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rat catcher new glup shitto bet they'll never show up again

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Alice: "We got married a month before the Incursion."

Me: omg they got married a month before the incursion

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twin… where have you been

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seal this BooBooBear within the earth! i Command you

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It cost 60€

I think I love this thing. again, I feel like my imagination exaggerated his monstrousness than what is probably canon. Dane would have probably reacted more intensely if he was a giant monstrous puppet thing.

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Jonathan Sims ALIVE?? I Believe I Have Proof.

(Spoilers for The Magnus Protocol!)

You heard that right. And if you've listened to TMP 39 - Dependents, you've heard it too. Not only can I prove without the shadow of a doubt that not one, but two Archivists are roaming TMA's London, but I can also prove with spectrogram + phonetical analysis exactly what Jon is saying.

Let me prove it to you.

First, let's start with an unedited audio sample, taken at 16:30:

Did you catch it? If you didn't, I don't blame you. There's a lot happening here. Let's check the official transcript for more context about what we're hearing.

So, what we're hearing is definitely the Archivist. It's evident that it's whispering something, but the specifics are currently hidden under layers of reverb, static, and tape winding. Let's clean it up a bit to get a better listen. I pitched the audio down 30%, reduced the background noise, and ran it through a few frequency filters to make the speech more prominent.

Oh.

Oh, shit.

Yeah, that's definitely Jon.

At the very least, we know this is obviously not Beth Eyre, who voices [ERROR]. Since the transcript states that this audio has to come from an Archivist, that really only leaves us with one other possibility.

But let's assume you still don't believe me. I took the liberty of isolating the vocals entirely and running them through a linguistics analysis programme called Praat (which is fantastic + free by the way!). This way, we can analyse the speech all the way down to the position of the Archivist's mouth when speaking.

Here's the new sample we're working with:

I admit, the speech is a tad more muffled in this version. However, the lack of background noise makes the spectrogram much easier to read, which is what we are aiming for here. We're far past the point of just using our ears.

Behold the Spectrogram:

Looking at this diagram, we can conclude that there are four words being spoken here. (The second word is the gap in the middle part. Note the density shift at around 1000Hz. We know this word must be free of any sharp consonants.) More importantly, the formants provided can be compared to samples of Jon's RP dialect to determine if there's a match. If the frequencies match, it's the same voice. If we get the wavelengths to match, it's the same word.

Let's start with the first word. I'll skip the specifics, as explaining every minute detail would take forever and bore everyone to death. The left image was extracted from the spectrogram above. The right photo? That's Jon saying the word "this."

Note how both waveforms are split into two halves, low then high. Note how the high half trails off at the end. Take into account the similar placement of the red formants. This is the same word, pronounced in the exact same dialect, with the exact same frequency. It is Jon.

Let's do that again with the second word.

Again, the formants line up in the exact same order. The audio on the right is a bit louder, which is why the waveforms have a higher contrast.

What did this word happen to be? World.

Here is the original spectrogram in Audacity. The two bright spots on the right-hand side are easy. It's the same sound as the end of the first word as well. (Notice the frequencies are the same.) These are an easy Letter S. I then fact-checked this using methods like before.

Finally, we have clear, undeniable proof:

"This world isn’t yours."

Edit: thank you to @thestrangepoet for correcting “is” to “isn’t!” The presence of the letter T was a bit inconclusive, but it makes so much more sense in this context.

Now, what does that actually mean? Well, he’s likely referring to Sam. The extent of what he actually knows I’m uncertain of. Feel free to theorise and let me know! I have an idea about how this affects the overall story, but that's a post for another day.

I furthermore checked every single instance [ERROR] spoke for occurrences like this, and what did I find? Nothing. There was a bit of whispering in TMP 10 that I couldn't manage to isolate, but the voice was definitely Beth Eyre's. The only other time an Archivist audibly appeared in this fashion was... Oh, Hello. The TMP series teaser with Jon and Martin. Brilliant.

Now I just have to hope that nothing gets debunked by tomorrow. I'm crossing my fingers, TMP 40.

Thank you to Rusty Quill for sending me down this rabbit hole! The details added to all corners of the production bring so much life to the Magnus mystery. I'm glad I could dig deep and analyse this - We love you!

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Don’t you just hate it when you’re expecting to meet with your friend and learn how to make video games to connect with the youth but you get catfished and a rude American insults the chair you bought (it cost 60 euro) but nevertheless you tell your new guests about yourself and even sing them a song and then the American criticises your lifestyle choices so you have to get your army of wooden puppets to kill him

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Have you ever gotten everything you ever wanted?

No, but i once gotten very close

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Key difference between archives and protocol

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”she’s… lovely.”

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Song: Lima bean man by Jack Stauber

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I hate him (affectionate) (neg)

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You call it madness

I've seen a lot of people theorizing that there's some horrible thing that happened to Kayne to make him do what he's trying to do, or add a layer of morals.

And then I see others saying the opposite. He has no morals, he has no reason. Hes the Crawling Chaos dammit he doesn't need a reason! That's the whole point!

And here my hot take. I like overthinking this man. Yes, to both. Both are correct. In a way anyway.

Kayne is a god that is beyond power of most other things. He doesn't obey the rules the other entities in this mythos are forced to observe. With that comes some freedom but also crushing awareness over your situation.

But Kaynes comment about other versions being soft as daisies makes me think the inconceivable happened. Some of Nyarlathoteps other avatars were developing empathy. Or some form of it. We see John do it, why is it so hard to think that they couldn't too? If they're all as attached to their individual identities as Kayne is then I could absolutely see some trying to cling to that, to prove they're not just where they came from.

But talking about Kayne himself, he IS still a detached god. A blood thirsty one at that. I think we're seeing as close to love as he can feel. He may very well think he's doing something good with his plan and that others should want it too. Hes aware of his limitations in the dream, clearly others must want it too, they would if they knew. Right? He very well may love Arthur.

But not how we think about love. Like how you would love an item. You cherish it, you take care of it, you fix it when its broken. And when you've used it up, you've run it into the ground. Well it was with love right? It lived its purpose. But don't you dare touch that item without permission or break it. That's HIS item. Not yours. You can't break it only he can.

It feels like he wouldn't be satisfied if he wasn't the one to tear apart Arthur. That's his item to run into the ground. My theory is he's applying his very very warped sense of morals and love. Its just wrong and broken and without the context and work it took John.

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kayne!

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