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qc-wiggles · 6 months

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they say write what you know and what i know is academic stress and yearbook pain. so anyways it's a yearbook club au!!!!

YEARBOOK CLUB MEMBERS:

supervising teachers: gertrude and leitner. they become uncontactable like a week into the project (do they die? do they resign? tim has a running theory that they eloped.)

elias: head of yearbook club. dips unexpectedly in the middle of the entire thing (something about an optical surgery) and forces jon to take over. his dad paid for the adobe subscription they’re using

rosie: treasurer, she’s very efficient, they’ve probably exchanged like 3 emails in total and she’s gotten everything funded. knows well enough to stay out of the dumpster fire that is yearbook production otherwise

jon: de facto head of yearbook club. thinks it should have gone to sasha instead. hes a bit incompetent but plans like it’s doomsday the next week so they are always in a wealth of excel sheets. writer, editor

tim: joined partly because he wanted an excuse to get out of football fixtures. also because he is 1 out of jons 3 friends including his ex and jon asked him. he has a tiktok. marketing, editor

sasha: joined partly to impress gertrude (she’s looking for her to write her letter of recommendation as head girl in sixth form). also because she is 1 out of jons 3 friends including his ex and jon asked her. she still uses livejournal. designer, writer

gerry: sixth form, occasionally helps out with networking at gertrude’s behest. tim is a bit starstruck over him. he saves their asses many, many times

melanie and georgie: got unofficially roped in as photographers. why you ask? manuela dominguez may have the cutting edge cameras but she is simply too scary to approach. melanie has a youtube channel that all the girls and tim are apparently subscribed to.

martin: there is not one single picture of him. apparently he didn’t turn up for photo day, neither was he involved in any school events. even the people who have shared half-remembered facts about him seem to forget about him when questioned a second time. where did he go?

PLOT:

it’s the month before the yearbook is due to be sent in for production, and the team have discovered numerous issues with the draft: pictures of random people keep getting swapped over like they’ve been photoshopped, some pages are illegible and distorted unless they are physically written out in hand and scanned, one paragraph is a leitner. and nobody can find martin blackwood so they can get his picture in the yearbook. what will they do.

SIDE CHARACTERS:

annabelle cane: current head girl

mikaele salesa: somehow knows literally everyone, involved in the funding of yearbook production

mike crew: uneasy alliance with gerry in their pursuit of jurgen leitner

oliver banks: had a mental breakdown sometime during his gcses but hes fine now

david from research: nobody says it to his face but he has genuinely the most atrocious clothing choice in the entire school apart from michael shelley, and even then michael shelley makes work

grifter’s bone: the band of the school, except no one actually knows anyone who’s part of it. their shows are legendarily terrible. manuela says ambulances were phoned.

daisy and basira: prefects, currently invested in making sure yearbook club remains LEGAL and not STALKING ANY STAFF OR STUDENTS, JON

jmag: principal. boo. what a creep

julia montauk: apparently her dad went to jail. but who is she living with now? i don’t know, manuela told me. how does manuela know? julia told her in a sleepover during year 6. and she’s telling other people? wow. that’s messed up. is that old guy her grandpa? why does he carry a rifle around

jared hopworth: prejudiced gymbro, but importantly, NOT a homophobe.

the admiral: what else needs to be said

FAMOUS ALUMNI:

agnes montague (campus celebrity from literally decades ago) (her relationship with jack barnabas is mythicised)

jude perry (allegedly caused some fire-related, agnes-related events)

edwin burroughs (allegedly commited atrocities during one year’s christmas dinner)

jane prentiss (left for uni a year ago, allegedly brought many live organisms onto campus) (keeps talking about this guy called jordan)

eric delano (he did WHAT to his eyes)

MISCELLANEOUS POINTS:

daedalus crew is astronomy club

breekon and hope are the manufacturers for much of the schools equipment and stationery

jon keeps finding notes from gertrude stashed in random places about yearbook difficulties its like a fun cool treasure hunt

they cant figure out where a computer they were initially using for yearbook club is from. it says ‘ushanka’ on the bottom of the display and the keys are slightly crusty

what the hell are the drama students actually up to

#changing this later probably #talks #school au

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kann1bal1st1c-vvh0r3yummyyummy · 1 month

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HELLO TMA FANDOM

TWS; Raw meat gifs, talking about the flesh and Jared Hopworth, at some point mentions of EDs and recovery from them, spicy and sappy headcanons for Jared simps.

Let’s talk flesh avatars, mostly, The bone turner; Jared!

Before we begin, Quick lil reminder that;

CANON JARED HOPWORTH IS A FINE ASS MOTHERFUCKER- What I mean is Alex stated that canon Jared is quite attractive/good looking?

Just-

ALEX WHY?

2. ALEX. WHY?!

And Lordy lord it pains me to see “ugly” Jared fanart. The fanart is alway pretty no matter what we do, like goddaym but yeah-

Like I can imagine a relationship with him?? And what it’d be like? And I what his relationships are like with other avatars?

For example, for you simps;

Jared in a romantic relationship;

Constant compliments on your physical appearance and asking if he can help with any insecurities? Like;

“You’re gorgeous/Handsome, darling. Your mussels hug your bone structure perfectly, it matches with your soft personality.”

“What’s wrong honey? You want to clear up your acne and scars? Let’s see what we can do to help with that, yeah?”

But not like in a gross why which comes to my second point!

TW for mentioning EDs for this point; Will promote fitness and good health! In a non icky way, as an avatar of the flesh and a gym owner, he wants everyone to have their preferred body types if they have one! And he’s a Gardener and a butcher, so he knows what is good to eat for the body to stay healthy and be ticking properly!

Basically I can see him cooking you both lunch, and it matters what your diet or food goals are because he’ll eat the same as you to not make you feel lonely, and he’ll use everything from his own gardens and butchery?

He could also help you gain weight if that is your goal or help you recover from an ED and show you how to exercise in a healthy way or how to control binge eating better. He will also help you get a feel of some control back into your life!

HE WILL BE YOUR HYPE PERSON IF YOU HAVE NO BODY OR HEALTH GOALS!!

You plus size and happy with it? He’s happy for you and happy with you!

Thin and your happy with it? AGAIN! happy for you and with you!

If you have any body type and your comfortable in your own skin? he’s extremely happy for you and proud of you! And he won’t let anyone tear you down.

IF YOU ARE TRANS HE CAN HELP YOU TRANSITION FULLY WAYYYY FASTER

Like holy shit you’d transition 100x faster and he’s definitely either Trans himself or a big AF ally, idc what y’all say he’s pro-trans rights in every part of his being.

moving on to the sappy and spicy headcanons;

DINNER. DATES. with home cooked food from Jared or joint running days if you like going running! Or dates in his garden looking after the plants!

I see him extremely affectionate Like I said before he would give you a lot of compliments, he would be the best cuddler in the world, sadly, not a lot of kisses because I see him as a man with many teeth, some poking out from within his cheeks, or at the edge of his lips and this will cause him to be scared of hurting you if you were to kiss him

Like size difference? Being manhandled?Well so does he! He’s probably taller than you no matter what you do, thankfully he shift his body to be… smaller in places so he won’t break you literally and metaphorically-

Will use cannibalism as a motif for love sayin stuff like “I could just eat you” “I don’t wanna just be with you I wanna be a part of you” n stuff like that

And that is all for today :)) thank you for coming to my lil reminder TMA fandom…

//Tags:

#jared hopworth #we cannot trust rusty quill #why did Alex make this canon #the flesh #tma shitpost #reminder of the day #why is he so hot #tma avatars #tma #tma podcast #tma the flesh #feeding simps #Jared is hot

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bracketsoffear · 7 months

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Justine (Raw) "Justine is newly enrolled in veterinary college and one of our first scenes with her is initiation ceremony where older students force newbies to do funny stuff like eating a raw rabbit's heart, taking pictures while sophomores dump buckets of blood on them, and then going to class without washing the blood off. Justine's mother forced her to be a vegetarian her whole life, but it all quickly falls apart when Justine gets away from her control and tastes meat for the first time. Raw rabbit's heart distressed her, of course, but it planted the seeds for obsession over meat, and not long after Justine can't think of anything else. She steals beef patties from the canteen, sneaks to the fridge at night and eats raw chicken breasts, and goes out of her way to eat more meat. She bites a guy's lip while making out so hard that he bleeds profusely. She eats her older sister's finger that they accidentally cut off. That same sister (she studies in this same college btw) causes a car accident and kills two people and then invites Justine to eat their raw warm still soft flesh, because as it turns out Justine is not the first one of her family to become a cannibal. Justine gets into a fight with her sister, they chew on each other a little bit. Justine eats her roommate (she doesn't cook him. She just gnaws on his thigh, smearing his blood all over the bed). She is not the first one to eat a guy, either - the ending reveals that her mother (yes, she went to this same veterinarian college) is eating her father - his back and chest are covered in scars from continuous gnawing. But its consensual so it's fine <3 love wins. I think Justine is a promising young avatar of the Flesh, she's got the cannibalism, the shots where she's covered in blood, the themes of blood and viscera (veterinarians deal with all sorts of gore. oh also there is a scene where they cut open dead dogs as a part of their studies and Justine performs brilliantly). Also (maybe a bit tangential to the Flesh but still) in her first weeks of college she develops a horrible rashes all over her body. There are a lot of scenes with her scratching herself until her skin is all turn and bloody. This is very Flesh-y visual-wise in my opinion. Also the mother tried to prevent both of her daughters from repeating her own fate by restricting their diets. That's Flesh-y!"

