#michaelmike

[dysfunctionalcreature]

I know it doesn't match up with their canon ages at all but I really cannot stop obsessing about my AU idea where Michael Shelley and Mike Crew are roommates and they're besties (and maybe more) with Gerry Keay. Like I just think it fits so well! Michael and Mike can bond over and commiserate about their traumatic childhood experiences with The Spiral, and Gerry and Mike share info and tactics about how to handle and find Leitners, and Gerry and Michael hang out (and flirt) whenever Gerry comes by the Institute to talk to Gertude. Like do you see the vision?? I feel like those three are a perfect combo!

(I have so much and so many other details of this AU planned out, if anyone wants to hear more about it please let me know I wanna talk about this so bad)

Edit: Here's my longer post explaining the whole au, for anyone interested

[cherrysushi845]

First Sentence Tag Game!

Tagged by: @blasphemous-lies-and-deceit

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

1. take care (Gerry/Mike/Oliver) - Oliver was a natural caretaker. It was easy for him to fall into a familar rhythm when one of his loved ones was ill ever since he was a child, and that quality carried over to his adult life. It was always met with appreciation, and he took quite a bit of pride in it.

2. rescue, recovery, return (Gerry/Mike) - Gerry didn't think much of Mike's absence at first.

3. 36 questions (Gerry/Michael) [co-written with the cool cool amazing @crow-archivist] - If Michael had to pick a person he would like to fall in love with the least, it would probably be Gerard Keay. It wasn’t that the man was unattractive or anything — quite the opposite actually! He was very attractive. Almost too attractive.

4. gold in the lip (Gerry/Michael) - "Are you sure we shouldn't come in?" 

5. taste me, drink my blood (Mike/Oliver, NSFW) - Mike entered the cafe with a sigh of relief. The sun was starting to peek out from behind the clouds, which made him feel quite faint until he could escape into the cool shadow of the coffee shop. It was pretty busy, though not awfully loud. Not the worst place to spend a while in.

6. blissful embraces (Mike/Oliver/Gerry/Michael) - Late at night, Mike climbed up the ladder into the tall bed. Oliver was already sitting there, reading a horror story he'd borrowed from Mike's extensive collection. He smiled to his boyfried, marking the page and setting the book aside. "Hello there."

7. respite (Gerry/Mike) - The restaurant was moderately crowded in the evening, but Mike was sitting alone at a table for two. He was just enjoying his seared salmon and the view from the floor to ceiling window, more than content in his separation from other patrons.

8. cygnus (Oliver/Mike) - Oliver came home pretty late, having been out to run some errands. He set the bags down in the kitchen and went to run the water for a bath, then headed to his bedroom. He opened the door slowly, peeking in.

9. an oil spill door (Michael/Gerry) - Michael was half lying on the couch, his head resting on the chest of the creature beside him. It draped it's long, too many jointed arms around his shoulders and kissed his forehead with lips that didn't feel quite right as he started to drop off. 

10. a wait for change (Oliver/Mike) - Oliver was happy that Mike was back. Of course he was, how could he not be? He'd spent months worrying and just hoping his partner would come home, spending so much of his time both awake and asleep on searching for him. And then there he was, back in his flat and relatively alright. Changed, but alive.

Uhh tagging tag tag tag I do not have 10 people

@crow-archivist @ivycoveredpavingstones @cloudofthecats @jaybarou @thearchavist @symphony-calamity

[pidge0n8]

An AU in which Michael Shelley’s childhood friend is not Ryan, but Mike Crew.

Mike is struck by lightning when the two are playing together. He starts being chased by the aspect of The Spiral but no one but Michael believes him, the rest think he might be schizophrenic. Michael doesn’t hear or see it though, he only knows what Mike tells him.

The day in which Mike’s house is destroyed and his parents killed, Michael sees the entity for the first time. He sees it trying to capture Mike and he runs away. Later he doesn’t really understand what happened. Mike is missing, his body is never found and that, combined with the powers of The Spiral, makes him believe that his friend has been taken by the entity. He doesn’t realise that Mike got out and spent years running away from The Spiral and finally becomes the avatar of The Vast.

That’s pretty much it for now, but idk I think it’s kinda neat

[venleaf]

I depend on you (og: jamstar35)

personally I think this whole theme matches more with Michael^2 based on Exits, Entrances and the spaces inbetween + Too like Lightning aka THE Michael^2 fanfic by voidknight, and who knows perhaps I shall make a second version of this trend with them but for now I simply wanted to draw my fav goobers again hehe

[inkdroptea]

Michael x Mike (TMA FANFICTION)

updates slowly (very slowly pls yell at me to update it again)

[venleaf]

Lemme join you with rotating them in our minds

i am rotating them in my mind

[magnusunpopularopinions]

to the anon who didn't like doorkaey. I semi agree- I don't think the distortion would settle down for one partner. However i dont think datings off the table! i personally think just as helen tried to "befriend" jon and martin i think michael would "date" other but his motives may not be so sound also i think he would have multiple partners but then again i am very biased as a michaelmike shipper

A response to anon’s opinion a day or so ago!

