#mag 56 children of the night

[artfulacrostic]

martin: my entire resume is bullshit *sweating bullets bc he thinks he's about to get fired*

jon: OH GREAT *audibly grinning like a crazy person because he's so happy martin isn't actively attempting to murder him*

they are really living in different genres in this moment

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Five - Match 40

Trevor Herbert's second statement is against that fucked up cave! Lost Johns' Cave (and yes, I do insist upon spelling it like that) got 204 votes last round!

MAG 056 - Children of the Night | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Continued statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding the latter years of his career as a vampire hunter.

MAG 015 - Lost Johns’ Cave | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Laura Popham, regarding her experience exploring the Three Counties System of caves with her sister Alena Sanderson.

[wondering-jackalope]

MAG 56: Children of the Night. Supplemental.

Again, listening to the podcast for the first time, but I know that these two will be together in the end. I HONESTLY THOUGHT JON FOUND MARTIN’S CONFESSION (with the name erased, obviously)

Hence this lil comic, enjoy:з

-Was it Tim? Not Elias. Sasha?

[zabala0z]

Listened to 3 today instead of 2 like I planned! Worth it. Anyways, welcome back, yada, yada, I’m here again YIPEE

MAG 52: exceptional risk

Oh shit Robert Montauk is back. the guy who visited him was Maxwell Rayner and I did write down from previous episodes he was like a defrocked Pentecostal minister (hell he do???) and had that cult grow around him. Also the last name Rayner was mentioned in The Piper, Joseph Rayner tags or something. The whole, bulbs flickering and crappy water, at least my assumption, seems to be like in response. I’m assuming the thing that murdered Maxwell which then scared the shit out of his daughter in A Fathers Love and possibly killed her mom. I think Robert did something to try and get rid of that creature which is Maxwell came and did his ominous speech or whatever

MAG 53: crusader

Gertrude!!! No notes on this episode but I know eyes are like a super common theme in the magnus archives, I’ve seen some vague fanart so I’ll keep an eye for that. Sorry.

MAG 54: Still Life

Daniel Rawlings was one of the people who disappeared in Anglerfish near Old Fishmarket Close. The thing that was in his basement was also described very similarly to the thing in the alleyway. Swaying motion, a monotone voice, repeating the same sentence again, and again. Not only that Daniel disappeared the same year as Sarah Baldwin, who we were already, unfortunately, introduced to. I know he has like a completely different appearance but I dunno. It’s creepy. ALSO, there were those 2 men with cockney accents and when Jon got delivered those packages in season 1, Martin described them with cockney accents. So I’m assuming they are the same.

MAG 55: Pest Control

Jane Prentiss mention. Thought we’d be done with her when she’s now ash but I guess not 💀 (<- Jane) anyways, apparently John Amherst got an appearance. Doing some calculating, I think him in MAG 55 was before Taken Ill. I think. One thing I noticed looking back at Taken Ill was that Nicole didn’t want to touch the bell because there was this oily residue on it, the same oily residue on the door to his house when Jordan knocked on it. Also the landlord from Jane’s statement is here. Did not expect him to sacrifice himself. Clearly he knows a lot and maybe knew what that “wasps” nest was all about. He had that scar too. So far I can’t find anything connecting with that scar but everything (everyone) is going up in flames in this podcast I swear.

MAG 56: Children of the Night

I was actually going to end this post at Pest Control but I saw TREVOR was giving this statement so I had to listen. Anyways. Uh. Rest in peace that human he killed 🫡. The lady that had spiders come out was interesting. Lot of spiders in this podcast.

Also Jon seems really stressed like he needs a nice nap and maybe some like book to calm him down. I jumped and he wasn’t even yelling at me 😭 personally I would not let that slide. also Martin mentioned his mom having problems so he dropped out and I think his moms problems were based in the supernatural in some way. No basis for that.

One other thing, I saw that the title of this episode is like…slightly similar to the thing Gertrude referenced in Crusaders. “Those who sing the night “children of the night”. I guess only night is mentioned and it could be a coincidence but I’m keeping that in mind just in case.

Anyways that’s all my thoughts!! I see the next episode is something about space. It is currently 10:12 PM and it’s pitch black so I’m definitely not listening to that tonight.

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 58

MAG 56 - Children of the Night

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[theunusualchameleon]

Trevor Herbert: Addiction, Clarity, and Drive

I’m participating in @a-mag-a-day, and decided to express some of my thoughts on the progression of Trevor Herbert’s characterization. The next thing I knew, I had an essay. 

