#Every time I post about Magnificus I have to get my baseball bat ready

[hrokkall]

Magnificus!

HELL yeah I was hoping I’d get to talk about this guy I love shaking him like a towel.

Favorite thing about them: This is more of me admiring the attention to detail in this game (intentional or not) but his personality and card game system go hand-in-hand so well. Mox in general is a wild system. No one knows how to use it, you have to predict your opponent’s moves ahead of time, and it doesn’t work very well with the other systems outside of specialty cards but is exceptionally powerful when meticulously planned and utilized correctly… I don’t think I need to say where I’m going with this.

Least favorite thing about them: I’m not going to say the wizard torture because that’s a cop-out (and honestly the Scrybes all doing heinous shit because they all genuinely feel they have to is part of what makes them compelling villains). Instead I’m going to say the fact that we know absolutely nothing about this guy. I’m all for mysterious ambiguity in characters but it’s really tough to work off of absolutely nothing. Also the fact that he doesn’t canonically wear a wizard hat. He should wear a wizard hat. Give him a wizard hat.

Favorite line: I don’t think I have one. I do want to know what the fuck he was going to say before he disappeared in Act 2 though.

brOTP: I don’t think they’re friends in the slightest but the paint droplets outside of her clearing in Leshy’s domain seem to imply that Magnificus and the Woodcarver have talked at some point, maybe frequently. Again, despite that, I don’t think they’re friends—Woodcarver desperately wishes the Scrybes would leave her alone (she’s already not the most fond of Leshy, much less another self-proclaimed god waltzing in to interrupt her peace and quiet) and Magnificus is just as neutral on her as he is with everyone else who isn’t an immediate threat—but they’ve talked often enough about damage control from various takeovers that there’s at very least no hostility. Which is about the most you can ask for in this sort of situation.

Having said that I can’t see Magnificus being casual friends with anyone in his current state. I think even if someone wanted desperately to be friends (see: Goobert) he’d try everything possible to subdue them because he’d immediately assume they’d interrupt his 12-step-plan-for-the-future in some way or another—he has a plan for just about everything and he really doesn’t want someone else to throw a wrench in that. He knows via future vision they’re not going to try and usurp him but he can still never be too cautious. Not much reasoning with this guy.

OTP: I know I’m missing the point of the “pairing” part in OTP but for all four Scrybes the Scrybe Polycule is going here. Or just any of the other Scrybes in general. I like them in a “studying them under a microscope” kind of way. They’re probably never all going to get their shit together to make things work again but it’s the thought that counts (not really considering they’re all perpetually fistfighting each other but hey). Maybe one day they’ll stop trying to kill each other. Huge step in the right direction.

nOTP: I haven’t seen any ships with Magnificus aside from him + other Scrybes so I don’t have anything to put here (for all I know there’s a huge Inscryp shipping community and it’s all just flown under my radar. I have no idea).

Random headcanon: I’ve already talked about his claws, I’ve already shitposted about him turning his head like an owl… so instead of taking a natural progression into anything else I’m going to take a sharp left and say he’s resistant to most forms of magical damage. His hair is fireproof, a poor conductor, insulating against the cold, negates acid splash damage, wards away necrosis—you name it, it’s probably going to bounce right off. This does, however, leave a pretty glaring weakness to just… punching him. If you can manage to skirt around his constant premonitions enough to get close and you can lift more than 30lbs above your head, you can probably just snap him like a twig.

Unpopular opinion: Where do I even start. Even liking Magnificus is an unpopular opinion, somehow. I’m pretty sure I’ve already said the long version of this in another post so I’ll keep it short: people are way too harsh on this guy. Yeah he’s evil and awful (obviously—I’m not going to sit here and say torturing college students isn’t fucked up), but he’s not really worse than the other Scrybes. All four of them are operating on levels of blue and orange morality and making one of them out to be unequivocally evil while forgiving another one who does almost the exact same thing (looking at you, P03) is super boring. Either make them all super fucked up and evil or give them all a chance to recognize the severity of their actions—let’s not stand on the fence on this one.

Song I associate with them: I haven’t really found many songs that capture whatever he’s got going on very well, probably because it’s pretty damn specific. Mr. Magic by Reliqa is good for something harsher/an outside perspective, or Visions by Sea Wolf for a (long before canon) pre-canon Magnificus. As a bonus… I was going to try and avoid multiple songs by the same artist too but fuck it. Whose Eye is it Anyway??? by Jhariah is too fun to not mention.

Favorite picture of them: I really like his act 2 overworld sprite, it’s so ridiculous-looking