The Master
Nov 6, 2013 1:11:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 1:11:17 GMT -5
Canon
Character Image
William Hughes (1st life age 8)
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Roger Delgado (13th Life)
Peter Pratt (13th Life, Post-Legacy of the Daleks)
Geoffrey Beevers (13th Life, after the end of Deadly Assassin, but would resume this form upon loosing the Tremas Body on two occassions (only to recover the Tremas body again later))
Anthony Ainley (14th Life, Tremas's body stolen at the end of The Keeper of Traken)
Basil Rathbone (Post-Tremas Virgin New Adventures, debuted in First Frontier)
Gordon Tipple (Start of movie, before regenerating into a Deathworm Morphant)
Eric Roberts (Theft of the Body of Paramedic Bruce in the Movie)
Deathworm Morphant (current known incarnation during the Doctor's 8th life)
Unnamed stolen body (Appeared in the Comics The Fallen and The Glorious Dead)
Geoffrey Beevers (again) and Yee Jee Tso (These two actors both played the men the Master stole bodies from in Mastermind)
(Note: I do have "The Man with the Rosette" from Lawrence Miles's novels as another unknown Master incarnation)
Alex Macqueen (Unknown Post-Deadly Assassin incarnation from UNIT: Dominion)
Derek Jacobi (Time War and post Time War incarnation)
John Simm (Regeneration from the end of Utopia)
Name: The Master
Age: Assumed over 900 years. What planetary years is up to debate.
Gender: Male (although there is one female incarnation)
Species: Time Lord
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey
Occupation: Renegade Time Lord, former Prime Minister, Rival and greatest single enemy to the Doctor
Physical Description: That is difficult to say. The Master has nearly 500 different bodies, several of which had the appearance of other alien species and at least one female human-looking incarnation, at least according to "Harvest of Time." Let us wind back the clock to 1971, to our first look at the Master.
When the Master first attacked Britain in 1971 while allying with the Autons, he would look at the most 55, at 5 feet 7 inches. He had an impressive looking tan, greying black hair brushed, combed, or jelled back exposing a good deal of his slightly widow peaked forehead, thin eyebrows, and a black goatee with a white strip of hair on either side of his chin. He usually wore a black nehru (Indian jacket), dress shues, leather gloves, pants, and wore a white shirt underneath.
Because of the actions of Susan Foreman, the Master's body became heavily scared and deformed into a decaying state. He usually wears a set of black robes over his body while he was in this state, the robes usually being ragedy and damaged. His body was slightly healed after a failed plot to open the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey, so that instead of a moist looking texture his appearance was compared more to that of a charred or burned corpse.
Upon obtaining the source of Traken, the Master stole the body of the Trakenite Tremas. This new body had a very light colored complexion compared to most people, bright blue eyes, dark brown hair pulled back and a goatee. He looked to be in his 40's or 50's. Often he wore black trakenite robes most of the time. But he's also had occassions of wearing two different velvet jacket suits.
He's had at least a few other lives before eventually being captured by the Daleks. After his "extermination", his body regenerated into a different alien species, a deathworm morphant. The deathworm morphant form was an almost clear looking slime or liquid that could form into a puddle, an odd variation of a cobra or snake with multiple sets of teeth, or even a vaporous state. In this form, he's survived being destroyed by the Daleks and the Eye of Harmony, and could possess other bodies. However, these bodies tended to die at a faster rate than they normally would not have, and often would have the Master revert back to his decaying appearance. Except for, however, a pair of near serpent-like eyes that would sometimes appear.
At some unspecified point the Master had both died and was later revived by the Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. This new body was, at best, blond haired and rather young looking at first. Much of this incarnation's life, however, was spent hiding as a human named "Professor Yana" after the Master escaped from the war.
Upon Regenerating, the Master had a thinner face, almost six feet tall, and was much younger looking than his previous incarnation when he died. He had short brown hair and dark colored eyes. In this incarnation, he took on the identity of "Harold Saxon" and became Prime Minister of Great Britain. Later after his ruined resurrection by Lucy, his hair took on a blond color. This incarnation, having a ruined body as is, would often change to the appearance of blue transparence, exposing his innards almost similar to as if one was looking at an x-ray. In this...altered body, the Master wore a set of black sweat pants, a black hoodie, red t-shirt, and tennisshoes, presumably stolen from another one of his human victims after his resurrection.
Personality:
"You are the most evil and corrupt beings this Time Lord race has ever produced. Your crimes are without number, and your villainy without end."
"What makes you think I want your forgiveness?"
The Master has had many factors contribute to his evil nature. Many people have wondered just what made him evil. Some say that Rassilon sending the drumbeat into his head as a child caused him to go insane. The Doctor once thought the Eternal Death had been responsible for making the Master turn evil after the death of their childhood bully Torvic. Some think the Master was always evil. And others think that his strong rivalry with the Doctor caused his fall.
But he wasn't always evil. He had been friends with the Doctor back in their earliest of days. He once took on a lover, Ailla, not knowing at the time she was a Time Lord Spy from the CIA. He destroyed an entire planet simply to cause a time paradox to bring her back to life, only to learn the truth about what she was. Ailla's betrayal also contributed to any last shreds of goodness in the Master to die...as well as the destruction of his first 12 lives.
His relationship with the Doctor is mixed at best. At times the Master bargained with the Doctor that they could rule together. Other times he had nothing but hatred for the Doctor. If there was anything that could be said for sure, he had both fear and respect for the Doctor's abilities, despite having a higher degree in cosmic sciences at the Academy, and sometimes even proven to have a greater intellect.
Despite their differences, the Doctor and the Master have worked together as allies on more than one occassion to defeat a common enemy.
The greatest flaw the Master has is his arrogance, his ego. Many of his plans were defeated by the simple fact he overlooked a small detail or another in his plans.
He is insane and selfish, but still brilliant and a threat. It would be wise never to underestimate the Master.
His goals are simple. Absolute dominion over all space and time. And Immortality. Blame his stubborn tenacity to live on his arrogance. Ruthless, cunning, and willing to do whatever it takes to acheive his goals, no mater how many people die as a result.
