jonathan sims is so funny as a protagonist bc he acts and talks like the tortured mc of a 19th century gothic horror novel while everyone else around him just talks like a regular person. extra funny because they all make fun of him for it and it still doesn’t stop him.
i think a lot about the phrasing of this monologue. melanie could have said “it stayed because i let it” or “because i needed it” and absolved herself of some of the responsibility for her actions by framing herself as a passive participant, detached herself from her actions and emotions and agency during her time as an avatar of the slaughter, but she doesn’t. she admits that it felt good to hurt people. that she enjoyed it. that she chose to let her anger out and use it to do harm when given the opportunity, that she actively made the decision to embrace it rather than resist it. that despite knowing how bad it was, a part of her still misses it, even now. misses the power it gave her over others. misses the feeling of being in control. in a story where personal agency and the lack thereof is as central as it is in the magnus archives, it’s simultaneously sympathetic and sickening to hear someone candidly admit that that felt too good to want to stop, no matter the cost. it stayed because i wanted it.
Attention kidnapper. We have you trapped. We have you surrounded and can keep you here indefinitely. You are going to have to kill all the hostages you have if you ever want to see your family again.
listen listen I think Tim and Sasha should be in their 40s. And then you just have this obviously 20 something year old who’s now THEIR BOSS claiming is 38 as if they can’t spot a fresh out of college baby a mile away
The name Jonathan means ‘God has given’ while the surname Sims means 'He who hears’ and I could write an essay on the importance of the name and how it connects to the plot of tma but I CANT because all Jonny did was PLAGIARIZE his FUCKING BIRTH CERTIFICATE
Post mag 200 Jon except now he’s kinda evil and has a hole in his chest from where Martin stabbed him 💕
Had a lot of fun with this one actually!! :)
ID: Image is a digital painting of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives, he is a brown man with a beard and moustache. He has a scar on his neck and on both of his hands as well as small circular scars on his forearms and face. He has short, slightly curly black and grey hair and a pair of square shaped glasses that are attached to string to keep them on his face. He is wearing a lime green fleece under a dark green wool,like garment that is draped over his shoulders. Behind him are a pair of moth wings covered in eyes and behind the wings are many green eyes as well as a large green eye that is staring down at Jon. He is bathed in a green overlay and is smiling with a somewhat malicious expression as he holds a bloodied knife in his right hand whilst his left is situated over his chest, covering a hole from a stab wound that now holds an eye in its place.
Closeups :) sorry about Procreate UI being in one of the pics lol
“kill them with kindness” WRONG. you who watch and know and understand none, you who listen and hear and will not comprehend, you who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right. come to us in your wholeness. come to us in your perfection. bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread and crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and DIES! come to us! I OPEN THE DOOR!!!!!!
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