Post by yana on Aug 10, 2010 6:23:02 GMT -5
( I just couldn't resist)
Canon
Name: The Master, formerly Koschei
Age:Same as the Doctor.
Species:Time Lord
Planet of Origin:Gallifrey
Occupation: Arch Nemesis of the Doctor.
Physical Description: Blonde, normal build, about 6'0 in height.
Personality: The Master is the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect. Though he retains a brilliant Time Lord mind and all of the Doctor's wit and cunning, he possesses two fatal character flaws - he is arrogant and exceptionally vain, which leads to his downfall on many occasions. By the time of his return from his Yana persona, he appeared after his regeneration to have gone more insane than ever, regressing to an almost childlike state of spitefulness and obliviousness. It is implied by the Doctor that the Master's insanity has been present ever since he was eight years old, caused by the Time Lords. He instantaneously rejected a plea to listen by saying, "No. It's my turn. Revenge."
History: Koschei, later known as the Master, grew up on Gallifrey, in the House of Oakdown. But he would later comment to Wilfred Mott that growing up on Gallifrey was not something that Wilf would call childhood, instead, "...more a life of... duty..."
He and his one-time friend the Doctor, in their youth, would play in the fields near Koschei's home. He claims his father had estates, with "pastures of red grass", near "Mount Perdition."
At the Academy, Koschei belonged to a clique of young Time Lords with the collective name of the Deca. The Doctor and other future rivals Ushas (later known as the Rani) and Magnus (later known as the War Chief) also belonged to the Deca.
After the Doctor fled Gallifrey, Koschei was recruited to pursue and apprehend him. His unstable obsession with order however, prompted the Time Lords to plant the Time Lady Ailla as a spy to monitor Koschei's actions. Ailla posed as a Human so that Koschei would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the 28th century. Koschei caught up with the Doctor at the Darkheart colony in the early years of the Federation.
The temptation posed by the Darkheart device proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla had been a spy killed the last traces of good in him. After the Doctor trapped him in a black hole Koschei, the Master, swore to take revenge on him.
The Master eventually came close to death, but was able to survive in a decaying body. In this body, he attempted to gain a new regenerative cycle using the Eye of Harmony, but was stopped by the Doctor. The Master escaped Gallifrey, and eventually arrived on Traken. He eventually possessed the body of a Trakenite named Tremas.
The Master did manage to steal the body of Tremas, the father of the Doctor's future companion, Nyssa. He immediately set out on a new career of villainy in his new body. Eventually, he found himself taken over on the Cheetah World by a foreign influence and began to lose control. He ended up trapped there as it began to die.
The Master was able to teleport from the Cheetah World to 1953 Earth where he constructed himself an identity as Major Kreer. He made a deal with the Tzun to restore his corrupted Time Lord DNA, caused by his physical merger with the Trakenite, Tremas. This was a success, and he was able to regenerate into a new body. (NA: First Frontier)
The Master later attempted to seize control of a powerful artifact known as the Warp Core. This plan backfired and due to his exposure to the device the Master's body reverted to a state similar to his degenerated form. For a while he persisted in trying to acquire the Core. During that time he habitually wore a mask and adopted the alias Mr Seta.
The Doctor related a story of how he made a deal with Death whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor must kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician with no memory of his past, and took the name Doctor John Smith.
He was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. The Master had, in the meantime, become emotionally involved with a woman named Jaqueline Schaeffer.
At the end of the ten years the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present then, disguised as the Master's maid. She manipulated events so that it would appear inevitable that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more.
The Doctor related a story of how he made a deal with Death whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor must kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician with no memory of his past, and took the name Doctor John Smith.
He was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. The Master had, in the meantime, become emotionally involved with a woman named Jaqueline Schaeffer.
At the end of the ten years the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present then, disguised as the Master's maid. She manipulated events so that it would appear inevitable that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more.
(Skip a little bit here, the Master has died)
In the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords themselves brought the Master back from oblivion in order to use him as a weapon in defence of Gallifrey. However, he deserted the instant the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform as the sheer scale of the conflict seemed to frighten even the Master. He fled to the end of the universe and used a Chameleon Arch to become Human, remaining in the guise of the elderly Professor Yana. Martha Jones, who had traveled to this time period with the Doctor, recognized Yana's fob watch as similar to or the same as the one carried by the Doctor after he experienced the Chameleon Arch and unintentionally prompted Yana to open the watch. The Master returned in his old identity and attacked his assistant, killing her even as she shot him in the stomach.
