#also in my au her cathartic lie convo would be with jon as he confesses he only refused the promotion because gertrude took his statement | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

just-an-enby-lemon · 9 months

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I think a lot about how badly the "I lied on my CV" scene would go with Archivist Sasha. A LOT. Now this is based on some things:

a) The paranoia

• A lot of Archivist Sasha AUs act as if she would be imune to the paranoia arc and here is why I disagree:

1. By being the Archivist and feeding the eye you are automatically dealing with an extended feeling of being watched all the time. Not to mention the Eye is literally a paranoia entity (between it's other areas).

2. While Sasha doesn't appear to have Jon's trust issues she has a need to know at least equal to him and a tendency of theorizing. She was of course right when assuming Gertrude kept the archieves messy on purpose but that also shows that between being very smart she is very doubtifull of any behavior outside the person's normal.

3. In that same conversation ahe mentions how everyone has a mask and says to Tim, likely her best friend, that he is as honest to her as he is to Jon it is just different masks. She is fine with this. She is okay with the masks. But that is before things go wrong.

4. She KNEW Gertrude. That means solving her murder is more personal.

b) Sasha knows her shit way to well

• This one is the real fascinsting thing: Sasha is a master in figuring out people's secrets and keeping them for herself. She knew from the start Jon lied about his age and that Martin lied on his CV. To the point that for her this knowledge about Martin is a fun fact and irrelevant, a thing she keeps from because she knows he would be anxious if he knew she knows. The thing is that translating to the "I lied in my CV confession" we have:

• Paranoid Sasha found Martin's letter to his mother (likely writen as a diary with no intencion to actually send it) and thinks that Martin lied about Trevor being dead.

• She knows Martin lied on his CV and it's meaningless to her to the point she might suspect he knows she knows.

• She knows Martin has a complicated relationship with his mother and that means she would assume it to be very unlikely he would ever write this personal of a letter to her.

Conclusion:

Sasha would probably think Martin is using the fsct he lied on his CV as a diversion and truly has an awfull secret. She would also likely tell to his face she knows it isn't it because Martin's mum would never read or care about his feelings or letters and Martin should know this enough to not even bother to write "so this is likely a codename".

#i do have some ideas for sasha paraboid arc for my own archivist Sasha au #not sure if I'll ever write it #i do have some scenes written #namely sasha gouge our eyes with me scene with tim #jon's first statement #sasha confronting martin #jon sasha a traveling lighter and the web #and s1 sasha gathering everyone to talk about her gertrude made the mess on purpose theory #eh wathever #tma #the magnus archieves #archivist sasha #tma paranoia arc #funniest arc ngl #sasha james #martin blackwood #also in my au her cathartic lie convo would be with jon as he confesses he only refused the promotion because gertrude took his statement #and the nightmares and how they finally stopped and he was afraid being the Archivist would make Gertrude go back go tormenting him #he is wrong but like fair assumption #the fact he gives her a motive to killing gertrude also cleans him for her because he says as a statement #and also jon is afraid of her after she was dead he is not brave enough to have killed her nor appears to have considered it would've worked

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