#relationship: agnes montague/jack barnabas

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

Agnes Montague is such a tragic character if you stop to think about her for more than 5 seconds.

She grow up in a cult, with no parents, and was raised by people who really didn't know what they where doing. She wasn't allowed near other children or left alone for any length of time, completely isolating her from anyone with her age until she went to Hill Top Road, which, not a great place to grow up either. She wasn't raised as a child but as a fucked up chosen one. Even the relationships that she had with other people where tainted with her status as the Messiah, I mean look at this quote from MAG 139:

["Jude had only just joined at the time, and was – besotted with Agnes, though I couldn’t tell you if she loved her as a god, or as a woman"]

She couldn't have any normal relationship with anyone around her because everyone worshiped her.

We don't know much about Agnes as an individual. Most we know about her is second hand knowledge or from people from her cult or from the people that ended up crossing paths with her, and none of it is about who she was as a person, only about what they thought of her. We never got to know Agnes, we never got her statement or anything really. The closest thing we ever got to know what was going on inside her head is from this part from MAG 67, the statement of Jack Barnabas regarding a short-lived courtship with Agnes Montague in the Autumn of 2006:

["We sat on a bench as the sun went down, watching the sky redden, and Agnes asked me a question. It was the first time she’d said anything more than a few words since we left my flat. She asked me if I had a destiny.

I don’t need to tell you the question caught me off guard. I don’t know if I’ve given the impression clearly enough yet, being a single guy in my early thirties still working the till at a Sheffield cafe, but I don’t really see myself as having much of a destiny. Hell, I’m not even sure I believe in destiny. I certainly don’t believe in God, and I feel that’s kind of linked.

So I told her this. She looked at me, with the same sadness I’d seen on her face before. “That must be nice,” she said and went back to staring into the sunset."]

This is the only time we get to see what's going on inside Agnes head and it's so important, because it's not a stretch to come to the conclusion that she didn't want this. She never asked to be born into a cult, she never asked to have a destiny and she never asked to be the chosen one! She was raised into the believe that she had a destiny to follow, that she was the Messiah that was going to bring The Desolation into the world, but she didn't want that. I can't say that she never did, because we don't know that. Maybe she did. Maybe, after she met Jack, she changed her mind. Maybe she realized what actual real love felt like, what a normal life felt like, and she wanted more. But these are all maybes because we will never know, and that is the true tragedy! We will never know what Agnes thought about all of this. As Arthur Nolan in MAG 145 puts it:

["Never really knew what she (Agnes) felt ‘bout any of it, not really. Not in her own words. Guess that’s the thing about being the… chosen one, [...] you’re always just the point of someone else’s story, everyone clamoring to say what you were, what you meant, and your thoughts on it all don’t mean nothing."]

Agnes "Messiah" Montague is on the other side of the same coin that Jonathan "The Archivist" Sims is.

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Statement of Mitchell Pritchett: Night Light

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/t2L7pRD by MyDarkWeirdMind Statement of Mitchell Pritchett, regarding the attempted reclamation of his adopted daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett, by her biological father, Le Huyen. Original statement given 20th August 2024 Recorded on September 1st 2024 by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London. --- If you have watched up to Series 5 of 'Modern Family' then there are no spoilers here for you. No real spoilers for 'The Magnus Archives' because though certain characters are mentioned this is AU. So, if you have watched either 'Modern Family' or listened to 'The Magnus Archives', but not the other, you should be able to enjoy this fic. I hope you do. Words: 5185, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 4 of The Magnus Archives-Comedy Crossovers Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Modern Family (TV 2009) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Categories: M/M Characters: Mitchell Pritchett, Cameron Tucker, Lily Tucker-Pritchett, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Agnes Montague, Jack Barnabas, Barb Tucker, Merle Tucker, Pameron "Pam" Tucker, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Jay Pritchett, Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Rosa Diaz, Original Male Character(s) Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Mitchell Pritchett/Cameron Tucker, Mitchell Pritchett & Cameron Tucker & Lily Tucker-Pritchett, Martin Blackwood & Sasha James & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker, Jack Barnabas/Agnes Montague Additional Tags: Statement Fic (The Magnus Archives), Alternate Universe, The Archives are running as normal, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Kidnapping, Torture, Adoption, Fire, The Dark Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives) read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/t2L7pRD

[owlovo]