Over the course of The Magnus Archives, one of the most interesting recurring secondary characters is Trevor Herbert, the homeless vampire hunter. Over the course of his appearances and statements, a rough timeline can be drawn comparing his overall stability over time. This essay will be ignoring his last appearances, most notably his attack on the institute at the end of season 4 and his brief moment in season 5, in favor of a deeper look at Trevor’s motivations and characterization over time. The resounding theme of his character is that steadfast dedication to a cause, whether that cause is morally right or not, can lead to personal improvement for those devoting themselves to it.

To make sense of what was an admittedly overgeneralized and cryptic claim, let’s look through Trevor’s timeline and compare his psychological state in each appearance. Trevor Herbert, like many other secondary characters from Magnus, features in multiple statements spread out over the course of several seasons. Other important minor characters, such as Jared Hopworth, Agnes Montague, and Adelard Dekker, are also introduced in this fashion. Trevor’s appearances, however, are mostly in some form of chronological order, and we have not one but three statements given by the man himself, which allow us, the listeners, a relatively easy look into his mind.

The first statement he appears in is Mag 10: Vampire Killer. Trevor describes his early years first encountering vampires, as well as his experiences being homeless. The first half covers fleeing from an abusive home with his brother Nigel, and Nigel’s subsequent death at the hands of a vampire. This first encounter is heavily interspersed with digressions about later learned facts on the nature of vampires, comparing his knowledge at the time of the first encounter with his knowledge now. This provides us with several important pieces of information. Firstly, Trevor is both smart enough and experienced enough to define general rules for vampire behavior and abilities. Secondly, he’s interested in sharing that information. He states or implies several times in this first statement that he intends for it to become reference material for all those looking to hunt vampires themselves; later evidence suggests that that was very much the case: his statement has been viewed many times by members of the police, and section 31’s vampire policy is clearly influenced by Trevor’s experience and advice.

The second half of the statement shows the beginning of Trevor’s decline. Between his first and second vampire encounter, he almost convinced himself that he was seeing things, became addicted to heroin, and remained homeless. It was only a chance encounter with another vampire that got him firmly on the path of a vampire hunter. 

Here, similarly to the journeys of several other avatars or statement givers, we see the motif of the second encounter. Some people had only one encounter with the supernatural, and generally managed to dismiss it, returning to their normal, comfortable lives. The second encounter marks a turning point, where the unfortunate victim can either turn around and leave again or embrace the danger and dig themselves deeper; Melanie King is a prime example of this, but so is Trevor. He chooses to follow the vampire and save its victim, thus beginning his personal journey to becoming an avatar of the Hunt. 

In the second installment of the same statement, featured in Mag 56: Children of the night, picks up after a large gap in which Trevor has both killed several more vampires, and deteriorated significantly. His heroin addiction, previously just mentioned in passing as what caused a vampire to stop biting him, has become much more debilitating. He is also beginning to show a physical dependence on the Hunt: thinking less clearly between hunts, and less dependent on the extensive vetting system he used in the past. It is only accidentally killing someone who was not, in fact, a vampire, that causes the shock to his system that brings Trevor the clarity he needs to understand what he is Becoming (and clearly by this point capital letters are necessary). This leads him into an even worse downwards spiral, where we can see more and more traces of the Hunt’s influence and interference. His addiction becomes worse and worse, and he says “It’s a wonder I never overdosed at any point”, which was likely due to the Hunt keeping him alive.

It is generally accepted that the full Becoming of an avatar requires a literal or symbolic death. The avatar is offered a choice: to die, or to continue living as someone else with full dependence and loyalty to their power of choice. It’s generally accepted that for Trevor this tipping point was when he failed to die of stomach cancer in the institute breakroom, but it’s more likely his symbolic death took place somewhere in these hazy years, right before he made the final decision to get up and keep hunting. He encounters an avatar of the Web, realizes that there’s more than just vampires hiding in the dark, makes his statement, and then leaves the institute, most likely not aware that his stomach cancer is no longer capable of killing him. 

The next turning point in Trevor’s life is when he meets Julia Montauk, his hunting companion and, later, adopted daughter. In the statement given jointly by Trevor and Julia, we can see that both when they met and when they gave this statement, Trevor had a clarity of thought and strength of body not seen earlier. His aging has slowed considerably, and he appears to no longer be using heroin. The Hunt has clearly had an influence, and Trevor is a particular favorite of it. In addition, he and Julia have more money, a car, greater knowledge of different types of monsters, and are in possession of The Catalog of the Trapped Dead, containing several ghosts, most notably Gerad Keay.

