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Interesting detail: both Bonzo cases have been Category 1, Rank B. The only other CAT1RB case has been Needles.

#there was also cat 1 rank bc for the first episode #(the reanimated husband not redcanary)#the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #original post #my magnus protocol stuff #12 getting off #6 introductions #10 saturday night #mr bonzo #needles tmagp #queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs #500 notes!#1000 notes!

I love all the Needles designs I've seen, but personally I think he looks like a normal guy, just... sparkly. Hundreds of little points of metal glinting in the light...

From a distance you think your eyes are playing tricks on you. From up close, you think he's wearing body glitter. It's not until you're really close that you see the truth, and realize you've made a huge mistake.

#actually following up on the tags in the previous reblog #heres a post from my drafts #the magnus protocol #6 introductions #needles tmagp #original post #my magnus protocol stuff #500 notes!

I'm realizing why I kind of prefer the Jonny-written episodes (and Alex too so far) to the guest-written episodes. Jonny horror? It's creepy. It's gross. It sends a shiver up your spine while you're listening and makes you go 'well that was fucked up' when it ends.

And it's fun. It makes me like being scared, and then I can put it aside and go to sleep afterward.

The guest writers have been going for the fucking throat. I'm scared to turn off my light after those episodes, let alone sleep. It's the kind of horror that makes me remember why I'm not, in general, a horror person.

And don't get me wrong, I'm still enjoying those episodes. They're interesting stories and I like the way they've been written and told. But I'm scared of needles, and Mr. Needles himself was an absolute delight to meet. I've never been scared of violins before, but I couldn't close my eyes for three hours after that episode because every time I did adrenaline would shoot through me at the idea of what was lurking in the darkness.

This ramble is going nowhere but I've seen a few other people saying Protocol is scaring them more than Archives did so I thought folks might relate.

#the guest writers are giving the same kind of scare that malevolent does tbh.#i cant listen to malevolent after dark anymore #...good lord harlan's one of the guest writers isnt he. i may never recover from that episode.#the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #6 introductions #my magnus protocol stuff #original post #queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs

How're y'all's "the fears are desires now" theories holding up after this episode?

#i was wondering if the jonny and alex episode would have more lore than the rest and uh #id say yeah #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #6 introductions #magnus protocol speculation/analysis #my magnus protocol stuff #original post #queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs

After thinking about it a bit, I think the thing that’s standing out to me about the tmagp cases so far is the idea of fusion – circling back to the idea of “some of him” from the first episode. In addition to Darla’s husband being… Frankensteined together, I think, with something else to bring him back, we’ve had:

Daria merging painting and flesh to the point she couldn’t tell the difference between the two.

Dr. Webber fusing with the jasmine trees in the garden.

Tom becoming just another faceless blogger repeating the movie’s tagline (this one’s a bit of a stretch, I’m aware).

Needles fusing with – well, needles. They’ve become a part of him, not just something he uses to hurt other people.

The outliers are RedCanary and the violinist, but the episode notes for the RedCanary case straight-up say it was filed as a transformation. And the violinist… that’s the only case dated before 2009. Obviously there haven’t been enough episodes yet to make a sweeping judgement on what’s going on, but I think there’s something to be said for the fact that there’s a noticeable difference between the one case that happened before the fall of the Institute and the ones after it.

I’m not entirely sure what this means – there were definitely fusion avatars in tma, looking at you Jane Prentiss and Jared Hopworth – but having such a strong emphasis on fusion and transformation in the first six episodes definitely feels significant. Is it related to the tma fears merging with a pre-existing supernatural system in this new world? Human minds being merged with computers? Something else entirely? I have no idea, but it’s something I’m going to be paying close attention to going forward.

EDIT: I had this post sitting in my drafts already when I was reminded about all the alchemy foreshadowing in the logo and the ARG. Given that alchemy is all about the transformation of one substance into another, I'm even more interested in what's going on with these cases.

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Needles is giving me serious Mr. Teatime vibes. What a wonderfully creepy voice.