Thanks for your response, let’s chat!

Like I said before- I don’t feel very qualified to comment on anything in this area, but lots of people have been responding and having great conversations over on the last post, so by all means, keep it going!

Thanks for sharing, and remember to keep your words kind!

-E

>Hello! I’m E, and I created this blog to be a safe space to share Magnus Archives/Protocol opinions in! If you are seeing this in a reblog, I want you to know three things:

1) I value respect and kindness over anything.

2) I cannot control what others say in response to anyone’s opinions.

3) Only you can control your emotions/actions/words. Choose to respond with gentleness, not anger. After all, we all are here for the same reason- why not enjoy each other’s company?

Thanks, and have an awesome day/night!<

[tickled-2-death]

michaelmike enjoyer back to say that I have intense hannigram brainrot after rewatching the show, and would like to request a sensual bondage/tickling scene between the two of them (with Hannibal as the dom) <3

OOOO I LOVE THIS. I’ve been having rlly bad writing block recently but I will absolutely do this within the upcoming week! Thank you for requesting!

[wildshadowtamer]

a non-comprehensive list of alternate mikemichael (mike crew x michael distortion) ship names:

neonlightning, fallingspirals, mikeal (/half joke), vastcolors, infiniteinsanity, and...idk, spiralledscars?

[asharomi]

He's getting the jokes raw and she's getting poked raw. Welcome to the world Lemongrass Michaelmike

[biohazzy]

[image ID: A digital drawing of Mike Crew and Michael Shelley from The Magnus Archives. Mike is a short and pudgy brown-skinned man with Down's syndrome. He has fluffy, brown hair, his nails are painted blue, and he has ear piercings. There is a pale, Lichtenberg (lightning-shaped) scar going across the side of his face and slightly down his arm. He is wearing a white shirt that says "I'M NOT A GIRL BUT MY BOYFRIEND IS" as well as blue pants. Michael is a much taller and lanky light-skinned person with long, curly, blond hair. It has a spiral over its face instead of a mouth and nose. It is wearing a red sweater with black pants, and it has enormous hands with claws. Mike is holding a red kettle in one hand and holding Michael's face in the other, smiling up at it with closed eyes. Michael has a hand on Mike's shoulder and its other hand is on the oven in front of them, and it is smiling down at him. The drawing has a warm overlay with two sun streaks coming from the upper right. end image ID]

im onto something here.

rbs >>> likes

[dysfunctionalcreature]

so I have this Michael Shelley/Gerry Keay/Mike Crew AU and fanfic idea, which I know doesn't at all match up with the canon timeline but I don't care

The very simplified tldr of the plot is: Michael Shelley and Gerry Keay and Mike Crew became very close as young adults when they were all still human, but then Michael is taken by the Spiral, and Gerry dies of his brain tumor. Things follow canon for a while after that, but diverge around episode 91 because Mike isn't killed by Daisy. Things continue to diverge from canon after that, culminating in Mike and Gerry and Michael all being reunited, and going to live together in a house overlooking tall cliffs. But of course things are a bit different now, considering now Mike Crew is an avatar of the Vast, and Michael Shelley is an avatar of the Spiral, and Gerry Keay is an avatar of the End...

And my full fleshed-out outline/rough draft of the plot goes:

Michael and Mike became roommates when Mike was still searching for a Leitner to save him from the Lichtenberg Figure, and Michael had just applied to and gotten hired at the Magnus Institute. And they bond over the Spiral related childhood trauma they each have, they're the first ones to really understand or believe eachother's supernatural experiences, and they quickly become close friends.

Michael also encounters Gerry at the Institute and they become friends, Gerry hanging out (and probably flirting) with Michael whenever he stops by The Archives. And once they've gotten close Michael introduces Gerry and Mike, and while Michael and Gerry got close faster, Mike and Gerry do end up bonding over their experiences with and curiosities about Leitners. Gerry even eventually tells them all about the Catalogue Of The Trapped Dead.

Mike and Michael are still living together by the time Mike finds Ex Altiora, he was missing without a trace for like 2 days after he used Ex Altiora and jumped from that building to escape the Lichtenberg Figure and join The Falling Titan. Michael was so worried and stressed about what happened to him, and them and Gerry tried to look for Mike. But then Mike just returned one evening, still himself just with far bluer eyes and a more relaxed energy than either of them were used to, they're very happy that he's safe and to see how much freer Mike seems now.

