Meme!

[jjpor]

Because I haven't done a lj meme for a while. I got this one from akashasheiress .

Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:

a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

Comments

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that the Doctor doesn't really hate him frustrates the Master to no end. Four might've been the Doctor who felt the most antagonistism towards him.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Four didn't really see the funny side, did he? And I don't really blame him - crispy!Master was definitely the least likeable of the Master's various incarnations, I'd say (yes, even including Roberts!). But yeah, the fact that the Doctor is too controlled and compassionate to really give the Master that reaction he wants - the one that'll prove to him that he's really got under the Doctor's skin - that drives him mad, I think.

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I think it might be true that Four was the most decidedly heterosexual of the early Doctors.;D I kid. Still, yes, Four seemed to actually mean it when he wanted to be rid of the Master.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

He was, though, wasn't he? Four had a sort of Bohemian machismo all his own...no wonder Romana fell hard for him (or did he fall hard for her? Both, perhaps?) ;D

But yeah, none too keen on the old Master - maybe he just saw him more clearly than the other Doctor's could - saw past the kid they used to know at the Academy and saw the monster he had become?

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Another thought: why does Doctor/Master slashfic alway seem to show the Doctor as the submissive one, when actually he's the one who deals from a position of strength in their relationship (the Doctor's not the one running round desperately trying to get the other one to notice him, is he?)?

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point - the Doctor is probably the one person the Master would get off on being dominated by rather than vice-versa. Erm, now I'm getting images...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it's another indication that the whole thing can never end in a way that will satisfy the Master - whatever is "wrong" with the Master, whatever his "itch" is, it can never be "scratched", so he'll just go on and on forever, getting ever more desperate and more mad...

I maybe don't really wholeheartedly accept RTD's idea of the drums in the Master's head, but it's certainly a good metaphor for the above - the never-ending quest for the impossible that he follows.