| “ | The moment that you die will feel exactly the same as this one. | „ |
| ~ Jane Doe to Georgie Barker and many others. |
Jane Doe is a minor antagonist of the Rusty Quill horror podcast The Magnus Archives, serving as the titular main antagonist of Mag 94: Dead Woman Walking. She was a medical cadaver from Balliol college that somehow came back to life and began to whisper one nihilistic phrase to various college students. Forcing upon them the revelation that everything is contained in a single moment, she forced many people to fall into a nihilistic insanity and die.
Appearance[]
The corpse was that of an older woman and was kept naked by the college. Her skin was pale gray and her head was shaved. The only sign that she was alive was her chest, which steadily moved.
Personality[]
The corpse's agency was vague, and it was unclear how much of her actions were driven by a genuine desire to force people to make the revelation she had made, and how much was she driven by instinct, or controlled by some outside force. Whatever the reason, her sole purpose in existing was to find someone to tell her secret to, and that was all she did.
Biography[]
Jane Doe was originally nothing more than a corpse to be experimented on by college students, before somehow coming to life. At the time that she did, there were several protestors around. Telling them that there is no difference between the moment your dead and every other moment, the students descended into extreme, mind-breaking nihilism, falling on the ground and letting themselves die. She was found with the now dead students by Alex Brooke, another college student, who fled the scene. She returned the next day with her friend Georgina Barker, but was attacked by Jane Doe, who forcibly whispered in her, forcing Alex to give up and die. She then whispered in Georgie's ear, but Georgie put her hands over them, slightly mitigating the effect. Georgie went unconscious and it is unclear what happened to Jane Doe afterwards.
Powers and Abilities[]
By whispering her words into a person's ear, Jane Doe could take all meaning from their lives. Her secret would show them just how small the universe is and how it could all be contained in a single moment, showing the temporariness of all things and how, since there is no difference between past and future, everything has already ended. Her victims would lose the ability to feel any emotion and usually decided to just die where they stood. Covering one's ear would slightly mitigate this effect, but not completely.
Jane Doe also seemed somehow incapable of dying, despite that being at odds with her message.
Trivia[]
- A slight variation of the Jane Doe's phrase, "the moment that you die will feel exactly the same as this one", previously appeared in MAG 70, in the narrator's musings about mortality near the beginning of the statement.
- Jane Doe is strong implied to be and avatar of the End.
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