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kairos-polaris asked:

🔥 on Peter Lukas and/or (canon) lonelyeyes

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he’s just very boring to me lmao, and ultimately not particularly bright (actually. kinda stupid lmao), so boring that honestly I don’t even opinions on him aside from what I think we’ve gone through already by posting lol. wrt lonelyeyes I think pre-s4 Peter had stronger feelings (even just of loathing) for Jonah than Jonah had for Peter. absolutely one-sided rivalry where Peter considered him an enemy to trick and Jonah barely had thoughts on his existence

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Peter having stronger feelings is so real to me, baffling to me how some people believe it could be the other way around. I have been in my unrequited lonelyeyes era, he is also a fun outsider pov on jonelias that is more aware of the dynamics while also not understanding them because he doesn't actually know Jonah

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🔥 + TMA? (sorry if that's too broad)

im gonna go with a personal preference because I think we have exhausted the serious analysis and it’s 11 pm lmao but. idgaf about the “human” characters with the exception of gertrude lol. on ghe other hand basically all the avatars are endlessly dear to me and I have a lot of sympathy for both not-them and Mary Keay (cannot say I care much for Gerry instead lmao. I love evil women). I think Mary/Getrude is an underexplored paring imho

Baby face jonah or elias?

jonah 100%. I’m also a freckled Jonah truther

"I don't want a face claim with a malevolent aura but I do want him to very creepily stare at people with his flashlight eyes. No malevolence here!"

I want a faceclaim that doesn’t have a malevolent aura as like. the default. I want however a faceclaim that can unsettle people when the mask is dropped. I think boring Jonah with unsettling cracks underneath is like. a good compromise

For me, grinning blonde men are more strangercore

qushqhdhqjncwk very fair, but his body-hopping thing is quite similar to getting not-them(ed) and stranger and eye are at the opposite ends of a spectrum so i think it could still work. also, imagine a blonde men with grey eyes just staring unblinkingly at you for like 5 minutes. insane.

Can you Google Malek Sinner for me? He's from a game I play and tbh my Elias has always looked like an older version of him. Very stereotypical academic villain 😭

I can see the vision (absolutely) but there’s a malevolent aura to that man that imho is absolutely not there with Jonah. pre-tma Jonah is a boring boss who is at once incredibly academically knowledgable and also mildly bureaucratically incompetent. he’s described as “a waste of a suit”. he’s boring (godbless!)

Why is your Jonah blonde?

Men with gray eyes and dark hair are so mysterious...

Blonde 😭Labradoodle

QHSBAHDHSHDJSNXKS I admit my jonah (elias btw. I staunchly defend the scottish redhead og jonah) was very influenced by @/taxinealkaloids design for him which is to this day my favorite I’ve seen in the fandom. im also not above the image of a blonde man being described as a grinning little freak

No-fears AU would annihilate his character.

Suddenly waking up in a world without the fears... a sudden absence where the Beholding should be. Now that would be fun.

How did it happen? Forever a mystery.

I think the worst thing for him would be to realise he’d die with no way of preventing it. no way to put himself above pain and death and fear. sure he’d mourn the beholding but also the feeling of powerlessness and having to come to terms with his own mortality I think would plunge him into another existential crisis

Hey, I just want to ask you a question about your Jonah Magnus blogging seeing as as I said I listened to the podcast but wasn't super interested yet you are singlehandedly getting me interested in the character.

I feel what prevented me from getting into the character was that while I found it hypothetically very interesting the idea of wanting to end the world because it seemed inevitable, out of fear of someone else doing it first and pushing the suffering off on someone else, but the reveal that none of the other rituals were ever going to work and the true way to do it was this ridiculously convoluted process kind of made me lose sympathy for his motivations, it seemed far too unlikely that anyone else would ever figure it out, and even if they did a true ritual seems a lot easier to stop due to its complexity than the false ones. I wasn't particularly happy with this as I agree with you in that I would have found him far more interesting if he had a legitimate case that doing what he did was the most rational thing from a desperate, self-interested perspective (not because I feel a character needs to have motives I relate to/sympathize with to be interesting, just that in this particular case I think it makes this particular character more interesting). I would love to hear your case for why it was still reasonable for him to think a ritual succeeding was inevitable even after he realizes it's far harder to pull off than he thought and he's the only one who's figured that out yet. Asking this because I really want to love the character like you do but this has always prevented me from doing so.

thank you for the question! jonah fans have actually gone off about this for a long time lmao (we have. scriptures at this point) and both @/magnuspanoptes and @/elias-rights have written about this at length but essentially I think it comes down to two points:

  • sure, it might be a lot more difficult to pull off but it might still happen. it took Jonah two centuries to figure it out, and Gertrude was getting there as well: sure, one (1) single person attempting a complex ritual (I disagree on it being convoluted btw, it makes perfect sense with the way the fears were written, although the podcast should have gone harder on disproving the taxonomy in s5 or at the very least stressing how the fears are shared vastly depend on humans and animals’ perception of them. we shape what we fear as much as what we fear shapes us) might be easier to stop but what if word spread? what if multiple cults simultaneously understood the truth at once (then again, Jonah and Gertrude came at the same conclusion! someone else might do as well) or they decided to cooperate— well, that’s a whole different ordeal
  • jonahs motivation isn’t only about living forever and fear of being trapped in someone else’s hell, it’s about power. there’s no higher will protecting you in the tma world and valiant efforts are seldom (or never) rewarded: it is, all in all, really just about luck. sure, he could have theoretically body-hopped forever but this wouldn’t have put him above bad luck (a mishap in body-hopping for example: we have seen what happened with Rayner. and there was absolutely nothing supernatural at play just— as I said. bad luck. but also… Jonah lived through wwii. he saw London bombed and had only his luck to thank for the body in the panopticon coming out of it intact. it’s not only the fears that pose a threat, reality is at best neutral and at worst hostile. and what if someone attacked the Institute and overpowered him? what if he crashed his car and died on the spot?). there are just too many what ifs, too many risks, and jonah has seen too many people getting complacent (he himself!! Gertrude almost caught him off guard!) to believe he could go on forever. no, the only solution is the end of the world

    • -> add to this a certain existential nihilism and there you have it. jonah magnus.

    did you project your feelings about camus onto smirke in that fic?

    lmaoooo actually no because camus never claimed to have the truth in his palm tbh like quite the opposite. he suggests an outlook as to live with the absurd but insists quite heavily on the impossibility to reach a conclusion (to find a solution would be to betray the absurd). I wouldn’t admire Camus so much if he abode to that conception of reality (and in truth, Jonah rings much closer to Camus’ philosophy)

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