Character Information: Canon Used

All New Who television canon, including the finale of Series 3. Classic Who television canon, in so far as I have watched it (this would be some of both Delgado! and Ainley!Master)—excluding the television movie, which I have watched and died laughing at; I could work it into my character history but have decided against it. Until I acquire the Classic canon exposure, I will either be going to my very good friend Wikipedia if Classic canon I have not yet watched needs to be addressed, or using the memory loss that has accompanied the Master's conversion to human to account for his not remembering the events I have yet to watch. I have no audio, comic, or novel exposure, and so will not be using that canon, except where I am exposed to it later and find reason to incorporate it into the character.

Torchwood canon is also used, but vastly deviant. Suzie was not replaced following the events of 1.1; the team made it through variations of the events in Series 1 and Series 2 as a four-person team: Jack, Tosh, Owen, and Ianto. Owen and Tosh were not killed and continue to serve the team; following his conversion to human, the Master became a prisoner-slash-probationary-member-slash-indentured-servant of the team. About six and a half years into this arrangement, the Rift began to shrink, causing time-space distortions that threatened the entire Earth—and the life of the Master, whom Torchwood had bound to the Rift through symbiotic microorganisms that feed on Rift energy. The Doctor, UNIT, the Master, and Torchwood all worked together to stop the Rift from closing, and, in the wake of this adventure, the Doctor stepped in to take over Torchwood. With the Doctor's blessing, Jack went back out to travel through time; and now the Doctor and the Master head Torchwood together, with Owen, Ianto, and Tosh. The Master lives in a state of constant parole.

Probably one of the more important points: As regards Time Lord fertility/reproduction, the Master adheres to New canon—meaning he had a childhood, as a child, and parents and family. He wasn't Loomed, nor are Time Lords in his universe infertile. He looked into the Untempered Schism at the age of eight.

Character Information: Skills and Abilities

The Master is a human being who was once an essentially immortal, time-and-space-traveling, superhumanly intelligent alien. Now, however, he has no superhuman or inhuman abilities—he doesn't even have the psychic sensitivity that some humans canonically do in his universe. He's normal. Within that, however, he's a very brilliant sort of normal. In fact, he's a genius! Or certainly on the very upper range of human intelligence. Though his memory has large gaps, he still retains knowledge and experiences far beyond what any single human could have experienced. Though he can no longer perform complicated calculations entirely in his head, or remember the thousands of languages he once knew, or build a teleportation device from a paperclip, some cat hair, and calcite crystals, he remembers being able to do these things. And what's within human capacity to do, he can still accomplish. He's fluent in many modern and ancient languages (though not all—he had no control over which of his memories were lost when he was made human, so some of the knowledge that would have been useful in the 21st century went right out the window) and extremely able in mathematics, physics, and engineering/invention—in any of these fields, he knows quite a bit more than 21st-century science knows, though, again, he'll bump up against unexpected knowledge gaps now and then. He knows his history—and what's to come. He's good with a sword, both fencing and broadsword, and able with concealable personal weapons, poisons, and drugs. He knows human anatomy and the science and mechanics of the human brain and body intimately—this comes from an entire year spent ruling the Earth and torturing human beings. He's a gifted manipulator, and familiar with the British political system. He's also "up" on turn-of-the-20th-to-21st-century pop culture, particularly music and children's television. He knows a bit about human occult and religious beliefs—because those are such easy fields to twist to one's advantage, if one has the mind to influence the credulous and superstitious. In fact, he knows a little, at least, about just about everything.

Character Information: Weaknesses

He's human. He has no psychic abilities or defenses, no special powers. If you prick him, he bleeds; if you tickle him, he laughs. He's prone to catching diseases, if they're going around—as an alien-turned-human, his immune system didn't get the full run through childhood illnesses most humans' get, and he's still busy catching them all. He's a lightweight, and could get taken down in a fight fairly easily.

Character Information: Psychology

The Master believes himself entitled and unique, inherently superior to all other life by virtue of his vision and his abilities. For him, life is about control. Everything and everyone in the universe is an opportunity for him to extend his control, to impose his will on matter and minds beyond his own. When something or someone reacts in ways he cannot take advantage of or has not provoked, they defy his control—and by doing so, they threaten his sense of identity. In his mind, he is the only real being in the entire universe; anyone who resists him aspires to individuality, threatening to steal a part of himself from him, and he cannot accept that. He will go to any lengths to grind others down into predictability and to make them extensions of himself, tools for his use.

He is both passionate and calculating, impulsive and capable of long-term planning. Often, his impulsiveness will undermine his carefully-laid plans, as will his arrogance and his underestimation of all others, but equally often, it serves as a show to make him appear less of a threat than he really is.

A hedonist and a sensualist, he enjoys the finer things in life and believes he deserves them. He plays roles and conforms to or defies expectations with ease and glee, always aware of the rules he's playing by and always willing to break them if it suits him. In effect, he uses others' own rules, social expectations, taboos, and sacred beliefs against them and for himself.

Trust is a weakness, and he trusts no one; on the other hand, betrayal against him is unforgivable. He will punish betrayal, and hold an unrelenting grudge against the betrayer.

He has an obsessive personality, and he rarely gives up. If someone succeeds in breaking his rule of individuality, if he or she proves him or herself his equal, he will go to any lengths to bring them around to his way of thinking. He has no equals, and any exception to that rule becomes the second-most important thing in his universe, right behind himself. They must work with him. They must become him. He will love and hate them as he loves and hates no one else. In canon, he grants this obsession only to the Doctor, a peer and fellow (ex-)Time Lord.

He's terrified of death, though he's died many times before. In all of his previous deaths, he retained the possibility of eventual resurrection—a possibility that has always been realized. As a human, his death will be final. He fears nonexistence above all else. He is incapable of imagining it.

Character Information: History

( 1500 years of history—are you ready for this? )