Medic (Team Fortress 2) "Medic's background is in science and medicine. he worked as a legitimate doctor for many years until he lost his medical license for stealing a patient's skeleton and somehow leaving the patient alive (jared hopworth much??) he is recruited to a team of mercenaries in which he regularly kills and dismembers other mercenaries and collects their organs. he even has a fridge full of spare parts and a still-living human head that he uses in emergency medical procedures. he's also been known to experiment with combining several animal parts just to see what it does when placed in a human body. i would also highly recommend watching "meet the medic," an introductory lore video released by the developers of the game"

#flesh poll #the flesh #the magnus archives #poll #redemption bracket #raw #team fortress two #tf2

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grahamfolgersdeliciousnotebooks · 2 years

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Martin told himself he was doing this for Jon. Peter Lukas was dangerous, more dangerous than Jon seemed to realize, and he needed to keep Peter’s attention on himself.

But he wasn’t just doing this for Jon, and he knew it. He couldn’t lie to himself, and no matter what he said to other people (which wasn’t much, these days), in the privacy of his own heart, he knew that he had embraced the Lonely all too eagerly. It had been such a relief to muffle his feelings until he could almost forget that they were there, to ignore his grief and his pain and his hope (because hope had been the worst of his tormentors, the one that had told him, again and again, that maybe Jon would wake up tomorrow) and simply be numb. And when Jon woke up and immediately fell into his old habits, it was a comfort to think that, the next time Jon went and got himself killed, the Lonely would soften the blow. It couldn’t possibly hurt as much as it had before.

Then it happened, and it hurt so much more than he’d ever imagined.

He found out by accident. He never went into the Archives if he could help it, these days, but it wasn’t always something he could avoid. He’d gotten fairly good at Vanishing, and he doubted anyone would be able to see him, but he couldn’t discount the possibility that Jon might Know he was there, so he was on his guard. When he heard Jon’s voice, spilling softly from behind the closed door of his office, he froze.

It took a few moments to realize that it was a recording. Jon wasn’t here, Martin was safe.

…but I know what I’m doing; this time I do. I, I hope. I have her voice. I think that should be enough to find her, and, and I’m leaving my – I’ll leave it with the tape. I should be able to find my way back to it. I think. Wish me luck.

…Although, I suppose if you’re hearing this, then I… I didn’t have any. I don’t know. I, I’m – I’m scared? When does the fear go away? ...A-Anyway, I’m sorry.

You too, Basira, if you’re hearing this. I know you’d – stop me. You’d be right to, but – but if this goes wrong, all you lose is – I’m not risking anyone else. And I know – I-I think. I can get her out.

Martin felt something stirring under all the fog in his head. Fear. Dread. The beginnings of panic.

As soon as the recorder clicked off, he heard Melanie’s voice.

“What the fuck, Jon?”

There were some soft shuffling noises from inside the office as she pulled out her phone. Martin could only hear half of her conversation with Basira, but it was enough to fill in the gaps.

Breekon (sans Hope) had delivered a coffin. Jon had climbed in. Between those two events, Jon had found Jared Hopworth and gotten him to pull out one of his ribs to act as an anchor.

Martin couldn’t stay in the Archives. It was harder to stay unseen when he was agitated, and he couldn’t be agitated. Peter had been not-so-subtly hinting about his feelings for Jon - they were still too strong, he needed to focus on the task at hand, and if he didn’t, Peter would be forced to remove certain distractions - and Martin couldn’t let him know that he was right. But if Jon didn’t come back, then what was the point of any of this? The Lonely hadn’t protected Jon, and it wasn’t providing much comfort to Martin at the moment.

He spent that day in a haze, wondering if Jon had made it out of the coffin, wondering how he’d know if he did. The next day, he was almost able to convince himself that Jon might be fine. The third day, Peter Lukas made an offhanded comment about being proud of Martin for his work ethic ‘given the circumstances,’ and Martin couldn’t pretend anymore. Jon was trapped, and Martin needed to do something.

He slipped unseen through the Archives, the Lonely pulled around him like a cloak. Jon’s office felt eerily silent without him in it, and the strange tableau inside looked almost staged, as if it had been left specifically for him to find: On the desk sat a tape recorder, and a smooth white piece of bone that Martin recognized as Jon’s rib. Across from the desk, on the floor, sat the coffin.

Martin moved quickly. A plan had been forming in the back of his head for the past few days, and he carried it out silently, gathering tapes and recorders with a single-minded determination. Jon needed an anchor. Clearly the rib hadn’t worked. It was time to try something else.

He slotted tapes into the recorders one by one, filling the room with the sound of Jon’s voice. When all of them were playing, Martin found a seat on the floor, and he waited.

And waited.

Martin never took his eyes off the coffin, searching for any slight movement. It didn’t take long for his back to begin to hurt, and he shifted fruitlessly for a more comfortable position. Jon’s chair, he knew, would be a lot more pleasant than the floor, but it felt wrong, almost disrespectful, to sit in Jon’s chair while Jon was away. And anyway, he was still more or less invisible, and he didn’t like the idea of someone coming into the office and sitting on him by mistake. God knows what explanation he could give.

He heard the click of a tape recorder turning off, almost inaudible in the din of a dozen overlapping recordings. He stood up mechanically and rewound the tape before pressing play and setting it back on the lid of the coffin. He wondered how many times he would rewind them all before he gave up. How long would he sit here, waiting to restart each recording again and again? Hours? Days?

The memory came back, unbidden, of returning to the hospital day after day, convinced each time that when he entered Jon’s room, he’d be awake. How many times had he convinced himself he’d seen Jon’s hand twitch, or his eyelids flicker? How much disappointment could he take before it broke him?

But Jon had woken up, eventually. Martin hadn’t been there to see it, but it had happened. He would be there to see when Jon came out of the coffin.

The shortest of the tapes had been rewound three times by the time it happened. There was a scrape, and then a creak, and Martin didn’t have time to question if he was imagining things before the lid of the coffin had swung open, sending tape recorders skittering across the carpet, and two haggard figures climbed out.

Daisy was the first to emerge. She was thin, almost skeletal, and the few patches of skin that weren’t caked in mud and grime were so pale she might have been made of bone. Jon, in comparison, looked much better - he was still skipped-a-few-too-many-meals thin and not several-months-of-muscle-atrophy thin - but he looked rough. He, too, was covered head to toe in dirt, and his hair was a wild tangle. There were angry red scrapes on his arms, and a thin trickle of blood seeped from a cut on his forehead. There was nothing in his appearance that ought to have inspired confidence, but seeing him still sent a flood of relief through Martin, so strong it almost knocked him over.

“Oh, thank God,” he breathed.

Jon’s eyes snapped to Martin’s face, and he realized with horror that Jon could see him. They both could, as Daisy turned to look at him as well. He scrambled to pull the Lonely back around him, but before he could, the door had burst open and Basira was charging in.

“Jon, you stupid idiot! What did you think-” She started, but stopped dead when she saw the group assembled beside the coffin.

“Hi,” Daisy said weakly.

Basira’s entrance had distracted Jon briefly, and Martin took his chance to Vanish again and push past Basira and out into the hallway. He couldn’t be here. Jon was back, Jon was safe, and Martin couldn’t allow himself to care.

“Martin!” Jon called after him, but Martin didn’t stop. He heard Jon stumble out of the room, followed by a muffled crash. He turned to see Jon on the floor struggling to stand. He supposed it wasn’t surprising that Jon would need time to find his legs again after spending so long in the Buried, but that didn’t make the sight any less pitiful. Martin hesitated for just a moment before turning around and helping Jon to his feet.

“Are you alright?”

“I-I’m alright.” Jon’s words were mild, but his fingers were clinging to Martin’s shirt like he was terrified that Martin would try to walk away again.

“I’m glad you’re back, Jon,” Martin said, “But I have to go.”

“Please…” Jon tightened his grip on the fabric, but even so it would have been easy to shake him off. “Martin, please.” His voice was weak, resigned. Even as he asked Martin to stay, it was clear he expected him to leave.

“Come on,” Martin sighed. “Let’s get you cleaned up.”

When they arrived in Martin’s fourth-floor office, Jon looked around curiously, and Martin was reminded that he’d never actually been to his office before. There wasn’t much to see - a desk, a threadbare office chair, a wilting prayer plant. There was a cot in one corner, much nicer than the one in Document Storage - the benefits of working for a very rich, very evil man.

The office also had an attached bathroom, and Martin went there now. He turned on the taps, letting the water run until it was warm but not hot.There was a small bowl of clear glass marbles on the vanity, an aesthetic choice Martin had never understood, and he dumped out the marbles, gave it a rinse, and filled it with water before grabbing a hand towel and wetting it.

He carried the basin and the towel back into the office, where he found Jon standing in the center of the room, looking as though he wasn’t sure if he was allowed to touch anything. Given the trail of dirt he’d tracked into the room, Martin supposed he could understand his wariness. Martin eyed the cot and the chair before deciding to sit Jon up on his desk. Wood would be easier to clean than fabric.

Jon let himself be led, and said nothing as Martin dipped the towel into the warm water and began to wash off his arms. It was clear that it would be up to Martin to break the silence, something he was no longer used to.

“What the Hell were you thinking?” he asked eventually.

“I got Daisy back.”

“Not what I asked.”

Jon sighed. “I was thinking that I could get Daisy back. A-And I was right.”

Martin held his tongue and focused on cleaning off Jon’s cuts. All the scrapes on his arms seemed to be superficial, but it still wouldn’t do to risk an infection.

“You’re angry,” Jon said, and Martin huffed a mirthless laugh.

“You’re perceptive.”

“I’m sorry. I-I know it was risky, but it worked.” Jon flinched as Martin scrubbed, more roughly than he meant to, at his wrist. “And anyway, it’s not like I’m the only one taking risks at the moment.”

“Don’t,” Martin warned.

“What? Am I not allowed to worry?”

