the Master could trust to serve him in those circumstances would be traitors, psychopaths & traitors
And the Master, of course, is both. I think he's pretty good with the psychology of the situation and he always was the persuasive one.... :)
to just after George W.--um, the American President (oh, I am sooo going to have karmic debt), was killed
Oh, we all have karmic debt on that one... ;)
There were a lot of people on board the Valiant, there had to be for it to operate, and it seemed that the whole ship was caught in the "eye of the storm". Which means a lot of people who remember... and presumably, a lot of unexplained deaths, given that the ship didn't "reset" like the rest of the world. There's a lot of story potental there.
If a story has been overtaken by canon, I wouldn't necessarily count it as AU. There's not really a lot that you can do about that! It depends on how the change makes you perceive the story, I guess. I have something underway with friend which has Jack arriving in Victorian times, in 1881. Canon now places him in 1869, but we've had this bunny since before TW started and the timing is necessary for the storyline so we're carrying on with it. And sometimes it can just be fun to play with the "what-ifs" of a situation - I've done that myself. :)
But I suspect that what you're talking about is more the character-driven wish-fulfillment end of the spectrum, where the tag "AU" can be taken to mean "throwing all canon out of the window", which can be extremely annoying to stumble across.
I'm very much looking forward to your future work.
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And the Master, of course, is both. I think he's pretty good with the psychology of the situation and he always was the persuasive one.... :)
to just after George W.--um, the American President (oh, I am sooo going to have karmic debt), was killed
Oh, we all have karmic debt on that one... ;)
There were a lot of people on board the Valiant, there had to be for it to operate, and it seemed that the whole ship was caught in the "eye of the storm". Which means a lot of people who remember... and presumably, a lot of unexplained deaths, given that the ship didn't "reset" like the rest of the world. There's a lot of story potental there.
If a story has been overtaken by canon, I wouldn't necessarily count it as AU. There's not really a lot that you can do about that! It depends on how the change makes you perceive the story, I guess. I have something underway with friend which has Jack arriving in Victorian times, in 1881. Canon now places him in 1869, but we've had this bunny since before TW started and the timing is necessary for the storyline so we're carrying on with it. And sometimes it can just be fun to play with the "what-ifs" of a situation - I've done that myself. :)
But I suspect that what you're talking about is more the character-driven wish-fulfillment end of the spectrum, where the tag "AU" can be taken to mean "throwing all canon out of the window", which can be extremely annoying to stumble across.
I'm very much looking forward to your future work.
Thank you. :D