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Something I loved about the treatment of the Mistress in Doctor Who
Never once is the Master changing gender by regenerating treated as something weird or unnatural or creepy
It’s not portrayed as something that’s been done BECAUSE she’s evil it’s just treated as something Time Lords do sometimes and the characters all react to it in a very matter of fact way. The Doctor is surprised at first but only because he thought the Master was dead with no way of returning
Once the Mistress has revealed who she is the Doctor just treats her the same way he’d treat the Master in his previous forms and when Osgood works out that Missy is the Master she’s just ‘She’s the Master and this time she’s regenerated into a female body’ and doesn’t find it any more odd than any other Time Lord regeneration
This is very important to me
That the genderfluid nature of Time Lord’s is treated as totally normal
And when Clara finds out about it all she does is note that the Doctor could be a ‘Queen’ if he wanted as well as a king, she totally accepts the idea that the Doctor can be a woman as well and doesn’t find it the least bit odd and the Doctor likewise is all ‘That’s not a bad idea’ :D
This is something which makes me happy <3
This is the best filming pic yet. x
AU in which Missy, Kate, and Osgood all hit it off, and MIssy voluntarily calls off the Cybermen in favor of a big “let’s talk about embarrassing things the Doctor did” session with her new gal pals.
When Lucy Saxon died, she was buried in the family plot. Her parents put her maiden name, Wells, on the grave. They didn’t want to know or think about her true association with Harold Saxon: the media had eventually taken to portraying Lucy as a helpless victim of brainwashing, and that was how they wanted it to remain.
But Lucy, though a victim, had not been entirely helpless or entirely brainwashed. That was why she wasn’t surprised, not surprised at all, to find herself still technically alive after death.
“Lucy, darling!” came a voice as sweet as honey. “I took special precautions for you.”
“Hello, Harry,” said Lucy, dully.
“It’s not Harry now, pet,” cooed the Master. “It’s Missy. But – oh, it’s you, you can call me whatever you want.”
First draft of the Missy/Lucy thing. (I might do the Clara one first, though? God, Death In Heaven really opened the fanfic floodgates.
I do have big qualms about the way the new female Master was written, but considering it wasn’t that long ago Russell T Davies was saying there shouldn’t be a female Doctor because “it would simply introduce genitalia into family viewing“…I think ultimately she’s a step in the right direction.