#TMA: Architecture of Fear

[tssaii]

TMA theory: Robert Smirk is/was this new world's avatar of The Eye, not Jonah Magnus

#i dont know why that is but im thinking it and i need this out in the world #the magnus protocol #collin bb #extreme organization and categorization of the fears and i thought ahuh architect #is that too crazy? #TMA: Architecture of Fear

[mag200]

MAG138: The Architecture of Fear

watercolor & ink // kofi

#my art #a statement a day #tma #the magnus archives #tma art #watercolor and ink #horror art #mag138 #the architecture of fear

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round One - Match Five

Here today we have two episodes that I voted for! Adrift received 121 votes and The Architecture of Fear received 126; perhaps the most evenly matched of our redemption matches!

MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Robert Smirke, taken from a letter to Jonah Magnus dated 13th February 1867.

MAG 195 - Adrift | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An approach to hidden depths. Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 138 #mag 138 the architecture of fear #the architecture of fear #robert smirke #jonah magnus #the eye #eye #mag 195 #mag 195 adrift #adrift #the vast #vast #the buried #buried #jonathan sims #redemption round one

[cordulacyan]

I just can't get over how Adelard Dekker started his final E-Mail to Gertrude

" Hi, I apologize for the terrible spelling, my flesh is currently melting from my bones thanks to supernatural plague"

#architecture of fear? #more like construction work against the terrors #tma spoilers #tma #the magnus archives

[ruler-of-turtle-kind]

Martin, please don't become an acolyte of The Lonely. You have friends. Your friends care about you. John cares about you. Please trust in the power of friendship, not the power of isolation.

#tma reactions #episode 138 #the architecture of fear tma

[jewishdainix]

What so scary is. The hopelessness. Like, I know this wouldn't last I know the main characters are not ''good guys'' they are just saving time for themselves and the world but something will eventually happen. Even if they stop the powers it doesn't matter because they are just serving one. It's brutal. They are kipping them alive just as much as they are keeping them out of earth. Forever at bay. Never stopped. Even after the podcast is over, even after I finish it, they will always exist. The characters im so attached to are basically powerless. They can't stop anything. Not the powers, not them turning into monsters themselves. It's almost so realistic, which might be the most terrifying part.

#Mina listens to the magnus archives #Tma #Episode 138 #The architecture of fear

[alice-apparently]

I think Agent / Subject / Catalyst are the three categories [CAT 1-3] in the case numbers.

Bear with me.

So aside from the dates, the case numbers are split in 3 parts, right:

CAT 1-3 (rarely combination of 2 numbers) -> category

*R (-> rank) A/B/C (sometimes combination of 2 letters from ABC)

DPHW (4 digit number)

* the case numbers for episodes #3 and #4 don't have the R for some reason

This is very much taking into account/based on the stuff from the ARG klaus.xls document btw, which has these exact 3 columns & features some of the episodes' cases where these match up exactly with the case numbers. [if you're interested, it's #2 line 80; #3 line 64; #5 line 75; #7 line 77]

Both category and rank are divided into 3 options, with some exceptions of cases having 2 applied at the same time. So now episode 9 gave us another nice group of three. And I thought, hm, maybe those ideas, Agent, Subject, and Catalyst, could match up with one these as a classification of the cases. And I think it does.

Based on the cases we had so far, I think category 1 is Agent, category 2 Subject, and category 3 Catalyst.

In my tmagp paranoia document with all my notes, I made a table sorting the cases according to the categories for a better overview and to be able to maybe spot similarities:

Let me explain what I think the classifications mean.

1 - Agent.

That's the most self-explanatory one I think. I'm not the first to make the comparison between avatar and agent, and not the first to point out that Needles acts like a TMA avatar.

Agent then is an active purveyor of fear/terror. someone deliberatly acting in such a way to spread it, to scare people. It is the person themself directly and possibly willingly causing the 'unsettling experiences' and spreading fear. Needles is the prime example.

