#the one person Gertrude could trust was Agnus Montague

[thecorruption-thespiralsversion]

So I have a wild theory. Well, more of a hypothesis. What if old Archist!Angus successed in the TMP universe?

So, major spoilers of course, in MAG - "Curiosity" (sorry, don't remember episode numbers and this is a stream of consciousness thing) it's said that the Angus was very much a failure of an archivist. He was trying to rework, rename, and reclassify The Fears. I for some reason am under the impression that he was essentially trying to be The Next Robert Smirk. (Heh! Stranger ref to "a name and face", a title in this case)

In his attempt, he lost everything. And seeing as to how his face was ripped off, after:

-Loosing all but his his most useless assistant. (Fiona Law is my favorite 1 mention character, and that knowing that this creature only care about the torment. Even The Flesh will not eat you if you aren't aware of your own consumption.)

-Seeing that he ran out of resources implies his reputation could have been so bad that there was no for him to ask for help.

I like to believe Angus didn't give up. That he chased that knowledge and in doing so got his face ripped off.

Skin

Masks

Smiles

Face

And Name

This is a creature of The Stranger, by TMA's standards of course.

But what if he succeeded?

What if he found out some fundamental truth about them. What if he found a way to score them. Keep track of them.

Cuz I also have to wonder, how did the monsters and avatars react. Remember that Fairchild said in "Big Picture" that he believed the monster had it worse. They are limbs given manifest. Nothing but sentient seasoning to the fear they consume.

This brings me to some suspicions about Chester, Norris, and Agustus.

Especially because of the first statement. That amalgamation wasn't the statement givers beloved. It was pieces of them, but is pieces enough to be that original person. Is a fragment enough.