“You-! You’re unbelievable!” Martin fumed. He’d thought the Lonely had dulled all of his emotions, but apparently he could still feel indignation just fine. “I’m taking risks to try and keep you safe, and you can’t even try to stay out of danger for five minutes! You just have to keep jumping into coffins, and- and asking Jared Hopworth to pull out your bones!”

Jon said nothing. He turned away, though whether he was embarrassed or ashamed or simply exhausted, Martin couldn’t say.

“If you get trapped in the Buried for all eternity," Martin admitted in a whisper, "everything I’ve done will have been pointless,”

Jon brought his eyes up to meet Martin’s, suddenly unsure. “This new threat Peter’s looking into… Am I- Is the Archivist necessary to stop it?”

“That’s not- I mean, maybe, but, Jon, that’s not the point!” Martin sputtered. Jon stared at him, nervous and exhausted and uncertain, somehow still not realizing what Martin meant. “I care about you. You make it bloody hard sometimes, but I do.”

Jon turned away, directing his next question to the carpet. “Still?”

“Still,” Martin confirmed. “Even if I can’t…” he trailed off, struggling to reerect the walls he’d spent so long building. “Look, this thing with Peter… I need to see it through. And that means I need to be…”

“Lonely,” Jon finished for him.

“Yeah.” Martin raised the damp towel to Jon’s forehead. Gentler this time, he began to wipe away the blood and grime. “But if you think no one will care if you get hurt, then you’re wrong.”

Jon lifted his hand as though to hold Martin’s hand in place, then thought better of it and lowered it into his lap. “Right.”

“And if you go back into that coffin, I’m climbing in after you and pulling you back out.”

Jon glanced up, the ghost of a smile playing on his lips. He looked small, and frail, and so, so tired. Martin could feel his carefully-curated numbness slip away as his heart clenched at the sight.

“When was the last time you ate?” he asked. Old habits die hard.

“I-I don’t know. It didn’t matter so much, in the Buried.”

“Well, you’re not in the Buried anymore. C’mon.” He helped Jon off the desk and guided him to the fourth-floor breakroom. It was empty, as usual. After catching sight of the mud under Jon’s fingernails, he said, “You, uh. You might want to wash your hands.”

“R-Right, of course,” Jon said, and hurried to the sink while Martin eyed the contents of the fridge. He grabbed an orange and tossed it to Jon. That ought to tide him over while Martin looked over the selection of ready meals they had to choose from. Rice and Chicken, Beef and Broccoli, Fish and Chips. He didn’t want to be the guy who microwaved fish in a shared breakroom, but he’d never seen anyone else use the space. Peter had chosen this floor as his base of operations for a reason.

When he turned around he found Jon struggling with the orange, his chipped and bloody nails scrabbling uselessly over the smooth peel.

“Here, let me.”

Jon handed the fruit over with a sigh, and Martin made short work of it, digging his fingernails under the skin and pulling it away in chunks. Sparing a glance at the sorry state of Jon’s fingernails, he also dug out the first segment, getting juice and pulp all over his hands for his troubles.

“Thank you,” Jon said. As Martin expected, he had trouble separating out the next segment of orange, but when he did, he offered it to Martin.

“Do you want some?”

“I didn’t spend three days in a coffin,” Martin said.

“Doesn’t mean you’re not hungry.”

Martin hesitated for just a moment more before accepting the fruit. As soon as he’d brought it to his lips, he realized that he was starving. He’d been so focused on Jon he’d hardly noticed how his own body was feeling, but as the sweet juice burst across his tongue he realized that he was sore, and hungry, and exhausted.

They settled on the couch, side by side, and ate in silence. The orange was nearly finished by the time Jon spoke up.

“There were tapes on the coffin. Why- Why were there tapes-?”

“You needed an anchor,” Martin explained flatly, exhaustion finally creeping into his voice. “And you’re clearly connected to the tapes.”

“Oh. I thought…”

“I know what you thought.” He’d thought pulling out his own rib was the solution. Because of course he did.

Jon sagged. God, he looked tired. Martin wondered when he’d last slept.

“You’ve always been smarter than me,” Jon muttered, and Martin didn't know if that was true. Jon wasn't stupid, and even now, as frustrated as he was, Martin knew that his recklessness came from something far worse than stupidity. (Jon's voice on the tape echoed in Martin's mind. If this goes wrong, all you lose is...) Still, he didn't argue, and Jon went on, “I’m sorry… I’m sorry I didn’t always acknowledge that.”

Martin remembered how Jon used to talk about him, even on the tapes. Useless ass. Unlikely to contribute anything but delays… ‘Not acknowledging his intelligence’ was putting it mildly, but Martin couldn’t bring himself to be bitter about that. “That was a long time ago.”

“Still. I’m- I’m sorry.”

Martin dropped his head into his hands. He couldn’t look at Jon.

“Why now?” he sighed.

“What?”

“Why do you have to do all of this now? Why couldn’t you have done any of it, at any time before?” Martin’s mind flashed back to the look Jon had given him when he’d crawled out of the coffin. If Jon had looked at him like that, even once, before the coma…

“Would it have changed anything?” Jon asked. “Even if I had… We’d still have had to stop the Unknowing, I’d still have almost died, you’d still have made your deal with Peter Lukas, whatever it is. Would anything actually be different?” A pleading note crept into his voice, as though desperate for Martin to tell him that there was a world where things didn’t end up exactly as they already had. Martin wished he could give him that reassurance.

“Maybe not,” he admitted instead, “But I think it would have made me happy. And that matters, even if it doesn’t last.”

“I’m sorry,” Jon whispered, and he let his head fall against Martin’s shoulder. Martin knew he should shake him off, tell him there was food in the fridge, and walk away. Martin knew he should never have let things get this far. But he had.

“Don’t be sorry, Jon. Just be safe,” he murmured, so softly he wasn’t certain Jon could even hear him. “Please. I can’t lose you.”

Jon reached out and placed a hand on top of Martin’s. Martin didn’t pull away. If Peter Lukas saw them like this, he was well and truly fucked - they both were - but the door to the breakroom stayed shut, and he allowed himself to relax, just this once.

“What you said before,” Jon whispered after a moment, “About being happy. That it matters, even if it doesn’t last…”

“Yeah?”

“If I kissed you right now, would that make you happy?”

Martin’s mouth went dry. Would it? “No,” he replied eventually, “No, I think that would make things worse.”

“Right,” Jon said, suddenly stiff. “R-Right, that was a stupid question, I shouldn’t have… I should go. Leave you to… whatever it is you do for Lukas.” He stood up from the couch and walked to the door, but when he got there, he turned back, one hand poised on the handle. “Just- just, please stay safe. I-I care about you, too.”

Martin knew he ought to let him go. He ought to watch him walk away, wait a few minutes, then head back to his office and pretend the last half hour had never happened. But that wasn’t what he did.

Instead, he crossed the room, cupped a hand on Jon’s cheek, leaned down, and kissed him. His lips tasted like citrus, and somehow, still, like mud, but that wasn’t important. What mattered was that he was Jon, and he was kissing him back. He shuddered under Martin’s touch as though he was going to cry. Martin pulled him closer. Jon’s hands found their way to Martin’s collar, and he clung to the fabric the way he had in the hallway, clung like Martin might at any moment be ripped away from him.

“Martin…” he whispered into the air between them, and Martin shivered. He’d thought he was making progress towards becoming truly Lonely, he thought he’d gotten to a point where he could hear Jon say his name like that without caring, but apparently he’d buried his feelings in a very shallow grave, and they were crawling their way out now.

“Jon…” he whispered back, threading a hand through the tangles of his hair while his other hand traced along the length of Jon’s mud-encrusted sleeve until it reached Jon’s hand. Jon didn’t loosen his grip, even when Martin enveloped his hand in his own and tried to gently unclasp it. In the end, Martin gave up trying and simply savored the feeling of Jon’s thin, scarred hand beneath his palm.

It hit him all at once that Jon was safe, that he was alive. It was only a matter of time before he did something else monumentally dangerous, but Martin was determined to enjoy this moment for as long as it lasted.

It couldn’t last forever, though. Eventually he had to pull away, and begin, reluctantly, to disentangle himself from Jon. He was finally able to pry Jon’s hand from his collar, and raised it to his lips to press an apologetic kiss to his knuckles.

“I have to go.”

“Right.” Jon had managed to compose himself a bit, and his voice was steady and resigned. “You have to go back to work. For Peter Lukas.”

“I do.” Martin didn’t like saying it anymore than Jon liked hearing it, but it was the truth. “I can’t back out now, not until I know what this big threat he’s investigating actually is. And that means-”

“I know,” Jon said. “I know, I do. I’ll… give you space.” He’d folded in on himself, holding his arms tight to his chest as though to resist the temptation to reach back out for Martin. “If you say you know what you’re doing-”

“I do.”

“Then I trust you.”

Martin made to move towards the door, and Jon stepped out of his way, ready to watch him walk away. Before he did, he gave in to temptation one last time, and leaned down to kiss Jon’s mud-smeared forehead. “Stay safe, Jon,” he whispered.

Jon looked up at him with a sad, tired smile. “I will if you will.”

“It’s a deal,” Martin replied, before finally tearing himself away and walking out the door, leaving Jon - mud-stained and exhausted but, for the moment, safe - alone in the empty breakroom.

