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the biggest proof of Elias's clinical nonchalance is his ability to maintain his composure when his Archivist keeps brazenly flirting with him every interaction they have
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Elias as both the Basil and Henry to Jon's Dorian, instigating his transformation into a monster and ultimately falling to him as Jon surpasses even him in monstrosity.
I'm getting brainworms for corruption arc Jonelias again. They meet again, and Jon is so alone (but no more alone than he was before abandoning his former friends). They are omniscient, but there are infinite questions they have for each other. Elias's first question, of course, is whether it felt good (“what did?”/“letting go”), even though he already knows the answer, and would know it even if he didn't serve the god of knowledge. He was the same all that time ago, after all.
the fact that Beholding canonically graces its devotees with sensual pleasure when they are submitted to its power as well as when they are yielding it... jon compelling elias as a feedback loop of pleasure that they alone, as one under their god, have the ability to experience.
literally louis and lestat have what jon and elias should have had.
guys only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting (hannigram/jonelias parallels)