this Legends of Avantris clip/animation really doesn't have anything to do with ATA but I'm so brainrotted I found a way (comic with paraphrased dialogue of the video)
I really like @separocean-anxiety 's theory/idea of the cult members getting trapped as objects in the show
and I think it would be extremely funny if they kept trying to communicate with Marcus and manipulate him in an effort use him to achieve their goals, but they completely underestimated just how unhinged Marcus really is and he keeps making increasingly batshit extrapolations from their attempts at ordering him it digs them deeper and deeper into their predicament every time they think they're being master manipulators
I didn't think of that when I first sketch this out but it came to me while working on it
it turns out the yes-man Hameln hired as the key to enact their grand plan is the wrong kind of crazy, and they discovered this far, far, too late