#the jarchivist

[cryptid-paint]

The Jarchivist!!!! I had so much fun drawing Jon for this piece!!! I tried a different style of rendering and added more details to the Lineart and overall I'm very happy with how this turned out! There's so many characters from TMA that I wanna draw now!!

[li-distortion]

jonathan jims, jead jarchivist of the jagnus jinstitute, jondon, is such a doomed-by-the-narrative moron. he knows what genre he’s in – knows he’s a ‘bad guy’ – and fucks on, anyway. i love whatever’s wrong w him.

[allseeingmoth]

it knows you.

[smorose]

Concept art of Jon's character portrait for @eldest-daughter-syndrome's TMA + Stardew Valley AU fic!

Soo I've just been mildly obsessed ever since I found out about this a few days ago lmao. The story so far has been extremely entertaining, and I VERY much recommend checking it out (see their masterpost here for links to the fic and other related content!!)

As for the drawing itself, it was actually pretty straightforward. Jon's glasses were a little finicky, and I had some trouble getting his hair to hang naturally for the long hairstyle, but I'm pretty happy with the overall result!

[alilnerd]

with my newfound information that the jarchivist likes root beer, i decided to draw him sipping one @jonathan-sims-offical have a root-beer boy

[fadingdeerentity]

the fact that the two mcs of podcasts about humanity and staying human are aromantic (implied) and asexual (canon) warms my heart because we often get stereotyped as unfeeling and people say things like “romantic love and sex are what makes us human” so it’s nice to see media that subverts this.

[floatingaimlessly333]

Just another Jarchivist doodle!!! I had a completely different vision going in, but then I accidentally cut off the top and then head, and it just went from there.

This one is worse and messier than the one I posted last night, but I put about half the time in, so fuck it!!!

[mysthicalfog]

Red — Toy "Nikola" Soldier

Purple — Ivy

Green — Jon

"So this is the Magnus Institute!" Nikola smiled as it walked through the front doors, led by Ivy. "Yes, yes, but keep your voice down, you did kidnap--"

"What is she doing here?"

"... Jon."

"Archivist! Good to see you." It waved, ignoring how obviously scared he was. "I-- I thought you'd died! In the explosion!"

"The real Nikola probably would have!"

"... What do you mean the real Nikola?"

"Oh! Yes! I'm--"

"Jon?"

"What??"

"You'd like a statement about the crew, right?"

"... Sure??"

A little while later, Nikola sat across from Jon in his office. More than a little uncomfortable, Jon focused his attention on how she looked compared to the last time they'd met. Half of her face was burnt away and in her hair there hung the remains of burnt and molten hair and hairspray. Whatever may have been left of the ringmaster outfit had been abandoned for a simple button-up and tie outfit. "So... Why are you pretending to be Ivy's crew mate?"

"Oh, no, Archivist, I am! I was pretending to be Nikola, but I am the Toy Soldier!"

"The Toy Soldier?"

"Yes!"

"And... You can actually give a statement about this crew?"

"Yes, though quite a lot of it would be second hand! There are a few millennia's worth of events I wasn't quite present for..."

"... I'm still not sure you're not pretending."

"Would it help if I removed the plastic?"

"I... Suppose?" The Toy Soldier nodded and brought its hands to the half-face of plastic and skin it had left, cracking it and peeling it off to reveal its wooden face beneath. Underneath the remaining plastic, its face seemed to have been preserved from the explosion.