#tma barnabas bennet

[megy-k]

I've got a graphic tablet recently and I've just been trying it out a bit:)

I don't think enough people think ablout how symbolically interesting Barnabas Bennet is.

[ian0key]

DAY 28: Side Characters

@emerald-emerlad

this man definitely had something with Magnus..

[a-light-case-of-ohno]

Jonah: The love interest.

Barnabas: The boot licker.

Albrecht: The Simp.

Mordechai: The Sugar Daddy.

Fanshawe: The Ex.

Simon: Not in love with Jonah he just likes to paint him.

Peter: Husband.

[p1nkwitch]

Regency gang came at me. I think i may do one more batch.

[mintytea-exe]

IF I SEE ONE MORE JMART COMPARISON WITH JONAHBAS I AM GOING TO AKDHSJFKFHSJKHJF

[thisismyideaofhumor]

Barnabas Bennet, all alone

A paperweight of fear-bleached bone

Forever lost, yet ever known,

Barnabas, Barnabas Bennet.

[ofmiceandwomen]

Today I decided it will be a good day to talk about a private RP project I’m a part of in one secret TMA server which I share with @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown, @envisionedeternity and @thistlesandstories from our irl friend group and @mersilisk as the guest star and amazing antagonist.

I don’t post much and especially not for The Magnus Archives but I admit the podcast is very important to me. My favourite thing about it is the Regency Harem™️ and the historical episodes. Intertwining the lore with the actual historical events and characters is just amazing.

My irl friends know that I have certain level of interest in military history, and therefore I decided to make a use of it and suggested a plot line for a private RP - a short prequel story for Robert Smirke and young Jonah Magnus meeting. Also, we wanted a Slaughter story because there’s way too little of those in the podcast.

And the background is… The Napoleonic Wars. My beloved @thistlesandstories is a reenactor from that era and therefore they got very excited about the project. The excitement grew contagious and turned @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown into a proper horror DM.

The plot line so far:

Europe, 1811. Napoléon Bonaparte decided to be the problem. Given his notable military accomplishments, the Slaughter just couldn’t leave him unnoticed. After all, the concept of the Total War is born. One day, the Slaughter had came to the young Napoléon and offered him that he would become the greatest warrior of all time. The First Consul of France has agreed.

The Slaughter is rising, therefore it is convinced that the time has come to attempt a ritual. But for a war ritual you sorta need to have two sides, right. There are plenty of “other sides” - and there is one talented general, very dedicated to defending his country. Honourable and skilled man - Viscount Arthur Wellesley, soon to be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was not having a great time in the Portuguese campaign as his forces were being pushed out by the French, when the Slaughter called to him - offering a victory in exchange for his service. Wellington considered, out of loyalty, he agreed with the nightmarish pact.

The situation improved as now the British and Portuguese army set up an attrition trap with the French falling in. Then guess what - the Slaughter calls again. (The attrition war is usually not exactly Slaughter aligned thing. The soldiers die of starvation, freezing, sickness, which is inherently a corruption thing - The Slaughter wants the bloodbath). Now, the Slaughter has called for a French man again - Marshal Michel Ney, said the Bravest of the Brave, known for his extremely risky approach to the war. An ideal candidate, so it seems . When the French finally retreated and Ney successfully bought their exhausted troops some time by his rearguard actions, the Piper showed up to him, offering him the victory. However, the French marshal has none of that shit and literally tells the War itself to shut the f**k up. Obviously, the Slaughter hates him now.

But now it’s May 1811. Now, time for some historical liberties, yay! Ney lost his command after he disrespected his commanding officer, and his wife convinced him to take a break - therefore they ended up chilling in a little German spa town with their children. The resort happens to be the favourite place of one of the Würtemberger aristocrat Albrecht von Closen. This young man decided it would be nice to invite his British friend Jonah Magnus.

Jonah is very young, he just turned 18, he inherited notable amount of money from his deceased uncle and he has many admirers for his intellect and general charms. However, even now, Jonah is more of a cold academic, a silent observer, with little interest in changing the world. He only wants to know and to understand. And he is just as cold to his companion, sir Barnabas Bennet, who is not really financially stable, but somehow he managed to incite himself to go with Jonah. Barnabas is like a pure opposite of Jonah - hot headed, adventurous and painfully irresponsible.

The last guest to arrive is… nobody else than Viscount Wellesley himself. He has earned a short period of leave and he just picked the same recreational spot as his enemy, Ney. It’s not a coincidence however, the Slaughter is still feeling petty and it wants to ruin Ney for his insolence. The future victor of Waterloo seems to be a good tool for ruining the Marshal’s involuntary holiday.

Oh well. He might not be the last to arrive. There is one more man, who will go down the TMA history - a certain gifted character in his early thirties, working hard on something barely connected to the architecture. Maybe it has something to do with his paranormal obsession. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome sir Robert Smirke!

So yes. The scene is all set. So far it goes very well. Except… it is not.

The disasters are here!

Jonah Magnus seems more interested in Wellesley than in his travel mate Barnabas. Out of desperation, Barnabas decides to finally confess his feelings for Jonah. It went well in his head. He approached the armchair in the lounge, seeing those rich copper curls. He took a deep breath and finally kissed him… Only to realise that Jonah Magnus is not the only one to sport this hairstyle. Red-haired marshal Ney is not amused and his first instinct was hitting the perpetrator right in the face and showering him with list of French profanities.

