User:BananaClownMan/Sandbox/The Master (War)

Given a new lease of life by the Time Lords with the intention of having him fight in the Last Great Time War, the Master initially tried to manipulate the conflict to suit his own goals.

However, after his failure to properly use the Heavenly Paradigm, the Master was driven to such a sate of terror that he fled to the end of the universe and turned himself into a human baby with a chameleon arch to escape the Time Lords and wait out the conflict.

After spending many years living as a humble human scientist on Malcassairo, the Master's personality was reawakened by Martha Jones, and he made to steal the Doctor's TARDIS from the Tenth Doctor, but was fatally shot by Chantho, the Malmooth assistant to his human persona, and forced to regenerate into.

Post-regeneration
After having his TARDIS brought into the Time War from the future by Alice Obiefune, (COMIC: The Organ Grinder) tried to escape from the Cyclors with it, unintentionally causing a paradox by using a TARDIS from an aborted timeline. When mixture with the Psilent songbox worsened the paradox, the Master was forced to regenerate (COMIC: Fast Asleep) into his seventeenth incarnation. (PROSE: Girl Power!)

Horrified by this, he swore revenge on the Doctor and his companions, but ultimately his memory of Alice's intervention in the War was erased. (COMIC: Fast Asleep) The Master's TARDIS recorded that the Master fled the event horizon in his TARDIS before the Doctor's plans were carried out, deeming them too insane even for him. (COMIC: The One) The Master then went to the Scoundrels Club to better recover from the regeneration process. (PROSE: Dismemberment)

Early escapades
At some point, the Master designed a laser screwdriver for his own personal use. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm)

Scheming on Callous
The Master was employed by Narvin to go to the planet Callous to find the rare metal Swenyo. The Master went to Callous and began manipulating Elliot King, and eventually his daughter Cassandra, to mine the Swenyo. Eventually, due to his extreme guilt and the effects of the Swenyo, Elliot committed suicide. (AUDIO: Call for the Dead) Cassandra King and her wife, Martine King, went to Callous to rebirth the mining process, with aid from Ood miners and the Master in disguise. Due to the Master's aid, the mining process was a success, and Cassandra found an extremely concentrated amount of Swenyo, which the Master managed to aquire for himself by contacting the Teremon, the people that the King family worked for. (AUDIO: The Glittering Prize)

With Martine, the Master took the Swenyo to an asteroid, but Martine was driven mad by the physic properties of the Swenyo, and jumped off the asteroid to her death. (AUDIO: The Persistence of Dreams) After being captured by the Teremon, the Master escaped and weaponized the Ood to prevent the further mining of Swenyo. The Master then collected his Swenyo and gave it to Narvin, who gave the Master a Chameleon Arch in exchange. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father)

Avoiding the Time War
While "exploring possibilities", the Master became stranded in a parallel dimension. When this dimension was invaded by Cybermen seeking to conquer the multiverse, the Master used the opportunity to obtain technology to repair his TARDIS and followed the Cybermen back to his home universe. The Master landed his TARDIS, urgently in need of repairs, on Earth during the 2010s and saw the Cybermen proceed to invade the universe of the Time War via virtual reality technology spread by the Auctioneers. The Cybermen, under the influence of Petronella Osgood, took his TARDIS and attempted to cyber-convert him. The Master collaborated with Kate Stewart and Sam Bishop to destroy the Cybermen by overloading them with power from infinite dimensions, syphoning some of it off to give his TARDIS enough energy to return to "the fray" of the war, (AUDIO: Master of Worlds) leaving behind a Wirrn egg as a parting gift to UNIT. (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn)

Escapades in the Time War
During the Time War, the Master fought the Supreme Dalek on the slopes of the Never Vault, (TV: The Witch's Familiar) and considered it a worthy opponent, even showing disappointment when the Dalek Emperor didn't send it to locate him on Arcking. (AUDIO: The Good Master)

Working for the CIA
Responding to a distress call from his secret base, the Master encountered Liv Chenka, posing as a Time Lord agent while she told him about the alliance between the Eleven and the Ravenous. Investigating events at the Crucible of Souls, the Master realised that the Eleven had used the Crucible and the Matrix print of the Gallifreyan scientist Artron to give the entire universe the ability to regenerate, making them all potential food for the Ravenous. Working with and their, the "War" Master was able to give the Eighth Doctor the opportunity to "heal" the Ravenous while the Masters used the Crucible to restore the rest of the universe to mortality. Although the Time Lords requested Artron's Matrix print to give them the ability to grant new regeneration cycles to Time Lords, the Masters first used this to restore a past version of themselves to life with a new regeneration cycle. (AUDIO: Day of the Master)

