished The War Games a few days ago. I thought to myself, well, if the War Chief isn't yet another alias for the Master, the Doctor's got a *type*.

This is really, really good.A small piece that makes a lot of sense of how the Master could have gone from someone the Doctor at least respected and thought of as a close friend, to the crazy meglomaniac.

[rhaella]

Either he has a type, or almost everyone he touches turns evil/ruthless as hell. Which I think could be argued.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! That's what I like most about the War Chief = Master theory, because restless, idealistic, and just ruthless enough is the sort of personality I see the Doctor really identifying with (because he's not exactly sunshine himself), whereas insane megalomania... not so much. Well, not usually.

[snowgrouse]

Ok, this is a really damn good fic. It's lovely:). It's great to see such quality fic about the Master *and* the sort which goes with the War Chief=Master theory! Excellent stuff:).

[rhaella]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed! Which is to say, I've been lurking around the D/M fandom - slowly trying to catch up with Classic Who - long enough to know how exacting you can be about fic. :)

[snowgrouse]

Meep (I'm not that scary, honest)! I must say I really enjoyed reading this because it flows well and I didn't, for once, get jolted out of the story because of typos or weird characterisation or anything. It had lovely character insights and interesting details and lots of brainy thinkiness in it. Hell, I couldn't write anything this good myself, but it's exactly the sort of style I like--I really like your narrative voice. And considering the general quality of fanfic out there, goodfic is a rare and precious thing indeed, and worthy of praise:). I might just rec this, if you don't mind:).

[rhaella]

Hahaha, well... I'm still at the point with Doctor Who fandom (especially the Doctor/Master part of it) where I'm intimidated by pretty much everyone. Which is silly, but there actually is much more goodfic here than in almost any other fandom I've ever wandered through (which might not say much about my former fandoms, but I do now tend to avoid most things that are New Who only, so I guess it evens out), 30 years of canon, and then I'm American to boot, so I'm always neurotic about Americanisms.

I don't mind at all. Go ahead. :)

[manics_fan]

Nice fic, really well written, there's not enough War Chief!Master fics around, so it's always good to find more writers of it. I really like how you've written this from his perspective, very nice charaterisation on the Master.

I saw The War Games for the first time last year, and was already familair with the fanon of the War Chief being the Master. When I started watching it, I had already decided I was dead against the idea for some reason... until I got about half way through it, at which point there was nothing that could convince me he wasn't the Master! The similarities really are obvious.

Yeah it does go on a bit, a great serial, but it could do with being a few parts shorter, me thinks. It does tend to drag a bit in the middle.

[rhaella]

I'm glad you enjoyed. :)

I went into the serial a month or so ago open to either interpretation, but he was just so serious that it was hard to reconcile him with the Master... until he starts asking the Doctor to take over the universe with him and getting much too happy when he says yes. =/

The serial frustrated me, because there was so much in it that was just brilliant, and then they just started recycling the same basic plot points again and again, and I don't know why.

[_medley_]

This just fits so perfectly well, and I believe it completely.

“There’s never before been a Time Lord worthy of the name.”

Even if I didn't love the rest (and I do) I'd be glad I read this just for that line. Which seems like SUCH perfect pre-Master. (And hot. If I'd been Theta, there would have been sex right about then.)

[rhaella]

Thank you!

(And hot. If I'd been Theta, there would have been sex right about then.)

XDDD

Well. Actually, I'd written it for another fic that promptly fell apart, so when this randomly grew some Theta/Koschei, I couldn't not use it. I am now amused because yeah, it was initially kind of sexual.

[_medley_]

I am now amused because yeah, it was initially kind of sexual.

LOL! I'm amused now, too.

[rhaella]

Hehe. I don't think Ushas would have been amused, but then she so seldom is.