• In S4 after the Divinus Magia's island was attacked, his house got caught in the fight and couldn't be saved/rebuilt as David spent the rest of the remaining budget to fix his garden.
• After his house was destroyed, he sleeps in the guild old hall of Divinus.
• In season 4, it was stated that he doesn't know the other guild locations besides the protecters and Divinus. (this changes by s5 tho)
• An alcoholic (not to an extreme amount)
• Shown to be very blunt with his words
• Jumps between the lines of either being extremely patient to being easily irritated
• At times, he becomes/acts playful with the people he's close with.
• Not the brightest of the bunch, said by multiple characters in the series. Given his nicknames, 'Pebble brain', 'Rocks for brains'.
• Bad/Not good with numbers (From what I remember)
• Competitive (nobody's surprised)
• Paces when he's thinking of something/stressed
• Hates eating bricks, they said it tastes horrible.
• Weak towards any kind of wind magic, absolutely HATES IT.
• In S4 some characters (David, Brandon and Ritchie) have said that Mario is unable to get a tab.
• Despite his personality and outward appearance, has the most OBNOXIOUS laugh.
• In S4 never actually put effort into his furnishings, as he thought his stay at divinus would only be temporary. But in s5 did decorate, due to wanting his house to feel more permanent.
• Used to wash his clothing in the ocean, before was forced into making a laundry room. (ew)
• Has a pet fish, named Jeffrey.
• Has seismic sense
• Also can sense vibrations within people too, like movements, clothing, and like glass too, basically anything on a person?? (Idk if it connects to his seismic sense).
Honestly, the amount overstimulation that would cause him is crazy, imagine him in a crowded area bro. No wonder bro's nausea is through the roof.
• Still has some criminal connections in S5?? (like dude, you're supposed to rehabilitated).
• In S5, he tries to keep an eye out on Ritchie from drinking, (literally treating the man like a child once, by offering him apple/grape juice)
• Hates the dark, bro got locked into a room with no light for days during his initiation for his previous guild.
• Eats iron.
Hey look I found out what character he was based upon.
Jakey couldn’t help but shift awkwardly under the stare of the man sitting across from her
They had recorded a few statements about him. Jakey had listened to them all.
Lucas had spoken in great lengths about him. The last thing anyone expected was for him to come in to make a statement.
The tattoos were mostly covered. Jakey could only spot them on his exposed forearms.
But there was still something deeply unsettling about his eyes. Something hollow about them.
Jakey tried to focus on what he was saying instead.
“Then say your words.”
Somehow, he knew what he was meant to say
“Statement of Mario Aranea regarding .. regarding his service to the entity known as ….. the Web”
“Amongst other things.”
“.. statement recorded direct from subject. Statement begins.”
He swallowed, and looked up at the man.
His arms were folded against each other, in a way that made the spiderweb tattoos on each of them somehow seem tangled together
He looked at Jakey, and it felt like there was absolutely nothing behind that gaze.
Then he smiled, and started talking.
“Calling it an entity is so misleading. Makes it sound alive.
But that’s something you’ll come to understand soon.
….
Have you ever been buried alive?
Oh i know, its odd to start a statement about the Web, as you call it, by talking about a complete different force. But it is where my story starts.
I was.
Buried alive, that is.
When i was 5 years old.
The circumstances that led up to that point don’t truly matter. What matters is i was stuck, under rocks rubble and dirt.
And in the time it took for me to be dug out, not only was I marked
But I was also left paralyzed from the waist down.
You’ve never broken a bone, have you? I cant imagine you’d be able to picture what it’s like to completely lose all use of your legs.
On top of that... I had been orphaned. I did not have any extended family either. I was left properly and truly alone.
Hilarious how close i came to being something else, is it not? First Buried, then Alone. Though the Emptiness never left any sort of mark on me.
But its fitting.
And I was never truly at risk of anything from them, as I did not fear them. Not like I feared that spider and what I knew it meant.
I was put in this. Care home, of sorts? For injured children. Because there was nowhere else to put me.
But you see, the others in the home, well, they were working on recovery. They had people visiting them, the doctors helped them.
Me?
I got a couple nurses who would came to check on me in shifts, maybe once a day if I was lucky.
An empty room…
And a spider.
