[ID: an uncoloured two panel comic of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives. Martin is a fat man with slight freckles and scruff and stud in his left ear. He’s wearing a jacket and a travel backpack with a blanket roll on top. He’s desperately trying to shake off ants, who are seen crawling on his arms, legs and backpack. He’s saying “Yes, haha, laugh it up - they just walk around you!” Next to him is Jon, a thin man with short hair and a short trimmed beard. He’s wearing a turtleneck and a long coat, he is completely untouched by ants. Jon is looking fondly at Martin and has his fist in front of his mouth as if to stiffle laughter. He says “I’m sorry. If there were anything I could do to help, I would, but-”. Next to him is a small round panel showing a close up of Jon, he’s looking up and tapping his cheeck in thought. He says “Wait, actually…”
The second panel shows them in a tunnel, the floor, walls and ceiling completely covered in a grey sludge, a roiling mass of ants. Jon is midway through a step, Martin is piggybacking. Martin has his legs wrapped around Jon’s waist and his arms around his neck. Jon is holding his legs. On the floor around Jon’s foot is an open space where all the ants have withdrawn. Where Jon’s other foot will come down, another section is starting to clear. /End ID]
what a fine day to remember that martin is canonically fat
mag022 colony: “The window was small. Quite a tight squeeze for me, I mean, I’m not exactly the smallest guy in the world, I know, and it’s only once I’m inside that I realise it’s only at ground level for the outside, so I take a bit of a tumble onto the basement floor.”
mag131 flesh: “The weak one legged it, and I thought the skinny one did too. There was just the copper.” (”the skinny one” referring to melanie- implying martin & basira are not skinny)
mag165 revolutions: “Which one of you would I wear next? Martin looks very comfortable, positively roomy. Oh, wouldn’t you agree, Archivist?”
what a fine day to remember that martin is canonically fat!!!!
via MAG retrospective: crew’s Q’s with jonny and alex:
HELEN: Who wins in a fight – Martin K Blackwood or Alexander J Newall?
JONNY: I think it would start going to Alex, but about halfway would switch over, because Martin is, I’ve always imagined him as, like, a much bigger guy. ALEX: Yeah, I’m the same. JONNY: But he’s got that thing where bigger people are often a lot gentler because they’re aware of their own size and sometimes their own power. And so I think it would be a lot harder to actually get him to invest in the fight.
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JONNY: Actually thinking about it, given that this fight might be instigated by him being told you are the one who has created the universe in which he has suffered, he might be raring to go quite quickly. ALEX: No, that’s a good point, actually. I’m the one who’s been gunning for the most suffering for Martin throughout. So actually, I think it might just have to be that I lose, I don’t see a win state here.
not only is martin canonically fat but he can, will, and must beat alex newall in a fight
