The Manager Malevolent - Blog Posts

Notice how The Manager tamps down his laughter whenever it starts to get too manic so that he doesn't sound like the version of himself that he so despises... WHAT THE HELL

Arthur Lester introducing his 7 boyfriends (people I've seen him be shipped with):

• This one is an entity that is stuck in my head and he is a lying manipulative son of a bitch.

• This man is ectually my bestfriend. Woepsie, I meant to say was my bestfriend, because the entity in my head killed him.

• The one that lost an arm. well funfact, I'm the one that cutted that arm off.

• I watched this one choke on his own blood.

• That one was ectually hired to kill me and he tried to torture me when he tied up in a random bastment.

• This one is a phycotic freak, who said that he is going to torture me and everyone I love until the end of time.

• And this one is ectually the other one, but from a different dimension. He is a little less phycotic, but still very phycotic.

My take on The Manager and Kayne

The moment John and Arthur enter The Managers office were told something very clearly. He looks and sounds EXACTLY like Kayne aside from the color of his suit. To the point that the boys think they were sent to Kayne in death. This tells me one thing very clearly: This is still a specific mask of Nyarlathotep. Not his core being himself. Or a different mask.

I've seen a lot of theories that this is Nyarlathotep himself and Kayne is a rambunctious kid who is off making trouble but that doesn't seem to be the case. Nyarlathotep has at least 1000 avatars or 'masks'. Hell there is an entire CoC game that takes a year of regular play minimum to get through and it only has you dealing with 3. These masks all look very different from each other. Some human, a lot not.

The body that Kayne is in, is one of those masks. It's the one Nyarlathotep is wearing right now. It's still him in there. Because The Manager looks exactly like Kayne we know that he's still that mask. He just made different choices, just like Kayne asked a different question.

I've also seen a lot of theories that add a layer of self loathing to him that pretty much every character in the show has. But I really doubt that's the case. Most of Nyarls masks aren't that manic or crazy. They're charming and put together, able to sway LARGE groups of people, in some cases entire empires. That shit takes boiling the frog, not dancing around in gore. The Manager comes across more like how his masks normally behave. And I've always felt that Kaynes insanity is the result of collapsing so many iterations of himself into one body.

I don't think The Manager is innocent and pure. Or wracked with guilt. I think he just knows this isn't going to go the way Kayne wants, and just like Arthur and John, wants to keep living. Nyarl keeps Azathoth asleep because he likes doing what he does. He's more than capable of being helpful when it suits him, and I'd bet that's what we're seeing here. Not guilt and self hatred, just trying to keep the status quo he enjoys quite a lot. Trying to differentiate from Kayne is just a way of distinguishing himself, they're identical otherwise. Even in behavior when he's not actively trying to stop it. I don't think he's pure and good and feels guilty. I think he just doesn't want to die either.

My take on the ena trend featuring Kayne and the manager!!

i'm feeling very normal about the manager.

yeah he’s such a little freak (affectionate) ain’t he ??