“Diary of a War Chief Squared”
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I’ve legit jokingly been wanting this for a long time with that exact title 
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Personally I don’t think they’re the same person, but I think it’s a fun theory and it can be interesting to look at doctor who from that perspective. I also think it’s interesting as a theory because it has existed for so long already! While I was reading Romana stories in the DWM I actually came across this part that presents the same idea:
This from magazine 173 in 1991, so it’s definitely not a new idea
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I’m sure the theory has been around since 1971.
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I need to go back and check but there’s a DWM article earlier than that one which suggests it. But the main source I always thought was the FASA role playing game.
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There’s plenty of references to the theory in DWM (the tardis wiki page I linked has a breakdown of them all), I just chose not to list them because I wanted to focus on the text
The problem is I think, looking at textual evidence I laid out, I personally think it’s pretty clear they’re separate characters, but yeah, when you get into metatext like DWM, it becomes a bit more murky
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Having looked into it (more detail in the original post), the FASA DWRPG says that The Master and The War Chief are seperate characters in a couple of places… it does say The Master and The Monk are the same though
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Master and Monk being the same comes across as far more ridiculous to me than the Master and the War Chief being the same.
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This kind of “argument” is so ridiculous.
These two instances are sort of similar - Coincidence?
- Yes of course it’s a coincidence - stop grasping at straws that might just possibly fit with your own personal headcanon agenda…
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I love humans. Always finding patterns in things that aren’t there.
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The thing about the Doctor is that they loooove getting into feuds, personal and otherwise. This is tenuous evidence at best, really.
Where I stand on all this is that they are different. Simple as that. Then again, I’ve never quite understood the fascination with the Master in general - they’re a good character and fun, but I guess not the type that I get obsessed with
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The Doctor’s in a personal feud with Davros too, and he’s not the Master
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Or is he??? 
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Depends on the Master. Delgado, Jacobi, Gomez? Yes. Ainley, Roberts, Simm? No.
And yes. I’ll use actor names as the distinguisher and no one can stop me.
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Really? I was convinced it was the War Chief but now you say about the Monk… I’ll have to go and check my copy.
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I’m the War Chief.
I’m not the Master.
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But are you the Rani?
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He’s The Monk!
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Aren’t they the same Character?
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