#michael crew headcanons

[silly-tma-headcanons]

mike paints any denim clothes he can get his paws on. his favourite work is a denim jacket with clouds painted all over the back. he wears it everywhere.

he also has fabric markers - you didnt hear it from me

#the magnus archives #the magnus archives headcanons #the magnus pod #the magpod #tma #tma headcanons #mike crew #michael crew #mike crew headcanons #michael crew headcanons

[ezrazzle]

After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

#the magnus archives #tma fanart #tma #the magnus archives fanart #this was a great art exercise for improvement. i learnt a lot #will eventually do protocol since i already have a few ideas in mind #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #peter lukas #elias bouchard #melanie king #georgie barker #basira hussain #daisy tonner #tim stoker #sasha james #jane prentiss #gerard keay #gerry keay #gertrude robinson #agnes montague #annabelle cane #michael distortion #helen distortion #nikola orsinov #oliver banks #simon fairchild #jude perry #mike crew #please keep in mind these are only my headcanons and while they may not align with your own that does not warrant any hate

[y3llow-hoodie]

Here’s Micheal crew doodle. As a treat. I’ll post more tomorrow (maybe)

#tma podcast #tma fanart #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #tma shitpost #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus archive #tma headcanons #tma the vast #tma michael #tma mike crew #mike crew #silly man #silly evil man

[nucifraga]

so... who was going to tell me that my estimates of the tma characters' ages was WAYYY off??

and i know jonny probably meant it to be that way so that there'd be leeway for creative interpretation of the characters and all, but my brain wants them pinned down. so. here's a mini-list/research rant of my favs. presently the list consists of:

Jonathan Sims

Martin Blackwood

Sasha James

Timothy Stoker

Mike Crew !

Oliver Banks

Michael Shelley

Gerard Keay

Three disclaimers – (i) The TMA timeline is a trainwreck. Many assumptions have been made. At least half of them are probably wrong (especially where University is used as an age marker) and also my maths ability sucks because I haven’t done maths in two years, so where there are glaring issues, so feel free to correct me and I will edit accordingly :’) (ii) This is by no means definite. See above. Honestly, attempting to decipher them feels like trying to understand the Spiral. But I’m doing it anyway, because as both a fanfic writer and an academic, I want to at least try. (iii) SPOILER WARNING!! SO MANY SPOILERS! I think the only seaosn that isn't spoiled is maybeeee S5 ???

With that, let's go! [Ages are approximate & as-of 2016 / S1]

Jonathan Sims Age: 28 Birth year: 1987-1988 There seems to be a general consensus on this one. MAG81 appears to be one of the key clues here – ‘Jon says that he was about 8 during the events of the statement and that it happened a year or two after Leitner's library ended, which was in 1994. So he's born around 1987-88.’ [source: reddit]Of note is the fact that he lied about his age and pretended to be older, which is hilarious, and leads me to believe that he’s the youngest of the Archives crew – or at least, near there.

Martin Blackwood Age: 28-ish Birth year: 1988 Has worked for the Institute since at least 2009. He’s lied about having a Master’s in parapsychology, so is likely old enough to feasibly be able to have one. As all institute staff have to at least have a Master’s in something archive-related (iirc), all of them must hence be at least 22/23, assuming the Master’s courses are 1 year long. Jonny has, however, stated that Martin is either a bit older or a bit younger than Jon, and I’m tempted to believe it’s the former (see above).

Sasha James Age: 28-34, 30-ish? Birth year: 1981-1987 There’s like, nothing on Sasha. I’m assuming she’s at least older than Jon, because that might be why he began faking his age. The only possible marker would be that Sasha’s worked in Artefact Storage (for 3 months), Research (for longer, I assume) and long enough in Archives to be considered as Gertrude’s likely successor. So, definitely more qualified, and also older than Jon.

Timothy Stoker Age: 30-ish Birth year: 1986? Tim has a degree in Anthropology from Trinity College (I assume this to be Oxbridge, rather than Ireland or something, since he resides in London), and spent 5 years working at a publishing firm. This puts him at 26 (18+3+5) in 2013 when Danny was taken. As he says he began working for the Institute shortly after, I would assume that this is when he stopped working for the firm. I’ve added a bit of buffer because nobody’s birthdays are given, ever, and also there might have been a bit of time between leaving university and joining the firm and/or leaving the firm and finding the Institute. So – 30.

Okay that���s the core staff, onto my other favs.

Michael 'Mike' Crew Age: 37-ish Birth year: ~1979 My #1 avatar! I did a double-take after I worked out his entire timeline, but here’s the highlights: He was a uni student during late 1997-early 1998 when he went looking for Ex Altiora in Lion Books. I’m assuming he was a first year, because generally uni students stay in the sameish area for the whole course and I don’t see him missing out on an opportunity to Leitner-hunt just because the store was in a slightly out-of-the-way part of town. So! This puts his birthdate at around 1979-1980.