A plot to change history
On the planet Mussafa, the Master pretended to help resolve an energy crisis, with the help of another Time Lord named Crazlus. The Master built a device designed by Crazlus that was capable of harnessing the energy of Mussafa's sun, and used it to power his TARDIS, allowing him and Crazlus to leave while all life on the planet was destroyed. The Master praised Crazlus, and decided to bring him back to Gallifrey to infiltrate the CIA, (AUDIO: He Who Wins) intending to use him to break into the Matrix and steal the Anti-Genesis code, which would allow the Master to change history and become the creator of the Daleks instead of Davros. (AUDIO: From the Flames)

Before he could enact this plan, he was however contacted by a future version of himself. The future Master warned the present against putting the plan into motion, and managed to trick him into reaching him aboard the Dalek time ship he was on, together with the Dalek Time Strategist (the only Dalek left from the original timeline) and. When the Master and Crazlus arrived, the future Master infiltrated the telepathic link between Crazlus and the TARDIS, ordering Crazlus to come out so that the Dalek Time Strategist could kill him. With his death, the present Master's plan was made impossible, and the timeline resulting from his success deleted: the present Master dissolved, the Daleks from the original timeline went back into existence, and the connection between the alternate Master and this universe became tenuous.

The Daleks tried to capture the two Masters, but they escaped into the "original" Master's TARDIS. The Daleks went into pursuit and hit the TARDIS twice: while the first blow caused the alternate Master to fall into a wormhole in the fabric of reality, allowing him to escape capture, the second heavily damaged the TARDIS, sending it out to crash. The Master was retrieved by the Daleks, who blackmailed him into serving them in exchange for the location of his lost TARDIS. (AUDIO: He Who Wins)

Forging alliances
The Daleks sent the Master to Gardezza, where he posed as the Doctor, using his reputation to gain the trust of the Gardezzans. The Master located his TARDIS on the planet and betrayed both the Daleks and the Gardezzans to retrieve it. Inside, he received a call to return to Gallifrey and left to answer it. (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid)

Arriving on Gallifrey, Romana II and Narvin sent the Master alongside Leela to interrogate Finnian Valentine, and said that they would pardon him for his crimes. On the planet, he used his laser screwdriver to stun both of the Finnians to get them back to Gallifrey. He hypnotised and killed the various Finnians until he learnt that Arcking had a power source that could fuel the Time Lords energy banks. On the way back to Gallifrey, the Master expelled Leela into the time vortex and headed to Arcking after he received a signal that originated from there. (AUDIO: The Devil You Know)

Manipulations on Arcking
Travelling to hospital planet Arcking multiple times, the Master, under the alias "Dr. Keller", attempted to possess an ancient power, known as the Heart, that had resisted the ravages of the Time War, and even prevented unnatural death. On Arcking, the Master met Cole Jarnish, a pilot who suffered from survivor's guilt as he was the sole survivor of an incident that had killed the rest of his crew. Intrigued by his desire to help the innocent people affected by the Time War, the Master hinted to Cole that he would be able to help him realise this idea. When Arcking was eventually overrun by a Dalek invasion force, the Master saved Cole's life by bringing him along in his TARDIS as he made his escape. (AUDIO: The Good Master)

Exploits with Cole Jarnish
After travelling with him for a while, the Master was accused of being inactive to the the Time War by Cole, and was challenged to play a more active role in assisting the people suffering under the destructive effects of the Time War. While he deflected that he was forbidden to interfere due to being a Time Lord, the Master told Cole that he would allow him a chance to save a world of his choice from destruction. Cole's choice fell on a primitive farming planet. Upon landing on the planet, the Master reminded Cole that he was not allowed to meddle directly, and so decided to take some time off to build his own vineyard and try his hand at cultivating grapes while he left Cole to his own devices.

