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[Image ID: A digital drawing of Michael the Distortion from the podcast the Magnus archives, done with bright eyestraining colours. Micheal is standing partially turned away from the viewer, visible from the mid-shins up. Its left shoulder is tilted down and his head twisted slightly with his chin pointed towards the bottom left of the picture, giving the impression that his proportions aren't quite right and that he is slightly contorted. Its hands are larger than normal human hands and have long, pointed fingers. Michael has pale skin and long curly blonde hair. As according to the creator's head canons, his eyes are mirrors and despite not having pupils, appear to stare wide eyed at the viewer. Its hair seems to be floating slightly. He is wearing blue trousers, a pale pink shirt and a woolen cardigan. The cardigan is oversized, hanging off his left shoulder and is rolled up around his elbows. The cardigan has a small pink collar and green cuffs and is green at the bottom edge. The rest of it is made of colourful mismatched patches, each with either a flower, a spiral, or a star on it. Michael's left hand is positioned halfway across its right shoulder as if about to adjust the sweater, or as if it is subconsciously trying to protect itself from an unknown threat, or as a warning to whoever sees it. It is left up to the viewer to decide. Behind him is his door, bent at odd angles and containing a spiralling mass of colour. He is seemingly in the Archives as can be seen from the bookselves from which the door emerges. Its body seems to glitch and bleed into its surroundings (not literally). There is some pale green light emanating from the Archive's bookshelves. w/.End ID]
Image ID for the ASCII next to its name in case it shows up weird: [Image ID: A spiral followed by a few small sparkles in ASCII. w/.End ID]
this audio just popped in my head this morning and i feel like it’s smth michael would do
I realised yesterday that Michael’s scarf reminds me of the 4th Doctor and so I couldn’t resist making this stupid joke
[id 1: a coloured fanart of Gerry Keay and Michael the Distortion from The Magnus Archives. Gerry is wearing a top with the Mechanisms’ logo on it, he is a man with shoulder length black hair with some blonde streaks. He has multiple eye tattoos, ear piercings and snakebites and he’s wearing a belt with studs. He is grinning happily and holding Michael by the scarf. Michael is a floating being with yellow wavy long hair, pink skin, aggressively pink cardigan and a purple shirt. He has an incredibly long scarf in stripes, by which he is slightly pulled down by Gerry. He has a surprised look on his face. The speech bubbles above their heads say:
Gerry: how’s it going, Doctor?
Michael: Doctor what?
Gerry: no, you’re supposed to say “doctor who?”
Michael: but I’m not a who, I’m a what, Gerard.
end id 1]
(a version with Michael’s text in black + a doodle under the cut)
[id 2: the same picture as the first one, except michael’s text is in black instead of different colours. end id 2]
[id 3: a black and white doodle of Michael the Distortion in the same long scarf pointing in awe to a tv screen. On the screen the fourth Doctor from Doctor Who is displayed, wearing a very similar long scarf, a hat and a trench-coat, waving joyously at the viewer. The text above Michael’s head in a fancy font says: “he’s just like me fr!”. end id 3]
Nobody move.
This is how my brain pictures Gerry carrying Michael home.
For context: I think that sometimes keeping a human-looking shape is very exhausting for Michael so it just lets go and becomes a whatever shapeless long thing. Obviously, this also implies the doors and hallways are... Difficult to access. Clearly when you're a limp neverending ribbon-y blanket, it's not easy to turn doorknobs or walk into hallways.
So in comes the beloved, Gerry, who grabs it and drags it home to get some rest.
However, how does one carry a limp neverending ribbon-y blanket? With determination, which is something Gerry has plenty of, luckily. Even when it might look very silly.
I absolutely loved those Gerry headcannons!!! do you have any Michael ones?
OKAY SO, IDK HOW TO FORMAT THIS SO I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE A LIST AND ROLL WITH IT.
'Michael' absolutely adore birds. Especially the ones who are not able to fly. He thinks these are the ones who deserve the most love because the earth has already robbed them of what would rightfully be theirs (the sky) without them even suspecting. They're not even aware of it. 'Michael' sometimes 'cry' (as much as the things that roll out of his eyes can be called 'tears') when he sinks too deep into this thought. (You're welcome, Radium & Percy)
Michael is usually a really patient person when it comes to other people messing up tasks, or just having a hard time doing anything in general, but they can get really frustrated when the same thing happens to him and WILL need some quiet time to process his feelings when it does.
He has blood pressure issues and will faint if he get's up too quickly (projection)
He has a little spiral-sun tattoo on the back of his neck :)
As 'Michael' Distortion, it can change it's form indefinitely, but more often then not it will do it unconsciously when some very strong emotion hits it (like anger, joy, fear or embarrassment)
He really loves the sea and beach-related things. One of his hobbies before being consumed by the distortion was collecting shells that he found in the sand and giving them as jewelry to those he cared about. Gertrude has 2, Gerry has 7... until now.
Michael is a humanitarian activist and used to participate in several NGOs for various social causes and was part of the Greenpeace UK for several years.
Cried several times reading The Song of Achilles and still can't bring himself to read it again even after The Distortion got him.
A friend of mine has gotten me into The Magnus Archives, so she was able to convince me to draw Michael for today’s prompt! Don’t worry, I will provide a version that’s easier on the eyes- I just really wanted to use these cool effects to help make him look freakier!
Here he is!
It’s a little pixelated but here’s a funky Michael I did for class months ago on After Effects.