#tma aus

[shitty-tma-aus]

tma au where its a musical but only the avatars sing, 'the guy who didn't like musicals' style. the rest of the characters all speak normally and are super weirded out that all the creepy monster people keep breaking into song.

plot points include:

all of michael's songs and sections being in the weirdest fucking time signatures ever

the unknowing having a song thats complete gibberish

not!sasha singing her way through normal speaking conversations

a song called hello jon

[y3llow-hoodie]

Had this fantastic request by @mus0v , and I got WAY too invested

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Vast!Jon AU _ X-2-3-4-5-6-7

I love love LOVE this so much!!! I will post more content for this AU at a later date :D

Also if someone could come up with a better/cooler name for Vast!Jon I would be eternally grateful. I wanted to do something about floating or jumping, but “the jumper” doesn’t sound that intimidating , so “the pilot” will do for now

[inkzectz]

Posting this to main too bc I like it , a looooot of symbolism/foreshadowing.

Ik the symbolism/foreshadowing makes most sense to people who’ve finished TMA so I ask that you keep the meanings to yourself until I get to it.

[dexterkronos]

Get jumpscared y'all, we're back to Jon! More specifically, the Jon of @candlecoo-sideb-art's Somewhere Else (In Space) AU! I do not know why, but the idea of the Fears in the Mechanism universe is something that slightly unnerves me, but luckily, we have two resident traumatized folks to help out. I kinda went and experimented with his pupils specifically, given that candlecoo's pupil style is to make them white instead of black, which actually helps with bringing attention to the eyes oddly enough. I instead added the white pupil to his Eye power usage (and have it somewhat eclipse his iris like a cat's pupil), as it gives a sort of 'inhuman' feel against the art style I got going. That and I'm a coward who refuses to break tradition sometimes. Overall, I love the AU that they are forming and the shenanigans that could ensue excite me to no end. Maybe I just have a thing for Magnus blorbos meeting Mechanism dummies in their own space, who knows. Anyway, there will be another art from this verse a bit later on in the day, and then I'm jumping back into Redeath/Search Through the Stars to tackle a few of the ocs 👀 (if you've read it, you might know who is on the agenda).

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[crit20art]

[ID: A series of greyscale digital drawings of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives, imagined as a siren and a selkie, respectively. With them is their mixed siren/selkie baby, an original character.

In the first drawing, Jon, a siren with a long fish tail and frills along his whole body, lays on his side smiling as he gives Martin belly scratches. Martin, a very pregnant seal, has his eyes closed in contentment and his flippers resting on his round sides.

In the second drawing, Martin, a human man with wet hair, wearing a thick selkie coat, smiles fondly down at a white seal pup cradled to his chest. The pup looks up at him with big, cute eyes.

In the third drawing, a chubby baby lays on a small seal pelt. The baby holds onto one of the pelt’s flippers, and kicks a foot in the air. The baby has white hair, frills like Jon’s, and spots like Martin’s. End ID.]

been revisiting my jmart seafolk au and thinking. yknow what if they had a really cute lil selkie babie 🥺

bit of lore: selkie children are born wearing their coat, which can be removed by a parent. their human form, unlike a normal newborn, is already extra chubby for buoyancy and insulation! both forms have a layer of white fuzz that they shed after a few weeks. This particular baby, being part siren, will be able to breathe underwater once their gills open after a few days. As for other spooky siren abilities… 👀 who knows!

Click here to see the boys in color and click here to read the fic this au is from <3

[crocwearingcryprid]

Arthur Lester : So we both went into a coma huh?

Jon Sims : And you know I woke up different, and I thought when does the Eye make me monstrous?

Arthur Lester : You had to eat a person too?

Jon Sims : What ?

Arthur Lester : What ?

[hotdrinks]

[ID: a greyscale drawing of sphynx Jon looking at a frog. Sphynx Jon is a large catlike creature with a long neck, horns, a mane and wings with markings that are shaped like eyes. He has a long tail with a scorpion stinger on the end. He is sitting down and looking at a small frog, the markings on his wings appear to be looking as well. End ID]

@mxwhore requested their sphynx Jon being silly!! His ass does NOT know about frogs!!!!

