"Child" Master

Eighteenth Master
Main aliases:	see list
Species:	Time Lord
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
First appearance:	The Then and the Now
Appearances:	see list

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In the body of a child, the Master worked with the War Doctor and the Squire during the Last Great Time War, until an attempt to flee the conflict resulted in him erasing himself in a paradox, forcfing him into a retro-regeneration back into his previous incarnation.

Biography

At some point, the Master regenerated into his eighteenth incarnation. (PROSE: Girl Power!) Now in the body of a small child, (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) the Master, as he always did after a regeneration, visited the Scoundrels Club. (PROSE: Dismemberment)

Alliance with the Doctor

The Master and the Doctor during the Time War. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder)

The Master made a deal with the War Doctor to end their old ways of fighting and to become allies. (COMIC: Kill God) He teamed up with the Doctor and his companion, the Squire, for a time, during the period of the War in which the Cyclors allied themselves with the Daleks. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) The Doctor and the Master travelled to Veestrax, where they saw a broken wall with "Exterminhate" written on it. The Master told the Doctor that he hadn't written it. The Doctor then asked for the Master's help with destroying the planet. (COMIC: Outrun)

The Master admires the Cyclors. (COMIC: Kill God)

He arrived on Golgauth with the Doctor, asking what he intended to do, to which the Doctor said "what [he] [had] to". (COMIC: The Then and the Now, The Organ Grinder) The duo soon encountered the Volatix Cabal, together killing one of its members. They then encountered Alice Obiefune, who had travelled in the Master's TARDIS from after the War had ended. The Master set about tethering his future TARDIS to the Doctor's while the Squire set about saving Alice from the Volatix Tendrils.

With both TARDISes in tow, they travelled beneath the surface of Golgauth, where an Overcaste rebel base was located. The Master and the Doctor revealed a Volatix spy in the group and neutralised him. The spy revealed that he had called for help and moments later a Cyclor tore off the roof of the base. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) The Master used a device to summon a squadron of Gallifreyan ships to attack the Cyclors. He used this distraction to flee, sneaking into his TARDIS that Alice had brought from the future. He inadvertently created a paradox when attempting to fly the machine, realising too late that he was erasing a timeline that brought his future TARDIS into being. (COMIC: Kill God)

You did this, Doctor! You and your blasted companion! I curse you all!The "Child" Master's last words

The Master retro-regenerates into his old body. (COMIC: Fast Asleep)

The resulting paradox shattered reality in "a cascade of temporal possibility." Subsequently, the chronal tumour began to react to the Psilent songbox, which had been activated by Alice. Realising that it would result in a temporal bomb, the Master deactivated it. The Master was too late, however, and the resulting temporal bomb left his TARDIS spiraling out of control. With his timeline collapsing as a result of the paradox, and Alice's intervention in the War, the life he now never led was erased, leaving the Master reverting to his previous incarnation. (COMIC: Fast Asleep)

Other realities

Aborted timelines

In a future that never existed, (COMIC: Fast Asleep) the Master became intent on manipulating events to remove many of his actions from the Last Great Time War, even as it was timelocked. (COMIC: The Judas Goatee) The Master operated on the brain of his TARDIS during the Last Great Time War, which resulted in a chronal tumour protruding from one side of the console, (COMIC: The One) though he never activated the tumour. (COMIC: Running to Stay Still) The Master's plan would be a success, as his TARDIS would be taken into the Time War by Alice Obiefune, (COMIC: Running to Stay Still) where it was stolen by the Master's younger self. This created a massive paradox, spiralling the time-ship out of control. (COMIC: Kill God)

Psychological profile

The Master during the Time War. (COMIC: Kill God)

While fighting in the Last Great Time War, the Master ceased using his former title, whih the War Doctor stated was the nature of war. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) However, others, such as Alice Obiefune and the Squire, still referred to him by his title. (COMIC: Gently Pulls the Strings)

The Child Master delighted in the prospect of committing genocide, and more specifically the War Doctor's loosening morality. He saw people as resources, and that teaming up with the Doctor was a worthwhile option during wartime. He also had a fondness for paradoxes.(COMIC: The Organ Grinder) The Master wanted to put up a fight for good, but, seeing the hopelessness of his efforts with the Doctor, he fled from their fight with the Cyclors. He concluded that he enjoyed death and chaos only when it was fun for him. (COMIC: Kill God)

The Master's fright at his regeneration. (COMIC: Fast Asleep)

At the moment of his retro-regeneration, the Master held contempt for the Doctor and Alice Obiefune, declaring that he would have his revenge on them. (COMIC: Fast Asleep)

Appearance and clothing

The Master's white shirt and black coat. (COMIC: Outrun)

In his eighteenth incarnation, (PROSE: Girl Power!) the Child Master was a young lad with black hair and blue eyes. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) On Veestrax, he had short hair, and wore a white shirt with a black jacket. (COMIC: Outrun) By the time he and the Doctor had arrived on Golgauth, the boy's hair was longer, and he sported a scarlet shirt under his jacket. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder)