#soft master

By Tom Scioli and John Barber

Meet Mallory Williams. She won't be here long.

This chapter is about 11.4k words! What I have internally been referring to as the FRW Season Finale, the end of Act 1 to set up Act 2.<3333

Forgetting Rory Williams is a Dr. Who s7A(+s12) AU following the series of events after a wristwatch resets, and reveals that Rory Williams was the Master the whole time.

Chapter Warnings/Features: The end of an unspoken Act 1. Horrible little trans nightmare realm. Some light(?) body horror. The Master playing Doctor whether he wants to or not. Some very cathartic reunions. The after effects of coming back from the dead. The inability to ever just say what you fucking mean.

Chapter Suggested Listening: My Boy - Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest, Juliet by Cavetown, Thank You for Inventing Me by Hussalonia, Spent Gladiator 2 by The Mountain Goats

G.I. Joe #27 (1984): Larry Hama, Steve Leialoha and George Roussos

Deathstroke #11 (2017): Priest, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and Jeremy Cox

An Offer He did well Not to Refuse: The Arashikage Soft Master deals with a would be street hood in a most informative and entertaing way in the pages of Marvel Comics’ G. I. Joe #26, “Snake-Eyes: the Origin Part I.”

Not only did Larry Hama cleverly incorporate how a .45 M-1911A1 can be disarmed in a way that educated the reader- he also subtly implied here- via the Soft Master’s observation- that Snake-Eyes wouldn’t have hesitated to have shot the punk then and there with a quick burst of 9mm slugs from his Uzi Machine-Pistol. Maybe had Scarlett been there, he might’ve gone easy on the kid. Or perhaps not.

Within the Marvel G. I. Joe series, Larry clearly had at least three Joes who wouldn’t lose their resolve if they had to pull the trigger:

1. Snake-Eyes seen here.

2. Beach-Head: in “Best Defense”, the G. I. Joe Special Missions Preview tale seen in G. I. Joe #50, he clearly tells the surviving female hijacker Meryl:

“Drop it, Meryl! I’m no gentleman and I’ve got no compunctions!”

3. Flint: in G. I. Joe #149, where Lady Jaye froze about taking out a Cobra Viper, he reminds her-

“We can’t take prisoners! We’re behind their lines! If YOU can’t do it-“