on the one hand, it's so funny how every time the doctor has to introduce the master to new companions they never fail to mention that they used to friends. “this is my evil archenemy but we were in the academy together, we used to run in the red grass before the murder attempts” even though we literally just saw the master committing multiple atrocities.
but. on the other hand. the tragedy of it all. it's the doctor saying: this is the site of grief that's now a festering wound. this is scar tissue still tender to the touch, this is the relentlessness of memory. this is a ghost, this is a monster, this is a haunting, this is an unburied grave. this is love as terror, love as horror, love that came back from the dead as a hunger. this is what it means to remember. this was my first love and the only thing i cannot outrun.
and then we cut to the master who is committing more atrocities
i think the doctor and the master both have their most gender incarnations if that makes sense, like dhawan!master and twelve are like .. so gender, y’know?
this is literally how it went
DEAN: I lost Cas and it damn near broke me.
Kind of obsessed with this dynamic
let him finish his goddamn sentences you cowards
my beloveds :)))
The Timeless Children, 2020 // The Power of the Doctor, 2022
contender for the funniest bit of supernatural dialogue