#considering web avatar crozier now. i like it a lot actually.

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your terror tma au combines my absolute two favorite pieces of media ever so i am very very very interested to hear more about your crozier ideas…..

what other entities have touched him? addiction + how he came to be on the expedition seems like web to me but maybe he’s also got some vast going on

how did he pull himself out of the lonely? does he ever get a little foggy and someone helps him out of it? ouch. quote unintended

and very important: how does the flesh fit into the whole cannibalism deal?

yeah i agree that crozier's definitely susceptible to the web (considering how he was convinced to sign up for the expedition, his alcoholism since addiction has web associations in tma, his initially being taken in by hickey's false persona which is blatantly intended to flatter him, and the way his alcoholism causes him to unintentionally set up a lot of the later tragedies that befall the expedition due to poor decision making), although after he quits drinking i think he'd be more resistant to its manipulations (that being said, his rejection of the lonely and acceptance of the mantle of leadership could push him further into the web's arms as an avatar instead of a victim, especially considering how many lies he tells in an attempt to preserve morale). as for the lonely thing, i think he mostly pulls himself out during his rehabilitation from alcoholism, but having jopson taking care of him and his sense of duty towards the men that motivated him to go cold turkey in the first place would function as an anchor that helps him to find his way back. people definitely also notice his lack of presence as time goes on, which is what culminates in the intervention talk he has with blanky and fitzjames with episode 5.

regarding the flesh, i think that it plays a major influence on the entire expedition through the body horror (in conjunction with the corruption) that the men start to experience as they're poisoned by their food, and in driving people to resort to cannibalism out of desperation. hickey in particular courts the flesh despite being aligned more closely with the stranger, and several of the mutineers start to edge towards being its acolytes (hodgson especially develops strong flesh associations, founded in his childhood religious trauma).