#(the post by sclfmastery btw)

[grandadtwelve]

thinking abt how the masters life revolves around the doctor and how the doctors life revolves around their companions and how the root of these obsessions (other than like love and affection and whatever) is probably just bc it must be so boring to be a time lord

like ok. as a time lord (and specifically as the doctor or the master) you’re generally the smartest person in every room, however, you know the flow of time very intimately so you can’t meaningfully invent anything, you can’t participate in the contribution to society because you can’t advance them past how they’re supposed to be advanced, and you rarely have peers who can challenge you and who you can challenge in return without becoming some kind of all-knowing mentor figure.

like, yeah, if the master created a deep and enriching life for themselves outside of their relationship with the doctor they would probably grow into a much happier and well-balanced individual, but like. How are they supposed to do that? they can’t go back to gallifrey (bc at any given point in time its either destroyed or they just don’t “fit in” there) to be around other time lords. they don’t care or empathize with people the way the doctor does so the challenge of “saving people” doesn’t interest them. and we’ve established that they can’t just join up with a group of scientists and inventors somewhere for the sake of timelines or whatever. so what does that leave? ummm attempts at world/galactic/universal domination i guess. obsession over the singular other being that is just as intelligent and disconnected as you are i guess. bc everything else is too easy or too boring and that’s without even considering any of the masters predisposition for violence/chaos/supremacy/etc.

#is this comprehensible? idk #i read a post abt the master creating a life for themselves outside of the doctor and was trying to think of what that LOOKED like and um #this is where I got. #(the post by sclfmastery btw) #anyway I think that if the master looked at ‘saving people’ from a problem-solving/puzzle-solving perspective they could actually do a lot #of good AND have a lot of fun doing it. and that’s probably actually the direction missy was heading in before she died. but I think the #doctor would STILL be a dickhead about it because they would act like there’s somehh thing wrong with the master being more interested in #the problem-solving than the people saving (probably because the doctor themselves is frequently just as if not more interested in the #problem-solving than the people-saving and doesn’t like thinking abt that lol) #but. yeah #dw analysis #missy #the master #dhawan!master #delgado!master #thoschei #twissy #spydoc #doctor who #mios