Oliver Banks Age: 28-ish Birth year: ~1987 Oliver Banks’ timeline during & post-Uni makes NO SENSE. Fortunately, we do know that he moved to London around 2005 to do his undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics. Which puts him at around 18 in 2005, and his birth year can be worked out from there. Quick rant about Oliver’s timeline: Oliver is working at Barclays by 2007, and he was recruited after graduating. Which means he both began and subsequently completed his undergraduate degree between 2005 and 2007. That’s literally impossible for a standard 3 year course. Plus, by around 2007, he’s been working for nearly a year at Barclays, so he started in 2006… so apparently he began his degree and completed it in under a year, since the academic year starts in September??

Michael Shelley / Michael the Distortion Age: 31 / 49 / early 50s (but canonically 92 at all points in the timeline) Birth year: ??? I didn’t do the research on this one, so here’s my source because I don’t think there’s any more I can add.This mess is truly Spiral-worthy, which could have been intended, but also may just be the TMA timeline wonkiness at work. There’s also been some speculation that he was hired at even younger than 18, but equally it’s possible that he was hired older, which puts his age squarely into the [I don’t have a fucking clue] range.

Gerard Keay Age: technically 32 Birth year: ~1984 Gerry was born in the 80s, and given that the above source states he was in his ‘late teens’ in 2002, this tracks. Making the assumption that he’s 18 in 2002, I’m going to place his birth year at around 1984. However, he died in 2014 (I’m assuming late-2014, given that he had time to encounter Leitner in London & travel a bit with Gertrude before his death) in the USA, putting him at around 30 at the age of his death. Since he’s dead, he doesn’t really age, but he is ‘aware’ enough to be in existential pain so I’m going to go with Descartes on this one and say he’s ‘alive’ enough to continue counting his years of existence. Poor guy. Doesn’t even get to actually die til August 2017 either.

Part 2 ft. the 4 Grandpas of the Apocalypse here

#character ages #the magnus archives #tma #magnus archives #tma spoilers #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #timothy stoker #tim stoker #sasha james #michael shelley #mike crew #michael crew #gerard keay #gerry keay #oliver banks #michael the distortion #i don't know how to tag i don't use tumblr nearly enough for this #tma research #tma headcanons #tumblr keeps destroying my formatting how do i fix this

[agrodo1ce]

here are some avatar designs I did while listening will wood songs

( I know that Gerry isn't an avatar but still)

#rusty quill tma #tma distortion #the magnus institute #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus pod #tma vast #tma michael #tma headcanons #tma fanart #tma #tma podcast #tma micheal distortion #tma micheal crew #tma gerry #tma gerard keay #the Magnus archives pod

[punkxcalibur]

headcanon:

all avatars of the vast have really, really pale blue eyes and looking straight into them gives you vertigo

#they all have their special little quirks too #mike's glow during thunderstorms and flash whenever there's a lightning #whenever simon drops one of his victims the last thing they see in his eyes is an image of them falling #i am pulling this out of thin air #pun not intended #the vast #tma #the magnus archives #magnus pod #tma headcanons #mike crew #michael crew #simon fairchild #simon fairchild tma #mike crew tma #the falling titan #vertigo

[thermodynamic-comedian]

transfem mike crew transmasc simon fairchild. is the world ready

#im making this shit up as i go but it sounds right. it feels correct in my brain #idk if u guys get it tho. #tma #the magnus archives #tma headcanons #mike crew #michael crew #simon fairchild

[elias-the-unholy-message-van]

Yelling my tma headcannons in the void hoping someone hears part 7:

Gerrymike needs a super cool, original shipname (like how theres doorkeay for distortion/gerry and terminal velocity for mike/oliver) AND I HAVE IDEAS!!! Im thinking Leitner snatchers (ive learned theres the shipname bookhunters but its not that well known) or falling sight. So i want all the gerrymike shippers to decide and make one of these official PLEASE!!!!

#im getting desperate #tma #the magnus archives #tmafan #magpod #tma headcanons #gerrymike #michael x gerry tma #gerry keay #gerry tma #mike crew #mike tma #terminal velocity #doorkeay #tma ships #leitner snatchers #falling sight

[c0l0re]

For your consideration:

Mike Crew with albinism

#tma #the magnus archives #mike crew #michael crew #tma headcanons #colore speaks #i meed to draw him soon with how i imagine him #bc this dude has albinism to me #i dont know why i just know it in my soul

[opeothalmologist]

TMA Appearances, According To My Interpretation

I’m only on S4 right now, so this might not be wholly accurate. Will probably illustrate these in the future!

Jonathan looks like the popular fanon of himself, lol

Tim has bleached hair. He’s always the most stylish person in the Archive.

Melanie, having been a show host, puts a lot of effort into looking neat and polished.

Martin and Gerry’s natural hair color is blond.

Daisy is short but very well-built when it comes to muscle. Basira is taller than her.

Elias looks a lot like Jonathan for some reason—the only difference is his fine-trimmed hair and immaculate suit. (This was because 1: They have such similar voices? 2: I was half-convinced most of the time listening that Elias was secretly Jon’s dad.)