I’m not sure when she made her home in my room. But as the nurse forgot to check on me, more and more often, I found myself spending a lot of time alone with the spider.
It wasn’t a normal spider. Normal spiders could not invoke the absolute terror that I felt.
Was it me? I’m… honestly not sure.
It was Mario, that I know. But i’ll never know if that’s truly who I am.
Mario was a child, and he feared the spider, because the spider was more than a spider. She was a representation of how he had no control in his life. No one does, not really.
But he was staring at concrete proof of it, as the spider began spinning her web in his room, and he could do nothing to stop it. No one even came to help.
He feared that her web would spread and take over him. And no one would even notice…
So of course, that is exactly what happened.
There was no decision.
None of us actually have any choice in the end. Even if you think you do.
At the end of the day, even when you are scared, you’re going to choose to survive.
she covered more and more of the room in her web.
Before eventually, she began covering me.
…You’ve figured it out, haven’t you?
It’s hilarious how people are so quick to assume these are tattoos. I suppose its the only thing that makes sense to you all.
When i was younger, people called them scars or very very odd birthmarks. But no.
They are not scars, I was not born with them, and they are not tattoos
Though, I suppose they could be in a certain sense of the word, in the sense they were pricked into my skin by a needle.
Or was I put into his skin? I do not know if I am Mario, or if I am just the spider’s web. Where does Mario end, and where does the Web begin?
…
You’re scared. I’m sorry, but you have to understand, I’m not very good at being human.
I’m less.. connected to humanity than the others. Because I am not quite like them.
I was a child when I Became. I did not get to be human for long, I did not have a long time to be human, so I am not human anymore, because i have been this longer than i was ever human, if I was Mario, i mean.
You know, maybe..
Maybe you’ll understand someday.
Anyway. The web.
It took a while
And i will not lie. It hurt.
It was extremely painful. To have something sewn into my very skin was agony. Or was it the act of being sewn into a living body coursing with fear?
But it was worth it. If only to see the face on those lazy nurses faces when i walked out of my room.
I was able to sue the hell out of that place, with a lawyer specializing in child defense, few pictures of the state of my room, and the proof that my legs had recovered completely alone.
I think the courts determined that some of the nurses had been drugging me to keep me paralyzed? Something like that. And.. when they stopped feeding me, it wore off.
The nurses in charge of my care lost absolutely everything. They were branded as negligent at best, and downright abusive at worst. Lost their job, one lost all their friends, A few of them ended up finding me later, and hanging themselves in front of me.
That’s funny, right?
Heh. No. I suppose you wouldn’t get it yet.
Now I have spun my own web , trapping even more flies every day.
So, that’s how it started.
People call it so many things
The Web. The spider
Mr Spider.
The Mother of Puppets.
She who pulls the string
I’ve never really called it anything. There’s never been a need. It simply expresses its will through me.
I do not know if I became the web, or if I became Mario. It does not make a difference.
So
Does that answer your questions, oh Archive?”
Mario stood up before Jakey could process what he was saying
Randomly wrote out this dialogue/script thing while trying out Ellipsus. Figured it'd be worth sharing since it's a semi important scene that only takes place within FTO:Derecho.
It hasn't been edited so ignore any mistakes .also that [constellation] is just because I've yet to research a constellation to fit the power; in the proper scene Allumos would say an actual spirit lol.
Statement of Lucas Anker, regarding his teacher’s suicide.
This statement, labeled Anker 2 of 4, was originally given on the 3rd of March, 2023 Statement recorded by Archival Assistant Ritchie Diablos
Statement Begins
I can't believe I came back here.
When I came here two years ago, I told myself.. that was it. I’d never have a reason to come back here.
Nothing spooky would happen again. I avoided the ocean, and.. besides the texts from my ex, I would avoid anything.. dangerous.
…
In my defense. I wasn’t the one who met him. Its not my fault he came into my life.
….
I’ll be honest. I… barely knew my psych teacher, Mr. Smithe. Like.
He was fine. He was a decent teacher. But I wouldn't seek out his company or anything
But the point is, he didn’t commit suicide.
I know what the police report said.
I know they found a note.
I fucking saw his body. Saw the noose, I saw it.
Everyone in my class did
…
…
I know I sound self centered, but I genuinely didn’t notice Mario for most of the term
We take a class together. Or classes actually. Same college, couple classes together.
