ohhhh desolation!martin,,,, such a beautiful image to me,,,, OKAY YAP ABOUT MY TMA x DE AU THATS RELATED UNDER CUT
soo in my the magnus archives x disco elysium au, it’s mostly tma with the mechanics and style of disco elysium? basically the au goes post-coma jon has amnesia and gets the skills. the skills are basically like its me boy the ps5 speaking to you from inside your brain but the fears. it’s set up in a 3 x 5, like how the de skills are a 4 x 6. theres the knowledge-based skills (eye, spiral, web, stranger, dark) the physical-based skills (slaughter, hunt, flesh, desolation, corruption) and the existential-based skills (end, buried, vast, lonely, extinction). theyre also more loosely organized into columns, but thats a more internal organization thing. what IS important here is that the dark, the desolation, and the lonely are all part of one column thats basically “removal”. while martin is Lonely, he’s associated with the Desolation BECAUSE,,,, (drumroll) he gets dora’d! the agnes-dolores association i was talking in my prev post abt this au is important here. my design for agnes looks a fair amount like my martin (semi-curly/wavy ginger hair, lots of freckles, a bit baby faced) and in canon martin is compared to agnes by jon in their roles as “chosen ones” (i feel like martin gets erased from this role in fandom discussions and like,, fair but also i think it adds important context to season4 and 5) so. dora him up! he serves functionally as jon’s ex-something, just with a happier* ending. i think the range of my tma x de au is just season 4, if only because handling the eyepocalypse is a bit out of scope for disco elysium’s structuring which i am following. anyway. because of this agnes-martin association, martin’s canon desolation tendencies get amped up :-) ! his Loneliness is colored by Desolation, in that in the crossover his relationships get destroyed rather than slowly fading away. honestly the overlaps between fears is rlly underutilized in fandom,,, more people should get on this,,,,,,,