#these ids were a fuckin. doozy man. why do i gotta write so much in my drawings it's insane

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[image ID: a fake comic cover depicting characters from the Magnus archives as superheroes/villains. In the foreground stands Jon in a superhero uniform- an all black body suit with a green Cape styled after moth wings and an eye logo. He's standing in the foreground in an alert stance, effects over his hands. Behind him stands various tma antagonists in shadow. From left to right it shows Callum Brodie and Manuela Dominguez, Annabelle Cane, Elias Bouchard, Helen, Simon Fairchild and Peter Lukas. Manuela has goggles on, Callum has a domino mask, Annabelle has a mask that covers half her face, Elias' visible eye is glowing, Helen has a spiral for a face and is coloured with different colours swirling together, Simon is upside down and Peter is depicted as partly made of mist The background is red, the comic is titled "the Magnus archives", with the sub heading "behold tales of villainy and fear!" and the text from top to bottom reads: "Archive's greatest threat yet! Introducing...the dread powers. Who are they? What do they want? And could this really be the return of the villainous...count Magnus!? Find out inside!" End ID]

The villains of the tma superhero au are probably the least defined part of it all, but I wanted to do a cover featuring them! Yknow the drill, extra lore under the cut and in the tags!

[image ID: digital sketch pages featuring Manuela Dominguez, Callum Brodie, Elias Bouchard, and the Distortions in tma superhero au. At the top is a sketch of Manuela and Callum. Manuela is a brown skinned Latina woman with straight, black and greying hair. She wears goggles and a black leather catsuit with a boob window under a labcoat. She has various notes written around her. They say : Manuela Dominguez aka Dr Darkstar. Legacy hero of "Father Darkstar" aka Maxwell Rayner. Mad scientist. Archive is her main arch-nemesis. Maxwell's power is transferable like Gertrude's But he didn't actually give it to Manuela. Uses tech to manipulate light/shadow/etc". Next to her is Callum, a white child with brown hair and pale skin. He wears a purple Cape, gloves, belt and navy tunic over a black suit along with a domino mask with navy lenses over the eyes. His notes read: "Callum Brodie aka nightmare lad. Designated bratty child sidekick. Was not kidnapped like in canon! Just manipulated into accepting powers. It's not better. Same powers as Manuela but w/ less control/strength. Maxwell sees him as the next heir apparent. Callum thinks he's a smelly old man. Bit of a dick just needs some positive influence (re: no Maxwell and Manuela). In the bottom left Elias is shown coloured in green. His notes say "Elias is Jon's shitty boss at the eye in the sky newspaper. Works for Jonah aka 'count magnus'. Like a clone? Descendant? Idk whateva." Jonah Magnus is doodled next to him, shown as a rotting old man with tubes plugged into his head. His notes read "plugged into giant machine. Old as hell. Machine communicates with cosmic entity known as the watcher (it's the eye). Finally, in the bottom right corner is a coloured sketch of the Distortions. They're both depicted as having spirals for faces and being made of swirling colours from the neck down. Michael's depicted as a white man with blonde hair, Helen is a tan woman with brown hair. End ID]

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #annabelle cane #manuela dominguez #callum brodie #helen distortion #simon fairchild #peter lukas #these ids were a fuckin. doozy man. why do i gotta write so much in my drawings it's insane #uhhh as for lore...the villains are the most undefined part of the au in my mind?? #elias is either Jonah's clone/descendant/whatever setting up schemes to fule the cosmic entity jonahs plugged into (known as the watcher)- #-which is the same thing jon and gertrude got their powers from. don't ask me how it works i don't know #you guys saw peters origin in the last comic #simon in this au isn't hundreds of years old he's just a rich old man who used his money to give himself powers #and now he's evil for fun #it's on brand i think #Annabelle was also experimented on in this au but here we acknowledge how tragic it is and how she deserves better! #she got given powers of mind control in the au and works for the web which is kind of just an evil organisation in this aj #*au #you see a little of manuela and Callums origins in my notes and I've already talked about helen #i think there was probably an older iteration of this group closer to the typical lineup of tma antagonists in canon?? #it probably had rayner and fielding and maybe arthur nolan or even agnes (tho she probably wasn't happy there) #and then after the newer crop of heroes started springing up elias brought it back but this time with new members and legacies #it's an interesting lineup #Annabelle's not fond if her teammates #Manuela's an immoral scientist (hits for obvious reasons) callums a child manipulated into this (HITS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS)- #-and elias peter and simon are rich old white guys. maybe annabelle gets along with helen thi #AHH RAN OUT OF TAGS