#the magnus protocol 15

[relaxing-n-podcasting]

[cheesephrog]

the magnus protocol ep 15 spoilers with no context

[east-polaris]

Hey so what the fuck just happened at the end of the newest Magnus protocol episode??? I swear if they make us wait two seasons for answers again I’m going to scream

[ceaselessims]

listening to ep 15 of the magnus protocol with my mom and she just says "oh yeah right like this guy would be saying all this 🙄"

and i was like "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND !!! THE VOICE ACTING, THE OVERSHARING -- ITS PART OF THE LORE–"

BUT BUT NOW THATS BEEN ON MY MIND ALL DAY

bc this statement was VERY much like an archives statement, as many people of pointed out. and imo its very much like the statements from the people jon would compel, the way the caterer starts of frightened and scared but becomes consumed in giving all of the gory, horrific details.

so - why? what (or who) compelled him to spew everything in a trance over the phone ??? in the same episode that tape recorders make another appearance ??? hmmm ??

[faultyvessel]

The tape recorder being on without someone properly talking into it really HITS me.

Throughout TMA OG, we all this all the time with them cropping up everywhere to the point of it being an expectation. But seeing that from the outside, not listening to the recording itself but listening to it record, is absolutely uncanny and I’m still thinking about it

I wonder how long we’ll be on the outside looking in.

[teepussilakana]

tmagp 15 spoilers below

is that [error]??? was that the same noises??? did they free her, was she the guardian or was she a victim who was trapped within the institute after it burned down???

[theanxiousghostartist]

TMAGP 15 SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

So I drew Lady Mowbray to try to deley art block...

Holy crap, her character is so fun. I definitely want to see more of her in the future! :3

She was very fun design as well. Her outfit is based off of old British hunting outfits that I saw on Google, her gun is based off a rifle, and her dogs are based off of my dog for proportions (she is a lab mix) and a cat hunting pose from Google.

HCs for the dogs:

* She has a ton of dogs, but these two are the oldest and her favorites, so they go everywhere with her.

* When they are not hunting, the dogs play with each other and her household staff

* I've been calling these two dogos Phobos (left dog, greek god of fear and panic) and Artemis (right dog, greek goddess of the hunt)

If not friend, then why friend-shaped? ( I love dogs, lol)

Lady Mowbray HCs:

* She is serves a few fears: the Hunt (she hunts people, like Daisy, and her tatics remind me of the Murder Club TMA episode), the Web (forcing people to hunt eachother, very manipulative setup for the most recent case), and the Slaughter (commits mass violence). She may also serve the Flesh since it's implied that she eats her kill, but I'm not entirely sure on that one.

* Her family is more like the Fairchilds that the Lukass: while she does value blood as a bond, she also adopts a lot of people into her family that have the same goals/serve the same entities. I feel like her family would be sorta like a pack of wolves in terms of how they function.

🖌 IBIS Paint X (Ipad + finger)

⌛️ 6hrs 15min

(Note for time: usually, I take breaks and split up the stages (sketch, lineart, base colors, shading, background, final touches) but for this one, I hyperfixated, so it was me working 6hrs straight 😅)

Also my references from the transcript below:

[doglikecadaver]

Lady mowbray from hit podcast magnus protocol the woman that you are…

Finally catching up on all the episodes OH MY GOD. Im normal guys im so normal TRUST.

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[macabresymphonies]

If by this point you don't believe Celia is the same TMA universe Celia her meeting with Lady Mowbray cemented she is, because that was the most "seasoned Magnus Achives character meets an avatar" interaction we've had in a while:

ask her if you can do something for her just to make sure she scrams

don't give your name when trying to be tricked into saying it

ignore her creepy sniffing and vauge remarks

don't interact needlessly

don't play into her narrative

don't get caught on the stupid pun at the end

Godspeed Celia, you beautiful creature, if anybody is equipped to live till the end it's you.

[cowsnotcrows]

eat the rich before they eat you

[fullsaw]

From the twisted mind of alexander j newall

[inessencedevided]

A thought about Gwen: She was so fucking horrified at Mister Bonzo and obviously shaken to her core at having aided in his murderous rampage just a few episodes ago, but this week? Lady Mowbray forces people to hunt each other for sport and then eats them and Gwen? All polite conversation and chatting about family connections. Why? Bc that bitch is a Bouchard and this is whom she grew up around. Yeah Lady Mowbray murders people but she's classy about it.

My point? Mister Bonzo is a working class horrible monstrosity hero

[vee-thebee]

okay anyway. alchemy. alchemy is the big thing in tmagp. balance is huge in alchemy. it is literally the basis of almost everything in it. tria prima--balance the three primes and you can do anything from turning lead into gold to raising the fucking dead.

the oiar is trying to keep everything in balance for the good of the people. lena herself says that in 13. to keep everything going and in check, the "opposing forces" need to be monitored and balanced. they manage the externals and monitor potential externals cases to make sure things are within a reasonable margin of chaos, maybe? that's why they give them specific assignments. bonzo and mowbray and possibly ink5oul if they'd said yes. you can still do all these things to 'feed' (lady mowbray declining refreshments because she'd recently eaten right after we hear a casement about her) but we're gonna tell you who to feed on because we need to monitor it and keep it balanced.

the magnus institute in this universe was heavily focused on alchemy. sam's whole thing that he saw at the institute where that dude just,,, shed his skin after fucking up some kind of experiment, over a person that was "naked and pale and still". maybe dr welling was trying to bring that person back to life?

when isaac newton got a little too crazy with alchemy, a couple of roberts said "hey, we need to Protocol this dude". it disturbed the "precarious equilibrium". threw something off balance. balance balance balance. throwing something off balance means enacting the protocol.

they talk about the great plague of london, enacting the protocol against the entire city. the great fire of london was in 1666, which is also when the great plague is said to have ended. isaac newton's lab caught fire, allegedly after his dog knocked a candle over. ironically in this context, the dog's name was diamond.

the magnus institute burned down.

i don't actually think a "magnus protocol" exists. i don't think there's a specific protocol named after the institute. i think it's a misnomer, we're thinking of it wrong. after all, the protocol is being referenced as existing as far back as the 1660's, but jonah's notes were dated 1845.

i think the Magnus Protocol is in reference to an incident. the enacting of The Protocol against the Magnus Institute. and i think the reason that any cases or information regarding "the magnus protocol" are blocked is because the OIAR is connected to the protocol being put into motion against the Institute and they don't want anyone knowing about it (the office used to be associated with starkwall--maybe?? maybe the oiar loaded the gun and starkwall pulled the trigger?)

there's so many moving parts here and i'm struggling to put them all together without a god damn corkboard and red string.

[lostwords-found]

Oh shit. I just looked up the beer, Doom Bar, that Luke orders for him and Alice at the end of ep 15. Fun fact, turns out it's named for a treacherous sandbar that has wrecked hundreds of ships...

Ships that were sailing into Padstow. Where episode 11 was set.

With the repeated emphasis on food and drink in Protocol, there's no way that one's a coincidence. Luke Dyer--whether or not you know it yet, you are in it, lad. You are in it much, much too deep.

[unreal-unearth-undead]

I had some Thoughts™️ about the latest protocol episode. The guy giving the statement helped Lady Mowbray with her Hunt. But she still killed him in the end.

Something something your complicity with the systemic violence by the wealthy against your fellow workers will not save you in the end.

[momokarp]

Wowee I have a lot of feelings about Well Run 😳