Autocompletion

by Chameleon (ponchard)

The Doctor opens up the Master’s translation circuit to look for clues, and immediately gets distracted.

Doctor/Master texting one-shot. Potential spoilers up through Fugitive of the Judoon.

Words: 350, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Good Old-Fashioned Passive Aggressive Discussion

• Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
• Rating: Not Rated
• Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
• Categories: Other
• Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), The Master (Doctor Who), Thirteenth Doctor, The Master (Dhawan)
• Relationships: The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who), Thirteenth Doctor/The Master (Dhawan)
• Additional Tags: Texting, One Shot, Short One Shot, Friends and Enemies and Lovers, Bickering Married Couple, Society of Origin, complicated feelings toward home and each other, Projection, So Much Projection, (mostly by the author), (fite me timelord council), Post-Episode: s12e01-02 Spyfall, Episode: s12e03 Orphan 55, Episode: s12e04 Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror, Episode: s12e05 Fugitive of the Judoon, TARDIS - Freeform, Poetry, Physics, same thing, Because of the Rhymes, Academy Era, Matrix Math, Linear Algebra - Freeform, Dweeby Math Jokes, i don’t make the rules, every mathematician has Big Timelord Energy, Machine Learning, Ensemble Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Gallifrey, Tinkering, web of time, timelord victorious, Machine Translation, Translation Circuits, Translation Matrix, we need more translator hacking in sci-fi, you can reallllly mess people up with mistranslation, aggressive translations could cause wars, without “technically” translating anything wrong, + probing translators leaks their training data, so for TARDISes it could leak conversations, if you have access to an enemy’s TARDIS, clone their translation matrix right away, and don’t let anyone else get to yours, long story short, this looks like happy fun Thirteen tinkering, but it’s a highly invasive/intimate thing that the Doctor is doing, it’s not EXACTLY, Dom/sub, ...but it’s sort of adjacent to that, if you want to read it that way - Freeform, the Master anticipated it, and is into the whole situation, look we all know “Master” is a misdirection, it’s obvious which one of them wants to be stepped on