History:
On the mighty world of Gallifrey, within the constallation of Kasterborous, in the House of Oakdown, a male Gallifreyan was born. His father had estates, with pastures of red grass near Mount Perdition, and he was of the upper class. His childhood involved a friend. They would play in the fields of Gallifrey, until age 8, when they were initiated into the Prydonian Academy of the Time Lords. In the untempered schism, this boy stared deep into it, until he received a signal. A signal from Gallifrey's future.
At the Academy, he took on the nickname "Koschei". He and his friend, now going by the name "Theta Sigma", were tormented by a bully named Torvic. This bully tormented them day after day, until one day "Theta Sigma" killed this bully. The two friends watched as Torvic's body was burned on a funeral pire, not daring to speak of this day to their fellow friends and family members. That very night, Koschei's friend was visited by the Eternal Death in a dream. She offered him a chance to become her champion, or for him to have someone else take his place. "Theta" told Death to take "Koschei" as her champion.
Koschei discovered his ability to hypnotize others at a young age, and often used his gift to pull pranks on others. Of course, his friend "Theta" knew how to snap these victims out of their transes.
Koschei and Theta became part of a group with 8 other students known as "The Deca", whom at the time were the Academy's most infamous and gifted students. Theta and Koschei also joined a band while at the Academy known as "The Gallifrey Academy Hot Five", where Koschei played the drums.
In their later years at the Academy, Theta and Koschei's friendship broke down. Some assume it was because Koschei didn't keep a promise to Theta. Some assume the event was their competition involving the Consolidator.
Some time after their graduation from the Academy and Theta Sigma's adoption of the name "The Doctor", Gallifrey had a period of great political tension. Koschei lead a group of the Academy's students in a revolution against the Corrupt Lord President Pundat the Third, and later his successor Slann, "Pundat's most evil disciple" as Koschei described him. He tried to persuade his friend, the Doctor, to join him, but the Doctor refused.
After his first failed attack, Pundat retired and left Slann to become the next Lord President. In Koschei's second attempt, he killed killed the Lord President, thinking his rebels were ready to take control. He soon realized he was wrong, and left Gallifrey at the same time as the Doctor.
In the year 2800 A.D., he travelled to Earth and picked up his first Companion, Ailla, whom he assumed to be a simple human at the time. She became his lover, and they travelled the stars together. He'd meet the Doctor again in the Doctor's second life, when the CIA requested Koschei try to get the Doctor to return the stolen TARDIS Type 40 to Gallifrey. At Darkheart, he thought Ailla had died and used the ancient doomsday weapon in the system to destroy a planet just so he could cause the time paradox needed to bring Ailla back to life.
Then Ailla appeared to him along with the second Doctor, where Ailla admitted to Koschei she was an agent of the CIA. Her betrayal destroyed what good was left in Koschei, and he vowed from that day forth to become the Master of all things. Ripping the Recall device from his TARDIS console, he piloted his TARDIS into the heart of the Dark Heart Black hole, only for his plan to use this doomsday machine backfire on him, and he was stuck in a black hole. He had to burn through all 12 of his regenerations in order to escape, now on his last life.
The Time Lords captured him however and kept him imprisoned on a prison planet. However, after the Doctor's exile to Earth, the Time Lords decided to let the Master go, just to keep the Doctor "entertained" during his exile.
The Doctor and the Master would meet again in 1971, in the Master's first plan to take over the Earth using the Nestene Consciousness. Throughout the early 70's, the Master would devise many schemes and plans to use against the Doctor and UNIT, only to be foiled time and time again by their combined efforts.
Upon a trip to 22nd Century, in another Dalek attempt to invade the Earth, the Master fought against the Doctor's 8th life as well as his granddaughter Susan. The Master killed Susan's husband, David, and held Susan a hostage on his TARDIS to keep the Doctor from following him. Susan however took control of the Master's TARDIS, and pushed him out onto the planet Tersurus. Using the Master's own Tissue Compression Eliminator, she destroyed the Dalek Artifact the Master had taken from the 22nd century, and the device's destruction horribly injured the Master. So much that Susan assumed him dead and left him on Tersurus. Chancellor Goth, detecting the unauthorized use of a TARDIS on Tersurus, went to investigate, only to discover the Master, alive but in horrible pain. The Master and Goth made a deal: Goth would bring the Master to Gallifrey and help in his revenge against the Doctor, and Goth would become Lord President of Gallifrey.
The events that of course unfolded in the assassination of the lord President ended diffrently. The Master wished to use the objects of the Lord President's office, the staff and sash of Rassilon, to open the Eye of Harmony and absorb its destructive energies to help jumpstart his regeneration cycle. The Doctor stopped him, and the Master fled Gallifrey using Goth's TARDIS.
The Master would attempt to find new ways to heal his condition and gain a new regenerations over the years, while at the same time facing off against the Doctor. Eventually he came to Traken, where after a battle against the Doctor, the Master gained the Source of Traken and took control of the body of Tremas.
With a renewed body and renewed vigor, the Master continued his campaign of revenge against the Doctor, unintentionally nearly destroying the Universe by the spread of Entrophy from Logopolis, the death of the Doctor's 4th incarnation, and many other acts of revenge or brief attempts to ally with the Doctor against other enemies when need be.
Eventually, the Master would lose his Tremas body, but gain a new set of regenerations somewhere during the Doctor's 7th life. He was eventually caught, however, by the Daleks inside a tomb in Egypt, and brought to Skaro to face trial by the Daleks as a part of a peace treaty Lady President Romana made with the Daleks.
It was on the planet Skaro that the Master was finally put to trial. They say they listened calmly, as his list of evil crimes was read. Then he made, and I thought a rather somewhat curious request. He demanded, that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should bring his remains back to our home planet of Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted.
And so the Master regenerated into a Morphant Deathworm. He attacked the Doctor's TARDIS console, causing a Timing Malfunction and causing the Doctor to land in San Franscisco on December 30, 1999. As the Master took possession of the body of a Paramedic named Bruce, the Doctor also regenerated into his 8th incarnation.