3 Non romantic ships: oughh platonic relationships my beloved. i am a c!sam and c!tommy enjoyer 5ever. chotelduo i am sooo normal about you (dsmp guys for the unaware.) Damian and steph as well, and they are newer blorbos but danny and jazz from danny phantom *eye twitch* i was always doomed to love them. This was so hard but i also tried to vary up the media so its not just ctommy LMAO. Wally and Shayera based choice ceph.

surprising ship: hm well jack barnabas and agnes montague from the magnus archives. gay gay horror fiction podcast and i pick a one episode mlw ship to really like? sure. kissing her burned his face off and he says he DOESNT REGRET IT? she wanted to experience humanity and did but couldn’t help what she was? the only coffee shop meet-cute i care about. the love was there. my god the love was there.

last song: god games from epic the musical. i thought it was a bit clunky at first but ive started to enjoy the song as a whole. there are other ways on top though.

last film: uh Fall Guy that i can remember? could be something else. fun film.

currently reading: technically the revenge of the sith novelisation by matthew stover but i havent touched it in a while (sorry matthew!)

currently watching: the magnus protocol im not fully up to date (big rec for that and tma :>)

currently consuming: just had toast and about to have tea. but the unfortunately the more real answer is my own snot cause i am very sickkk :’)

currently craving: in a more general sense not being sick but really a nice face mask

thanks for the tag, ceph!

tags: @poetic-crimelord @ruestheday @griancraft @www-ghost-com @spiralspam @dangerousdan-dan

9 people you'd like to know better

Done this one recently, so I'm changing the questions up. Thanks for the tag @authortobenamedlater.

1. Three non-romantic duos: Anakin & Rex, Nancy & Peggy, Christina & Melanie

2. A ship that might surprise others: Ben/Rey. Except not the way it's done in the movies.😅 There's a bunch of AU versions I've seen in fanart that made me start liking them, and now I have my own AU for them.

3. Last song: 'The Force Theme' by Samuel Kim.

4. Last film: Revenge of the Sith last night with my big brother.

5. Currently reading: lots of SW fanfic, Jedi Trial by David Sherman and Dan Cragg

6. Currently watching: Loki w my sister, Book of Boba Fett w a friend

7. Currently consuming: last thing I ate was a bowl of granola for breakfast

8. Currently craving: to turn my phone off and concentrate on writing for a solid hour. I have a fic to finish.

Tagging @dont-do-rice-babes @stargazer-luna @helloalyss @clawedandcute @kraytwriter @musewrangler @thefinaljediknight @sailforvalinor @ablatheringblatherskite

[magnus-archives-playlist-project]

now onto specific episode songs! comfort crowd by conan gray for #13 alone (more naomi and evan's relationship saving each other from the lonely than the statement itself), astronaut by simple plan for #57 personal space, coffeebar by the late night call for #67 burning desire (again more like before all the crazy shit happened) and cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant for #186 quiet (martin @ martin)

“soComfort crowd hits the theme of being anchored in the lonely by loved ones for sure.

We rot, thinkin' lots about nothing Yeah, I could spend a lifetime Sitting here talkin' And even if I cry all over your body You don't really mind Say you like your shirt soggy

Astronaut is almost too perfect, I gotta wonder if Jonny was listening to this while writing the episode like.

'Cause tonight I'm feeling like an astronaut Sending SOS from this tiny box And I lost all signal when I lifted off Now I'm stuck out here and the world forgot Can I please come down? 'Cause I'm tired of drifting 'round and 'round Can I please come down?

Sidenote, I genuinely adore the proud playlist tradition of finding a song that has strong metaphorical imagery and just going “no it’s literal now.” We’re right and we should say it.

Agnes just having herself a little coffee shop au of her own life, as a treat, is both so tragic and charming at the same time.

Every Friday after work I stand beside a Lovely little Coffee bar and See this girl reading In her black skirt I guess she smells Just like green clover One street away And every Friday I wanna pay Every tea she wants to take

Cigarette Daydreams definitely captures the atmosphere of that episode.

You sigh, look away I can see it clear as day Close your eyes, so afraid Hide behind that baby face

Also if “soft spot, with a mean streak” doesn’t describe Martin I don’t know what does.

