#about; rory williams

[deathxproof]

Get To Know Rory Williams & The Master!

It’s an AU where Rory Williams is actually, gasp, the Master in a fobwatch! Verse and timeline dependent. That’s it. All natural whole ingredients you can pronounce. Sometimes. Established in 2013, Various Verses to choose from. Before jumping in, Here Are My Rules! Please check them out! Now! Come meet Rory Williams. Come meet the Master. Come meet Rory!Master. 

Name: Rory Williams

AKA: [REDACTED] Williams, Rory Pond

Age: ~26-33

Gender: Trans Man

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Nurse. Time Lord babysitter.

Faceclaim: Arthur Darvill

Rory’s Playlist!

Record Scratch

Name: The Master

AKA: Koschei Oakdown, Koschei, and an entirely too-long list of stupid aliases. 

Age: ??? ??? 2500 ?? 3000? 3500??? He isn’t really sure anymore after Rory’s Auton Stint

Gender: Masculine-Adjacent (** If it ever comes up, I write Rory & Rory!Master as, what can best be described for an alien Time Lord as afab trans masc. If that bothers you or somehow rubs you incorrectly, I can’t believe I have to point it out, but you’re on the wrong blog.)

Sexuality: A flavor of psychosexual obsessive Space Queer

Species: Time Lord 

Occupation: Being A Menace 

Faceclaim: Arthur Darvill again!

The Master’s Playlist!: Destroying Planets Out Of Spite

Rory!Master !

Disaster TARDIS: The Master Edition (The Master’s Music Taste?)

Bonus!(older playlists): I Got Stuck In A Fobwatch & All I Got For It Was This Lousy Found Family && Help! My Husband Is A Time Lord With A Really Weird Thing For My Best Friend!! :(( && I Am So Old And So Tired Of My Ex’s Shenanigans

Background—

 Rory Williams— 

Current Residence: Leadworth, otherwise the TARDIS Parents(Living): Brian Williams  Parents(Deceased): Mallory Williams

Significant Others: Amy Pond 

Children: Melody Pond/River Song

Other Significant Friends: The Doctor (friend, pain, technical son-in-law)

Rory Williams’ timeline falls(or ends?) sometime between early Season 7 to post-Angels Take Manhattan when the fobwatch opens- just sort of depends on the timing. As usual I’m pretty fine with adapting if it comes into play— but even then, that mostly just falls for Elevens, Amys, Rivers, and those applicable to those seasons I guess yknow ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Verses—

Super flexible with verses and situations to throw Rory & The Master in! His(and thereby the Master’s) five main-ish verses are—

Default- exactly what you imagine. Fobwatched!Rory comes up the same way in the show— he dates and marries Amy, they travel with the Doctor.

Rory A Little To The Left- a catch-all verse for… A lot of other stuff. Do you want your character to generally be in Amy’s place? Does Rory have a friend who he confides in about his time traveling and the weird watch dreams he has because of it? Rory as the Master’s companion, somehow? Anything else A Little or A Lot To The Left?

The Boy Who Waited- Pretty much what it says on the tin. Rory’s exactly in Amy’s place. A fun barely-used exploration in throwing the Doctor into Rory Williams’ backyard instead of Amy and the results of that.

The Girl Who Didn’t Have To Wait- Oops! Oopsie! Rory opens the watch incredibly early! Amy Pond(or your character) gets offered to be the Master’s companion.

Rory’s Back- Oops! Something else went wrong! The Master’s the Master again, but Rory Williams… Comes through sometimes? They share a body? Rory is essentially condemned to a personal hell?

Want to work out something else? Have something else in mind? Let me know dude!

The Master— 

Current Timeline: Post-Missy, Pre-Dhawan, Post-Season-6A

Current Residence: TARDIS

TARDIS Appearance: Busted up Vending Machine, otherwise a pretty gritty and grimy Payphone Booth. 

Parents:

Significant Others:

Children: Susan Foreman (Granddaughter?)(Weird daughter?)(Step-something?) River Song???

