best_enemies | Intro Digest 5: "I had heard that the Doctor/Master was much less gay in the classic ...you liars!"

silver_sandals

Hi, I'm Silver, I'm relatively new to LJ and haven't posted any of my DW fic here yet, because most of it is rather silly or wangsty. But I ship Doctor/Master so much I sometimes forget it isn't actual canon. It's kind of like Kirk/Spock in that everyone who's ever actually watched the show knows it's true but pretend they don't. I like it because they deserve each other, in every way, and I like them far better together than by themselves (as characters). Maybe because my view of the Doctor is hopelessly dark.

Things I wish there was more love/fic for: REG!Nine/Android!Master, and the Rani telling the boys to get a room. And fic where it seems like the Master's the one with the evil plan, but really the Doctor's the manipulative one, and he justifies it because it's all for his own good.

Personal fanon:

1) The Rani was Susan's grandmother, but she couldn't be bothered to stay around to raise a kid. Koschei was the worst stepmother ever. It was spectacularly dysfunctional. And hilarious.

2) The Doctor was the one to end the relationship, for some petty reason. I don't think he would have left because of darkness he sensed in Koschei; I think he's much more attracted to that darkness than he'd like to admit.

3) The Master has an idealized version of the Doctor in his head and Master/Valeyard would actually be a bitter disappointment to him.

4) REG!Nine and Android!Master live in incongruous domestic harmony in their own universe, and are totally real and canon. The alternative is too depressing to contemplate.

tauisfor

Hey, I'm [info]tauisfor. I've lurked lj fandom for a while and finally got around to making an lj... *waves*

I've been watching Doctor Who for most of the new series. I fell in love with Ten/Simm!Master in Season Three because duh. Then I finally got around to watching parts of the classic show this summer. I had heard that the Doctor/Master was much less gay in the classic show, and I have this to say to the people that told me that: you liars! Three/Delgado is marvelously interesting and cerebral, and I've developed a soft spot for Two/War Chief (So there you see part of my personal canon - the War Chief is the Master). I've also grown to love Theta/Koschei through fic. Haven't seen any of the show between the third and ninth doctors, so I don't have an opinion on the rest. Yet

My personal canon is pretty typical and boring: As noted above, the War Chief is the Master. Theta and Koschei were an item in the Academy. The Doctor and the Master had lots of sex in the year that never was. All awesome, but pretty uncreative. Sorry.

rimuvxg

Hello! Like so many others I am a naughty lurker, ignoring the intro post to surreptitiously comment on the occasional fic and vote silly answers in the battle royale. I am rubbish at ignoring rules, though, so here I am.

I love all permutations of the 'ship, though for various and largely superficial reasons my go-to regenerations are 10/Simm (although 5 was a cutey.) For some reason whenever I try to fic my Simm comes out sounding like Ainley. Also Theta/Koschei is built-in-high-school-AU win.

I have a very extensive personal canon because I'm the sort of person who likes things to make sense, no matter the mental gymnastics required to make it such (whatever you think of RTD, at least he kept my brain in very good shape with his workouts). I don't have much on the D/M front though, except that I think the Rani is possibly the longest suffering "friend" in the Whoniverse, and spent most of her formative years being whined at by Theta and Koschei alike. Possibly the whole "mice ate the president's cat" thing was just a clever ploy to get away from them.

I have also incorporated the reimagining of the LOOOOOOMS(!!!) from the Romana/Doctor fic "Threads" by Vali (on teaspoon) into my canon, and am working on this whole idea where if you get "loomed" at the same time as someone very similar to you, you will come back accidental soulmates, and being apart makes you a bit mad (re: 10'n'simm), but this is possibly the kind of fanon where I need to make fic happen instead of trying to explain it to unsuspecting BE members in a sentence or two. Maybe one day I will spring it on you again in fic form. Beware!

[Bad username or site: dictionary 00 @ livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! Lurked for a while and seems like I should introduce myself since my Doctor/Master fascination doesn't seem to be going away any time soon :)

So I'm one of the mob that got sucked in by Ten/Simm!Master. I was quite happy buzzing along and believing that the Doctor was asexual and was one of the few characters on TV that didn't need a love life to be complete. Then, of course, That Phone Call in "Sound of Drums" - there just was no way to interpret that without involving kinky sex at some point, yes?

Working my way through the Master serials randomly - I like all forms of Doctor/Master, but Ainley!Master is a bit too OTT for my taste. I like to think that Roberts!Master was entirely the product of regeneration (possession?) sickness. And also that he hung around in the Eye of Harmony afterwards, screwing with the Doctor's telepathic link to the TARDIS and spamming him with sex dreams.

mzimmy

Hello, I'm Immy and I don't usually ship slash (I have no problem with it, I just don't usually slash people) but the only person I can ever see the Doctor entirely happy with without life becoming dull as hell is The Master.

Plus it's practically canon.