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#reblogs are very appreciated!#the last few things i've posted haven't gotten much traction - which is super understandable but still disheartening #so any rbs likes kudos comments etc would really mean a lot to me #tma fic #tma fanfic #jonmartin #jonmartin fic #long post #do not archive

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envihellbender · 8 months

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TMA Repo AU? :3

Characters: Annabelle Cane, Nikola Orsinov, Elias Bouchard, Michael Shelley, Jared Hopworth, Agnes Montague, Hezekiah Wakely, Mary Keay, Gerard Keay

Verse: The Magnus Archives, Repo! The Genetic Opera AU

GeneCo is owned by Annabelle Cane, the owner and CEO, thus the most powerful woman in the world. Her Repo men are always accompanied by spiders, that stitch up the victims after the debt has been taken. Corpses are found sewn up with web or in giant cocoons of white silk. Spider web is everywhere, the more powerful she gets, the higher her stock prices, the more there are, and spiders covering desks in GeneCo’s headquarters is a common sight. Spiders are nature’s healers, Annabelle says, you can’t have a safe, healthy surgery without them. They are needed to stitch on your new face, and they crawl inside your body to investigate where the issues are. Spiders. The health of the future.

Nikola Orsinov has adjustments made to her body every week, adoring fashion shows with her nutcracker chic. She runs the theatre, performing the most intricate plays anyone has ever seen. Her actors are extraordinary, critics say it’s almost as if they are her puppets, pouring out their anguish onto the stage. She is addicted to the surgeries given by her dear friend Annabelle Cane, and her body is more web than skin.

Elias Bouchard has an exciting new tech venture funded by GeneCo, one that has caused it’s products to fly off the shelves faster than you can say ‘human rights violation!’ Small chips that are surgically transplanted into your mind, connecting to the televisions, computers, and other electronics around you. You can simply think questions and the answer will appear before your eyes. Please ignore the fine print that says we can see your every move, and your organs now belong to GeneCo.

Michael Shelley was once such a sweet, lovely young man. He won a GeneCo scholarship to study at the most prestigious private school, where he was taught by the greatest minds the world had to offer. He was always more fascinated by art, so often turned down any internships that were thrown at him regarding GeneCo. He felt as if they were trying to push him or study things he was not interested in, until Annabelle Cane gave him the offer of a lifetime. She wanted Michael to design new body parts, and this piece of information explains everything you need to know about Michael’s appearance. He designs his own limbs and organs before they are created and placed inside him. That is why his hands and fingers are terrifyingly elongated, why his smile is far too wide for his face, and why his skin seems to shine different colours and sometimes turn into random colours like a glitching television screen.

Jared Hopworth is the most enthusiastic and bloodthirsty repo-man there is. He is proud of his work, wearing his uniform constantly and showing off about his talents to anyone that will listen. He is also the best at his job, the only issue is that if he is coming to take just that kidney back. It’s also very possible he’ll take your liver, a couple of ribs, your tibia, and a few finger bones. For his collection you understand. Don’t worry, you won’t be alive/conscious to witness him forcing them into his own body.

Agnes Montague, the beautiful, most stunning musician of our time. She is the headliner of every single one of Nikola Orsinov’s shows, and sings to sold out tours several times a year. She is Annabelle Cane’s poster child for her surgical endeavours. When Agnes was a child, she was horrifically burned from head to toe, but thanks to GenCo, her body is beautiful and perfectly functioning. She had clear skin, beautiful wide eyes, and organs that are even better than the natural kind! Please ignore the sad look in her face, that one of longing to escape, to be normal, real, to be far away from the endless tours and being praised for something she had no choice over.

Hezekiah Wakely is a name everyone knows, a rather strange man who dresses as if it were two centuries ago and speaks in the same way. He wears iconography for a church that no longer exists, and is often carrying a bottle of wine. You can however find him in the cemetery. He digs out the bodies and with what he finds he can sell a few valuables, some black market organs, and most important create his very own Zydrate. That is precisely why so many seek him out, whilst the wretch may be a drunk, sleeping in an open grave, he is remarkably talented and takes great care at brewing and selling his remarkable supply of Zydrate.

Mary Keay is a occult and esoteric historian, one who can tell you in great detail about where Annabelle Cane’s (or rather GeneCo’s) work originates from. You see a century ago there was a man named Jonah Magnus, who’s spectacular work in human biology granted him a Nobel prize before he was thirty. However, his attempt to constantly upgrade his body with new, younger organs was not something that he succeeded with. Scientists did continue in his vein, particularly Jurgen Leitner, who collected enough information from Jonah Magnus’s secret library to figure out more about the biology of the entire world (and how it connected to the supernatural of course) than GeneCo will ever allow us to believe. Or so the story goes. Some people say Leitner was a crackpot, one who’s theories were based on a bored rich boy’s fantasies. Some say that Annabelle Cane is deliberately keeping the truth from her citizens. Mary Keay is dedicated to Leitner and Magnus, and is determined to learn everything she can using her very own son as a Guinea pig.

Gerard Keay is kept in his bedroom by his long suffering mother. He’s not under the impression that he’s sick or weak, he simply knows he needs to be restrained to his bed for his mothers, many, many experiments. Any illness or injury he has is almost certainly as a result of his mother’s intervention. It is unclear to Gerard if she’s a Repo-man herself, or simply on good terms with one. However, the silk scars all over his skin, and ink that creates strange patterns show that many, many of his organs have been changed and ‘upgraded’ through out the years. If any part of his body is still his, he doesn’t know what it is. And according to his mother he spends all of his time shut up in his room, and definitely does not sneak out at every single change that he can get.

#envi writes #the Magnus archives #r!tgo au #body horror

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maybe daisy comes back but still sometimes gets a little wolf-y from the Hunt so jon gives her his rib to chew on to calm her down

#the magnus archives #u see what happens when i'm not making sad posts is i make shit posts #is this body horror do i tag this body horror or what #...just in case #body horror cw #cannibalism cw #bcos it is a little bit maybe #ANYWAY is this just bcos my roommate's dog is so cute when he chews on a bone. yeah.#jon has to find a use for his rib now that it's not an anchor #martin sees it one day with bite marks and has a full fucking Moment about it #daisy only gnaws it a LITTLE bit she has other things to chew on and jon only has the one rib out #but it's a nice gesture and it does help for some reason #maybe sometimes she considers going to find jared hopworth to get jon's other rib #jared has so many bones this will be fine

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izzyliker · 3 years

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I LIKE. totally get why people arent super into jondaisy or daisy in general and i dont really think people need to feel positively about daisy because like beyond the “someone who committed unforgivable acts of violence” angle there is also the layer of “police brutality” which is going to hit a lot of people in ways that are both very personal and stiflingly societal. but . i am going to discuss jondaisy. because i am so fucking fascinated by their dynamic in so many ways.

anyway in s5 the things that stood out to me were.

1. jon saying he never forgave daisy

2. daisy never asking him to

3. jon wishing daisy had recognized him, after going fully hunt.

and it was i think such a chilling distillation of their dynamic that makes me FUCKING LOSE IT. like the fact that

one, jon did not ever forget OR forgive daisy for what she did to him,

two, he TRIED TO CUT OFF HIS FINGERS and then GAVE UP HIS RIBS to go into the coffin to SAVE HER despite this,

THREE, there is NO FUCKING WAY daisy didnt know that jon DID NOT FORGIVE HER and that him going into the coffin for her was NOT him saying its ok now, youre forgiven, but a very pointed its not fine and i dont forgive you but this is the right thing to do, and

FOUR i believe that yes her reflection and introspection re her actions and the kind of person shed been and let herself be and enabled basira to be as well happened partially because she was in the buried for six months with nothing but her thoughts BUT the catalyst for her desire to ACTUALLY change and decide to do whatever the fuck it took to be better INCLUDING die was because jon got into the coffin to rescue her, NOT because he forgave her, but because he DIDNT, and he did it anyway.

(arguably you can say that it was also a kind of a suicide mission. you can also argue it was because at that point jon was trying to get SOMETHING concrete GOOD done. you can also argue jon was just sort of like, resigned to the idea that he was good for nothing anyway so it didnt really matter. but jon saying he didnt forgive her makes me think there was an interpersonal relationship between them that made this a MORE complicated choice than “going into coffin easy way to die” like tim’s choice to blow the wax museum up was, or martin’s surrender to the lonely)

like. i cant fucking imagine the kind of person you have to be to be willing to cut your fingers off. to go to jared fucking hopworth and go take my fucking ribs idc. i need to go into the buried to save the woman who has been nothing but hostile to me and who tried to KILL me. and i need something to anchor me. so i will give up A PART OF MY BODY for that purpose. it makes me fucking lose my mind imagining the guilt daisy mustve felt. or not even guilt, because she wouldnt wallow in that, but – looking at someone who did that for her. who believed in her that much. that she was still worth saving. who said im a monster. and i dont forgive you for what you did to me, because i cant and dont want to and i get to choose if i do that and i won’t. and said youre a monster too. but i still think youre worth saving. so you can be better. because i still think we can both be better.

which goes back to the wishing she’d recognized him. because she recognized him once, as a peer. as another person whod done things that they felt could never be forgiven (on a smaller scale and this is arguable anyway, sure, but still) but who still saw her as a person. there was a time where they saw each other as equals who were pushing each other to do better. and its such a fucking shame that it can’t happen again because daisy is gone now.

