Yknow one of the first signs that Martin’s a badass is that he actually felt safe on the northern line after meeting prentiss… For those of you who haven’t been subjected to its horrors, here’s a few things you should know:
-it is fucking LOUD. Tube trains are loud, but northern line is the loudest. Like, permanent ear damage loud if you travel on it regularly.
-it shakes you about a LOT! Okay all the underground trains do, but on the northern line its more random and jarring.
-it is CONFUSING. There’s several different branches/routes that take you to entirely different places, and if you find yourself on the wrong one you have to change trains at Camden Town! A notoriously busy station!
-in reputation, it’s in competition for the worst line on the underground! Its main rivals are the central line and bakerloo line, but a large percentage of Londoners (myself included) consider it the worst one.
So in essence, Martin, pursued by worms, found comfort in a place that activates my fight or flight response on the best of days! That half an hour of being deafened and shaken about in a tiny tube underground calmed him down, and that’s absolutely tougher than surviving an apocalypse.
I finally convinced my little brother to watch the final episodes of the magnus archives, and here is a record of his reactions:
(for context I showed him the end of 38- end of 39, he has listened to a couple of episodes before this but isn’t really into podcasts!)
-after hearing only the intro: “I’m gonna write a magnus archives fanfic in morse code and it’s gonna be 30k words and I’m gonna release it as an audio recording. I don’t know anything about the magnus archives but I’ll figure it out.”
-when Jon reads ‘the fingernails were too dirty’ he looked at his fingers and scoffed.
- When Jon hits the spider he said “what did you try to kill it with, an axe? Man saw a spider and pulled at the m2 browning.”
-“what are they running from, the spider?” (this made me laugh for obvious reasons)
-start of 39-
-“he sounds like John clease! Wait his name is actually Jon?” - upon hearing Jon shouting
-“his microphone clipped…” after the tape recorder clicked off and on again.
-after Jon told Martin the worms were just parasites he said “you don’t know… You don’t know anything…. You don’t know if they have consciousness or not…”
-“that’s not a number Martin!” when Martin said there were too many worms
-“Jon’s always on the job, man. He’s a sigma.”
-“what do you mean? Worms are very responsive to fire alarms. They’re very intelligent things, they’d hear it and think "oh I need to evacuate now” - after Elias said the fire alarm was a good move.
-“yeah most walls are meant to be solid.” - after Tim broke through the wall
-“'it’s because the windows covered in worms’ is never a sentence I thought I’d hear!”
-“I feel like Martin’s the type of guy that would spell it 'Low Fi’”
-sasha spoke about being a practical researcher and he said “as opposed to an unpractical researcher?”
-“have you ever heard that one Metallica song about being a table?” - when sasha sees the table
-“Not! Sasha? That’s a command. /spawn sasha… Sasha clipped through the world.”
-“legs do that you know.” when Jon says his leg slowed him down.
-after the episode finished he paused for a minute and then just said “she says 'ahhh’ for so long it sounds like she’s greeting someone named 'khvist’, like, "ah! Khvist!”