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incandescens ([personal profile] incandescens) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2006-06-29 03:18 pm

[June 29th] [Doctor Who] brief lives

Title: brief lives
Day/Theme: June 29th / a day to live and die
Series: Doctor Who
Character/Pairing: The Master
Rating: G


The Master regards the Doctor's mayfly-brief companions as curiosities, tools, or annoyances. They come, they go. Pets to be trained and to provide some sort of heartwarming, tongue-lolling admiration.

Occasionally one shows a brief flash of intelligence, but it's not as if the Doctor chooses them for that.

The lesser races are to be used, but hardly befriended; tolerated, but scarcely indulged.

(And he does not need to be reminded of age and death; not now, not when his regenerations are spinning down towards their end, however many lives he steals or stars he destroys to buy them back again.)