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Chuuya's training regiment:

Chuuya: Okay, let's start off with some basic stretches. Get yourselves ready.

Chuuya: Casual running first, get yourselves accustomed to a pace that suits you

Chuuya: We're gonna do something a little harder this time, but I believe in you guys. You guys were born to be mafiosos. You can handle this

Chuuya: That's a wrap! Good work everybody, you've all achieved something today, congratulate yourselves. Drinks on me!

Dazai's training regiment:

Dazai: So, I read up on all your backgrounds. Most of you joined because of poverty! Capitalism, am I right?

Dazai: You think that's enough of a motivator here though? HA!

Dazai: The fuck are stretches? Get your fucking asses into the training simulator, let's see y'all get past a rain of bullets

Dazai: What was that? You thought newbies started off with easy jobs? You thought you wouldn't get killed on your first day? *Pulls out a gun and shoots the closest grunt* Oh look at that. You died from a bullet. Maybe if y'all got in the FUCKING SIMULATOR already, you'd learn how to DODGE them

Dazai: GET IN YOU LITTLE SHITS. EXTRA GUNFIRE FOR THAT LIP EARLIER

IM SORRY BUT TIME LORDS ARE CONFIRMED TO BE GENDERFLUID THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT

ive been trying to lock in for like 12 weeks now

wait wait wait Agatha took a silly song she made with her son and then used it to gather power for centuries after his death and then AND THEN her surrogate son comes along and makes the song REAL??? do NOT touch me for the next 24 hours

Agatha All Along I Follow Me My Friend, To Glory at the End

So, the Master is clearly struggling with dissociation in S12, right? Because I never saw this talked about directly, but it’s been on my mind since Spyfall.

The Master is obviously traumatised by the events preceding the season and trauma is what dissociation stems from, so I guess that’s what made me look out for it. And then it just seemed so blatantly obvious to me:

The constant insisting on how sure he is about what he is doing; how right it feels - while looking utterly lost. (Nothing he does makes him feel anything, because he is completely detached from his own emotions.) The unfocused eyes during important moments. (Spaced out, can’t focus, no matter how much he wants to/ knows he should.) The mood swings. I know, every Master had those to an extent, but while in his previous incarnations it seemed almost voluntary, in this one he seems completely overpowered by it. (Inability to handle emotions.) The way he frantically claps his hands on the plane, a typical grounding technique, the same way I nervously tap my nails on my phone all the time (driving all my friends nuts).

And then the way he needs the Doctor, this time. (Even more desperately than Missy, in my view.) From making her say his name (from personal experience: your best friend saying your name; very grounding, 10/10 would recommend) to forcing her to take his hand, just to feel it in his; a prove that he still exists. The constant mentions of their past, trying to get her to talk about who he was, to find comfort in her reassurance. And the way he reacts when she says his name; he almost breaks down. He doesn’t remember who he is, but she knows and he needs her to tell him; show him, so he can feel real again.

And then the apathy toward the end; he doesn’t care if he dies, because why would it matter, when he doesn’t feel alive anyway?

he do a wiggle