#basira hussain headcanons

[silly-tma-headcanons]

I hc basira listens to taylor swift but is kinda ashamed of it and hides it from the others, daisy (who has the internet understanding and tastes of your average 60yr old boomer) hears the others talking about taylor swift (when basira is not there) and, wanting to share something about her favourite person, tells them about how basira basically plays taylor swift nonstop at home (oh yeah I also hc they live in the same flat cus i say so)

basira never hears the end of this especially from tim, also daisy sleeps on the sofa the next day

(i mostly think it's funny for my stoic and logical and emotionally repressed basira to have the most teenage white girl music taste ever)

let basira have her white girl music. charli xcx. taylor swift. sabrina carpenter. need i go on.

[ezrazzle]

After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

[thetriboulet]

I know in fanart everyone always depicts Eyepocalypse-Daisy as a werewolf sort of thing, but I've always thought the idea of her being still physically human (as much as anyone can be when an avatar) throughout the whole thing infinitely more unsettling and HEAR ME OUT.

The Hunt with which Daisy is affiliated was never a fear of the physicality of the predator itself, but the way in which it pursues and kills. Not the sight of the claws themselves but the fact that they extend towards you, etc etc. That unwavering persistence and senseless, but uncontrollable, cruelty we see in her in S5, mixed with her obvious humanity seen in how she calls out to Basira, when the others find her is so much more horrifying when you imagine her exactly as she was physically before.

This is especially the case when you imagine things from Basira's perspective.

Imagine, you've worked with a partner for years, supported each other (so much so as to indulge each other's harmful behaviour and abuse of power). You do your best to ignore the terrible things she does in the name of justice, even when it becomes woefully apparent that this is spurred on by an actual fear god feeding on her actions. You watch her try to resist it, then fail to do so in order to protect you and the others around you.

The world goes to capital-H-Hell, and you spend all your days looking for her to fulfill your promise to kill her.

It is the least you can do, after all.

It was the last thing she ever asked of you.

You expect that there will be nothing left of the woman you knew when it comes to it, that it will be an inhuman husk with no memories of you or anything other than The Hunt. But then you find her, and she's still her. Bloody and bestial, yes, but unmistakably her. And worst of all, your prick of a friend (love you Jon) just ealirer let you know that she is perfectly content. She is happy like this, and most harrowing of all, she recognises you. She wants you to join her.

And you realise that her request to kill her was not, will never be, the last thing she ever asked of you.

She extends a hand towards you, and it is the same hand you held before The Change.

And you kill her. Not a creature that was once her, just her. There is no heroism in it, only a partner lost.

Still, nevertheless I love werewolf-Daisy too.

(Equally, the idea of a grown human woman gnawing on someones leg is kind of hilarious, or Floridian, but I digress.)

[ominoustaperecordernoises]

What middle school book series Magnus Archives Characters probably read as kids

Jonathan Sims - We’ve established that Jon was super adhd and wouldn’t read more one book by the same author but i feel like he would read ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ by Limony Snickett

Martin Blackwood - Martin for sure read the Lord of the Rings series. You cannot look me in the eye and tell me that man does not identify as a hobbit

Tim Stoker -Tim was an obnoxious Percy Jackson fan and no one can tell me otherwise. He was convinced he was a child of Poseidon and that’s how he got into kayaking

Sasha James - Sasha was definitely into the “Spiderwick Chronicles” and picked up a dark academia vibe soon after.

Melanie King - Melanie would definitely be reading “Goosebumps” and “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”

Georgie Barker- Georgie was a potterhead and you cannot tell me differently. She for sure has taken the official test (she’s a Gryffindor) and forced jon to take it too (he’s a Ravenclaw)

Basira Hussain- If i am being honest, i think basira jumped into reading the classics in middle school, but has (and still has) a secret soft spot for Jane Austen.

Alice Daisy Tonner - Warrior Cats.

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Obligatory tma halloween headcanons post:

tim and sasha are OBVIOUSLY barbie and ken from the barbie movie (other people have said it before and i'll gladly support it)

martin is some horribly obscure costume from a book or a poem no one really knows about and he gets a bit sad that no one knows who he is but then sasha does a quick google and subtly drops hints to everyone to go be like "heyyyy martin, amazing x costume" and then he cheers up

jon just refuses to dress up and everyone (especially Tim) bullies him like "oh amazing socially inept man who's desperately trying to seem good at his job costume!! you've got it spot on!!" and he's so furious that he puts on a costume

and in every iteration of these headcanons, martin is FLOORED at whatever he eventually dresses up as and i am all for that i will eat that shit up

he's so starved for interactions with his crush that he goes feral over jon in non-office clothes

favourite jon costumes include: normal clothes plus cat ears, normal clothes and everyone thinks he's come as a vampire, normal clothes in the later seasons and sasha would be like "jon its not ok for you to dress up as a homeless person" with a shit eating grin and jon's like ...what

bonus - jon doesn't need to dress up cause he's already got his costume - it's someone who's good at their job!!

elias LOVES halloween i bet that man is like fuck yeah i can freak out my archival workers in a whole host of new ways - plastic spiders around the office for jon, little clown dolls for tim, eyes EVERYWHERE and its so gaudy and terrible and everyone despises him

also he really doubles down on calling jon the archivist

i feel like tim secretly hates halloween now but in like early working at the institute, he went along with it cause martin put out a little pumpkin on his desk and sasha smiled at it

melanie fucking loves halloween, she's a legitimately terrifying costume, let's go through the haunted house kinda gal and i love that for her. she's a lets watch all three human centipedes in one night and see what happens kinda gal

daisy and basira despise it cause of all the weird shit that people pull on halloween (and they're on edge that they'll be called for some section 31 shit for all of it)

jon also hates halloween for a similar reason - the increase of joke statements and general taking the piss about the magnus institute

yeah that's all i got. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

[rustyelias]

