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Gengariac·01/03/2020 in General

I was attempting to explain the concept of the entities to a friend who has no idea about anything to do with TMA, and ended up making a rough chart to explain simply what each entails and how I personally think they connect to each other. It's super hard given that a few of these fears overlap with one but perhaps not another, but I think I made it as accurate as I could whilst keeping it as simple as physically possible. I'd love to know other peoples opinions on what changes they would make, or what fears they would move!

OdiusLad·12/03/2020

I think the stranger fits better in between the spiral and the lonely

Jchristyler·02/04/2020

The stranger should also overlap with the extinction. Which may make this even harder to lay out, but... having to chart the fears in multiple dimensions would not be unexpected. 🤷

It's cool though!

Crepitaculum·10/04/2020

I agree that the Stranger belongs nearer to the Spiral, but you wouldn't need to move anything else- I definitely see the Corruption and the Buried being linked. The Corruption has always had a huge focus on love, even when it's deadly/toxic, and the Buried is Too-Close-I-Cannot-Breathe, and the victim in the Dust Bowl statement even swore he'd show the statement giver the "love of Choke."

(Spoilers for MAG 162)

If you see the cabin as Corruption-touched, which I personally do given its description as "rotting" and parallel with quarantine, then you even have the overlap of being "trapped" in close quarters which mean you harm.

Breadjuice·29/05/2020

Feel like buried should be close to vast since they both involve helplessness

Lookalivefive·09/10/2020

I think the issue is they're all incredibly interlocked. They've been likened to a colour wheel but I think it's much less linear (I think that's the word I want?) than that. The best way I can describe it is this:

Kittycatdiluc·18/11/2020

I think that the buried and vast should be direct opposites, the stranger should be nearer to the spiral, the buried should be near the dark and corruption (bugs in dirt) the lonely should be near the vast.

Maybefireproof·24/02/2021

I think it should go

The end - extiction - desolation - slaughter - hunt - eye - stranger - web - spiral - lonely - vast - dark - buried - corruption - flesh - the end

Because for me i feel like spiral and web are very close, feeling like you are going crazy and being manipulated are very close fears for me.

The same goes for the eye and the stranger and the hunt too, being watched, someone unknown and being followed/stalked are like, very close and one feeds the other.

I think corruption should be near the end, but, for me, flesh is the other side of the coin of the end, the rotting of the body that has died and corruption is one step before that.

This was a very interesting thing to think about and I think they are all in fact very interconnected, so which connection is more important will vary from person to person and what each person fears and how they experience the different fears.

What do you think?