#and like paranormal entity and dimension stuff of course

[werewolfgenesis]

do you have your own very specific version of the p.i.e./vt universe, with its own lore or parody of the original lore. and just other quirks about the universe

or do you just follow the source with some like personal headcanons :P

just asking bc im curious 👉👈

Yess I do have my own very specific version of the VT universe I am so glad you asked

There is a lot of lore that lives in my mind that I love thinking about and talking about but I'm SO bad at putting it all into words

I have very specific ideas especially about the whole Back From The Dead thing with Billy and how it effects the world they all live in, and that heavily ties into my version of Gavin and why he does the things he does

And then everything with Stardust Sprinkleshine is like it's own thing I love talking and thinking about

I wanna flesh out stuff more but I tend to fixate on a single thing or character or idea at a time and that makes it a little difficult for me to fully flesh everything out

I do follow some of the canon lore stuff but I love coming up with my own things too !! :D

[macabresymphonies]

With us being led to believe that Smirke's Fourteen will no longer be sufficient categorization for entities once Magnus Protocol rolls out, I was doing some theorycrafting on what exactly the new categorization is going to be.

Now, there doesn't need to be an actual categorization at all, I'm of a very controversial opinion a lot of scares fell off after we entered the "everything everywhere has a proper categorization and roughly defined modus operandi" as a lot of the dread lied in the unknown, but while putting everything in neat little boxes decreases the scare factor it plays a lot into the core of what Magnus Pod is and that is the attempt to peer into the dark and mysterious to understand it (even when you think you do, you end up failing miserably).

We've seen already that there are some names we recognize and I suspect voices we may know, but they are not what we expect them to be, with entities it will be the same. As we enter a soft reset, I think it will play a lot into the passing idea that peeked through over the course of the series and that is monsters and entities that are largely undefinable in their motive/origin and are not so easily contained by a simple system like Smirke's Fourteen.

I suspect we are entering some weird "The Fly" scenario where transporting so many entities through dimensions resulted in them mutating and/or "crossbreeding" so to speak where they will have identifiers that would contradict the theory of Smirke's Fourteen. We've seen it already in vampires, beings that basically represent all of the Fourteen Fears combined (even though it is assumed they are of The Hunt, they exhibit to also be closely associated with The Dark, The Web, The Stranger, The Flesh, The End, The Corruption, The Lonley, hell, even The Buried if they sleep in coffins and The Vast if they fly). Once we see a lot of them I think that the most appropriate categorization will be one that simply uses multiple categories to describe such creatures.

Are they humanoid, animalistic or neither? Are they inherently agressive, passive or unpredictable? Does their anomalistic nature stem from preforming feats that could be possible, but are not recorded (abnormal), physiology beyond what we could achieve, but still abiding to stuff like laws of physics or biology (supranormal) or completly breaking any law of the known universe (paranormal).

The series supposedly takes inspiration from games like Control and content like SCP or X-Files and I think this type of "specific on case to case basis, but hard to connect together beyond a broad classification" would be appropriate to that. Would also be fun to see how they change over the course of the series, can you imagine a well established animalistic/semi-sentient creature to suddenly start pressenting clues that it's actually fully sentient AND malicious? Dreadful stuff.

Well at least it's how my ramblings go, still very exited to see how the show turns out, because I wasn't there to witness "pins and red strings" era of TMA before the final season hit and it's very much my jam.