#3) the last resort before the emergency services was an absolute fluke of a wrong number

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Having just finally listened to the new The Magnus Protocol and getting introduced to Needles the 'What Do You MEAN I'm Not Scary Enough!?' Avatar of Sharp Poking, I have to say right now that I know in my heart of hearts that he must have so many terrible nicknames among the other avatars

"Hey, Pinhead, how goes the phone spam?" <- stings because originally he chose 'Pinhead' on purpose to reference Hellraiser, but absolutely no one got it until he spelled it out and by then the name was ruined

"What's up, Prick?" <- lowest effort, but still goads him into raising a single massive darning needle middle finger in response

"Kebab, can you hold onto this for me?" <- said before having assorted foods speared on him; fruits, sausage, cheeses, etc. Takes forever to pluck everything off. Even worse when someone just ambushes him with a down comforter and pillows

"This you?" <- no name involved, but always a prelude before being shown a picture of a porcupine

Just. There is no way this faintly jingling pile of pointy things has any respect among the rest of the bogeymen in this universe. I love it

#I also know that he swapped to emergency services calls because 1) no one answers their phone anymore #2) unless they're a place of business and they'd immediately hang up one edgelord sentence in #3) the last resort before the emergency services was an absolute fluke of a wrong number #4) in which the bored office worker was a horror hound who 100% missed the context and assumed the caller was a horror podcaster #and just spent the whole call alternately role playing along or complimenting the sound effects or thanking him for sponging up the time #the magnus protocol #needles