As several months passed, the Master met with Cole to hear about his progress on several occasions, and, though he mostly kept to himself inside his vineyard, he would "accidentally" leave various supplies and tools to covertly help Cole in his endeavours. However, Cole's attempt to save the peaceful population of the planet backfired when he inadvertently turned them into a race of warlike semi-robotic creatures. The Master and Cole escaped the planet, with the Master assuring Cole that he would help him to undo his mistake. (AUDIO: The Sky Man)

The Master and Cole travelled to Stamford Bridge in the 1970s, where they located a Time Lord repository, and the Master revealed the reason he saved Cole's life and supported his attempt to save the people of the farming planet was to turn him into a paradox powering a paradox, with the resulting temporal energy collected in Cole to be used to power the Heavenly Paradigm. Despite Cole's pleas, the Master sacrificed him to the machine, wanting to use it to create a new timeline in the universe, and thus end the War. The plan backfired, however, and the Master unintentionally caused both the Time Lords and Daleks to win several battles they had once lost. Because of this, he then saw the Dalek Emperor take control of the Time Lords' Cruciform, which frightened him into fleeing from the Time War, which he now considered "lost".

For a time, the Master corrected and observed changes made to the Time War by the Paradigm. But, still scared and tired of the fighting, he fled to the far end of time and sent his TARDIS away to Gallifrey without him and used a Chameleon Arch to turn himself into a human baby, intending to eventually resume control of his body once the Time War had ended. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm)

Under the chameleon arch
Physically human, the Master was found as a naked child on the coast of the Silver Devastation with only an "heirloom" fob watch, which could never keep time and resulted in the Master always being late for things as he grew up under the name "Yana". Yana spent most his life moving from one refugee ship to another. Yana, having retained the Master's intellect, eventually became a professor, and became friends with another scientist, Chantho, who was thought to be the last of the Malmooth race. Together, they worked on the Utopia Project to send the remnants of humanity on Malcassairo.

Yana met the Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness and Martha Jones when they were rescued from the Futurekind. Overhearing conversation between the Doctor and Jack about things such as time travel, Daleks, and regeneration, Yana became visibly upset. Martha drew Yana's attention to the watch in his possession and, hearing voices that commanded and entreated him, Yana opened the watch and returned to his true identity. (TV: Utopia)

Death
The Master then locked the Doctor out of Yana's lab, and opened the gate keeping the Futurekind at bay to keep the Doctor occupied as he ravaged Yana's lab. After Chantho threatened him with a gun to stop him destroying their work, the Master electrocuted her with a loose set of power cables, angered that she was never curious of the fob watch during their decades of working together, and left her for dead. However, Chantho used the last of her strength to pull a laser gun on the Master while his back was turned, and shot him in the chest before she died.

Fatally wounded, the Master slithered into the Doctor's TARDIS while the Doctor watched on and deadlock sealed the door shut to keep the Doctor out. Finding the idea of dying by the hand of "an insect and a girl" undignified, the Master decided to regenerate into a form that was as young and strong as the Doctor was. (TV: Utopia)

Aborted timelines
After he found out that Crazlus was in a position of power in the CIA, the Master construxcted a plan to interfere in the creation of the Daleks with the Anti-Genesis code. After poisoning himself with the blood of a Dolthradian Dragon, the dying Master returned to Gallifrey and requested a Time Lord funeral, though Narvin denied him and ordered Crazlus to have the Master's body burnt with the Infernal Toxicant, but Crazlus instead used instead the Toxicant to cure the Master from the poison. The Master then took control of Crazlus' body and went to Narvin, pretending that "Crazlus" had found the Anti-Genesis code in the Master's TARDIS computer, and tricked Narvin into leading him in to the Matrix to find the real code. Once he was in possession of the code, the Master travelled to Skaro during the Thousand Year War, and arranged for Davros to be killed during the bombardment where he was originally crippled. (AUDIO: From the Flames)

Now infiltrated into the Kaled scientific elite under the name “Sovrad”, and pretending to be Davros’ uncle, the Master had the Kaleds name him as the new head of scientific development. Using a Mark III travel machine (the prototype of a Dalek case), he pretended to have been crippled in the bombardment, and tricked Elrond, Davros’ former assistant, to help him by restoring his eyesight. Elrond gave him the codes for shutting off the Kaled elite bunker, and provided him with the latest discoveries of Davros. Inside his TARDIS (disguised as a laboratory), the Master modified the Mark III travel machine into a proper Dalek case, and armed it with a biogenetic accelerator, which he used on Elrond to speed his biological evolution into a Kaled mutant. He then put the mutant inside the case, creating his first Dalek, and sent it against the rest of the Kaled elite, transforming them all into mutants, while he created other cases in his TARDIS. He also started to experiment on the sick in the infirmary with radiation, to slowly mutate them, thus becoming the new creator and leader of the Daleks.

