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No looking back, Jonny boy
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Dude chill out nobody wants your loser you can keep him
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gwen and alice :) been a bit since ive drawn some of the protocols….ive missed them.
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it's been a hot minute since I've drawn the canon cast
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i think its so beautiful that jon and martin can ONLY work in the one timeline they're in. yes, it's sad. yes, it didn't really work out as it should have.
but think about it. jon and martin knew that their love was an anomaly. a one time occurring event, a butterfly in a snowstorm. and they cherished it for what it was, they were literally each other's reason to keep going! they knew they probably wouldn't have worked in any other instance. yet they still saw it through till the end, because maybe- just maybe they'll find each other again.
yeah, soulmates through every timeline is a cute trope, but what about lovers who are alone in their own timeline? despite every other timeline where they don't work, they find that one instance where they do?
and i also wonder, if in another timeline, jon and martin make eye contact for just a second. then they might go, "do i know him?" then brush it off as if the wind just shifted.
((they make me severely ill if you couldn't tell))
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One of my favorite things about The Magnus Archives is how we're initially introduced to two characters: One who is an Archivist who is very scholarly, curious, and observant. And the other is a kind man who likes to make tea and is said by multiple people to have no survival instincts.
Then as the series goes on the kind man with "no survival instincts" is slowly reveled to be someone who is quite cunning and manipulative when he needs to be. He's consistently shown to be one of the smartest characters in the series, and he pulls off some pretty impressive feats like playing Peter like a fiddle for the majority of season 4 and having enough foresight to put an end to the apocalypse in season 5.
Then there's the Archivist. While he is very book smart, most of his street smart plans rely on ✨vibes✨ and the phrase "Gee. I sure hope this works!" He got lost in the tunnels where his boss was murdered. He has been kidnapped an unreasonable amount of times. He read a statement about a binding ritual trapping a creature to a table and decided to hit said table with an axe.
Martin and Jon are such good subversions of their character archetypes and it's so fun to think about. Martin, who tends to be portrayed as the worst assistant in season 1, ends up making logical choices even when they contradict with what his heart/gut instinct wants. Meanwhile, Jon, who is first portrayed as this guy who is "logical to the point of skepticism," ends up spending most of the series making choices with his heart and/or gut instinct. He's not great at using his head when push comes to shove, but he's usually trying to make the choice that feels right in the moment.
Jon and Martin's growth throughout the series takes them in opposite directions that break their archetypes, and that makes the series so much more enjoyable to me. It wouldn't be the same if Martin hadn't burned the statements in front of Elias or if Jon hadn't broken into Gertrude's flat, and I do love how the "logical Archivist" is genuinely one of the most unhinged characters in the series by like... season 2.