Fatally wounded, though now aware of his identity, the Master regenerated (in one of the few confirmed accounts from his later life of him actually undergoing a natural regeneration) and escaped to 2000s Earth in the Doctor's TARDIS.
There he assumed the identity of Harold Saxon, a name spotted on many political posters around England and successfully ran for the position of Prime Minister. He then proceeded to take the Doctor prisoner and take over the Earth with the help of the Toclafane and a paradox machine he had made from the TARDIS. This timeline was reverted, however, when Jack Harkness destroyed the paradox machine. As the Doctor took him into custody, the Master was shot by Lucy Saxon, and collapsed in the Doctor's arms. Knowing that he and the Doctor were the last two remaining Time Lords, and knowing how badly the Doctor wanted to not be alone, he refused to regenerate, telling the Doctor, "I win." The Doctor burned his body on a funeral pyre, but a mysterious figure retrieved the Master's ring from the ashes.
The Master was resurrected by the Disciples of Saxon, a sinister cult who worshipped the Master. Lucy Saxon, however, had made a potion of death to counter the potion of life used to revive the Master. In the ensuing explosion, the Master escaped as a shadow. Once he regained physical form, he discovered that the interruption of the ritual had left bizarre side-effect. He was pale and ghost-like and even dyed his hair white-blonde in an attempt to be unrecognisable as Harold Saxon. His flesh would occasionally turn transparent, exposing his skull. In addition he had developed the ability to shoot bolts of artron energy from his hands and the power of flight, but using these abilities came at the cost of his life-force. Furthermore, he seemed more insane than ever. His previously urbane and sophisticated personality had been replaced with a frenzied bloodlust and a ravenous and insatiable hunger. He would kill everyone he encountered for little to no reason, laughed maniacally at the slightest occurrence and his behaviour bordered on that of a wild animal.
The Doctor found the Master and pursued him. They confronted one other and the Master used his psychic Time Lord abilities to let the Doctor into his mind, letting him hear the drums. The Doctor seemed profoundly disturbed and the Master escaped again. The Doctor still pursued him until the Master was kidnapped and taken away.
He was told to fix an alien gate called the Immortality Gate. The Master obviously jumped at the opportunity and fixed it. The Doctor and Wilfred Mott came into the room just as The Master entered the gate and Wilfred hid in an anti-radioactivity chamber of the power supply. The gate is found out to be a machine that changes the genetic DNA of the whole planet changing all Humans into his image. Everyone looked alike and acted alike. Only two humans escaped, Wilfred Mott, who was safe in the chamber, and Donna Noble, who was safe because she was part Time Lord.
The Master later realised that the Time Lords were returning through the discovery of a Gallifreyan diamond, sent through the time lock by Lord President Rassilon, and also learned that the drumbeat in his head was a link that the Time Lords could use to return to the material universe. Upon their arrival, the Time Lords undid his actions with the Immortality Gate, restoring the human race. The Master soon learned that Rassilon had placed the noise of drums in his head as a child to be used as a link to Earth. As Gallifrey appeared in Earth's sky on a collision course with Earth, the Doctor had to decide between killing the Master and killing Rassilon. If the Doctor killed the Master the link would be broken and everything would return to normal, but if he killed Rassilon, the Master indicated the Doctor would become the new leader of the Time Lords as Rassilon is Lord President. After the Doctor notices The Woman, he turns on the Master to apparently kill him, but instead orders him to "get out of the way." The Master, realizing what he intends, dives to the side as the Doctor destroys the Whitepoint star with a shot from Wilfred Mott's gun, severing the link as the diamond was acting as an anchor. As Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, the Master, in an act of vengeful and possibly heroic self-sacrifice, used the last of his life-force to disable the deranged Time Lord leader before both the Time Lords and the Master vanished in a burst of white light. His final action saved the Doctor, and helped save the universe by stopping the Time Lords' plans, returning them and Gallifrey to the Time War. He was sucked back into the Time War with the other Time Lords and died when the Doctor destroyed Galifrey.
But in the Pandorica some of the Master's cells still remained, they were released when the Doctor threw it into the TARDIS, causing Big Bang Two, they hung in the universe, waiting for something to spark them.
