#CELIA I LOVE YOU-

[fox-guardian]

something something alice and celia are anagrams something alice is pulling sam away from the institute while celia is pulling him towards it, they're like the angel and devil on his shoulders, alice is his ex and he's trying to date celia now, parallels and whatnot aaaa

[brettanomycroft]

Forget "Mr. Bonzo's On His Way," my favorite tune in The Magnus Protocol is Sam playing Alice like a fiddle on repeat.

[fraternum-momentum]

Her obedient little mouse.

[lostlavenderer]

I love Sam as our protag and I appreciate Lena as our new ominous office manager but sorry neither of them stand a chance. that entire office is literally just 'Alice Dyer and people who are irrevocably undeniably intensely in love with Alice Dyer' with not even a single exception

[sasha-n-james]

in light of recent events..... PRIDE OIAR

[ohmytiredheart]

Honestly I feel for Sam but serves him right.

Even if we ignore the potential intermingling of the web or any other other spooky strings that are likely being pulled, there's a lot to unpack here.

I wouldn't say Sam "deserved" it, but Alice tried warning him for months. This is what he gets for sticking his nose in places it didn't belong.

Did I say the same thing about Jon in TMA? Yes and no. Obviously there isn't a story without someone doing something dumb, but I think Jon's situation and Sam's situation are a little different. Jon was an idiot, yes, but he (and everyone else around him) were forced to go in completely blind. He had no idea what he was doing and didn't have any warnings or help at all except from his creepy boss with ulterior motives.

Sam also went in blind, but he was warned several times by several people including the eldritch computer to stop and turn around. He could have avoided this if he just returned Alice's calls or looked at her messages.

But nooooo he had to poke around with his little crushy crush and get himself thrown into a portal to what we can only assume is the TMA universe. Serves him right.

[spooksier]

he’s such a smart cookie this guy’s fucked

[celia-witch]

You know Blue Poison is an incredibly unsubtle character to me. Which may be why she's the first Arknights character I actually became completely obsessed with.

Literally made a touch starved weirdo, who everyone assumes is literally poisonous to the touch, even if she isnt... and then gave her a trans flag color scheme!

Anyways there is no other operator with a similar color scheme in anyway! And definitely no-one who has a character arc about coming to her own with the people who care about them deeply, causing me to come to a relatively similar character read! Wait who's that?

[damnamour]

LA MODERNA ― E333

[torkhin]

…so I’ve made some connections

(spoilers for all of TMA and TMAGP (as of Episode 15))

Lady Mowbray seems to have a lot of visual similarities to depictions of Scylla from Greek mythos. A woman of violent power with hounds at her hips and a taste for human flesh. The resemblance is uncanny, even with the added flavor of her being a capital-L Lady.

It’s interesting to me to see how the “fear powers” we’ve been introduced to so far in Protocol’s universe seem to have connections with Odyssey antagonists.

- Lady Mowbray aligns with Scylla

- The Sea (the Vast/Buried amalgamation from Ep. 11) aligns with Poseidon/the ocean (or possibly the Sirens)

- Mr. Bonzo aligns with Polyphemus

- The tree from Ep. 3 and the snakes from Ep. 14 align with Circe

- Needles seems to align well with Charybdis

- The starving crowd from Ep. 8 aligns with the Lotus Eaters (or possibly the Sirens)

Heck, even the Man on the Screen from Ep. 5 could align with the Oracle and the traveling merchant (responsible for the violin in Ep. 4 and (probably) the dice in Ep. 9) could align with Hermes (though I would hesitate to call either the Oracle or Hermes antagonists). Which leaves Ink5oul, the volunteers in Ep. 7, and the gambling app from Ep. 13 without any solid equivalents.

To be fair, I think basing all of TMAGP’s antagonists on a single epic may be too small-scale and isn’t enough for a solid theory, but the connections are interesting to dissect 👀

[pineconnie]

gwen long ponytail and hair clips is real to me. she also has horrible eyesight but wears contacts bc she can’t handle things on her face (projecting my sensory issues onto her)

+ older alice (and sam) when i hadn’t figured out their designs

[toxicc-yuri]

Even w oiar confirmed to be working to feed (?) Fears/working w the Avatars, Sam lore, Jack identity reveal, new gambling statement, and poor Gwen dealing w Mr. Bongo aftermath all I can think about is Alice seeing her ex (who she definitely isn't over) date someone else and pretend she's fine (she is not fine)

[derekgoffard]

Going to be real with you 👤 I made these because Im so woefully in love with the sparkle bgs... LOL 🪂

[stickypiecolordiplomat]

People love to attack Celia for her biphobia but are so quick to forget Harry's racism at the beginning of the book. Both of them learned for the better as the story went on but y'all love to hate on women

[localsamalicer]

Im so sorry I had to relisten to the statement like twice and get thoughts from others before I actually understood what was going on bc I was too distracted by Samama I Just Got Laid And I Will Make It Painfully Obvious To Everyone Khalid and the convo between him n Celia near the end

Bro is in the clouds, actually scratch that bro is Above the clouds and high fived God. And he’s still so incredibly horny about it Celia had to pull his head out of the sky before he said too much and so he would actually pay attention to their research I AM FUCKING CACKLING

[murderandcoffee]

DAMN, CELIA WAS ON IT

GIRL WHIPPED OUT A TIME, PLACE, AND EVENT WITHOUT EVEN BREAKING A SWEAT