[hawkfurze]

We sat on a bench as the sun went down, watching the sky redden, and Agnes asked me a question. It was the first time she’d said anything more than a few words since we left my flat. She asked me if I had a destiny. I don’t need to tell you the question caught me off guard. I don’t know if I’ve given the impression clearly enough yet, being a single guy in my early thirties still working the till at a Sheffield café, but I don’t really see myself as having much of a destiny. Hell, I’m not even sure I believe in destiny. I certainly don’t believe in God, and I feel that’s kind of linked. So I told her this. She looked at me, with the same sadness I’d seen on her face before. “That must be nice,” she said and went back to staring into the sunset.

[mxalexwhat]

y’all ever notice how the straight men in TMA ultimately fall for the most dangerous fucking woman and when they are inevitably betrayed by her, either bodily mutilated beyond the point of recognition or just even straight up murdered, just shrug their shoulders and say, I could go for another round.

[fox-guardian]

agnes montague?

First impression - ooh a fire lady

Impression now - ooh a very sad and tragic fire lady

Favorite moment - her just. turning up at the dude's house like "yes we are dating. let's go for a date."

Idea for a story - jon gerry and agnes childhood friends is always neat

Unpopular opinion - idk

Favorite relationship - her and her coffee shop beau jack barnabas

Favorite headcanon - love the rejection of auburn or whatever hair in favor of Bright Orange because Fire. i just find it funny

[thelukasfamily]

Not to be completely single-minded but the Jon-Agnes Montague parallels are getting more explicit every episode. (MAG190)

That’s the first time that the show has used the label “Antichrist”, but they’ve used the trope before. A chosen one from the Christian tradition, a dark messiah born to bring about the end of the world. (MAG 139, MAG 139, MAG 145)

That’s Agnes. Agnes is the show’s Antichrist.

Both Jon and Agnes are explicitly described as chosen ones; both have relationships that tie them to humanity; now, both are held out as the Antichrist. It creates some interesting possibilities for Jon’s future.

In a Good Omens-esque twist, Agnes’ attachment to humanity, to Jack Barnabas, to Gertude Robinson, was central to her refusal to end the world. Now more than ever, I think Jon’s attachment to humanity, to Martin, to Georgie, will be central to his fate.

[magnusmysteries]

Part 21: Star-Crossed Lovers

The Magnus Archives was a horror podcast. It is now completed. Many of the show’s mysteries were never explained on the show. I intend to explain them. Spoilers for the show, but also spoilers if you wanna solve these mysteries yourself.

In the previous post I said the tree at Hill Top Road was of the Spiral. And that one of the reasons I think that is that it was destroyed by two people marked by the Spiral. What other reasons are there? 

Second reason: It bleeds, like the doorknob in a sturdy lock. If you see a tree bleed, you’d fear for your sanity.

Third reason: I think trees in general are a symbol of the Spiral. In The Coming Storm Michael Crew is tormented by a Spiral creature. He opens it’s gate to find a forest full of impossible trees. But symbolically what does trees have to do with the Spiral? 

I think the Spiral not only covers the fear of insanity, but also the fear of getting lost. That’s why the Spiral often deals with mazes. And that’s why trees, you can get lost in the woods. Michael Crew did not enter the gate, but if he had I think he would have gotten lost. This explains why the Spiral is the opposite of the Desolation (see part 3). Because trees burn. This is why the Spiral is next to the Buried (see part 3). Because you can get lost in a cave. 

This might explain why the Spiral likes fractals. Trees look like a fractal with their branches. And a maze has branching paths like a fractal.

Gertrude’s protective circle is in a forest. It has bottles full of boiling water and photographs of Gertrude and twigs and pine needles. When the Cult is trying to burn Gertrude, the force gets directed to the bottles because of the photographs. And then the forest and the twigs neutralizes the power because they are of the Spiral and opposes the Desolation.

In Burning Desire Agnes feels a sudden pain. It happens just about the same time as the Hill Top Road tree is pulled down. Why is Agnes affected by the tree’s destruction?

In Recluse the statement giver mentions the tree. He says it has leaves, and that he likes to sit under it and read. So it is a normal tree, not yet dead and spooky like in Burned Out. In the same episode is the box from the table. It has not yet ended up beneath the tree. So who changed the tree? Who placed the box beneath it? 

I think Agnes did both things. But how can Agnes turn a tree into a Spiral tree if Agnes is of the Desolation? Because Agnes is an avatar of both the Spiral and the Desolation. 