It doesn't work quite so well with #1A, but I'd say the "he" that she interacts with acts as an agent, with him luring her to the cemetary and the unsettling way he is described there, but more importantly, with the laughter that follows, that he seems to enjoy what's happening, her fear. Her fear that's caused by him.

2. Subject.

Subject I would describe with "being subjected to something" or that "something just happens". A subject to fear. Maybe as a victim of sorts, but that's not quite it. Anyway, I think the cases in category 2 group together easily:

What's interesting is that all of the cases feature in some way a person entering a space and being affected by it/by something in a certain space. Or at least it is centred on a certain space. they are subject(ed) to the space.

In #1B it's the TMI ruins, in #3 the garden, in #5 the cinema, in #7 the charity store, and in #8 the service station. The person in #8 himself blames it explicitly on the place, the architecture, on the space he entered.

3. Catalyst.

Catalyst, I would argue, means a moveable object that works to spread fear. That is, a person with a certain object--or artifact, if you will--working together: it's a person with the object as a catalyst, it's the object through a person spreading fear.

To put it more concisely, it's cases of a person carrying an artifact and through them, allowing the artifact to affect other people.

We have the violin and the dice in episodes #4 and #9. In both cases the people who pick them up spread harm/misfortune by using them. In both cases the person first harms themself before learning they can/how they can instead spread it to others.

In episode #1B, which was in both category 2 and 3, RedCanary takes that wooden box/old wooden thing home with them. And it's that box, taking that box, that's linked to what's happening to them. Or what they do afterwards. Because we don't actually know what happens to RedCanary or what RedCanary goes on to do afterwards. We've kinda assumed that they just die, but maybe not? Anyway, my point is, old wooden box thing = artefact/catalyst.

Episode #2 is the biggest hole in this theory I think. Without knowing I probably would've put it as category 1, agent, with Ink5oul as the agent. But instead it's rather that the tattoo acts as a catalyst, through the artist. So far it rather has seemed to affect the artist herself rather than other people through her, except for the confrontation with her roommate. But, as @amelie-isnt-french pointed out, we don't know what she moved on to do afterwards. Maybe it would go on to affect other people. Maybe she just hasn't learned how to do so yet.

Or maybe affecting other people is not even a criteria at all. Maybe it's enough that the artifact comes into contact with a person and affecting them.

I'm aware that this theory isn't without flaws; both cases in episode #1, and esp. #2 don't fit into this as well as the others. But I think it still works.

That being said, I can go even more crazy.

You know that other ARG document, the chdb.xlsx, with the list of the gifted children tested at the Magnus Institute, the one that features Sam and Gerry, the one that's possibly the one Sam mentions in episode #8 through which he found Gerry.

Now my question on looking at this document, or you know, one of my questions, was what does the chdb stand for. I figured db might probably be database. the c could be children, because that's who were tested and listed. but the h? I had the stray thought at some point that it might be host. which I found very unsettling, but also didn't really work as a whole, like "Children Host Data Base"? nah.

But what if the C is not for Children. What if it's for Catalyst. Because Catalyst Host Data Base suddenly makes a lot of sense. We know that the TMAGP Magnus Institute is interested in "supernaturally active items" as the episode 9 statement giver tells us. They have been collecting artefacts/catalysts. Cf. also that old wooden box RedCanary found in its ruins. So they might have in the children been looking for potential hosts for them.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp theory #tmagp 9 #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #i don't know nearly all the arg info #so maybe there's more stuff that disproves this theory #or at least would go against it #if so please tell me

[sapphicthunderhead]

Listening to Ep 8, I cannot help but extrapolate on the repeated references to both hunger and loneliness and make inferences as to what it might mean about the nature of whatever Entity is enacting its will upon this Brutalist Liminal space and Mr. Stevens during his tenure working within said.

Thoughts:

1. Human beings share meals & eat together as a communal activity, and have done so throughout history. The connection between physical hunger and social isolation is not a reach.

