History Fanfic / LastOfTheTimeLords

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike in canon, Mickey and Martha aren't married by their appearance in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", instead being just very good friends. WordOfGod is that they couldn't see why said relationship would actually come to exist, so they made the decision to have Martha be married to Tom (her original fiancée before she married Mickey) instead.

* CatchPhrase: One indication of the Master's less heroic tendencies in contrast to the Doctor throughout this story even while going through stories from canon is his use of the classic "...you will obey me" phrase as part of his efforts to cow characters into going along with his current goals.

* AdaptationalContextChange: Various quotes from the show said by the Doctor are either quoted by the Master (ie. when boasting about himself in "A Journey in the Dark" by using the Tenth Doctor's summation of himself in [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]) or [[spoiler:the TARDIS in the Master-Doctor's body who quotes the Eleventh Doctor's very first words after regenerating when dumped in the Time Lord's body

** The "Tick Tock" rhyme is given greater prominence for the adaptation of series 6:

*** It's sung non-diegetically with new verses borrowed from the Demons Run poem, "Night will fall and drown the sun/Good men fight and demons run", in "20,000 Parsecs in Outer Space" to tie into the themes of series 6 and the fate of the 51st century ''Nautilus''.

* BuffySpeak: Despite his distaste for it, the Master ends up having to use it in "A Journey in the Dark" since they'd all be crushed by collapsing rubble if he bothered

* ExpospeakGag: When discussing the Weeping Angel mechanics, Koschei goes on a long {{Technobabble}} version of the TimeyWimeyBall speech before Amy interrupts and tell him Ten's version from the DVD recording is much easier to understand.

** Lamia, Scylla, and Charybdis are the last Laestrygonians after Laestrygon fell into the cracks. However, after some negotiation and pleading from Scylla and a near mentally-dead Charybdis, Lamia accepts her fate and leaves with her partially converted men to establish their city where they shall live in seclusion for the rest of their days until LegendFadesToMyth and they are remembered as beings from Greek legend.

* StableTimeLoop: Multiple small loops are employed to ensure events happen as they did, with [[spoiler:the timestream unravelling after sealing the cracks in time resulting in several different loops, the last of which has yet to pay off by telling the Doctor to ''not'' be a Good Man.]]

** After Amy is erased by the cracks, Rory spends an indeterminate amount of time travelling with Koschei alone, which during this time they went to a place called Lyle Beach. The only details are a revolt over development of automatic sand and hypnotism had to be crossed out as an option to quell the chaos.

* CanonWelding: The author merges "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor The Death of the Doctor]]" with "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]" by simply having the honeymoon planet in the former as the actual honeymoon planet that Amy and Rory spend time in on the latter.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Because of the Master's looser morals, he warms up to River much quicker than the Doctor and already starts mock flirting with her by the time they get out of the Aplan catacombs. He rationalizes it by asserting that if the Doctor had Jack Harkness, then he'll have River here in the present and in the future. By the time he gets to the Pandorica, Rory keeps taking note of how many times Koschei and River come off as casually flirting.

** Thirteen's console room is used as a chronocartography room in the TARDIS in this fic.

* CallForward: Koschei challenges Vastra to play the one-word game since there's no chance of lying with just one word in "A Journey in the Dark".

* FunTShirt: Though initially dismissive of this kind of t-shirt, Koschei starts wearing them at first to maintain time loops and expresses a preference for the more snarky ones, [[spoiler:and then making it his full time IconicOutfit distinction when he embraces the name of the Doctor.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: The TARDIS still crashes in Amelia's backyard in 1996, despite the lack of a powerful regeneration from the Doctor to damage the console.

* RunningGag: Rory has to pay for everyone's meals and frequently notes when he doesn't have to pay for them.

** The alien pirates of the ''Nautilus'' in the 51st century are the only remaining members of their kind as [[spoiler:the Silence destroyed their planet in order to obtain a weapon to blow up the TARDIS. Koschei then destabilizes a temporal NegativeSpaceWedgie inside the ship, which obliterates the ''Nautilus'' with seemingly no survivors. He hopes there were survivors, but admits that there probably weren't as he starts to feel actual guilt for finishing a genocide and morbidly wishes the Doctor's ghost would show up to reprimand him so he doesn't feel crushing loneliness over this.]]

