User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1451563-20180913002703/@comment-5918438-20181004034025

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1451563-20180913002703/@comment-5918438-20181004034025 I suppose if the thread is re-opened, though, we'll see what Titan does next.

So far, on television, the convention has been to retain current perspective. Like I said above, from Missy's perspective, it's her past lives, and for the Saxon Master, she is his future self.

When the General regenerates back into a woman, everyone instantly switches pronouns, but as an encyclopedia, we cannot change perspective to always reflect the current incarnation of a Time Lord. Our in-universe perspective considers events as if recounted at the end of the universe, by a neutral omniscient third party.

So if we're talking about the Doctor or the Master, we really want the overview perspective. There is no "current" incarnation, as far as our writing goes, male or female. Stories will have the luxury of a fixed perspective. We do not.

For instance, the Titan blurb needed to pick pronouns for the Doctor, considered from a neutral POV. The same Titan story had no problem sticking to fixed perspectives. The point in the Doctor's timeline on display, at each point in the comic, determines the perspective they use. At no point in that story do they need to employ the "overview perspective", to comment more generally on the character. When they do have to, in the summary, they take the same approach we do here.

Most "new evidence" we'll get to look at will likely use a fixed perspective, relevant to that story. The Thirteenth Doctor will recall when she was an older man.

In World Enough and Time, Twelve talks about his time with the Master, in each of their first incarnations, and still uses she/her pronouns, because right then in the timeline, the Master is a woman. This does not mean we should retroactively call kid Master "she". The story uses a fixed perspective for pronouns, so she/her for all versions of the Master, but we have more to consider, to remain truly neutral in our perspective.