Its 3:30 and i just listened to episode 44 and i have a theory!!!
The reason for why The Fears work diffrent in the Protocol verse is because of the O.I.A.R. duh...
That is obvious, but i think i know why it works diffrent and how the O.I.A.R. does it.
The first thing i noticed when i started listening to protocol, was that it was almoust impossible to assign specific fear to specific cases (as shown in ep 44). In all of the cases it felt like more fears were working together (more the they did in Archives), as almost they were'nt even separat fear, and that is what i beleave is the difference in the protocol verse.
The Fears use to be just one big blob of fear (i will be calling it a "Fear Egg") as we know from ep 200 of Archives, we also know that this Fear Egg later "cracked" and The 14 were born. I think that in the Protocol verse The Fear Egg never "cracked", or at least not as much and The Fears remained more or less homogeneous.
The reason The Fear Egg did'nt "crack" is becouse of the O.I.A.R. and its predecessors. as said by Lena "Dread is organised into four key elements: Death, Pain, Helplessness and Wrongness. It is essential that these four elements remain balanced, that is the purpose of the O.I.A.R." and through keeping this balance they keep the classic 14 (or even single one of them) from being born and the aftermath (wich is the "bad things" Lena keeps mentioning). There simply is'nt enough specific fear for them to be born, obviously people are still afraid of being watched or hunted, but it's too vague and too weak, becouse of the balance.
You sure this could work ?
Im not just sure!!! This has precedent for being able to happen and we know this, becouse of The Bastard Fear, The Extinction, who was too weak and too vague to birth itself.
