CORPSE, BLOOD, BIG ASS WOUND AND SAD PEEPIN MAN!!!
AAAAA GRAINY SCRIPT TEXTURESSS!!!!
if the angles cut you when you try to think, do you think the boys could even communicate any hummanity? i still have some more ideas for this CyPhEr mAg thing, marginally more silly though :)
you guys ever think about if the web is just gonna be using the remnents of jon and martin in tmp, to trick the main characters (and prolly also the audience pinning for gay love) into thinking they are real people stuck in there, instead of the web just puppeting their barely human remnents to spin its narrative?
i can't belive they put him in the web again.. anyways THAT TRAILER??? oh manners, excpect only wild theories to accompany this o' art in the future, in theory also now but, i forgor.
Got inspired by @occudo s Wizard Jon from their au and painted this accompanied by some sketches from my own medevil fantasy au before i knew of this, WICH MIGHT I ADD: IS ABSOULOUTLEY LOVELEY?!?!!
(Also the lil guy patrolling on castle Wall in the painting, is Micheal)
TMA NEURON ACTIVATION what avatars would the scrybes be 👀👀👀
I don’t know if they’d all be avatars or just plain manifestations (maybe a combination of both) but I’d imagine it would be:
Leshy - The Hunt (self-explanatory)
Grimora - The End (equally self-explanatory)
Magnificus - The Spiral (was going to say The Eye originally for the joke, but he just seems like a Spiral guy—less in the “lying” way and moreso in the “twisting infinite patterns that entrance and confuse and disorientate” way but he’d trap someone in a wizard maze too if push came to shove. As a backup though you could consider the flesh because of. Gesturing vaguely to the wizard pupils).
P03 - The Web (A little bit of a weird choice but I think it fits with P03’s whole “self-preservation” deal that it strings along the player in order to accomplish… plus there’s the obvious World Wide Web pun here. Specifically I feel it would be a manifestation that ends up trapped in a computer and having to operate from there, similar to how the Spiral’s Lichtenberg Figure was trapped inside of Ex Altiora.)
If Inscryption as a whole were to be given as a statement though (as in, say, Luke calls into the Magnus Institute and talks about his experiences with the haunted cartridge retirement home he found in the woods) if you had to put it in a TMA category I’d say it would be a manifestation of the Extinction (four AIs fighting for dominance; a malevolent, world-ending string of code beneath them… feels pretty extinction to me).
And then some other characters as a bonus lightning round:
Kaycee - Touched by the Desolation, ultimately becomes an avatar of the Hunt to escape her fate.
Luke - Probably touched by multiple entities just because I think in all universes he should be having a hell of a time. Maybe he’s like Martin where every entity wants him like “Oh this guy will be SO easy to kill/manipulate” and then he ends up surviving (or dying but dying normally) by making decisions So Horribly Bad that not even Fear Incarnate could’ve predicted them.
Amanda/Sado - Manifestation of the Stranger. Obviously. (Carla is probably touched by the Stranger as a result; I just generally like the idea that Sado is loyal to no one except for her)
All of the underlings (if they exist) are touched by/manifestations of the same fear as their Scrybe, but aren’t avatars. Maybe not the bots though; unless they’re just a team of poor ass software developers who are suddenly compelled to keep this mysterious program up and running and adding features that even they don’t know the meaning of. Meanwhile Magnificus’s pupils are his students (similar to the situation with Robert Smirke), Grimora’s ghouls are people she bound to the end to save them from a grisly fate, and Leshy’s woodsmen… idk they’re like his drinking buddies or something and they go hunt monsters on weekends.
Not all of the minor characters are directly affiliated with any entity though. Characters such as Rebecha are completely unaligned (or if she has had any run-in with an entity no one is going to Ever know about it. At most I can see it being a Georgie Barker situation); the Woodcarver is actively ensuring she doesn’t become bound to any entity, despite Leshy’s influence; the Mycologists claim that they aren’t bound to any entity, but they’re collecting Leitners like trading cards for their “experiments” so it’s less so “unaligned” and more so “race to see whether the Corruption or the Flesh or a third secret thing stakes a claim first”.
The Bone Lord is definitely an End manifestation (unlike Grimora, who is the only one of the Scrybes who is most likely an avatar as opposed to a manifestation or a secret third thing) but I have no idea where they would fit in. Or maybe an extinction manifestation. I have no idea. They’re there though; not leaving them out
Don’t ask about the Hex cast here. I know by making Rebecha relevant they exist by extension but I have No idea where they’d fit in aside from being assorted statement givers (and maybe Lionel as one of those figures that shows up in multiple statements and makes people audibly groan every time there’s THIS GUY again but he’s just a normal dude who happens to be in a lot of places. That’s pretty fitting considering the plot of the game)
Honestly you’re right, but consider... what if he had a strong connection to the Watcher but then the whole “eye got gouged out” thing happened before he became fully-realized and he was forced to resort to other means.
Also I think the concept of him being the world’s most boring Spiral avatar is extremely funny. His pupils are outclassing him in every way and they’re not even fully-realized, but the amount of confusion he spreads just by existing is more than enough to keep him afloat. That and giving really shitty fortunes to other people that come true in the most fucked up way possible.
i feel like his whole all knowing future vision would make him more spiral touched and Then devoted to the watcher, to maybe figure out the mess that is that being momentarily claimed by the spiral, but honestly boring spiral is like too Grand that it Will forever be my headcanon for this now, outspiraled by his students. Poor man.
(Also web p03 spot on, however he is a fairly shit web avatar for his need to gloat-)
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