#tma tickle hcs

[tk-fandom-stuff]

Rn im thinking abt Mike crew being ticklish he's so silly and like scars tend to be more sensitive and I'm imagining he has The Cutest giggles when his scar get lightly traced and he just melts into a puddle basically pls imagine this with me

[missholloween]

tell me about crossnamera. To be honest, they’ve never really clicked with me but the fic I’m planning has them be together and I wanna do it well.

Okay, so this will probably be long.

For me, one of the things that make me love crossnamara is about the trust they had with each other.

We don't know much about their relationship pre-portal: Wilbur was MacNamara's mentor, he taught Macnamara all about the creatures he would later leave him to serve. By the way they speak about the other, they might've spent a lot of time together, working on different missions, getting to know the other. Maybe they shared some drinks, maybe they shared some secrets that no one else could understand. After all, not everyone would believe them if they talked about the paranormal, the extraterrestrial or the interdimensional.

Moreover, they might have had other secrets they shared. On one hand, MacNamara is confirmed to be queer by the Langs. On the other, Wilbur reads as the same type of antagonist as Owen, that is, a queer villain (I hc there's something funky going on with his gender too, but that's for another day). By being two queer men working for the government in the early 2000s, they could not only see someone like them (as people wouldn't be as out as they are today), but also they could see someone like them in a field not made for them. They'd have another person to go to.

However, what makes their relationship so interesting to me is how, even if there is/was a deep bond between them, their convictions are greater than any of their feelings. Wilbur will always turn to the Lords in Black, as he believes they'll liberate him and humanity. On the other hand, even if John once loved the person that called himself Wilbur Cross, he'd never let the world die for him. Their love is very important, but, when the chips are down, it won't make much of a difference. Maybe their conversations will be softer, maybe they'll kill the other in a fastest way than they'd do with others, but facing their former partner won't make them stop.

Although during their face-downs they will do what they have to do, I also think they are haunting presences in the other's life. MacNamara sees Wilbur in new cadets and old threats, remembering the person he knew before the portal. Wilbur remembers the man he once trained when he tricks younger folks to enter a world too big for them. It's about absences, and what might be built on them (I also love the headcanon that Wilbur and John switched tags before the portal incident and they've kept them).

TL;DR them..... I need the Langs to give us more info about what happened in 2005, because there's so much (angst) potential.

[spacetickles]

hi idk how long ago you posted the stories and such of Michael but I 100% appreciate Michael As Friendo au because he is the best and he does kind of care about them and I will not be taking comments to the contrary lol

also ler!Michael is my new favorite thing I've ever thought about like come on he is SO predisposed he's just a michevous chaotic neutral thing that likes to have a good time

Hi!

it was quite a bit ago, but not because I've moved on and moreso because life got in the way, but yes absolutely! I love AU that Michael just, gets his old archive job back, personally I like to call it the "Jon is a competent archivist" AU because its not like Michael was ever really fired, and with how disorganized the archives are, I doubt he was ever taken off payroll either.

so the idea that the minute Jon recognizes the name Michael Shelly, he hands Michael a stack of files to sort and sets him up in the archives with his old job.

Sasha is of course ecstatic because she has even more time to interrogate Michael and eventually they become good friends, which translates to it becoming good friends with Tim and Martin as well, and eventually Jon. Michael likes to pretend he's still a question mark of loyalties, but I'm a complete sashamichael stan, and lord above knows if anyone has the throat of delusion itself wrapped around her little finger its Sasha James, so there's really no actual question where Michaels loyalties lie.

I could go on about how I think that would change the main storyline, but the main ideas are: Jon is a lot more confident and more no-nonsense about proper archives procedure, Tim and Sasha never die, probably becoming avatars of a similar caliber to Martin, small and sharing their domain between the eye and another domain (personal hc, desolation and spiral respectively) , as well as Michael never turns into Helen and instead the archive crew has to deal with two mischievous doorway monsters.

and of course, Michael becomes resident archives tickle monster. because seriously, y'all have heard the fucker? MADE to be a tickle monster! destined for it! hell the spiral itself probably covers tickle torture as a fear, because what's more disorienting than that! (lots of things, but let me have this)

the fic I assume your referencing was a companion piece with a few other from here on tumblr, but mostly on the TMA tickle discord I'm in with a few friends.

[tickled-2-death]

Tma tickles

Tma fans in the tickle community, please send me requests for any oneshots or hcs you want written! Jonmartin, LonelyEyes, Tim, Sasha, literally any of the other avatars no matter how niche? Send em my way, see pinned post for further info.