#grimora would be end obviously‚ & leshy is hunt

[longelk]

im relistening to TMA and ive realized how nicely it could work as an AU for scryption.. the power struggle between the entities trying to reshape the world to their liking is very reminiscent of the scrybes trying to take control & alter the game & all the endless cycles of torture and everything lol

just putting these ideas in my back pocket : )

#and its also just me combining two things i love :) #to continue indulging myself #grimora would be end obviously‚ & leshy is hunt #u could make a case for p03 being extinction or eye.. #extinction deals with robots replacing humanity which fits but he literally has an archivist + camera boss so. maybe both? #its easier to see extinction as his goal so id go with that‚ eye just goes hand in hand when he has security cams everywhere #i think he'd be like 'fuck this gay earth' and cause pollution on purpose with his factory #while trying to transcend human form cause Fuck organic life #if you had to align mags to an entity he'd probly be eye because premonition powers #but i think he'd be the equivalent of jurgen leitner here #he doesnt want the world to change but he does collect cursed books and artefacts #perform cruel experiments on his assistants for the sake of knowledge being overall an egotistical old bitch #it would be more fitting if he had unknowable motives rather than one allegiance #also also kc becomes hunt avatar & is a little hunting partner of leshi 🥺 #like trevor and julia.. #since the mycologists have their own agenda theyd probably be flesh #trapper/trader being stranger aligned because of uncanniness + 'shapeshifting' identities #+ they collect Skin #saydo from hex is perfectly web + stranger being a spiderclown and all.. she also reminds me of nikola too much lol #ill see if i can try sketching any of this at some point but i would like to make human designs for it so putting off for now #this is actually what powered me to make human leshy lol #sanctioned cringe moment is over #tma spoilers

[hrokkall]

TMA NEURON ACTIVATION what avatars would the scrybes be 👀👀👀

I don’t know if they’d all be avatars or just plain manifestations (maybe a combination of both) but I’d imagine it would be:

Leshy - The Hunt (self-explanatory)

Grimora - The End (equally self-explanatory)

Magnificus - The Spiral (was going to say The Eye originally for the joke, but he just seems like a Spiral guy—less in the “lying” way and moreso in the “twisting infinite patterns that entrance and confuse and disorientate” way but he’d trap someone in a wizard maze too if push came to shove. As a backup though you could consider the flesh because of. Gesturing vaguely to the wizard pupils).

P03 - The Web (A little bit of a weird choice but I think it fits with P03’s whole “self-preservation” deal that it strings along the player in order to accomplish… plus there’s the obvious World Wide Web pun here. Specifically I feel it would be a manifestation that ends up trapped in a computer and having to operate from there, similar to how the Spiral’s Lichtenberg Figure was trapped inside of Ex Altiora.)

If Inscryption as a whole were to be given as a statement though (as in, say, Luke calls into the Magnus Institute and talks about his experiences with the haunted cartridge retirement home he found in the woods) if you had to put it in a TMA category I’d say it would be a manifestation of the Extinction (four AIs fighting for dominance; a malevolent, world-ending string of code beneath them… feels pretty extinction to me).

And then some other characters as a bonus lightning round:

Kaycee - Touched by the Desolation, ultimately becomes an avatar of the Hunt to escape her fate.

Luke - Probably touched by multiple entities just because I think in all universes he should be having a hell of a time. Maybe he’s like Martin where every entity wants him like “Oh this guy will be SO easy to kill/manipulate” and then he ends up surviving (or dying but dying normally) by making decisions So Horribly Bad that not even Fear Incarnate could’ve predicted them.

Amanda/Sado - Manifestation of the Stranger. Obviously. (Carla is probably touched by the Stranger as a result; I just generally like the idea that Sado is loyal to no one except for her)

All of the underlings (if they exist) are touched by/manifestations of the same fear as their Scrybe, but aren’t avatars. Maybe not the bots though; unless they’re just a team of poor ass software developers who are suddenly compelled to keep this mysterious program up and running and adding features that even they don’t know the meaning of. Meanwhile Magnificus’s pupils are his students (similar to the situation with Robert Smirke), Grimora’s ghouls are people she bound to the end to save them from a grisly fate, and Leshy’s woodsmen… idk they’re like his drinking buddies or something and they go hunt monsters on weekends.

Not all of the minor characters are directly affiliated with any entity though. Characters such as Rebecha are completely unaligned (or if she has had any run-in with an entity no one is going to Ever know about it. At most I can see it being a Georgie Barker situation); the Woodcarver is actively ensuring she doesn’t become bound to any entity, despite Leshy’s influence; the Mycologists claim that they aren’t bound to any entity, but they’re collecting Leitners like trading cards for their “experiments” so it’s less so “unaligned” and more so “race to see whether the Corruption or the Flesh or a third secret thing stakes a claim first”.

The Bone Lord is definitely an End manifestation (unlike Grimora, who is the only one of the Scrybes who is most likely an avatar as opposed to a manifestation or a secret third thing) but I have no idea where they would fit in. Or maybe an extinction manifestation. I have no idea. They’re there though; not leaving them out

Don’t ask about the Hex cast here. I know by making Rebecha relevant they exist by extension but I have No idea where they’d fit in aside from being assorted statement givers (and maybe Lionel as one of those figures that shows up in multiple statements and makes people audibly groan every time there’s THIS GUY again but he’s just a normal dude who happens to be in a lot of places. That’s pretty fitting considering the plot of the game)

#Re: Inbox #Re: Anon #''Neuron activation'' hm yeah that’s embedding itself in my vocabulary #Anyway feel free to disagree with me on 03 and Mags but I feel the other two are pretty solid #And feel free to add on my askbox is Always open #Also I know this ask is answered late I’ve been doing other stuff the past few days. But I still have TMA crossover on the brain no worries