#and half the panels are copy-pasted for comedic affect

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[ID: A digital fanart comic of The Magnus Archives. In it, Jon is a Sri Lankan man with brown skin and shoulder length black hair. He is wearing a teal jacket with a What The Ghost shirt and black trousers. Daisy is a white woman with black hair in a ponytail, wearing a white shirt and police vest. Martin is a Polish/Argentinian man with tanned skin and short brown hair and glasses, wearing a maroon hoodie and navy t-shirt. Basira is an Arab woman with brown skin and long black hair, wearing a brown jacket and teal turtle neck. Melanie is a Chinese woman with long bleach blond hair and black roots, wearing a black dress with translucent sleeves. Tim is a Malay man with tanned skin, and messy short black hair, wearing a white t-shirt and blue jacket.

On the first page, the first panel shows Jon talking on the phone, with illegible speech bubbles. Daisy takes notice of this. She enters a room containing the other assistants, and says "Someone ought to tell Sims to be a bit quieter when he's arguing with his..." the next speech bubble is over an image of the assistants looking up in surprise "girlfriend or whatever". Girlfriend is underlined.

Melanie responds "No that's-" but is cut off by Martin's larger, spiky speech bubble of "Girlfriend?? Daisy? Huh? What?". Basira interjects that "Wait does Jon have a girlfriend?" before Melanie slams her hand on the side of the panel she's in, yelling "He doesn't have a girlfriend! He was probably calling Georgie." She is visibly flushed.

Daisy looks frustrated and asks "Who's Georgie?". Melanie, now sweating, says "She's... She gave him a place to stay. They're just friends." Daisy's mouth has been erased for comic emphasis, and her eyebrows are a V shape. In the next panel she is more relaxed, saying "Oh. Yeah that makes more sense. Can't imagine he's taken right now." Basira is standing beside her, and Tim has appeared distantly behind them.

Tim then says "I mean..." and Daisy takes notice. He follows up with "He actually is, y'know. Somehow." All four assistants appear in the panel's corner with bulging eyes, exclaiming "What?!" in unison. Now Tim scratches the back of his neck, looking at Basira and saying "I thought you guys knew by now." Martin appears looming over him, with a spiked speech bubble saying "Know what, Tim?" Basira looks horrified as Tim gestures towards her and says "That you two are... you know." In a spiked speech bubble she then yells "What are you-" before cutting herself off and her face going blank, adding "Wait." She then looks annoyed, saying "Tim that... That was a lie Jon told you." Tim responds "...What?" and Basira says "Me and Jon never dated. He lied to cover up the fact that I was giving him evidence."

In the final page, Tim is alone in a box staring blankly ahead. As his co-workers say "...Tim? Tim are you alright?" "Tim?" and "Tim? Tim speak to us", the box he's in shatters like broken glass, leaving him standing in a white void. Still staring ahead, he simply says "I'm going to kill him." End ID]

Thoughts that occasionally plague my brain: we never see anyone actually tell Tim Jon and Basira aren't dating, ergo, I should make a very long comic about the dumbest way that could've happened <3 (also big thanks to Oran @radiosandrecordings for helping me w/ the ID)

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #melanie king #tim stoker #Basira Hussein #daisy tonner #this has taken me. nearly a week #and half the panels are copy-pasted for comedic affect #such is my curse ig #my brain has been so soup these past few days but this comic <3 keeping me going #idk i just wanted to make something fun and push myself to be more comedic/exaggerated and tbh I'm! very happy w/ it #uhh i don't have too many thoughts like i said brain soup #uh. I'm proud of how the composition on this turned out for the most part? i also drew my prettiest basira ever on page 2 which is nice lol #drawing daisy's hair was also fun i was just like. haha shadow the hedgehog lookin' ass #(i say that like my inspo wasn't 100% damion scotts batgirl art lmao) #also. is tim dressed like sans because of that one post i made a while back?? that's a secret I'll never tell. xoxo gossip girl #martin was very fun to draw here. he is so shape and is absolutely not ready to confront the idea of his love being even more unrequited- #-than he thinks it is right now. Martin said if god kicks me while I'm down one more time I'm judo flipping him #jon and Georgie are probably fighting over him being so distant/not telling her stuff #idk i didn't think about it too hard it was all just joke set up #anyway! i have returned from war! funny archives be upon ye #edit: MEANT TO ADD CREDIT TO ID BUT FORGOT I HAVE DONE IT NOW