POV: You're Jonathan Sims experiencing your 23rd avatar introduction of the week (it's Tuesday).
Reference design under the cut :].
Here's my boy:
I would tell you his height but no one can really tell beyond tall. This is because it is always changing by an inch or so. And the hands were inspired by that ai generated slop (which finally amounted to something beyond mediocre [dw I didn't use the softwares, but rather just searched online for the most shitty ones]).
A compilation of interactions between Jon and Helen from beginning to end because they had the best dynamic
Transcript under the cut
[MAG 47]
[CLICK]
[SOUND OF PEN SCRATCHING AGAINST PAPER IN SHARP, FRUSTRATED MOVEMENTS]
ARCHIVIST
Statement of Helen Richardson, regarding, uh… how would you describe it?
[PEN SCRATCHING CONTINUES]
ARCHIVIST
…Miss Richardson?
[PEN SCRATCHING CONTINUES]
HELEN
– uh, what?
[PEN SCRATCHING CONTINUES]
ARCHIVIST
Your experience, how would you summarize it?
[PEN SCRATCHING CONTINUES]
HELEN
Um, well, I’ve been, I’ve been trying to draw you a map, but, it doesn’t, it doesn’t work.
[PEN SCRATCHING CONTINUES; HELEN CAN NOW BE HEARD BREATHING HARD AS THE ARCHIVIST SPEAKS]
ARCHIVIST
– Right. Statement of Helen Richardson, regarding a new door in the house she was selling. Statement recorded direct from subject, 2nd October, 2016. Statement begins.
[MAG 101]
HELEN
Do you want to come in?
ARCHIVIST
Wh… Helen? H-Helen Richardson? But… But y– Michael…
HELEN
Michael isn’t me. Not now.
ARCHIVIST
What happened?
HELEN
He got… distracted. Let feelings that shouldn’t have been his overwhelm me.
Lost my way.
ARCHIVIST
And now? Y-__you’re__ Helen?
[MAG 115]
[KNOCK, KNOCK]
[Calls] Come i–
[KNOCK, KNOCK]
[More sombrely] Come in.
[A NEW DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
[Sharply] What do you want?
HELEN
Not sure. To talk.
ARCHIVIST
You’re keeping her face, then.
HELEN
I am Helen.
ARCHIVIST
Don’t pretend to be people I know. Knew.
HELEN
I’m not pretending.
ARCHIVIST
You’re not Helen Richardson.
[MAG 115]
HELEN
Before, talking to you made Helen feel better.
ARCHIVIST
You’re not that Helen!
HELEN
I just want… I just want to feel better.
ARCHIVIST
…
I don’t believe you.
HELEN
You don’t?
ARCHIVIST
Wh-what? Why should I believe… a-a-any of this? You’ve told me over and over that you’re… what was the phrase? The ‘throat of delusion’? All of this is –
HELEN
I have never told you a lie, Archivist. I wouldn’t dare. I, I just thought you might understand.
ARCHIVIST
Uh… How could I possibly…
HELEN
We’re both changing, Archivist. I had hoped, that together –
ARCHIVIST
[Furious] Get out.
[MAG 131]
[MELANIE SIGHS, KNOCKS ON THE DOOR] MELANIE
She’s been helping us.
ARCHIVIST
[Sharply] It has never helped anyone. Not without a cost.
[THE DOOR CREAKS OPEN] HELEN
If I am an “it”, Archivist, then what does that make you?
[THE DOOR CREAKS CLOSED] MELANIE
Hi, Helen.
ARCHIVIST
[Coldly] I have been told you can help.
HELEN
I have been trying to. But the last time you were very rude to me.
ARCHIVIST
You’re still wearing her face.
HELEN
Not this again. I’m not “wearing” anything, Archivist. I am at least as much ‘Helen Richardson’ as you are the ‘Jonathan Sims’ that first joined this Institute.
[MAG 143]
ARCHIVIST
Why are you here?
HELEN
I told you! I’ve decided to help. I thought you might like a way home?
ARCHIVIST
Another door?
HELEN
If you want it. (short pause) How was it?