The Cult of the Lightless Flame has a hard time raising Agnes and so decides to send her to the orphanage to be raised by Raymond Fielding of the Web. Now, does that make any sense? Letting a different Power, one that specializes in mind control no less, raise their messiah? No. Creating Agnes was the Web’s plan from the beginning. 

In Burning Desire Jack sees three men from the Cult of the Lightless Flame. One John identifies as Diego, and suspects another could be Arthur Noland. One has a bag full of candles, so it is probably Eugene Vanderstock, as he made candles. By process of elimination, the third man is probably Arthur. This man holds a container full of spiders. According to Jane Prentiss, there are also spiders in the apartment building where Arthur later is the landlord. The Web is manipulating Arthur and he doesn't realize it. Arthur is the one that proposes a plan to make a Messiah for the Desolation. But it is actually the Web’s plan.

When the Lightless Flame Cult holds the ritual that births Agnes, they have it in a forest. Agnes’ mother lies on wood and wears a crown of wood. The cultists don’t realize it, but they are incorporating Spiral symbols in their ritual.

Agnes’ mother is of the Desolation. I think the father is someone from the Spiral. I think there is a meta hint about it: The mother’s name is Eileen Montague. Montague is the last name of Romeo from Romeo and Juliet. A story of two people from enemy families falling in love. Like Eileen having a relationship with someone from the enemy power. The Spiral being the opposite of the Desolation.

When Diego brings a book about child care, Arthur burns it. He thinks he does it because Diego is attacking his leadership. Actually the Web makes him do it. To sabotage their attempts at raising Agnes, so that they’ll bring Agnes to the orphanage.

Why was Agnes created? In This Old House we learn that the Web would lure servants of various fears to Hill Top Road to fight each other to widen the crack in reality. A sculptor of puppets (of the Web? Or the Stranger?) gets killed by a hunter.  An Eye avatar gets killed by a Buried avatar. But why make Agnes an avatar of two Fears? I think the web wanted all the Fears to have fought at Hill Top Road. By creating Agnes, the Web is killing two birds with one stone, getting a Desolation fight and a Spiral fight at the same time.

If Agnes made the tree, does it mean the tree is also a Spiral and Desolation tree? Yes. The tree has scorch marks on it. But if Ivo and Father Burroughs needed to be marked by the Spiral to destroy the tree, would they not also have to be marked by the Desolation? Yes, and they were marked by the Desolation. Just before they destroyed the tree, they were attacked by the Desolation and felt like they were burning. The Web brought the Desolation entity to Hill Top Road to mark them. 

In this Old House Annabelle says the crack in reality became a gap when Agnes kills Raymond. I think she’s a little wrong. The fight between Agnes and Raymond did turn the crack into a gap, but I think that happened before Raymond died. Agnes binds Raymond to Hill Top Road by putting the box from his table under the tree. She transforms the tree so it can not be easily destroyed. I believe binding Raymond is what widens the crack. And this allows for time travel.

Quote from Ivo from Burned out “And then I would smell it again, that whiff of burnt hair, or catch a glimpse of brown pigtails disappearing around a corner.”

Ivo is not hallucinating, nor seeing a ghost. That’s Agnes traveling to the future. The pigtails suggest this happened while Agnes was young. Which suggests the time traveling became possible before Raymond died.

In I Guess You Had To Be There a woman sees the ghost of a burning woman. I think that’s Agnes again, time traveling.

I think it’s impossible to travel in time to before the crack gets widened. At least I can’t think of anything that suggests time traveling happening before Agnes goes to Hill Top Road.

Raymond shows up in the future and meets Ivo. Raymond’s not a ghost, he’s a time traveler. He’s wearing old fashioned clothes, natch. (I think every time we see something related to ghosts or life after death it is connected either with the End, or the two fears next to the End, the Slaughter and the Lonely. I don’t think the Web or the Desolation makes ghosts.) I’m not sure why Raymond traveled forward in time. Was it on purpose to try to escape Agnes and the tree? Did Agnes send him?

Raymond goes and stares out of the window into the garden. I think he’s looking at the tree, the tree that is trapping him. Raymond vanished and the floor where he stood was scorched.

In the past Raymond vanished, and Agnes lived alone for some years. Then the orphanage burns and Raymond is found dead, missing his right hand. Many years later Agnes is hanged. A severed right hand is attached to her waist with a chain. Tissue decay suggests the hand owner died about the same time as Agnes.

