Worlds of Higgins!Master

The authors/admins:

Nicole — they/them, @space-glasgow. The creator!

Revan — it/its or more in bio, @r-e-v-a-n. Fully co-authoring since 2022 *0*

Our DW-as-a-whole fanons & meta blog: @whoings-with-nicole-and-shira (there’s nothing on there yet but there will be)

This blog (as well as the other one) might not get updated very regularly — we’ll just post whenever we have the energy, impulse, and of course when the external circumstances allow us.

The layout is made from this artwork by Nicole: (link)

Who is Higgins!Master?

A fan-created (Nicole being said fan) incarnation of the Master, existing between the Simm and Gomez incarnations (the regeneration took place after the events of The End of Time), and based on the actor Paul Higgins, originally inspired by his roles as Jamie McDonald in The Thick of It and Michael Dugdale in Utopia but having grown into a so very much his own character since then.

What is the Higginsverse?

The canon surrounding Higgins!Master — the impact his very existence has, parts of his story that are not just him and what grows from those parts, and even just things that were created as part of his canon/story but they and his existence don’t mutually require each other, it’s just that he is our canon.

Some of the things the Higginsverse has:

Civil disillusionment and turmoil gradually turned civil war on Gallifrey in the aftermath of the Last Great Time War. And yes, the characters from the Gallifrey audios are there.

Workplace comedy featuring the Master, Seb, and Dr Chang (all three of them are fucked up and evil)

Macqueen!Master as the earlier incarnation in the events of The Doctor Falls. We also cannot perceive Jacobi!Master outside of that context anymore.

The Master in the Eleventh Doctor’s era! Occasionally.

And, occasionally, that same Master visiting the other Doctors & their surroundings. “I’ve been up and down your timeline”.

To those who have read Lords and Masters from The Missy Chronicles: Yayani lives. And so much more.

Ace in the Centenary special is from a different timeline than the Gallifrey Ace, but in the Higginsverse, it’s the Gallifrey Ace. And she and the Master have got a lot in their shared past.

Some plot points and character dynamics born from an incorrect quotes generator.

I feel extremely awkward posting something that isn’t a summary to the story from the beginning on a practically empty blog, but we guessed it’s gonna be something like this from the beginning and did intend the blog to be about like this, so I think I can do it

I’m about to post a described drawing of Kenossium and this is a follow-down to that, but also on itself.

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If gender exists on Gallifrey, it is evidently assigned on the basis of the body — which honestly is extremely weird for a culture that focuses on the domination of mind but let’s forget that for a bit I guess ok…

A transgender/transsexual Gallifreyan with the ability to regenerate and to control that regeneration to some extent can modify their next body upon regeneration, and it can definitely subconsciously go like that too; but in other cases, if you were originally assigned female, were a cis woman, and then regenerate into a body that gets assigned male and your gender is male now, you are now a cis man. And if your gender is still female, you’re a trans woman, even if you were a cis woman half an hour ago. Etc.

The lines said by Kenossium (the General) absolutely were just Moffat’s shitty joke. But if we death-of-the-author them (and only take one half), we see that Kenossium doesn’t seem to have enjoyed “being a man”. Being a woman again was “back to normal” for her; yes, newer incarnations of Gallifreyans shit-talking their previous ones is a classic, but.

In Higginsverse, Kenossium participates in the anti-government resistance and civil war.