I Can't Be The Only One Who Thinks S5 Of TMA Can Best Be Told With "Navigating" By Twenty One Pilots,

I can't be the only one who thinks S5 of TMA can best be told with "Navigating" by Twenty One Pilots, right???? Right????? Or even just have it be a Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute song???

I spoiler because omg i'm gonna go rant mode and you should have a barrier.

Obvious spoilers for MAG 160 ~ MAG 200 (The Magnus Archives).

Like just give me a moment to cook. Jmart POV, starts with reflections of Martin in the Lonely ("the haze around my face / makes me feel so alone") OR its to show Jon's thoughts post-Door Open.

"I know you see me standing still / When our fingers touch, I feel my way back home"

This the most MAG 161 & MAG 162 coded shit in history. Martin being the one to act as 'home' as they move from the cabin.

First chorus is just them going through the first set of domains, with 'give me some advice' happening during the Not!Sasha smiting. Maybe there's some flashes of the real Sasha in there, who knows.

"Don't know how long it's been / My, oh my / How things change so rapidly / I find my self-esteem / Then turn so cold"

MAG 166 ~ MAG187 pipeline.

Chorus 2 is the ways to the other domains, eventually ending in the Panopticon.

"Don't know how long it's been / Since I responded to your question / If you really wanna know what I'm thinking"

Annabelle and Hill Top scene. I take my seat.

"Kind of feels like everybody leaves / Feeling the reality that everybody leaves / My dad just lost his mom, I think that everybody leaves / And I'm trying to hold onto you / 'Cause everybody leaves"

YOU CANNOT TELL ME THIS ISN'T THE PRE-JONAH STAB CONVO IN A NUTSHELL. YOU CANNOT DELUDE ME AWAY FROM THIS IM DYING ON THIS HILL-

Second-to-last chorus is the Jonah erasure stuff lol

AND THE FINAL LENGTH OF THE SONG, IS JUST MAG 200 TEARING US TO PIECES WITH INTERLACED FLASHBACKS ENDING WITH A BLACK SCREEN TO RUIN US EMOTIONALLY.

So anyway have fun with this torture :3

*and with that, the Eye Lady gets a terrible idea*

(Also we got Magtober 24 list les gooo)

Boom!! My very own magtober prompt list!! I’m gonna do my best to complete this!! It’d be super cool if people tagged along even if just for individual prompts (:

If you follow along my list make sure to tag me!!!! I wanna see what creative stuff y’all get up to!! Any mediums welcome!!!

There’s at least prompt for each fear, plus a couple extra buried ones because. Well. It’s my me damn list

Slime Rancher x TMA?

Okay but seriously, imagine if Jon and Martin commit MAG 200 and just end up on Slime Rancher's Far Far Range. What then?

(Welcome to your lecture on why my abilities to cook have been restrained by divine ordainment [irl responsibilities])

How It Would Work

Mistaken Identity as their alt selves or assuming the lives of their alt selves as they have completely replaced them

They both have separate farms on the Far, Far Range on opposite ends, and don't know where the other exactly is (they both think they're on distant islands to each other lol).

Martin becomes very adept with Slime wrangling in particular, but still remains an effective slime rancher in the ways of taking care of them. He adopts a particular Tabby (unbeknownst to him an escapee from Jon's ranch) and calls it 'Merry', and Merry stays by his side at all times.

Jon is very particular about only owning docile slimes like Pinks, Tabbies and Puddles, with a lot of his slimes being mixes with Tabbies because cats. He makes a sole exception for ONE Crystal-Tabby that he calls 'Calcite', who becomes a bit of a ranch defender Largo. It is so picky about what it eats or absorbs that there is zero risk for him to become a Tarr.

Jmart end up finding each other when Jon goes chasing after a Tabby-Phosphor with Calcite in an attempt to get it somewhere dark before daylight. Both are overjoyed to see each other obviously and immediately work together.

They have a teleporter between their ranches and help each other out with random tasks. They obvs can't combine ranches now, but they do lots of sleepovers at each other's ranches lmao,

Jon ends up going into Slime Sciences because duh of course he would lmao. He's the reason both farms have cannons to repel Tarr slimes.

They get therapy before even so much as thinking about advancing their relationship further because holy hell these dudes need it. (Therapy is already in swing at the start btw, I'm not delaying their roads to mental stability)

Other Info below the keep reading tag so we don't flood your feed lolol.

Relationships with Canon Slime Rancher Characters

Martin is the one who usually deals with Slime Market stuff because people like BOb exist.