The Master, with the assistance of a deceived youth by the name of Chan Lee, persued the Doctor and his latest Companion, Dr. Grace Holloway. The Master was intending to use the Eye of Harmony to steal the Doctor's body and his remaining lives, while at the same time destroying Earth as a result of leaving the Eye open for too long. In a battle within the Cloister Room of the TARDIS, the Master fell into the Eye of Harmony, losing his body and staying trapped in the gravitational forces of the black hole. He escaped briefly once and rewrote Earth's history so that he would rule all, only to be defeated and trapped in the Eye once again.
It wasn't until one of the Doctor's companions, Edward Grainger, would release the Master from the Eye of Harmony, finally granting him the freedom he longed for. He took possession of the body of a man in London in the early 1900's. After a few months, he learned that the body he possessed was decaying rapidly. He realized he needed to keep changing bodies in order to survive. Recalling, however, that London would be involved in World War I, he booked passage on a boat to America...Not realizing that the very ship he booked passage on, the Titanic, was going to sink on its maiden voyage. He escaped, and upon arriving in America, took possession of a gangster and began running an infamous crime gang in New York, before eventually moving to Las Vegas and running his criminal Empire using Casinos from behind the scenes that rivaled even that of the Mob. The man he possessed had a son, and the Master took control of this son's body when the man's body could no longer support the Master. In 1977, the man's grandson Frankie would discover who the Master really was and what he did to his father and grandfather, and trapped the Master inside his own bunker so that the Master would be unable to cause harm to anyone any again. Frankie's son however would unseal this bunker in 1990's, and call UNIT to inform them of this...odd monster he found inside this bunker. The Master had entered into a comatose state to help keep his body preserved those past twenty years, and to allow him to survive to 2013, occassionally waking up once every 5 years. UNIT took the Master and kept him as a prisoner in what they referred to as "The Vault", a top secret location where UNIT held its most dangerous or mysterious alien artifacts. Within each of these 5 year periods, two UNIT Troopers witin the vault would interview the Master in hopes of possibly using his knowledge to help them in place of the Doctor. The Master, upon his escape in 2013, admits to the two officers that he let UNIT capture him because they had something he spent the entire 1900's searching for: his TARDIS, which was located conveniently within the Vault.
Some time later, after yet another unspecified death, the Time Lords would revive the Master with a new body and new regenerations, believing he would be a perfect warrior for a Time War. The Master, however, fled the Time War when the Dalek Emperor took the Crucible, for the chaos of the Time War scared even him. He hid at the end of the Universe, using a Chameleon Arch to make himself human. And so for 50 years, the Master lived the life of a kindly old intelligent man named Professor Yana. Upon remeeting the Doctor and his companions, however, the Master finally opened his Chameleon Arch and resumed his true identity, killing his loyal lab assistant for the past 17 years Chan Tho, but not without receiving a shot in the chest back from her.
The Master ran into the Doctor's TARDIS, now that he had everything he needed or wanted from this time period to use for his own dark purposes later, such as the Doctor's severed hand, and the location to Utopia.
"If the Doctor can be young, and strong...then so can I. The Master...Rebooorn."
Upon his regeneration, the Master stole the Doctor's TARDIS, however was only able to travel as far back as 18 months before the Doctor, Martha, and Jack left Earth in 2008. So becoming a Minister of Defense for the Great Britain under the name Harold Saxon, the Master launched the Arch Angel network with the subtle mindcontrol messages being sent to all humans, ordering the military to shoot down the Sicarax on Christmas Eve, giving Torchwood files to an alien so that he could use a small team of humans to gather information on the Doctor, funding Professor Lazarus's research, wrote a novel, and even got married to a human female named Lucy.
He took Lucy to the end of the Universe, where she went through a dark depressing mindset of realizing everything was pointless. They went to Utopia, where they met the Toclafane. It was there that the Master made his deal with the new species, and then made his next plan.
Upon becoming Prime Minister and finishing the completion of both the Valiant and converting the Doctor's TARDIS into a Paradox machine, the Master captured the Doctor, his companions Jack and Martha, and even Martha's family all on board the Valiant's bridge, as well as killing the US President Winters. Using biological code extracted from the Doctor's hand and Lazarus's research, the Master gave his Laser Screwdriver the ability to disable the Doctor's ability to regenerate and age him centuries. Martha escaped, and with the Toclafane now invading Earth and destroying one tenth of the human population and any military resistance, the Master took control of Earth overnight.
Over the next year, the year that never was, the Master ruled as a Tyranical overlord over Earth, forcing the population to work in labor camps to construct massive doomsday weapons, all in preparation for the Master's plan to establish a new Time Lord Empire. Of course, this plan was thwarted when the humans of Earth all began chanting the Doctor's name, their combined wills being amplified through the Master's own Archangel network to restore the Doctor to his younger self as well as a temporary god-like being.
As it seemed like the Master had lost and was to be kept in the Doctor's TARDIS as a prisoner, Lucy shot the Master. The Master refused to regenerate however, and died in the Doctor's arms.
After the Master's body burned on the funeral pyre, a piece of himself survived in his ring, which was recovered by the Cult of Saxon. A year of preparing, and the cult used what biologic imprint remained of the Master on Lucy's lips, the Master's ring, the Elixers of life, and their own life force energy to help revive the Master. Lucy however knew of the Master's plans to revive himself, and had contacts with her family develope a formula that they believed would destroy the Master's ritual and prevent his revival. With the Prison Lucy was confined in destroyed, it seemed like she succeeded. However, this proved to be wrong. The Master survived, but his body was an open rip, he was leaking life force energy, and was constantly hungry, killing humans and eating whatever food he could find just to help keep himself alive.
Upon capture by Joshua Naismith, the Master reconfigured the Immortality Gate so that all humans (minus Wilfred Mott and Donna Noble) would become like him, destroying the human race and replacing them with The Master Race.
The Doctor nearly convinced him to abandon his efforts and join him travelling the universe, almost reconciling with his old friend. But then the Master realized something. Now that his so called drums in his head were proven to be real by the Doctor, that meant it was a signal from someone, or somewhere, and that he and the six billion other hims of the Master Race could all follow the signal to its source.
With the discovery of a crash landed white point star, the Master reconfigured the Immortality Gate yet again, and broke through the Time Lock around the Time War, bringing Gallifrey next to Earth and the Time Lords back into the universe. Rassilon revealed the Time Lord's plan to destroy all creation, changed every Master Race member back into a human, and refused to let Rassilon join them.
