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Ode to Joy: or, michael distortion's guide to naming yourself by fromthepinnacletothepit
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 May 2020
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Michael Shelley is sacrificed to the Spiral before he has the chance to come out, even to himself. Now, as an avatar of the Spiral, his identity is even MORE painful and confusing. Alone and filled with pain he doesn't even know how to name, he searches for acceptance in the one person who ever really knew him-Gerry Keay.
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“What do you want to be called then,” Gerry says and wraps his arms around Michael’s back.
This conversation hurts. This question hurts. Everything hurts, so long as no one knows about his gender, so long as he has to go on being someone he’s not, someone he just can’t be anymore. He doesn’t know how much longer he can stand it.
“I dunnooooo,” he says, grinning, but inside he knows his name isn’t Michael. It’s just not. He doesn’t have a name. He never has. And it’s absence is like a hole in his chest.
The creature that might as well be called Michael, it supposes, if you have to call it anything, thinks about this conversation while it sits on the ceiling of its hallway and slowly digs grooves into the plaster with its fingers.
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Gerry has just filled up his mug with coffee when it hits him. It’s a faint but sharp pain, zinging through his left wrist. He exhales a puff of laughter. That’s the third time this week. Whoever his soulmate is, they’re having a rough time.
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He can make it another hour. It’s only an hour. Gerard has got to get used to long drives, if he’s going to try and find somewhere to live. Mary’s ghost followed him so far, and she might yet follow him down the way to DC. He’d had three blissful days of rest before she found him, screaming about what he had done to her. It took him another week to get going, to find a car and leave.
She hasn’t found him yet. But Gerard doesn’t know how long that will last. He doesn’t want to stop and find out.
After the suicide of his mother, Gerard Keay finds himself haunted by her ghost.
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Gerard Keay is dead, or at least on his way to the End, when an odd yellow door appears and he takes his chance to escape.
Through the twisting halls of the Spiral’s winding labyrinth, he meets three versions of the same person. And falls in love, just a little bit.
Past, present and future always catch up to you.Or,
Gerard gets kidnapped by the Spiral, WHICH CAN TIME TRAVEL NOW, then he meets three Michaels.
Michael Shelley, Michael the distortion, and… -
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Mr. 9 doesn’t have a name.
This is both his own choice and something he has zero control over. Everyone who once knew his name is now dead, and he himself hasn’t heard it in so long he might as well have forgotten it.
He used to be someone, of course, but even that identity was fragile and full of suffering. He remembers it only vaguely.