Had this au spinning around my head for awhile, finally got some drawings done for it lol

It’s a complete reverse au where instead of the Magnus Institute and Jon being the chosen one, it’s Martin and it’s now a Lonley aligned hotel: The Lukas Hotels, where you’ll never want to leave.

Also don’t mind the layout inconsistencies I am still working on how this hotel looks

I need more tma reverse AUs PLEASE

I need Archivist!Martin & Lonely!Jon

PLEAAASSSSEEEE

there are a million TMA time-travel AUs where the S5 crew goes back to an earlier season, but where are my S1 goes to the future AUs???? please????

edit:

there's more to this AU now!

check the "tma reverse time travel au" tag to see it :D

part 1 / part 2

*mushes two of my favorite AUs together*

Red Hood!Steph would still be a Desolation avatar—there’s too much anger, too much destruction, too much hate & desire for the complete annihilation of the targets of that hate to be anything else—but she’s different.

RH!Jason is an earthquake.

RH!Steph would be a lightning storm. The crackle of electricity, the taste of ozone, the light of something utterly uncontrollable in her eyes. The billowing, bulging thunder cloud sweeping across the sky to blot out the sun. Wind enough to rip up trees, rain so heavy you can’t see, but lightning, lightning every few seconds, like all the electricity in the world has been stolen underneath her skin. A fire-starter (like Jason) but the blaze itself is not what you have to Fear, the blaze is merely a side effect of something much more powerful sweeping through. Her victims are not shattered bones & splattered brains, they’re bleeding ears & the reek of cooking meat.

Jason borders the Buried far closer than he’d like.

Steph would dance on the border of the Vast like a small child dances in the rain: with wild abandon & near-feral glee.

more TMA rev Time Travel AU

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Magtober Day 4 - Roleswap

I freaking LOVE archivist Sasha aus <3

My goal for Magtober is to do a sketch every day according to the prompt. I've been suffering from that headspace where every peice needs to be a finished piece, so I'm tryin to break that.

Prompt list by @emerald-emerlad for tmatober 2023!

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little roleswap au

Not to pitch a second TMA AU but how about a reverse of sorts? Instead of wanting to attempt the Watcher’s Crown, Jonah tries his best to prevent it.

He figures out why the rituals fail and then slowly, steadily, realizes how they would succeed. At first he thinks it’s fantastic, then realizes that he’d be forever caught in the role of beholder. They don’t act, they simply watch.

Watch and determine which entity to give the most power to.

And suddenly it’s not Jonah trying to get himself an archivist, but everyone else trying to create one needed to crown them ruler of a new world.

The Magnus Institute is not so much a prison as a safe house. If Beholding claimed you, best stay with your kind or the others will get you. Make sure you’re only exposed to certain fears, preferably the sand and not deep enough to leave a mark. The Hunt is particularly vicious in chasing you after all.

The Lonely is an ally, of sorts, as loneliness thrives on knowing others are together without you so an apocalypse would be a quick large fantastic meal once before coming ineffective. The Vast isn’t interested in the Watcher’s Crown happening yet, so they’re fairly neutral.

The others though? They want an Archivist and they want them now. Gertrude was mean. In this world, instead of stopping rituals, she’s just straight up killing other Avatars. And one day she’s just not quick enough.

And then there’s Jon, not the Avatar Jonah Magnus made, but one he tried to prevent.

Marked early by the Web not for purpose of creating their own Avatar but making one for the Watcher.

*posts ch 6 so I don't forget and die of death*

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So, ever watch an animatic for something before getting into the series and you know what's going to happen now? Yeah, apparently that doesn't exist for TMA. Instead, whatever you watched before getting into the series was a different video then what you rewatched with context after listening to TMA. In other words, you could technically turn that first impression of tma (whether that be art, video, etc) into an au and it would probably fit among the many other au's as if it wasn't your first impression of it.

icon (avatar hehe) i made for my tma au tommy for rp!! only a bust bc i wanted to have it done quickly+drew it on my phone in ibis, which admittedly, i am rusty at. 6ish hours (less than usual for me LOL). my funny guy...

stealing this thought from a friend Is Evan Lukas a previous hotel manager in the hotel au? Also your ideas and art are SO cool!!!

First off, tell your friend to get out of my walls. Second, yes! That’s the idea at least, Evan was the owner before his death and Naomi couldn’t take on the hotel sooooo it went over to Peter Lukas. He took it on since there was a lot of fear potential that was not being used while Evan was in charge.

Also I am so glad people are just as feral about this au as I am, I love me intense reverse aus

yknow the fic ur abt to write is gonna be good when you make a separate note for structure and plot instead of just opening the note and writing the whole thing without much thought

I dug through the dark recesses of my mind and finally found another comic idea for this AU.

my last post for this AU got, like, an obscene amount of notes, so while it was kind of just supposed to be a one-off comic, here's another one I guess?

btw, if anyone's curious (for some reason) the text in panel 3 says "Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon Martin's sweater"

mythcas's fics for writer's month 2022, second week

8 | warm & burn [the magnus archives, michael POV, sound-emotion synesthesia series, G]

Michael tries to burn Zemlya Sannikova out of his body.

