#reflection tma

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It's young Jon. Stubborn to a comedic fault, susceptible to reverse psychology, refuses to be told what to do.

 I’m thinking about the connective strings that really scared me about them.

All of them had some form of entrapment. Cave was obviously a manifestation of the Buried, A big part of Binary was how trapped Ushanka was and how Tessa was unable to escape him, and Reflection had the unnamed teen literally trapped and chased in a mirror carnival.

All of them had a form of unreality. A big part of what I remember about Cave was how the victim found her way out but was missing time and was given a conflicting account of how she was found, how she left for her trip, etc and how when she did escape it didn’t make sense. Binary was manifestation of the Spiral apparently. Reflection was literally in a mirror dimension. 

Reflection and Binary had the perverse watching. Tessa could not escape seeing Ushanka destroy himself and the unnamed teen was left watching twisted almost pantomimed scene of parched scarcity and inhumanity. And both have been tied to the Extinction (however that part of Binary, robots over humand, doesn’t scare me)

Jonathan Sims, researcher at the Magnus Institute, is seeing a ghost. Of himself.

Of course, it’s not really him, no matter what secrets it knows, or how many arguments it brings up. So if it tells him to do something? Obviously, he’ll be doing the exact opposite. 

A TMA time travel comedy starring Jon, Jon, and the chaos of the universe.

Ch 10 is HERE!

New readers can start HERE!

OH MY GOD, I CAN’T BELIEVE I FINISHED THIS aldfkalkdfjKFJL. This was so much fun to write, and it ended up getting so weirdly chaotic toward the end lmao. 

CH 9 is HERE!

New readers can start here!

In the interest of fairness, arson is not Martin’s first instinct when it comes to dealing with his problems. Really, it’s not!

It’s just… you know. Toss a match at your issues, and bam: you have a different problem to deal with. It’s actually quite an effective strategy. And once the flames die down, you can’t even remember what you were worried about in the first place. Fire has a way of putting things into perspective.

Arson is not Martin’s first instinct, but it’s certainly one of his instincts. And a very helpful one, at that.

So really, can you blame him when he realizes it’s the quickest way to solve the problem of Gertrude Robinson?

IT’S ARRIVED, FRIENDS! Ch 9 of Reflection, ft: Jon and Jon, lots of gratuitous tripping, and the Archives on Fire.

Ch. 8 is here!

New readers can start here!

Jonathan Sims, researcher at the Magnus Institute, is seeing a ghost. Of himself. Of course, it’s not really him, no matter what secrets it knows, or how many arguments it brings up. So if it tells him to do something? Obviously, he’ll be doing the exact opposite. _____ (AKA: Jon is an idiot, past and future, but somewhere along the way it all cancels out.) (Expect general spoilers for S4 and specifically, MAG 158.)