#deathworm

[skelligaladan]

25. Tasty

I really love the chapter "Holiday with Danger" from the book "the eight Doctors" written by Terrance Dicks. This chapter explained how Survival is connected to the 1996 Film, where the master get the deathworm and how he ended on Skaro.

[vitally-undead]

this sweet murder puppy that i would die trying to hug (odogaron)

and this weird ass giant worm of death that murked my poor jerby dude (deathworm)

sound freakishly similar, odogaron's howl and the deathworms death groan thing sound almost the exact same

just a observation i made

[connectparanormal]

Mongolian Death Worm

[ilikemicrowaves]

Silly base fills I did of Deathworm and Bashton

Little things about them

Deathworm

Deathworm at age 5 ran away from his abusive parents' household in the sand kingdom. He flew to Possibility with his belongings and stayed there for a few months, and then started looking for a school to go to. He found one called Silver Academy near Sanctuary, a school for Mudwings and Sandwings. He attended Silver Academy for 2 years before he moved out and to the city of Sanctuary. There, he sold bone jewelry and decor with his friend, Fog of the mudwings. They made good profit for 6 years before their business began to collapse. Eventually, they shut it and started to look for jobs. Currently, Deathworm works at a ranch, and Fog works at a skywing themed restaurant called Horizon.

Bashton Beetle

Bashton Beetle, or just Bashton, lived with his moms until age 9 and moved to the Honeycomb apartment complex. He befriended his neighbor, May of the silkwings, and they would talk very often and got close. Bashton started designing Jewerly around 14 years old and started up a business to sell his works. He became popular for his business and made good money. He sooner got enough to move out of the honeycomb apartments and got his own home. He still sells jewelry and has gained many customers.

[thistledropkick]

I don't bother to translate stuff that NJPW is likely to post official translations of later but there's one part in the new Desperado interview that's so good I'm gonna make an exception.

Desperado, please tell us about your outlook and your goals for 2024.

Despe: In 2023, I was able to fight in many different places, and work together with many different people, and it was too fun and too stimulating, so for 2024 I want to broaden those horizons even further. I'm not saying I'll do something crazy like wrestle at Big Japan (Pro Wrestling) or anything but if you were to ask me "What show do you want to appear on the most?" I'd answer "BAKA GAIJIN" (grin)

BAKA GAIJIN?!

Despe: I wanna fight Deathworm there. Big crowds in big venues don't particularly interest me, but wrestling in a unique location is really fun. I'd really enjoy being able to do that while holding the belt. A singles match against Deathworm for the IWGP belt would be really interesting. (laughs) Chris Brooks (of DDT Pro Wrestling), I'm waiting for your offer. Well, the office will probably get pissed off and tell me "You shouldn't say such things" but look, "It's for the sake of promoting New Japan or something." I really wanna fight Deathworm...

Are you sure that's an ok goal for 2024?

Despe: My goal for 2024 is to defend the IWGP belt in a singles match against Deathworm on BAKA GAIJIN (grin)

[mylifeisruined69420]

nobara vs deathworm yuji

[corallapis]

Hello, I'm very normal. Have I been normal at you about the Morphant before?

lol anon no you have not but feel free to be normal abt the goo snake in my inbox <3

[cidsin]

Art by me @cidsin Monster March 2023

Sunday comes with the Mongolian Deathworm :) who..... I feel like was maybe the inspiration for the sandworms of Dune? At least my first thought went to those xD

[justoceanmyth]

You probably have it right on the money @averagemrfox - if I had to guess, I'd probably say that we either get to the end of the Mongolian Death Worm arc, or we only see the moment Jiji gets possessed by Evil Eye. I want to think we'll get through the Death Worm arc simply because the exorcism attempt stuff feels like a good way to open the next season-pacing wise. However, given the way the show (and manga) start, it could be that we save the action for a hit-the-ground running opening to next season, and stuff afterwards to allow for another 3 part structure with Vamola and the Globalist takeover stuff in the next season.

We're about 8 hours out from the release of episode 8 of Dandadan - what do people think is going to happen in this episode?

[gallifreyanhotfive]

I really want to know what precisely was going through the Doctor’s head when the Master was refusing to regenerate. Like, he was the Master. He had escaped death time and time again, even jumping from body to body of other species, going to the Cheetah World, using a Deathworm Morphant, and trying repeatedly to steal the Doctor's body.

