#gerry lives au

[driedlillies]

TMA au but it’s just Gerry posting insane things like “here’s *another piece of his art which is super impressive* sorry it took so long I was in prison” and “hey I haven’t been active for two months I was tracking down a cult got into a fight with a member and we both landed in a hospital (he died but that was not because of the fight)” and his comments are just people spamming “WHO ARE YOU???”

[ian0key]

TMA AU (TimSasha Lives) P.5

So...my TimSasha Lives au also became a Gerry lives au? Yeah.

. . .

This happens the day before the end of s3. Things were much calmer than in The canon. Everyone decided to go very early to rest after preparing everything.

Sasha checked one last time to be sure before returning to Tim's apartment, thinking she was the last one left in in the archives...

Designs:

(End!SASHA)_ (Desolation!TIM)_ (Jon)

Part 1 , Part 2 ,Part 3, part 4

Extra: some references, sketches, etc.

[cthaehart]

More of the Nun!Gerri and Priest!Mencken AU

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Introducing: The Surfer Dudes, Pete and Gerry!

They're fun, they're laid back, and they refuse to spend their final years in a seniors centre!

[kandicon]

Actually I really wanna write a role reversal gerrymichael au and let me be so, so transparent when I say it is literally just bc I wanna fantasize about the tall, gangly blond man beating monsters to death

Everyone else has the same roles. Mary Keay is still Mary Keay in all her abusive and obsessive glory; Gertrude is still the Archivist.

Vaguely spiral aligned Michael who Does Not Like It. Pretends his connection is a hell of a lot looser than it is.

The only benefit (that Michael thinks of the Spiral) is how he can move around the Institute with relatively little interference and watch, after all, it is hard to behold something that is both nothing and everything and never was all at the same time.

Gerry ran away from home really young and actually succeeded. Spent a few years fucking around and learning what kind of benches are best to sleep on before applying to the Magnus Institute because that's what his dad did. He lied to hell and back on the application, but was hired quickly because of how thoroughly touched by the entities he was (thanks Mary) and Gertrude was running low on assistants. Gerry also felt completely justified in faking stuff and that he was perfectly qualified bc he grew up in a bookshop and how much different could it be (very different, as it turns out).

They first meet each other when Michael is prowling through artefact storage like it was a shopping mall, and pocketing everything he saw that didn't immediately mesmerize him. He was nervous and jumpy as all hell, even though this was not the first time he's done something similar and he's fairly certain Gertrude doesn't care, so when Gerry first spotted him from behind, he was immediately suspicious even before he saw Michael try to shove a lamp into his jacket pocket. This led to an altercation that eventually led to the lamp being accidentally turned on, Michael smashing it to pieces with a hammer Gerry had not realized Michael had, and Gerry suddenly being a lot more consciously aware of the supernatural than he was.

Gerry's mother was still obsessive over Lighteners, and she didn't make an effort to hide what she did, but she didn't actively try to educate Gerry on anything to do with the Fears. So he is fairly knowledgeable on the supernatural, but he doesn't know anything concrete about the Fears themselves and their categorization. The role of a stand by sacrifice instead of an errand boy and heir.

Michael still trusts Gertrude, but this time he knows he shouldn't and hates himself for it. Gerry wants to trust Gertrude, and she does hide him from anything Fears related and behaves around him like she did Michael in cannon, but he just feels something off about her and doesn't like it. She's just a bit too much like his mother for him to let his guard down.

Michael gets referred to by "it/its" pronouns once by Gerry as a teasing joke before Gerry fully knows what he is and is absolutely terrified by how happy the pronouns make his feel. (He thinks, maybe, that the Michael of his childhood liked something similar, too, but everything too far back is all twisted and he doesn't know what has been touched by the Spiral and what hasn't, so he doesn't trust any of it). He/it Michael ftw

At one point Michael just started putting black lipstick on himself because some of Gerry's always stuck to him when they kissed anyways n this gave them plausible deniability. Michael will never admit to the little spiral thrill it gives him when people do a double take upon seeing his face, the black lipstick contrasting literally everything else about his style.

Gabriel attempted to track Michael down exactly once, a few years before he joined the institute. He had heard about Michael's unsavory... Hobby... (<- reckless destruction of artefacts and throwing himself at all monsters and avatars he sees with a murderous rage regardless of their affiliation) but spiral avatars capable of holding a conversation are so few and far between and the Great Twisting was almost prepared, so he thought a meeting would be worth it. He showed up at a cafe Michael frequented one day expecting lovely, but tense, conversation, only to promptly lit on fire (mostly) in the back alley behind the cafe after he introduced himself. Gabriel survived, but some of his clay body still hardens unexpectedly or shows signs of firing from time to time.

Occasionally Michael's eyes will change colors and shapes, so he likes to put contacts in (he used to just use tinted glasses, but after one time of Gerry getting lost in his eyes in the far too literal, not at all romantic, sense, he decided to invest in smth a bit harder to take off and forget about). Unfortunately, this sometimes means other, very much not his original eyes will pop up around his body and in his hair as protest when he puts them in. It's not very fun to have to chase off eyes at 6am, but he does it regardless and complains the whole time about how he shouldn't have to deal with eyes when he very clearly isn't of The Eye.

