An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Theodore "Theo" Sims
Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Theodore "Theo" Sims, Gerard Keay, Theodore "Theo" Sims | Original Sibling Character, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Theo Sims, Jon has a twin, Theo Sims TMA
Series: Part 2 of Jonathan & Theodore Sims AU
Summary:
Jon and Theo head home after a successful Leitner hunt. Gerard arrives a little too late... again.
I have rewritten the same part of my story 3 times at least! I like aspects of each rewrite but it's never quite right but I think I have it!
It's the chapter where the boys meet Gerry for the first time and also the first spooky encounter where one of them gets majorly injured. So it's been a big deal in some ways, also one of my earliest ideas. I've got it!!!
Theo is doing his first solo Leitner hunt and things go wrong is the simple description. i'm tempted to share the iterations at some point too. just share the needless torture my boy has gone though. also! its traumatic for both brothers, perfect. ✨character development✨
For the fic I’m writing of Jon having a twin, Theo is a bit more connected to the eye than Jon from a younger age, not a huge spoiler I promise. I’m trying to decide where to take it.
What I know already, Theo doesn’t like it and is afraid of it. Doesn’t enjoy “watching” other suffer and pushes the eye away. He’s currently coming up to a crossroads where he could….
What should Theo do?
Continue to push back and struggle, maybe for years, against the beholding
Could learn to accept it and see what that means for him, what he can live with
Find a different fear he’s more ok with to get away. Like Mike crew and the vast
Me, an American, is trying to write the magnus carchives fic and not make it sound too American. I think I’m doing ok currently.
Which brings me to my second thing.
I grew up watching lots of British shows because it was on public access, also my family really liked it. So I have plenty of non American things in my vocabulary.
I just had a very odd experience while listing to MAG 23 Schwartzwald, and there’s a bit when Martin is walking around without trousers and Jon tells him to wear some.
I recently saw a post referencing this moment and the poster said something about Martin not wearing pants. To which, at the time, I thought “wow! I don’t remember Martin running around naked!?”
So imagine, you’re me, listening MAG 23 and Jon says to wear trousers, and my brain goes, “wait, but I thought? That post the other day?”
And then I realize, the poster was probably American, like I am. But me, being someone very used to English from America and the UK, being soooo confused when I realized that they had meant pants as in trousers not pants as in underwear, like I thought.
More rambling under the cut because it was getting long but I have so many thoughts
What do I do with this? I’m getting confused by my own language. I did the very American thing of forgetting America exists but not how it’s normally done. I forgot that Americans only use pants as 👖! But I’m American!!! What do you even call this? It’s one thing when it’s someone mixing up words from a country other than their own. Like how plenty of Americas are confused if you call underwearpants. But no!
Am I bilingual but only in English? Good at the dialects or something?
So anyway, I’m struggling for new reasons around being an American writing a fic about a British media. Now I have to worry that I’m using all the English regardless of country or region of origin. Including the whole UK. Like Jon’s not northern so there’s plenty of things he wouldn’t say. Some characters say ass and others say arse, I don’t remember which ones! D:
Other than knowing Jon is one of the ones that says ass because he’s super southern and posh sounding. 😂(My understanding of British language at least) Very silly man
I’m working on my jon has a twin fic I want Jon to have something happen around the fears in his time before the Magnus Institute. I’m having a hard time coming up with something though.
It’s very easy to come up with ways to make his twin Theo suffer, but it feels unbalanced that way. I need more plot driven things around Jon as well.
Any ideas? I find something up with things around the fears a bit difficult because there’s too many possibilities and my mind gets stuck. But when I have a direction to go I can come up with loads.