#they had such a feeling of kinship in s4. like i cant imagine. how they felt about each other.#i literally get knocked breathless. gnaws on my own fist #best wishes gargoyle king #jondaisy #tma #suicide ment

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subcorax · 4 years

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various hugs as rated by jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute, london

OG Archives Crew:

tim stoker pros: very large and buff, but also soft. will squeeze jon as tight and as long as he wants. is six foot whatever and jacked so he's way bigger than jon and can entirely envelop him, which is the closest thing jon's getting to a weighted blanket these days. cons: tim is an oldest and favourite cousin, which means that when he hugs people smaller than him, they're usually children. as a result, there is a roughly 30% chance that if jon goes in for a hug he'll get a hair ruffle and lifted slightly off the ground to go with it. overall rating: 9/10. tim gives truly excellent hugs.

martin blackwood pros: will literally give jon a hug whenever he asks for one without making it feel awkward, which is nice because jon almost always feels awkward talking to people. will also sometimes ask jon if he wants a hug if he's looking a bit pathetic lately. is made of 60% soft wooly jumpers and 30% stuffing, the most warm and comfortable hug. also usually strokes jon's back while he's at it, which is extremely nice. cons: sometimes if jon's leaning into the hug a bit too much martin will physically make him stop working and take a nap, which is not doing great things for jon's work ethic overall rating: 9.5/10. i may be in love with you, martin, but i do actually need to do work sometimes?

sasha james pros: casual hugger, doesn't make jon feel weird about it, just goes in for a quick hug and a peck on the cheek when she's heading out for the day, or if she feels like it. she smells very nice. he kind of wonders what shampoo she uses. cons: despite being sturdier than she looks, she is not quite large enough to apply the force that jon perhaps wants in a hug. overall rating: 8.5/10. delightful, but without the capacity for a proper bear hug a la martin or tim.

not!sasha pros: no. cons: you know when you're at a family gathering and a relative that you only distantly recognize the face and name of comes up and hugs you like, way too familiarly, and it's kinda cloyingly creepy? it's exactly like that overall rating: stranger/10. please never do that again.

Latter Days Crew

melanie king pros: has never in her life half-assed a hug. seems to be trying to break jon's ribcage, which he appreciates. cons: she is often very angry at him, and so does not hug him very often. overall rating: 6/10. good when he got it but he does not often get it.

basira hussain pros: she doesn't really do Full Hugs with jon, she's more likely to toss an arm around his shoulder and pull him against her side, kind of a Bro Side Hug situation, which actually goes a long ways towards making him feel Human and Included and Not Hated. good friend bro hug. cons: kinda lacking in creature comforts. basira is not very soft or demonstrative. not exactly a shoulder he would be comfortable crying on. overall rating: 7/10. he appreciates the sentiment.

daisy tonner pros: daisy WILL go in for a Full Hug with jon, especially after the buried. she is also Strong and will squeeze him, and often seems to need a hug as much as he does. sometimes smells like basira's perfume and sometimes like her own deoderant, both of which are nice. cons: she will make fun of him for leaving tear stains on her shirt. jon has never had a big sister but he thinks that this is what cain and abel were on about. overall rating: 9/10. fantastic except for the schoolyard bullying

Miscellaneous Archives Staff

elias bouchard pros: gives a surprisingly firm, steady hug. like, there's something almost paternal about it, jon just feels proud that elias is proud of him. also he's in a fancy suit and wears very expensive cologne, it just feels like hugging something kind of luxurious and expensive. cons: literally everything else about elias overall rating: latent parental issues/10. it was weird. he tries not to think about it.

gertrude robinson pros: jon never actually met gertrude, but all of the photos he's seen and her voice on the tapes reminds him of his grandmother, so he kind of imagines it'd be like hugging her. a balance between firm and frail, smelling vaguely like all old ladies start to smell like. cons: outside of the nostalgia factor for him, grandma hugs aren't actually that great overall rating: hypothetically, 3/10. he feels like he's got perfume stuck up his nose.

gerard kaey pros: seemed like a cool dude. taller than jon, and exceedingly kind. seemed like he would be really open to a hug. cons: he was a ghost when they met, so they could not hug. overall rating: hypothetically 9/10. jon's adding extra points out of guilt.

michael shelley pros: seemed pretty nice from what he's heard? cons: seemed pretty boring from what he's heard? overall rating: hypothetically 5/10. he seemed fine.

Various Other Avatars

peter lukas pros: very broad. soft belly. big coat. beard. definitely is capable of giving a Good Bear Hug. cons: literally everything else about peter lukas. also he'd probably be cold overall rating: MORE latent parental issues/10. this will never happen. jon's just kind of touch-starved at this point.

michael pros: very friendly about it. exceedingly friendly about it. seems truly delighted by the concept of hugging jon. cons: is equally truly delighted by the concept of stabbing jon. overall rating: ooo ow ouch pointy/10. mistakes were made.

helen pros: actually seems to like jon every now and again. smells like real estate agent perfume. no, he doesn't know how to explain it. it's like a professional scent. cons: stabbed jon again, but accidentally this time overall rating: ooooo ouch pointy but in a pantsuit/10. god he's getting desperate

jared hopworth pros: many arms to hug with cons: none of those arms are his. several of them are bulging with meat and bones the way arms are not supposed to. smells like raw steak. overall rating: 2/10. jon does not have standards anymore.

jude perry pros: very butch, which jon has learned to trust, in a hug partner cons: Literally Made Of Boiling Wax overall rating: hot/10. considerably more mistakes have been made.

georgina barker pros: it's georgie. jon knows georgie. jon fucking adores georgie. she is very smart and comfortable and soft and knows how much he likes having his hair scratched like that. cons: she has absolutely no compunctions about telling jon that he's a fucking idiot, and like sure, he deserves it, but can it wait until after the hug? overall rating: 8.5/10. can i have a cup of tea please georgie. no i will not be releasing you from the hug to let you go and make the tea.

the admiral pros: admiral cons: none overall rating: 10/10. the perfect hug.

#the magnus archives #tma #magnuspod #magnus pod #the magnus institute #no i will not be taking questions at this time.#long post

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👉👈What happened with Jared Hopworth?? [Martin + Tapes]

Ahhhh yes, I did mention that some sort of epic drama had gone down with Jared in the Martin+Tapes universe in this ask, didn’t I? Okay, let me explain.

It happens after the Goggles Incident. Martin is furiously plotting ways to get the damn things off him. He’s pulled himself out of his pit of despair and is desperate to find something, anything to give him a sliver of hope. So he turns to the statements, reads through them furiously, gets reminded of the Boneturner and latches onto one idea--

The goggles felt like they had fused into his flesh and bone. So maybe then... someone who could literally shape bones could...?

It takes a shit ton of prep work, but Martin pulls it off. He locates, Jared in advance, slips away from the others, and bolts for where he knows Jared is staying. He only has hours, he knows, before they find him and realize what he was up to, so he has to get there fast.

And he does! He gets to Jared’s shitty gym! He bursts right into his office! Now all he has to do is get Jared to take off these goggles and--

“Nope.”

Martin wheezes, still out of breath from running. “What?”

“I ain’t workin’ for free bud.”

Martin almost screams. “You are! a Monster that! Eats! Fear!”

“Yeah, and what about it?” Jared says.

“You literally--you love to take bones! It’s your fucking-fuckingn hobby? Passion?”

“And you think that means you don’t gotta pay me?” Jared asks, indignant. “That’s disrespectful to artists, that is.”

“Wh-”

“That’s how people get exploited,” Jared sniffs. “Actin’ like people don’t gotta get paid so much if they got a ‘fun’ job, like making dumb shit nerd games or paintin’ flowers.”

Martin stammers. “Fine, Fine! I d-don’t, I don’t have any money, but uhhhh. um. oh WAIT.” Martin lights up. “You can take my eyes! Both of them!”

But see the problem is that Jared has, by now, correctly identified Martin as a Nerd. And a Desperate nerd. And Jared, personally, thinks this nerd looks funny when he’s begging (which he’s objectively correct about), so he’s gonna engage in some recreational bullying of the “dangle controller above nerd’s head” variety. Basically, he deliberately make things as difficult as possible even though he’s already decided to steal Martin’s bones and nab his goggles.

“Don’t sound like you want your eyes much. Sounds like you’re trying to get me to do another job and actin’ like that’s payment.”

“Wh-what? No!”

“What next, you gonna pay me with exposure dollars?”

Martin practically bites his hand. “I don’t have time for this! I-I’m going to be found in two hours at most! I’m going to get tracked down, and...”

“Hm. You mean dangerous people are after ya? And you aren’t even offering hazard pay?”

“Just take anything you want!” Martin says. “eyes, spleen, gallbladder, heart--I don’t care just take off these things!”

“Hm, sounds like more work.”

Martin puts his face in his hands and screams.

And see Jared keeps him going like that for a good hour, grinning, watching Martin unravel and try to offer more and more, seeming to accept at first and then refusing, etc. He’s having a great time, but unfortunately it means that Jon, Tim, and Sasha burst in to drag Martin away before Jared can take any bones :(

Back in his office, Elias is already making arrangements to have Jared permanently deported to where Martin won’t ever be able to track him down again.

#martin + tapes

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t00thpaste28 · 3 years

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tma notes- mag 17 "the boneturner's tale"

-ah yes this episode, lived it, loved it, don't really remember it

-leitner episode woohoo!

-michael crew mentioned checking out several books (including this one)

-first mention of jared hopworth

-big man

-elias voice reveal grrrrrrr

-"fine i'll be more lovely"

-martin mentioned having "stomach problems" we know what that means ;)

-deflated rat

-the flesh is ick

-jared testing his boneturner-ness on his mother? not poggers

-nvm she's a bitch

-when he said the boneturner's tale this time there was a slight static rise and it feels significant

-ewwwwww the whole reaching out ur hand where u can't see and pulling it back wet is gross to me

-damn buddy are those all your limbs? that's pretty gender of u

-jurgen leitner slander making jon question his skepticism? pretty poggers

-so much mentioning elias grrr bark bark bark grrrrrrrrrrr

#tma notes #tma #mag 17

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gerrydelano · 3 years

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Secret Martin ship.... Melanie's friend Andy? Is that anything?

you know what, i’m actually going to cave and throw you guys a bone: andy IS something! but only short-term interest number one, because martin is a chad and my timeline goes a while before the endgame kicks in. sometimes casual nice things happen before the epic tragic romance! and we love that for him. we love this a little less for melanie because she’s going to have to deal with it since she lives with them now 😂

i’m going to concisely list the other guesses under the cut.

here’s all the old asks, but i’m re-typing them easier to read.

