Michael Shelly and Gerard Keay
Are Two Characters
Who I Deeply Wish Met In Canon
Michael Shelly and Gerard Keay
Are Two Characters
Who I Deeply Wish Met In Canon
Gerrymichael/Doorkeay is a great ship because you end the series not understanding why it’s a thing, and then you read ONE good fanfiction and it’s all you can think about for the rest of your life.
John - Every one of John’s features are downturned and sunken, making him look older, relentlessly tired, and kind of like a Tim Burton character. He has dark brown hair that almost looked black before he started greying, and the hazel eyes he once had were replaced with a bright, nearly unnatural green after the coma. He used to have a professional style, overdressing to the office everyday like he had a speech to give afterwards. Yet, that style rapidly degrades over the series, and by season 5 he’s wearing a hoodie and jogging pants that don’t even match. In the end, the only thing that stays the same with his appearance is a beauty mark sat beside his left eye. He used to think it didn’t suit him, but after everything, it seems weirdly fitting.
Martin - Martin has a soft face with features that make him look slightly younger than he is, adding to the first impression most people get that he’s a naturally welcoming. Granted, people also tend to think that because of his cozy-business casual style that makes him just look like the type person who likes to makes tea for others, but it’s mostly his friendly face. He has orange-red hair and dark blue eyes that are a shade uncomfortably close shade to Peter’s.
Tim - There’s not a feature on Tim’s face that doesn’t compliment the others. He looks like a carefully crafted doll, or a mannequin made of wax. He has pitch black hair and dark eyes that look like a starless night, features that contrast vividly with his colorful preppy-business casual style, and the bright tattoo of mountain on his wrist that he got with his brother in better days.
Sasha - Sasha’s features could be best described as “warm.” Her lips seem like they’re meant to be curled in a smile, her eyes seem like they’re supposed to have wrinkles in the corner from laughter, and her nose seems like it should be buried in a book. She has dark black hair and amber eyes that shine like the sun under light, and the dark freckles on her face stand out like stars on a canvas. Her vintage thrift-store style is just as cozy, making her look like a librarian from a children’s fantasy novel.
Melanie - Melanie’s features are intense. Her eyes are sharp like knives, and her lips naturally sit in a way that looks a bit like the start of a scowl. Granted, her punk style doesn’t make her look any less intimidating. Or her blue hair that is naturally pitch black underneath the dye. Or the slit in her eyebrow that she tells everyone was a style choice, but was really earned trying to pet a stray cat. Her only soft features are her brown eyes that are the same color as the bark of a tree.
Basira - All of Basira’s features are soft, from her soft heart-shaped face, to her naturally rosy cheeks, to her light brown almond eyes that seem meant to track a subject for miles. In fact, she even dresses like an investigator, having a business casual style that always makes her look ready for a low stakes-meeting with her boss, which is is unfortunately not the types of meetings she has, but, hey, dress for the job you want, not the job you have.
Daisy - All of Daisy’s features are strong, from her strong jaw line to her wide eyes that seem meant to be locked on her prey. She has dark blonde hair that’s the same color as the middle of a daisy, and green eyes that are the same color as grass on a spring day. She has a very athletically rugged style that always make her look ready for a run, or a bar brawl, at all times.
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Peter - All of Peter’s features manage to be slightly unnerving. His eyes are just slightly too wide, his nose is just slightly too short, and his lips are just slightly too thin in a way that makes him look a bit…disconnected from being a person, despite the fact that on paper, he looks like your typical grandfather. He has dull grey hair and dark blue eyes that match the sea, and the formal-cozy style he has that ends him up in a lot of sweaters and turtle-necks doesn’t do anything to make him look younger. Nor does the thick beard that consumes his face like sea foam.
Elias - Elias has a sharp face with very mismatched features. None of them seem quite like they should be on the same face, and he almost looks like he was put together from a Picasso painting. He has dark green eyes and dark red hair that is usually slicked back in a way that suits his extremely professional style.
