#like. the avatars were partially allusions to how having the inclination to harm yourself or others

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the way the mysterious men in black dealt with the "volunteers" in today's magprotocol episode reminded me of how avatars would sometimes sabotage each other's rituals, as well as how hunt avatars often operated, and it makes me wonder whether, in the universe of protocol, those who would have likely become servants of the dread powers in tma are more likely to be drawn to those kinds of professions and positions of authority where they can exert a similar kind of effect on others through fear and violence. and whether they might feel inexplicably challenged by these new monsters and compelled to seek them out and put them down.