When Jon meets Trevor and Julia in America, Trevor is still rugged. He’s still old. He’s still violent. But embracing the Hunt and gaining a partner to Hunt with have given him an unbridled ability to think clearly and display the intelligence, instincts, and judgment we only saw hints of in earlier statements. 

There is both in-universe and real-life precedent for this. Acquiring a cause, giving yourself a purpose, can help an individual with personal struggles. We see many avatars who achieve self-actualization after embracing their god; Trevor is no exception. It’s not clear how much he consciously considers himself a servant of the hunt, but he clearly is, and that was the best option he could have taken for his personal growth and development.

[ominoustaperecordernoises]

TMA Bracket - “Trevor, Where the Hell You Been Loca” Edition

[a-mag-a-day]

Date: December 14th, 2022

Episode of the day: MAG 56 Children of the Night

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[mag-madness]

In MAG 56 Children Of The Night, Trevor Herbert gives a really interesting insight on what it was like being an avatar/ servant to one of the fears. Specifically, The Hunt.

"The hunt became an addiction of its own. Of the two, I have always found heroin the easier to quit."

[corens-relisten]

MAG 56 Children of the Night

Continued statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding the latter years of his career as a vampire hunter. original statement given july 10th, 2010.

a sense that could pick them out huh?

spoilers hihi

the Hunt taking him is so (: being addicted to it, not being able to stop, it being his sole purpose... mmm

"and i always felt stronger on a Hunt"

so bc of that lady, the Web too hm?

no more spoilers

i... mostly regret killing that human.

istg dude TT i mean it makes sense. his reasoning is good, like being able to kill a human and knowing he was a human. makes him feel less crazy ( :

most this statement is about dupont, the human, hm? its really interesting though (:

and then he was quiet.

OH MY GOD aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thats so aaaaaaa i dont even have words THAT WHOLE SCENE AAAAA jeez <3 jonny sims you've done it again haha

ooh huh interesting it felt like the pull of addiction hm? oop what is this thing-

OH. OH? OH?!? SPIDERS?? WHAT IS THIS hihi not jon being "too unlucky" for the spider lady to be fake

so. trevor is neither confirmed dead or alive huh? oh? jon is confronting martin about it?

OH. OH FUCK. ITS THIS EPISODE HUH. JESUS CHRIST I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT. GONNA MAKE ME FUCKING CRY

UH yeah have a nice day-

[lamentablequeen]

u just reminded me of the emotional whiplash jon's poor paranoid ass must have gone through from episode 55-56. like the dude from pest control mentions "the ashes i gave to your friend" and jon's probably like 'ashes... real? martin... really did this kind but frankly buckwild thing... for real? maybe... trust martin...' and then he reads trevor's continued statement and is like 'OKAY WELL MARTIN'S BEEN LYING TO ME ABOUT DEAD VAMPIRE HUNTERS SO NOW WE GOTTA TALK ABOUT THAT' this absolute mess.

oh my god that PARANOID FUCKING MESS OF A MAN. you’re so right, early s2 must have been SO wild for him. ashes... real??? martin... not lying to me about anything important???? t-trust martin??? i can’t imagine how many confusing things he must have been feeling. wow he really does go from NO TRUST HEART EMPTY to ONE TRUST in 3 episodes. icon. emotional parkour.

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 40

Both of Trevor Herbert's statements were sent to the Redemption Zone, as Children of the Night only earned 60 votes in Round Two. We have consecutive episodes today as Personal Space left Round One with 99 votes!

MAG 056 - Children of the Night | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Continued statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding the latter years of his career as a vampire hunter.

MAG 057 - Personal Space | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Carter Chilcott, regarding their time spent in isolation aboard the Space Station Daedalus.

[tma-newbie]

thoughts on: MAG 56 Children of the Night

the description says its a part b but idk if i’ll remember what part a was

it was the vampire hunter dude but i dont remember tons

apparently he didnt die

okay he killed a regular dude

hes explaining why the dude was weird

not a vampire but maybe another kind of supernatural??

hmmmmmm okay he met something that was Not a vampire

weird lady trying to do mind tricks

his arm went inTO her? like bone turner??

oop he slashed across her

sheS FULL OF SPIDERS WH

statement ends

fjjd jon thinks martin’s been lying to him

about trevor’s death

jon is angy

martin :(((

martin lied on his cv jdjddjdjfnf

awwww

jon’s relieved. maybe he can trust martin now??

