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Immediately after his regeneration, the Master appeared to have gone more insane than ever, gleefully jumping around [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]' [[TARDIS control console|control console]], while ecstatically laughing, and toying with his new voice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') By this point in his life, the Master was tormented more than ever by "[[The Drumming|the drums]]" in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but, after his sabotaged resurrection, he admitted to seeing it as a central piece of his identity, convinced that something was calling to him through the drum beat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') So much was he obsessed with them, that, on one occasion, "the drums" was all he would say. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'', ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') On another occasion, however, the Master fearfully asked the Doctor if he thought "the drumming" would stop after he died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')

Much like his previous incarnations, the "Saxon" Master was ostentatious, offering out [[jelly babies]] and [[grits]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') opting to wear eyeliner in preparation for being a woman in his next incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and dancing to the [[Rogue Traders]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and the [[Scissor Sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also enjoyed watching the ''[[Teletubbies]]'', believing that the televisions in their stomachs was true evolution, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and thrived on chaos, describing the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] as "[his] kind of world", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and was excited about getting into fights. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') He also admitted to loving disguises, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and was particularly outraged when he was "stuck looking like the old Prime Minister." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

Behind his charismatic and charming demeanour, however, the "Saxon" Master was sadistic and childishly degrading, even going as far as to slip subtle and private jabs at the Doctor into his public speeches. When Francine, Clive and Tish were forcibly taken to the ''Valiant'' under armed guard, the Master shamelessly treated the ordeal like a school field trip, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and, during [[the Year That Never Was]], he kept them as slaves, taking every opportunity he could to belittle them, even goading Francine into murdering him until the Doctor convinced her otherwise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also made [[Bill Potts]] aware of his part in her [[Cyber-conversion]] to upset her, and was disappointed when his remarks seemed to have failed, stating that she had "[taken] all the fun out of cruelty". He was also alarmed and disgusted at the idea of his future self gaining [[empathy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and disliked being interrupted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

He was extremely vain and narcissistic, believing himself to be "better than any [[god]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Night Harvest (short story)|The Night Harvest]]'') with the [[Tenth Doctor]] noting that he would never destroy himself, even if he could destroy the Earth with him. During [[the Year That Never Was]], he had monuments of himself built all over Earth, and had even sculptured himself onto [[Mount Rushmore]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') with the faces of some of his previous incarnations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)|The Secret Diary of the Master]]'') He also used the [[Immortality Gate]] to turn the human race into duplicates of himself, which he dubbed the "[[Master Race]]", and threatened to do the same to the [[Time Lord]]s, even asserting that [[Rassilon]] "[would] [look] better as [him]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') His vanity was so vast that when the [[Tenth Doctor]] forgave him for his actions, the Master collapsed and wept out of shame. After he expressed revulsion at being "kept" by the Doctor, the Master was shot by Lucy and, to spite the Doctor, decided not to regenerate and die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') After meeting his female successor, {{Gomez}}, the Master admitted to being attracted to his future self, flirting and dancing with her. However, when he saw the possibility that Missy would aid the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master killed her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') During his rule of [[Kiameth]], he agreed to help stop the entropy wave in hopes of the people loving him again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

The "Saxon" Master also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance, even reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor as the [[Toclafane invasion]] began. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He also held [[Time Lord]]s as the absolute superior race, automatically assuming the right to alter history on the principle of him being a Time Lord, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and was confident that he could beat an entire city of Cybermen while only being armed with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, when his plans were foiled, the Master would turn cowardly, retreating at the first opportunity or allying with whoever could better protect him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')

The "Saxon" Master showed minimum affection for the Doctor. Even after he aged the [[Tenth Doctor]] into an elderly man, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master continued to humiliate him by having him live in a makeshift tent aboard the ''Valiant'' during [[the Year That Never Was]], and then furthered the humiliation by ageing the Doctor until he morphed into an ancient dwarf-sized body, and then kept him locked up in a bird cage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') When {{Gomez}} told him of her plans to join forces with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master adamantly stated his refusal to stand with the Doctor and killed Missy with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Master was even willing to die to spite the Tenth Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and claimed to prefer death than begging for the Twelfth Doctor's help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He relished in describing how he had killed the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] to his other incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

However, the "Saxon" Master was not without his reservations, considering Rassilon's [[Ultimate Sanction]] to be suicidal, but was still willing to subject himself to it to appease Rassilon. He also had a sense of honour, as he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor from Rassilon after the Doctor chose not to kill either of them, also getting his revenge on Rassilon for implanting "the drumming" in his head, and for Rassilon trying to kill him for being "diseased". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

