quixotic chaotic

wish fulfillment au where boromir lives through amon hen and since the ring has moved on his thoughts are clear and he’s just aragorn’s devoted right hand 

and he and gimli bitch endlessly about the run across rohan because “i had THIS MANY ARROWS in my chest i want our hobbits back but CAN WE SLEEP” and he’s 5000% shitty to rohirrim who don’t respect aragorn and he and eowyn become rampaging bffs and he gets in on the body counting at helm’s deep (“ARAGORN I’M BEHIND I’M GOING TO THE DOOR” “YOU ARE NOT GET BACK HERE”) and he and treebeard become instant kin because mi hobbit es su hobbit and he goes through the dimholt pass with aragorn and hates every single second of it but is unfailingly by his side through all of it

and then gets to minas tirith and reunites with faramir and finds out pippin is a guard of the citadel and has to go lock himself in a room and laugh for hours

Thing about Missy that makes her different from some, if not all of the other versions of the Master we’ve seen: she doesn’t pretend to not be doing what she’s doing for the Doctor.

She doesn’t claim to have been forced by the Time Lords to help him. She doesn’t pretend that what happens to him is of no real consequence to her. She doesn’t even barely conceal her infatuation with him.

She doesn’t try to detach herself from the Doctor like Delgado’s Master did. She doesn’t try to hate and abuse him like Simm’s.

From what I know, all of the Master’s previous plans and end games were meant to harm the Doctor in someway. He’d try to kill the Doctor, or destroy what he thinks the Doctor holds dear. He even forced the Doctor into regeneration one, ergo killed him.

Yes, they were all ultimately just ‘look at me’ party tricks just so he could get the Doctor’s attention, but they all aimed to bring harm to a lot of people physically and mentally, especially the Doctor.

But this go round, she doesn’t even try to hurt him. Sure, there’s the usual taunting and she did certainly cause him a lot of distress. And she let him fall from an airplane she had blown up. But she clearly expects him to survive, as he needs to for her end game.

Because what she does is give him an army. Because that’s what she thinks he needs. That’s what she thinks it would take to get him back.

That’s a long way from, “Killing you once was never enough for me, Doctor,” from the Five Doctors special. And in truth, it’s a long way from his, "I don’t need him. Any second now, I’ll have Time Lords to spare," from the very last time we see him.