If you get Jon's self-loathing and curiosity stats high enough, it'll override his cowardice stat.
Yeah so hi time for MAG 143!!! This is... not my favourite episode, but it's alright, I mean Helen's there, and I love Helen.
So, might not have that much to say, but I sure will be speaking. (Update! I do have good words! My brain is so cool you guys)
@a-mag-a-day
BASIRA
Eyes peeled.
[Pause.]
ARCHIVIST
Was that a joke?
I'm holding him gently <3
ARCHIVIST
They weren’t lying.
BASIRA
Wait, you did your…
ARCHIVIST
Oh, yeah, I don’t think they noticed.
Mate, he was purposefully compelling people back in season 3, like, if you have the power to get 100% accurate information then why wouldn't you use it? Monster anyway, you know, might as well use it to your advantage.
BASIRA
So what? This was another waste of time? No church. No Dark Sun. I’m going to kill that son of a bitch.
Please.
ARCHIVIST
Oh, charming.
He's a fucking dork, you honour <3
ARCHIVIST
(Compelling) What happened?
MANUELA
Don’t … Don’t make me. Please.
ARCHIVIST
(Compelling) Tell me.
Jon.
And it's like, Basira isn't protesting, but like, I sort of get it? We know about the dreams, we know that his... victims... are suffering, but Scrutiny is like, yeah. They are. Like, I can understand why Basira wouldn't view Jon... yk, compelling people as a bad thing here? It's useful, and she values that, but she doesn't really get the after effects? Maybe? Or maybe it's just because Manuela is "evil" and therefore "deserves it."
Jon does know what happens to them though, and directly...
Oh, right. Not gonna say what I just came to a conclusion on in case it's stupid but I Got Something.
Hither Green was, I believe, where your institute was watching, but Natalie’s efforts were a small and meagre part of the greater effort.
She was literally unscrewing lightbulbs. How was that supposed to end the world???
But we got so close. We touched it. There is another world, a world of still and quiet darkness, where no heat touches and death cannot find you. You might wander beneath that empty sky of void forever and never see a light to guide your way.
But, see, this could be the Lonely, the Extinction, hell even the End, or the Vast. This is not a purely dark world, there is no such thing. Like the colour green. All the green we see, is not true green.
For that night is not empty, far from it. Things move there:
the sounds of shuffling, scuttling, crawling. A scream. The fall of gentle stagnant raindrops that chills you as you try desperately to know if that is the sound of the storm or something out there?
The Hunt, The Slaughter, this isn't simply dark.
Natalie and the others followed, but they did not truly understand.
Yeah, duh, she was unscrewing lightbulbs.
Also like, it's actually like... not just spooky cult, but like Natalie joined after her mum died, Manuela left another cult. Feels like a cross between an actual cult, a ✨spooky✨ cult, and the Yiga Clan from Breath of the Wild.
All at once, that loving embrace was stripped from us, and it began to retreat, to recede back into the place that it had come from. We were so close. We were so close.
She sounds so heartbroken.
ARCHIVIST
(Compelling) How dangerous is it?
MANUELA
Only myself, Maxwell and Natalie could even look upon it. It will annihilate you both in an instant.
BASIRA
Ask her how we can destroy it.
ARCHIVIST
I know how. I just need to see it.
BASIRA
See, as in…
ARCHIVIST
As in, actually see it.
MANUELA
Go ahead. Just try.
BASIRA
Look, it’s alright, Jon. No-one else knows it’s here, and if we just leave it, no one will know.
ARCHIVIST
No, I’m doing this. Get out.
(basira voice) JON! You stupid idiot!
No, but... is this curiosity? Maybe, he's done a similar thing of knowing that he will get hurt and yet doing something anyways for information. Is this because of the self loathing? Maybe, feels pretty similar to "no one can get out of the buried" and then he goes into the buried.
He's not a stupid idiot, he has a reason, but it's a bad reason.
[Static can be heard, growing louder]
ARCHIVIST
It’s… it's beautiful.
MANUELA
(Gasps) No!
[The static suddenly stops]
I've been thinking about what it would look like, and I think I've come up with a good image of it. You know when you close your eyes - you might have to put your hands over them - and you can see patterns? And you can find that darkness and follow it, and it becomes darker, darker, yet darker (/ref) ad infinitum. You can just stare at the darkness when your eyes are closed, until it's darker than it should even be possible to be dark, and still getting darker.
That's what looking in the dark sun is like, at least I think.
ARCHIVIST
Did you catch her?
HELEN
Yes.
(The Archivist gasps.)
Great gasping, Jonny, ten out of ten!
No but... that is great gasping. Jonny's voice acting is just really good.
HELEN
How was it, looking upon The Dark?
ARCHIVIST
I thought I was going to die.