I think when Raymond vanished for years, that’s because he went to the future and met Ivo. Right before Agnes dies, she travels back in time to when Raymond met Ivo. Agnes chains Raymond to herself and drags him back in time. Hence the scorched floor. Agnes takes Raymond back to the orphanage, cuts off his hand, burns him and the orphanage. Then she travels forwards in time and is hanged, hand still attached. 

Why is she attached to the hand when she is hanged? I think some magic reason. Maybe by having part of him attached, when she commits suicide, Raymond is symbolically committing suicide. Maybe this lessens the Web’s power? Hands are often a symbol for the Spiral.

Eugene says Arthur told him Agnes had kept the hand when she burned Raymond. So maybe Arthur spoke with future Agnes? Since Agnes stopped aging as an adult, Arthur would not have realized she was older.

Agnes goes on some dates with Jack Barnabas. When the tree is uprooted, Agnes tells the cult that Barnabas has made her doubt role as a Messiah. She says her doubt will make the ritual fail. And so she will hang herself, so that she will not use up the Desolation power on a failed ritual. That way the cult can attempt another ritual relatively soon, but not too soon. This is a bunch of lies.

Agnes never wanted to complete a ritual. (Maybe when she was very little.) She was just pretending for the cult. She never had any real interest in Barnabas, the dates with him were just an excuse to fool the cult, and more importantly fool the web.

Agnes fakes her death, sort of. By going back in time she could create two Agneses. One of them hanged herself, the other lived.

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Why did Agnes have to fake her own death? I’m not sure about this but I think the Web considered her dangerous and wanted her killed. But if Agnes died, the aspect of the Web that was trapped under the tree would also have died. So the Web couldn’t kill her until they had removed the tree. Once the tree is gone, Agnes is no longer protected and she fakes her death.

This is similar to how the Web bound Gertrude and Agnes together. This made the cult afraid to hurt Gertrude. Agnes told the cult that it was her binding to Gertrude that prevented her from doing the ritual. But this is more lies, she didn’t want to do it anyway. I think the Web bound them together to protect Gertrude. The Web wanted Gertrude alive, possibly so Gertrude could stop the other ritual than the Eye’s. Or possibly because the Web thought Gertrude could be the one to complete the Eye’s ritual.

Is Agnes evil? I think she is very good, though very ruthless. When she was very young she did burn people. But if an adult gives a machine gun to a baby and the baby shoots someone, who is to blame?

In Burned Out Annie tells Ivo about Agnes, implying Agnes killed pets and a boy named Henry. But Annie serves the Web, and I think she is lying. Annie wants Ivo to repeat this story to the Archives to trick the Archivists into thinking Agnes is evil. Annie asks Ivo to not let anyone know what she’d been talking about. This is because Annie doesn’t want Ivo to find out the stories are lies. But Annie knows Ivo can’t help tell the story when making a statement.

In Recluse Agnes saves a boy from Raymond, and she probably saves the other children. This is before she is bound to Gertrude, so she was already good before that.

Eugene made candles of people, so Agnes could inhale their suffering. But Eugene is not sure if Agnes uses those candles, or that’s just what Arthur tells him. And in Twice as Bright Jude Perry says she had a newfound love for scented candles. It was Jude who inhaled their suffering.

Agnes kisses Barnabas and burns him badly. But I think this was to prevent the other cult members from killing him, because he’s already suffering. Agnes asks Jude not to interfere with Barnabas. Agnes cries a tear when kissing him, she is sad she has to hurt him.

Gertrude demands that the cult not hurt Barnabas. Why does Gertrude care about him? She doesn’t. It’s Agnes that has told Gertrude to protect Barnabas, because Agnes feels guilty about hurting him. Agnes and Gertrude are working together. More on that in a later post.

In Infectious Doubts Gertrude allows Arthur to ask her a question. Why would she give information to an enemy? The only reason would be if she wanted to lie to him. I’m not sure how much Gertrude tells him is true, but I think at least one thing is a lie. Gertrude says her protective circle has symbols of the Desolation. Actually it has symbols of the Spiral. Similar symbols were used when Agnes was born. Gertrude is lying to Arthur, because she does not want him to realize that Agnes is part Spiral. 

How can Agnes be good, if she is an avatar? I think because she never made a choice to become an avatar, she was one from birth. Because she never chose it, I think the Desolation and the Spiral can’t influence her mind.

