TMAGP EP 4 SPOILERS (Jonah Magnus Discussion)

“My playing was rough; eliciting only dismissive muttering from my audience. A surge of indignation welled within me, urged on by the knowledge that I, my father’s sin, who had done terrible things to reach this hall, could never return home in disgrace. I executed a jeté, a jarring musical demand for their attention, a declaration that I must be seen and heard.”

When I heard that I went actually slack jawed because genuinely, that was the most Jonah Magnus statement I ever heard in my life. The indignation, the pitless ambition, the declaration to be seen and heard.

If I wasn’t sure beforehand, I am definitely sure that Augustus = Jonah Magnus now. Each of the first statements that the computer voices have read have had snippets of the TMA character they are tied to. Norris with “I’m sorry” filled with regret. Chester with the curiosity involving the institute. And now this.

I have seen a little of people saying Augustus = Jurgen which, I want to dispel. Their accent is similar, which is where I think this initially comes from, but that is because it’s an antiquated, posh, southern English accent. It’s posh RP. Which makes sense for more characters other than Jurgen, and that man has been dead and gone. If Chester and Norris are Jon and Martin, I really don’t think it would make sense for Augustus to be a character who died in TMA S2. The voices could be no one, but if Chester and Norris = Jon and Martin, then Augustus = Jonah. I don’t think you can’t not have both.

Also! This is just a coincidence but did anyone else get MAG 23/MAG 127 vibes from the setting? I am pretty sure it was in Austria in TMAGP 4, not Germany- but something about the woods in a letter, where the writer (just as Dr. Fanshawe to Albrecht von Closen in MAG 127) watches another go insane, from a historical letter realllyyy connected the two in vibes to me. It would be interesting to me if Augustus just read historical statements, and what that would mean.