The Doctor was given a choice: Kill Rassilon, or Kill the Master. When it seemed like the Doctor was going to kill him, the Master had panicked. He thought the Doctor actually was going to kill him just to prevent the Time War from returning. Until the Doctor told him to get out of the way.
The Doctor shot the machine the White Point Star was sitting in. Breaking the connection, Gallifrey and the Time Lords were being sent back into the Time War. Just as Rassilon was about to destroy the Doctor in retalliation, the Master got up and intervened.
"Get out of the way." He attacks Rassilon. "YOU DID THIS TO ME! EVERYTHING I'VE DONE! EVERYTHING I AM! YOU-MADE-ME! ONE! TWO! THREE! FOURRRRR!"
It was then that the Master, the Time Lords, and Gallifrey all disappeared in a flash of light, presumably to go back to the Time War. But this would not be the end of the Master. He will return. He always returns.
Addition Medical Information:
In the later years of his life in the Tremas body, the Master caught the Cheetah Virus, which made him act sometimes more feral. His eyes would turn yellow, his teeth would have extended fangs, and he could be telepathically linked to the Kitlings and anyone else with the Cheetah Virus.
The Master has a high degree of mental powers, greater than most other Time Lords, arguably the only exceptions to this being the Doctor, Rassilon, and Omega.
His Deathworm Morphant body allowed him to survive many forms and attempts to end his life. At the same time, it allowed him to take possession of others.
His Tremas Body, being powered by the Source of Traken, allowed him to survive many deadly experiences, such as being burned alive or mauled to death. It can be assumed that the Source of Traken acted like a substitute source of regeneration energy for him.
After his failed resurrection, despite the fact he was burning through his own life force at a faster rate, he had almost super human capabilities, such as being able to jump large distances, or even using his own lifeforce to act almost like a powerful bioelectric attack. He had to constantly eat just to replenish the used energy, usually draining other living beings of their own life force energy.
RP Sample: Required for first character & every canon.
The only things that could escape the Time War were those that already existed after it.
He had to get as far away from the war as possible. Escaping the capital was easy. After leaving Rassilon lying on the floor of the Presidential Chambers, he began running, running as fast as he could to get out of the Panopticon. He drained life force of whatever Chancellory Guards he came across, using their energy to keep him going. He was using a lot of energy, launching himself in the air with the bioelectrical life force energy he was firing from his hands. It helped give him the distance he wanted from the capital though.
He dropped down into the cluttered streets bellow, and continued to run. He kept up the process of running, draining victims of their life force, and expelling it to carry him great distances through the air as he got to the edge of the city. He saw something he could use. Two things actually.
The Master expelled a blast of energy from one hand into a shop window. Leaping inside, he found the set of mechanics tools he needed. As the owner of the shop tried to stop him, he grabbed the man's face and drained his Life Force completely, leaving behind only a charred skeleton of the Gallifreyan's remains. He jumped out the shop and looked back into the street.
He saw the great glass-like dome that surrounded the Capital was broken, and the edge of a Dalek Saucer just barely sticking out and into the city. With another great leap and expulsion of life force energy, he propelled himself to the top of the crashed ship. He found a hole in the hull he used to get into the ship. It was a wreck, but it looked mostly salvagable. The ship's Daleks were most likely taken prisoner shortly after it had originally crashed. He ran to the saucer's bridge. Pulling out one of the tools from the case he stole from the mechanic's shop, he sliced into one of the Dalek's computers and tried hotwiring a few of the ship's systems.
"Come on come on come on," he muttered to himself as he waited for the system to boot up. "You stupid piece of-" he kicked the computer with his leg. "WORK!"
The systems came online and gave a readout of the ship's current status. Life support was still working, that was good. Guidance controls were a little shot, Time Corridor generator was malfunctioning, but the engines were still working. That's all he needed.
Starting the ship up, he programmed the ship to fly out of Gallifrey and to immediately jump into hyperspace the moment they escaped Gallifrey's atmosphere. The Daleks wouldn't attack one of their own ships, that much he was confident about. He needed to get as far away from the battle that he could. Some place with the resources he'd need to repare the Time Corridor generator on this ship. He left something back in the year 100 trillion, on the coast of the Silver Devastation. His TARDIS.
With the coordinates set, he sat down on the floor of the Dalek Saucer's bridge and expelled a breath of air. The drum beat. The drumbeat was finally gone. But that didn't help his predicament any better. His body was still dying. He needed to repair the Time Corridor Generator fast, and he needed to do it before his life force ran out. His TARDIS would have all the necessary equipment needed for him to fix this "rip."
The ship lurched. He looked around shocked, trying to figure out what just happened. Then he saw it. A Battle TARDIS had shot out one of the engines. The Time Lords were going to capture him, no, they were going to destroy him!
He wasn't ready to return to the black void of death. There had to be something left on the Dalek Saucer he could use, something!
Then he saw it. It was the last thing to come up on the systems check. While the Time Corridor Generator was malfunctioning, it wasn't the ship's only time travel device. This ship was capable of performing emergency temporal shifts. Setting the new coordinates into the ship, he slammed his fist down on the button as hard as he could.
Travelling through the Vortex, breaking through the Time Lock via an Emergency Temporal Shift was not as smooth as it would have been if he had taken a TARDIS. The Saucer was breaking appart within the vortex. The Master thought he wouldn't make it.
Suddently, the Master found himself hitting a beach of silver sand. He sputtered and spattered the sand out of his mouth. He looked around him. It was night time, but there was no stars in the night sky. There was clumps of darkmatter scattered throughout the beach, along with the burning remains of the Dalek Saucer he hijacked to get there.
Then he saw it. The odd thing just sitting there in the middle of the beach. An old looking grandfather clock made of a darkened black wood of some sort. The clock chimed midnight. The Master stared at the clockface. And laughed.
He made it. He escaped the Time War once again. He had his TARDIS once again. He would live. He would survive. He would become even more powerful.
"Look out Doctor!" he laughed as he stumbled back up, running towards his TARDIS. "I'M COMING FOR YOU!"
With that, he let out a wild maniacal laugh that destroyed the almost never ending dead silence of this dead corner of the universe.
Character Image
William Hughes (1st life age 8)
Roger Delgado (13th Life)
Peter Pratt (13th Life, Post-Legacy of the Daleks)
Geoffrey Beevers (13th Life, after the end of Deadly Assassin, but would resume this form upon loosing the Tremas Body on two occassions (only to recover the Tremas body again later))
Anthony Ainley (14th Life, Tremas's body stolen at the end of The Keeper of Traken)
Basil Rathbone (Post-Tremas Virgin New Adventures, debuted in First Frontier)
Gordon Tipple (Start of movie, before regenerating into a Deathworm Morphant)
Eric Roberts (Theft of the Body of Paramedic Bruce in the Movie)
Deathworm Morphant (current known incarnation during the Doctor's 8th life)
Unnamed stolen body (Appeared in the Comics The Fallen and The Glorious Dead)
Geoffrey Beevers (again) and Yee Jee Tso (These two actors both played the men the Master stole bodies from in Mastermind)
(Note: I do have "The Man with the Rosette" from Lawrence Miles's novels as another unknown Master incarnation)
Alex Macqueen (Unknown Post-Deadly Assassin incarnation from UNIT: Dominion)
Derek Jacobi (Time War and post Time War incarnation)
John Simm (Regeneration from the end of Utopia)
Name: The Master
Age: Assumed over 900 years. What planetary years is up to debate.
Gender: Male (although there is one female incarnation)
Species: Time Lord
Planet of Origin: Gallifrey
Occupation: Renegade Time Lord, former Prime Minister, Rival and greatest single enemy to the Doctor
Physical Description: That is difficult to say. The Master has nearly 500 different bodies, several of which had the appearance of other alien species and at least one female human-looking incarnation, at least according to "Harvest of Time." Let us wind back the clock to 1971, to our first look at the Master.
When the Master first attacked Britain in 1971 while allying with the Autons, he would look at the most 55, at 5 feet 7 inches. He had an impressive looking tan, greying black hair brushed, combed, or jelled back exposing a good deal of his slightly widow peaked forehead, thin eyebrows, and a black goatee with a white strip of hair on either side of his chin. He usually wore a black nehru (Indian jacket), dress shues, leather gloves, pants, and wore a white shirt underneath.
Because of the actions of Susan Foreman, the Master's body became heavily scared and deformed into a decaying state. He usually wears a set of black robes over his body while he was in this state, the robes usually being ragedy and damaged. His body was slightly healed after a failed plot to open the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey, so that instead of a moist looking texture his appearance was compared more to that of a charred or burned corpse.
Upon obtaining the source of Traken, the Master stole the body of the Trakenite Tremas. This new body had a very light colored complexion compared to most people, bright blue eyes, dark brown hair pulled back and a goatee. He looked to be in his 40's or 50's. Often he wore black trakenite robes most of the time. But he's also had occassions of wearing two different velvet jacket suits.
He's had at least a few other lives before eventually being captured by the Daleks. After his "extermination", his body regenerated into a different alien species, a deathworm morphant. The deathworm morphant form was an almost clear looking slime or liquid that could form into a puddle, an odd variation of a cobra or snake with multiple sets of teeth, or even a vaporous state. In this form, he's survived being destroyed by the Daleks and the Eye of Harmony, and could possess other bodies. However, these bodies tended to die at a faster rate than they normally would not have, and often would have the Master revert back to his decaying appearance. Except for, however, a pair of near serpent-like eyes that would sometimes appear.
At some unspecified point the Master had both died and was later revived by the Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. This new body was, at best, blond haired and rather young looking at first. Much of this incarnation's life, however, was spent hiding as a human named "Professor Yana" after the Master escaped from the war.
Upon Regenerating, the Master had a thinner face, almost six feet tall, and was much younger looking than his previous incarnation when he died. He had short brown hair and dark colored eyes. In this incarnation, he took on the identity of "Harold Saxon" and became Prime Minister of Great Britain. Later after his ruined resurrection by Lucy, his hair took on a blond color. This incarnation, having a ruined body as is, would often change to the appearance of blue transparence, exposing his innards almost similar to as if one was looking at an x-ray. In this...altered body, the Master wore a set of black sweat pants, a black hoodie, red t-shirt, and tennisshoes, presumably stolen from another one of his human victims after his resurrection.
Personality:
"You are the most evil and corrupt beings this Time Lord race has ever produced. Your crimes are without number, and your villainy without end."
"What makes you think I want your forgiveness?"
The Master has had many factors contribute to his evil nature. Many people have wondered just what made him evil. Some say that Rassilon sending the drumbeat into his head as a child caused him to go insane. The Doctor once thought the Eternal Death had been responsible for making the Master turn evil after the death of their childhood bully Torvic. Some think the Master was always evil. And others think that his strong rivalry with the Doctor caused his fall.
But he wasn't always evil. He had been friends with the Doctor back in their earliest of days. He once took on a lover, Ailla, not knowing at the time she was a Time Lord Spy from the CIA. He destroyed an entire planet simply to cause a time paradox to bring her back to life, only to learn the truth about what she was. Ailla's betrayal also contributed to any last shreds of goodness in the Master to die...as well as the destruction of his first 12 lives.
His relationship with the Doctor is mixed at best. At times the Master bargained with the Doctor that they could rule together. Other times he had nothing but hatred for the Doctor. If there was anything that could be said for sure, he had both fear and respect for the Doctor's abilities, despite having a higher degree in cosmic sciences at the Academy, and sometimes even proven to have a greater intellect.
Despite their differences, the Doctor and the Master have worked together as allies on more than one occassion to defeat a common enemy.
The greatest flaw the Master has is his arrogance, his ego. Many of his plans were defeated by the simple fact he overlooked a small detail or another in his plans.
He is insane and selfish, but still brilliant and a threat. It would be wise never to underestimate the Master.
His goals are simple. Absolute dominion over all space and time. And Immortality. Blame his stubborn tenacity to live on his arrogance. Ruthless, cunning, and willing to do whatever it takes to acheive his goals, no mater how many people die as a result.