In the midst of his work, the Master was reached by Lamarius, a Time Lord agent sent by Narvin and President Livia to kill him. The Master managed to capture her and interrogate her; when he knew she was also a renegade, degraded for using a time torpedo to avoid the destruction of a planet where her wife and daughter lived, he tortured her by making her hope he could use the Anti-Genesis code to save them. The Master then sent her back to Gallifrey, and used her communication device to mock Narvin and Livia about her failure. He also revealed that Lamarius touched a jar of liquid in the infirmary, thus becoming infected with the same mutant radiation the Kaleds were affected from, and in front of a shocked Narvin activated her mutation, causing the CIA coordinator to have her shot. (AUDIO: The Master’s Dalek Plan)

After sealing the bunker by blowing up the entrance and nominating the first Dalek he created Dalek Supreme, the Master gave him the order to build five thousands Mark III travel machine as he went to "sleep" for the next twenty years. What he really did was use his TARDIS to move forwards in time to the moment the Time Lords sent the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan to avoid or influence the genesis of the Daleks. The Master set up an ambush for them and had his Daleks kill them all; he ordered them to fire repeatedly half out of cruelty and half to stop the Doctor from regenerating. He then ordered the Daleks to deliver a genetic bomb to the Thals, so that they could use them against the remaining Kaleds and turn them into mutants, to be put inside the newly-built Dalek cases and form an army. (AUDIO: Shockwave)

The Master then led the Daleks into a military campaign which eventuated in his total victory over the universe. However, immediately after this victory, the Master began to have visions of another man warning him against a future treason of his Daleks. The Master dismissed these warnings and instead arranged for a meeting with a delegation of the last survivors of Gallifrey, composed of alternative versions of Livia, Narvin and Crazlus. The meeting was interrupted by the Daleks, who observed everything and noticed how the Master behaved too much like an "inferior" being. The Daleks killed all non-Daleks present, including the Master, whose authority they refused.

This, however, was revealed to be just a vision of a possible future, projected in the mind of the "War" Master by the other man. He revealed himself as the Master from an alternative universe, brought in this reality by the Dalek Time Strategist in an attempt to abort this timeline; he convinced the original Master that total victory was pointless because he left him with no one to conquer and nothing to pursue, and also reminded him that the Daleks would never accept someone not like them as their leader: they would rebel against him as they did with Davros. Convinced, the "War" Master agreed to help the other one and the Dalek Time Strategist to find the right point in time where they could intervene to stop this timeline from happening. He led them to Mussafa, when he originally connected Crazlus to his TARDIS, and contacted his past self to trick him into bringing Crazlus to them so that he could be killed. As a result of Crazlus's death, the timeline was erased, the past Master dissolved and the future one took his place in the original timeline. (AUDIO: He Who Wins)

Personality
While he started his life declaring vengeance, (COMIC: Fast Asleep) the "War" Master would put on a front of being kind and charming, but would drop the façade the instant it was time to act. (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid) When the telepathic entity, the Heart of Arcking, questioned him on whether he was truly as evil as he considered himself after reading his mind, the Master was briefly caught off-guard by the question, and hesitated momentarily in answering before he gathered himself and dismissed the notion, vehemently denying that he had any benevolent sides to his personality. (AUDIO: The Good Master) He wished to save the universe from the Last Great Time War so that he could rule over it afterwards, (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) and "enjoy [his] victory", (AUDIO: The Devil You Know) claiming that the only faction he fought for was his own person. (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid) Though usually calm and affable, the Master took the time to taunt a squad of Daleks when they were unable to harm him. (AUDIO: The Good Master)

While he would openly admit to allowing the destruction of individuals and places he found "dull", the Master was adamant to ensure the things he found "beautiful" would be left unharmed, such as roses. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father)