What RP boards: All originals, 10th, and 11th, maybe Torchwood.
Canon
Name: The Master, formerly Koschei
Age:Same as the Doctor.
Species:Time Lord
Planet of Origin:Gallifrey
Occupation: Arch Nemesis of the Doctor.
Physical Description: Blonde, normal build, about 6'0 in height.
Personality: The Master is the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect. Though he retains a brilliant Time Lord mind and all of the Doctor's wit and cunning, he possesses two fatal character flaws - he is arrogant and exceptionally vain, which leads to his downfall on many occasions. By the time of his return from his Yana persona, he appeared after his regeneration to have gone more insane than ever, regressing to an almost childlike state of spitefulness and obliviousness. It is implied by the Doctor that the Master's insanity has been present ever since he was eight years old, caused by the Time Lords. He instantaneously rejected a plea to listen by saying, "No. It's my turn. Revenge."
History: Koschei, later known as the Master, grew up on Gallifrey, in the House of Oakdown. But he would later comment to Wilfred Mott that growing up on Gallifrey was not something that Wilf would call childhood, instead, "...more a life of... duty..."
He and his one-time friend the Doctor, in their youth, would play in the fields near Koschei's home. He claims his father had estates, with "pastures of red grass", near "Mount Perdition."
At the Academy, Koschei belonged to a clique of young Time Lords with the collective name of the Deca. The Doctor and other future rivals Ushas (later known as the Rani) and Magnus (later known as the War Chief) also belonged to the Deca.
After the Doctor fled Gallifrey, Koschei was recruited to pursue and apprehend him. His unstable obsession with order however, prompted the Time Lords to plant the Time Lady Ailla as a spy to monitor Koschei's actions. Ailla posed as a Human so that Koschei would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the 28th century. Koschei caught up with the Doctor at the Darkheart colony in the early years of the Federation.
The temptation posed by the Darkheart device proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla had been a spy killed the last traces of good in him. After the Doctor trapped him in a black hole Koschei, the Master, swore to take revenge on him.
The Master eventually came close to death, but was able to survive in a decaying body. In this body, he attempted to gain a new regenerative cycle using the Eye of Harmony, but was stopped by the Doctor. The Master escaped Gallifrey, and eventually arrived on Traken. He eventually possessed the body of a Trakenite named Tremas.
The Master did manage to steal the body of Tremas, the father of the Doctor's future companion, Nyssa. He immediately set out on a new career of villainy in his new body. Eventually, he found himself taken over on the Cheetah World by a foreign influence and began to lose control. He ended up trapped there as it began to die.
The Master was able to teleport from the Cheetah World to 1953 Earth where he constructed himself an identity as Major Kreer. He made a deal with the Tzun to restore his corrupted Time Lord DNA, caused by his physical merger with the Trakenite, Tremas. This was a success, and he was able to regenerate into a new body. (NA: First Frontier)
The Master later attempted to seize control of a powerful artifact known as the Warp Core. This plan backfired and due to his exposure to the device the Master's body reverted to a state similar to his degenerated form. For a while he persisted in trying to acquire the Core. During that time he habitually wore a mask and adopted the alias Mr Seta.
The Doctor related a story of how he made a deal with Death whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor must kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician with no memory of his past, and took the name Doctor John Smith.
He was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. The Master had, in the meantime, become emotionally involved with a woman named Jaqueline Schaeffer.
At the end of the ten years the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present then, disguised as the Master's maid. She manipulated events so that it would appear inevitable that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more.
The Doctor related a story of how he made a deal with Death whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor must kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician with no memory of his past, and took the name Doctor John Smith.
He was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. The Master had, in the meantime, become emotionally involved with a woman named Jaqueline Schaeffer.
At the end of the ten years the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present then, disguised as the Master's maid. She manipulated events so that it would appear inevitable that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more.
(Skip a little bit here, the Master has died)
In the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords themselves brought the Master back from oblivion in order to use him as a weapon in defence of Gallifrey. However, he deserted the instant the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform as the sheer scale of the conflict seemed to frighten even the Master. He fled to the end of the universe and used a Chameleon Arch to become Human, remaining in the guise of the elderly Professor Yana. Martha Jones, who had traveled to this time period with the Doctor, recognized Yana's fob watch as similar to or the same as the one carried by the Doctor after he experienced the Chameleon Arch and unintentionally prompted Yana to open the watch. The Master returned in his old identity and attacked his assistant, killing her even as she shot him in the stomach.