History:
On the mighty world of Gallifrey, within the constallation of Kasterborous, in the House of Oakdown, a male Gallifreyan was born. His father had estates, with pastures of red grass near Mount Perdition, and he was of the upper class. His childhood involved a friend. They would play in the fields of Gallifrey, until age 8, when they were initiated into the Prydonian Academy of the Time Lords. In the untempered schism, this boy stared deep into it, until he received a signal. A signal from Gallifrey's future.
At the Academy, he took on the nickname "Koschei". He and his friend, now going by the name "Theta Sigma", were tormented by a bully named Torvic. This bully tormented them day after day, until one day "Theta Sigma" killed this bully. The two friends watched as Torvic's body was burned on a funeral pire, not daring to speak of this day to their fellow friends and family members. That very night, Koschei's friend was visited by the Eternal Death in a dream. She offered him a chance to become her champion, or for him to have someone else take his place. "Theta" told Death to take "Koschei" as her champion.
Koschei discovered his ability to hypnotize others at a young age, and often used his gift to pull pranks on others. Of course, his friend "Theta" knew how to snap these victims out of their transes.
Koschei and Theta became part of a group with 8 other students known as "The Deca", whom at the time were the Academy's most infamous and gifted students. Theta and Koschei also joined a band while at the Academy known as "The Gallifrey Academy Hot Five", where Koschei played the drums.
In their later years at the Academy, Theta and Koschei's friendship broke down. Some assume it was because Koschei didn't keep a promise to Theta. Some assume the event was their competition involving the Consolidator.
Some time after their graduation from the Academy and Theta Sigma's adoption of the name "The Doctor", Gallifrey had a period of great political tension. Koschei lead a group of the Academy's students in a revolution against the Corrupt Lord President Pundat the Third, and later his successor Slann, "Pundat's most evil disciple" as Koschei described him. He tried to persuade his friend, the Doctor, to join him, but the Doctor refused.
After his first failed attack, Pundat retired and left Slann to become the next Lord President. In Koschei's second attempt, he killed killed the Lord President, thinking his rebels were ready to take control. He soon realized he was wrong, and left Gallifrey at the same time as the Doctor.
In the year 2800 A.D., he travelled to Earth and picked up his first Companion, Ailla, whom he assumed to be a simple human at the time. She became his lover, and they travelled the stars together. He'd meet the Doctor again in the Doctor's second life, when the CIA requested Koschei try to get the Doctor to return the stolen TARDIS Type 40 to Gallifrey. At Darkheart, he thought Ailla had died and used the ancient doomsday weapon in the system to destroy a planet just so he could cause the time paradox needed to bring Ailla back to life.
Then Ailla appeared to him along with the second Doctor, where Ailla admitted to Koschei she was an agent of the CIA. Her betrayal destroyed what good was left in Koschei, and he vowed from that day forth to become the Master of all things. Ripping the Recall device from his TARDIS console, he piloted his TARDIS into the heart of the Dark Heart Black hole, only for his plan to use this doomsday machine backfire on him, and he was stuck in a black hole. He had to burn through all 12 of his regenerations in order to escape, now on his last life.
The Time Lords captured him however and kept him imprisoned on a prison planet. However, after the Doctor's exile to Earth, the Time Lords decided to let the Master go, just to keep the Doctor "entertained" during his exile.
The Doctor and the Master would meet again in 1971, in the Master's first plan to take over the Earth using the Nestene Consciousness. Throughout the early 70's, the Master would devise many schemes and plans to use against the Doctor and UNIT, only to be foiled time and time again by their combined efforts.
Upon a trip to 22nd Century, in another Dalek attempt to invade the Earth, the Master fought against the Doctor's 8th life as well as his granddaughter Susan. The Master killed Susan's husband, David, and held Susan a hostage on his TARDIS to keep the Doctor from following him. Susan however took control of the Master's TARDIS, and pushed him out onto the planet Tersurus. Using the Master's own Tissue Compression Eliminator, she destroyed the Dalek Artifact the Master had taken from the 22nd century, and the device's destruction horribly injured the Master. So much that Susan assumed him dead and left him on Tersurus. Chancellor Goth, detecting the unauthorized use of a TARDIS on Tersurus, went to investigate, only to discover the Master, alive but in horrible pain. The Master and Goth made a deal: Goth would bring the Master to Gallifrey and help in his revenge against the Doctor, and Goth would become Lord President of Gallifrey.
The events that of course unfolded in the assassination of the lord President ended diffrently. The Master wished to use the objects of the Lord President's office, the staff and sash of Rassilon, to open the Eye of Harmony and absorb its destructive energies to help jumpstart his regeneration cycle. The Doctor stopped him, and the Master fled Gallifrey using Goth's TARDIS.
The Master would attempt to find new ways to heal his condition and gain a new regenerations over the years, while at the same time facing off against the Doctor. Eventually he came to Traken, where after a battle against the Doctor, the Master gained the Source of Traken and took control of the body of Tremas.
With a renewed body and renewed vigor, the Master continued his campaign of revenge against the Doctor, unintentionally nearly destroying the Universe by the spread of Entrophy from Logopolis, the death of the Doctor's 4th incarnation, and many other acts of revenge or brief attempts to ally with the Doctor against other enemies when need be.
Eventually, the Master would lose his Tremas body, but gain a new set of regenerations somewhere during the Doctor's 7th life. He was eventually caught, however, by the Daleks inside a tomb in Egypt, and brought to Skaro to face trial by the Daleks as a part of a peace treaty Lady President Romana made with the Daleks.
It was on the planet Skaro that the Master was finally put to trial. They say they listened calmly, as his list of evil crimes was read. Then he made, and I thought a rather somewhat curious request. He demanded, that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should bring his remains back to our home planet of Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted.
And so the Master regenerated into a Morphant Deathworm. He attacked the Doctor's TARDIS console, causing a Timing Malfunction and causing the Doctor to land in San Franscisco on December 30, 1999. As the Master took possession of the body of a Paramedic named Bruce, the Doctor also regenerated into his 8th incarnation.
