Hello everybody.
I'll keep this simple as born of addressing the Timeless Child mess created by Chris Chibnall and other things Steven Moffat did which is equally damaging.
While I could get into certain issues, I have regarding Russell T Davis but frankly, this story is long enough.
First off using Moffat and the others who use this claim Doctor Who never has had a canon or expecting one in a time travel show is ridiculous. No sounds like just laziness.
Because you need something of a canon otherwise your show is just a massive mess making it impossible to care about. Doctor Who never had an iron canon set in rigid stone on minor details but there are building blocks set up regardless.
One being is The Doctor left his home planet wanting to explore the universe and ends up helping by choice.
Instead, the Timeless Child putting aside all other issues including continuity/agenda pushing, at its core rewrites The Doctor's backstory to be this little girl who is tortured and killed repeatedly for experiments.
Now making The Doctor not running out from his choice but rather a need to stay alive as a victim of abuse is well very insulting, lazy, among whatever else you want to call removing something that's been there for fifty years, and I don't see the point in why it needed changing.
I'll address the other stuff later as let's just get on with the story.
Oh, thank you to my friend Aragorn II Elessar who helped me with this.
A room on Gallifrey
Standing inside the Matrix in its present form of a gray, black void The Doctor and The Master stare each other down as one Time Lord waits to hear her enemy's answer.
"Oh, Doctor, really? Haven't you worked this out yet? The child is you" The Master replies angrily "You are the timeless child."
The Doctor steps back in wordless shock for beginning to process this information involving the Timeless Child and in recent years life weirder events. Like as if the laws of the universe quit making sense and started reverting to magic used in Dark Times. Until the pieces start fitting together causing The Doctor to chuckle quite loudly.
"What's so funny?" The Master snaps.
"Did you think this was going to break me?" The Doctor asks in amusement.
"Your entire past is not what you thought it was, so yes" The Master snarls.
"Not this Timeless Child rubbish like something out of Dalek sewers but everything you've been doing? Making me think I've lived billions of lifetimes, rewriting my past and putting me in increasingly preposterous situations. None of this real and hasn't been for a long time" The Doctor replies.
"What do you mean?" The Master asks.
"How about the obvious issues? I come from the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey, and Borusa taught me in the Prydonian Academy. My original face is an old white-haired man with a love of Victorian clothes. For any possible previous life is an ancestor that people like Lady Peinforte or Control confused me for when I was the regeneration enjoying a question mark umbrella, so I just played along" The Doctor explains.
"A convenient lie to hide the truth including even yourself perhaps, and how to explain Morbius's mind battle? Or Fenric claims?" The Master inquires.
Scoffing "Morbius hardly learned anything about those machines given he had a greater interest in tyranny. I just used my usual lying method, so all those faces were his as Morbius overloaded the machine. And Fenric's claims were sort of blown out of proportion. Really no different than what The Master, or one of his aliases from Koschei to others, has been known to do" The Doctor says.
"I am The Master" the man replies.
"No, you're not but I'll humor you for now," The Doctor says, "And I'm tired of looking like this so returning to the last body that existed before your games."
The Master or at least who is using his identity watches as the Time Lord steps back while stretching out their arms as they are consumed in dark orange flame. The flames end leaving a young man with floppy chocolate hair in a tweed sports jacket, red bowtie, and trousers alongside his boots both dark in color.
"How did you do that?" The Master inquiries.
"Did you think you're the only one able to manipulate this realm? I might not be in overall control, but reality is getting weaker as I lose belief. One of your pathetic attempts is Clara jumping all around my time stream, especially telling me to steal the TARDIS. If anybody told me sexy did by leaving her doors unlocked" The Doctor replies.
Rolling his eyes "You done with this pathetic attempt of denial?" The Master asks.
"Oh no, I'm just getting started. One major clue was my first face being a sexist is so wrong" The Doctor says.
"You're always denied what you really are," The Master says.
"My next biggest alarm is my actions for rewriting or supposed true events all for not using The Moment" The Doctor replies.
"Well, those were your actions," The Master says.
"Regardless of the original fighting between Daleks and Gallifrey, it grew uncontrollable. Especially when the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, The Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres, or Great Vampires released from the Dark Times, among countless other problems from a universe never-ending war. I burned everything in the war and locked those events forever since there is no other choice" The Doctor says full of self-loathing but resolved.
"But you didn't, you did your usual third way out with saving your home," The Master says.
"No, I don't have a usual magic way out. I used the Hand of Omega to destroy Skaro, of course, I relocated the Thals. I made a similar call destroying Pompeii to save earth or helping ensure Mondas's destruction. Even compared to those calls I had no choice" The Doctor explains grimly then in quiet anger "You know what one of the bigger indicators was on not being real?"
"Don't care" The Master replies.
"Gallifrey is always a place I ran from and when I was restructuring my body again after the events on Metebelis III the old girl brought me home to earth," The Doctor says "Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction for destroying the entire universe is an evolution of Gallifrey corruption. Everything from facing Goth who aligned himself with Koschei, or Borusa. However, what truly sealed that belief was getting put on trial a second time with fake claims to prevent me from finding out they nearly committed genocide towards humans on earth when turning it into Ravolox."
"Of course, you used the Time War events altering the fabric of the universe for repairing that damage due to your sickening love of apes. It does make me wonder if your claims for being half-human during your eighth life is not regeneration sickness. You are natural born like me after all regardless of how erratic that is on Gallifrey when most Time Tots are woven by looms using their parents DNA" The Master explains.
"I'm a Time Lord" The Doctor replies simply.
"River Song has been called one despite never being an academy graduate" The Master answers.
