#like.. Georgie and Melanie finals girls would've been alright i think?

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[Image ID: a digital illustration of various alternate endings for the Magnus archives. The page is split by three diagonal lines into different sections. In the top left section we see Georgie and Melanie. They both wear gas masks and are covered in apocalypse grime. In the middle section, various characters are stood in a line, looking slightly more stylized than the other sections. From left to right the characters are: Melanie, Georgie, Oliver Banks, Basira, Martin, Jon, Jordan Kennedy, Helen, Annabelle Cane, and Mikaele Salesa. Notable details include Georgie and Oliver having skulls drawn over their faces (Georgie's is only partial), Melanie being covered in blood, Basira having fangs and sharp eyes, Jon having green sclera, martin having a frostbitten tinge to his skin, Annabelle having multiple eyes, Helens face being a spiral and Jordan's being covered in ants. In the background a fire rages and Georgie and Melanie's cult prays. The final section in the bottom right corner shows Jon as the pupil of the eye with a silver Halo around his head comforting Martin, who now has white hair and is crying. The background to all the images is dark blue and the sections are divided by red lines. End ID]

WOOO kicking off @red-string-retrospective-week with a little piece dedicated to all my half baked season 5 ending theories that look cooler than they are! Featuring: Georgie and Melanie final girls and roamers of the wasteland, All The Avatars Have To Team Up because symbolism, and Jon are Martin can't stop the apocalypse, and can only watch it collapse in on itself from the panopticon after years...

#the magnus archives #tma #Jonathan sims #Martin Blackwood #basira hussain #melanie king #georgie barker #oliver banks #jordan kennedy #Annabelle cane #helen the distortion #mikaele salesa #look. I'm not sure how good these theories would've been in practice? #like.. Georgie and Melanie finals girls would've been alright i think? #maybe in the alternate universe where they didn't have to have screentime shortened due to covid reasons #but the extinction twist was a bit last minute from me #like i really liked the idea of extinction georgie when i heard it?? idk why i just did. but then i didn't want to separate her and Melanie #so now they're both wearing silly gas masks ig #the middle concept is the most fun one to me. logically it would never happen because even though it's symbolically appropriate #it's really not tma's style?? they prefer to deliver a hopeful message via showing what the absence of hope looks like i think #but it's fun to think about! even if i had to scrounge for ppl who were still living by the end of the series for it jsbsjf #helen really shouldn't be there but. i needed to fill space. also don't ask what salesa is contributing idk. he drove them there #final one was based on me seeing the whole ''each season is a stage of grief'' theory and trying to interpret how acceptance could look #and i decided it meant that jon and martin couldn't stop the apocalypse. just see it to it's natural end and then probably wither #which is. actually probably too dark for the show's messaging tbh #interesting to think abt tho #also I. drew this in two days. if it looks wack that's why #sorry this didn't fit any of the prompts i just already had all these on hand and figured this would be a decent way to start the event #redstringweek #rqdescribed