HELEN
You seem to think that a lot. I remember when you thought you were going to die at my threshold.
ARCHIVIST
Yeah.
I CARE THEM YOUR HONOUR
Like, hhh just the way they deliver their lines first of all, how can you have so much fucking baggage in a single "Yeah." Like?? The pause, the light tone of Helen vs the "I have just been through another traumatizing event, are you really reminding me of a previous one" tone of Jon.
Drawing the parallels from 101 to this episode? Would you die to save the world? Every time Jon has answered yes. Also the door was locked and this helped end the world? That's fucked? The door was locked? He would have made that choice, save yourself, safe the world, but the door was locked, like??? And here, he made the choice, look at the dark sun, make sure they can never attempt it again, die, and he chose to do that, but all it did was bring Jonah Magnus one step further along his evil plan.
I have like so many feelings about Jon and Helen, so many feelings about this one bit of dialogue. "I thought I was going to die." OH MY GODDD
NO one gets them like I do. They're my blorbos your honour, and they're so fucked up and evil, and they're so fucked up full stop.
Once again tag me in ALL Crew QnA Jon traumatizing people who worked on tma edition I want to see them so much!!!!
HELEN
Go find your Basira, then let’s get you both home.
"Home."
:(
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Leech Headcanons
Jade is overtaking my mind so I’m writing about him. And Florine, we can’t forget Florine <3
If it is not explicitly stated that something written below is canon, it is a headcanon
Enjoy <3
Masterlist
It’s canon that they’re Mama’s boys, but when they became close friends with Azul, his Mum would baby the twins just like she would Azul
Floyd Florine was told about the importance of shoes because while his father was on land for business (it’s also canon he is often on land for business) he was working with someone that just happened to be really into shoes and now thinks they are that important to all land dwellers
Child mortality rates are largely higher underwater than on land. Eels have many many more eggs than just two and the twins mention that the two of them and their parents are the only members with a “for now” implication. It’s pretty ominous, but the likeliest explanation is possible younger siblings on the way
Which I think makes sense, there is higher chance of offspring survival if there is more family to protect the young from predators
The twins sometimes switch places (the “twin swap” thing) and depending on their moods it’s either completely obvious or no one ever finds out
Like imagine them trying to contain their laughter while standing infront of Azul saying their the other twin, appearances not switched, only the strand of hair while Azul deadpans at them
Unless you have memorized which eye is which color on at least one of them, the impressions of each other they put effort into you’ll never realize what they did
Azul always knows
Female eels are much larger than males, their mum is probably almost 7 feet tall and I love that
The twins both have one dimple and despite most of their traits being opposite (longer strand of hair, eye color, and most notable, personalities) they have them on the same side
Probably the left but I can’t decide which side I just know it’s there somewhere
NRC school system intentionally placed them in separate classes from each other due to the chaos and disaster they caused in their classes together in their first year
Papa Leech is “head” of the family but if Mama Leech says something it goes. She’s the actual boss
Both Mama and Papa Leech are “composed” people like Jade, but they are also manic danger-noodles so the twins get their mania from small things their parents would say, do, and encourage
Jade wanted to be “composed” like his parents (bc he adores them <3) but Floyd was like “this crazy stuff is fun let’s go” and decided not to give a fuck
Floyd’s favorite thing to do is parkour (in his canon profile) when the twins and Azul first came onto land, he was flailing around bc he wanted to try parkour
Literally flopping like a fish out of sea
Also the potion didn’t give them clothes (an altered potion does that for them once they get a little more accustomed to land) so he was flailing around completely naked
People were scrambling trying to get him in clothes but he was like “nah I’m not done”
Almost broke his leg and Azul’s arm
Jade won’t let it go he thinks it’s one of the funniest things to happen
Jade is extremely ticklish, his and Azul’s families know but he does everything he can to hide it
Floyd pokes his sides all the time
But Jades response to being tickled is involuntary violence
Floyd has gotten many black eyes and bloody noses (broken once, these boys are strong as fuck) but he always thinks it’s worth it (except when he got a broken nose, that started a nasty fight)
They don’t actually fight often, most just banter and arguments they know neither of them are being serious about, but when they are genuinely fight they are fighting
Scratches, bruises, cuts, bites, occasional broken nose (once, when Floyd tried tickling Jade), and sometimes even lost teeth (which grow back easily but painfully)
It takes a couple days for them to make up but the always do
Will still press on each others bruises and pinch sore noses, but ultimately are on good terms again
Are used to sleeping with each other back home in the coral sea (common for merfolk to sleep with family and close friends as a means of bonding and safety) so they still sometimes sleep in each others beds in NRC
Including Azul, he feels safer when he isn’t sleeping alone
Anyway I need to stop before I get carried away lol
Have a lovely day and thank you
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