The Lonely Explained (The Magnus Archives Entities)
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Hey y'all, I'm Afton G. Kier and today we're looking at the next Entity from the Magnus Archives in my new series where I do a deep dive on each and every Entity. This time around, we're walking out into the fog to talk about the Forsaken! From Martin Blackwood to the Boatswain's call and everything in between, we're examining the Lonely. As always, please consider liking and subscribing to support the channel. Anyways, I've been Afton G. Kier, and good night, CZcams people!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:24 Shilling
2:04 Overview
3:03 Characters
6:25 Artefacts
7:22 Locations
8:04 Rituals
9:26 Domains
10:42 Connections
11:58 Analysis
15:18 Closing Thoughts
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Thumbnail Art is The Lonely "Tarotesque" (Dark) by Grace Holsten
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Music:
New Day by AHOAMI (tunetank.com/track/3ck/new-day/)
Cold Star by AHOAMI (tunetank.com/t/6hbj/3535-cold...)
Isolation by Crystal Squad (tunetank.com/track/3o1/isolat...)
Stellar Sky by AHOAMI (tunetank.com/track/4265-stell...)
Rooftop Sunsets by Alexey Anisimov (tunetank.com/track/5412-rooft...)
Flying Observer by NIDRED (tunetank.com/track/5d9/flying...)
Night Shift by RocknStock (tunetank.com/track/5666-night...)
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The Series
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I love when Gerry says “ya know for a cult dedicated to the lonely, they sure do breed”
Honestly, one of my favorite quotes in the entire series. It managed to get an audible laugh out of me. Its up there with "I protested the last one, felt we could do better than to ape the Christians, but I was shouted down." and the conversation between Gertrude an Arthur going like
GERTRUDE- You know, thinking about it, the amount of pain and loss and legitimate devastation I’ve caused among your little cult over the last, what, forty years? I think the Desolation is probably very fond of me.
ARTHUR- That’s blasphemy, it is.
GERTRUDE- Is it? Or maybe you just picked a bad god.
That last line really got me.
@@douglysium9770Gerry's full of personality ngl
Martin: "Petah, the archivist is here"
Ironically, the Lonely is one of the powers with the most connections to others
To quote the meme I saw on tumblr once
Lukas family: (worshipping the lonely)
(Sounds of crying coming from the corner)
Peter: Lonely is that you crying again?
Lonely: ...yes
Peter: why are you crying?
Lonely: because I'm alone
Peter: What about the other entities? Why don't you hang out with them?
Lonely: The other entities are mean!
Peter: Even the vast?
Lonely: no, the vasts my friend, but it makes me feel alone
Peter: You are alone 😐
Lonely:
Lonely:
Lonely: Peter you f*cking-
Fun fact, my sibling (who got me into tma) calls jon-martin lonely eye's jr (since the fandom has dubbed elias-peter lonely eyes) and it never fails to crack me up lol
Maybe it's just me, but I see the cold/ice/winter as an (unexplored) aspect of the Lonely. There's a lot of parallels between freezing and isolation (in fact there's a study, I believe, that says so). I've seen people suggest it for the Desolation, but fire is too... unsubtle. Volatile. Sudden. But the cold? It's a slow, creeping sense. It takes its time, only noticeable until it's too late. And when you realize too late, freezing knee deep in snow as a blizzard whips up, your body's thermal regulation tells you that it's absolutely okay to stay. It's comforting; not too cold anymore as your form heats up as much as it could. The snow, so gentle and soft, feels like a blanket laid by nature. You don't need to leave. You don't want to
True. The cold is also very strongly associated with the Dark, although in that case it seems to be used much more as a symbolic absence of warmth in the same way that darkness is an absence of light.