[the-horror-lies-within]

TMA lore analysis/theory: What the Fuck is Up with Hill Top Road 105

(will contain HEAVY spoilers for all of The Magnus Archives)

Ok, let’s start by setting up a timeline (rather difficult for a place involved in time travel and multiple universes, but we can try)

Starting off with the exorcism performed at HTR 105: Ivo Lensik gives us the date of November 23rd, 2006. This is contradicted 11 episodes later by Father Edwin Burroughs, who believes the events took place in 2009. But i think i can shorten that span of possible dates. You see, MAG 114 is the statement of Anya Villette, a cleaner who seemingly traveled between dimensions (this is reinforced in MAG 196, where Annabelle cites an “odd incident” regarding dimensional travel). Anya arrived in the universe where TMA taks place on April 8th, 2009, and the house’s construction seems to be already finished. This would make it so that the exorcism from Father Burroughs’s perspective would have taken place between the start of 2009 and, well, right before April 8th.

Now, the statement of Jack Barnabas (MAG 67) about his relationship with Agnes Montague.

Agnes

.

*shaking fist at sky*

AGNEEEEEEEES!

“Fire wife” over here has been a headache and a half for me, but we’ll get into why later.

For now, back to 67. Jack states she died on a November night in, again, 2006. This is corroborated by Jon back in MAG 8 when he states that, on the same night Ivo “Absolute Chad” Lensik uprooted the tree on HTR, a person by the name of Agnes Montague was found dead in her Sheffield flat. So far, simple (this is called foreshadowing)

From this point we leap to 2009, specifically to The Great Twisting. The dates are confusing (because of course they are), but the statement giver of MAG 126 (the statement about Gabriel, the Worker of Clay) states that she had received an invitation a few weeks prior (statement given October 11th, so that would be late September- early October) to Sannikov Land (where you probably remember The Great Twisting took place). The confusion, however, arises in MAG 80, where Jurgen Leitner states he met Gertrude “6 years ago” (2011, in that case) “after she’d lost the last of her own assistants”. Some people on the Wiki have taken it to mean that this places the death of Emma Harvey

(i’ll get to you)

in 2011 as well, but i respectfully disagree. Stupid Idiot Motherfucking Jurgen Leitner’s sentence does not imply that 2011 was necessary close to when Gertrude lost her assistants.

Ok, now that that’s cleared up, we can say that The Great Twisting was attempted around October or November of 2009. Time to address Emma Harvey. How hard could it be?

Well,

Emma Harvey is only really delved upon in MAG 167 (i like how it’s 100+ MAG 67, but it’s probably just a neat coincidence), where it is revealed she was Not Very Nice. In fact, she was SO Not Very Nice that Gertrude, after having returned from Sannikov Land, decided to kill her. And how, you may ask?

Well, through The Desolation. Specifically through the avatar Agnes Montague.

WHO HAD DIED THREE YEARS PRIOR. WHICH IS USUALLY A SMALL OBSTACLE TO DOING THINGS.

So, how do we work this out? Regardless of the exorcism being performed on November 23rd, 2006 or early 2009, Agnes would be dead by the end of 2009 either way. How can her, well, not-death be explained? Also, Gertrude was well aware of Agnes’s death, and openly talks about it with Arthur Nolan during MAG 145. Was she hiding something? Or did she simply find this other Agnes after the statement?I don’t have answers to all of those questions, but i have a guess on how Agnes managed to be there to kill Emma. Basically, i think the time she spent on HTR 105 might have sent her (or some version of her) “rippling” through time, echoes of herself showing up long after her death. Maybe her bond with Gertrude played some part in them being able to find each other? I dont know. BUTMaybe, just maybe, we could be seeing Agnes Montague again for the finale. However, i personally dont think so. Her arc was pretty much wrapped up. Would be cool, though.

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

how would y’all feel if i told you the brief relationship between Jack Barnabas and Agnes Montague is just an coffee shop au dipped in a horror podcast

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Child of the Fears.