[vampir3-mon3y]

i organized all the tma statements in order

gertrude is rolling in her grave

note that these include episodes that aren’t exactly statements such as the finales, i basically went about this like if it has a case number it’s getting organized, which is also why i stopped at 160

if i’ve made a mistake dont hesitate to tell me !!

january 1st 1715 - mag 140 “the movement of the heavens”

november 2nd 1787 - mag 116 “the show must go on”

june 12th 1814 - mag 50 “foundations”

march 31st 1816 - mag 23 “schwartzwald”

april 9th 1824 - mag 92 “nothing besides remains”

november 21st 1831 - mag 127 “remains to be seen”

august 1st 1837 - mag 152 “a gravedigger’s envy”

december 5th 1845 - mag 58 “trail rations”

unknown date; early 1862 - mag 105 “total war”

may 14th 1864 - mag 98 “lights out”

february 13th 1867 - mag 138 “the architecture of fear”

november 6th 1922 - mag 7 “the piper”

june 27th 1930 - mag 133 “dead horse”

february 20th 1952 - mag 99 “dust to dust”

july 3rd 1955 - mag 137 “nemesis”

june 4th 1972 - mag 29 “cheating death”

november 2nd 1977 - mag 95 “absent without leave”

february 3rd 1979 - mag 44 “tightrope”

unknown; 80s or 90s - mag 85 “upon the stair”

march 2nd 1983 - mag 86 “tucked in”

december 1st 1990 - mag 84 “possessive”

july 19th 1993 - mag 125 “civilian casualties”

september 15th 1994 - mag 77 “the kind mother”

may 15th 1996 - mag 96 “return to sender”

september 5th 1997 - mag 53 “crusader”

november 22nd 1998 - mag 2 “do not open”

june 10th 1999 - mag 17 “the boneturner’s tale”

february 22nd 2000 - mag 66 “held in customs”

june 12th 2001 - mag 78 “distant cousin”

june 4th 2002 - mag 35 “old passages”

october 20th 2002 - mag 21 “freefall”

december 3rd 2002 - mag 9 “a fathers love” & mag 155 “cost of living”

august 24th 2003 - mag 27 “a sturdy lock”

september 1st 2003 - mag 146 “threshold”

november 4th 2003 - mag 88 “dig”

december 9th 2003 - mag 70 “book of the dead”

april 9th 2004 - mag 52 “exceptional risk”

january 17th 2005 - mag 24 “strange music”

november 29th 2005 - mag 59 “recluse”

january 22nd 2006 - mag 134 “time of revelation”

november 7th 2006 - mag 75 “a long way down”

november 30th 2006 - mag 139 “chosen”

january 4th 2007 - mag 115 “taking stock”

march 13th 2007 - mag 8 “burned out”

march 18th 2007 - mag 67 “burning desire”

july 1st 2007 - mag 3 “across the street”

janurary 7th 2008 - mag 51 “high pressure”

february 10th 2008 - mag 106 “a matter of perspective”

march 11th 2008 - mag 49 “the butcher’s window”

july 3rd 2008 - mag 62 “first edition”

july 21st 2008 - mag 154 “bloody mary”

december 12th 2008 - mag 18 “the man upstairs”

december 19th 2008 - mag 130 “meat”

january 4th 2009 - mag 156 “reflection”

february 2nd 2009 - mag 145 “infectious doubts”

february 23rd 2009 - mag 5 “thrown away”

march 30th 2009 - mag 97 “we all ignore the pit”

april 4th 2009 - mag 57 “personal space”

april 22nd 2009 - mag 114 “cracked foundation”

august 6th 2009 - mag 37 “burnt offering”

october 3rd 2009 - mag 144 “decrypted”

october 11th 2009 - mag 126 “sculptor’s tool”

october 22nd 2009 - mag 72 “takeaway”

feburuary 1st 2010 - mag 107 “third degree”

march 25th 2010 - mag 48 “lost in the crowd”

october 7th 2010 - mag 10 “vampire killer” & mag 56 “children of the night“

november 18th 2010 - mag 69 “thought for the day”

december 9th 2010 - mag 31 “first hunt”

january 2nd 2011 - mag 33 “boatswain’s call”

april 3rd 2011 - mag 148 “extended surveillance”

may 29th 2011 - mag 14 ”piecemeal”