2. Mr. Stevens is a middle-aged divorcee, and thus likely a prime target for the Forsaken. Liminal spaces and the “repetitive geometric shapes” mentioned in his discussion of Brutalism are immediately evocative of the Spiral. But as the Fears have been altered by their journey across Universes, we can surmise that whatever Entity suffers from this “architectural hunger” Stevens is sensing, it is not as simple as a place that blurs the line between those two fears.

3. Mr. Stevens’ successive discussions of the “overdevelopment of UK road infrastructure” and the permeation of trash deposited throughout Forton strongly evokes the memory of Extinction statements from TMA.

3. Oh. Those are the lights of cars going by, hanging still over the asphalt. But the cars are nowhere to be seen. Fucking haunting imagery.

4. Did you say “pork?” Did you mean “long pig?” Am I sensing traces of a new incarnation of Viscera? (Am I still very much trapped in the TMA universe mindset? It appears so.)

5. A mere “impression of speech,” as Andrea Nunis heard in MAG 48: Lost in the Crowd? When I visualize the figures in the restaurant, why do I see AI images of people?

6. “You Are Here,” the avatars say. Shall we call this entity the Presence, or the Absence?

7. Cannibals. I knew it. Maybe we should refer to their governing Entity as Hunger.

8. Stevens’ remark about no one noticing his absence reminds me of Martin’s comments upon his return from his incarceration at the hands of Prentiss. He’s a lonely guy, lowercase l.

9. Is that. Is that jealousy I hear, Alice?

10. Is….. that…. OH MY GOD. oh my god.. OMFG IT IS GERRRYYYYYYY AND GERTRUDEEEEEEEEE WHAT THE FUCK

11. Gifted Kids’ Program??? I’m having flashbacks…

12. The painting has eyes in it, doesn’t it, Gerry? You’re going to spy on her, is that it?

13. Physics? My beloved? My chosen discipline? Celia, I think you’d be on the right track researching higher dimensions and other universes (both implied by String Theory, but very different ideas), but teleportation? In my mind, that concept is more closely tied to quantum entanglement and therefore Quantum Gravity as a candidate for the Unified Field Theory. Those are competing ideas, but I enjoy researching both, so I suppose in cannon there’s no harm to exploring all avenues…?

14. DID SHE SAY GEORGIE—

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #tma spoilers #tma fears #tma georgie #tma gerry #tma gertrude

[voidedsoul5]

OKAY HERE WE GO, ANALYSIS AND THEORY TIME.

Spoilers for the new TMP episode (Ep 8)

NOT ONLY did we get my babygirl back (Who definitely has something going on with him but we'll go back to that later) we also got another hint about one of my other working theories about Celia and this universe... I am losing my mind rn and I need someone to talk to about this even if it's just screaming to the internet void. More below cut. Split it because it's a semi-long post.

I think Gertrude is for SURE coming back at some point, literally no reason for her not to especially considering I don't think TMP team is going to pull the 'But this time she's actually just an innocent old lady' thing. It's cheap, and she likely knows stuff that will come up later when (I believe) she still has worked at the institute before it burned down due to her age. Plus, someone had to have cleared out those files.

Gerry is happy and it makes sense. Gerry in TMA was trying to be a kind person, but he'd witnessed too much and seen too much to be able to do that. In this world, if the fears didn't exist Mary would've likely not been AS deranged. OR mary might not have existed at all given Gertrude claimed Gerry as his grandson. Removing Mary, Gerry really doesn't have a reason to be so reserved and abrasive. HOWEVER. I think there's a possibility that isn't his actual personality. The happiness (as mentioned in the unofficial transcript) is maybe a bit too played up. I wouldn't mind if this is just how he was, a slightly erratic messy artist. But pairing him specifically WITH gertrude in this universe stood out to me. So here's my mini theory.-I'm not saying it's drugs, or Gertrude is casting black magic or something, but I do think she's doing something to keep Gerry out of this 'mess'. Even if that's just living with him and helping him have a normal life as a painter. Gertrude has always had a soft spot for gerry in TMA, in this universe where she's probably not as battle-hardened, trying to keep him safe and out of it all isn't out of character. Mostly, this idea just came from the fact that she tried to brush it off, then seemed disappointed when Gerry spoke about the gifted kids program, despite him being well enough able to speak for himself. She probably doesn't want him involved. This however all relies on the context that Gertrude knows stuff. Honestly, she might just be his grandma that he now lives with either for rent reasons or because his parents might be dead. It could honestly be that simple, I just like rattling off ideas.

