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new head canon that while elias was plotting all his machinations for marking jon with every entity he was also sneaking multivitamins into his food because the boy's still human, at least for the time being, and he hasn't slept or seen daylight in a worrying amount of time... can't construct an archive of terror with a severe vitamin k deficiency

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anyone in the tags saying this is weirdly cute you are FUCKED past the point of no return, baby. welcome to jonelias let's fucking rumbllleeeeeee

#It's their dynamic encapsulated (heh) in a single post.#Messing with his autonomy by tampering with his food and yet it's cute like a cat bringing dead mice because their human can't feed himself#reblog#jonelias#him#jonathan sims
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#feed ur archivist oh yes elias. feed him indeed. you need your Archivist healthy enough for all the horrors you have planned for him.

#jonelias#elias is surprisingly devoted to those things he chooses to care about#like jon
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anyone in the tags saying this is weirdly cute you are FUCKED past the point of no return, baby. your last chance to get out was ages ago. we're locked in. welcome to jonelias let's fucking rumbllleeeeeee

#[🪳]mine#jon x elias
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#LMAOOO#YES#I love this concept of other avatars plotting against jon but while also like. kind of helping him??#nikola gets him (LOADS of) moisturizer because “REALLY jon? NO skin care routine?! AT ALL?! How is the stranger supposed to use this?!?!”#elias sneaks vitamins and such into his food because “really jon!”#“how is he supposed to groom you into starting the eyepocalypse if you DIE?!?!”#tma spoilers#ITS JUST SO FUNNY#imagine elias CONSTANTLY reminding jon to put. on. his. damn. glasses!!!!#or buying him special prescription glasses with blue light protection because NO!! jon is THE EYE’S little antichrist!!!#and it doesn’t want to have to share him with the dark no thank you😤#just imagine jon mentioning it in one his supplementals:#“supplemental. elias has been acting… strange lately. he’s become very concerned with my…visual wellbeing so to say.”

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Also, I love the phrasing of the innocuous "a difficult man to pin down". It's intriguing. It's sexy. It's homoerotic. And, babygirl, you had no idea how right you were.

Thinking about Jon and Elias hunting together in the most brutal, synchronised, and methodical fashion possible 🥰🥰🥰

The paranoia. The determination to apply rationality to something unknowable. The need to know. Them drinking their coffee the same way. Them keeping bones in their offices. Pushing away their connections. The way they instinctively get what the other is saying. The fear of being puppeteered around. Them being both nerds and old men at heart. The fact that their names are similar. And it was all unintentional.

The whole podcast is about Jonah and Jon spinning into each other's orbits until they form a binary unit together. There would be no king of a ruined world without the archive and vice versa. They are irrevocably bound together. The one thing the finale got right is that they die minutes apart from each other and by the same blade.

To me, Jonah does not care enough to control Jon outside of what he needs him to do. His need for control is not gratuitous to me; he clearly did not care to keep Gertrude (for example) under his thumb aside from disposing of her when she tried to interfere. He likes to hold things over people but he doesn't care about the minutiae. He's perfectly happy to lean back and watch Jon stumble and fall and pick himself up on his own. It's telling that several of his Marks resulted from his own choices rather than Jonah arranging them ('you should have seen my face when you voluntarily went to him').

Like, I don't think he'd be controlling on an interpersonal level, and not because he is good or has a deep respect for personhood, but simply because he doesn't have to. Similarly, and this is partly the Jonelias soulmatist in me talking, he doesn't need to change who Jon is at his core, so he won't force it. He wants Jon to be someone whose choices (and he wasn't lying when he said that choices made blindly count) lead him to the ritual, and he also wants Jon to be like him, and Jon is both of those things already.

I remember seeing a crazy take that claimed Jonah doesn't understand himself + by extension the world because he watches instead of seeing (contrasted with Jon/Martin, which is not a pair you want to put as an example of mutual understanding, IMO) and is too alone to have another person to see himself in. And, like, I have talked about the possibility of him having a fucked sense of identity, what with the body-hopping, the immortality, and the shaping of his life around a singular goal, but the post was weirdly judgemental about it. As if people who can't connect with others suddenly weren't human.

But also, leaving aside my feelings on the matter, it's canonically untrue. Jonah literally understands people; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to manipulate and coerce them. Even if you chalk that up to the Beholding, he still views people as people; he and Gertrude respected each other enough to not use their powers on each other, and he clearly takes pleasure in guiding Jon through his becoming.

It just feels like it's placing a moral or, god forbid, humanising weight on loving and being loved, as if the point where Jonah went wrong (as in #cringefailed) was when he failed to connect with others. And I guess MAG 159 does lend itself to the "love saves you always" interpretation if you're looking for it.

"Ooh, Jonah isn't human because he's so cold and isolated." Many people you talk to every day are cold and isolated. OP. What does human even mean? He still bleeds, he can still die, and his will is still his own, mostly.

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