The "War" Master was a misogynist, considering it an embarrassment to have been killed by a girl, even calling it "inappropriate". (TV: Utopia) Although, he equally held everyone in similar disregard unless it benefited him, even planets, stating he only had allegiance to himself. (AUDIO: The Good Master) He was unable to empathise with others, yawning at a mother's drive to save her race being born from her dead husband and her son. (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid) His disregard for others was so great that he even secretly impregnated several woman with living weapons without a care for the consequences of his actions. (AUDIO: Concealed Weapon)

The "War" Master found enjoyment in the death of others, even killing for his own amusement, believing the most pointless of murders to be the most "fun", (AUDIO: Master of Worlds) and enjoyed tormenting his intended victims before their demise, citing an enjoyment for a "ticking clock". He would even give them a chance at survival for further torment. (AUDIO: Concealed Weapon) He also found amusement in the misery of the Time Lords, particularly when it came to Narvin. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father)

When comparing him to the "decayed" incarnation she was used to, Leela claimed that the "War" Master was "focus[ed]", "making guesses", and "plotting". In comparison to his past self, the Master claimed he was now "civilised, pleasant, [and] reasonable", which was denied by Leela. (AUDIO: The Devil You Know)

After his use of the Heavenly Paradigm caused the Dalek Emperor to take control of the Cruciform, the Master, driven by the fear of his failure, fled the end of the universe and used a Chameleon Arch to turn himself into a human baby to hide from the Time Lords and wait out the war in a safe place. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm)

Under the Chameleon Arch, Professor Yana was a benign old man who had lost faith in the Utopia Project. His spirit was revitalised by the Tenth Doctor, and the two shared a mutual admiration. He was also somewhat scatterbrained and slightly lacking in self-confidence, at one point referring to himself as "a stupid old man." Also, like the Tenth Doctor with Martha Jones, Yana was oblivious to Chantho's feelings for him.

After returning to his true identity, the Master became cold, ruthless, and dignified, but also abusive and condescending, citing that he had the right to attack Chanto when she pointed a gun at him. He was extremely aggressive towards Chantho after regaining his memories, stating that her constant cultural ticks drove him "insane" during their time together. (TV: Utopia)

Though he thought "inappropriate" to have been killed by a female "insect", the Master welcomed his regeneration in a grandiose fashion, declaring that "the Master [was] reborn." (TV: Utopia)

Habits and quirks
When given the chance to rest from the Time War, the Master spent his time cultivating wine. (AUDIO: The Sky Man)

Skills
Enjoying "slow-working plans" that gave him ample opportunity to study the small effects that resulted from his ploys, (AUDIO: The Sky Man) the "War" Master would plan ahead with every scheme, preparing for every eventuality, even his capture. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father) He would also research his targets, and manipulate their history to his benefits. (AUDIO: Concealed Weapon)

He also showed a great capacity for patience in the implementation of his schemes, being willing to wait for prolonged periods of time to find the perfect subject to manipulate, or for the right time to strike. (AUDIO: The Good Master, The Sky Man)

The Master was adept at manipulating individuals quickly in the heat of the moment, (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid) using his choice of words and tone of voice to break down their character with his assessment on their quirks and decisions. (AUDIO: Call for the Dead)

Appearance and clothing
In his seventeenth incarnation, (PROSE: Girl Power!) the Master originally looked like an elderly man with white hair and blue eyes. Though he started his life clean-shaven, (COMIC: Fast Asleep) he eventually grew a scruffy white goatee beard. (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid)

After use of the Chameleon Arch, he regressed into a baby. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) When Professor Yana met the Tenth Doctor, he resembled a slightly younger version of his original self, having aged naturally. (TV: Utopia)

He wore a white stiff-collard shirt, often with sleeves rolled up, (AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid) a crimson waistcoat, a black cravat tie, and black trousers. (TV: Utopia) He once wore a brown tweed jacket over this attire. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) During his encounter with UNIT, he wore a velvet trenchcoat. (AUDIO: Master of Worlds) In his waist coat, he housed a Chameleon Arch biodata module, disguised as an ordinary fob watch. (TV: Utopia)

During his expeditionary walks on Arcking, he wore a Grav-Suit over his clothes. (AUDIO: The Good Master)

In a timeline in which he altered the creation of the Daleks, the Master stole the black uniform of a Kaled Military Elite with embroidered white eye logos on the collars. (AUDIO: From the Flames)