CELIA KEEPS DROPPING HINTS OF KNOWING SHIT. SHE KNOWS SOMETHING. SHE KNOWS THINGSSSS. I have another post about my TMA theory of these reoccurring characters from TMA beginning to remember things from the TMA world. Its so incredibly on the nose for her to immediately start asking questions about the 14 fears WE KNOW, ask about alternate universes, AND BE THE ONE WHO PUSHED SAM TO LOOK INTO MORE STUFF ABOUT THE PROGRAM (Sam said it was her idea at the end of Ep 8) I don't know exactly how thisll work, but I get more and more convinced each episode that this theory has some merit.

And this is a small one, but blah blah Norris reading a paper about loneliness, isolation, and hostile architecture blah blah blah metaphors symbolism blah blah you get the jist

I rlly just wanna talk about this show to anyone, I don't have friends who've seen TMA or TMP so my only option is talking about it here. PLS feel free to talk about your own opinions and ideas in reblogs and shit. I don't care if they counter mine I just wanna talk about this show I love it sm </3

#tma #the magnus archives #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers #the magnus protocol #sam tmagp #gerry keay #gerry kaey #tmagp theory

[duppyfrsh]

I know this is a whole new dimension with (possibly) a whole new Fears system. However, I am still going to label each episode as Fears that we already know. Just for the sake of simplicity and fun.

That being said, I believe the incident in TMAGP 8 Running on Empty can be labelled as not just The Lonely, but also The Extinction.

To start with, the victim mentioned going through a divorce and losing a majority of his friendships before the incident took place, which would make him a perfect target for The Lonely already. The gradual decrease of visitors at Forton, the cloned "impressions of people," and the droning sound of wordless conversation are all obvious signs of The Lonely. So much so that it almost sounded like a direct repeat of Andrea Nunis' experience in MAG48 Lost in the Crowd.

The rest of the incident speaks to me as The Extinction. It would make sense as to why Norris (or Martin) is the one narrating this one, considering all the research he was doing on The Extinction in season 4. Not to mention his strong ties to The Lonely.

There aren't many statements about The Extinction to draw from in TMA, but a good chunk of them, including MAG134 Time of Revelation featured distorted, abandoned landscapes or structures, and lapses in time or time travel.

But the "hungry architecture" sounds new. I don't think it has anything to do with Smirke's 14. It could be a new part of The Extinction. If this is the universe the Fears were sent to, then it's possible that The Extinction was brought along with them. While it may not have manifested fully and still requires the help of other Fears to feed, it definitely would have grown stronger during the eyepocalypse in TMA season 5.

Just a thought. In conclusion, the incident in TMAGP 8 Running on Empty was caused by The Lonely and The Extinction.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp 8 #tmagp theory

[tildexart]

tmagp ep 8 live reactions!!

(disclaimer: typing this on my phone, please excuse any grammatical/spelling errors)

Oh architecture and brutalism!!! Omfg im so excited as someone switching their major to art/architectural history. This is right up my alley!! Plus i love a good academic paper

Oh wait- could the architecture have to do with Robert Smirke??

Liminal spaces…?

Architectural hunger!!

Holy shit I really like this essay. I feel like I’m learning. I’m here for the essay, not the horror.

Bro this is an essay not a therapy session, not sure if your professor will accept that /j

Um. Is this a panopticon??

I googled it. Y’all this building looks like a panopticon. The structure itself looks cool as well!

Hey dude I still don’t think this essay will get accepted

OHHH SPIRAL??

