Why I love Dhawan Master #48: His codeswitching!
In no particular order, here is an illustrated list of reasons I love Sacha Dhawan’s Master, most of which boil down to the way that Sacha Dhawan so expertly embodies the Master to such a degree that we can look into this character’s mind as we never have before.
Find my full series under the HELP I WUVS HIM tag or at the why I love Dhawan Master tag.
Read more about my version of Dhawan Master/Thirteen [plus fam] in The Happy Famverse, a series of comic shorts about the domestic lives of [extended] Team TARDIS.
#48: His codeswitching! See #42 for an analysis of his changing body language.
As a quick reminder, you can see the code switch in the difference between his suppressed body language with near-standard eye contact as O...
...to his non-standard eye contact and gestures when he’s by himselves talking to himselves.
You can also see the sheer amount of effort that he requires to codeswitch when he’s changing out of O and becoming himselves. I go into it in #39 when talking about how the moment below catches him in the midst of switching.
This isn’t really a new reason for loving him, but more a repackaging of existing reasons. It only dawned on me recently that both of these examples constituted codeswitching. His high-effort codeswitching is yet another practice that supports my interpretation of him as neurodeviant!
