#also! fun fact- since melanie doesn't have her encounter with not!sasha in this au her and jon hate eachother a little less

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Was thinking of who the not-them could replace in the spiral!Sasha au, and came to the realisation that the worst thing you could do was give the not-them A GUN. So, I present to you the horror that is: not!daisy (you can go through the tags for Lore™)

[ID: a digital drawing of two women. One stands in front of the other. The one in the front has a question mark for a face, one hand being her back and is rasing a finger to her lips, with onomatopoeia indicating a "shh" noise is being made. She has long red hair in a low ponytail and wears police garb with a high-vis vest. The second woman stands behind her holding a gun with both hands. Her face is covered in a glitch effect. She has dark hair in a high ponytail and wears police garb with a tactical vest. The two women are coloured with tones of red, orange and white, and an ominous red shadow is drawn across the woman in the front. The background is bright red and has the text "you don't remember what she looks like?" Written in white block letters, with white wiggly lines filling up the rest of the space on the canvas. End ID]

Bonus under the cut: some au related doodles!

[ID: a series of doodles depicting au versions of characters from the Magnus archives. From left to right:

-Basira Hussain holding a gun, saying "where the hell is daisy?!". Her name is written beneath her in yellow block letters and the note "got a trauma haircut" with an arrow pointing to her hair is written next to her.

-a comic panel of Sasha James. Dialogue from someone off-panel reads "Sasha...that's what detective Tonner's always looked like? Are you feeling well? Sasha?". Sasha looks on in confusion, saying "wha...". Her hair morphs into spirals, breaking out of the panel, and a face in profile can be seen leering in the top right corner.

-a doodle of a scene labeled "mag 119: the spiral Sasha remix". Scene depicts Tim stoker covered in flames during the unknowing as Sasha's hand from offscreen pulls him away by his collar. The scene has the note "that's gonna leave a mark" written next to it with an arrow pointing to the fire.

- a doodle from the bust up of not-daisy, a white woman with red hair in a ponytail smiling. Her name is written underneath her with the note "she somehow sucks worse than regular season 3 daisy"

-a drawing of Tim and Sasha from the Magnus archives labeled "season 4 Tim+Sasha". Tim's hair is messy and the left half of his body is covered in burns. Sasha's hair is longer and curling into spirals, and a pink overlay of long fingers is put over Sasha's hand. Neither of them look happy.

-small doodle of Helen interacting with Sasha. Helen says "hello!" With a cheerful expression and Sasha responds "I wish you were dead" while looking fed up.

-a doodle labeled "post buried Basira". She's depicted with longer, more lank brown hair and is wearing a red turtleneck. Lonely clouds sit behind her.

The background is made up of varying shades of red. End ID]

#the magnus archives #tma #daisy tonner #not!them #not daisy was my favourite idea for this au so far tbh- just cause i haven't seen it done before #personality wise? not daisy is gratingly friendly and definitely tries to worm her way into Jon's good graces in season 2 by giving him- #-tapes. all so that she can increase his already present paranoia (slower than in canon but eventually reaching similar levels) #sasha is also the recollect in this au! i thought about the overlap between the not them and the distortion and decided that- #-sasha being the one to remember daisy would further her path to avatarhood #what with the whole. gaslighting thing going on #also! fun fact- since melanie doesn't have her encounter with not!sasha in this au her and jon hate eachother a little less #(at least they remain civil for longer- up until about episode 92-ish when melanie finds out she's trapped) #not daisy also. completey changes Basira's arc #im still ironing out details! but i think the general gist is that she'd end up turning to the hunt faster than in canon- #-and be the one to get put in the buried during the unknowing. she spends s3 being more like her s4 self and s4 being more like her s5 self #i just need to figure out what to do with her from there! #anyway yeah the not them has a gun now and it's terrifying #ngl I'm. scared to post this? #I'm just worried it won't have much of an audience is all #or worse it'll have an audience who only likes it instead of rbing it #but hey that's just being an artist on social media innit #basira hussain #sasha james #tim stoker #EDIT: I FORGOT ALL THE OTHER CHARACTER TAGS WOOPS