The computers have started talking out of nowhere, your IT manager had a mental breakdown and is now sneaking into his own place of work, one of your external operators just stole a corpse, two of your employees broke into a condemned building where a man had his eyes ripped out(?) and have possibly unleashed a new and vengeful horror, another one of your employees woke up on the side of a motorway with no memories of how she got there, your externals liaison girlbossed too close to the sun and is in the middle of an existential crisis, and there's still 👏no👏tea👏in the👏break room👏!
The O.I.A.R. is managing bad guys the way I "manage" my anxiety or "manage" my time.
for your viewing consideration: the OIAR's logo, showing what appears to be an inverted alchemical symbol of the Philosopher's Stone...
so, let's talk Category 1, 2, and 3, today CAT1 in particular.
I think these may be matching to the alchemical primes: 🜍 ☿ 🜔
Respectively: Soul, Spirit, and Body - all seen in the sigil of the OIAR
What elements of fear and dread might associate with each of these?
Let's start with Category 1.
Our category 1 statements so far have been:
-Reanimation (partial)
-Needles!
-Mr. Bonzo!
-Mr Bonzo again
Or, to approach this from the other angle: what is *not* in the CAT23 statements that is in the above: (Red Canary and the Tattoo (corpse) -/- compulsion)
I think there's a strong case for Category 1 being that of Body.
The reanimation had a focus on the remains, Needles and Mr. Bonzo are highly visceral. There's a focus on flesh, less so on spirit/soul.
In contrast, RedCanary was much less physically visceral and much more driven by emotions and curiosity and desire to know - similar to the other 23 statement.
Lena Kelley: "In order for the wheels to keep on turning, all these forces need to be monitored and balanced. That is where we come in."
previously: nice job everybody who voted that the OIAR might be monitoring and maintaining "alchemical" balance! Lena's recent words seem to support that...but who knows if she can be believed~
I'm predicting that one of my favorite parts about protocol will be seeing what fucked up subcategories the OIAR's classification system is broken down into. like yes, gwen, tell me all about the 974 subcategories of ghost, and how each one differs slightly from the one before it
are we ever gonna get a character as iconic as gerry keay ever again? ghost goth boy with paranormal mommy issues and a vendetta against books. the oiar wishes it was graced with such presence
You know who signs the Official Secrets Act? The military. The secret services. Members of the government. Certain high ranking civil service members being read into state secrets.
You have to be working with knowledge and secrets about the defence and safety of the nation.
So the OIAR is not just an official government agency but it’s one that deals with the defence of the nation…
New hire in the OIAR! I recognized the name Celia from TMA, in Georgie and Melanie’s cult… and they’re both played by Lowri Ann Davies. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…
scenes i really really want to happen in tmagp but probably never will: a compilation.
a scene where needles forgets that he's made of needles for just a second and accidentally hurts someone he didn't mean to. the horror of only being capable of harmful contact ensues.
a scene where celia mentions the magnus institute being an 'academic research institute in london' and everyone else is immediately like "no, that's not correct at all lol where did you even get that from"
a scene where lena directly goes against orders from whoever her boss is in order to protect someone from oiar. bonus points if she's audibly afraid, but doesn't hesitate one bit.
[ID: Digital art of characters from The Magnus Protocol lined up beside one another: Alice Dyer, a tall white woman with shoulder length curly blonde hair, wearing reading glasses folded up on a chain around her neck and a t-shirt that says “sorry 4 having gr8 tits & correct opinions”; Samama Khalid, a shorter, fat, Pakistani man with short curly hair and stubble wearing business casual clothes, his hands awkwardly in his pockets; Gwen Bouchard, a thin Black woman with natural hair worn up, wearing elegant business casual clothes; Lena Kelley, a short, fat East Asian woman wearing a pencil skirt and collared shirt, with her hair in a severe bun; and Colin Becher, a tall, heavily set white man with lank, greying ginger hair, patchy stubble, and glasses worn low on his nose. He wears a shirt with the German words “verpiss dich” (English: piss off) crudely written on it in red. Behind the figures is the alchemical symbol for the philosopher’s stone, also in red. End ID.]
sure hope nothing happens to any of them forever and none of them is secretly some sort of alchemically-made homunculus!!!