Other Significant People: The Doctor (arch enemy, messy ex, millennia-long-object-of-obsession) 

The Master… Well. Missy— the Master- never intended to be anything more than a simple human for a handful of decades. It almost felt like vacation, but instead it came across more as insurance that they wouldn’t… Run into… Any versions of themselves. Or more importantly: the Doctor.

Alright, failed step one.Just went a bit backwards.

It all happened rather fast in hindsight. A last-minute decision to go under the chameleon arch, just before Missy was regenerating. The change was supposed to happen post-regeneration, in a new body, a new Master. It happened, instead, mid-regeneration. It produced a child. No name, no backstory, no plan.

The night Amelia Pond settles into a house with a crack in the bedroom wall in Leadworth, a TARDIS crashes in Brian and Mallory Williams’ backyard a few streets over. A little girl comes wandering into their kitchen from the backyard. And suddenly both of them remember that they were supposed to be renovating their daughter’s bedroom (that strangely looks like a home office at the time), and put Mallory(it means unlucky, ha.) Rory Williams to sleep on the couch. 

The Master, meanwhile, sits inside of an old and tarnished up wrist watch. What was supposed to be a 90-odd-year excursion maximum accidentally turned into a 1000+ year technicality due to the Doctor, of all people.

Default is that he releases from the watch sometime before Angels Take Manhattan. The longer they stay in the TARDIS, the worse Rory gets, the more things start to stick out in the end… 

Darvill!Master weasels his way out eventually, usually after Rory’s attention is turned to the wrist watch that’s conveniently come with him throughout weddings and moves and the Pandorica and all of his deaths and the TARDIS and—

When he comes out(ha.) there’s a lot of mixed feelings. Nothing has been processed fully from Missy, he’s suffering from a strange millennia-old regeneration hangover that hung on in the watch, the Master was human for entirely too long. Rory was around for entirely too long and managed to get his life wrapped up in one of the two people in the universe he was hiding out from.

What could possibly go wrong with that? 

[aromanthur-lester]

I understand why every companion decides to travel with the Doctor on a whim because I, too, if faced with the option to pay rent in London or the option to live in a police box rent-free, would choose the second one.

[olympain]

I'm entitled to that. I'm giving you my days. You and me, time and space.

[ophernelia]

@loucarr: can we just skip ahead to next summer?

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Me, to my new date: doctor who thinks it's a sci-fi story because the Doctor thinks it's a sci-fi story and because the companions think it's a sci-fi story, but it's really just a story about ghosts. a story about an ancient creature carrying the ghosts of everyone they have ever loved, meeting new people, and seeing them only as future ghosts. they are haunted by the future and the past and the present because they are the only constant in a world constantly in flux, and they are running as fast as they can to things before they burn and fade to dust but everything will always end, you understand, because this is the only thing the Doctor understands and yet they keep going. they love too much to stop. doctor who is not science-fiction, it's horror and optimism and spiritual more than anything else, it's religious unto itself, the TARDIS is a haunted house and a church and a graveyard and a hospital and the Doctor is the most haunted being in the universe but more than anything, this is a love story, because how can you love something without being haunted by it- hey, what are you doing?

My date, shoving breadsticks in their purse: I have to go-

[twojamie-o-clock]

Something something Doctor who healer to soldier pipeline

Doctor (literal) —> Soldier

Nurse —> soldier

Medical Student —> soldier

Aand a bonus: soldier->nurse?? Vice versa? Not sure. 🥔

[foolishlyzephyrus]

i feel like it’s so integral to have at least one “at home” episode for every companion. so much character to be revealed in the premise of aliens interfering with everyday life once they are back on earth

[saviouronance]

something something river song watching both her parents die and still keeping it together so the doctor can grieve the death of his friends

[amyriver]

this scene is about twenty billion times sadder after watching season 6

[intuitive-revelations]

Fun fact (relating to the "first same sex kiss" Deadline discourse):

If you include kisses that aren't lip-to-lip, Eleven and Rory arguably kiss each other 3 times:

4 times if you throw in the IDW comics too:

(For context, Amy and Eleven body swapped earlier in the story and have switched back at this point, but Rory doesn't know if it was successful.)

