Agent of Chaos

“Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the sky. It’s looking back.“

Oh, that’s quite pretty!

Okay, so, I was thinking about MAG160 and the entities coming into our world and it's all properly horrifying and all that but. Like. In the long run? This is not going to go how the entities think its gonna go.

Long post sorry.

Because, basically, they've all been using the fear of the unknown, not the unknowing, to terrify people and I don't think they realize that.

Like, if you're in a cave and you're getting crushed and having yourself a proper freak out about it and then SOMETHING GRABS YOUR LEG, you're gonna get so much more scared.

But, if you're in a cave and getting crushed and having a proper freak out about it and then something grabs your leg AND you know that there's this fucking, creature or whatever the fuck that's feeding on your fear? Oh, well then you get pissed and kind of go "oh it's YOU" and, I don't know if the situation gets less scary, exactly, but the fear becomes, like, more manageable.

So the entities are gonna have to work their asses off to get some real terror out of people and bam! Back at square one.

Because humans are, like, stupidly adaptable and also once we know what we're afraid of, we start making it less scary. We joke about the NSA agents watching our house and the slowly increasing inevitable destruction of the ecosystem by our own hands and stuff and we're scared sure, but more than that we're pissed. And finding ways to work around it and change our situation so we can still live our lives.

If you know the source of your fear, you can address it and that makes it that much more manageable.

And, on top of that, they're EVERYWHERE now. Which means they are very quickly going to become routine. Which is also going to cut down on how scared people are of them.

At the end of the day, all these terrifying supernatural situations are terrifying, yeah. But the most scary thing about them is we didn't know why they were happening. And now we do. So we can adapt to them. And that makes them way less scary.

Yeah. At first I was confused as to what the Beholding was meant to be, because I know knowing more about something usually makes it less scary, or at least more manageable!

Now I know it's also about surveilance, and Knowing Too Much For Your Own Good, but I still stand by "knowing is most of the time better than not knowing, I want to know!", which, I mean, I might be pretty Eye-ligned.

i cant stop thinking about the idea of in-universe memes being made about the s4 finale

Oh, you know people would. Fighting fear with laughter is a very common tactic.

Whoever made that piece a while ago that said, "Fuck off Vast! This is Beholding's sky!" was an absolute prophet. Hats off to you.

Okay, surely though, this is the Extinction - there is no 15th fear, it's all of the fears eating themselves and each other up, as well as humanity. They'll destroy everything by existing. The Extinction isn't a seperate entity, it's all of them together.

My thoughts exactly.