the c’tan are described as “vampiric” and were born in the early days of reality, and rassilon (according to some accounts) released the great vampires with the anchoring of the thread, so it’s pretty obvious, really

(Brainstorming based on stuff I’ve discussed with @lungbarrowmas-autisticus. The idea of the Cyberium originating from the Yssgaroth was totally his idea. The rest is my own speculation).

During the Vampire Wars, the Yssgaroth (Also known as the Great Vampires; either way, scary Lovecraftian fuckers from another Universe) either create or simply just release a sentient liquid metal creature that would eventually come to be known as the Cyberium into N-Space.

This creature contains the conceptual schematics to instigate widespread cybernetic-conversion amongst a planet’s populace just by its mere presence (if you think about it, the Cybermen and the Vampires have many things in common; they both convert people often against their will, they both grant their victims immortality, this all coupled with a desire to spread about their kind as much as possible).

The Cyberium can lure in some of its Hosts by subconsciously spreading its influence throughout their time stream upon bonding with them (think The Master/Missy’s weird fascination with creating Cybermen throughout the Moffat era), allowing them to create Cybermen with ease.

A partially-converted Cyberman from the Cyber-Wars of the future known as Ashad travels back in time to the Vampire Wars having heard stories of the Cyberium.

As Ashad brings the Cyberium back to the future through the Time Vortex, it spreads its conceptual schematics throughout time and space (particularly amongst many Human-like populations due to Ashad’s base genetics). The Cybermen become a universal fact (perhaps even multiversal due to the presence of the Pete’s World Cybermen).

Ashad uses the Cyberium to unite the existing Cybermen and bring Humanity to a point of almost total extinction towards the end of the Cyber-Wars.

Surviving members of The Alliance manage to send the Cyberium back in time to 1816 in an effort to stop the relentless advance of the Cybermen.

Percy Shelley accidentally ends up taking the Cyberium into his bloodstream; meanwhile Ashad travels back in time to locate it.

The Doctor manages to liberate the Cyberium from Shelley’s bloodstream, with it favouring her over Ashad due to her superior genetics (and presumably because it was initially designed by the Yssgaroth to convert Time Lord-like organisms). However, after Ashad threatens to destroy the Earth, The Doctor releases the Cyberium from herself, and it rebonds with Ashad.

The Cyberium creates the Death Particle for Ashad, a weapon capble of destroying all organic life on a world. As the Cybermen are part-organic, Ashad hopes that this will allow his forces to “ascend {to} full mechanisation”.

Invited to the ruins of Gallifrey by The Master, Ashad brings his fleet of Cybermen through The Boundry. In an effort to release the Death Particle within Ashad, The Master uses his TCE to shrink and kill him, subsequently bonding with the Cyberium himself shortly after. He uses his newly gained powers to create the CyberMasters (soldiers capable of regenerating seemingly indefinitely) from the corpses of deceased Time Lords (side note: The Master’s totally The Hybrid, fight me).

The Master leaves Ashad’s miniaturised corpse containing the Death Particle attached to a detonator for The Doctor to use against him and his new army. However, before getting the chance, Ko Sharmus (a veteran from the Cyber-Wars) returns and takes The Doctor’s place, using the Death Particle and seemingly killing The Master and his forces for good (however judging by his track record, that’s probably unlikely).

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.

H/t  to @ventingbouto​ and the Little Things That the Master Does That I Just Love series, which inspired this.

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.

#45: He’s robosexual! 

First off, all Ms are notoriously queer, i.e., non-heteronormative. Salient manifestations of this queerness include homoeroticism and some bondage kink. I’m taking those as a given.

Dhawan Master’s queerness has another aspect that we haven’t really seen before, though. He’s hot for robots and cyborgs, and you can see two examples in The Timeless Children.

1) Him and Ashad. Despite the Master’s assistance that robots are stupid, boring, and ubiquitous, he’s really, really excited about getting within kissing distance of Ashad. He’s flirting with danger. Check out the gifs below in which he’s ostensibly addressing the Cyberium, but also obviously making bedroom eyes at the sexy, sexy cyborg hunk in front of him. [I dunno why he’s hot for Ashad. The dude clearly has NO sense of humor. :p ]

2) Him and the Cyberium. He unnecessarily sexualizes his entire encounter with this artificial intelligence, from “C’mon -- show us some leg!” to “At least buy me dinner!”