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These designs go crazy tbh
After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!
Day 25!, Avatars no energy again today heh, but heres two messy sketches one of Oliver Banks and one of Annabelle
Once again this is @emerald-emerlad s prompt list
To be fair it'd be fun to attend your own funeral
UGH avatar!Tim i love you sm. Desolation, End, WHATEVER. i will take anything. Tim just please come back i miss you (i have finished the series more than a month ago).
hey guys did you know that um. did you know. first of all did you know i'm losing my mind, secondly, do y'all remember in tma how when someone reads a written statement, they don't really Stop unless they're interrupted? and they read the whole thing easy cheesy, no issues with reading whatever words are there? like. jon literally could read french for a whole statement and was Fine. granted, that's Jon, but like nobody else struggled with pronunciations and whatnot (that i can recall)
presumably, this is an eye thing. either as employees of the institute, or because everyone there is just also eye-aligned in some degree (melanie had the ghost hunting show, the eye is fond of martin, etc)
and then there's tim in season 3 ep 86
[Sigh] Statement of… uh, Benjamin Hatendi… Hateendi? Regarding a… [papers rustling] a blanket. Dead friend. Monster. Regarding his unavoidable and gruesome end. How he tried to hide. He couldn’t. Statement is from… 1983, March 2nd. And I guess… [long sigh] I guess I’m doing this one. Tim Stoker. Archival assistant… Archival prisoner at the Magnus Institute.
correct me if im wrong but i don't recall anyone struggling with pronunciations before this bit. but that's not even the biggest thing here, that's just a lil Taste, a lil Flavor.
note the phrasing there. "Regarding his unavoidable and gruesome end." why would he say this when the written text on the statement says this:
Uh, right. Benjamin Hatendi’s account of… [rustling pages] oh for… a, a strange encounter. Er, statement date, March 2nd, 1983. Melanie King recording. Apparently.
"a strange encounter". that's it. nothing about an unavoidable death, just a "strange encounter". Tim Why Did You Say That.
why would our dear timothy bimothy, who is being pushed to the brink, who is becoming rapidly more depressed and losing hope, say this?
this isn't the only time he's said some weirdly grim shit tho (ep 104)
There was never really any hope for me, though, was there? This was how it was always going to go.
and then there's this bit from elias apparently having Looked into tim (also 104)
TIM All right, hit me with your X-ray eyes then, boss. What do you see? ELIAS Disruption. An unpredictable, angry man with nothing left but the desire to feel in some way revenged. TIM [Sarcastic] Ooh, terrifying! Surely only magic could have let you see so deep inside my very soul.
"nothing left" but the desire to feel revenged. and tim doesn't dispute this, because it's true.
when he first joined the institute he did so in order to look for answers about danny, but then he stopped seriously looking. and now that the circus is back, this is all the drive he has left. not looking for answers, just wanting revenge. closure. an end, if you will.
this is Literally It For Him. a couple lines later he suggests elias kill him, he's At The Breaking Point.
he is so tired, he's lost all hope, and he's saying all this grim shit about "unavoidable death" and "this is how it was always going to go" like hmmmm sounds familiar doesn't it. DOESN'T IT (<- is going insane)
(ep 11) [....] despite the rapid response of the paramedics and how much of his medical history I had immediately to hand, there was nothing I could do to save him. (ep 11) I have no responsibility to try and prevent whatever fate is coming for you. Based on my previous experience, such a thing is likely impossible anyway,[....] (ep 121) There. That was it. That was our fate; where we would always be.
hmmmm sounds a bit like oliver huh? everyone's favorite ex-accountant avatar of the end?? right??
but then there's this last bit i have from ep 86.
why did he stop reading the statement
Statement. “My parents never let me have a nightlight. I was always afraid, but they were ju–” Ugh, this is stupid.
why did he do that. again, correct me if im wrong but when else has someone just Stopped Reading like that without someone or something else interrupting them? why could tim just stop himself?
my theory is this: at this point, tim is completely gone from being aligned with the eye. he no longer seeks to know what happened to danny, he just wants closure. he doesn't wanna do any statement work, and he keeps mentioning these tidbits about hopelessness and the inevitability of terrible events, specifically death.
the eye isn't compelling him to read the statements like it does the others, because it doesn't have as strong a hold anymore. the grip is slipping from him. and by the time the unknowing rolls around, maybe it's lost him for good. maybe he finally fell into a different power he never meant to serve, and yet, he does.
and maybe. just maybe. because i'm so not in denial. but MAYBE. he did die in the unknowing. but maybe he got better.
basically end!tim truthers rise up, this is how end!tim kayaking with his bf oliver banks can still win, etc etc I'm Going Feral <3
I don’t ship Jonathan Sims and Oliver Banks, but I feel that their perfect ship name would be ‘Death Glare’ or something along those lines. Just a thought.
idk if people use this already and I’m just slow or if someone else has said this before also.
Ok... Here are my Oliver designs for before and after the satellite.
My headcanons are under the cut
When the satellite hit the research vessel, he technically died, so he got some scars. He's blind in his left eye and sometimes uses prosthetics. One detail I think about a lot is that he had to swim to the nearest island. Imagine swimming that distance.
Before, he had beautiful, long, fluffy locs that Graham took care of. But after his mental health went south, he stopped caring for his hair. He also had snake bite piercings, which he started wearing while working at the 'magic' shop.
So, he's also tanned.
His scars took time to heal, and because of the swim, they healed a bit messily. He partially lost mobility in his right leg, left arm, and both hands (his left side being the most affected).
From afar, his scars look like vitiligo.
Now, he doesn’t wear any piercings, but he does wear eyeshadow and eyeliner. His hair is short and box-braided, with two long side braids. I also like to think his eyes absorb light, making his pupils look shiny instead of black.
I have a confession
Every time I’m listening to the Magnus Archives and Oliver Banks is brought up I don’t imagine some hot guy. …..
I… I imaging licorice cookie for cookie run
Yeah this fucker⬇️
I am so sorry
what if oliver "I'm too much of my patron now" banks got yeeted into Somewhere Else with jon and martin just because he was that attached to the end.
and like that's already funny to me but then imagine if you will, jmart waking up in whatever romantic field of flowers or whatever and they're trying to have a moment only to find a confused oliver standing awkwardly off to the side like "hey guys what the Fuck happened I was takin a nap"
anyway postcanon jmart + roommate oliver au
Back again to expert cursed book hunting duo, Gerry and Mike, cause I just enjoy having an excuse to get the avatar and avatar-adjacent characters to interact. ✨ Also experimenting with short hair Jon, I realized I've never actually drew him like that.
sometimes i'm fine and then sometimes i wake up in a cold sweat as i remember that Oliver Banks and Graham Folger dated for 6 years
ms fleming is elias if you even care
"steve (peter) I'm ending our affair"
sure bud
I'm back with the musicals x tma
heathers but ram and kurt are mike crew and oliver banks and their dads are simon and rayner
also imho the heathers should be jane jude and julia
my reasoning for all of this? it'd be funny and my dead gay son would be even funnier
I'm back with the musicals x tma
heathers but ram and kurt are mike crew and oliver banks and their dads are simon and rayner
also imho the heathers should be jane jude and julia
my reasoning for all of this? it'd be funny and my dead gay son would be even funnier