[cult-of-the-eye]

no don't cry, jmart heartstopper AU where jon was bullied and sort of an outsider but has a couple solid friends (tim and sasha) and martin is a soft-spoken, shy rugby player who is a teddy bear but terrified that one day they'll all just turn on him and martin is forced to join jon's journalism club for extra curricular points but keeps missing it cause his mum would be mad if he wasn't home immediately and all the meetings are after school so they meet when martin's pen explodes and jon begrudgingly helps him and they FALL!! IN!! LOVE!!!

[gr-book-worm-1818]

the thing with tma is you could shuffle and place pretty much any mc as an archivist and as a not!person au and make it WORK

jarchivist & not!georgie. jarchivist & not!tim. sarchivist & not!martin. tarchivist & not!jon. marchivist & not!sasha. hell, who’s to say melarchivist couldn’t work? or garchivist, or barchivist, or even darchivist? just slightly alter their backstories so that they’ll find themselves in a position where elias both offers them the archivist job and they accept it. just THINK of all the possibilities!!!! no matter who the archivist is, imagining that someone STILL gets not’ed no matter what, is absolutely HAUNTING and i LOVE it.

working ideas for these:

not!georgie au where she visits the institute and ends up in artefact storage, BOOM not’ed ; naturally, jon isn’t even the one who notices. maybe martin or tim?

the classic sarchivist & not!jon au BUT martin is still the ‘anti-christ plus-one’ and gets to watch the smiting of the not!them, sasha james style

sarchivist, not!martin, & archival assistant jon where JON is the only one who thinks something’s kinda off with martin

melarchivist au where she encounters something genuinely Fucked Up at ghost hunt uk pre-jarchivist and literally no one believes her et cerera et cetera so drama happens, ghost hunt uk is abolished, and when melanie heads to the institute elias offers her the position

MARCHIVIST + NOT!JON.

SARCHIVIST + NOT!TIM.

tarchivist au where he’s still the one who sets off the explosion during the unknowing, but HE’S the only one who survives and all of his friends die in the explosion (yk cause in this case he’s an avatar)

tbh, i think every single one of these characters, no matter who’s the archivist and who’s the not!person, they’d still end up starting the eyepocalypse one way or another, even if their way isn’t as impulsive as jon’s. i just feel like they would!!! i mean, we all know every single character had made incredibly stupid decisions in tma, so…

anyway, just things to think about :)

[monarchetype]

Magnus podcast AU idea: Fear is a good thing, actually.

In the words of my favorite Doctor Who, "fear is a superpower." Fear tells you when there are dangerous and bad things happening. Fear motivates you to protect yourself and others. Fear activates your adrenaline and all those hidden human superpowers. A well-adjusted sense of fear is a good thing. Having no fear at all is very bad for your self-preservation.

Imagine a world where the Fears are used for good. Heights are dangerous, and people who don't take them seriously could use a little scare. Boeing higher-ups cutting costs and putting people in danger? The Fairchilds might have something to say about that. Sanitation is serious business; city council screwing over sanitation workers? It would be a shame if the mayor's house got a naaaasty worm infestation. Getting stalked? The Hunters have your back, even if you don't know it. Warmongering politicians treating the lives of their citizens like dirt? Stabby stabby.

Oh, and trying to use your awesome newfound Avatar powers to spread wanton destruction and suffering just erodes your sense of self and generally feels Real Bad. The Fears are still unknowable eldritch entities of course, and their servants reflect that, but "fear as a vehicle for human survival and flourishing" is an inexorable part of them. Don't pervert the eldritch entity and it won't pervert you. (Unless you want too many arms/eyeballs/worms/spirals/etc, that's still on the menu of course.)

And maybe, deep down, even the Fears want to learn to be appreciated, just a little...

[obsessingoverthisandthat]

You know, I'm really surprised at the lack of fanfiction featuring any character from tma stuck in a timeloop-

Like, especially since there are so, so, sooooo many Time-Travel-Fix-It's. It's like none of u guys realize how much Angst potential the timeloop trope has-

Take any of the characters and throw them in a timeloop and watch as they despair over not being able to escape their situation, no matter how many times they try. They want to burn down the archives? Let them and then see how they suffer the consequences. Force them to take drastic actions and make them learn that it won't ever work. They have to be smarter, subtler. They have to plan their steps.

