#maxwell raynor

[tauremornalome]

everyone now reblogging the post i made about arthur nolan, but we all know who is the shittiest cult leader in tma. come on. maxwell rayner:

- gave gertrude robinson, known murderer of all cultists, a heads-up before attempting his ritual. did he even want to succeed? 

- didn’t even write a breakup letter to jonah magnus like basically everyone else did but went "hey manuela could you please warn jonah for me and tell him i lov him and he can join me in our beautiful world of darkness” LOSER that’s how you fail rituals. also eww why would you want to spare jonah?????

- very anti-lightbulb. i’m starting to suspect that when lightbulbs were still a new invention he did that thing where you put a lightbulb in your mouth and can’t remove it and now wants revenge

- will make your tap water nasty (??? what’s that got to do with the dark??? i don’t know maybe it’s not dark related maybe it’s just his hobby)

- wikipedia page on edmond halley says his father was a “wealthy soap-maker” and that’s just. funny

- didn’t want to have a comet named after him anymore (ya know, a comet, big shiny light in the sky that will exist for another 170000 years) so decided to go by the mean nickname his science rival gave him

- franklin’s expedition nerd but died a year before amc’s terror tv series premiered. no quality television for you sir

- man, i relistened to the montauk episodes and honestly? i still don’t understand what exactly’s going on. kidnap montauk’s wife  → make him kill people  → ?????  → profit

- *1864 maxwell voice* mr sandman man me a sand

- his cult existed for 300 years and still the only competent person in the history of it was manuela?? max, you should get yourself a hr manager

- got shot by the police. sorry but that’s the lamest death in tma. kidnapped a child and got shot by police. amazing. the guy died at least 3 times and his final death was the stupidest one.

[avatarofthevast]

So... Edmond Halley = Maxwell Raynor? Can't say I saw that one coming. But the "body hopping" has some interesting implications. Basira seemed to imply he was trying to do that to the boy they captured; take over his body. I thought that whole incidence was the ritual? Or were they one and the same? Or happening at the same time?

Also, is the body hopping unique to Raynor, or is it what every avatar must do eventually if they're to keep living? If Jonah Magnus = Elias Bouchard turns out to be true, was Elias someone else - his own person - before Jonah imposed himself upon him?

[froodlemonkey]

Well, this is just blatant Manuella Dominguez erasure right here

[shoutandscreamy]

*UNHOLY SCREECHING*

*JUMPS OUT OF A TRASH CAN*

*TAKES OFF SOCKS*

*BURNS THEM SEVEN FEET FROM TRASH CAN*

*STEALS 100 POUNDS OF MEAT*

*TRAILS MEAT TO AN OLD ABANDONED CABIN*

*BEGINS CHEWING ON THE CABINS PORCH*

GIVE 👏🏼 ME 👏🏼 MAXWELL 👏🏼 RAYNOR 👏🏼 CONTENT 👏🏼

[bluemoonrabbit]

Re-listened to “Police Lights.” Just putting this here– Raynor’s been transferred to Leo Altman, the police officer who died in the raid. Some of Raynor’s weird black soul/fog stuff got on Altman’s face, and as Raynor was dying, Natalie Ennis made a big deal of running over to kill Altman, too. I don’t go into the tag, so I don’t know if everyone already assumed this after last episode, but just in case!

[statementends]

Okay so anyone else think Elias' chosen allies are really strange? You have the Lonely which you would think would interact badly with Beholding and you have the Dark which confirms they're unable to exist in each other's ritual world.

Beholding counteracts The Stranger, Corruption, the Dark, the Spiral, and the Lonely. All of them claim or are implied to be antithesis of Beholding. Except the Lonely which is just my conjecture.

Flesh, Hunt, Slaughter, Vast, Buried, Desolation (not a fan of the eye but they could coexist), and Web are neutral.

End and Extinction would end all the other powers potentially.

So, why is it that Elias would band with the Dark and Lonely. Is it keeping your enemies close? Does the Institute need the money that bad. Were they that worried about another power? Or is it old allies that Jonah Magnus cultivated. In letters to Magnus the Lukas' and Raynor are mentioned in such a way that it implies he has links to them and knows about them.

It might lend itself to Elias is possessed/has the memories of Jonah Magnus theory.

Jon it seems has accidently made an alliance with the Distortion, although it's not really out of character for the Spiral to not make sense, and Jon is honestly just trying to keep his head above water.

The Web seems to be playing all sides. There's evidence it sent the Web Table and the Flesh to attack them, but they've also helped Jon, and even the attacks have lead to Jon gaining more power.

What is up with Elias and his evil former bffs?

[froodlemonkey]

Great Basin bristlecone pine: I'm over 5000 years old

Manuella Dominguez: lol fucking n00b

[georgie-barker]

A spicy take: Maxwell Raynor doesn't actually know who is head of the Magnus Institute. He's been alive so long he just doesnt care enough to keep track anymore and his trick with manuela was just to poke at the Beholding