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/JgrvW5I by CypherSketch The man stared into Sasha’s eyes in a way that suggested he was reading her thoughts as he shook Sasha’s hand. “That would be me. Jon Ma-er Sims. Jonathan Sims. Pleased to meet you.” “Likewise! Sorry it was such an…odd introduction, but uh welcome to the team!”   Or I kept imagining Elias as Jon's Dad. So I wrote it! Jon is painfully awkward, the rest of the OG crew are trying to figure stuff out, and JMart is on and dorky! Chapters will be short at the beginning. And maybe throughout. Yes I hate the title as well. Read the tags please. Words: 2056, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M Characters: Annabelle Cane, Jane Prentiss, Simon Fairchild, Various Avatar Characters, Danny Stoker, Jared Hopworth, Nicola Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sasha James/Tim Stoker, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus/Peter Lukas, Gerard Keay/Michael | The Distortion, Jack Barnabas/Agnes Montague, Oliver Banks/Michael "Mike" Crew, Background Daisy Tonner/Basira Hussain - Relationship, Georgie Barker/Melanie King Additional Tags: My First Fanfic, No beta we kayak like Tim, Danny is alive!, for plot reasons, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference in the third chapter, Fluff, Smut, Maybe - Freeform, we'll see, Angst, ...Kinda, I Tried, How Do I Tag, Micheal and Helen will coexist, Healthyish Lonely Eyes, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Sasha and Annabelle may be the only competent people in this fic, not brit-picked, I'm not British read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/JgrvW5I

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agnes Montague/Ronald Sinclair, Agnes Montague & Raymond Fielding, Agnes Montague/Gertrude Robinson, Agnes Montague/Jack Barnabas Characters: Agnes Montague Additional Tags: Touching, there is also a little Agnes/Jude but not fun as an actual ship so not maintagging it, Canonical age differences fuckery, Canonical minor character deaths/murder/disfiguration/etc, Mspec female character (unspecified), Bisexual Agnes Montague (is what I had in mind but you can interpret as you like), Season 5 Spoilers Summary:

Agnes does not know how to touch something without destroying it. She does not know how else to want it.

 Written for TMA Bi/Pan/Mspec Week 2021, day 5: Touch | Intersectionality || Gerry | Agnes | Annabelle

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Part 1 of my Agnes Lives AU series, Hearthfire

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agnes Montague/Original Female Character Characters: Agnes Montague, Jude Perry, Original Female Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Somebody Lives/Not Everybody Dies, Fix-It, Past Agnes Montague/Jude Perry, Past Agnes Montague/Jack Barnabas, Mentioned Gertrude Robinson, Hospitals, Pre-Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, (or at least a hopeful ending. the real happy ending will be in the sequel), Additional Warnings in Author’s Note Summary:

After the Cult of the Lightless Flame tries to hang Agnes, she wakes up in the hospital with her connection to the Desolation gone.

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A Messiah or a Martyr

relationships: gertrude robinson/agnes montague-centric. mentions jude perry/agnes montague and agnes montague/jack barnabas.

characters: agnes montague, gertrude robinson

warnings: canon compliant as of 170, statement fic, implied/mentioned child abuse, mentioned child death, canonical suicide

Case 0062211 - Agnes Montague. Statement given the 22nd of November 2006. Committed to tape the 26th of November 2006. Gertrude Robinson recording.

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FEATURING

1. “Cinnamon Girl” by Lana del Rey

“There’s things I wanna talk about//but I’ll just let you live//If you hold me without hurting me//you’ll be the first who ever did.”

(her relationship with Jack Barnabas and how it’s different from every other relationship she’s had in her life)

2. “Light On” by Maggie Rogers

“Do you believe me now//that I always had the best intentions, babe?//Always wanted to stay.//Can you feel me now,//that I’m vulnerable in oh-so-many ways?”

(explaining her doubts and how she doesn’t think she’s suited to be the Messiah of the Desolation anymore, and that it wasn’t a conscious decision she made to change but the change is irreversible now)

3. “Ashley” by Halsey

“Now, if I figure this out//Apart from my beating heart//It’s a muscle, but it’s still not strong enough//to carry the weight of the choices I’ve made//I told you I’d ride this out//It’s getting harder every day somehow//I’m bursting out of myself.”

(how having a lot of time to think and have agency as somewhat of a human, not just an Avatar, has caused her to doubt her purpose)

4. “I’m a Ruin” by MARINA

“I don’t wanna say goodbye//But baby, I don’t wanna lie, to lie//To lie to you//I’m a ruin”

(her leaving Jack behind, and/or coming clean with the cult of the Lightless Flame about her second thoughts)