You know who signs the Official Secrets Act? The military. The secret services. Members of the government. Certain high ranking civil service members being read into state secrets.
You have to be working with knowledge and secrets about the defence and safety of the nation.
So the OIAR is not just an official government agency but it’s one that deals with the defence of the nation…
I'm predicting that one of my favorite parts about protocol will be seeing what fucked up subcategories the OIAR's classification system is broken down into. like yes, gwen, tell me all about the 974 subcategories of ghost, and how each one differs slightly from the one before it
are we ever gonna get a character as iconic as gerry keay ever again? ghost goth boy with paranormal mommy issues and a vendetta against books. the oiar wishes it was graced with such presence
New hire in the OIAR! I recognized the name Celia from TMA, in Georgie and Melanie’s cult… and they’re both played by Lowri Ann Davies. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…
scenes i really really want to happen in tmagp but probably never will: a compilation.
a scene where needles forgets that he's made of needles for just a second and accidentally hurts someone he didn't mean to. the horror of only being capable of harmful contact ensues.
a scene where celia mentions the magnus institute being an 'academic research institute in london' and everyone else is immediately like "no, that's not correct at all lol where did you even get that from"
a scene where lena directly goes against orders from whoever her boss is in order to protect someone from oiar. bonus points if she's audibly afraid, but doesn't hesitate one bit.
[ID: Digital art of characters from The Magnus Protocol lined up beside one another: Alice Dyer, a tall white woman with shoulder length curly blonde hair, wearing reading glasses folded up on a chain around her neck and a t-shirt that says “sorry 4 having gr8 tits & correct opinions”; Samama Khalid, a shorter, fat, Pakistani man with short curly hair and stubble wearing business casual clothes, his hands awkwardly in his pockets; Gwen Bouchard, a thin Black woman with natural hair worn up, wearing elegant business casual clothes; Lena Kelley, a short, fat East Asian woman wearing a pencil skirt and collared shirt, with her hair in a severe bun; and Colin Becher, a tall, heavily set white man with lank, greying ginger hair, patchy stubble, and glasses worn low on his nose. He wears a shirt with the German words “verpiss dich” (English: piss off) crudely written on it in red. Behind the figures is the alchemical symbol for the philosopher’s stone, also in red. End ID.]
sure hope nothing happens to any of them forever and none of them is secretly some sort of alchemically-made homunculus!!!