THIN WOMAN??? DO NOT GO INTO THAT DOOR

SHIT ITS THE DISTORTION

GET DISTORTED MOTHERFUCKER

Maybe not entirely the distortion. Distortion and stranger vibes.

Ohhhh I love this so much!!

BIT

HE BIT HIM

OH THEY EATING HIM

OH WHAT THE FUCK

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGHHGGHHGGGGG

OHHHHHH MAKE IT STOP

HM HM THIS IS LIKE THE FOLKS FROM THAT ONE HMM EXTINCTION STATEMENT?? MAYBE???? The evil carnival

Eughhhhhh

Really glad that we aren’t dealing with Smirke’s 14 here. Cause man, this cannot be limited to a single fear. And I LIKE THAT!!

Okay plot time.

LMAO THIS WAS ME AND MY ROOMMATES LMAOOO FILL UP THE WATER FILTER GUYS

Lmao Gwen doesn’t even know her job-

COLIN’S GONE?????? NOOOOOO MAN HES IN THE PUTERS

GERRY?????!?!?!??

GERRY KEAYYYYYYY

GERRYYYY

MAN IS LIVING A HAPPY LIFE???

“I’M GERRY” LIKE SURE AS HELL YOU ARE

OMG

GUYYYSSSSSSS

I laughed so hard I’m praying I didn’t wake my roommates oh shit

GERRYYYY

GEE GEE??

GERTRUDE???? GERTRUDE FUCKING ROBINSON?!??????????

OMfg

GUYS IM CRYING

GERRY AND GEEGEE

GERRY PAINTS??!???

GRANDSON

GRANDSON

GRANDSON

NOOOOO WAY

SAM DO NOT BRING UP THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE I STG LET GERRY BE HAPPY

OH FUCK THE GIFTED KIDS PROGRAM

oh its arg shit

this is gonna be bad

Oh Gerry…. I missed you

Guysssssss im so happy rn

Oh Gertrude knows somethings up

Celia’s idea..? SHE knows somethings up

Haha magnus…

HEY CELIA WHAT THE FUCK????

WDYMMM

TIME TRAVEL AND DIMENSIONS AND TELEPORTATION. GIRL. GIRLLLLLL. Okay so this absolutely is TMA Celia.

“That podcast you were on…” wait what.

Huh.

Excuse me.

Hm??

WHAT THE FUCK IS A PODCAST!!

GEORGIE GEORGIE GEORGIE

My roommates can definitely hear me holy shit what are these noises

HEY YEAH WHAT THE EVER-LOVING FUCK WAS THAT

#tmagp spoilers #LIKE THE BIGGEST FUCKING SPOILERS #HOLY SHIT #tilda rambles

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

ok i’m not one for text posts but i just watched nerdy prudes must die and oh my god?! the lords in black?! the LORE?!

i’m still in my tma brainrot tho so i need to sort them into the entities for my own sanity

pokotho is obviously of the web-all of his horror comes from controlling people (the hive are all extensions of himself, let it out is still maybe the scariest song in theatre) maybe some stranger in there too because of the whole body snatching element?

wiggog y’wrath is a bit more difficult but i’m thinking desolation? he only really seems interested in causing pain and loss for people and is all around silly. originally i thought maybe some web in there because he kind of rules over the other lords/orchestrates everything, but he doesn’t seem calculated enough for that. idk

biklotep is so so so so very much the eye. they call him the watcher with a thousand eyes. he essentially has his own post mag 160 fear domain. there’s a big ol eye on his face. need i say more.

t’noy karaxis is very very much so the spiral. he has impossible architecture/labyrinth themes, is bonked out of his mind, and can fuck with time and do like time travel and time loops to fuck with people. he’s so silly. they call him the time bastard what more do you want.

nibblenephim is also difficult. my instincts say flesh because he has a mouth for a face and also can inhabit the earth once a year if given flesh to inhabit which. you know. but also he seems a bit desolation or even corruption with his whole thing of literally swallowing everything close to a person (consumption for the hive, burning for the desolation)

anywhomst i’m in my bonked-up state

#tma #hatchetverse #wiggog y'wrath #t’noy karaxis #nibblenephim #bliklotep #pokotho #tma fears #losing my mind #npmd #nerdy prudes must die