Alright gamers and non gamers I had a dream that I asked Jon his pronouns (graham from mag 003 was also there) so here headcanons for y’all:

How the archival gang would react to being asked their pronouns:

-Jon Archivist Sims: “oh my pro- urm ah well” [extended sounds of gender confused Jon]

-Martin Kpronoun Blackwood: “oh my pronouns! he/they what about you :D”

Tim Stoker: “huh pronouns? he/him I guess I don’t really mind tho”

Sasha James Beloved: “oh well i use she/her but I don’t mind they/them! And yourself?”

not!sasha: “all of them :)” then looks into your soul

Melanie King: “my pronouns? huh she/they… come on mate I have blue hair”

Basira Hussain: “ my pronouns? she/her is there anything else you needed? ” straight away goes back to reading

Daisy: just looks you dead in the eye and goes: 🤷

Elias Bouchard: giggles evilly “oh wouldn’t you like to know” looks you up and down “don’t worry I already know yours” once again evilly giggles and walks away

Peter Lukas : “he/him more importantly stop talking to me >:(” you are now in the lonely wahoo!!

[kapptto]

The Magnus Archives, Statement begins. . .

[spiralling-voids]

Okay so Magnus Archives is a fantastic podcast and the writing is great but consider: everyone is queer as hell and also alive and happy and nothing bad happens ever

[bonezaw]

Sleepy TMA Headcannons (Because I'm Sleepy)

Martin: He snores, mumbles, AND drools. John doesn't really mind, but has occasionally woken up to a quiet "john hi hello..mm I love youuu" or a distraught "NOOoo don't you take my sandwhich..."

John: Sleeps with his eyes open. Along with this, he has the tendency to mumble out coherent sentences. Some of these have been: "have a seat", "what did you say your name was?", or: "this is great, but unfortunately, I appear to be asleep" (Martin ended up putting that one on a magnet).

Sasha: Punches and kicks in her sleep. After hearing this, Tim would always ask "Punch yourself awake again, huh?" whenever she came in tired.

Tim: Cries in his sleep. Along with that, he has been known to sleepwalk. Once, he woke up to find an entire omelette sitting in front of him. He doesn't know where it came from, and he's still haunted by that.

Daisy: She doesn't like to admit this, but she'll frequently wake up from dreams in which she's chasing someone to find she had been running in her sleep. This also has the added bonus of launching everything off her bed.

Basira: Cannot stay still. She must rotate every thirty minutes, much like a turkey. Maybe that's just because she likes to sleep on the floor, though.

Melanie: MUST fall asleep to music. That, or some variety of nature white noise. She also frequently rolls off her bed.

Elias: Sleeps like a log. Nothing could wake that man up, not even an actual flood. That did happen once, and yep, you guessed it: He somehow slept through it.

[mintytea-exe]

do you guys think the magnus institute archival assistants start an email chain dedicated to talking about their spotify wrapped every year. I think they do

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fuck you *aspecs your archives staff*

jon - asexual martin - gray-asexual tim - aromantic sasha - aro/ace melanie - demiromantic [vaguely acespec too?? idk yet] basira - aro/ace (you can pry this from my cold dead hands)

The Magnus Aspec ‼️🎉🚨

[silly-tma-headcanons]

everyone in the archives is aspec i don't make the rules

jon - asexual martin - gray-asexual tim - aromantic sasha - aro/ace melanie - demiromantic basira - aro/ace (you can pry this from my cold dead hands)

YOU'RE SO RIGHT, I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH ONE OF MY FRIENDS THE OTHER DAY AND THIS WAS ALMOST EXACTLY THE CONCLUSION WE CAME TO

also daisy is acespike and elias is cupio. i dont make the rules but i do enforce them, quite happily

[ezrazzle]

After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

[saym0-0]

back on my crossover bs, i think ashes-as-basira would let jonny/jon (or lyf if its that variety) use they/them still but upon anyone outside the crew asking for their pronouns they would take a long look at them and go 'for you? she/her.' just. some kind of unusual but strangely effective power move.

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Subtle TMA Merch 8/14

The Hunt/ The Everchase

This one took a while to figure out the lettering for this, but I got it!

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have any really specific tma hcs you never shared?

Ooh let me think

I like to think Martin has a big extended family that live in a different country, I headcanon him as mixed polish and something else (maybe desi? Maybe white? Either way I love it)

I'm such a lonely person in a huge extended family x lonely person in tiny family shipper and I think that applies to jmart

Jon was absolutely a gifted kid I think

I think both Jon and Martin were let down by the education system in different ways, Martin because of his family circumstances and Jon because of his undiagnosed autism and gifted kid syndrome

I think Jon forgets to vote sometimes

Martin has worn the same outfit every single day to work before and felt weirdly soothed when Jon picked him up on it

Tim likes to tease Sasha by saying he doesn't believe in the moon

Jon is extremely gullible and will listen to pretty much anything you say if you say it in a certain way

(it's partly the autism and partly the fact that he's too exhausted to look any deeper into what people are saying to him)

(it's led to many shenanigans)

Martin has killed every plant he's ever owned

Sasha's favourite ice cream is double chocolate

Jon has always had imposter syndrome when it comes to his heritage and finds it hard to properly fit in but this cracks after he finds jurgen leitner and he just goes "...this is what happens when you work for an old white man...fucking white people"

Jon had read fanfic before

Martin has written fanfic before

The person Jon takes after most in terms of personality is his grandad

Basira is Bangladeshi and one time she just goes "ooff-o-re" and Jon immediately looks up and nods at her

(it's an exclamation of frustration)

Thanks for the ask!! I love a good excuse to think of headcanons