Gertrude - Gertrude has a very average and non-descriptive face. Not one of her features stand out, and it’s easy to forget what she looks like while you’re staring at her. She always thought that was a good thing since it lets her move under the radar more effectively, that is, until she started getting described as “the old women” due to her grey hair which is far more noticeable than her pale green eyes. She keeps her clothes just as non-descriptive, wearing only natural colors and plain styles that leave there with nothing to say.
Gerard - Gerard has a sharp face with distinctive features. He has upturned eyes and a long nose that takes up a large portion of his face, along with a very thin upper lip and a very thick lower lip. On the right side of his face, a few moles trail down near his check. His natural hair color is a little less distinctive than his face, being a chestnut brown that pairs well with his dark brown eyes that seem almost the same color as his dyed hair and gothic attire.
Michael Shelley - Michael has a sharp face that has even sharper features. He most resembles a fox, but his personality makes it easy to perceive his face as a bit softer than it is. He has golden blonde hair and light blue eyes that seem to illuminate under bright lights, features that don’t seem as notable as they should be compared to his bright, hippie, style. He also has a noticeable tooth gap.
Sasha says Distortion! Michael is around 6'5.
When I first read TMA I assumed Michael’s large height was because he was a monster. However, on further thought, I think it’s funnier if his height is like his laugh, where it was just like that.
Like, imagine becoming a monster and everyone is like “When I saw the way he towered over me, I knew he couldn’t be human,” but that’s actually just a remainder of when you were just a guy who had long limbs.
On a more meta note: I also like this headcanon because I think it makes sense in a character commentary way. Throughout the series, The Spiral keeps insisting that it’s not Michael. And while that seems true in most ways, it also doesn’t seem to be the full story given how different Helen and Michael’s versions of The Spiral are. So, from a character commentary standpoint, there’s something to be said about the idea of people mistaking The Spiral’s features for monstrous elements when really they’re just remnants of Michael’s existence.
Anyway, this post is basically me making a headcanon and then thinking way to much about it. Which I argue are the funniest type of headcanons, but still.
A: Gertrude used to have a hippie aesthetic. There’s only a handful of pictures that serve as evidence for this, and no one in her life has ever seen them.
B: Georgie loves DND and has a group she plays with on weekends. She’s the DM.
C: Gerard is bad at making decisions and tends to flip a coin when he’s unsure. He doesn’t always listen to the coin, but he finds it to be a good way to figure out which outcome he’d actually been hoping for.
D: Jon doesn’t realize this about himself, but he always plays paper when playing rock, paper, scissors. He doesn’t understand how he keeps loosing to Martin.
E: Michael Shelley had hiccup fits all the time.
F: Anabelle has done despicable and worrying things in every version of “The Sims” franchise. Including “The Sims Free Play” which…is almost impressive.
G: Jon found the Creepypasta website when he was a teen and genuinely thought he stumbled upon an Archive of documented supernatural encounters. He obviously hadn’t, and he realized that sooner than later, but not before gaining anxiety around the idea of hyper realistic eyes. (Jon after starting the apocalypse: “Martin this is just like that website. The pasta one.”)
H: Agnes is always wearing at least one piece of jewelry. Most people assume it’s am aesthetic thing, but really she just likes having something on her to fiddle with. She doesn’t know what to do with her hands otherwise.
I: Peter and Elias frequently send each other letters written on their finest parchment paper and mailed in a homemade envelope closed with their own personal wax seal. Then, after receiving each others letters, they shred them to be petty. They both know the other person shreds them, but they keep putting in a large amount of effort anyways. Their dynamic is incomprehensible.
J: Melanie has always had a deeply unnatural skill that’s come in handy many times in her life: She can train cats to do tricks. No one knows how she does it, not even herself, but give her an hour and a box of treats and she’ll have a cat sitting 50% of the time…Which is an impressively high number if you’ve ever met a cat.