And he’s not exactly… subtle.
But I genuinely didn't notice him until David started talking about him.
I have no idea how they met. For all of David’s constant yammering, he hasn’t mentioned that.
And even after David started talking about “your classmate Mario”, I had no idea which of my classmates it was. He was so fucking vague about it. Not intentionally David’s just.. not the brightest sometimes. And loves being annoying more than most things.
“The funny one”
“The one with fluffy hair”
“The smartass!”
That’s all he could tell me when I asked which classmate he meant.
He could have just said the guy with probably thousands of dollars of spiderweb tattoos all over his arms and neck.
I officially met Mario when I got home late one day, and I found David eating a muffin.
Which I nearly screamed at.
You don’t get how weird that was.
I’ve known David since we were 7 years old.
In that entire time, he’s had sweets or baked goods exactly 3 times since. And all three times, he was practically forced to.
David takes almost obsessive care of his body. He’s 7 feet tall and maintains an insane exercise routine. I tried to follow it with him once and I swear I was almost hospitalized. And he’s really strict with his food intake for that same reason.
So, when I got home and found David voluntarily eating something sweet, I thought he was possessed.
Then I saw Mario sitting by him, with a bag of muffins.
And…
Honestly, I thought he looked creepy.
The tattoos and punk aesthetic were one thing, but his eyes were something else.
I can’t explain it.
But there was just something hollow about them. Still is, really. Like he’s not really looking through them.
There’s almost a.. crack, in one of them.
And the way he moved was a bit.. weird, every now and then. Like he was being moved by something that wasn’t him. He limped a bit, as well.
David wasn’t possessed. But I’ll admit, it took me a while to realize he just. Had a crush on Mario.
In my defense, half their conversations sound like arguments to me, and I was under the impression that David was fully aromantic, but turns out he had an exception. Or maybe he just never met anyone who was his type before. I don't know. He hates labels.
Mario started sitting near me in class after that
Which. That wasn't weird. We knew each other now, so yeah, we spent more time together.
So I noticed a lot about him. Like. He always seemed to have yarn on him? And he didn’t take any notes in class. Ever.
Instead he’d just
Put his yarn on the desk, usually in a way that it wasn’t close to anyone else.
And started knitting. But… he didn’t use needles.
I didn't know people could knit with their fingers but apparently it's.. a common way to teach kids motor skills.
… there’s nothing wrong with memorizing stuff differently but I’ll be honest, I sorta looked down on him for it? Like. I thought he was just. Lazing around in class. And his knitting freaked me out…
I found his knitting weird mostly because
Well whenever I’d see his fingers working with the white yarn out of the corner of my eye, I'd… always have a second, where I thought it was a cobweb.
The fact he almost uniquely used white yarn didn’t help.
But he clearly was listening in class.
Sometimes he reacted.. weirdly to some stuff the teacher said.
Like…
A week before … It happened.
.. we were talking about the concept of free will.
And… I kept hearing him snickering. Which… I’d never heard him laugh like that before.
It sounded mocking.
When I looked at him, I…
I swear he was tugging on one of his tattoos.
Not like. Pulling at the skin.
No, it was like.. he was pulling at the webs themselves. And they were moving.
He caught me staring, and smiled… like we were sharing a joke
The teacher said something about how we are different from animals, because we have free will, the ability to make choices
And Mario actually laughed at that. Quietly and no one else heard him.
Or. I thought no one else did… But Mr, Smithe’s head snapped up at us, and... I swear, he looked at Mario with a mixture of intense fear and pure hatred...
When class ended, I...
I asked him what the hell he found so funny all class.
And what his deal with professor Smithe was.
And he just.
….
Looked at me
With his weird eyes. That weird crack in his eye looking too much like a spiderweb.
And his head tilted.
And laughed.
And I swear, one of the webs on his arms had a spider. It did not have a spider before. It didn’t have a spider at the start of class. It doesn’t have a spider now.
Our teacher hung himself in the classroom.
Its fucked up, and tragic, of course.
And it was fucking terrifying walking into class and seeing that.
… but you know.
Mario left campus really late the day before.
I know because he called David to pick him up at like midnight.
And…
The rope he used to hang himself.
I don't know what the official police report said. I don't know if they actually scanned it, or anything.
But it looked like a fucking cobweb.
