#phineas thatch

[midstpodcast]

Look no further for the perfect Valor-tine to send to your cosmos-crossed lover, shifty business associate, or dastardly sworn enemy this week! 🧡

[alicedyers]

Phineas Thatch in Season 2 of MIDST

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Who's in charge here, anyway?

[stickandthorn]

in honor of Midst season 3 premiering today here’s my first attempt at Midst memes

[trixeclipse]

Really wanted to draw my take on Phineas Thatch, from Midst 💎✨

[utilitycaster]

of course you have one pauldron and a cape and can never go back to who you once were

[kendaizhai]

After several attempts by dedicated builders, everyone realized that they couldn't begin to do justice to the entire Lazaretto without twenty thousand bricks, and assistance from a four-armed harbormaster. So eventually the Order signed off on this instead.

Mother Trauma objected -- it is, of course, GREATLY oversimplified.

[essektheylyss]

"do not show weakness"

—midst fan edict for when this show makes you need to breathe into a paper bag

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

One fascinating thing about "Fault" is it's essentially a photonegative version of "Imago". Thematically as well as aesthetically. In terms of the aesthetics both take place in enclosed garden settings but with opposed lighting and colour pallets because "Imago" takes place in the Fold and "Fault" in the Un.

Thematically both deal with the relationships between parents and their children and how those relationships can be damaging. With "Imago" dealing with the damage done to a child trying desperately to match an imagined perfect image of a parent, and "Fault" dealing the damage done by a parent who is never satisfied, who always can and will find fault in their child.

There's a bunch of tiny things as well. Both episodes contain surrogate mothers, but while the Mothers Merciful are open and attentive and genuinely want to help Phineas, despite Mother Trauma being rather gruff about it, Costigan is dismissive and belittling to Spahr, and so unhelpful (and has so been throughout their relationship), that Spahr is embarrassed that he thought he could get any useful advice from her. Both episodes also bring the audience back to the raid on the Black Candle Cabaret to recontextualize the events with the new information the episode gives them. "Imago" directly through a Fold-moth trip and "Fault" indirectly by detailing the circumstances of Costigan's dismissal and her violent murder of Magdalyne and Nicholas Fleit. Both Phineas and Spahr end the episode with a newfound clarity of perspective and future purpose.

The two episodes pair extremely well, and really show off the parallel narrative tracks that Phineas and Spahr are on.

[maryallenc]

it's something i've always noted back when phineas first stepped into sequester, and since they referenced it again in s3e10: bedrock, i gotta say, it seems like phineas...seems to like the fold?

not an inherent connection to it like with lark, but he seemed to had a relatively positive time there, and from his reaction to being pointed out that bedrock looked like a parody of sequester, he was delighted.

there were extenuating circumstances around it that influeced a lot of things, obviously, but phineas's time when he was deep in the fold during s2, i feel like he seemed to have really thrived? or would have thrived?

or it could just be the natural reaction to something completely different and free after years of his time with the trust and in the un. but still.

i just kinda like to see this guy who spent so much of his life in the light, and be enveloped in the cold darkness, but instead of being terrified, he was filled with wonder instead and genuinely appreciating it and the culture there, despite the dangers he faced.

and thats besides him getting much needed therapy there.

i'm not really sure if that bears any meaning to the narrative or phineas's arc, but i just wanna let those thoughts out.

[midstpodcast]

What’s the body count of all the major characters? Both versions, sex and murder.

🔮: I feel like that might be spoilers. How about I give you three numbers: one for sex, one for murder, and one just to confuse you, but I don’t say which is which, and they’re in a random order each time. (Disclaimer: This is a joke [unless it’s not?!?] and I’m posting it before the other narrators can stop me)

Lark: 98 | 12 | 6

Weepe: 2,918 | 352 | 27

Phineas: 0 | 16 | 3

[alicedyers]

Imago | MIDST 2x14

[captainofthetidesbreath]

imago from Latin imago: an imitation, copy, image, representation, likeness.

[stickandthorn]

midst understands a key principle of character design which is that in order for a buff action hero man with majestic hair and perfect 3 point landings to be compelling and sympathetic, he has to be, in some not insignificant way, genuinely lame or deeply tormented. Preferably both.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

"Trying to pull himself out of this free-fall... of the abyss of vision stretching out before him... Phineas takes another nervous glance at the paperwork in his hands."

"... and solid ground drops away from underneath his feet. But he doesn't really experience vertigo."

"He lets go of one end of the mace, swings it back down to his side, falls through thin air for a heart-wrenching moment - and lands solidly on the roof of the mail car."

"Phineas Thatch is falling."

"Everything is falling to pieces around him, but he feels a rare certainty in this moment."

"He cannot survive a fall like this through open air for long."

[utilitycaster]