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Ok but this is such an existential horror.
Imagine if this was a human walking in the park and they see another human and they go over to socialise only to see that there is something not quite right with this person.
They move wrong, they speak with the wrong inflections, their hair and skin seem false. Their eyes are dead and unmoving.
It is the puppet of a being with higher intelligence beyond your own understanding, mimicking your humanity for its own amusement.
But yeah this is a really cute video
You forgot the bit where this puppet human is holding the biggest most succulent and fresh smelling blunt you’ve ever seen
The dedication of this man to almost die in an empty room, pry himself out by his palms, get his fingers cut off, pull an ear off somebody, get threatened with a lawsuit, and then still go home and write up an honest and actually quite fair review online is absolutely fucking astounding. If I were Gregory I would never stop running. Whatever you are he's scarier.
MY ENTRY FOR @samglyph’s DTIYS OUFFGHHJJ I had so much fun with this y’all don’t even knooowww
close ups under cut !!
@jonmartinweek Day 3: Recordings & Found Footage
got a bit lazy with this one but oh well. no kissing in the archives, guys.
I haven't seen any other fan theories like this, but if anyone else thought of this first, please let me know.
Anyways, alchemy obviously plays a big part in the magic system of the protocol universe. And I've seen several people bring up that Celia mentioned the three primes of alchemy. Based on my very non-expert google knowledge, the three primes are salt, mercury, and sulfur. Salt represents the body, mercury represents the mind, and sulfur represents the soul.
In other words, physical horror, psychological horror, and existential horror. There are three fear entities in this universe; Salt, which is fear relating to the body/physical harm, Mercury, which is mental/emotional fears, & Sulfur, which is existential fears. This lines up pretty well with what Colin said:
This time, the way to keep the entities from entering our world is to keep them balanced. And based on what we've seen, the way to keep the balance is probably by sacrificing people to them.
This next part is a bit of a stretch & I don't expect it to be right. Something interesting I noticed, all the Externals we've met so far seem to be Salt-coded. Maybe the OIAR is only in charge of the salt part of the balance? What if the Hilltop Center and the Magnus Institute were in charge of the other two elements? Colin didn't mention what happens when there's too much salt, but we might see that for ourselves soon.