Gerry: Oh hey you were running pretty late. I was starting to get worried.

Michael, not about to admit he spent an extra thirty minutes to get ready yelling and brandishing a lighter at a door that was following him around like a lost puppy: Ummmmmm I forgot my wallet. :((

[mysteriouslymanlymoo]

So... Gigi committed arson in 1999 right?

[char-lie-spirals]

Summary:

A world of the Spiral sounds like the only world in which Graham would be safe. The only reality in which he would be free of the Stranger's marks and able to just be himself again. It's the only option that works, so it's what he tries so hard to make real.

When it turns out that his efforts were not enough and everything crumbles around him, he's the only one left to start picking up the pieces... Well. He's nearly the only one.

//

Which is to say, the 2nd fic for my Graham Folger Lives and Therefore Nothing Bad Ever Happens AU (which feels like,, an ironic title with the summary of the fic) is finished, at last!! And I’m super happy with it, too, and I’ll be very happy if you check it out!!

[ginzburgjake]

“every fucking time we have dinner…”

or, characters from my friends and i’s tma au are having a family meal :)

no context but i like this one so much that i’ll post it here

[lucky-numberme]

gerry + 64 pleaseeeeee

[Image ID: A monochromatic digital sketch in cool and eerie teals. Gerry stands in a forest of snowy pines, surrounded by fog and darkness. They are facing away and look back over their shoulder at the viewer with an expression of profound exhaustion. Text above them reads "I don't want to be the only one living when all my friends are gone." End ID]

Frozen Pines by Lord Huron + (beloved of my heart) Gerry = Lonely!Gerry

[driedlillies]

Chat what do we think about Oliver Banks (canonically having started getting the prophetic dreams around 2008) seeing Mary Keay’s death (happened circa 2008) as one of his earlier dreams. And then seeing the news reports about her „murder” and Gerry’s arrest. Contacting Gerry while he’s in prison for some reason, curiosity, guilt, anything? Meeting after he’s released, and getting info on the entities upon Gerry seeing the end’s mark on him?

Gerry can’t stop Oliver’s Becoming, but they grow close. Oliver gets someone who understands what he’s going through as much as possible, Gerry — his first friend. It makes everything just a bit easier.

[flashhwing]

oh we're in it now (crafting an outline for warden!hawke au)

[solarianvoidthearoace]

So, uh, reading he turns the page (let the flesh submit itself to gravity) and Ashes I got plot bunnies and they turned into plot brainworms within a day or two and so I set up this file today, the tag list is still in progress and I have not uploaded any of this WIP over on my AO3 yet.

I already know how I will go about this, I will essentially be writing two seperate fanfics, one where Gerry went back in time and disconnected from that one where Jon went back in time.

I already wrote each prologue so I technically can go online with it but I don’t want to unless I have some substance behind it already

I was last active in the TMA fandom in early 2022 but I never wrote a canon-divergence or a canon fix-it for The Magnus Archives

And now I’m set out to essentially write two fix-its conflated into one. I know it’s ambitious but I just hope I can do what I intend and keep the narrative unreliable in the sense that Jon’s parts don’t touch on Gerry knowing about the future and simultaneously Gerry’s parts don’t touch on Jon knowing about the future.

Essentially my premise is they both have their life experience and knowledge from MAG 111 / MAG 200 and hence are highly competent. (Which, let’s be honest, is already in Gerry’s characterisation. That competence is smexy, it’s Jon getting the upgrade so to speak.)

But! True to character, high competence doesn’t prevent idiocity because hijinks must ensue with such a potentially comedic set-up.

[sluttyjonahmagnus]

I kinda want a Gertrude is alive AU but all of her assistants are avatars/creatures bent on revenge a la Michael but they just can’t fucking win.

So it’s time to pick off her new assistants one by one.

Except Eric he dead probably.

[romulussy]

what if i start gerri/caroline posting again. what then.  

[occudo]

Hi!!!!!! I love your AUs, I just binge read them!!!!!!! I love how you draw Georgie, Melanie and Gerry in particular!

I wanted to ask, in the Magus AU, what happened to Mary? And Eric? Did something similar to the Gertrude Still Lives AU happen?

Also all the details in their clothes (in the Magus AU) are stunning! Is there a particular reason why Gerry's outfits are always This Is A Titties Out kind of outfit?

Unfortunately, this AU is more like the canon than GiSA with the Keay family, except Mary wasn't a proper witch- no titles, no school, -just her trying (and failing) with magic. So no Eric in this one :/

I just think it fits this AU more.

For your outfit question: Does the Sun need a particular reason to shine?

It's also a power move, showing off his eye tattoos.

[assigned-fullmetal-at-birth]

im sorry - GRANDSON?? did she adopt him? i can't believe gerry and gertrude are canonically living in a coffee shop au right now also GIGI?? ADORABLE.