#If I make Luka Martin

[kamikazeonwings]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[echolett]

I think I'm gonna work on my Miraculous Tma au I miss them but also like grrrr pulling at my hair yknow

[cabinette]

AU martin i've been cooking on the tma rp twitter....

[hell0jon]

YOU KNOW I GETS MY PIMPIN OWWWNNNNNN

[annamationsart]

i’m sure someone’s already thought of this but like tma hadestown au when… (ft. low budget doodles)

[cult-of-the-eye]

Praying to Martin K Blackwood to one day have as much audacity as he does

[kesp-mimosa-blaze]

Okay but I can’t even imagine how terrifying it would be to wake up midway through an operation, much less a diy operation your boss is doing while your coworker stands menacingly watching after they basically homebrew sedated you. It sounds like she’s probably still alive based on what I’ve gathered so far but it sounds like all the fight got taken out of her, which I’m hoping is a good thing but right now I’m really not sure

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

Can I ask—what’s the difference between “by coercion” and “unawareness/conditioning”?

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if the wording is a bit confusing. As it's put in the intro post:

Yes, by coercion: they would go through with it, but only if threatened with a loved one's life or something along those lines.

Yes, by unawareness or conditioning: they wouldn't realize until it's too late or would be raised to be an avatar, unaware their way of existence is not normal.

To explain a bit further (spoilers for several character arcs in TMA):

Coercion means the character would be forced or manipulated into it by someone or something. It requires a degree of awareness of what is happening (otherwise they'd go under unawareness).

Robert Montauk being forced to work for The People's Church of the Divine Host to get his wife back could be an example, though I'm not sure he ever achieved full Dark avatar status.

Basira would have ended up in this category if she'd continued to work for the institute long enough to become an Eye avatar, as Elias forced her to sign the contract under threat of Daisy's life.

I'd probably put Martin in the coercion category too, since he was going along with Peter Lukas and The Lonely to potentially save Jon.

Conditioning means that the character was groomed into it by someone from a young age, or born to be an avatar. It should be noted that this only applies to people or beings who under other circumstances could have made a different choice. A being that came into existence as an expression of a Fear would be manifestation instead.

Agnes Montague is kind of the defining example of this category, though members of the Lukas family being raised into it also count.

I think Gerry Keay could be another example of this. Eye avatarhood specifically wasn't a foregone conclusion for him, but he never really had a chance at a normal life. Willingly may be more accurate; he didn't choose to get involved with the Fears, but he did choose The Eye.

Unawareness is pretty self-explanatory, though I would point out this doesn't mean that the character never realises they are transforming. That (strictly speaking) wouldn't actually work, since becoming an avatar does require an active choice at some point. In this case it's more that the character doesn't realise until they're at the point of no return and the choice they are making is between death or becoming an avatar. If they refuse once they realise it'd be "go along but stop before transformation".

Jon is an example. Coercion could also be argued, given that Elias was definitely pushing him to go further and further using the (false) threat of the Unknowing, but I think Jon was too unaware of how he was being manipulated to go in coercion.

I think Michael Shelley would also go into this category. He was manipulated into it by Gertrude, but he had no idea what was going to happen. His case is a bit of a strange one in general though, I'm not sure he even had any affinity for The Distortion to start with.

At the end of the day, these are just my opinions and you can vote however you want, but I hope this helps answer your question! (Sorry for the essay)

[nikkodikko]

This episode was!!!! It surely was!!!!

Peter gets to look normal sometimes i just haven't figured out how and i like fog man

Also eyevatars doodle dump

Elias is extremely fun to draw i hate this man

[liverpool-enjoyer]

hey lads at the request of absolutely no one its uefa high as tweets part two

part one

[skeletonfromthecloset]

Y’ALL!!!!

so i’m re-listening to tma & am currently on MAG 13 (alone) and oh my god. I FORGOT HOW KUCH THE LUKAS FAMILY WERE MENTIONED!!! and it got me thinking about them. so of course i went down the google rabbit hole. and then i was kinda just thinking about the lukases and their involvement with like. the whole tma universe. and the amount of statements about them. and now. now i’m thinking abiut how if jon weren’t in a coma in s4 he probably would have known who peter lukas was and been like “hey man!! fuck off!!” and martin would never have become an avatar of the lonely and gone through all of that and they could have been together sooner with much less misery and i’m just very upset about that. because i think if jon were there and KNEW WHO THE LUKASES WERE!!!!! he would not have like. broken both of his knees idk. ceaselessly watch him via many people surrounding him. trying to become friends with him. trying to ‘cure’ his loneliness.

[kamikazeonwings]

jon is dating martin romantically except martin has a weird aromantic thing going on i cant explain. jon is queerplatonic partners with gerry, gerry goes to jmarts apartment a lot that he basically lives there. gerry isnt qp with martin but ????? something ??????? dont know cant explain. they live together idk. care about each other a lot, not in the same way martin does for jon or gerry does for jon but something specific to them. martin and tim hook up sometimes for funises. tim and sasha are also queerplatonic partners with jmart. sasha is aromantic and tim is alloromantic this is very very important to me. martin and annabelle are queerantagonistic partners. annabelle, jude, mike and oliver are friends. gerry is bookburning-friends with agnes, jon is also part of the bookburning club

elias and peter have a weird aromantic thing going on and i cant explain it in words but its there. heart <3

[gerrydelano]

Sixth Installment of the Pharos By Right series

Title: DAYSTAR Rating: M Chapters: 7 / 7 Words: 7.3k Characters: Martin Blackwood, Danny Stoker, Tim Stoker, Peter Lukas, Melanie King, Gerry Keay, Jon Sims, Elias Bouchard (mentioned), The Contortionist (mentioned)

Relationships: Martin/Danny, Melanie & Gerry

Additional Tags: Archivist!Gerry, Canon Divergence, Mostly Morbid Humor, Angst, Action, Low Empathy Autistic Martin, Trans Martin, Stranger!Danny, End!Tim, The Stranger, The Lonely, The End, Non-Canonical Character Undeath, Addiction, Depression, Discussion of Suicide, Grief, Brief allusion to relationship abuse

Chapter Summary:

“I have a feeling, Danny! I still have a feeling. We need to call someone and tell them what happened.” There’s no way Danny doesn’t have the same feeling. For all Martin knows, he’s had it for days and has been pretending he didn’t. That he could handle it himself, that their trip hadn’t been compromised, that they really were on some sort of vacation.

Or: Martin and Danny make it to Greece, Tim has a word with Peter Lukas, and Melanie finds Gerry at Pinhole Books - again.

[romehoe-montague]

magnus archives fancasts from my instagram story ???

[magpod-confessions]

It's me, the anon who wants to see more positivity in confessions blogs in general, im back :)

MAG159 The Last is a really good episode! The soundscaping of Peter's Lonely is beautiful and such a powerful icon and symbol of what the Forsaken is all about. Peter's compelled statement gives so much depth to his character and in general fleshes out the social world of avatars that we don't really get to see in statements. For me, The Last was also the first time I found myself really rooting for Jon to hurt someone, which feels so cathartic in the moment but then comes back to haunt you later. I kept coming back to the emotional power of that scene during s5 when Jon would smite someone and it felt icky... but didn't I like it when it was Peter? Can I really condemn Jon when I wanted him to do this twenty episodes ago?

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[mac-cheez]

Peter Lukas is a manipulative bastard, but omg does he have some of the funniest lines in S4.

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Martin(talking abt Jon): He's not a Moron.

Peter:................... If you say so-

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Peter: We have bigger concerns then this little soap opera you call an archives

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And quite a few more but I don't remember and don't wanna relisten so.............