i’ve heard that at one point, mr guthrie said that if arthur were an animal, he’d be a hare/rabbit. where was this? a q&a episode? a stream?
i’m also curious if he said anything about the other characters.
i’m making a little magnus archives au version of an oc of mine, and i’m having trouble figuring out which entities they’d be targeted by (not in an avatar way, but as a victim) because their fear is just so specific. i don’t necessarily need to know a specific entity to write this horror scenario, but it would be helpful for pinpointing the more aesthetic/physical parts of the horror.
my oc’s biggest fear is that their loved ones won’t listen to them when it counts. ie, oc’s family will be doing something that hurts oc, but won’t believe that they’re actually hurting them no matter how desperately oc tries to convince them. the family will just keep doing the thing (or not doing the thing) regardless, because they believe they’re helping.
the entities in my top contenders are the the Dark (family choosing to Not See despite the oc’s attempts otherwise), the Buried (really captures the chest-feeling of this fear; the desperate exasperation of knowing you’ll never be able to move those around you, yelling so long that you cannot breathe and yet you’re still trapped), the Corruption (“we’re doing what’s best for you”), & the Lonely (self-explanatory).
edit: folks, it is not the Spiral. i understand the thought process, but the Spiral is the fear that you can’t trust your mind, that people are lying to you, or that reality is wrong. this doesn’t work for my oc, since 1) they trust their mind, 2) their family genuinely believes their actions are helpful and oc knows this, and 3) they believe their family is wrong, but they don’t believe reality is wrong.