Fatally wounded, though now aware of his identity, the Master regenerated (in one of the few confirmed accounts from his later life of him actually undergoing a natural regeneration) and escaped to 2000s Earth in the Doctor's TARDIS.
There he assumed the identity of Harold Saxon, a name spotted on many political posters around England and successfully ran for the position of Prime Minister. He then proceeded to take the Doctor prisoner and take over the Earth with the help of the Toclafane and a paradox machine he had made from the TARDIS. This timeline was reverted, however, when Jack Harkness destroyed the paradox machine. As the Doctor took him into custody, the Master was shot by Lucy Saxon, and collapsed in the Doctor's arms. Knowing that he and the Doctor were the last two remaining Time Lords, and knowing how badly the Doctor wanted to not be alone, he refused to regenerate, telling the Doctor, "I win." The Doctor burned his body on a funeral pyre, but a mysterious figure retrieved the Master's ring from the ashes.
The Master was resurrected by the Disciples of Saxon, a sinister cult who worshipped the Master. Lucy Saxon, however, had made a potion of death to counter the potion of life used to revive the Master. In the ensuing explosion, the Master escaped as a shadow. Once he regained physical form, he discovered that the interruption of the ritual had left bizarre side-effect. He was pale and ghost-like and even dyed his hair white-blonde in an attempt to be unrecognisable as Harold Saxon. His flesh would occasionally turn transparent, exposing his skull. In addition he had developed the ability to shoot bolts of artron energy from his hands and the power of flight, but using these abilities came at the cost of his life-force. Furthermore, he seemed more insane than ever. His previously urbane and sophisticated personality had been replaced with a frenzied bloodlust and a ravenous and insatiable hunger. He would kill everyone he encountered for little to no reason, laughed maniacally at the slightest occurrence and his behaviour bordered on that of a wild animal.
The Doctor found the Master and pursued him. They confronted one other and the Master used his psychic Time Lord abilities to let the Doctor into his mind, letting him hear the drums. The Doctor seemed profoundly disturbed and the Master escaped again. The Doctor still pursued him until the Master was kidnapped and taken away.
He was told to fix an alien gate called the Immortality Gate. The Master obviously jumped at the opportunity and fixed it. The Doctor and Wilfred Mott came into the room just as The Master entered the gate and Wilfred hid in an anti-radioactivity chamber of the power supply. The gate is found out to be a machine that changes the genetic DNA of the whole planet changing all Humans into his image. Everyone looked alike and acted alike. Only two humans escaped, Wilfred Mott, who was safe in the chamber, and Donna Noble, who was safe because she was part Time Lord.
The Master later realised that the Time Lords were returning through the discovery of a Gallifreyan diamond, sent through the time lock by Lord President Rassilon, and also learned that the drumbeat in his head was a link that the Time Lords could use to return to the material universe. Upon their arrival, the Time Lords undid his actions with the Immortality Gate, restoring the human race. The Master soon learned that Rassilon had placed the noise of drums in his head as a child to be used as a link to Earth. As Gallifrey appeared in Earth's sky on a collision course with Earth, the Doctor had to decide between killing the Master and killing Rassilon. If the Doctor killed the Master the link would be broken and everything would return to normal, but if he killed Rassilon, the Master indicated the Doctor would become the new leader of the Time Lords as Rassilon is Lord President. After the Doctor notices The Woman, he turns on the Master to apparently kill him, but instead orders him to "get out of the way." The Master, realizing what he intends, dives to the side as the Doctor destroys the Whitepoint star with a shot from Wilfred Mott's gun, severing the link as the diamond was acting as an anchor. As Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, the Master, in an act of vengeful and possibly heroic self-sacrifice, used the last of his life-force to disable the deranged Time Lord leader before both the Time Lords and the Master vanished in a burst of white light. His final action saved the Doctor, and helped save the universe by stopping the Time Lords' plans, returning them and Gallifrey to the Time War. He was sucked back into the Time War with the other Time Lords and died when the Doctor destroyed Galifrey.
But in the Pandorica some of the Master's cells still remained, they were released when the Doctor threw it into the TARDIS, causing Big Bang Two, they hung in the universe, waiting for something to spark them.
What RP boards: All originals, 10th, and 11th, maybe Torchwood.
