User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200606192351/@comment-6032121-20200710152643

@DiSoRiEnTeD1, this is a very unusual application of it but I'd say that falls under T:NO RW. How dreams work in the DWU — nay, how they work for a nonhuman — doesn't have to match to your personal subjective experience of dreams. After all, you presumably didn't know your old school chums across several different regenerations. In multi-Doctor/multi-Master situation, the Doctor clearly slips into thinking of different incarnations as different people (just look at his treatment of the Simm Master and of Missy in The Doctor Falls).

But again, this is besides the point, because A) "the Deca flashbacks in Divided Loyalties are unreliable due to dream sequences" doesn't convincingly rebuke "Divided Loyalties says the War Chief and the Master are different" because of the epilogue, and B) this doesn't actually matter because accounts are allowed to contradict each other, and this thread is only concerned with whether there are valid sources which say the War Chief is the Master, not whether there are other sources which don't say that.