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#((in regards to avatar stuff: i think Sasha gets very tempted by monsterhood (because having power after you've been repeatedly victimised-
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Late night conversations with the bestie about slowly becoming an avatar of terror <3 part 2 of the spiral!Sasha au, this time featuring more Tim, more angst, and more knife hands (please click for quality (and look in the tags for Lore™)) image ID by @mag170
[ID: a five page digital comic of Sasha James and Tim Stoker from The Magnus Archives in a spiral!Sasha AU. The background is a dark purple and there's coloured iconograpy of various entities on the panels, specifically spirals, eyes, webs, and theatre masks. Tim is Malaysian with several round scars, short black hair, a lavender shirt and a green hooded vest, Sasha is Black with long curly brown hair, round glasses, a light blue longsleeve, and a purple skirt.
1: A full page drawing shows Sasha lying on her back on a dark blue couch with her hands folded on her stomach, Tim sits with his back against the armrest and his hands under his legs. Sasha says: "I don't know. Lately I've just been feeling like the rug is constantly getting pulled out from under me, what with Jon and... the incident with detective Tonner." Tim replies: "I feel you. Things have gone to hell lately. I'd like to knock out Elias's teeth as much as the next guy and, quite frankly, I wouldn't mind an apology from Jon for all the stalking but... *sigh* ...I don't know. At least we have each other." Sasha: "True. I just wish I could know what was going on, that I could get a straight answer out of Elias... that things weren't so uncertain... all the doubt and anxiety... it reminds me of the corridors."
2: The first two panels show Tim, looking to the side as he says: "I get it. After my brother... every face looked rubber to me. Everyone smiled too wide. I felt so alone." He turns his head to the side and continues: "Going through that... it changes you. And not for the better, no 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. But I'm here and so are you. Y'know, despite it all." The next panel shows Sasha from above, she's blushing and raising one hand and says: "Yeah..." This is followed by a close up of her raised hand shown against the ceiling, the panel is cut off by another showing the same hand with spirals on the knuckles and long pointed extensions on her fingers, the ceiling is replaced by a yellow and pink spiral and the panel is surrounded by pink spirals. A close up of Sasha's eyes shows her looking shocked.
3: Sasha shoots upright, staring at her hand and screaming. Her speech bubble has a faint multicoloured spiral in it. Tim turns around with a worried look and asks: "Sasha?" The next panel shows Sasha from the front, still staring at her hand. Tim has stood up, clutching one hand to his chest, and asks: "What's wrong? Are you okay?" Sasha looks behind her, surrounded by spirals and a wide, toothy grin, and replies: "Oh, um, I'm fine, just-". Tim looks her in the eye and cuts her off: "Bullshit."
4: Three panels are spread diagonally over the page, the other two corners are filled with text that fades out at the edges over a purple spirally background with a white hand with long pointed fingers. The text is from Sasha's statement in the spiral AU, the image in the top right corner is upside down. In the top left corner Tim continues: "Pretending you're fine when you're not is a classic Stoker move, and I don't intend to let you get away with it. You don't have to be 'fine' all the time, Sash. You know I'm here for you." Sasha looks away, above her are two pieces of text, one reads: I'm here for you. The other reads: Ha ha. She then turns back with her eyes closed and answers: "I know."
5: Five panels, first two close ups of their hands. Sasha reaches for Tim, her hand displays white phantom fingers that are long and pointed, around her arm are pink spirals. Tim's arm is surrounded by pink mannequin hands, between their hands are ellipsis. Sasha then firmly grabs Tim's hand. Their hands are surrounded by an orange wavy line and eyes, while an angry looking face with spiral eyes and a wide toothy mouth looks on from Sasha's side and a sad theatre mask with an X for an eye looks on from Tim's. The next two panels are close ups of Sasha and Tim respectively. Sasha is smiling and has a fond look as she says: "I'm here for you too." Tim blushes and smiles back, glancing sideways at Sasha. The final panel shows them silhouetted and looking at each other, Sasha on the couch, Tim against the armrest. End ID]
#the magnus archives#tma#sasha james#tim stoker#spiral! sasha#timsasha#can be interpreted as platonic or romantic i think? that's kind of what i was going for at least#i was barely able to hold myself back from making a sixth page because apparently im a masochist#it was just gonna be extra dialogue but i decided to just trust myself and my ability to communicate w my art#anyway yeah tim and sasha have a death grip on my psyche so of course the next comic had to be about them!#tim is still dealing w trauma in this au he's just not as bad as he was in season 3 in canon#I see tim as very people oriented? he's got his ingrained flaws and his scars BUT if he has support he deals w that better#and in regards to sasha i think (at the time of this comic) she's in an uncertain place? she doesn't know what's going on with jon or-#-not!daisy and elias won't give answers so she's feeling a bit paranoid and disoriented (which just fuels the spiral)#and it's only when she starts to fuel the spiral herself does she gain a footing again (but that's obviously at other ppls expense and-#-then WHOOPS it's a classic tma moral quandary)#((in regards to avatar stuff: i think Sasha gets very tempted by monsterhood (because having power after you've been repeatedly victimised-#-is something that's really hard to turn away) BUT i think that sasha ''all we have is our actions to say who we are'' james would try and-#-pull herself away from feeding on people like jon and daisy in s4. i don't think she'd leave the institute but she'd probably feel really-#-guilty about having a domain in season 5))#also the knife hands panels: idk if they're just in Sasha's head? i think they're like. the spiral taunting her with what she's becoming#and only she can see it#OK TAG RANT OVER ENJOY CONTENT#page stretcher#long post
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