ARCHIVIST
Hm?
HELEN
Looking upon the Dark.
ARCHIVIST
I thought I was going to die.
HELEN
You seem to think that a lot.
[MAG 152]
HELEN
(“delicately” hinting) Although – some of us are always lost, in a sense.
ARCHIVIST
Wait, are you saying you can navigate it?
HELEN
Not exactly, but my door has been part of these tunnels for some time now.
ARCHIVIST
Wh – (frustrated sputtering) – what’s it hiding, wh-what’s in the middle?
HELEN
(suppressed laughter) A delightful surprise…!
[HE SIGHS. SHE LAUGHS, OVERLAPPING HIM AND HERSELF, SEEMINGLY OUT OF SEVERAL THROATS AT ONCE, AND WITH A DRAINED, SLEEPY QUALITY TO IT WHEN SHE FINDS THAT SHE HAS LAUGHED TOO LONG, AND MUST STOP TO INHALE. HER LAUGHTER, IN SHORT, NOW SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE MICHAEL’S. THE ARCHIVIST SIGHS AGAIN, RESIGNED TO HER.]
[MAG 152]
HELEN
Hungry, are we?
ARCHIVIST
(angrily) That’s not –
– I haven’t done anything –
HELEN
– yet.
ARCHIVIST
(roughly) I feel like if I don’t… I might die. Fade away into nothing.
HELEN
…
Do you… Know that?
ARCHIVIST
No. But I… (frustrated noise) I can’t die. They need me.
HELEN
Come on, John, no excuses.
[HE SIGHS AS SHE SPEAKS.]
They don’t need your protection.
[MAG 152]
HELEN
Helen was like you, at first.
[HE CAN BE HEARD INHALING UNHAPPILY IN THE BACKGROUND.]
She felt such guilt over taking people. Until one day she realized she wasn’t going to stop doing it. So she chose to stop feeling guilty.
ARCHIVIST
Fine. I get it.
[MAG 157]
[CLICK] [HEAVY KNOCKING ON A DOOR. IT SWINGS OPEN.] ARCHIVIST
Helen.
HELEN
Jonathan.
ARCHIVIST
I need – you said before you knew the tunnels, right? That you’d been a… part of them?
HELEN
Not my exact words, but close enough.
ARCHIVIST
I need to know what’s in there. What’s at the center? (urgently) I-it’s important, Martin – I need to know.
HELEN
(cheerfully) That’s a shame, because I’m afraid I’m not going to tell you!
ARCHIVIST
(aghast) What? Why not?
HELEN
Because I have a good enough sense of what’s going on to know that it will be much more fun without my involvement! (begins laughing)
ARCHIVIST
What? You – you said you were going to help!
HELEN
I am.
ARCHIVIST
I don’t have time for this.
[164]
HELEN
Remember? And please – my name is Helen.
ARCHIVIST
Like you said, I can know everything now, including how much of a lie that really is.
HELEN
Don’t mistake complication for falsehood, dear Archivist. And remember, that knowledge is not the same thing as understanding!
ARCHIVIST
What do you want.
HELEN
To say hello! And check up on the happy couple.
[She laughs again.]
[166]
ARCHIVIST
Hello, Helen.
HELEN
Oh, hello! In a better mood, are we?
(lower, teasing) Feeling more secure now you’ve learned how to kill?
[As she speaks, a shimmery, high-pitched sound starts to layer over the background.] ARCHIVIST
(inhale) Something like that.
MARTIN
Will you tell me how he did it?
ARCHIVIST
Martin…
MARTIN
He just keeps going all vague about it.
HELEN
Oh, goodness. You see what you’ve done to the poor boy, John? He’s coming to me for clear answers.
[She snorts, and it turns into her trademark laugh.]
ARCHIVIST
Shut up.
[177]
HELEN
Oh, John? Not to sound like a squeaky hinge, but do try to lighten up. Don’t get me wrong, the brooding thing’s a good look on you, but it is starting to get a bit tired. Especially now you’ve got someone else to do the intense, driven thing. I think you might need to get a new schtick.
