#tmp fears

[pixxlotl]

My Theory on the Fears in TMAGP

For the last few months I’ve been trying to organize the fears in the Magnus Protocol. I went in with the assumption that they’d be organized by the same system that the fears in TMA were, but this very quickly turned out to not be the case, as I could pick out at least 2 or 3 alignments for each statement.

This made me think that maybe the fears in this universe were jumbled, and that they would eventually fall into 14 categories of their own. I started trying to write down any associations I could find. I was calling one sector Mutilation for a bit; body horror, the fear of being mutilated, very flesh-stranger-corruption aligned. “Making Adjustments,” “Putting Down Roots,” and of course, Mr. Bonzo are all things I marked down as being aligned with Mutilation.

I was relistening to the podcast recently when it occurred to me that the Magnus Institute itself is centered around a separate thing—so, then, might the fears also be separated in an entirely different way than the 14?

Alchemy, I found out, has three “primes”: body, spirit, and soul. Body, which holds the subconscious, your physical being; spirit, which hold your conscious, your perception of the world; and soul, your superconscious, associated with a sort of “higher self”.

Three primes of alchemy, three sections, one of which aligns incredibly well with that I’ve been calling Mutilation.

So we have our basis for the fears this series. I’ve had Mutilation fleshed out (pun intended) for a while now, and a friend of mine noticed another pattern, something associating the vast, the lonely, and the buried; they called it the Deep. The Deep aligns incredibly well with spirit.

My official hypothesis: The fears in the Magnus Protocol universe will be organized by the three primes of alchemy.

Body: gore, flesh that is not the way it should be, the fear that you will be mutilated.

Spirit: Horror surrounding the conscious experience. I haven’t delved into this one yet, but I think the concept of vast-buried-lonely fits well.

Soul: Again, not well thought-out, but I wanted to get my thoughts out here. My only certainty is that the soul will have something to do with the web, and will have something to do with Lena.

[tmp-thoughts]

TMagP Theory

Instead of classifying the externals by who they serve/fears like in the Magnus archives I think they will be classified by strength, power, unpredictability, or something like that. Thats because the fears all bleed together and created externals serving them all rather than avatars serving only one.

[arthur-lesters-glabella]

The way I SCREAMED

[blepbrain]

Avatars of the extinction could be so interesting. I did not care for the extinction when I first was listening to TMA but I’ve realized the potential and I’m a little obsessed

Like imagine, it could be a really calm person. Y’know those depictions of death where they’re super nice and calm because they know everyone dies eventually? that kind of personality except they’re actively looking forward to the end of all life.

It could be one of those doomsday prepper, bunker people. They don’t know they’re an avatar of the extinction, in fact if they knew what it was they’d think they hate it. But deep down they get immense joy from the idea of not only being proven right but being the last person alive and thats why they’re an avatar of the extinction.

Maybe a really discreet avatar of the extinction who seems lovely and relatively normal, maybe a little obsessed with apocalypse stories but nothing more! The reality though is they have romanticized the concepts of society falling, humanity dying, and the world ending to a horrifying degree. You don’t realize how truly in love with these concepts they are until something catastrophic happens and they watch with a look of pure glee.

It could be a poison ivy type person who think plants should grow over all of society. A sentiant A.I! More so a monster made by the extinction, it’s creation stemming from peoples fear of A.I taking over. Or a technology enthusiast who loves the idea of robots taking over the world. There’s just so many fun possibilities and I love it and they could be so insane and cool and I really like the idea of someone being dedicated to the end of everything and just AAHHHH gimme extinction avatars…

[guillotine-girly]

A desolation avatar who is the embodiment of a blizzard, your car breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, you exit calling out for help trying to see through the thick descending snow, you turn back, your car has been buried in snow and you cannot find it, everything you love and know has been buried in snow, encased in frigid ice and soon.

you will join.

[cruelestpigeon]

I’d just like to point out that TMAGP is called a prequel in the description and appears to be in an alternate timeline rather than a dimension..

