i haven't rlly caught up on archives OR protocol but my friends have spoiled me to hell and back and i already am kind of into it (im like those homestuck fans who never read the comic lol) but from what i've seen and heard, the relationship between the magnus archives timeline and the magnus protocol timeline is kind of like a prescratch and postscratch timeline in a sburb session. and since archives ends with jon getting stabbed... i hearby decree that the events of tma is somehow a sburb session gone horribly wrong and mag 200 was a scratch. jonathan sims is the scratch artifact. it's him. i am right on this theory and nobody shall prove me wrong because me and jonathan sims (the real guy) are best buds