ARCHIVIST
[Sarcastic] Thank you for the feedback. I’ll try to bear it in mind.
[183]
ARCHIVIST
What we want doesn’t matter much these days.
[HELEN MAKES A RASPBERRY NOISE]
HELEN
Oh nonsense. What we want is the only thing that matters these days. And Basira wanted to join Daisy.
ARCHIVIST
She made her choice.
HELEN
With your assistance.
ARCHIVIST
It was still her choice.
HELEN
[Sighing] What a waste.
ARCHIVIST
No.
It wasn’t.
[MAG 187]
HELEN
You really don’t like me, do you?
ARCHIVIST
No.
HELEN
And you never have.
ARCHIVIST
Not really.
HELEN
Even though I saved you from Michael.
ARCHIVIST
You were Michael.
HELEN
Argh. I’m The Distortion, as was Michael, but I am not him, and never have been. Surely you know all this by now, what with your shiny new eye powers?
ARCHIVIST
It’s not about what I know. It’s about what I feel.
HELEN
[Disparagingly] Oh, what do you feel?
ARCHIVIST
I liked Helen.
HELEN
I am Helen.
ARCHIVIST
The real one.
HELEN
…
Helen-Classic.
ARCHIVIST
Sure.
HELEN
But that doesn’t make any sense. You barely met her. You had half an hour together, and she spent most of that ranting about mazes! She was positively delirious with paranoia!
ARCHIVIST
True. But as you’ll recall, I was pretty paranoid myself at that point.
[MAG 187]
ARCHIVIST
I got you rattled.
HELEN
I’m not scared of you.
ARCHIVIST
Helen… Was that… a lie?
HELEN
[Too quickly] No!
ARCHIVIST
A lie. A genuine untruth. Like a little bit of loose thread, flitting in the breeze.
HELEN
Fine. You can go.
[SHIFTING, AND A NEW DOOR OPENS]
There’s the door. Just go!
ARCHIVIST
Ceaseless Watcher!
HELEN
No!
[THROUGH THE INCANTATION, THE HARSH BUZZ OF STATIC MINGLES WITH CREAKING WOODWORK AND CRUMBLING CRICK]
ARCHIVIST
See this lie, this golden strand of falsehood. Take it in your gaze and pull it, follow through its curves and twists and knots as it unravels all before you.
HELEN (BACKGROUND)
No. No! No! No, Archivist! Stop! John, it’s me, it’s Helen. It’s me. I’ve always been your friend. Don’t do this to me. I have always helped you. I have always helped you and lent you doors. Think of all that I have done for you. If you do this, everyone inside me is dead!
ARCHIVIST
Unweave it now, its fear and its falsehood, its hidden teeth and the ones it wears so proudly.
HELEN (BACKGROUND)
You’re no different – You are no different from me! You can’t save anyone!
ARCHIVIST
Take all that it is and all that it has. It is yours!
HELEN
No! NOOOOOO!
[HELEN’S VOICE IS STRETCHED AND VANISHED] [EXTENDED SOUNDS OF DISTORTED DEMOLITION]
[MAG 47]
HELEN
Finally, [suppressing tears] after the latest bout of nightmares, I decided to come to you and tell you my story. Maybe you can make some sense of this.
ARCHIVIST
…Perhaps. Leave it with us. We’ll… do some digging and see what we can find.
— wow mysterious tunnels that seem to wind on forever where do we know that from..
— MICHAEL.
— what the fuck
— ew im scared
— WORRYING AND SCARED
right. i've got a lot to say about this episode but at the same time ive not a clue what just happened
there's some kind of conflict, a war ? and michael is very much indifferent as it expressed in mag 26.
i also noticed not!sasha seemed far more believable and human like than she was in mag 40. which i assume she has learnt from listening the statements in which sasha's voice was recorded.
additionally, when this is said i assume Michael is referring to not!sasha. 'they' implies more than one person though so perhaps martin (and his mysterious letter).. ? i assume they is referring to more than one person though it could just as easily be referring to one individual controlling / inhabiting not!sasha or just michael being a little bitch and stressing out jon, im not sure..
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