2024-02-29 23:09:43 ¶ ●

This isn’t to throw shade at other people’s theorizing - we’re only 8 episodes into this podcast, a lot could happen, I DEFINITELY don’t think I know everything about what’s going on - but I’m REALLY surprised at how many people think the Celia we see in the Magnus Protocol might not be the same person we saw in the Magnus Archives. Given that:

- she thought the OIAR’s vibe would be more “manila envelopes and tape recorders,” consistent with Archives-verse!Celia having given a statement at the Magnus Institute
- She wondered if she could search for cases related to “being buried alive, or meat,” implying that her frame of reference for these things is very influenced by Smirke’s 14
- She recognized “Chester’s” voice. I’ve seen some people saying that since she knows (a) Georgie, she might just know Jon as her ex-boyfriend, and I’m not going to discount that possibility, but the cagey way she responds when Sam asks her how she recognizes the voice reads to me as a “I’m hiding something” rather than a genuine “I don’t remember”
- She’s looking into alternate dimensions (!!!)
- She goes by “Celia.” We’ve gotten pretty good evidence that people’s names stay the same or at least similar between universes - tma gave us Anya Villete/Annie Willet, and now tmagp has given us Gerry and Gertrude (who we can be pretty sure are from this universe given that their archives-verse selves are dead) - and tma strongly implied that Celia was not originally named Celia, it was just the name she ended up with after her time in the Stranger domain, so her protocol-verse self would likely have an entirely different name

As for whether the Georgie in tmagp is the same as the Georgie in tma, that I’m not so sure about. But personally, I’m feeling pretty confident about Celia