Martin befriends Thora easier than anyone else due to her kindly nature. Let's give the man a nice older lady figure in his life to be a mentor.

Jon become notably friendly with Viktor Humphries, and they collaborate often since Jon has Martin and his own interest in slime collection to help him.

Both find Mochi a bit like Melanie at first, but warm up to her when they start to learn more about her (both can relate to strained relationships w/parental figures, especially Martin).

Both find BOb complexing and typically try to keep conversations curt lol.

Obvs because I'm not replacing Beatrix, they do meet her and are pretty neutral to her. Nothing extraordinary and nothing unextraordinary since Beatrix is more a proxy for the player so I can't gauge much on how she'd be without our interference.

Ogden & Hobson are also a neutral relationship but that's just because I can't think on how either of them and Jmart would work lol.

Likely Queries

Fears When?: No Fears in the Slime Rancher universe because I say so. The Fears just don't have influence here anymore haha. That means Jonah Magnus stays deceased.

How is Jon not like, barely sane or whatever (referencing the 'how much of me is the Eye stuff')?: Well, they did merge/overwrite their Slime universe counterpart so like... e.

Does Jmart retain Fear powers?: No. Maybe. I'm not sure tbh I think if anything it'd be subtle things. EG: Jon being able to identify certain things changed in an area or have a better grip on understanding body language. EG2: Martin being less noticeable when he wants to be or just having a bit of cold resistance.

Why can't they move in together?: Because I doubt the 7Zee Corp would be able to find a buyer for either ranch too quickly, but I could be wrong. Idk I like the idea of them having space of their own separate from the other since those dudes need therapy and time to work on themselves.

Do they look like themselves or their alternates?: Alts with the exception of MAG 200 injuries. The Alts just look like their S1 selves lmao.

SlimeRancher!Sasha, SlimeRancher!Georgie & SlimeRancher!Tim? Yes. None would properly notice a difference in Jon because he's more just their Jon with some weird ass baggage attached. Martin would DEFINITELY be something they'd note as 'unusual' but ultimately set it down to 'omg he's matured so fast having to deal with Jon lolol'. Sasha and Tim would be fellow Ranchers on another area nearby and Georgie either stayed on Earth or is a Tarr Wrangler with SlRa!Melanie.

What about the other Magnus people? Not sure, defs think SlRa!Melanie would exist as a Tarr Wrangler w/Georgie. SlRa!Elias would likely be on Earth still and just living his Pre-Eye life lolol. Sl!Ra Gertrude should be a rancher elsewhere that's just died but other than that idk.

Do any other Slime Rancher alts get their other worlds memories? Maybe Georgie and Melanie but only via 'oh wow that was a funky dream haha' since they were in the Panopticon. Elias doesn't count towards this since there was no more Elias by the time of the series' beginning (source: MAG 193).

Ooo another one

The Eye: Here

The Lonely: ---

The Corruption: ---

The Buried: ---

The Hunt: ---

The Dark: ---

The Desolation: ---

The Stranger: ---

The Flesh: ---

The Spiral: ---

The Vast: ---

The Web: ---

The Slaughter: ---

The End: ---

Jmart: ---

Sasha / Not Sasha: ---

Dasira: ---

The Distortion (dunno if i'll do): ---

America Hunters: ---

Melorgie(?): ---

Leitner: ---

Oliver: ---

Elias: ---

Annabelle: ---

Jane Prentiss (probs wont do): ---

Mr Spider (hehehehe): ---

Simon: ---

Peter: ---

Celia: ---

Ceaseless Watcher: ---

Tim: ---

Anyone else doing the ink-tober thing? I’ve made my own list based off tma. I would love to see what others are doing!

I don’t do many ships. The pairings in here are souly the relationships they have in the show. Example: I don’t ship Trevor and Julia beyond a fatherly to daughter relationship.

Tfw your mate assdials you and you stay on call because you were at first worried, then confused, and now just wanting to mess with them.

It has been 33 minutes.

Update: He figured it out at the 40 minute mark. Bro was confused

LETS GO ANI OUR SPIRAL-EYE INTERIM ARCHIVIST AMNESIAC "AUSSIE FLAVOURED" IRISH QUEEN 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

(I really need a better way to describe her that ticks the boxes lmfao)

Shoutout to @the-lantern-lights for being so darn cool and having an absolute killer art style! Definitely recommend them for not only commissions, but also their cool as hell TMA AU's! Will defs commission again!

Second commission, this one for @dexterkronos of their oc :D More variations under cut