greatestmonster

((Setting here is the Ars Arcanum [arcanum_logs] universe, but not canon to it. This is meant as an open!verse post, in which any character from any 'verse can ping in and it won't count as canon. I may post this to AA later I did post this to AA, as a canon log-opener post, so AA canonmates will want to ping o'er there—but anyone else go right ahead. Big City, at war with itself, Ashlar and other outsiders called in to fight a war in the City, magic against technology. Ashlar's tech-side, and recently got hisself shot in the kneecap by Suzie Costello, fellow tech-sider. He's really good at teamwork, Ashlar.))

Ashlar Doxon (whose face ought to be familiar to anyone who knows the Master—or Sam Tyler or Edward Sexby or . . .) sits at one of the few outdoor tables in a city under siege. The City, as it flatters itself. He knows better—any city is the City to its residents, and he has borrowed memories of enough cities to know this is just another city.

A promising city, nonetheless, with its stuccoed walls and beyond-21st-century-modern plastics and ceramics, its churches straight out of a fantasy Middle Ages, the eclectic mix of a very, very old city, a long-established center for human life and death.

( It's the death that interests him. )

WOO YEAH RP MEME

Ashlar is attending. More of my characters may drop in later.

The human-alien hybrid who goes by the name Ashlar Doxon has a biology and abilities that combine those of both humans and Gallifreyan Time Lords, the humanoid species that forms half of his "parentage." A medical professional examining him would categorize him as human, but with some unusual congenital deformities. His heart is relatively weak, its beat shallow and his blood pressure quite high; in the right side of his chest cavity, a tangle of blood vessels form a rudimentary, unfunctioning pump. His brain structure exhibits some abnormalities, as well, though the examiner would be quick to notice that Ashlar's mental faculties are in no way impaired. In fact, he's in the very upper range of human intelligence, with a remarkable (though not eidetic) memory, an ear for languages (he's fluent in hundreds, both past and present, including many of non-Earth origin), and a genius for mathematics, science, and engineering. He can perform calculations in his head that would be beyond the capacity of even most savants, and code-switch between languages, both written and spoken, mid-sentence without pause. He can, however, forget things and make mistakes in his calculations and language memory—he can never predict these errors, and they frustrate him enormously.

His eyesight and hearing are perfect, and his body is unscarred, except for a smooth white scar at the base of his sternum. Much of the wear and tear that a 39-year-old body should have experienced, his body does not exhibit. He ages, but lightly—he will always look young for his age, and may, if his heart doesn't give out, live to the maximum human lifespan, beyond 100 years. He heals with the quickness of a child, and rebounds quickly, though within human norms, from injury. He has a slightly greater resistance to radiation poisoning and to other poisons than most human beings (though, conversely, he has strong allergic reactions to some common substances, including aspirin and, much to his un-amusement, celery).

The drums, the 1-2-3-4 psychic signature unique to the Master, did not carry over to the metacrisis—though he does have above-average psychic sensitivity, for a human being. With skin-to-skin contact and concentration, he may be able to catch the barest hint of what someone else is thinking or feeling. Similarly, he has a rudimentary time sense—just enough that disturbances in space-time near him may put him on edge, though he may not be able to pinpoint why.

He's practiced with edged weapons (rapiers, broadswords, Japanese-style swords) and concealable weapons (knives, poisons, small firearms), and usually keeps a discreet, well-made handgun on his person—he's engineered a small disruptor chip that keeps it from registering to metal detectors, though someone patting him down will find it.

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 ongoing memory loss (or hazing-over of memory, at the least) that comes with having a near-human brain trying to contain Time Lord memories as an excuse 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.

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

Lucy Saxon nee Cole's life is not much touched on in canon; references to it will be mostly my own fanon.