thinking about Jonathan Sims and Samama Khalid.
Thinking about how, by all laws of Horror Story Trope, Jon should not be the protagonist. If I'd never heard of tma and you showed me a lineup of the archives crew and asked me to guess who died first I would have pointed to Jon. He's the paranoid professor archetype. The one who dies discovering some crucial bit of information at the beginning to push the plot forward. He's unfriendly, cowardly, insecure, and makes other people do his investigation for him for all of season 1. He doesn't do anything even remotely heroic until the second half of the show. He has no interest in romance for the first half of the show. The audience wasn't even aware Jon had a dark past until he starts telling us about A Guest for Mr. Spider. But he is *Chosen.* Despite the fact that he has no actual qualities of a hero, he's chosen as the eyes special boy. Over the course of the show he starts to become more and more like an actual protagonist. He starts trying to save the world, resist the eye, all that jazz. For one reason or another, being the Archivist turns Jonathan "definition of a side character" Sims into the main character.
Then we have Sam. Sam starts acting like a horror/mystery protagonist almost immediately. He is young, charming, has a mysterious past (that we are made aware of pretty much right away) and a curiosity that causes him to frequently put himself personally in the path of The Horrors. He pokes around where he doesn't belong and looks for clues. He's the center of an office love triangle for goodness sake. He has a strong sense of duty to others and will put himself in harms way to protect those he loves. He exudes main character energy. He has everything a horror protagonist needs to push the plot along. But Sam wasn't *Chosen.* Despite being exactly the person you'd expect the plot to follow. And I can't help but wonder if, in the same way that the narrative made Jon important, it's going to make Sam unimportant. Irrelevant. If, with his rejection from The Magnus Institute, Sam is going to disappear completely. Become a mystery.
Because at the end of the day, so much of your life, your impact on the world, your relevance, has absolutely nothing to do with you. So much of it has everything to do with those in power, and whether they decide you're important.
It all comes down to your own rotten luck.
TMAGP 52 VAGUE SPOILERS!
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@swampspiders no… you’re absolutely correct… Quick! Everyone, time to hinge all our theories on this!
so, tmagp 52 huh? 😃
this could be a love letter martin centered pmv???animatic???whatever this is and also spiders and death near the end
it looks a bit weird and cringey in some frames but at least it's finished
mmmm I'm thinking evil thoughts
Jon failing to wake up on time to carry out his betrayal.
He wakes up just as the plan is carried out properly without him. Martin is still laying by his side, holding him gently, but the moment Jon realizes what's happening and tries to get up, he tightens his grip and doesn't let go, firm but failing to hold back tearful apologies. Jon thrashing wildly and crying in pain and anger as their avatarhood is ripped away, but they remain. Screaming truly horrible things. Martin refusing to loosen his grip, no matter how terrified he is of Jon, and of himself.
Them waking up on the floor of the safehouse as the regular world is recreated, and Jon, in panic and anger, immediately throwing Martin off of him as if he were a stranger, and laying there, completely stunned
I love Alice Dyer so much. She's genuinely annoying. She takes jokes too far to the point of actual cruelty. She uses humour to hide her feelings and confusion to distract others from theirs. She's dumb in love with her ex-boyfriend. She has a weird homoerotically antagonistic relationship with a woman who later becomes her boss. She knows the place she's working for is supernaturally evil and mostly does not care. She named the inexplicable talking voices in her work’s computer system. She supports her brother's music career. Her parents are dead but so far that has not been remotely relevant. She's canonically trans. She goes to Berlin and ends up in a buddy cop movie with a children's bogeyman. She chooses to be murdered instead of passing on an evil toy to her friend's kid. She gets the choice taken from her and lives anyway. In an alternate universe, the man she loves is dead, and she willingly relives her worst nightmare every night just to see him again. In this universe, she successfully sacrifices herself for a different version of him, not caring that he is not the same person as her husband was, nor that he does not love her back in the same way she loves him. There's no funny ending to this, I just really love Alice.
Would you sometime at your own convenience show a side-by-side of how you draw Jonah Elias vs the evolved free Elias akin to your most recent free Elias picture (could be old drawings)? I'm very curious to see and compare :3
twunk death transition timeline
i whipped up a little thingy just now because i got very excited about your ask :] thankyou once again to @/woodsywarbler for nefarious elias based discussions....... and to whom i must give credit to half these wretched ideas and plans
