Object

Magic Markers (Protest Sign Markers)

A small set of store-style felt-tip markers: plastic barrels with brightly colored caps and stain-prone pigment ink suited for bold, quick strokes across cardboard or oak‑tag. Kept bundled or in protesters' hands, they mark slogans in thick lines; staff and press register them more as proof of grassroots action than as individually inspected implements.

2 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E7 · The State Dinner

Gilded Truth: C.J. Reframes the Protest

Magic markers are invoked as the tool used by protesters to make oak-tag signs in Lafayette Park; they are tangible evidence of grassroots action and are criticized by C.J. as symbolic of the protest's small scale and DIY nature.

Before: In possession of protesters in Lafayette Park being used to write protest slogans on oak-tag.

After: Remain with the protesters; their physical condition unchanged, but their symbolic impact escalated by media attention.

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S1E7 · The State Dinner

Flirtation as Deflection

Magic Markers are described as the tools the Lafayette Park protestors used on oak tag; they function as shorthand for grassroots, low-cost dissent and are invoked by C.J. to diminish the protest's seriousness in scale while acknowledging its symbolic intent.

Before: In possession of the protestors in Lafayette Park as part of their handmade signage.

After: Remain a detail of the protesters' materials; their presence is used rhetorically in the hallway to characterize the protest as small and improvised.

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