This guy clung to life like a cockroach. He survived the Time War, execution, the end of his natural regeneration cycle, and so much more, and here he was, refusing to regenerate...out of spite.

You can see the desperation on the Doctor’s face and hear it in their voice as they realize that no, the Master's not going to save themself. And I will never be over this scene.

[doodlydoodlies]

Image: Deathworm from Steam Community Workshop

[helila]

[thienvaldram]

Forgotten Lives 3 Lore Dump

Just a bunch of lore related observations from FL3

Framing Narration (Fourth Doctor/T Baker POV)

Mindbending was not invented by the Time Lords but by an arthropod species with ‘umpteen’ lives.

The Master was better at it than the Doctor at the Academy

George Gallaccio

The Lungs of the Birastrop is two years after Doctor Crocus and the Pages of Fear on Earth

The TARDIS is still a police box

The Birastrop are part of the Cult of Morbius, they do not believe in the Elixir of Life

The Doctor claims he used to be a friend of Morbius, but he seems to be bluffing

Varne can fly the TARDIS

The Doctor believes he made the firecrackers that caused the events of this story

Varne departs and a new companion, Agnes, joins in this story.

The Time Lords have been directing this incarnations efforts from the shadows, he is already considered a renegade by this point.

The firecrackers were actually made by a group of Time Lords on their final incarnations (Led by Sorianius) who had swallowed Deathworm Morphants to merge with the gunpowder.

The Doctor believes he may have killed Morbius

Framing Narration cont.

The Morbius Monster’s lungs are that of a Birastrop

The Doctor was unaware of these lives by this point, though they didn’t seem to be “erased”, merely forgotten.

Robert Holmes

The Doctor put in a healing tank frequently

He seems unfamiliar with this incarnation, and the clothes, but he also clearly has amnesia from being pulled out of the tank. (This is due to him coming out of his infiltrator persona)

By the time he reaches the hall, he’s settled in to his persona again.

His most recent mission prevented ‘a big old civil war’ and dismantled the war machine of ‘a recently deposed President’ (Morbius).

The Morbius civil war occurred during this Doctor’s era

He infiltrated the enemy side as “Bretor Ohm”, this was a new body but not a new incarnation. (Chameleon Arch?)

His failure in his final mission is responsible for Morbius’s escape (In actuality, Sellin used a vocal command to halt him)

Morbius was of House Aurora

Sellin had also given the real Bretor Ohm the Doctor’s biodata as a backup plan, but he escaped and captured Morbius whilst the real Doctor distracted Sellin.

Ohm and the Doctor ended up escaping in a TARDIS (But he was presumably later recaptured)

Framing Narration cont.

Upon reaching Holmes, Morbius realises that the Doctor is an active enemy of his, he redoubles his efforts to push the Doctor back after this point.

Graeme Harper

This Doctor has not been home in a very long time.

Morbius’s was in power during this Doctor’s era. That is why they ran away.

This Doctor has ‘raised families’

Alexandra Justine Collins is travelling with the Doctor

This incarnation disappeared into the Portal of Transformation after contemplating returning to Gallifrey. It is unclear if this is intended to be the cause of this incarnation’s rejuvenation.

Framing Narration cont.

This incarnation was secretive enough that the echo of their persona was still deflecting secrets from Morbius’s intrusion during the mindbending battle years earlier.

The Camfield incarnation horrifically lost his family (Cold Fusion) and the Fourth Doctor is still able to feel the pain even with centuries of distance.

Douglas Camfield

Another companion, Carol Williams. Stowed away on the TARDIS.

After the Loomborn revolt, the Camfield Doctor was forced into hiding.

He has left Dattany for a little while so he could heal from his family’s deaths.

The Doctor and Tallis (Someone who worked for him back on Gallifrey) believe some of his family has escaped the massacre. They go to investigate.

Morbius’s rise to power was occurring during this Doctor’s era.

Cedric and Jilly are still alive on Earth so were not related to the children killed in the Loomborn revolt.

Phillip Hinchcliffe

This Doctor parted ways with Rue eventually and settled down on Earth (Paris 1792).

It had been either 4 or -156 years since then depending on the perspective.