It would work even better if it's somebody with a biased pov. Melanie. Daisy. Tim. I'm especially fond of Tim. Force them to grow fond of the idiots they innitially despised, because they noticed nothing else works and Hey... Actually, I was wrong. They arent that bad, they arent at fault-

Boom, interesting fanfic. Ur welcome to use this idea. Hit me up if u do, I'd love to read it.

[shitty-tma-aus]

An au where everything is normal, but Jon is on lsd and is tripping balls "seeing"(Ceaseless watcher ref intended) everything

“SHE WENT THROUGH THAT DOOR AND NEVER CAME OUT”

“jon that’s a wall”

[hadal-blacksite-system]

Hadal Blacksite: Expedition M (A Magnus Archives/Pressure crossover AU)

Warnings for this AU: TMA spoilers, body horror, cannibalism

Canon divergence: The site in this AU is much larger, being about 200 rooms plus the Ridge.

Following the death of Jurgen Leitner, a criminal investigation into the Magnus Institute led to the archive crew (plus Jonah) (no I'm not going to call him Elias. At all) being imprisoned and drafted as expendables.

Sasha lasted about 6 weeks before being dragged through a false door. She now acts as a lure/third component of the "Good People" entity group.

Tim, after 4 months, ran into a flaming room to escape an Angler and was burned to death. He was resurrected as a fire entity (Z-101: Burning Man) and hunts new Expendable groups to use as a food source for himself and other entities.

Martin survived for almost 8 months before becoming trapped inside an instance of Z-432.

Jon, the protagonist of this AU, has survived for almost a year so far. About six months into the expedition, he killed a suffocating Eyefestation and accidentally got some of its blood in his mouth. This caused mutations: gills and extra eyes.

What about Jonah?

Well, Jonah died about three weeks in, after trying to transfer his consciousness to Sebastian. This left Elias, blind and afraid but in control of his body for the first time in decades. He's been living in Sebastian's shop and trying to teach himself echolocation.

[saintbleeding]

Hey Saint did you know you're funny and cool and you should totally say more about this coffeeshop au of yours

hey milk did u know we are kissing at present

[ID1: two sketches, the first of Martin, a fat trans man with chin length wavy hair, wearing a half binder and an open shirt with the sleeves rolled halfway up his biceps. He is staring down at a paper, a pen in hand, with an intense look of concentration. Text below him says “his ass is NOT taking adequate breaks”. The second sketch is of Sasha, a fat woman with long hair and glasses, and Tim, a stocky man with short hair, both innocently cradling their chins in their hands and smiling. Text below them reads “*scheming*”. Beside both sketches there is more text which says “Elias owns the cafe (which is named The Serapeum) but he’s always away on dubiously nefarious business. This leaves T&S sooo much time to cause problems on purpose.”

ID2: A four panel comic. In the first, Jon, a thin, moustachioed man with short curly hair, stands looking displeased. His internal monologue is written in bold around him: “This is RIDICULOUS why can’t I just stay in my OFFICE in PEACE I am NOT being paid enough for this nonsense.” In the second panel, he turns around, a dark spiral denoting irritation next to him. In the third, it is revealed he is looking to Tim and Sasha, who are beaming at him and giving enthusiastic thumbs up. Text above their heads says “put Jon up to this” as Jon sighs. In the fourth panel, Jon, now blushing profusely, says “Um. A- Anyway. We, um. Could. Uh. Go out. Sometime. Together. If you want. I don’t CARE.” Text beside him reads “[avoiding eye contact*] *autistic”. End ID.]

poor jon his hand has been forced because mart is too much of a gentleman to ask someone out when they’re working bless him

[dexterkronos]

Owl monster Jon?

(This took 5 minutes sorry if its now owl enough)

YES LETS BLOODY GOOOO 🗣🗣🗣

The OwlJohn agenda has begun!!