Not-Sasha is the form taken by the NotThem after it replaces archival assistant Sasha James during the attack on The Magnus Institute by Jane Prentiss.
History[]
The Web Table was delivered to the Institute and was moved into artefact storage.[1][2] Sasha took refuge from Jane Prentiss' attack in that room, where she encountered an unknown figure. Not-Sasha can be heard for the first time after that, repeating the last words spoken by Sasha.[3] It is unclear what exactly happened to the original Sasha, but Not-Sasha says that it hurt and she is considered dead.[4][5]
Not-Sasha was debriefed by Jonathan Sims following Prentiss' attack, and Sims did not notice any changes when talking to Not-Sasha, other than noting she seemed to be showing signs of stress from the attack. Not-Sasha claimed that Sasha's recording during the attack was lost, and the other recordings on which Sasha's voice can be heard also disappeared following the attack.[6]
When John explores the tunnels below the institute, he sees a white arrow pointing down a set of stairs.[7] This is later revealed to have been drawn by Not-Sasha trying to entice him to explore further and potentially discover Jurgen Leitner living down there.[5]
Following the statement made by Helen Richardson regarding the appearance of Michael, John asked Not-Sasha about the statement the real Sasha had made regarding Michael, noting that it had been lost following the appearance. Not-Sasha was evasive about re-recording her statement, and after she left Michael appeared and warned John that he was being lied to.[8]
Not-Sasha frequently has trouble with her computer malfunctioning to the point of unusability.[9] This is later traced to be problems with it authenticating when connecting to external devices or systems.[10]
Sims stumbled across Not-Sasha staring at the table later, where she described its pattern as a web instead of a fractal and noted that the table may have caught all of them.[11] Following this encounter, Sims discovered that she has been spending time at Madame Toussard's Wax Museum every two or three days. When confronted about this, Not-Sasha claimed that she had a new boyfriend she liked to have lunch around there.[12]
She visits the Trophy Room taxidermy shop, a stronghold of her fellow agents of The Stranger, to supposedly do follow-up investigation when no one else wants to. She reports seeing nothing unusual.[13]
Not-Sasha caught Sims going through her desk, looking for anything unusual. He claimed he was looking for the files on the Hill Top Road case; she reminded him of her request that he does not record her private conversations. Sims noted that photos of Not-Sasha and her boyfriend Tom looked suspiciously like stock photos.[14]
Not-Sasha participates in the intervention held by the archival assistants and Elias for John.[15]
When Melanie King visits the Institute to continue her research on ghosts, Not-Sasha lets her into the Archives to talk to John. Melanie recognizes that she is not Sasha James, but assumes she is just a new employee.[16]
When John is exploring the tunnels on his own, he runs into Not-Sasha and briefly catches a glimpse of her being much taller than she should be. She claims to have forgotten her coat, seen the open trapdoor and come down to check if John was okay. She mentions it being hard to focus in the tunnels.[17] He later sees her entering and leaving the tunnels on two more occasions.[18]
When Melanie visits John again to make a statement, she asks where Sasha is, leading to confusion between them as John insists Not-Sasha is indeed Sasha and Melanie accuses him of gaslighting. This causes John to realise Not-Sasha may not be what she seems and prompts him to research other statements on the Not-Them,[19] eventually finding out how Adelard Dekker trapped it in the web table.[20] When he destroys the table the Not-Them is released and chases him, attempting to kill him. At this point, it tries less hard to look human; when Tim and Martin run into it, they think it looks like Sasha, but very stretched out. While it is taunting John, at one point it gives a brief "statement" about being trapped in the table, and reveals that it had been sent to "the house of its enemy" to gather information in disguise.[4] It prepares to kill John but is then trapped by Jurgen Leitner rearranging the walls of the tunnels using The Seven Lamps of Architecture - although he is not sure it can be killed, he hopes it is now trapped for a very long time.[5]
Peter Lukas released Not-Sasha in MAG 158 using the same book that Leitner used to trap her. She served as a distraction to the rest of the archival staff while he and Martin went to the centre of the tunnels.
In MAG 165 Not-Sasha encounters John and Martin when they enter her Domain, where she insults Sasha. John becomes enraged and he calls upon the Ceaseless Watcher, using the powers of The Eye to destroy her.
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References[]
- ↑ MAG 35: Old Passages
- ↑ MAG 36: Taken Ill
- ↑ MAG 39: Infestation
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 MAG 79: Hide and Seek
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 MAG 80: The Librarian
- ↑ MAG 40: Human Remains
- ↑ MAG 41: Too Deep
- ↑ MAG 47: The New Door
- ↑ MAG 49: The Butcher’s Window
- ↑ MAG 70: Book of the Dead
- ↑ MAG 51: High Pressure
- ↑ MAG 52: Exceptional Risk
- ↑ MAG 54: Still Life
- ↑ MAG 57: Personal Space
- ↑ MAG 60: Observer Effect
- ↑ MAG 63: The End of the Tunnel
- ↑ MAG 68: The Tale of a Field Hospital
- ↑ MAG 74: Fatigue
- ↑ MAG 77: The Kind Mother
- ↑ MAG 78: Distant Cousin