[REDACTED] (15) - PEOPLE DID GUESS HIM! but i am not telling<3

mike crew (5) - a very popular guess but nope! he does not give enough of a shit to date anybody lettuce bee reel.

oliver (3) - counting a guess on ao3! nope. not rowdy enough.

...martin (2) - self love... i’m amused enough by this one to keep it especially since this whole thing happened before he talked to Martin 2.0 in season 5 LMFAO. G-D... you may not be PBR prophets but you ARE prophets nonetheless.

jared hopworth (2)

graham folger (2)

timothy hodge (3) - got another guess for him after he showed up in the text itself which makes SENSE now that he’s got more of a personality but nope, that’s actually what disqualifies him! secret man shows up in the next chapter.

jordan kennedy (2)

jan kilbride (2)

anatomy students/john doe (2)

brian the spider guy (2)

andre rameo (2) - homophobic vase guy! poor dude. no new husband for you, or at least not this one

georgie’s shopska salad guy (1) - props for this one ngl

benoit the beetle guy (1)

an OC of mine (1)

gerry (1) - the ACTUAL initial reason for there being a new ship is that i Cannot ship him with gerry here

tim (1) - the ship is literally gerry/tim, and thus, no,

jon (1) - it would not be a secret if it was jon! it’d also be ooc and not good for them in the same way as it is in canon, here. jon’s got plenty else going on, too! i will tell you that they hit it off as friends a lot faster here since jon has No actual reason to split the way he did in canon. fun!

sasha (1) - he is a whole entire homogay

salesa (1) - too old don’t guess old people please :’-(

joshua guillespe (1)

evan lukas (1)

dominic swain (1)

breekon OR hope (1) - no! he is not a homewrecker! the accusation...

one of the fucking mechanisms (1) - why would i ever,

sergey ushanka (1) - by far the wildest one

michael shelley/distortion (1) - absolutely the unholy fuck not<3

alfred grifter (1) - my g-d jhbkn

carlos vittery (1)

diego molina (1) - :-(

raymond fielding (1) - :-(

*andy cain (1) - DING DING! you got 1/2 of martin’s intended boytoys. their relationship is pretty much limited to casual sex and acquaintanceship before it ends.

mateo james (2) - our OC for sasha’s brother. adorable but nope!

sebastian skinner (1)

ethan taylor (1) - guy from lost in the crowd apparently

pharos (1) - nope! that breaks the “no gerry x martin” rule and also they do not see eye to eye enough to even be friends, honestly

daniel rawlings (1)

john fellows (1) - literally said “whom.” OH other anglerfish victim okay coolcool yeah no i forgot he existed

if you really want to keep guessing, i might not publish/will just update the asks & this one! i certainly won’t publish if you guess correctly. even if you guess, you won’t be able to predict my actual PLANS for them, so it’s fine, but i still want it to surprise as many people as possible! i’m still interested in seeing if anyone gets it right after the fact, but i'm going to once again remind you of the hints i already gave:

not a one off statement giver

not a woman

not an OLD GUY

a little bit monster-y

edit! people have asked for more conditions and so it’s also:

someone who IS in a statement somewhere

someone mentioned in my stuff before

#pbr tag #secret martin ship #anon #asks

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resignedseraph · 3 years

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Notes from the sermon at my relatives church that I had to attend in person but I was only half fronting for because it was so intensely nationalistic and religious 😌✌️

🎶no one knows I’m an anti capitalist 🎶 no one knows I’m an anti capitalist 🎶

Smth about chosen people and becoming christian = becoming strangers and exiles of the world

“Submissive proclamation” whatever that means was a key point last week ig

Called to be clay or something ew

Beauty on the outside / not with like jewelry or w/e

alter in the system I’m host of: sorry, I can’t hear you, I’m too busy having complicated hairstyles and wearing fine clothing and gold jewelry! Every sexist word this man says, the neckline of this shirt just gets deeper

Vertical relationship? how is this good??

Well the “battle of the sexes” was introduced and Pastor B makes it hilarious clear that men and women are Definitely Different but as a non-binary person I am exempt from this :)

“Culture will tell you men and women are the same and we have no differences, but we are different because we have differences and those differences aren’t better or worse but they aren’t the same because we’re different” take a sip of water every time he says “differences”

Jared Hopworth, painless style (talking about Adam’s ribs)

There’s like at LEAST 100 US flags here; I can see 86 from my seat and I know there’s more I can’t see

Uhh weird curses on women here?? Idk

Jfsgyyfhgv talking about “female dominance over husbands” like what now when has this been the vast majority in the last couple thousand years???

“I didn’t put on a cowboy hat today because Modesty and Giving Glory To God Not Me” really weird flex but okay

Feminism win! Men are also weak

Opening pickle jars are husband’s displays of support to their wives??? Anyway I love strong women who will open pickle jars for me

#Esrah talks #the alter in question who made the comment about jewelry immediately changed his outfit to match just for effect #ex christian #ex baptist #ex evangelical #ex fundamentalist #sermon commentary #sexism tw

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cirrus-grey · 3 years

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TMA/The Good Place AU

I've seen other versions of this before and I have so many thoughts (Contains spoilers for all seasons of both shows)

Gertrude is the Architect, who thinks she's working for the good of the universe by punishing bad people but gradually learns compassion, friendship, and the ways in which the system is broken

Gerry is the neighborhood guide like Janet

He's a lot more incorporeal though

Instead of "not a robot, not a girl" he's got "not a boy, not a ghost"

Good Gerrys have poor dye jobs

Bad Gerrys have perfect dye jobs

Neutral Gerrys do not dye their hair

Yes this means disco Gerry exists

Magnus is the Head of the Bad Place who pretends to be the Judge

(The actual Judge is Dekker)

OG Elias is the pothead student who had a bad trip and predicted the whole afterlife system with almost perfect accuracy

Jon, Martin, Tim, and Sasha are the four humans in the first neighborhood

Jon and Tim think they belong in the Good Place

Martin and Sasha know they do not

Jon is told his research into the supernatural saved thousands of lives

Tim was an environmental activist

Sasha was a hacker but Gertrude welcomes her as a tech innovator who changed the world

Martin was just working a minimum wage job trying to get by and Gertrude welcomes him as a professional in the parapsychology field, he's given the same "your research saved lives" spiel as Jon

Jon and Martin are told they're soulmates

Tim and Sasha are told the same

Jon and Martin have the Chidi/Eleanor multi-season-long star-crossed fall-in-love-in-every-reboot plot arc

Tim and Sasha have the we-hooked-up-in-one-reboot-but-we're-better-as-friends Tahani/Jason dynamic

However, Sasha gets Eleanor's "there's someone with my name who's supposed to be here instead of me" plot

This is Not!Sasha

Peter Lukas is the Bad Place representative who brings Not!Sasha to the "Good Place"

Martin gets Jason's "the person with your name was in a near-death coma"

Sasha tells Tim she doesn't belong right out of the gate

Martin overhears them and the three end up working together

Martin does not tell Jon he doesn't belong, leading to Jon becoming paranoid about what he, Tim, and Sasha are always conspiring about together

It comes out in a "why are you lying" argument just like the CV thing in canon and Jon is heartbroken that he doesn't actually have a soulmate

He shuts Martin out for a while but eventually realizes he's fallen in love with him, soulmate or not

The four of them end up working together (somewhat)

When they go to the Medium Place they meet Mikaele Salesa

He was a cut-throat antiques and curiosities dealer who donated his fortune to aid the orphaned children of sailors on his deathbed

Eventually the whole "this is the Bad Place" reveal happens

Not sure who figures it out

They get rebooted

And rebooted again

And again

Gertrude does not know how they keep figuring it out but she's definitely losing control

The other demons in the neighborhood are talking about rebelling

(Jude Perry is that one fire demon who keeps walking around without their skinsuit)

(I'm thinking Jared "canonically hot" Hopworth is the one who keeps going to the gym)

She makes a deal with the four humans to help them get to the real Good Place if they play along with the torture, and finally concedes to letting Annabelle Cane run the next reboot

(Yes, to line up with the original show it would be the Not!Them but I think Annabelle is far more likely to want to pull everyone's strings)

Instead of the Jason/Janet romance there's a Tim&Gerry friendship

Since there's no romance there's no need for a rebound boyfriend, however Gerry ends up feeling really alone in Annabelle's reboot and builds himself a new best friend to cope

It does not go well

Michael/Helen is a glitchy, non-functional almost-human who nearly blows everyone's cover with the chaos they cause

They have two faces, two personalities, two identities that they flip between seemingly at random

They get more stable the more times they're rebooted

They go chill with Salesa in the Medium Place while the main crew makes their bid for the Good Place, fails, begs the Judge (Dekker) for mercy, and ends up back on earth

Instead of a near-death psychological study they're all brought together again with an un-death paranormal study

Run by Jon and his new girlfriend Georgie

Yes, Peter is the demon Magnus sends to interfere

Yes, Gertrude drop-kicks him back off the planet

They form the Soul Squad and go off into the world to save people

Not really sure who

But they end up visiting OG Elias and realizing how deep the problems with the system go

They pass through accounting, which is run by Oliver Banks, and meet the neutral Gerry

I'm thinking Leitner is that one demon who's forced to assign point values to weird sex acts

Not sure who makes up the Good Place council

But they make their way back to the Judge and get the whole "test neighborhood" thing to happen

The new humans are Daisy, Basira, Melanie, and Georgie

I know it would make sense for Jon to end up in charge of the neighborhood as Gertrudes's replacement, but nope, he gets his memory wiped because he's awful at lying and he can't pretend he doesn't know Georgie

Martin ends up in charge after Gertrude freaks out

Jon does not actually end up as a participant in the study, since none of the new humans are demons in disguise, so he's just kind of wandering around like a loose end

Georgie definitely pulls the "this is a near-death hallucination" thing

Martin breaks his own heart telling Jon that Georgie's his soulmate, hoping Jon will be able to convince her it's all real

It backfires

Jon's miserable

He eventually confides in Tim (he and Sasha are pretending to be normal humans) that he thinks there's been a mistake, unless... do you think platonic soulmates are a thing?

