| “ | Do you really need me to describe it? You saw it for yourselves. The flowing tide that swarmed and scuttled as soon as the door opened. The smell that rolled out of that apartment like a choking wall. The thing that embraced Benoît. Mon petit scarabée. The only thing I don’t know is if you saw in as much detail as I did the look of sheer contentment and joy on poor Benoît’s face as his family crawled all over him. I don’t care about what the police might have done; your young colleague was right. You should have burned the place to the ground. I have nothing more to say to you. | „ |
| ~ François Deschamps describing Mon Petit Scarabée. |
Mon Petite Scarabée, called My Little Beetle in English, is a minor antagonist of the Rusty Quill horror podcast The Magnus Archives, serving as the main antagonist of Mag 102: Nesting Instinct. She was a giant insect-like creature living in Toulouse France in the early 2000s. She would eventually latch onto Benoît Maçon, convincing him to in a strange way "fall in love" with her, allowing her to reproduce thousands of children.
Appearance[]
Mon Petite Scarabée is not described in detail, but she seemed to be a large, beetle-like creature that that François Deschamps found utterly horrifying. She had thousands of small, crawling, children that looked similar to it.
Personality[]
Mon Petite Scarabée seemed to have an animalistic mindset and was mainly driven by the desire to mate and reproduce. That being said, it seemed to have some sort of intelligence and was somehow able to get Benoit to be a sort of father to her children and convinced him to love her. It's unclear if she reciprocated in any way, as she was seen embracing him.
Biography[]
The creature seemed to have been living in the shadows of Toulouse for some time before it met Benoît Maçon, a lonely man hungering for some sort of companionship. Somehow, the creature made him view her as his wife and moved into his apartment. There, the two procreated, and Mon Petite Scarabée gave birth to thousands of smaller insects with Benoît's seed. She and her children would live there for several months, grooming Benoît and filling him with insects. It seems that she eventually ate him or was killed by Gertrude Robinson after being discovered by the Magnus Institute.
Trivia[]
- Mon Petite Scarabée is stated to most likely be a creature of the Corruption, although Gertrude briefly thought it was a creature of the Stranger.
- It is one of the few creatures of the Corruption in the series that explicitly manifests as a toxic, unhealthy relationship. This is in contrast with simply implicit connections, like Jane Prentiss being seen as “toxic” by her friends pre-infestation and thus being a suitable avatar of The Corruption.
