“I really did like you” and “I really loved you, you know” are NOT the same! The words are similar, yes but the intentions and meanings behind them are so incredibly different!
Martin spent months sacrificing himself TO PROTECT JON! He resigned himself to being banished to The Lonely and this was his admission that yes he is a part of the lonely and now he does want this but all of this is because he loved Jon more than he loved himself.
Celia is doing this for love but it is FOR JACK. I’m not going to completely villainize her because she’s doing what she believes she has to do to stay with her baby. But with Sam she is ready to betray him. She is planning to sacrifice Sam to protect herself and her child. “I really did like you” is saying No I did not pretend to like you to get you here, those feelings were real, but they weren’t enough and we are still here and I am still going to do what I believe I have to do. She may not have wanted to but she followed through on the plan til the very last second. Yes she hesitated but Archivist interrupted her and now we will never know if she actually would have done it (I think she would have).
The 2 lines are worded similarly but they are not the same at all.
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[ID: A digital comic of Celia Ripley and Samama Khalid from The Magnus Protocol. Celia is a taller, slim, Korean woman with pale skin, short black hair, rectangular glasses, gold piercings, and dimples. She is wearing a coat, vest, scarf, trousers, and nice shoes, all in green and dark purple with gold accents. Sam is a shorter, fat, South Asian man with brown skin, short curly black hair, a mustache and small goatee, and black earrings. He is wearing a coat, turtleneck, cardigan, trousers, and nice shoes, all in brown, dark red, and green.
They are standing in a hallway in front of a closed door. Celia is spinning a set of keys, and they are smiling at each other.
Celia: Well, this is me. I had a really good time, Sam.
Sam: Yeah, me too!
Celia: We should do this again.
Sam: Y-Yeah! I'd like that a lot, Celia.
She goes to unlock her door, peeking back to smile at Sam, who is standing awkwardly, looking away. She opens her door with a creak and gives him a shrug.
Celia: Thanks again for walking me home, Sam. I really appreciate it.
She pauses, looking at him with half-lidded eyes. Sam smiles, gesturing about sheepishly. The text as he speaks takes up the next three panels, partly obscured by the two of them and fading towards the bottom.
Sam: OH! Well, you know it was no big deal I just figured you know. It's polite and it gives us more time to talk and it's not always safe out there at night. Not that you can't handle yourself I just you know and I figured company would be nice on the walk back and we were already having so much fun so-
As he talks, Celia calmly steps closer, smiling, lifting her hands up near his face. He notices her hands, looks up at her, and then looks slightly downward towards her lips as she leans closer, his eyes going sparkly. A shadow falls over him as she blocks out the light.
Sam: It's really no.... problem....
She smiles, looking at him with intent and then looks down at his lips. A pink haze appears behind them in the background. She finally tilts her head and kisses him, knocking her glasses askew. The background is all pink with hearts surrounding them. There are two closeups, one of their lips touching and one after they've pulled slightly back, lips glistening and pink sparkles surrounding their faces.
She stands back up, smiling down at him, pink haze fading behind her, before startling slightly. She is still holding his face, slightly squishing his cheeks. His eyes are still shut and he is blushing severely, hair slightly mussed. He opens his eyes, expression vague, with tiny hearts in his eyes and sparkles around him, pink haze remaining behind him, before he suddenly tips back, surrounded by hearts, and giggles "hee-hee". The tail of the speech bubble forms a heart. Celia panics, leaning forward to grab him.
He snaps back, haze gone, with a "POP!" as she pulls him up, and they are chest-to-chest for a moment before Sam pulls back, blushing, looking awkward. He clears his throat before abruptly turning around and walking off.
Sam: OKAY BYE CELIA. (smaller bubble, an aside) Sleep well.
She watches him leave, amused and confused, and chuckles "heh-heh", a couple hearts around her. She waves, heading into her flat as he leaves, embarrassed.
Celia: See you at work Monday, Sam!
Sam, in a thought bubble: FUUUUCK
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I FINISHED THE THING YAY please enjoy ripsam being. silly geese <3 after a nice date <3
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"Celia is manipulating Sam" this "Celia doesn't actually like Sam" that
what if Celia is a manipulator AND actually likes him ??? huh??? what if she continues to fall harder and harder for his awkward boyish charm and his painful charisma???? and then when it's too late she realizes she genuinely is in love with him but he doesn't care he's been manipulated because he genuinely loves her too. and they either find forgiveness or they become evil crazy together
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had a realization. remember in tma s5 when jon talks about how it would've been nice for he and martin to have been together without the entities, and martin basically says "but we wouldn't have gotten together because without the entities we never would've bonded the way we did"??
well. sam and celia are the opposite of that. if they were just normal coworkers in a boring normal job they could've had a regular normal relationship from the start ("I really did like you") except because of the Horrors that possibility was precluded.
the existence of the eldritch horrors are what caused jon and martin's relationship to develop, and the existence of the eldritch horrors are also what caused sam and celia's relationship to be doomed to fall apart.
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that pause after Celia said "I want to" said so much I think.
Sam has been passed over several times in his life. he wasn't chosen by The Magnus Institute, he didn't get accepted to Oxford, perhaps other things (COUGH COUGH maybe Alice pushed him aside during their relationship but she Definitely dipped out after her parents deaths as mentioned COUGH COUGH) and also "i dont have time for this" "no one ever does". Hello.
I feel like he's just waiting for Celia to push him aside too. Maybe he's half expecting her not showing up to their date to become a regular thing, maybe she secretly intended to stand him up, maybe she just doesn't know how to break it to him that she doesn't want-
"I want to."
But she does. She does want him. For now, at least, she wants him. And maybe he's a little excited about that.
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