Mike and Michael stay roommates until Michael disappears on his trip to Sannikov Land with Gertude. Once she returns from the trip without him, Mike goes to Gerry since he knows her but he doesn't understand Michael's absence either. So Mike questions Gertude, and when she tries to avoid telling him, he does to her the thing he did to Jon in canon, makes her feel like she's falling at terminal velocity, and she relents vaguely telling him that she sacrificed Michael in Sannikov Land to save the world.

Mike relays that to Gerry, and they both spend awhile searching for any sign of Michael, but eventually accept that he's actually gone, they mourn him together and also privately. Mike's sadness feels somewhat distant as a result of being part of The Vast, but he does keep the apartment, and all of Michael's stuff where he left it. Mike and Gerry stay in contact and even get closer, though they actually hang out less often.

Gerry continues working with Gertude, cause though her methods upset him, she is still protecting the world (as far as he knows). Mike travels a lot more, doing Vertigo stuff, but he still keeps their old apartment.

When Gerry doesn't come back from his final trip with Gertude, Mike confronts her, and she tells him that Gerry died and she left his body behind, but she doesn't tell Mike where he died or that she put him in the Catalogue Of The Trapped Dead. But Mike does remember the Skin Book, and he guesses that it might have something to do with that. He searches for Gerry and the book, but he can't find either.

Now Mike is alone without his two closest and only friends, but the lonelyness and missing them doesn't hit as crushingly hard as it would for most, due to the perspective he has from having been an avatar of the Vast for a number of years by now.

Mike meets Michael The Distortion once. It informs him that it knows that Michael Shelley cared for him, but it isn't Michael Shelley, and the fact that it (more-or-less) looks like him and has access to his memories is nothing but an inconvenience, Mike gets away from it quickly, very shaken by the encounter.

Episode 91 happens mostly similarly to canon: Mike gives his statement to Jon, he mentions that he used to be close with one of Gertude's assistants and also Gerry Keay, but it's clear that it's hard for Mike to talk about them. Mike survives the interaction cause they don't get interrupted by Daisy (she'll find Jon to kidnap once he's like a block away), so Mike bids Jon farewell with a remark about how he couldn't care less whether Jon's a better or worse Archivist than Gertude was, but he hopes that he's a kinder person to his assistants than she was.

After Michael The Distortion's statement to Jon in episode 101, it doesn't "die" like it does in canon, instead it spits Michael Shelley out and he's released from The Distortion, who does still become Helen now. Michael was part of the Spiral and The Distortion for long enough that now freed Michael is still connected to it, only now they're a more human avatar of the Spiral. As a result he can still access the Spiral's halls and make and use doors, so they easily find their way to where Mike is currently staying.

Michael looks much more human now but they are still somewhat distorted and strange looking - limbs elongated just slightly beyond what's normal, hair curlier and longer than it once was, eyes shimmering too many colours, body temperature noticeably warmer than it used to be, and he's shaky and tremblely in his hands - despite that Mike quickly understands and believes what happened to him. They're so relieved to be reunited, they hug and cling to eachother for a long while (Vast avatars and the former Throat Of Delusion can and do get touch-starved).

But then Mike has to tell Michael what happened to Gerry, and of course they're very upset.

Michael wants to try looking for Gerry's body and the Skin Book again so they do, and with the help of being able to travel through The Distortion's halls they actually find the Skin Book (before Jon would have gotten to it in episode 111).

Gerry's very happy to see them both again, but he doesn't want to just remain part of the book. So they start trying to figure out a way to free Gerry from the book and bring him back to life, and with Mike's experience with reading and safely using Leitners they do figure it out.

Gerry can be freed by becoming an avatar of the End, it's a process that involves sacrificing some people, specifically Gerry has to be summoned from the book so he can like drain enough peoples life forces. Gerry insists that the people are he kills be ones that probably deserve it, and Michael agrees and makes sure that the victims they find have it coming, Mike doesn't really care about the morals of it but he goes along with it, he doesn't mind as long as it works.

It does work, and once there have been enough deaths, Gerry is free and has a physical body again, though he's not technically alive. He's pretty undead, his skin is practically grey, his irises are dark, and he doesn't breathe or need to eat or drink anymore, and he's not only cool to the touch but Gerry himself feels like he has a constant chill, but, he is still capable of sleeping.

