#bonso

(Like, I'm forming it and I'm not sure where I'm headed here)

Spoilers All - TMP

So as I'm reading through a lot of Lena Post on here it's starting to strick at me. Her wording when she vaguely explained things to Gwen in EP 13, Futures.

Gwen asks if they're the bad guys.

Lena hesitates before answering "We are... Managing, the bad guys."

Unlike the The Magnus Institute they aren't collecting Statements, they're keeping track of them.

Lena doesn't see herself and her work as good, but a necessary evil.

This would make Lena NOT Jonah's Parallel, but Gertrude's.

To Gertrude, Michael was a necessary evil, but she hurt no more people than absolutely necessary.

Lena isn't willing to put her employees in unnecessary risk.

The Magnus Institute was destroyed and OIAR has something called The Magnus Protocol.

They're preventing the Dread Powers from taking hold. Be it Fear, Hunger, or Regret. They're making sure no one of them gets a real foothold into our world. And if one gets to close. Well, they have their last resort.

The Magnus Protocol

Non Vacillabimus

CAT scoring we've seen so far. No plot or real story Spoiler I don't think. Reminder I'm ignoring CAT and the DPHW for now.

1RBC-Reanimation (Partial), Regret

2RBC- Architecture (Liminal), Hunger

3RBC- Transformation (Full), Dysmorphic

1C- ???

2C- Infection (Full), Arboreal

3C- Collection (Blood), Musical

1RB- Injury (Neddles), intimidation / Mascot (kid), Frenzy, Murder / Transformation (Snake), Horde / Hunt (Aristocratic), Compel

2RB- Disappearance (Undetermined), Invitation

3RB- Dice (Bone), Fate / Gambiling (Application), Self-Destruction

1RC- ???

2RC- Dolls, Watching/ Agglomeration (Miscellaneous), congregation

3RC- ???

23RAB - Transformation (Eyes), Trespass

(If the pattern follows, we should be seeing 13RAB and 33RAB, or would it be 21RAB and 22RAB, maybe 12 and 31? I'll have to wait and see)

23RC- Tattoo (Corspe), Compulsion

(Would the same trend follow?)

EXTERNAL ARE FEAR WIZARDS!!!!

THAT FEED ON FEAR MAGICK!!!!

With a preference on specific FEAR cocktails. (Think Needles, not just the pain but the fear of both dying and surviving) but they can feed on others (Toy Maker and the GIJoe f@ker, his fear wasn't to his taste.)

Some thought on The Magnus Protocol.

Specifically on the category numbers.

So some ground rules I'm speculating with so far:

-The last two set of numbers are just the dates. I'm sure they'll be important for setting up a timeline, but not for what I'm currently working on.

- CAT stands for Category, right?

- The DPHW or last 4 numbers of the first set of digit can be ignored for now. That's the "literal" thing that happened. 2155 = Reanimation (Partial) and little else.

- So the digit we are working will be those in-between CAT and the DPHW.

Example:

Rolling With It was a CAT3RB3354. Broken down it's:

CAT - Category

3RB

3354 - Dice(Bone)/Fate

So what does 3RB mean? Well, let's see if the most recent episode can give us some help.

Futures - CAT3RB4622

3RB -

4622 - Gambiling(Application)/Self-destruction

A 3RB case seems like it has themes of luck, chance, and betting.

So here are my current questions.

What do Dolls, Watching have to do with Ep. 7 Give and Take CAT - 2RC

What do Bonso, and Needles have in common- both, across 3 episodes (2 for Bonso) CAT - 1RB and why not The Tattoo Artist?

!!!CORRECTION!!!

The Reanimated Amalgamation case is a 1RBC not a 1RB. They may not have a connection.

A note on Ink5oul - both statements they appears in aren't "rated/score" about them.

Making Adjustments was a 3RBC for 1567 (Transformation (full), Dysmorphic)

Marked was a 23RC for 5246 (Tattoo (corpse), compulsion)

And, I mean, Yeah. On paper they aren't similar. They have nothing related.

But we know they do.

I've been trying to make this post for a long while. I was looking for this artwork that sparked a conversation about the purpose of abstract art. It was a grid of black squares that, from a distance, all looked a uniform black color, but on closer inspection it turned out all of them had different undertones. A blue black, green black, ect.

Well, in TMA we where looking at the "surface colors" the "mantel" of the color globe, the color wheel.

(I don't believe that's how color globes actually work, but I liked the "only scratching at the surface" the mantel metaphore give)

So what do we get when all the colors are near black.

Mild Spoilers

I retract my earlier stance on specifically R(ank)

I still haven't a clue what a R(ank) A could be. But:

B is Bodily Harm

C is Cognitive Harm

I could see A being Spiritual Harm if we wanna go with the Body, Mind, and Spirit trinity.

But I don't know.

Lena isn't Jonah. This world's or any other I would guess.

She lost track of Gwen and that's not an error Jonah makes unless they know how to hide from him. Something Gertrude got good at, sure. But Gwen doesn't know any of that yet.

I thought it might have been interesting as a parallel to Elias, like Elias Elias, not Johan!Elias. Was starting to think that was going to be Gwen's fate is she wasn't careful.

Well, one theory down, more to come I'm sure.