Albrecht von Closen has really bad feeling about Arthur Wellesley. He is himself a very sensitive and observant man and he disapproves of Jonah’s interest in the famous British commander. It is not the first gut feeling of this kind Albrecht had and he is not exactly sure what to do with that. He meets an unlikely ally - very angry Marshal Ney who is certainly not happy about Wellesley’s presence either.

Robert Smirke found what he was looking for- the presumed Slaughter avatar, aka the Napoleon’s bravest Marshal (please consider that Smirke is a Brit and therefore the idea of future Duke of Wellington as the avatar of the Slaughter is just unimaginable to him). The architect is not exactly a good candidate for a spy and therefore he gets noticed by Ney’s children who decide to take the situation in their hands and reveal the man who keeps stalking their father.

This happened so far. But the plot shall go on because… Enter The Stranger!

The Stranger is still obviously pissed after the Slaughter’s agents ruined their ritual in 1787. So it wants a revenge. And the ideal idea of their revenge is taking the Slaughter avatars one by one and turning them into waxworks. And obviously, their victim is the Napoleons’s marshal Ney.

Jonah Magnus is getting bored of relaxing and he is ready to meet a new friend: the famous Robert Smirke. The man, who will unknowingly bring the Apocalypse two centuries later.

The reasons for posting this is the following:

It’s 255th birthday of Michel Ney! He was originally meant to be a background character, but he sort of stole the show. I might or might not be responsible since I’m the one playing the gingers.

Also, this post might or might not work as a peer pressure for @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown to turn it into a fic 👀

The special acknowledgment goes to @thistlesandstories because we have discovered that somehow we really enjoy fighting with each other after six years of being together. The prequel for Ney and Wellington in Portugal was the best part of this year’s Christmas. I’m still crying for the French officer taken by the Piper though I also love the amount of research it goes into this activity. We ended up with new books on Ney and Wellington.

Credits:

Albrecht von Closen, Aloys Ney: @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown

Robert Smirke: @envisionedeternity

Arthur Wellesley, Barnabas Bennett, Eugène Ney: @thistlesandstories

The Stranger Danger, Léon Ney: @mersilisk

Jonah Magnus, Michel Ney: Me, because I’m all the gingers

[just-an-enby-lemon]

It might be the overfixation going on but now that I have watched TBoSbaS I'm deeply into a Hunger Games AU for TMA with Snow as Jonah.

Jonah has a very similar vibe with the circunstances that leaded us to the awfull person we became where a huge part but in the end we are the villans we are because the choices we made. Besides Snow's fear of losing control parallels well with Jonah's fear of death and I dare say Jonah made even more choices in betraying friends: Albrecht von Closen, Jonathan Fanshawe, Barnabas Bennet and Robert Smirke were all different levels of turning points just as Lucy Gray and Sejamus.

[shippy-from-apocalypse]

Jonah Magnus has been dead for one slutty slutty year

[princess-of-purple-prose]

you're my only tma mutual and since you're posting about it who is elias tma and more importantly would he journal about his divorce in a glitter pen like a schoolgirl. a very specific post of my friend's keeps getting tagged as such

HZJDJFKDJFJDJFJKF. THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD. (Caps transcript: [Keysmash] This made me laugh out loud)

Okay huge, major spoilers for tma ahead but elias (occasionally known as jonah) is the main antagonist of tma, he's a fucking bitch and I hate his guts so unimaginably much. Sorry. He's the boss and also the big bad in that he's their literal boss and he also orchestrated the apocalypse while sounding like the poshest snobbish worst rich white man imaginable. Trust me on this

Common fanon is portraying him as the "gay and homophobic" character trope because he's evil but people want the whole cast of tma to be queer. (And to be fair, some of his correspondences from 200 years ago sounded less than entirely heterosexual.) Related, he's commonly shipped with another antagonist, peter, and there's an extremely long-standing joke that even the VAs are aware of (and support actually!! It's hysterical) that he and peter, both immortal evil fucks, marry and divorce and remarry over minor issues ad nauseum, I believe dating back to a joke about peter embarrassing elias at a work function and elias demanding in full view of the whole crowd that he wants another divorce. The fanon + joke culminate as elias and peter being written as bitter on-and-off-again exes who go through divorces like toilet paper and it's hilarious

Tldr: He's an evil old man and YES 100% (caps transcript: yes). May I pretty please have the link to the post so I tag it as him too 🤲🤲 (if your friend is actually sick of it then don't bother skjdkf)

[dadforplaid]

where did he go??

[douglasfeiffel]

bennet from genshin impact: Exists

Me: Jonah Magnus Should Have Left You In The Fucking Lonely

[p1nkwitch]

Sometimes only sometimes!!! You just want to be self indulgent and thats ok.

Regency gang <3

[barnabybugspeopleonline]

// there's a ghost // in my home // but it's better than being alone!

[insomnia-productions]

Does anyone remember which episodes were the ones with letters to Jonah from his victorian simps? 

I have a terrible urge to do smth with Fear and Delight and Jonah’s.... history.... but god there’s so many episodes and only, like, three of them are letters