*** It's sung non-diegetically with new verses, "Night will fall and drown the sun/Good men fight and demons run", in "20,000 Parsecs in Outer Space" to tie into the themes of series 6 and the fate of the 51st century ''Nautilus''.

* FunTShirt: Though initially dismissive of this kind of t-shirt, Koschei starts wearing them at first to maintain time loops, [[spoiler:and then making it his full time IconicOutfit distinction when he embraces the name of the Doctor.]]

** Lamia, Scylla, and Charybdis are the last Laestrygonians after Laestrygon fell into the cracks. However, after some negotiation and pleading from Scylla and a near mentally-dead Charybdis, Lamia accepts her fate and leaves with her partially converted men to establish a city where they shall live in seclusion for the rest of their days until LegendFadesToMyth and they are remembered as beings from Greek legend.

** "A Journey to the Dark" features Amy and Rory frequently joking about ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' and comparing Koschei to Gandalf.

* AmbiguousSyntax: It's frequently employed to help obfuscate to Amy and later Rory the identity of the Time Lord she's travelling with.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several innocuous things River does in her first story are all things she picked up from the Pandorica two-parter like humming Music/SmashMouth's cover of "I'm a Believer".

* NoodleIncident: After Amy is erased by the cracks, Rory spends an indeterminate amount of time travelling with Koschei alone, which during this time they went to a place called Lyle Beach. The only details are a revolt over development of automatic sand and hypnotism had to be crossed out as an option to quell the chaos.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The fate of the Star Whale and Starship UK is established to be a Fixed Point in time, adding even more drama to the dilemma of letting it continue to be tortured, destroying Starship UK in retaliation for the Whale's fate, or lobotomizing it so it can't feel pain, and simply not just walking away until Amy TakesAThirdOption with releasing it.

** Several of the story titles refer to previous debut episodes like "Silence of the Catacombs" replacing "The Time of Angels" as a mashup of "Silence in the Library" with the location of the original story.

* ArcWords: "End of Time" is occasionally mentioned by the MonsterOfTheWeek throughout the first season as a misdirect for Koschei as he assumes it refers to Rassilon's scheme when it's actually meant to be lumped in the "Cracks in the skin of the universe/Pandorica will open/Silence will fall" set of phrases.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: In the first 'season', the protagonists end up inspiring Music/DavidBowie, pushing the Brigadier to help form UNIT, making several references to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheHobbit'' in front of Creator/JRRTolkien's father and possibly inspiring plot elements in those books, and telling Ignaz Semmelweis that he is correct about his medical theory.

* BigEater: Koschei's HorrorHunger from "The End of Time" is reduced down to simply being peckish and eating quite a lot of food on outing, which is implied to have been a result of his CameBackWrong status getting fixed from the Doctor's final surge of regeneration energy being infused in him.

** The Silence have pictures of the Doctor littered about in the little girl's room from Graystark Hall, depicting events from the various regenerations. Principal attention among the photos is Ten presented at his worst and out of context in-universe with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood a young man tied to a cross]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars a terrified woman]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii Pompeii burning]].

* IHaveManyNames: Koschei cycles through thinking of himself as the Master, Koschei, Harold/Harry Saxon, Ulysses, and the Professor throughout the series and has even more names from various characters around him who aren't sure what to call him (Doctor, Raggedy Man, Starman, Time Lord, etc.). He leans more towards 'Koschei' as the death of the Doctor has left him feeling adrift and alone in the universe and unsure of whether he should pick up the mantle of the Master again without a Doctor. This is a notable reason why nobody believes [[CassandraTruth Koschei's assertion he is not the Doctor]]. Not only has the Doctor used multiple aliases, titles, and names, there are countless epithets coined by other people applicable ''and'' the name Doctor was denied for a time, so there's no reason to think the Time Lord with a TARDIS disguised as a police box is simply going through a phase where he isn't using the name Doctor when he's not using the name Master either. [[spoiler:Almost all of them are discarded when he tries to use the psychic mental imprint of the Tenth Doctor to possess him but ultimately just pans out as an elaborate psychological means of truly embracing the title of Doctor to save the universe since the original can never come back, not even with the psychic imprint. From then on, he alternates between the Doctor most of the time and slipping back into Koschei when feeling uncertain about himself.]]