He doesn't want to date Georgie

He's in love with Martin

Tim tells Martin and Martin has to handcuff himself to his desk so he doesn't run off and kiss Jon senseless

Yes, they establish that platonic soulmates are a thing

Georgie starts dating Melanie

Jon and Martin pine from a distance

I'm thinking Basira is the problem resident who is not making any progress towards improvement

She's very reluctant to see the complicated morals of a situation and takes a long time to break out of her "us vs them" mindset

When they're approaching the one-year anniversary of the new neighborhood and the end of the experiment Melanie and Georgie gather together Tim, Sasha, Daisy, Basira, and Jon

They pull out a huge red-string theory board and say there's something wrong with the neighborhood

Tim and Sasha exchange nervous glances

Georgie says she thinks it's all orchestrated by Martin

They make a plan to meet up at the party that evening

Tim and Sasha go straight to Martin, Gertrude, and Gerry and tell them what's going down

They decide to run out the clock and hope nothing goes too wrong

When Martin stops by his office Jon is waiting for him

Jon spills Georgie and Melanie's whole theory

"They think you're plotting against us, but I know you wouldn't"

"Whatever this is, you're as much a pawn as we are, I think"

"This is supposed to be the Good Place, right? So no one should be unhappy"

"But I am unhappy, Martin. You are too! I've seen the look you get, when you think no one's looking"

"Martin, I've seen the way you look at me. You must know how I feel about you. What kind of Good Place would not allow us to be together?"

Martin is imploding

He really really really wants to kiss Jon

But instead he takes him by the shoulders and tells him "I know what's going on. You're right, there's something more here than you've been told, but trust me when I tell you it's nothing bad. I won't let anything bad happen to you, Jon. I've got you"

"Please just play along with whatever happens tonight, I promise I'll explain everything soon"

And Jon does. Even when the sinkhole happens, even when Martin laughs in his face and tells him he's in the Bad Place

"I really got you, Jon," he says. "I got you good"

"I've got you," Jon remembers, and trusts him

Anyway there's a lot of drama but the neighborhood was a success

Jon gets his memories back and there's a tearful reunion

They start implementing test neighborhoods for everyone so everyone has a chance of reaching the Good Place

And Jon, Martin, Tim, Sasha, Gertrude, and Gerry finally get to go as well

Of course they still need to fix the Good Place itself but that goes fine

And then everyone gets a happy ending, with as much time as they want to spend with the people they love

#the magnus archives #my magnus archives stuff #original post #my writing #jonathan sims #martin backwood #sasha james #tim stoker #tma the good place au

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Dumb thoughts on the Child Avatars AU

I dunno, just some dumb ideas I’ve had since I started talking about the AU online/brainstorming about it. (Putting it under a readmore for everyone’s sake)

The “Daisy kidnaps Jon” situation in this AU is Daisy riding her bike to Simon Fairchild’s mansion, holding a water-gun up to both Mike and Jon’s heads, and ordering them to ride with her to the grocery store to buy soda and hang out at a nearby playground for the day. Cue Elias flipping tf out when Jon isn’t at Simon’s place when he goes to pick him up later, Simon being half asleep because he was napping while the kids hung out, and Mike getting soaked by Daisy before he agrees to go with her, and since this happens in, like, late fall or early winter, he gets pneumonia afterwards and can’t hang out for awhile, leading to the kids jokingly saying he’s dead. Btw the only reason the trio was found is because Basira was invited after they made it to the park, and she convinced Daisy to let the boys go home. Daisy literally only kidnapped them because she wanted to play with someone.

Also the Buried!Daisy arc is Daisy getting eaten by a Buried controlled sandbox and Jon jumping in after her. The rest of the kids, who thankfully witnessed this, spent the next three hours digging for them, with Breekon & Hope eventually joining in to help since they were in the area. Daisy and Jon form a trauma bond afterwards and are now best friends.

Jon keeps getting marked by shit and it’s stressing Elias out because hE’S NOT READY FOR THE WATCHER’S CROWN YET!!! He needs more time to prepare, but his son is literally getting marked faster than fucking Sonic.

Speaking of Sonic, seeing as the “Console Wars” (Sega vs Nintendo) are happening during this time period, the kids take the rivalry Very Seriously. The biggest arguments are had between Sasha, Daisy, Julia, and Mike, who are all on Team Sega, and Jon, Martin, Tim, and Danny, who are all on Team Nintendo.

Sasha, close to tears she’s so angry: “Sega DO what NintenDON’T, Tim!!!”

When Martin was born, he only had one thick clump of curly hair that was white, but as he’s grown older and entered the Lonely multiple times, more of his hair has begun to turn white. As of the time of the AU “starting” (so when he’s 8 years old), he looks like he has white highlights in his hair.

Trevor isn’t a fully-fledged Hunt avatar yet, but the girls more or less are, so if you’ve ever watched Wolf Children, that’s pretty much the situation Trevor is currently trapped in. His daughters keeping changing into wolf pups and running wild as he frantically tries to hide their powers from anyone who isn’t Gerry.

(All of the kids secretly know already, even Basira.)

Basira is pretty much the only “normal” kid of the avatar children, save MAYBE for Tim, but he’s been deeply marked by the circus and has a few tiny powers (think S3 Jon as he was figuring out some of his powers, but wasn’t a full-on Archivist just yet).

The season 1 gang (including Danny) are the closest group of friends in the AU, save for Daisy and Basira’s friendship, and they hang out a lot at each other’s homes on the weekends.

Adelard usually brings Jane with him for his “trips” away from the institute, so it’s not unusual for her to be gone for long periods of time. But she always sends postcards and gifts to the institute for everyone!

Helen is three years old, so theoretically she should be able to talk, but she rarely does so, preferring to communicate via giggles and laughter. Only Jon, the Stoker brothers, and Michael can understand her, and they take turns translating for everyone else.

Whenever she’s brought to the institute, Helen takes to toddling around after Jon and Martin, giggling up a storm the whole time. Jon finds it a bit annoying while Martin is endlessly amused by her antics.

A list of the guardian’s/adult’s ages before I fucking forget (as of when the AU “starts” in 1994): Gertrude Robinson - 62, Elias Bouchard “Jonah Magnus” - 51 (200+), Peter Lukas - 55, Simon Fairchild - 83 (300+), Gerard “Gerry” Keay - 30, Michael Shelley - 32, Alfred Grifter - Unknown, Adelard Dekker - 48, Nikola Orsinov - 30ish (100+), Annabelle Cane - 34 (Unknown), Trevor Herbert - 47, Agnes Montague - 25ish (60+), Jude Perry - 35, Jared Hopworth - 29, The Admiral - 10.

The “good” parents all keep trying to set up some kind of PTA meeting so they can actually talk about how to raise these supernatural kids properly, but it keeps going horribly wrong; last time they tried, Alfred Grifter and his band showed up and nearly made Simon go deaf, so no one wants to initiate the next attempt at a meeting.

Tbh, at this point the Fear rituals are more successful than Elias’s shitty attempts at forming a PTA.

At some point in the AU Gerry, Michael, and Trevor all pitch in to buy a decently big house together, which leads to some serious Shenanigans now that Melanie is around Michael and Trevor’s kids/wards... let’s just say there’s gonna be a lot of knife related accidents.

Gerry taught Melanie how to fight when he took her in and it is the single worst decision he’s ever made in his short, goth life, even if he’ll never admit it. Melanie can now beat the shit out of everyone but Julia and Daisy, and it’s pure chaos every time. Tim puts up a decent fight, but he’s been spoiled on easy wins over his brother all his life. Jon tries and fails to so much as push her. Martin runs away crying before Melanie even throws the first punch. Needless to say, the other kids are very cautious about playing with Melanie now.

None of the kids have an education of any kind except for Mike. I’m serious; the only kid who’s decently educated is being raised by Foxy Grandpa Off His Shits McGee! Julia and Daisy have had some public education but not much, Elias refuses to do anything but home-school Jon yet he sucks shit at math, Tim and Danny don’t even know what a school fucking looks like, Melanie and Jane were too young to go to school when they became avatars, Martin has only recently been allowed near other kids so fuck public school (Peter can do math but Nothing Else), Annabelle fucking forgot to give Sasha any kind of an education outside of Web stuff, and Helen is still a very small child. None of these kids have gone to school for more than a few years at most and dear g-d is that gonna suck for them later down the line.

As a result of this, Basira has taught the other kids a few things when she’s come over and insisted on playing “school” with everyone, but she’s still just a kid and can’t always get them to pay attention during her lessons.

Because of this Rosie, Gerry, Michael, and Gertrude have all started making an effort to more or less home-school all of the kids, which has gone... well enough, I suppose. However, things have recently taken a weird turn since Jon keeps giving everyone the answers to assignments/tests via telepathy.

Jon: Whoa, you can make tea all by yourself, Martin!? Martin: Yeah, I’ve been doing it by myself since I was a toddler. I can also do laundry, mop floors, vacuum, and cook a few things, too! Tim: Wow, that’s really cool, Martin! I wish I could do stuff like that. Gertrude, off to the side: *Gives Peter a horrified look* I’m sorry, but did Martin just say he’s been making tea on his own since he was a toddler? Peter: ╮(╯ _╰ )╭ Unfortunately, I’m severely depressed.