There's lots of hugs and some relieved tears once he's free. Over the following days as he starts to adjust to his new state of being he starts wearing only the warmest clothes he has to deal with his constant coldness. He also realizes that wearing trad goth makeup works well to hide how grey his skin is now whenever they're in a public setting.

And now they're all three reunited, Michael is no longer lost in The Distortion, and Gerry is no longer trapped in the Skin Book. So at Mike's suggestion they all decide to pack up and get away from London and go stay at a cottage on the vertigo-inducing coastal cliffs of Ireland. The cottage is actually owned by the Fairchilds but Simon offered to loan it to Mike years ago.

They settle into the cottage together easily, it's cozy but big enough for the three of them to not feel crowded. And it's a comfortable place for them all to get to know eachother all over again, now as avatars of It Is Not What It Is and Terminus and The Falling Titan.

They also spend a lot of time outside, in the garden and landscape around the cottage: Gerry and Michael often snuggled together in a sunchair on the cobblestone patio - Gerry wrapped in a thick blanket and curled around Michael since their unnaturally warm body temperature is a pleasant contrast to Gerry's unnatural coldness - Michael holding him close, enjoying the sun, and rambling softly about patterns and shapes he sees in the clouds.

Mike likes going on walks in the area and often Gerry or sometimes Michael will accompany him. Mike also enjoys "going for falls" off of the cliffs, just stepping off and falling until he feels like landing on the ground at the cottage's front door again.

And there's a village somewhat nearby that they stop into sometimes, to poke around the local antique and book stores. The town has a graveyard which Gerry appreciates and will linger in, and every so often Michael will add a new strange door into a townsfolk's house.

There's also castle ruins and such that are tourist destinations around that they'll travel to, as ancient buildings and places like that are perfect spots for Spiral and Vast and End fears to crop up, but they do it infrequently as they're all kinda anti-social beings who would rather just spend their time with eachother.

Aaand maybe at some point (like late season 3?) while they're living there Jon shows up, cause he tracked them down because he had more questions for Mike. And he talks with them and learns some answers, it's similar to his conversation with Gerry in episode 111, but with more information and perspectives since he's getting answers from three avatars now.

And maybe that interaction changes how things happen moving forward: maybe Tim survives the Unknowing? maybe they inadvertently help Jon figure out his feelings for Martin sooner? or maybe even the apocalypse doesn't come to pass?

Or maybe nothing actually changes, and the apocalypse does still happen... So then Gerry, Mike and Michael end up just vibing together as avatars throughout the Eyepocalypse: the cliffs around their home now dropping off into endless blue sky, no beach or even ocean in sight below. The town nearby now transformed into a mess of strange structures with too many doors, surrounded by a sprawling graveyard full of bodies that do not want to rest.

But inside their cottage all is peaceful, though it is weirder than it was before: there's extra doors on most of the walls. And sometimes the hallway goes on longer than it should. And the windows all show nothing but infinite, occasionally stormy, skies no matter what direction you look.

But thanks to the influence of the End, Mike and Michael are actually able to sleep peacefully, as long as they're in Gerry's presence.

So they spend plenty of time in there together, Mike and Michael cuddled up in eachothers arms fast asleep, Gerry settled close next to them with a book, he could sleep too if he wanted, but he'd rather watch over them and listen to their soft contented breaths, as lightning spirals through the blue sky outside their window.

[clownspiral]

thoughts on michaelmike? 👀

their names being the same is funny cuz when theyre out 2gether ppl will be like "michael?" & then both of them turn

michael would like 2 fall with mike!! it would strike up a while convo while it fell, maybe play some chess up with him mid-air. maybe some solitaire idk, but they would both laugh abt the cards flying away. michael would be totally unbothered by falling & would show off abt how unbothered it is

also michael would have 2 do some CONVINCING 2 get mike in2 its hallways but when it finally does, it ends up being cozier than mike thought was possible. he doesn't visit Frequently, not as frequently as michael visits the skies, but he does go in here & there and michael's always delighted 2 have him

michael like's tracing mike's scar with its fingers. his scar is its favorite thing about his physical appearance, and mike thinks michael's hands are pretty cool actually (once he gets used 2 them)

[throatofdelusion]

mike needs to write everything down bc of his memory problems and michael doesn’t have as much trouble remembering but he shows up for dates days in advance to stand there perfectly still like a cryptid because he cannot conceptualize time and hates being late/inconveniencing people he respects

[barnabybugspeopleonline]

Draw Mike Crew pls

behold! living proof that jonny sims only knows about fifteen names

[best-magnus-archives-character]

Can we get Michael x Mike for the ship poll?? MichaelMichael? MichaelMike? MikeMichael? Michael^2?? The two of them??

yes we can!! adding them!