@@FinalFantasmagorie Yep, I see it in the same way that lightning is seen as tied to both Vast and Spiral (the cold as Lonely/Dark)
Thinking about it....actually the story metaphor makes everything between the lonely and the eye make sense
The two have a weird symbiotic relationship....the 4th wall is what gives the audience purpose...after all the audience just watches not interacts...so the separation is what makes the audience the audience...while the act of watching and knowing that they will never be part of the story enforces the isolation and loneliness created
The Lonely would have loved covid- I truely thought that the lonely was real when quarentine arrived. Like let's be real a pandemic that causes a quarentine could definetly be the lonely joining forces with the corruption since the corrupcion is also fond of infection. It could also trigger a few ideas of the extinction and the end however i don't think that they really fit in to the master plan. If anything i feel like these two would just piggyback on the idea of the pandemic.
Or at least they would coincidentially benefit
The physical manifestation of the 4th wall is a good point...to a certain degree the 4th wall does isolate the audience from the world of the story
i think the lonely coming in season 4 makes sense, not only from jons stand point of losing everyone around him, as well as becoming more isolated from humanity by becoming more monstrous
but also overall thematic narrative
someone made the point the 5 seasons track onto the five stages of grief and it fits neatly :Dd
Thank you for acknowledging that martin was a full-fledged avatar! Not a lot of people do for some reason...
I'm not sure if you're going to mention it later,but Martin had Web tendencies too,but Peter took advantage of his proneness to loneliness first, so Martin's fate changed
A Web Eye Martin would be too powerful tbh
yay baby another fear that can leave me forever emotionally hollow instead of physically with the hive
Oh, don't worry, we'll get there 🙂
Addictingly Horrifying! 🕸
Peter Lukas to Gertrude Robinson: "And I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you and your meddling journalists!"
4'5" martin is so real
Short little small man.
He’s 4’6” with an extra 2 ft of attitude
Another really good entry in this series! Really appreciate what you're doing here. It's well-structured, the background art is cool, and your voice is nice to listen to. Thanks!
This was a really neat one. I love the composition of the picture. Tbh the fog motif The Lonely has is incredibly good. Even aside from being creepy fog that makes for cool fanart, it's helped me actually be able to conceptualize my own feelings of isolation. When I'm feeling particularly alone, I put the 😶🌫️ emoji or the 🌫️ emoji in my Discord status so that any of my Magnus-enjoying friends can know that I need a little extra attention and interaction that day without me bugging them directly about it and then feeling like a bother. Anyway, I can't wait for the next episode! The Stranger is one of my favorites, right alongside The Vast! As a theater person, it's entire aesthetic is super appealing to me.
for me, the lonely fits into an author's role in storytelling quite well. i know we just had the web representing the author but it can get pretty lonely being a puppet master and often authors are encouraged to maintain a distance with their audiences like how johnny sims doesnt consume fanfics to make sure everything he writes isnt influenced by them.
alot like what you mentioned in the web video of questioning whether the web itself has free will, to me much of the same applies for a creator who makes worlds and characters but can often feel alone.
it also ties into competition and burnout heavily to me, like how the lukas family is structured with the siblings who dont cut it being sent away, and peters competitive streak with elias.
all in all, theres a reason why many creators are portrayed as lone wolves and solitary shut ins desperate to make a mark on the world, or maybe that's just coming from me as an artist.
I almost think Jon should have been Peter Lucas's target instead of Martin. Jon is so issolated in season 4 that he seems ripe for the Lonely.
Trying to steal Jon from Elias/Jonah as part of their wager would have made more sense. Trap The Archivist in the Lonely to foil The Watcher's Crown.
Having Peter Lucas spirit Martin away and force Jon to rescue him being Elias/Jonah's plan all along would have made more sense.
6:04 he’s literally described in the series as being tall though?
My favorite Jon/Martin alternate ship name is Teaholding
Out of all entities I Think lonely is hardest to do diverse manifestations. How many spooky " i am alone" can you do? But RQ pulled it of very well. Also i found it intriguing how its most tertiary fear of all, after how many statements involved more than one person?
yeah tbh season 4 of tma is def my least favorite, but i still love the lonely (and i connect the most to it) but it feels very out of place in the story. btw amazing series watching it all rn