The Master, with the assistance of a deceived youth by the name of Chan Lee, persued the Doctor and his latest Companion, Dr. Grace Holloway. The Master was intending to use the Eye of Harmony to steal the Doctor's body and his remaining lives, while at the same time destroying Earth as a result of leaving the Eye open for too long. In a battle within the Cloister Room of the TARDIS, the Master fell into the Eye of Harmony, losing his body and staying trapped in the gravitational forces of the black hole. He escaped briefly once and rewrote Earth's history so that he would rule all, only to be defeated and trapped in the Eye once again.
It wasn't until one of the Doctor's companions, Edward Grainger, would release the Master from the Eye of Harmony, finally granting him the freedom he longed for. He took possession of the body of a man in London in the early 1900's. After a few months, he learned that the body he possessed was decaying rapidly. He realized he needed to keep changing bodies in order to survive. Recalling, however, that London would be involved in World War I, he booked passage on a boat to America...Not realizing that the very ship he booked passage on, the Titanic, was going to sink on its maiden voyage. He escaped, and upon arriving in America, took possession of a gangster and began running an infamous crime gang in New York, before eventually moving to Las Vegas and running his criminal Empire using Casinos from behind the scenes that rivaled even that of the Mob. The man he possessed had a son, and the Master took control of this son's body when the man's body could no longer support the Master. In 1977, the man's grandson Frankie would discover who the Master really was and what he did to his father and grandfather, and trapped the Master inside his own bunker so that the Master would be unable to cause harm to anyone any again. Frankie's son however would unseal this bunker in 1990's, and call UNIT to inform them of this...odd monster he found inside this bunker. The Master had entered into a comatose state to help keep his body preserved those past twenty years, and to allow him to survive to 2013, occassionally waking up once every 5 years. UNIT took the Master and kept him as a prisoner in what they referred to as "The Vault", a top secret location where UNIT held its most dangerous or mysterious alien artifacts. Within each of these 5 year periods, two UNIT Troopers witin the vault would interview the Master in hopes of possibly using his knowledge to help them in place of the Doctor. The Master, upon his escape in 2013, admits to the two officers that he let UNIT capture him because they had something he spent the entire 1900's searching for: his TARDIS, which was located conveniently within the Vault.
Some time later, after yet another unspecified death, the Time Lords would revive the Master with a new body and new regenerations, believing he would be a perfect warrior for a Time War. The Master, however, fled the Time War when the Dalek Emperor took the Crucible, for the chaos of the Time War scared even him. He hid at the end of the Universe, using a Chameleon Arch to make himself human. And so for 50 years, the Master lived the life of a kindly old intelligent man named Professor Yana. Upon remeeting the Doctor and his companions, however, the Master finally opened his Chameleon Arch and resumed his true identity, killing his loyal lab assistant for the past 17 years Chan Tho, but not without receiving a shot in the chest back from her.
The Master ran into the Doctor's TARDIS, now that he had everything he needed or wanted from this time period to use for his own dark purposes later, such as the Doctor's severed hand, and the location to Utopia.
"If the Doctor can be young, and strong...then so can I. The Master...Rebooorn."
Upon his regeneration, the Master stole the Doctor's TARDIS, however was only able to travel as far back as 18 months before the Doctor, Martha, and Jack left Earth in 2008. So becoming a Minister of Defense for the Great Britain under the name Harold Saxon, the Master launched the Arch Angel network with the subtle mindcontrol messages being sent to all humans, ordering the military to shoot down the Sicarax on Christmas Eve, giving Torchwood files to an alien so that he could use a small team of humans to gather information on the Doctor, funding Professor Lazarus's research, wrote a novel, and even got married to a human female named Lucy.
He took Lucy to the end of the Universe, where she went through a dark depressing mindset of realizing everything was pointless. They went to Utopia, where they met the Toclafane. It was there that the Master made his deal with the new species, and then made his next plan.
Upon becoming Prime Minister and finishing the completion of both the Valiant and converting the Doctor's TARDIS into a Paradox machine, the Master captured the Doctor, his companions Jack and Martha, and even Martha's family all on board the Valiant's bridge, as well as killing the US President Winters. Using biological code extracted from the Doctor's hand and Lazarus's research, the Master gave his Laser Screwdriver the ability to disable the Doctor's ability to regenerate and age him centuries. Martha escaped, and with the Toclafane now invading Earth and destroying one tenth of the human population and any military resistance, the Master took control of Earth overnight.
Over the next year, the year that never was, the Master ruled as a Tyranical overlord over Earth, forcing the population to work in labor camps to construct massive doomsday weapons, all in preparation for the Master's plan to establish a new Time Lord Empire. Of course, this plan was thwarted when the humans of Earth all began chanting the Doctor's name, their combined wills being amplified through the Master's own Archangel network to restore the Doctor to his younger self as well as a temporary god-like being.
As it seemed like the Master had lost and was to be kept in the Doctor's TARDIS as a prisoner, Lucy shot the Master. The Master refused to regenerate however, and died in the Doctor's arms.
After the Master's body burned on the funeral pyre, a piece of himself survived in his ring, which was recovered by the Cult of Saxon. A year of preparing, and the cult used what biologic imprint remained of the Master on Lucy's lips, the Master's ring, the Elixers of life, and their own life force energy to help revive the Master. Lucy however knew of the Master's plans to revive himself, and had contacts with her family develope a formula that they believed would destroy the Master's ritual and prevent his revival. With the Prison Lucy was confined in destroyed, it seemed like she succeeded. However, this proved to be wrong. The Master survived, but his body was an open rip, he was leaking life force energy, and was constantly hungry, killing humans and eating whatever food he could find just to help keep himself alive.
Upon capture by Joshua Naismith, the Master reconfigured the Immortality Gate so that all humans (minus Wilfred Mott and Donna Noble) would become like him, destroying the human race and replacing them with The Master Race.
The Doctor nearly convinced him to abandon his efforts and join him travelling the universe, almost reconciling with his old friend. But then the Master realized something. Now that his so called drums in his head were proven to be real by the Doctor, that meant it was a signal from someone, or somewhere, and that he and the six billion other hims of the Master Race could all follow the signal to its source.
With the discovery of a crash landed white point star, the Master reconfigured the Immortality Gate yet again, and broke through the Time Lock around the Time War, bringing Gallifrey next to Earth and the Time Lords back into the universe. Rassilon revealed the Time Lord's plan to destroy all creation, changed every Master Race member back into a human, and refused to let Rassilon join them.