[parallelity]

Hereditary “the love of my life is staring directly at me but doesn’t recognise me” experience

[deathxproof]

The worst part about Rory’s chameleon arch watch opening is definitely how stubborn and spiteful he is about the whole thing. The guy avoided death after death after death, and while some of that comes from the Time Lord he’s hiding being so good at cheating death, that’s also. just Rory. Rory has gotten them out of death multiple times in the Master’s absence. There’s no way that wristwatch is getting opened and his existence is finally, actually ceasing to be without Rory fighting about it. He can feel what type of man the Master is behind the watch, and Rory Williams does not want to become that man. He doesn’t WANT to be the Master, he DOESN’T WANT to be a Time Lord. In the beginning he didn’t EVEN WANT to time travel at first. It made him too fucking anxious to think about when presented to him, let alone when he was first inside of the TARDIS. And now he understands why! And he can’t even fix it! And he could try to ignore it, he could! But the other guy he’s had intrinsically tied to him almost his entire life is suddenly awake and LOUD and making you lose it already because it’s fucking scary. The ideal Rory Watch Opening is NOT pretty and should probably be painful and horrible for everyone involved. The Master, because when the watch opens, he’s basically still coming off of regenerating, and has to look at the Doctor after getting suckered into being a human companion for a millennia(for the Master, at least) after expressly trying to avoid the Doctor. And try to convey something along the lines of “there is no possible way to convince you that this wasn’t on purpose. I couldn’t even plan something so elaborate and convoluted if I tried, and you’ll probably never believe me anyways.” The Doctor, because he’s watching his good friend be torn apart from the inside out. Because he’s suddenly being made painfully aware that the Master is alive, his enemy, his best friend, is alive, has been under his nose the entire time, and currently eating Rory alive. Amy, because she doesn’t deserve any of this. Amy because she’s busy mourning her best friend and her husband. All while her husband’s corpse and the Doctor are having a category 5 existential toxic yaoi moment in the corner as soon as the dust is settling.

[fictionadventurer]

Thinking about Rory Williams. What a character.

The completely ordinary man who doesn't become extraordinary, but is already extraordinary.

The coma nurse who can watch over patients becomes a guardian who watches over the love of his life for two-thousand years.

A man being faithful to one woman makes him one of the greatest heroes in history.

Being good, kind, honorable and faithful is a higher kind of virtue than the Doctor's flashy cleverness.

He didn't need to become a hero. He was a hero and got to prove it when put in extraordinary circumstances.

Just a fantastic character.

[expectiations]

When talking about Amy and Rory as a unit, I call them "the elder Ponds". Because they are. It doesn't matter that River and the Doctor are older than them. They have had to mitigate rows between their own daughter and son-in-law. That immediately makes them the elder Ponds.

When talking about the Ponds, River is always included in it. Because River is a Pond first and foremost. Unfortunately we don't even have a proper Pond Fam pic because of what series 7–[gunshot]

[thekingofspin]

I want a fanfic that's like wife swap but doctor who.

where we take companions from diffrent doctors and swap them eg. amy pond goes with the 12th doctor and bill potts goes with the 11th doctor and we get to see both perspectives.

like amy interacting with 12, nardole and missy while bill interacts with 11, rory and river.

[transgenderdoctorwhomst-old]

I want to know what the fuck kind of relationship the Doctor has with Amy's parents in the fixed time-line.

Like, okay, her mom's pov. Her daughter had an imaginary friend as a child that she had a violently extreme attachment to, and it took four psychiatrists to convince amy to let it go. Amy suddenly starts yelling about him again at her wedding, and her mom thinks "okay, amy has snapped under the pressure of getting married."

And then the Doctor shows up.

And now you, Amy's mother, are confronted with the reality that yes, your daughter did meet a strange man at age 7 who crashed into your backyard, with a time machine, promised to take her with him (A 7 YEAR OLD) but didn't, causing all mentioned childhood problems, is in fact real. He is real and at your daughters wedding.

How do you interact with him. How do you talk to amy about this. He teleported in to the reception hall in his police box. What the fuck is happening. Your daughters imaginary friend is a real flesh and bone man.

And then she vanishes off the face of earth with him and rory right after the wedding! For weeks! Like hello!

No wonder Amy's family just Does Not come up again, how do you even BEGIN to deal with that.