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In one potential future for '''[[the Master]]''' at some point after {{Roberts|n=his taking over Bruce Gerhardt's body}}, he forged an alliance of sorts with the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]], who gave him a new lease of life in the body of an [[android]] bound to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===The ghost in the machine=== | ===The ghost in the machine=== | ||
The Master, after an attempt to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, fell through the Eye of Harmony and bounced throughout the time vortex. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Having passed through the [[Eye of Harmony]] inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], the Master's essence remained | The Master, after an attempt to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, fell through the Eye of Harmony and bounced throughout the time vortex. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Having passed through the [[Eye of Harmony]] inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], the Master's essence remained, trapped as an echo within. During his imprisonment he could converse with [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]], attempting to tempt the Doctor to take actions that he would not otherwise take. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | ||
Though he had no corporeal form, he manifested himself through screens and mirrors, though the Eighth Doctor was unsure of the identity of 'the ghost in the machine.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | Though he had no corporeal form, he manifested himself through screens and mirrors, though the Eighth Doctor was unsure of the identity of 'the ghost in the machine.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | ||
===Last chance for salvation=== | ===Last chance for salvation=== | ||
According to some accounts, time later, the Master escaped the Doctor's TARDIS. Eventually, the Master and the Doctor crossed paths in the flesh. The Master aided the Doctor in repelling the alien foe responsible for invading [[Gallifrey]] and the death of the Doctor's previous companion. It was during this encounter that the Master was left damaged and without a suitable body. ([[INFO]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'', [[DWM 464]]) However, according to [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|one Time Lord historian]], some historians at least speculated that the Doctor had simply built the android body for the Master as a result of his death falling through the Eye of Harmony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') | |||
At any rate, in return for his aid, the Doctor offered to transfer the Master's mental resources into an [[android]] body, the appearance of which he could personally select. The Master accepted, though he would later remark this was a foolish choice. ([[Webcast|WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') While this body granted him corporeal form, he was limited to the confines of the Doctor's TARDIS as his android body was purposely designed to never be able to leave the ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]'') According to [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|one Time Lord historian]], some historians speculated | |||
In his new home, the Master served as the TARDIS Defence System. ([[Webcast|WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') Now, bound to travel with the Doctor, the pair was sent to work for the Doctor's unseen superiors to solve the dangerous problems that plagued the universe. ([[INFO]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') | In his new home, the Master served as the TARDIS Defence System. ([[Webcast|WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') Now, bound to travel with the Doctor, the pair was sent to work for the Doctor's unseen superiors to solve the dangerous problems that plagued the universe. ([[INFO]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') | ||
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When the TARDIS arrived in a dank cavern, the Master broke the Doctor free of a psionic force that caused him and Alison to experience a bombardment of traumatic and emotional memories. It was eventually discovered that the Master's memories were being fed into Alison's mind so the [[psychic]] [[vampire]] could feast off her emotions. While his body was shut off in an attempt to save Alison, the Master was eventually connected to the TARDIS' telepathic circuits by the Doctor in order to destroy the psychic vampire; the Master's pure evil memories and personality being too much for the creature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]'') | When the TARDIS arrived in a dank cavern, the Master broke the Doctor free of a psionic force that caused him and Alison to experience a bombardment of traumatic and emotional memories. It was eventually discovered that the Master's memories were being fed into Alison's mind so the [[psychic]] [[vampire]] could feast off her emotions. While his body was shut off in an attempt to save Alison, the Master was eventually connected to the TARDIS' telepathic circuits by the Doctor in order to destroy the psychic vampire; the Master's pure evil memories and personality being too much for the creature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]'') | ||
=== Eventual fate === | |||
According to one account, the Master's mind was eventually ripped out of the TARDIS by the [[Time Lord]]s so that they could {{Jacobi|n=resurrect him}}, a process which left the TARDIS console damaged. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') He went on to fight in the [[Last Great Time War]], witnessing the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]]'s takeover of the [[Cruciform]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') in a body somewhat similar to the android's appearance, albeit with fairer hair and a different cut of beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Only the Good (audio anthology)|Only the Good]]'', etc.) | |||
However, according to other accounts, the version of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s future where he became the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|pale-faced gentleman]] was a different future from the one that ultimately led to the [[Ninth Doctor|Northern chap with big ears]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') even if these two [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|Ninth Doctors]] and [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a third one]] were equally real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Accounts dealing with the [[Last Great Time War]] further depicted the Master's resurrection by the Time Lords in starkly different circumstances, with the fair-haired War Master resembling the android not even being the body he was first resurrected in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'') There existed some degree of uncertainty among post-War Time Lord historians as to precisely when in his timeline the Time Lords had resurrected the Master, with some going as far as to suggest that they had simply plucked him from the moment he had fallen into the Eye of Harmony, skipping over any later developments altogether. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') | |||
==Psychological profile== | ==Psychological profile== | ||
