#mootablemimic

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Fandom: The Magnus ArchivesCharacters: Jonathan Sims, Helen Richardson (a.k.a. The Distortion)Words: 500

For you, my dear beloved big sister Mutie, I’ll give you some Helen content! This is an excerpt from my very good very fun TMA JonMartin reincarnation fic: Love will not break your Heart (but dismiss your Fears), written out of order for an as-of-yet unknown chapter, during NaNoWriMo. Scene very subject to change

Helen Shows Up

“Hello, Archivist!”

Jon has been hard at work filing papers away and reading the shelves to check their order when the voice rings out, startling him out of his reverie. He flinches and turns to face the newcomer, seeing them–her?–stepping out of a door that did not exist before. 

“What–? Who–? Wha—?” He flounders staring. “How do you know me? Who are you? How the hell did you get in here? Where did that door come from?”

The person smiles, flickering on the edges, blurry, or distorted? It almost hurts to look at, and the hands are the worst. Normal, then long and sharp on all edges. “Oh how quick you are to forget me, Archivist! I’m almost saddened by this! Whatever happened to the fun times we had?”

“I have never met you before in my life.” he states, deadpan as he stares. He wants answers. 

She curls her fingers, inspecting the… nails? As she replies, a wry grin on her face. “Not in this life, maybe. You humans are all so particular about that, aren’t you? I remember being confined to a mortal life, but well–Now I’m not! And it’s all thanks to you, Jonathan Sims.”

“My last name isn’t Sims. Now, can you answer my questions, please?” he hisses through his teeth.

“Where would the fun be in that?” she laughs, leaning against one of the shelves and idly flipping through the pages of a book.

“Don’t touch those!” He’s quick on his feet, and snatches the book out of her hand, placing it back on the shelf, where it belongs. Not in the grasp of some–some oddity, some unknown entity.

“Oh, boring. Just like you, though. I don’t know why—- I never would expect anything different from my favorite Archivist. Settle down, and I’ll spill some secrets. Sure, why not! It’s not like you can’t just Know them, silly boy.”

The way she looks at him sets his teeth on edge, hairs standing up on the back of his neck. Adrenaline pumping into his bloodstream, fear, readying to fight or flee. Flee, from this distorted image of a human being. But there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, he can feel it burning him up inside. 

“My name is Helen,” she begins. “I used to be Michael, and now I’m Helen, and I’ve never been Michael. I’m not Helen though either, it’s a wondrous twisted maze of my world. You are not meant to comprehend it, don’t worry.” Helen pats his head, the lightest of touches, and he flinches away.

“Don’t touch me, Helen.” It comes out more command than plea, for which he is proud of.

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

Hanekoma isn’t a good father figure! He’s not! He can be a father figure to Josh and the kids but he’s fucked up and done some shit! And the fandom seems to have collective amnesia on that!

He gave Sho the ability to make Taboo Noise Sho could assassinate Josh! He’s a complex and interesting character but he’s not a good dad! He tries to pass himself off as the cool wise mentor figure parent-y type but the city comes before any person and he failed to recognize Josh’s declining mental health which lead to the Long Game! I still have an entire essay in progress in my drafts about this! 

  oh fuck, the steam summer sale

be strong teag

Mutie: You just said you were going to watch anime. You can't use "responsible" and "watching anime" like that in a sentence together.