** The chronocartography room in the TARDIS is Thirteen's console room.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The fate of the Star Whale and Starship UK is established to be a Fixed Point in time, adding further drama to the dilemma of letting it continue to be tortured, destroying Starship UK in retaliation for the Whale's fate, or lobotomizing it so it can't feel pain, and not just walk away until Amy TakesAThirdOption with releasing it

* ChangedMyJumper: The main characters frequently change clothes to fit period dress. Notable occasions for when they don't are the time they expected to arrive in future Rio de Janeiro but end up in 1880s London instead, Rory in 1847 period dress dumped in 1969 London, and [[spoiler:Koschei embracing the Doctor's quirk to simply not bother with changing clothes even for places like a historical costume party.]]

* MistakenIdentity: Amy believes Koschei is named the Doctor because he refers to the TARDIS as a "doctor box" without elaborating on what that means and she is unaware of the implications of such a title until growing up. [[spoiler:This mistake in names and lack of clarity on the matter culminates in Amy's memories bringing Koschei back as ''her'' Doctor after the universe is repaired because that's the story she believes in and has no reason to disregard it.]]

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1511825 Last of the Time Lords]]'', not to be confused with the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode of an almost identical name, is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial fan work by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nicor_Fyrweorm/pseuds/Nicor_Fyrweorm Nicor_Fyrweorm]]. The series approaches the plot of ''Doctor Who'' series 5 with 13 stories serving as individual works as their own 'episode' and has indicated plans to do the same for series 6.

* AscendedExtra: Martha's initial love interest, Tom Milligan, is given a POV and prominence for being married to a Companion of the Doctor (unlike canon, where he simply vanished offscreen) in "Funeral for the Doctor".

* IHaveManyNames: Koschei cycles through thinking of himself as the Master, Koschei, Harold/Harry Saxon, Ulysses, and the Professor throughout the series and has even more names from various characters around him who aren't sure what to call him (Doctor, Raggedy Man, Starman, Time Lord, etc.). He leans more towards 'Koschei' as the death of the Doctor has left him feeling adrift and alone in the universe and unsure of whether he should pick up the mantle of the Master again without a Doctor. [[spoiler:Almost all of them are discarded when he tries to use the psychic mental imprint of the Tenth Doctor to possess him but ultimately just pans out as an elaborate psychological means of truly embracing the title of Doctor to save the universe since the original can never come back, not even with the psychic imprint. From then on, he alternates between the Doctor most of the time and slipping back into Koschei when feeling uncertain about himself.]]

** Vastra believes herself to be the last of her kind, but Koschei reprimands her for thinking so and acting in accord as there are other Silurian colonies out there or the chance to use time travel if she wishes to see her brethren again via the TARDIS.
** The alien pirates of the ''Nautilus'' in the 51st century are the only remaining members of their kind as [[spoiler:the Silence destroyed their planet in order to obtain a weapon to blow up the TARDIS. Koschei then destabilizes a NegativeSpaceWedgie, which obliterates the ''Nautilus'' with seemingly no survivors. He hopes there were survivors, but admits that there probably weren't as he starts to feel actual guilt for finishing a genocide and morbidly wishes the Doctor's ghost would show up to reprimand him so he doesn't feel crushing loneliness over this.]]

** The Silence have pictures of the Doctor littered about in the little girl's room, depicting events from the various regenerations. Principal attention among the photos is Ten presented at his worst and out of context in-universe with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood a young man tied to a cross]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars a terrified woman]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii Pompeii burning]].