Mike Crew is Filipino, and has curly dark brown hair.

Michael Distortion’s hair is straight and very long.

Peter Lukas looks almost exactly like Drake from Pokémon but wears a shirt and has a beard.

#the magnus archives #tma headcanons #jonathan sims #tim stoker #melanie king #martin blackwood #gerard keay #gerry keay #daisy tonner #basira hussain #elias bouchard #mike crew #michael crew #michael distortion #tma michael #peter lukas #elias queuechard

[silly-tma-headcanons]

simon and harriet fairchild love to go to mike's workplace and be nuisances until he's off work, when they immediately drag him into gossiping about other avatars. they're thoroughly invested in his love life and like to romantically live vicariously through him

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus pod #the magpod #the magnus archives headcanons #tma headcanons #michael crew #mike crew #michael crew headcanons #mike crew headcanons #simon fairchild #simon fairchild headcanons #harriet fairchild #harriet fairchild headcanons

[im-here-for-the-cult-stuff]

Woo!! One week down, time for day 7!

Prompts:

You can't make me draw an old man just yet so here is my (admittedly self indulgent) drawing of Mike Crew and Ex Altiora :]]

God, the vast has such a good aesthetic

#i have so many headcanons about him its unreal #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #my art #inktober #magtober #mike crew #michael crew #ex altiora

[cult-of-the-eye]

Michael Crew, Michael Shelley, Mikaele Salesa

6

go clothes shopping with, go to ikea with, go grocery shopping with

Ooh ok I'd go to an ikea with Mikaele salesa cause he'd shit talk each of the furniture pieces and also we'd have fun pronouncing the names. I feel like he'd forget my dietary requirements and order IKEA meatballs for both of us and he'd eat the meatballs off my plate. We'd fill our trolley with daim cakes.

I'd go clothes shopping with Michael Shelley cause he'd be nice and I get very nervous about clothes shopping so he'd be good at keeping me calm and saying I look good in stuff.

Grocery shopping with Michael crew cause I feel like we'd listen to our own music and do it mostly in silence apart from when he asks me which i find more alluring out of open fields or open water. And I'd answer each question as honestly as I could. That sounds good to me.

(This is probably so ooc but it's my post so who cares)

Thanks for the ask!!

#tma #the magnus archives #answered asks #tma headcanons #mikaele salesa #michael shelley #michael crew

[hypnogogyc]

(hc) I think Oliver would enjoy a casual nickname or two but I think alot about how Oliver says his name doesn’t have meaning anymore and how Mike Insists on being called Mike and I think Mike gives some power to the name with every time he says “Oliver”, never shortened, each syllable spoken with time and respect…

#something humanity vs monstrosity something something #tma #the magnus archives #terminal velocity #oliver banks #mike crew #michael crew #off the clock #listen… names r so important i think #when Helen insisted on being Helen my heart hurt a little #Oliver probably calls him Mike or love #mike is a babe user i think #ill think ab that later thumbs up #tma headcanons #tma hc #was that a tag all this time #they dont feel pda much to me i think #on acc of theyre horrors on eartg and being documented makes existing harder i imagine

[nucifraga]

GUYS did you know that the university of chichester is actually pretty limited in the courses it offers?

there's no physics or geography department... which means my headcanons have kinda been chewed up by reality, so the possibilities are endless!! (well not really but they're a lot wider than i originally thought)

More options!! What was he studying? Can you imagine him in any of these?? Teaching? No chance.

Law? With the amount he undoubtedly broke, a possibility. Know thy enemy, after all! Philosophy & Ethics... perhaps? It could work. What ethical spectrum do the Fears work on? None, really, and that could be part of their charm.

English & Creative Writing? The research that went into the pages of Latin in his apartment, the novelty of the words he likely spoke, tying himself to the Vast rather than having the Vast directly claim him...? Mathematics? Always a good shout. With the money he was dropping on possibly-Leitners & research material for that ritual to seal the agent of the Spiral, he had to find a long-term plan if the book hunt was to continue. And fractals come from geometry, do they not? (also he bought a book by Gottfried Leibniz, so i figure this is a strong option)

either way, the possibilities are endless!

#sorry i am just straight up ranting my new research points into the void at this point #i know i'll never sit down and actually finish my 5 fic wips so you get my brain vomit as i synthesise new / retcon old headcanons #im sure you can tell which one im actually leaning towards #tma mike crew #michael mike crew #michael crew #mike crew #me & my slew of mike crew tags with almost every post lmao #tma #the magnus archives #uni student mike au

[mortuary-collective]

tma relationship dump because i am feral and a multishipper.

(x for romantic, + for platonic)

Michael Distortion x Mike Crew (x gerry but only sometimes)

Mike x Tim (gut feeling tbh.)

tim x jon x martin + sasha on occasion.

elias x peter + simon (peter resorts to simon during divorce eras)

#the magnus archives #magnus archives #tma headcanons #headcanon #magpod #mike crew #michael distortion #gerry keay #jon sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #simon fairchild #peter lukas