[ep7][magnus archives] a realization

the power John develops as the archivist

is just

Theatergoing Authority

nobody can deny him their story

I think my favorite bit with John's expanding Archivist/Eye powers is when he's doing research in China

Yep.

and the lady he's talking to sometimes says something in Mandarin and he just

responds, idly

John does not know Mandarin

I don't think he even noticed he was doing it

...fuck, you’re right

You're not wrong, and also now I really want to see an Umineko AU of this show.

from which end

what would that even look like

...Thinking about it, I actually do have an answer for that but it would be pretty much entirely rooted in stuff that happens in the final season, so I'm not gonna talk about it here.

Ask me again if either of us remembers this conversation once you're finished with the show.

TheDoomkitten: I was specifically thinking Magnus Archives characters in an Umineko metaphysical symbolic gameboard type setting, but if anyone wants to write the fanfic of the Ushiromiya family dealing with fear god bullshit I would totally read that.