After his sabotaged [[resurrection]], the Master displayed a feral state that led him to act like a predatory animal, plagued by an insatiable hunger. Despite this insanity, the Master was capable of lucid conversation, nostalgically discussing his childhood friendship with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. He was also still a cunning strategist, allowing himself to remain [[Joshua Naismith]]'s prisoner so he could repair the Immortality Gate and use it to create his Master Race, all so he could turn the Earth into a warship, but then improvised a plan where he used his duplicates to locate the source of "the drumming". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The insanity he developed due to his botched resurrection and the drumming was fixed when the Time Lords repaired the Master's body back to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Though she referred to him as "the Bonkers One", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Missy! (short story)|Meet Missy!]]'') Missy recalled an enjoyment for being her "Saxon" incarnation, stating how he "burn[ed] like a sun, like a whole screaming world on fire." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') [[Alit]] described the "Saxon" Master as being "an odd and frightening man" with a habit for "nasty comments and exaggerated gestures". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

The "Saxon" Master held a respect for his "Decaying" incarnation for his tenacity for survival. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

The "Saxon" Master made a habit of saying, "Oh, no you don't", saying it when the Doctor was locking the TARDIS's coordinates, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') when avoiding a conversation with the Doctor, when the Doctor restored his youthful physiognomy with the Archangel Network's telepathic link, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and when fending off a [[Mondasian Cyberman]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

The Master shared the Tenth Doctor's technical knowledge, as he was able to cannibalise the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into a [[Paradox machine]], miniaturise [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and was able to repair the [[Immortality Gate]] for [[Joshua Naismith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also designed the [[Archangel Network]] and the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')

Like his previous incarnations, the "Saxon" Master had dangerous foresight and knew it was a mistake to give the Doctor hints about his plans while he could intervene. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') His methods for dealing with the Doctor during his reign as [[prime minister]] showed an efficient and simple mindset; framing the Doctor for murder to send the police after him, arresting Martha's family for insurance, and luring [[Torchwood Three]] away to the [[Himalayas]] to prevent Jack from recruiting their aide. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He was likewise straight to the point when explaining how the time differentials were affecting the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Colony ship]] to [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

The "Saxon" Master was also a decent fighter, having brawled with his other incarnations on equal footing, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') struck the Tenth Doctor down with a single [[punch]] to the face, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') knocked down a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|partially-converted Cybermen]] with a blow to the back of their head, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and overpowered the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in unarmed combat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

== Appearance and clothing ==

In his eighteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master was young, with light brown hair, and dark brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he had a "round face". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') As "Harold Saxon", the Master would wear a black suit with a white shirt and black tie. While meeting [[President]] [[Arthur Coleman Winters]], he wore a black coat with a crimson lined interior. On his left ring finger, he wore [[The Master's ring|a ring]] bearing the [[Lazarus Laboratories]] logo completed with [[circular Gallifreyan]] inside the disks on a green jewel background, while also wearing one on his left ring finger that was a simple gold band. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')

After his botched resurrection, the Master's hair was bleached light blond, and he gained some stubble. To remain inconspicuous, he wore a black hooded sweatshirt over a red T-shirt with dark combat trousers and black boots. Due to the corruption of his [[life force]], the Master's outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body, exposing his skeleton and internal organs, with each fluctuation making an unsettling primal roar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') After being "fixed" by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Master no longer distorted into the translucent blue energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')

By the time he found the [[Twelfth Doctor]] aboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], the Master had aged somewhat, now having grey hair and a beard. He also discarded his previous clothes for a black coat with a large red lined collar on the left-hand side, a green button up shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') dark trousers, and black zip-up boots. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

When the [[Third Doctor]] saw the "Saxon" Master in [[Sild]] captivity, he described him as "a young man in a business suit, beardless, with a mop of boyish hair," and that his face "seemed friendly and plausible", overall thinking him "the kind of man people would find easy to trust." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') [[Tala (The Night Harvest )|Tala]] noticed how his eyes "burned like fire". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Night Harvest (short story)|The Night Harvest]]'')

* The 2010 edition of ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the "Saxon" Master was the seventeenth incarnation, though this source is considered [[T:VS|invalid]] by this wiki. The 2018 short story ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'' would later claim that the "Saxon" Master was the eighteenth incarnation.

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