If Michael had a quarter for every time some other avatar killed an archivist he had a mark on he would have 2 quarters. Which isn’t much but its weird that it happend twice XD
[image: fanart of Michael from the Magnus Archives, featuring six different expressions: a smile, a more manic smile, angry, bored and resting his chin on his very long hands, an unhinged smile, and smiling through the gap in a door]
Some Michael distortion expressions! When he’s looking more human, though I fudged the rules a bit in the bottom left one shh
[image: the magnus archives fanart. Michael, with shoulder-length ringlets and a nervous, smiling face holds a stack of papers. Behind him is a windowed door where the distorted, stylized depiction of his future monstrous self is seen through the glass]
ID: a digital drawing of Michael Shelley from the Magnus archives prior to being merged with the Distortion. Michael is a thin white man wearing a green sweater and a white button down tucked into black and white high-waisted plaid pants. He has long curly blonde hair in a ponytail at the nape of his neck and his bangs are pinned back on the right side with two pink hairclips. His nails are painted pink. He has brown eyes and a septum piercing. He is holding open a bright yellow door, from which spills multicolored spiraling shapes. Behind the door is a lush jungle faded into bright green shapes. He is looking over his shoulder with a fearful and perplexed expression.
ID: Two digital drawings of Michael Shelley from the Magnus Archives after being merged with the Distortion. Michael is a thin blonde man with long limbs and very large hands swirled through with multicolored spiral patterns. His hair is long and takes up a majority of the image with hypnotic curls. Only half his face peeks from the top of the image, displaying a bright blue eye with a pink spiral in the middle. He is wearing a bright pink sweater with green, purple, blue and orange spirals, black pants with a grid-based optical illusion pattern, and a large 80s-style dangly earring that is blue with pink yellow and green flowers. He has a large smile and a septum piercing. The background is black with white spirals. Michael appears to be crammed into the image, his body folded awkwardly to fit. The second image is the same as the first except there are graphic glitches on his hands and pants and a spiraling glitch that obscures his face.
