Victory In Death

[darklyenigmatic]

Title: Victory In Death
Author: darklyenigmatic
Rating: PGish
Spoilers: Spoilers for LotTL
Summary: Dying was winning and winning was dying. Short follow-up to Chasing Sanity.
Characters: Simm!Master, Ten
Pairing: Doctor/Master if you squint
Warnings: Angst, darkness, character death (obviously)
Disclaimer: Not mine, unfortunately. BBC owns them.
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Comments

[edzel2]

That's as good an explanation for the Master refusing to regenerate as any other! Nicely done. *wants to hug Master*

[darklyenigmatic]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :-) And yes, I spend an unreasonable amount of time wanting to hug him!

[evilawyer]

The Doctor hadn’t wanted to stay - or maybe he had, but not on his terms - hadn’t wanted to be his.

***sniff*** Poor Master!

You have a point, though. The Master had a long time to plan his return while he waited for the Doctor to make it back from the end of the universe. He would have never left his return up to something so chancy and risky as that resurrection thing (far too far out of his direct control), so maybe he did mean to die and stay dead. And you're reason makes sense of that otherwise unMasterly attitude. Nice.

[darklyenigmatic]

I know!!

I think, at that point, he just didn't care. The resurrection thing was probably an absolute last-resort failsafe, and frankly, I'm sure he could have found a way to escape the Doctor eventually, without dying. I doubt he even thought about getting resurrected in that end scene; it certainly did seem that way. Anyway, I'm glad it made sense. Thanks for commenting!

[edzel2]

VeI've just re-read this and had the thought that TEOT strongly suggests that the Master DIDNT intend staying dead - The Secret Books of Saxon would seem to make that clear, as does the Master's "The drums- oh, how I have missed them!" But I still like to think that there was more than an element of truth in his final words in LoTTL - "The drums... Will they ever stop?" He was very confused by then I reckon, poor man! Certainly he hadn't planned for Lucy to shoot him, I'm certain of that now. Just think, there's so many ways TEOT could've gone; Lucy could have survived (still sad about that, even though I've killed her off in almost every Master/Lucy fic I've written, lol) for instance, the Master could have absorbed her life force to survive (my theory all along and the tool I've used in all my post LOTTL FICA so far) ... and still ended up damaged ... so much fanfic potential, so little time in which to write it...!