[chambers003]

so, something i’ve noticed, something we’ve all noticed, is that tmagp’s episodes don’t quite seem to fit in the same categories as tma’s fears. there was the theory about the fears actually being desires, but i don’t quite think that fits anymore. i won’t discount it completely but there’s something else i’ve noticed which makes… more. sense.

it’s said time and time again in tma that the fears are kinda blurry at the edges - defining them isn’t an exact science. protocol takes this concept to the extreme by having no episodes that can be defined under a single fear. it’s always two or more.

the janitor guy with the weird architecture was a spiral main, but had strong elements of stranger, lonely, and flesh. the guy in the garden was balancing corruption and buried, in both literal and the more metaphorical senses. hilltop road was seemingly a full ritual attempt with all fears, done by the stranger. needles was corruption/flesh to me - the metaphorical sense of corruption that comes with toxic relationships. maybe they even had some eye in them.

as for today’s episode with the dice? well... that’s tricky. but i’ve seen end mentioned but i’m not a fan of that. web’s been thrown around a little, and i agree with that, but i have another suggestion on top of that. extinction. web + extinction = the fear of bad luck. you know it’s coming. you can cheat it, by getting other people to take the falls. but you can’t - or at least you think you can’t - escape it forever. they could’ve stopped rolling the dice anytime. that’s very extinction to me.

#my post #tmagp #the magnus protocol #i didnt explain the extinction thing that well im hoping someone knows what im on about #pure bad luck is kinda end-coded which is like. #the only part of that statement that half convinced me on the end coding but i dont buy it #the subtle compulsion to roll them is so web but also . it’s a train wreck you cant look away. like. the extinction. #please someone get it. it makes sense to me #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers #tma spoilers #<- sort of. it’s been like 5 years though

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 31

I'm disappointed in you all for sending Jared to the Redemption Zone so soon (this is lighthearded). The Boneturner's Tale earned a whopping 404 votes, 157 of which are from Round Two. The Architecture of Fear survived Redemption Round One with 135 votes, adding to its 126 Round One votes!

MAG 017 - The Boneturner’s Tale | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library.

MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Robert Smirke, taken from a letter to Jonah Magnus dated 13th February 1867.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 017 #mag 17 #mag 017 the bone turner's tale #mag 017 the boneturner's tale #mag 17 the boneturner's tale #mag 17 the bone turner's tale #the boneturner's tale #the bone turner's tale #the boneturner #the bone turner #sebastian adekoya #jared hopworth #the flesh #flesh #mag 138 #mag 138 the architecture of fear #the architecture of fear #robert smirke #jonah magnus #redemption round two

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

#tma #the magnus archives #tma poll #podcasts #tma season 4 #tma season four #tma 131 #tma 132 #tma 133 #tma 134 #tma 135 #tma 136 #tma 137 #tma 138 #tma 139 #tma 140

[chromatasia]

I think I have ideas for the world you are building here, in the UTY-TMA crossover AU. (…I hope I managed to get my eye-hands on everything you publically wrote about this. and that my takes are compatible with the rest of what you thought of)

I think I want to put one 'solid' divide between the surface (eyepocalipse) and the underground: while the surface has a clearer-than-ever distinction between Agents and Victims of That Which Is Fear, the underground should have this line as blurred as possible: people who have fear-based abilities are those who are still losing the most from it.

You mentionned Ceroba, because of course, but I think we can do the same for the others.

Dalv: …yeah the Lonely is kinda doing its usual stuff here.

Axis: He will outright tell you he will be here, ready to exploit any obscure loophole in his code to capture and/or kill you… if he chooses so. Completely unpredictable source of violence, requiring both cold logic and the whims of a (semi?)-sentient being. At the same time, following his programming is a duty Axis cannot sidestep, and it often forces him into hurtful and/or painful situations. The Slaughter gets to be a double-edged sword here.