.. and the divergence in the timeline appears to have happened during the formation of the fears

AND THERE ARE 14 ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT MIRROR THE 14 FEARS

AND EVEN WITH DIFFERENT SUPERNATURAL JONAH MAGNUS IS STILL TRYING TO GET IMMORTALITY

[snarky-wallflower]

hi, I’m starting a petition to kill Sam’s horrible ex-coworkers, sign here if you want to join—

[foxnfishstudio]

The cover of my pet project comic (which is almost done!!!)

Detailed look here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8JjkULm/

[evilmskitty]

Can’t wait for episode 21 of Mag Protocol to find out if Gwen pulled a “she’s a runner, she’s a track star” or if she’s gonna show up with a bedazzled “rich lost child, please return home” tattoo

(If she gets an eye tattoo and it has powers, I’ll lose my mind.)

[cryptiicism]

hey guys , you notice a trend with the monsters in protocol ?

• trenchcoat guy

• needles

• bonzo

• ink5oul

they're all themed with the desire to be known , the exact opposite of " i do not know you "

think about it , tattoos are easily identifiable . mascots are a staple of identification for franchises , the dnd trenchcoat guy made a distinguished persona to be known . needles whole thing was being afraid because he is to be known , seen .

in tma we didn't know and we were afraid , but in tmagp we are known and scares us .

to be known is to be seen , and to be seen is the most frightening thing because you are vulnerable .

even in alice's stalker ties into this , stalkers follow and find out everything about you and that is terrifying .

in tma , jon was driven to know so he was not afraid . but he " died " not knowing who he was anymore , and now we don't know either .

its the age old " some questions are better left unknown " because alice is right , the more you know your fears , the more they are drawn to you to be known on a deeper level .

stay safe canaries

[princechaikka]

I've never done a proper character lineup before but I recently got super into the magnus archives (it was recommended to me by a friend!), so I gave a lineup a shot with fan designs of the series! The original file was higher resolution but it was too large to upload unfortunately OTL. I'll put smaller bits of the lineup at full resolution below the cut (and maybe some design notes too). I also made a few secondary versions of the characters below the cut, but they do contain spoilers.

There will be more detailed ALT image descriptions below the cut as well since i have a character limit that's probably too small to fit all the characters in this image.

(honestly this took me like two months to do (I did a lot of it WHILE listening to tma and then also tmp lmao), and I've been sitting on the finished product for a few months thereafter because I wasn't certain if I would still like it after I left it alone for awhile... but I'm tired of keepin it in my files)

Check ALT text for details on the individual designs including specific clothing item names or facial inspirations. Overall notes for the design layout would be that: these are meant to be a "base" of the characters. I intended to draw everyone in an appearance that would suit them at their normal job whenever we first meet them, which means the characters who join the institute later are not dressed in institute attire. For those who were, however, I incorporated a name tag with an official magnus institute symbol (eye-shaped) and a bar code (for access to storage and whatnot). They're also dressed in professional wear, though I tried to differentiate what they'd wear from person to person to help incorporate their personality.

(Edit I forgot to add some details to this section cause I'm sleepy)

Some other general stuff:

As a neat little detail, I tried to keep all the people who made it to the eyepocalypse have an exposed middle forehead. I thought a visible "third eye" position would be a neat visual indicator. I also have some color-coding at play where Green represents The Eye, Purple represents The Web, Blue represents The Lonely.... And I actually had it more fleshed-out but then I accidentally saved over the document where I noted this all down (exploding on the inside). Either way it's why Martin has a periwinkle sweater since it's a delightful color but also a nice recognizable form of blue x purple 👍

What's this? Bonus doodles? Bonus doodles! (as a heads up there's a spider in the third batch down)

[lunali-moon]

they really think they can stop the horny fans

[arthur-lesters-glabella]

So glad (and afraid) to be back once again

[jonahmagnus]

Unblinking

[meilia-stims]

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) stimboard

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[lavander-galaxy]

man what’s got him so flustered huh

@sonderfairy