9 | echo & rhyme [the magnus archives, michael & jon, michael POV, sound-emotion synesthesia series, T]

Time gets slippery, Tim gets angry, and Michael gets a note.

10 | five simple questions [the magnus archives X severance AU, transcript format, one shot, G]

Michael S. wakes up in a room with green carpet and is asked to answer a question about a monster.

11 | how to grieve the ungrievable [adventures in odyssey, richard POV, present tense, i want to make it up to you series, T]

In his hospital room, Richard finds out that Dr. Blackgaard is dead.

12 | friendship reverse-o-matic [adventures in odyssey, richard & eugene, richard POV, i want to make it up to you series, G]

Richard is enlisted in the less-than-prudent attempt to return Eugene's memories.

13 | that's for remembrance [adventures in odyssey, maxwell family drama, jason POV, G]

Connie and Jason find out that Richard's long-lost half-sibling is back in town.

14 | resurrect [mcu / avengers: endgame, thor & loki, loki & heimdall, thor POV, loki POV, one shot, T]

Thor makes a wish. Loki wakes up. Inspired by that tumblr post about how they missed an opportunity to do a Guardians of the Galaxy callback and have the six original Avengers join together to help wield the Gauntlet with its six Stones.

please do dump about your watcher au as much as you want!! I'd love to hear about it!!

YAYYYY THANKS FOR ASKING its autism time Basically um. You know how most the watcher!grian hcs/interpretations have him as an unwilling participant in all this ? Uh, yeah ! Not this grian:3 Well. Kinda. But. Im a TMA Fan and I love FUCKED UP guys so !!!! Watchers feed off emotions. All emotions, but they're especially known for finding fear or grief or other negative emotions the most nutritionally filling/benefital to their health. However: They can't just sit there around someone whos very happy, sad, angry, ect, and then get fed from that. They have to- uh, for lack of better word- latch onto a players "soul," and tear chunks of that from them, dig into their mind and bite into whatever makes them feel and then tear that away. Sometimes, a feeding will cause the victim to be unable to feel anything at all after the feeding, if a Watcher gorges themself solely on them. Most often, when they use restraint while feeding, the victim will loose all feelings they'd had about the previous days, weeks, or even months, and might feel like everythings "dulled down" for some time while they recover. (Younger Watchers usually have to have physical contact with the victim to feed, older or more powerful Watchers can feed without even being on the same plane of existence as their victim, only needing to be able to See them.) Now, that's all kind of similar to a lot of headcanons about Watchers already, and I pulled the "eating emotions" thing from Martyns Eyes & Ears AU (altho in that its JUST fear), but uh... Heres where it differs: The Watchers aren't sentient. Not really, anyway. They're...predators, beings that know they need to feed and will go to great lengths to do so, survival their greatest worry above all else. Think of them like... Smart animals. Corvids, for example, crows especially- they will investigate their own dead to figure out what killed the other bird so they can avoid it, and are extremely good puzzle solvers. Prairie dogs have an incredibly advanced verbal communication system- able to even denote the speed of which a predator is approaching their den (probably the closest we could get to an ""language"" in the animal kingdom). But neither of those animals, as smart as they may be, are considered sentient. Its the same with Watchers. Watchers CAN communicate, they can understand eachother, they can achieve a certain amount of planning, like how squirrels can count what nuts they have & deduce how many they need, or how whales and other marine life are especially prone to being able to plan & use logical reasoning... They can understand the concept of death and... the concept of keeping their food alive for delayed gratification and a continued food source, instead of just going out and feeding on someone until theyre a husk of themselves, unable to provide more food. How, exactly, they got all the players into the life series/how they made the games IS something im working on, but the point im getting at here is that theyre basically like ants farming aphids, except the aphids are sentient people..? yay..? Ah, and Watcher cant reproduce normally. They have incredibly long lifespans, but when a Watcher does come to its end, they... Well, theyll find an player to bite into the soul of, and instead of feeding, they basically do the reverse- shoving all their energy into that being and becoming a parasite that will eventually take over the host and make them a Watcher, similarly without much sentience. Thats what happens to Grian. :3 The exact process of turning is also in the works but basically it starts by becoming unable to eat regular food, slowly focusing all the players willpower into wanting to eat, before they develop the ability to feed from other players. At this stage they might still be able to feel themself, however after feeding from another you tend to loose your own emotions amongst the ones youre feeding off of, and at some point, any remaining emotions the "player" has, is consumed by them for extra nutrition, and in turn they officially become a Watcher.

UMMMM YEAH!!!! Thats all the worldbuilding I have :3333 Theres uh- a story in my mind, but its not as fleshed out? I also MIGHT make it a fic (heavy on the might) so idk how much i'd wanna spoil. But uh, yeah, Grian'll be a bit of a special case in that his turning takes... a lot longer than normal. ^_^ I put him in the torture world sorry