Martlet: I think you've assigned the Spiral to her (or is it the other way around? :) ). I see her both making confusing DIY projects, puzzles, wooden architecture, and getting you lost if you try to follow her. But I see her getting often lost herself, forgetting what she was supposed to do, mixing priorities up. I suggest an often-self-contradicting Royal Guard Handbook she tries to follow. Either because said book was not fully proofread before being sent her way, or because the Spiral itself saw an opportunity in it. …Martlet is forgetting something. Something powerful, something dangerous, something sharp as metal points and broken glass thrown off a building, something as smooth and soft and malleable as… as… who was she talking about?

Flowey: pulls strings from behind the scenes, not realising that even if he wished for time to continue onwards, he would find himself unable to resist. Does he really just want those souls, or did he get addicted to the power to affect everyone else so subtly?

Clover: As you've said, they have been pursued by a terrible fate from the Surface, and they are sure it can and will track them down. At the same time, they know those who live in this Underground are culprits or accomplices in the murder of six children before them (yes, that includes the whole misunderstanding with Chara). Clover will find the ones responsible, no matter how they hide. It's a matter of justice. Right?

Starlo and the Wild East: to entertain themselves, the spaghetti western antics have only grown stronger as a way to forget the intrusions of Fear in the underground. Inhabitants would find themselves spectators one day, acting as bandits the next, as victims the one after that. And if they play especially well, they might find themselves in the coveted position of temporary sidekick to the Feisty(j) Five. Swapping roles as easily as clothes. Seeing others in the position they should have held as a 'civillian' while playing bandit. The saloon's bartender is not Dina today. Right? She calls herself Dina, but she's not the real deal, unlike yesterday, and probably tomorrow. Right? You can't remember her face, but it will come back, in time. Hopefully. In the Wild East, Sheriff North Star chooses who plays what role… but can Starlo recognise his friends anymore? can he recognise himself?

Asgore: Sooner or later, humans who have fallen down in his kingdom will have to meet him, and meet their end. Sooner or later, he will have seven souls, and the barrier will open. Despite the hope this fact brings to his subjects, he knows that getting out of the underground cannot be done without a painful confrontation with the humans of the surface. One way or another, when the barrier will open, he will be judged for his actions, and pay for them with his life. It is not a matter of "if", but "when".

Kanako: the blue-souled human was a good singer, she is sure of this. how else would the burning blue substance in her soul sound this beautiful? She already convinced some fellow goopy monsters to listen to it, and they agree. That ringing blue sound is… the only thing left in this old, abandoned, humid laboratory. …okay that last fear-assignment is kind of a stretch but still. I think the festering EXP/LV from that soul would be quite the Corruption/Slaughter mix. …but the amalgamates do scream "Flesh"… meh.

Decibat, El Baillador, Guardener:… I have no clue? Decibat sounds like a candidate for the Dark but even then…

ok sorry for procrastinating answering this i just needed the time to actually read and answer this /lh

so! most of the stuff yeah you got it! especially flowey - hes definitely an interesting one in this au :p but the only thing thats different actually is the feisty five and the wild east

in terms of plot, the main turning point occurs at the wild east where starlo is able to stop clover's murder spree through the power of Telling The Kid That They Are Just A Kid. cue clover finally having a break where they arent. you know. being hunted or hunting monsters down. the dunes as a whole is mainly occupied by the Vast (people get lost in the sandstorms. a lot.) but the town itself is mostly safeguarded from the fears - is it because of their optimism, or the oppressive heat that always hangs in the air whenever a servant of a fear attempts to approach? nonetheless, this becomes a (short lived) safe haven for clover, free from the fears save for their surroundings and the voice in their head urging them to keep going, to finish their mission - and, perhaps, a little string-pulling by a certain flower

#this is a really good compilation of the au though!! im happy to see that people like it as much as pluto and i lol #ask/answer #tma x uty au