#third master

In this update:

Questions are answered. Stories end. Peri is still on fire.

Adric trusts the wrong person, and is forced to do something he would never otherwise contemplate.

An old enemy makes themselves known

Trigger Warnings:

Brief reference to infant mortality

Major character death

Fire

Possession

References to murder by neglect

References to Christianity, bible verses

Badly relocated bones

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Well, Finish Your Fucking Fics February has moved me to do what I’ve been attempting since January of 2016: post the final chapter of The Haunting of Wisteria Bay. It’s been a ride, I knew it would be long and take a while, but I wasn’t expecting this. Thank you for sticking with me through this.

Kind of embarrassing because this sketchdump is about eleven years old now, but here's some of my early Doctor Who sketches from my first watchthrough.

Descriptions under the cut:

Doctor Who + Out Of Context DnD Quotes

Corsair bonus:

Doctor Who + Out Of Context DnD Quotes

Bonus explanation of regeneration:

A lot of people, quite wrongly, think “sane people think killing people is wrong, therefore, any murderer is insane”. This is ableist as well as bullshit, sane people kill each other. The very fact that insanity is a plea in murder cases shows that it’s assumed most murderers are sane.

Now, the Master? If we don’t assume anyone who commits a murder is insane, what evidence do we have that they are? Mostly what we have to go off is “how rationally do they behave” (which is most of my basis for mentally ill Doctor headcanons) and “do the characters who describe them as insane have any basis for it?” I’m not even going to ask for any background in mental health care, although I do headcanon that as being one of the many things the Doctor has studied. 

Usually, when someone is calling the Master insane it’s either based off of “I hurt people for fun, so I’m probably a sadist”, or “I don’t see other people’s lives as important”. Look, I can’t diagnose the Master and I’m going to stop trying. Do I think he’s mentally ill? In any of his incarnations? I don’t get that off him as much of I get it off the Doctor, because the Master seems to know what he’s doing and be in control of it. It’s just more destructive.