"It's a catchy name and helps simplify things which is why it's stuck since the Dark Times when Time Lords had an expanding empire" The Doctor replies.
"Care to explain your TARDIS seeing you as half-human?" The Master inquires.
"It humored me. Besides those events were possibly altered during the Time War" The Doctor replies shrugging "I'd rather be half-human than whatever your Timeless Child mess is."
"Returning to you preventing Gallifrey from being destroyed as it was nothing more than a fight between our people and the Daleks. Just because you can't carry the burden" The Master says.
"The war was bleeding into nearly all realities including ones where we are fiction, rewriting timelines so everything from entire galaxies to a single person living or dying, every choice they ever made or never will, occurred. Sometimes all at once. Imagine the horror of getting your past or future rewritten in a million different ways yet never knowing it happened. It bleeds into recollections you never lived or stuck in a time loop forever" The Doctor snaps "Don't dare claim I would risk all of creation for my guilt or I couldn't make that call. It was war!"
"Are you really telling me there is not the tiniest part of you who wouldn't figure out some way of saving Gallifrey?" The Master replies.
"Just further evidence your a tool since the real Master was beyond happy, I destroyed Gallifrey. Other events for the Ponds disappearance including the Statue of Liberty being an angel despite being made from copper or all the very weird stuff involving why I couldn't have gotten them out. Even if all I had to do was send a message for them to leave New York escaping the paradox zone. Your creator became so ego obsessed incidents quit making sense" The Doctor says.
"I don't have any creator" The Master exclaims.
"Forcefully shoving Rose Tyler as Bad Wolf for who The Moment used is wrong. Susan is who I had to view instead" The Doctor replies harshly upon briefly remembering the interface using his granddaughter's form.
"But Rose Tyler who absorbed the Time Vortex is important to you" The Master refutes.
"She's not that important," The Doctor says.
"Perhaps," The Master says.
"Your creator has other mistakes. Like making Rory and Amy think they didn't have a child already during the whole Dalek Asylum mess, or with the Angels in New York you had River slap me for healing her wrist using my regeneration energy. River is a lot of things but not abusive. Neither is whatever River was in your Hydroflax disaster as River knew I returned her love, even in this face. She wouldn't waste time involving me if she wasn't sure. Or River causally attempting to murder a bad guy for a diamond is wrong. My wife is not a psychopath" The Doctor snarls, "You want to ruin one of the few greatest things that ever happened to me."
"Don't I always?" The Master asks smiling.
"Good point. Why don't you show yourself, come on out Fenric. The Doctor will see you now" the Time Lord says.
The Master goes to protest only to vanish as a mini storm swirls around until leaving a man looking more like a decaying corpse wearing a green jacket, and pants with bare feet.
"So, you figured it out then Time Lord? Still ruining my plans" Fenric says.
"Put everything together? Figuring out if I believed your Timeless Child mess you would win as I'd be forever lost inside your world? Maybe borrowing power from The Toymaker or Black Guardian? Yes, I did" The Doctor replies coldly.
"Who's to say it's not reality? You never know if I just use events yet or already happening. Egotistical of you Lords of Time thinking who stole your power from us Eternals and use cheap parlor tricks from our time vortexes. You know nothing" Fenric growls.
"Neither do you. You Eternals always underestimate us lesser species. I'm just some mad man with a box who wanted to see the universe. A reject from my people and not a god creating them" The Doctor replies.
"Yes, an idiot who will never get out of here," Fenric says.
"This reality is fully built on believing it and since I no longer do, you'll get sent to a realm outside of most known universes. Back among your kind busier with their agendas" The Doctor says "You wanted my life Fenric? Take it all."
Fenric starts looking around in mild panic as walls with everything else begin crumbling leaving darkness while voices are heard throughout the room. Voices from one man in particular.
"It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure," The First Doctor says.
"Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing! There's nobody in the universe can do what we're doing" The Second Doctor says.
"No, stop," Fenric says fearfully.
As various voices of the first and second Doctors keep going more voices come into being all around the two men.
"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway" The Third Doctor says.
"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species," The Fourth Doctor says.
"I'm not going to let you stop me now!" The Fifth Doctor yells.
Fenric clutches his head in agony while the voices, and memories keep building.
"I would suggest, Peri, that you wait a little before criticizing my new persona. You may well find it isn't quite as disagreeable as you think" The Sixth Doctor says.
"No, not this one of you" Fenric yells.
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do" the Seventh Doctor says.
"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there" The Eighth Doctor says.
"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive" The Ninth Doctor says.
"Trouble's just the bits in between! It's all waiting out there, Jackie. And it's brand new to me, all those planets and creatures and horizons! I haven't seen them yet, not with these eyes. And it is gonna be... fantastic" The Tenth Doctor says.
"Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before" Eleventh Doctor says.
"Please stop this" Fenric begs.
"Stop after everything you did to me? Let you win and put everything I love including a bright, shining universe at risk? No" The Doctor replies icily.
Fenric looks around in terror while the room breaks apart at a much faster rate.
"Everything is all over" Fenric yells.
"No, it's far from being all over," The Doctor says.
Fenric screams while the room is entirely devoured, including even The Doctor with three voices are heard. A conversation from so long ago, where everything began. A history that will never be forgotten, and a hero, perhaps not in the classical sense but one nonetheless who is just taking his very first steps.
"You're not as doubtful as your friend, I hope?" the First Doctor says.
"No" Barbara replies.
"Barbara, you can't," Ian says desperately.
"I can't help it. I just believe them, that's all" Barbara replies.
"If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?" the First Doctor inquires.
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On with the next chapter since this is not over yet.