of course jonathan sims hates poetry. the last time he read a poem it started the apocalypse
of course jonathan sims hates poetry. the last time he read a poem it started the apocalypse
Im certainly very late to the game on this, but if anyone has tracked all significant 18s in the magnus archives. I’d love to see that.
took me this long to notice that 160 took place on Oct 18th, 2018, and the institute was founded in 1818.
and my computer is on its last leg and doesn’t have the capacity to let me click through every wiki page to look for other occurrences of the number 18
no no I’m doubling down on this
Frankenstein (1818) IS the reason for why the Magnus Institute is founded in 1818
it’s the Reckless Pursuit of Knowledge book. it’s the Pursuing Knowledge at All Costs Because You Need To Know Things book.
OF COURSE that’s going to be significant.
wildly disappointing that we never really get much content from the fact that the one thing known for having a lot of eyes are spiders. yet we get no eye and web collaborations where both eye avatars and web avatars are using spiders to spy on things
elias must have really enjoyed prison. a high surveillance environment where everyone’s on high alert. he must have been having the time of his life. it must have been an all-you-can-eat buffet for him.
blood types were discovered in 1901. I think elias should be haunted by the fact that he doesn’t know his original body’s blood type. I think that would be really funny.
let’s be real elias could have completed the ritual on his own if he wasn’t too much of a lazy coward to just get marked himself.
it’s truly revolutionary that they made jonathan sims canonically enjoy using his Eye powers.
they could have very easily made him tortured and miserable about it. And that’s not to say he’s not tortured and miserable– he certainly is– but he doesn’t sit there purely hating the new abilities he’s been gifted. He actively enjoys it. He figures out that when he asks questions, people are compelled to answer. And he immediately goes and asks a guy for his “deepest darkest secret” when he isn’t satisfied with the information the man is giving him willingly.
He’s groomed into starting the apocalypse, but the emotional conflict he deals with isn’t a straightforward “I’ve doomed everyone forever”– instead it’s “Everyone is suffering forever, AND I’M ACTIVELY ENJOYING IT”
He’s so extremely human. He recognizes on a logical level that it’s bad, he doesn’t want to hurt anyone– but it feels good. And often, it’s very VERY convenient. It makes whatever he’s trying to do a lot easier. He could get the information he wants. He could indulge in compelling people and taking statements and feeding. During the apocalypse he could instantly kill any avatar he doesn’t like.
And yet he makes a conscious effort to choose not to hurt people.