Statement ends
Like Mr Anker's previous statement, this one is odd
We did confirm what we could
Mr Anthony Smithe did indeed hang himself in his own lecture hall, but the police report Brandie found doesn’t mention anything about the kind of rope he used.
But beyond that…. Honestly there’s not much we can look into.
The classmate Mr. Anker refers to is suspicious, yes, and I personally agree with his suspicions about this spider obsessed man.
Especially… because, Jakey did his Weirdo stalking thing, and found out where Mr. Smithe lived, prior to his suicide.
Two interesting things came from that discovery. The first being, we have a statement from someone else in that very building, somewhere around here.
The second one, being the apartment building has had a few more suicides… and, he found a picture of the owner of the entire building.
And…. It’s just a headshot. But I can't help but notice a part of a spiderweb tattoo on his neck.
But we can’t exactly do anything with no proof.
I was really surprised when I found this statement had nothing to do with. Drowning, or oceans, or even the sky, and falling.
Given Lucas Anker’s previous statement.. I thought these four statements would be him descending into madness as he repeatedly got lost at sea, but
…
Whatever
It's a baseless theory.
Though. I showed this statement to the boss lady. She read it, and mumbled something about “that damned brat”. I have no idea if she means Mr. Anker, or the spider guy, or hell, maybe the dumbass roommate!
My TMA Origins au Masterpost, ig? Going to be editing and updating this post as i go along
the idea of this au is crossing a largely FTO inspired cast into the world of Magnus Archives.
if you have not listened to the magnus archives, i recommend you do.
This Au will contain no character spoilers to the world of magnus archives, but will include spoilers to the world of magnus archives
Explanations (and spoilers) under cut:
The Dragon Slayers (- seek cause i remember nothing about him) are Avatars of the different fears in this au
Blake: art, statement. Avatar of the Vast. Mainly through drowning, and the ocean. In possession of a cursed book, which is what led to her Becoming.
Mario: art. Statement 1 2. Avatar of the Web. Heavy on the spider imagery, but mainly operates through the fear of lack of control. Was once marked by the Buried before his Becoming. Has a ship in this au.
Allumos: statement 1. Allumos is not so much an Avatar, and does not really belong to a single entity. He is a Manifestation of the Stranger, and The Spiral. For those who know, think the Not!Them crossed with the Homophobic Vase, and that’s basically Allumos.
Viper: statement 1. Avatar of the Hunt. I did consider making him Filth/Corruption, but went with Hunt for the overall attitude instead. His main prey is any manifestation of the Corruption. He is still Blind.
Davis: statement not yet written. Avatar of the Vast, mainly through storms, open sky, and heights. So the more traditional Vast avatar. Unclear on how he Became what he is. But he remains blind.
Bryan: art, appears in another statement, but a statement about him not yet written. Avatar of the Desolation. Part of the Lightless Flame. Dont yet know how he Became.
Colin: statement not yet written. Avatar of the Dark. Is in fact a reformed convict in this au, but still very much involved in the Cult
other characters!
the archive/research cast compose of:
Ritchie, Brandon(who i will very very likely make a trans woman), Jakey, Kit, and Miss P as their boss.
David is largely uninvolved in the horrors, besides the fact he’s dating Mario.
Lucas is tragically very involved in the horrors. He encounters a new horror every other day. At the time of Statement 1, he is marked by the Vast.
Flurry is Davis’s boss! As in she owns the bar where Davis works. They have also been marked by the Stranger.
Patrick is involved in the Horrors, in the sense that he is Allumos’s … friend. He will make a statement.
Micheal is involved in the horrors, as he is in the same Cult as Colin. Will probably eventually make a statement.
I Also have plans for how most of the archive cast will die, if i decide to kill them.
Ships in the au: Mavid. More to come at my friend’s pestering probably. Brakey, and Apparently, Micheal x Lucas (blame my friend)
If anyone has any requests or additional questions about this au, please send me an ask :)
i did stick to mostly close to canon connections for most of them, but i did take a few liberties.
This is a good point to bring this up, this au will include non canon ships! Namely, Mario and David. Because i’ve been obsessed with this dumbass crack ship for years
that’s the only one i’m sure of rn but my friend is actively trying to convince me to give Lucas some toxic/doomed yaoi, so, let’s see how long i last before giving in