** Besides the living embodiment of this trope, River Song, who has her personal timeline even ''more jumbled'' from interacting with two different individuals who she identifies with as the Doctor; the Master meets Jack Harkness in this order: the initial encounters in canon, during the hookup with Alonso from "The End of Time" where it's insinuated to Jack that the Doctor is dead, in 2008 after the events of series 3, a phone call from Jack post-hookup with Alonso where he knows when Silence will Fall, a DVD recording of a pre-2008 Jack instructing people to meet on April 22, 2011 for the events of Lake Silencio, and presumably a future meeting in order to arrange the DVD recordings in the first place.

** The clerics are awed by the idea of the Doctor because of the legend that he sealed the Beast away forever.

* OutOfContinues: Neither the Doctor (had one extra regeneration than in canon) or the Master (unstable resurrection that went wrong) have the ability to regenerate into a new body at the start of the series, so the former gives up all of his regeneration energy to the latter. [[spoiler:Even in the rebooted universe, there doesn't seem to

** The first hint that something's wrong with the cracks is that they radiate pure time energy and heat, not the cold and lifelessness of the actual end of the universe from the year 100 trillion where the stars have all gone out.

* IHaveManyNames: Koschei cycles through thinking of himself as the Master, Koschei, Harold/Harry Saxon, Ulysses, and the Professor throughout the series and has even more names from various characters around him who aren't sure what to call him (Doctor, Raggedy Man, Starman, etc.). He leans more towards 'Koschei' as the death of the Doctor has left him feeling adrift and alone in the universe and unsure of whether he should pick up the mantle of the Master again without a Doctor. [[spoiler:Almost all of them are discarded when he tries to use the psychic mental imprint of the Tenth Doctor to possess him but ultimately just pans out as an elaborate psychological means of truly embracing the title of Doctor to save the universe since the original can never come back, not even with the psychic imprint. From then on, he alternates between the Doctor most of the time and slipping back into Koschei when feeling uncertain about himself.]]

** Besides the living embodiment of this trope, River Song, who has her personal timeline even ''more jumbled'' from interacting with two different individuals who she identifies with as the Doctor; the Master meets Jack Harkness in this order: the initial encounters in canon, during the hookup with Alonso from "The End of Time" where it's insinuated to Jack that the Doctor is dead, in 2008 after the events of series 3, a phone call from Jack post-hookup with Alonso where he knows when Silence will Fall, a DVD recording of Jack instructing people to meet on April 22, 2011 for the events of Lake Silencio, and presumably a future meeting in order to arrange the DVD recordings in the first place.

** Besides Koschei/The Master unintentionally stumbling into the role of the Doctor during the plot of Series 5, Amy is the one who gets erased by the cracks in time and becomes an Auton centurion who kills her fiancee instead of Rory.

* TheConscience: Some remnant of the Tenth Doctor is left in the Master's mind who serves as a conscience for him by urging him to do nice things like let Amy have a trip in the TARDIS. [[spoiler:This remnant disappears when Koschei takes the Doctor as his name as he no longer needs to be

** Besides the living embodiment of this trope, River Song, who has her personal timeline even ''more jumbled'' from interacting with two different individuals who she identifies with as the Doctor; the Master meets Jack Harkness in this order: the initial encounters in canon, during the hookup with Alonso from "The End of Time" where it's insinuated to Jack that the Doctor is dead, in 2008 after the events of series 3, a phone call from Jack post-hookup with Alonso where he knows when Silence Will Fall, a DVD recording of Jack instructing people to meet on April 22, 2011 for the events of Lake Silencio, and presumably a future meeting in order to arrange the DVD recordings in the first place.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1511825 The Last of the Time Lords]]'', not to be confused with the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode of the same name, is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial fan work by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nicor_Fyrweorm/pseuds/Nicor_Fyrweorm Nicor_Fyrweorm]]. The series approaches the plot of ''Doctor Who'' series 5 with 13 stories serving as individual works as their own 'episode' and has indicated plans to do the same for series 6.