may 30th 2011 - mag 19 “confession” & mag 20 “desecrated host”

november 13th 2011 - mag 112 “thrill of the chase”

february 11th 2012 - mag 12 “first aid”

march 12th 2012 - mag 110 “creature feature”

april 2nd 2012 - mag 153 “love bombing”

april 22nd 2012 - mag 1 “anglerfish”

june 6th 2012 - mag 38 “lost and found”

november 19th 2012 - mag 36 “taken ill”

december 1st 2012 - mag 136 “the puppeteer”

december 11th 2012 - mag 124 “left hanging”

unknown; circa 2012 - mag 113 “breathing room”

may 13th 2013 - mag 149 “concrete jungle”

june 23rd 2013 - mag 54 “still life”

june 28th 2013 - mag 4 “page turner”

august 7th 2013 - mag 90 “body builder”

august 14th 2013 - mag 157 “rotten core”

september 1st 2013 - mag 30 “killing floor”

september 4th 2013 - mag 129 “submerged”

october 19th 2013 - mag 83 “drawing a blank”

february 23rd 2014 - mag 32 “hive”

march 31st 2014 - mag 63 “the end of the tunnel”

june 4th 2014 - mag 102 “nesting instinct”

july 2nd 2014 - mag 103 “cruelty free”

july 14th 2014 - mag 135 “dark matter”

october 10th 2014 - mag 87 “the uncanny valley”

november 9th 2014 - mag 150 “cul-de-sac”

december 9th 2014 -mag 6 “squirm”

february 1st 2015 - mag 122 “zombie”

april 9th 2015 - mag 16 “arachnophobia”

april 19th 2015 - mag 25 “growing dark”

may 20th 2015 - mag 64 “burial rites”

june 8th 2015 - mag 74 “fatigue”

august 1st 2015 - mag 123 “web development”

january 13th 2016 - mag 13 “alone”

march 12th 2016 - mag 22 “colony”

april 2nd 2016 - mag 26 “a distortion”

april 17 2016 - mag 34 “anatomy class”

july 29th 2016 - mag 39 “infestation” & mag 40 “human remains”

september 2nd 2016 - mag 41 “too deep”

september 19th 2016 - mag 43 “section 31”

october 2nd 2016 - mag 47 “the new door”

november 3rd 2016 - mag 55 “pest control”

december 1st 2016 - mag 61 “hard shoulder”

january 7th 2017 - mag 65 “binary”

january 25th 2017 - mag 71 “underground”

february 11th 2017 - mag 73 “police lights”

feburuary 16th 2017 - mag 79 “hide and seek” & mag 80 “librarian”

feburuary 17th 2017 - mag 81 “a guest for mr. spider” & mag 82 “the eyewitness”

april 24th 2017 - mag 89 “twice as bright”

april 28th 2017 - mag 91 “the coming storm”

april 29th 2016 - mag 94 “dead woman walking”

unknown date; may 2017 - mag 100 “i guess you had to be there” & mag 101 “another twist”

june 14th 2017 - mag 104 “sneak preview”

june 29th 2017 - mag 109 “nightfall”

june 30th 2017 - mag 111 “family business”

august 2nd-4th 2017 - mag 117 “testament”

august 6th 2017 - mag 118 “the masquerade”

august 7th 2017 - mag 119 “stranger and stranger”

august 9th 2017 - mag 120 “eye contact”

feburuary 15th - mag 121 “far away”

march 3rd 2018 - mag 128 “heavy goods”

march 20th 2018 - mag 131 “flesh”

march 24th 2018 - mag 132 “entombed”

june 11th 2018 - mag 141 “doomed voyage”

june 12th 2018 - mag 142 “scrutiny”

june 16th 2018 - mag 143 “heart of darkness”

july 20th 2018 - mag 147 “weaver”

august 14th 2018 - mag 151 “big picture”

september 25th 2018 - mag 158 “panopticon” & mag 159 “the last”

october 18th 2018 - mag 160 “the eye opens”

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 56 - Children Of The Night

doodle 56/200; days left 42/110

thousands and thousands of spiders in a trenchcoat!! :DD hell yea!!

i finally got a chance to use my new (and very old) typewriter i bought last sunday on the flee market >:)))) ((he's my baby now)))

i wanted to keep the post short but i do want to share one more thing: i've made one (1) visible mistake while typing and of course it has to be "shittering" instead of "skittering" and OF COURSE when i put the next layer on it, it has to look like it says "shit"........... im- fine- :' )