The Order of the Spheres and Time Lords eventually fell out, the Doctor’s handlers and the Unity were different groups.

After settling down on Earth, the Time Lords are still trying to find him. The Sisterhood of Karn uses this to blackmail him to take Françoise to Karn.

Françoise (Swan) becomes a new companion in a stripped down timeship (The Exedra) headed for Karn.

He is being pursued by another renegade called ‘The Citizen’, he wants the Elixir of Life from Karn. The Doctor leaves him to the mercy of the locals on Durcrow

The leader of the sisterhood is O’Hercha.

The Sisterhood has seen the Doctor prior to this.

The Time Lords regain contact with him in this story and intend to bring him ‘back into the fold’.

Framing Narration cont.

Four figures out the Sisterhood owes him a favour after recalling the Hinchcliffe Doctor’s life.

Christopher Baker

Cedric and Jilly’s mother is no longer ‘here’ anymore

She was Joan Smith (Miss Weston). Joan Weston is the “Joan Redfern” that Baker fell in love with. He want by ‘John Smith’ for this time period.

They first landed in early 1938 after Banks-Stewart’s renewal.

The Advisor is working alongside the Unity to disrupt Earth history. He is currently operating as a scientific advisor for the ‘Radio Men’ (Cybermen?)

The Doctor has been ‘playing with his biology’

Jill Smith (Jilly) was born in 1939

Joan Smith eventually died

Robert Banks Stewart

Joan and The Doctor have been associated for four years, it is now 1944, this means he has been on Earth for six years (1938-1944).

The Doctor’s talking owl has no name because ‘birds don’t use names’

The Magus is working with the Nazis.

The Magus had two twins working for him but one perished at the Temple of Gog and Magog.

A sample of the Elixir of Life found its way to a safe in Ireland.

The Magus claims he wants the Elixir of Life to ensure Hitler stands trial for his actions. This is a lie, as he was wounded and is dying.

Maggie O’Hecha stole the Elixir before the Doctor or Magus could get to it, she would later become leader of the sisterhood.

The Sisterhood sent the Doctor to 1945 and he saw and crystallised the end of the War.

Joan Weston’s real name isn’t Joan Weston (Joan Redfern??). In 1944 she and the Doctor left Earth to travel.

Christopher Barry

Morbius was friends with the Doctor according to ‘the story’.

His wife will slap him next time she sees him and hole up in a ‘Tower in Avalon’.

Framing Narration conc.

Morbius had known Christopher Barry’s Doctor, he’d attempted to harness the living story in order to fulfil his future dreams.

The living story had indeed raised Morbius to greatness only to bring him low in the end. He only learns this upon hitting Barry’s memories in the mindbending match, and this is why he goes full rage afterwards.

Four is unsure how many of these reawakened memories he’d retain, but doesn’t care as he embraces being an ever evolving story.

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

💀 Snakes Alive!

Deathworm Morphants are little snakey things that can let you cheat death. Simply swallow one before facing danger, and if you die, the Deathworm absorbs your essence and looks for a new host body for you. The Master did this once, and subsequently ruined New Year.

(Doctor Who, The Novel of the Film, The Eight Doctors)

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[funnywormz]

GIANT DEATHWORM MEGAMIX

[corallapis]

like, i cannot emphasize enough how, according to the eight doctors, the seventh doctor immediately pre-movie is “depressed” and bitterly lonely. so much so that he decides to go somewhere where he's nearly been killed twice before in the hopes that it'll “be a case of third time lucky!” and this is juxtaposed with the master, driven into “uncontrollable obsession” after “his descent into savagery” in survival, decides the best way to do destroy the doctor is to force the doctor to become him, even if it means killing himself, too. seven gets rescued from the twice-almost-deadly planet by eight, who warns him that he'll receive a message “from an old enemy” soon, and that he should ignore it bc it'll be “a deadly trap.” seven stops him from saying more, and they part ways. once he's alone again, seven is delighted, “his depression had completely vanished. life had never seemed sweeter. mind you, there was no telling how much of it remained to him.” knowing that he's on a countdown clock, seven is suddenly much happier, and the final thought we get to read of his is: “he idly wondered what mad scheme this enemy would be hatching...” and then we see the master swallow the deathworm morphant, step out onto skaro, and laughingly insult the daleks. nothing like a lil mutual suicide <3