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

[evilawyer]

I saw The War Games so many years ago that I've forgotten chunks of it, and I've always been a little surprised by the "War Chief = Master" that has been picked up in fanfic because I don't remember getting that impression when I watched the serial. That may be do not only to fading memory but also to the fact that my exposure to the Master at that point had been limited to Crispy!Master during The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken and to Ainley!Master in Logopolis. However, my point is that you've done a marvelous job of fleshing out that similarity and bringing me to point of thinking "Yeah, that has to be him." Lovely work.

[rhaella]

Mmm, I can see Crispy!Master being a bit hard to equate with any other Master, canon or otherwise. Which is actually kind of nice, I suppose, because that's the point of regeneration, after all.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and that you found it convincing. :)

[aralias]

i'm not sure how i missed this at the time (was it cross posted? i was just.... blind that day?) but i really like it. you've written that very interesting change from the war chief to the master, which i don't think is just the acquisition of a GSOH (the master places a personal ad soon afterwards, but alas, the doctor doesn't see it), though that's very true, but also this change into someone who thinks of himself as 'The Master'. because the war chief doesn't so much, he is more subservient. i love the idea of him being abandoned and forgotten by the time lords, and then choosing that as the impetus to move on and change - though still, not enough.

this is really well written too. i love the slightly confused repetitions of the first regeneration, and those short two-line sections. when i got to the end i was disappointed that it had ended, which is a good sign of a good fic, i think.

[rhaella]

It was cross posted, but only to saxonvoters (retrospectively, I probably should've thrown it up at best_enemies, but oh, well). *looks up GSOH* ...yeah, that's hardly the only change, and hardly the most important, but I think it's the one that has to come last, that's contingent upon all the others. Maybe. (In Delgado's case, at least, it feels more like unflappable confidence than anything else... the others, okay, a bit more on the batshit side, but whatever. XD)

Glad you enjoyed it. :)