Does anyone wanna hear about my slightly unhinged and also angsty as hell "Gunpowder Tim is actually Jon Sims, the Archivist" au that I've come up with
Three people have said yes so here goes
I am currently writing a fic with this premise but for now I’ve just got a vague outline
To start off, this was kind of inspired by Watcher’s Crown by Cloudkissed. I just love that song sm
Anyway
MAG 200. Jon is stabbed. He wakes up Somewhere Else.
Martin doesn’t follow him.
Jon is distraught, but because the Web is still attached to him, Annabelle forges him some documents.
He chooses the name Timothy James Blackwood.
He then wallows in his own self loathing for a while before he actually leaves his new flat, but he eventually at some point goes to a bar.
At this bar, he meets Bertie.
He and Bertie become friends and eventually a qpr because I love writing qprs and they deserve it honestly.
Then, GPTVTMK happens
I think Jon-Tim probably only went crazy because of the influence of the Slaughter, but after the whole event leans more into it than the Eye
His mechanism would probably cut him off a bit from the Eye but not fully as he gets new ones rather than staying blind
I havn’t figured out how the other Mechanisms would find out but I want to bring Mike Crew and Gerry into it somehow. I’m so sad abt them being dead :crying_emoji:
Maybe I’d even bring in Oliver!! Idk yet
Also, I‘m going to play around with TBI a bit, since in the Lovecraft mythos Yog-Sothoth is also called the All-Knowing and it would be interesting to play with the parallels between it and the Eye.
Plus I think Jon-Tim would be able to give Lyfrassir tips about being an avatar if I go that route with them.
Also, if anyone else has ideas for this, feel free to share!
