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daturanerium · 5 years ago
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i just finished season one of the magnus archives (here’s my livetweet thread) so here’s my discordant thoughts on the characters
jon
annoyingly stubborn
dramatic!!!!
was definitely That One Emo Theatre Kid in whatever britain's version of high school is
wants to know. everything.
fatal flaw: pursuit of knowledge. he can’t let a mystery go unsolved
please get some sleep baby you can solve the mystery in the morning
he’s so serious and awkward i adore him and i hope he remembers to take care of himself
martin
baby boy.....baby
consistently underestimated and underappreciated. give him a raise please elias he’s gone through hell
so full of love, even for people who don’t seem to love him back
i want to hug him
so intelligent, so thoughtful! always coming up with answers that no one else can think of
fatal flaw: self/preservation or fear. altho in his line of work i’m giving him a break
he’s got some big things ahead of him, i can tell. i hope that he gets some bomb ass magical powers or something because he really deserves it
sasha
ive known sasha for a week and a half but if anything happened to her i would kill everyone in this room and then myself
speaking of........what the hell happened during the finale i’m Worried
she’s so caring and protective. i feel like she’s the “hold my flower” member of the archive (jon or tim is the “kick his ass baby i got your flower”)
fatal flaw: curiosity. at least she’s aware of it?
i literally love her
looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll (but will also kill you)
so strong. so smart. 
im love her and i hope she’s okay
elias
okay shifty capitalist motherfucker i see you
i don’t actually think he’s gulity of anything tbh, just a victim of circumstance trying to do his job and keep it
fatal flaw: submissive towards authority. spill the secrets buddy we gotta know
“but the funding”
i think his heart’s in the right place. i just hope he realizes there are bigger things than rich people and even the archive.
tim
pure of heart, dumb of ass
frat bro!!!!!
super friendly
EDIT: i made a joke about tim having cishet energy but i’ve since been informed that he’s canon bi which is awesome! 
just doing his job, man
hey jon the boys and i are gonna go crack open a cold one later, wanna join? you’ve been stuck recording in that office for hours mate you need to get out and do something
he really genuinely cares about his friends and he’s so sweet
fatal flaw: inability to read the room. bro i love u no romo but u gotta learn to Read The Signs
such a dork
definitely going to get possessed at some point
jane prentiss
it is every sapphic’s duty to fall in love with an eldrich horror and jane is mine
her monologue/statement was so good that i’m doing it for speech this year. thank you irl jonathan sims for being a fantastic writer
so spooky......so curious........so dark.........so endearing
please tell me about the song and the nest and the itch. i’m so genuinely interested in her story and i hope we hear more from/about her because i still have Questions
every time i picture her it’s in the style of the scary stories to tell in the dark illustrations
ugh god such a good antagonist.....this is so good
mary and gerard key
during the first description of mary i was so impressed with her lifestyle and general presentation.....she was really living her best life. until it was revealed that she was not actually alive. but still
gerard you little shit, planting all these things for the archivists to find. who are you
side note but i thought his name was “jared”. i’m trying to not picture another famous gerard but i’m seventeen. what can you do.
they’re definitely working for some outside force, or maybe they Are the outside force? either way i’m intrigued
(predictions for season two and beyond under the cut)
general predictions for season two and beyond:
i’ve managed to avoid spoilers a lot better than i usually do, but i think there may be something to do with avatars for gods or something? anyway jon’s god is knowledge-based and sasha’s is strength-based. elias may be conman/trickery-based? martin is his own seperate being entity thing, i can’t see him fitting into any typical categories yet. 
oh actually it would be really cool if martin was tied in with the god of death? it kind of fits him, idk how tho. he’s just so sweet and kind and that matches the casual comforting neutrality of death.
actually maybe not because we’ve already met death and it’s just a bunch of reapers that were dumbasses in life, oh well (i’m still gonna keep it in on the off chance something happens with it)
jon takes a nap (unlikely, but i can dream) 
that shipping company that keeps popping up definitely delivered that lighter to jon. don’t know what the lighter means but i’m excited to figure it out
jonmartin endgame
sasha is either possessed or has been completely erased by a copy. my guess is that she’s stuck in a time loop that was created when she touched the hypnotizing table, although how that happened is just about anyone’s guess.
gertrude was killed by gerard key, who, in his Infinite Knowledge of Plot and How The World Works, knew that jon needed to be the head archivist for things to work out the way he and his mother want it to. the keys are beyond time.
martin lives in the archive because he actually kind of likes it there??? even tho he had a traumatic event with worms and jane and finding the dead body of his old boss in the basement
i’m really interested to know what jon was up to before he worked as the head archivist. i feel like that’s kind of important and relevant? if it’s not now it will be in the future
elias has to pick a side: jon and the truth or the “funds” and the government. i hope he makes the right one, but plot and conflict is also important and i can totally see him becoming the Imposing But Apologetic Lawful Antagonist
idk what the gods thing is (if it even is something?) but i’m pretty sure one of them has to do with eyes/watching, and my guess is that it’s the one having to do with knowledge. and while i’m here i’m also going to go out on a crazy limb and say that gerard and mary work for it, whatever the watching thing is. that’s how they know where to be at the right time.
there’s another group of people that work on things like the archive does--they’re just a little more....casual. idk if you all are/were supernatural fans but i’m thinking that the magus archive is the men of letters to this other faction being hunters. they split off after elias’s rules became too stifling, and they sometimes get there before the archive knows about the situation (like in ep 36, taken ill, or episode 8, burned out. altho ep 8 was with gerard, so maybe he works with them sometimes? idk)
sasha gets better but a sacrifice has to be made to save her. martin, to everyone’s surprise, offers. 
i’m so excited to listen to season two oh my god this show is fantastic
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