#Another thing I don't agree with Moffat on is Simm!Master harming Missy

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In regards to my last headcanon about Missy being the redemption of the Master, I also have more excellent things I want to address between the short time we have of Simm!Master and Missy being together in "The Doctor Falls": 1. I don't think view Simm!Master's attraction towards Missy to be romantic. If anything, their relationship is strictly sibling like to me. He's fascinated with her, knowing she is what he will be in the future! The Master trusts no one except himself, so of course he thinks she is his "Partner-in-Chaos" right off the bat. Yeah, it's me and me against the world (and the Doctor!) Double the chaos! 2. But because she is his future, of course he hasn't gone through the journey she has yet. He hasn't put in the work to try and become better. Sure, he cares about the Doctor, the Master always has to a certain degree. He chooses to walk away and leave him alive another day despite constantly wanting to kill or humiliate him, but he isn't going to stand WITH the Doctor. At least not yet...not until he becomes her and goes through the journey to understand why it came to this moment (Missy stabbing Simm!Master and making him regenerate into her.) 3. Yes, he's mad at her for choosing to stand WITH the Doctor. He's mad at her for what he perceives to be lying to him, making him think she was on his side (his Partner-in-Chaos), when really, she was with the Doctor all along. He doesn't want this for them. It's never ended well for them, being friends with the Doctor and sticking by their side. There has always been a price that comes with it... (Theta telling Death to make Koschei her champion instead of him and all the countless betrayals through the centuries by the Doctor towards the Master, even down to abandoning them the day they left Gallifrey first, breaking that promise of them seeing the stars together.) But even if Simm!Master is rightfully angry with her for choosing this path, I don't think he would try to hurt her or kill her over it (sorry Moffat, but I reject it happening.) The reason he is mad with Missy comes out of a place of concern for themselves. It's also the same reason that Simm!Master REFUSES to stand with the Doctor. He doesn't want them to get hurt or abandoned by their 'best enemy' again. He's trying to look out for her, but see, she's also trying to look out for him too. 4. Which is what leads to Missy taking her previous self into a hug, telling him how much she loved being him, and then proceeding to stab him so he regenerates into her. Because, yet again, she is the redemption of the Master. This is her way of saying: Trust in your future, trust in me. We deserve better, and I'm going to give it to us for once. Your future is in safe hands with me, but you won't understand until you experience it...until you become me. ("You deserve my best") 5. So I like to believe that Simm!Master accepted it, wobbling back to his TARDIS, and putting faith in his future as he regenerates. (But of course we know what happens with Missy, which leads to my posts about how Dhawan!Master deals with it all after... ( X ) & ( X )