#Lena Kelley

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i think everybody needs a female character to defend with their life. i think everybody should have to experience being the number one fan of some fictional girl at some point. if you don't have at least one fictional woman that makes you feel like a loyal knight defending her honor and battling all her adversaries, what are you doing

[murderandcoffee]

"mr. bonzo is one of our externals" I'm sorry, is that bitch getting PAID?

[cult-of-the-eye]

the entirety of the OIAR has mommy issues and that makes up a good proportion of why lena is such an effective boss

[passiunclepaltry]

lena kelley deserves a nice retirement plan

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[v0idwraith]

THIS SURE WAS AN EPISODE HUH

[someguycalledratcliff]

Gotta love that Gwen's reaction to finding out her boss tried to murder someone is basically "Oh you couldn't even kill a guy? How embarrassing. Pathetic. Imagine if your boss found out. Now give me your job." I respect the hustle.

[macabresymphonies]

So what's up with the food, Lena?

Why is all food supposed to be eaten on site, Lena?

Why is Sam getting addicted to your coffee, Lena? Did you swap it for decaff?

Why for a second time we see new hire starting their work with eating something that Lena bought?

Why is it established for like third time Alice wants to eat outside of the office or brings her own food into the office?

WHY WAS SAM OKAY WHEN IT WAS JUST ALICE MAKING HIM COFFEE AND NOW HE'S ADDICTED TO OIRA COFFEE? WAS SHE SWAPPING IT WITH HER OWN COFFEE STASHED AWAY SOMEWHERE?

WHAT'S IN THE MINI-DONUTS, LENA?

[swingsty]

The them!

[ashes-in-a-jar]

[ash-tree-eyes]

Between threatening Lena to give her a promotion, the “Can he read?” to Mr Bonzo, and now insulting Ink5oul, I’m starting to realise that Gwen has truly godly magnitudes of self confidence, and absolutely no ability to deal with the consequences of said confidence. She’s so pathetic I love her so much

[thermodynamic-comedian]

you understand this is essentially lena walking away from an explosion like an action movie protagonist. this is her moment. she IS the moment. she said "you want me out? i'm gone baby. don't come crying to me when the weight of responsibility that i've carried with me for years threatens to crush you <3"

she's iconic. she's everything. the entire rest of this show is going to be one huge "i told you so" from her.

and an even bigger "i told you so" from yours truly.

[ian0key]

TMAGP character designs!!!!

and more art:

->->-> NEW VERSION (fixing the saturation of Sam's skin and with other extra things)

[cult-of-the-eye]

the key difference between lena and elias is that elias would force the archival team into doing awkward team building exercises like trust falls whereas lena would rather shoot herself

[supersonicgrandma]

Lena, frantically trying to make the office nice for god damn Trevor Herbert, Vampire Hunter

[momokarp]

I don’t know whether to hate her or cheer for her but I love women in charge