The Doctor was given a choice: Kill Rassilon, or Kill the Master. When it seemed like the Doctor was going to kill him, the Master had panicked. He thought the Doctor actually was going to kill him just to prevent the Time War from returning. Until the Doctor told him to get out of the way.
The Doctor shot the machine the White Point Star was sitting in. Breaking the connection, Gallifrey and the Time Lords were being sent back into the Time War. Just as Rassilon was about to destroy the Doctor in retalliation, the Master got up and intervened.
"Get out of the way." He attacks Rassilon. "YOU DID THIS TO ME! EVERYTHING I'VE DONE! EVERYTHING I AM! YOU-MADE-ME! ONE! TWO! THREE! FOURRRRR!"
It was then that the Master, the Time Lords, and Gallifrey all disappeared in a flash of light, presumably to go back to the Time War. But this would not be the end of the Master. He will return. He always returns.
Addition Medical Information:
In the later years of his life in the Tremas body, the Master caught the Cheetah Virus, which made him act sometimes more feral. His eyes would turn yellow, his teeth would have extended fangs, and he could be telepathically linked to the Kitlings and anyone else with the Cheetah Virus.
The Master has a high degree of mental powers, greater than most other Time Lords, arguably the only exceptions to this being the Doctor, Rassilon, and Omega.
His Deathworm Morphant body allowed him to survive many forms and attempts to end his life. At the same time, it allowed him to take possession of others.
His Tremas Body, being powered by the Source of Traken, allowed him to survive many deadly experiences, such as being burned alive or mauled to death. It can be assumed that the Source of Traken acted like a substitute source of regeneration energy for him.
After his failed resurrection, despite the fact he was burning through his own life force at a faster rate, he had almost super human capabilities, such as being able to jump large distances, or even using his own lifeforce to act almost like a powerful bioelectric attack. He had to constantly eat just to replenish the used energy, usually draining other living beings of their own life force energy.
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The only things that could escape the Time War were those that already existed after it.
He had to get as far away from the war as possible. Escaping the capital was easy. After leaving Rassilon lying on the floor of the Presidential Chambers, he began running, running as fast as he could to get out of the Panopticon. He drained life force of whatever Chancellory Guards he came across, using their energy to keep him going. He was using a lot of energy, launching himself in the air with the bioelectrical life force energy he was firing from his hands. It helped give him the distance he wanted from the capital though.
He dropped down into the cluttered streets bellow, and continued to run. He kept up the process of running, draining victims of their life force, and expelling it to carry him great distances through the air as he got to the edge of the city. He saw something he could use. Two things actually.
The Master expelled a blast of energy from one hand into a shop window. Leaping inside, he found the set of mechanics tools he needed. As the owner of the shop tried to stop him, he grabbed the man's face and drained his Life Force completely, leaving behind only a charred skeleton of the Gallifreyan's remains. He jumped out the shop and looked back into the street.
He saw the great glass-like dome that surrounded the Capital was broken, and the edge of a Dalek Saucer just barely sticking out and into the city. With another great leap and expulsion of life force energy, he propelled himself to the top of the crashed ship. He found a hole in the hull he used to get into the ship. It was a wreck, but it looked mostly salvagable. The ship's Daleks were most likely taken prisoner shortly after it had originally crashed. He ran to the saucer's bridge. Pulling out one of the tools from the case he stole from the mechanic's shop, he sliced into one of the Dalek's computers and tried hotwiring a few of the ship's systems.
"Come on come on come on," he muttered to himself as he waited for the system to boot up. "You stupid piece of-" he kicked the computer with his leg. "WORK!"
The systems came online and gave a readout of the ship's current status. Life support was still working, that was good. Guidance controls were a little shot, Time Corridor generator was malfunctioning, but the engines were still working. That's all he needed.
Starting the ship up, he programmed the ship to fly out of Gallifrey and to immediately jump into hyperspace the moment they escaped Gallifrey's atmosphere. The Daleks wouldn't attack one of their own ships, that much he was confident about. He needed to get as far away from the battle that he could. Some place with the resources he'd need to repare the Time Corridor generator on this ship. He left something back in the year 100 trillion, on the coast of the Silver Devastation. His TARDIS.
With the coordinates set, he sat down on the floor of the Dalek Saucer's bridge and expelled a breath of air. The drum beat. The drumbeat was finally gone. But that didn't help his predicament any better. His body was still dying. He needed to repair the Time Corridor Generator fast, and he needed to do it before his life force ran out. His TARDIS would have all the necessary equipment needed for him to fix this "rip."
The ship lurched. He looked around shocked, trying to figure out what just happened. Then he saw it. A Battle TARDIS had shot out one of the engines. The Time Lords were going to capture him, no, they were going to destroy him!
He wasn't ready to return to the black void of death. There had to be something left on the Dalek Saucer he could use, something!
Then he saw it. It was the last thing to come up on the systems check. While the Time Corridor Generator was malfunctioning, it wasn't the ship's only time travel device. This ship was capable of performing emergency temporal shifts. Setting the new coordinates into the ship, he slammed his fist down on the button as hard as he could.
Travelling through the Vortex, breaking through the Time Lock via an Emergency Temporal Shift was not as smooth as it would have been if he had taken a TARDIS. The Saucer was breaking appart within the vortex. The Master thought he wouldn't make it.
Suddently, the Master found himself hitting a beach of silver sand. He sputtered and spattered the sand out of his mouth. He looked around him. It was night time, but there was no stars in the night sky. There was clumps of darkmatter scattered throughout the beach, along with the burning remains of the Dalek Saucer he hijacked to get there.
Then he saw it. The odd thing just sitting there in the middle of the beach. An old looking grandfather clock made of a darkened black wood of some sort. The clock chimed midnight. The Master stared at the clockface. And laughed.
He made it. He escaped the Time War once again. He had his TARDIS once again. He would live. He would survive. He would become even more powerful.
"Look out Doctor!" he laughed as he stumbled back up, running towards his TARDIS. "I'M COMING FOR YOU!"
With that, he let out a wild maniacal laugh that destroyed the almost never ending dead silence of this dead corner of the universe.