Yeeeeeeeah, Martin’s in a similar childhood situation to his canon one, but at least there are people actually willing to help him out of it in this universe. Also, Peter will clean himself up at some point here, he’s just still dealing with more or less disowning himself from his family and learning hoe to not be so lonely.

Speaking Of Which, the Lukas family are pretty big antagonists in this AU, primarily through Peter’s mother (I’ll come up with a name for her later if I can’t find it on the wiki), who is trying to kidnap Martin and more or less feed him to the Lonely so Peter will get over his “childish feelings” and return to being her favorite child.

And yes, she DOES accidentally kidnap Jon instead at some point... this kid can literally not avoid getting kidnapped.

I like to think Mike and Julia are really good friends in this AU, being the closest in age and all. They hang out a lot since their dads are both so chill and won’t get upset about it, the two of them mostly just playing video games, watching movies, and biking around their respective neighborhoods together.

(Also they may or may not be responsible for a statement that involves a woman seeing a “flying wolf” passing over London... they’ve yet to confess to it, but Elias is dead certain they’re behind the incident.)

The worms incident is 100% Jane’s secret worm collection getting fucking loose... she was keeping them in the walls “for safe keeping” and No One Fucking Knew, not even Elias, until Jon saw a spider, punched the wall, and Revealed them.

Jon and Tim got their scars because Jane lost control of the worms and they burrowed into the kids. Cue a very panicked 999 call from someone in the institute and Child Services almost getting involved, but Elias managed to cover it up.

Afterwards, Jon is incredibly self-conscious about his worm scars, but Martin tells him “now we both have freckles!” and it honestly makes him feel a little better about the whole thing.

Also Adelard makes an effort to track down a child psychologist/counselor with institute ties so he can get Jane some therapy/help controlling her powers. He loves her to the moon and back, and he’s terrified of her getting traumatized by what she accidentally did.

During the incident, a Notthem gets loose from Artifact Storage and attacks Sasha, but seeing as Sasha is of the Web and the Notthem is connected to a Web artifact, it only manages to really hurt her, but thankfully not kill her. She ends up hospitalized for a few weeks, but comes out fine later on. The table mysteriously disappears afterwards, and no one knows if it was Gertrude or Annabelle’s doing, but either way, the kids never have to deal with a Notthem again.

At some point I wanna get into Jon’s paranoia in season 2 for this AU, but I’m considering changing it from being because of the Jane Prentiss issue to be because of Mr. Spider almost killing him. I dunno how exactly it’ll play out, but I think it has a lot of potential!

Okay, before I end this post full of weird rambling ideas for the AU, I wanna make a list of the powers that the kids have at the time of the story “starting”/the ones they develop down the line because Jonny Sims himself said that all avatars have different powers, and I really wanna infodump on my thoughts for the kids!

Current powers of Jonathan Sims-Bouchard: Can simply know things whenever he wants to (so long as the Eye lets him, but the Eye sometimes keeps him from knowing anything he isn’t mature enough to handle), can compel people to tell him things (the other kids are better at resisting it, and so are other people touched by the Eye), can survive on very little food if he’s fed mostly statements/other people’s trauma, can non-consensually feel the pain and emotions of the people around him, has some weak telepathy powers, and he can subconsciously summon tape recorders.

Future powers of Jonathan Sims-Bouchard: Increased healing abilities, can know most anything if he tries, ability to resist other Eye avatars’ compulsions, can survive purely off of statements/other people’s trauma, can choose whether or not to feel the pain and emotions of the people around him, has much stronger telepathy powers than before, can force himself into people’s minds and read their thoughts, and he can summon tape recorders at will (though some still show up without his knowledge sometimes).

Current powers of Martin Blackwood-Lukas: Can disappear into the Fog for several hours at a time (he cannot be seen by anyone but other Lonely avatars while in the fog), can summon clouds of fog that he can momentarily hide things in (including people), can “banish” most anyone into the fog, and has “Sea Captain Eyes” (he knows where the Tundra is at all times, and can lead someone to it without a map or compass).

Future powers of Martin Blackwood-Lukas: Can change his hair color at will (only to red, white, and a mix of the two colors), can see much better in the Fog and can find anyone he’s pushed into it, can more or less teleport using the Fog, and he has what’s more or less a pocket dimension of fog for storage/hiding his friends from danger (think the inside of Gems in Steven Universe).

Current powers of Tim Stoker-Orsinov: Can make small bipedal toys “come to life” for a few minutes at a time (they can’t talk or communicate; only move around and perform small tasks/dances), can tell when a Notthem is masquerading as someone else, is supernaturally talented at gymnastics, and can dance alongside the creatures of the Stranger without being fully corrupted by them.

Future powers of Tim Stoker-Orsinov: Better control over the powers he already has as well as a high tolerance for the Spiral.

Current powers of Danny Stoker-Orsinov: Can order around creatures of the Stranger against their will, can tell when a Notthem is masquerading as someone else, can dance alongside the creatures of the Stranger without being fully corrupted by them, is supernaturally talented at gymnastics, and can change his voice to anything he likes (not always intentionally, though).

Future powers of Danny Stoker-Orsinov: Can more or less “teleport” to other circus locations by walking into theaters, can now change his voice to whatever he likes with his knowledge and consent, can take over as the Stranger’s ringmaster if necessary, can trigger a mesmerizing dance whenever he’d like, and has a high tolerance for the Spiral.

Current powers of Sasha James-Cane: Can communicate with spiders and have them send messages to other Web avatars, can read minds if she tries really hard, can “trap“ other entities in large webs that she can summon (takes a lot of energy), and she has Spider-Man-like abilities (can walk on walls and ceilings, can carry much more than her weight should allow, etc).

Future powers of Sasha James-Cane: Can now read minds without too much effort, can navigate almost any area that’s being controlled/influenced by the Web, can create webs without nearly as much effort as before, can transform her body to have more arms, legs, and eyes, and she now has venomous fangs (which can thankfully be controlled and/or hidden).

Current powers of Alice “Daisy” Tonner: Can turn into a wolf at will/when she’s especially emotional, can smell blood from several miles away, and has supernatural senses/physical abilities.

Future powers of Alice “Daisy” Tonner: Can now track most any monster she’s hunting once she gets at least one good look at them, can communicate with other Hunters via howling, and can navigate the Buried if needed (though this is very triggering for her and will cause her to pass out afterwards).

Current powers of Julia Montauk: Can turn into a wolf at will/when she’s especially emotional, can smell blood from several miles away, has supernatural senses/physical abilities, can track most any monster if she knows their name, can communicate with other Hunters via howling, and she can shift into a bipedal werewolf when she feels like she’s in danger.

Future powers of Julia Montauk: All of her previous powers have drastically improved, plus she has better control of them now.

Current powers of Basira Hussain: She has common fucking sense, something almost none of the other children have.

Future powers of Basira Hussain: She common sense AND she has a werewolf GF now. :) ((No dating for the babies, not until they’re at least teenagers))

Current powers of Melanie King-Grifter: Can listen to Grifter’s Bone without being damaged in any way, the music of Grifter’s Bone makes her powers exemplified for a period of time after she listens to it, the smell of blood triggers her to become violent, she can summon sharp weapons (knives, swords, etc) from thin air, and she can see a red aura around other people who have been marked by the Slaughter.

Future powers of Melanie King-Grifter: She has much better control of her abilities now, she can perform Grifter’s Bone songs for people and keep them from dying/going feral, and she can now also summon other weapons from thin air (guns, baseball bats, etc).

Current powers of Oliver Banks: Can see people’s deaths a week in advance via his dreams, he sees dark tentacles around people who are going to die soon, can see but not talk to ghosts, and he can smell death on anyone who’s undead/controlling other people’s bodies.

Future powers of Oliver Banks: Can raise the dead and control them to do his bidding (takes a lot of energy), can speak cat (not End related; Admiral related), and he can cause people to die within the week if he touches them in his dreams.

Current powers of Georgie Barker: Can see a “death countdown” over people who are going to die within the next thirty days, doesn’t feel any fear whatsoever, can see but not talk to ghosts, and she sees a dark sludge staining the clothes of people who have been marked by the End.

Future powers of Georgie Barker: Can bring people back to life for a minute or so by touching them (think Pushing Daisies type powers), can speak cat (not End related; Admiral is best cat dad), and she can communicate with ghosts much better now.

Current powers of Jane Prentiss-Dekker: Can summon bugs of most kinds from her mouth and under her fingernails, can communicate with bugs, and can fight off most diseases without any trouble.

Future powers of Jane Prentiss-Dekker: Can now completely control bugs via a hive mind effect, can summon bugs from anywhere on her body, has much stronger healing abilities than Jon, and she can see invisible bugs crawling on the skin of those who the Corruption wants her to get rid of (it’s hard for her not to give in to it’s desires).

Current powers of Mike Crew-Fairchild: Can levitate/fly at will, can summon clouds of any kind (rain, thunder, snow, etc) in any conditions, has much higher resistance to the weather/temperature, and he can “banish” people into the Vast at will.

Future powers of Mike Crew-Fairchild: Same as before, but with slightly better control than he had as a teenager.

Current powers for Helen Richardson-Shelley: Can change the world around her to be more like the Spiral (adding more doors, changing the colors of things, causing hallucinations, etc), can change any door into a doorway into the Spiral, and she can amplify her voice (very hard to control as a baby).

Future powers for Helen Richardson-Shelley: Can now summon doors that lead to the Spiral from thin air, has much better control over her powers and abilities than before, can morph her body to be longer and sharper at will, and she can “banish” people into the endless hallways of the Spiral.

((Holy shit, that took awhile))

Anyways, here’s a playlist I made for the AU, feel free to scream at me for my very weird taste in music: Pinky Swear That You Won’t Go Changing

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