#not-sasha was a retcon after og sasha got fridged and the creators tried to bring her back to make people happy-

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[image ID: fanart of characters from tbe Magnus archives as superheroes, styled like a comic cover. Characters separated into two rows, bottom row left to right shows Melanie, Jon and Tim. Notable details include Melanie having red eyes with effects around them and a military inspired costume, Jon having a long hooded cloaked styled like moth wings and a full-face mask, plus effects on his hands, and Tim having an axe on his back and a logo depicting a clown with an X over it. Second row shows Basira, Martin and Annabelle. Basira wears a brown hat and coat, Martin is coloured in blue tones, and Annabelle wears a cloak and has a blue/purple helmet with six eyes. Each has their hero name written next to them. Text from top to bottom reads: "find out the secret origins of...The Magnus Archives. Behold tales of mystery and terror! Featuring: Basira Hussein, Weaver (Annabelle), The Forsaken Man (Martin), War Ghost (Melanie) Archive (Jon) and Stranger Slayer (Tim)...and Sasha!". Bottom right has a cutout showing Sasha with headphones on. End ID]

I'd like to formally introduce you to my most self indulgent au, in which I give the tma characters silly costumes and even sillier names. Lore/doodles under the cut (click for quality)

[image ID: page of doodles for the tma/superhero au. First two doodles show Jon, with and without his mask. It's labeled "pros of Spidey mask: pretty boy face reveal". It's accompanied by martin blushing. Below it is two drawings of Melanie. They're the same except in the first, melanie's hair is black. There are two speech bubbles from an unseen person. First one reads "YouTuber Melanie King dresses as war ghost?". Second reads "SUPERHERO WAR GHOST?!". Below that is a drawing of Annabelle's full costume (notable details: tall boots and full sleeve, the helmet only covers half of her face). Below that is text labeled "lore". Transcript follows: - Gertrude was the first archive, and when she died, Jon got her powers/mantle passed on (not really by choice on either Jon or Gertrude's side) making him a legacy hero. Annabelle's a sympathetic anti hero type, and Elias is also there and evil

- Tim became a hero to avenge Danny, with Nikola having killed him like in canon. Idk she runs an evil circus full of shape shifting clowns Sasha WAS going to take up Gertrude's mantel as archive but after being traumatized by the not-them she decided to become the Guy In The Chair for Tim instead

- Melanie was still a YouTuber/paranormal investigator, but in this universe the whole "shot by a ghost thing" happened in England and gave her superpowers! She lost her sight in the same incident. Georgie is kind of her Lois Lane/Jimmy Olsen (significant supportive character)

- the branch of the Lukas family that was into the science part of terror (i.e the ones that contributed to the Daedalus in canon) in this au ran experiments that martin got wrapped up in. Now he's got some of his canon lonely powers (being where Other People Aren't, for example) plus minor telepathy (compelling/ making ppl forget). Home-made his costume! End ID]

#the magnus archives #tma #magpod #Jonathan sims #melanie king #tim stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #basira hussain #annabelle cane #superhero au #GD why does this one make me feel like i'm gonna be executed by the cringe police! i hate it here (here being my brain) #ANYWAY the lore for this au is so vague. it's so vague and undefined you guys #it is literally all about putting tma characters in brightly coloured spandex and poking fun at comics/the industry #i think at one point the au was WAYY more meta than it is now? #bad things happen to jon because he's the legacy character that fans are split on because ppl were attached to the original iteration #not-sasha was a retcon after og sasha got fridged and the creators tried to bring her back to make people happy- #-but she was too different and fans didn't like her so they retconned it as a shapeshifter who took her place #all the timeline inconsistencies were because of reboots #stuff like that that was...really ambitious looking back on it #idk it's fun! maybe works in the context of a ''leitner-ed version of action comics no.1'' type story #(also i don't think sasha was fridged in tma canon i just like to make mean jokes at the expense of the comics industry dw) #design wise jon's inspired by the spectre/the spoiler a little bit #melanie is vaguely inspired by black canary/wonder woman but not really #tim is. tim is just nightwing. i could make a power point presentation on the similarites between those two tho so i don't feel bad for it #uhh martin is just martin. he's kind of inspired by those low-tech jeans and a hoodie superhero designs you get! love those #annabelle is a little inspired by minor batman/robin character nobody? with the helmet and all #basira is. just renee montoya #god i hope i don't clog up tags with those comparisons yeesh #also yes i know the names are silly! i'm fine with that because comics are very silly