the vibes in this scene were off the charts. jon and daisy are shaking and seething audibly. tim and basira are not happy. melanie is intrigued, exasperated. elias is giggling, batting his lashes and twirling a strand of hair round his finger.
That whole exchange and specifically Tim’s “what.” in that episode is literally one of my favourite moments ever. Just the absolute deadpan “I’m so tired of your shit” tone of voice. I can perfectly imagine his face when he says it and it’s… just perfection
when Elias tells Jon he worked as a filing clerk in 1972 he’s either giving a sneaky little hint or did a really funny mistake. But either way since Jon doesnt say anything this does imply that Elias can pass for being at least in his 60s or even 70s, or Jon had to think he looks younger than his age but didn’t have a reason to question it
“That’s… That’s quite nice, actually. Tingly… but sort of freeing. [Chuckle] You know, even Gertrude never properly tried to compel me. I always wondered –”
big fan of characters who think jon’s whole situation is just not that big of a deal. yeah you’re a monster but have you considered going to the club. thinking of daisy “you need to stop swanning around being all sad” and helen distortion’s “do try to lighten up”. listen I know you think you shouldn’t be alive but can you at least be whismical with it
tma wing au would go so hard. peter with sea bird wings. elias with great wings that seem a little more weathered & unkempt than normal for someone his age. s4 martin shedding all over the place. argh
i think a flavour of angsty jonelias i enjoy is jon being to elias, what elias wants to be to the eye. elias wants to be the ceaseless watcher’s special little boy. he’s so good and he’s so far from human. he’ll do anything for the eye. and he will take his place as its pupil. but he knows that jon, his archivist, is the true herald. the cumulation of centuries of planning. jon is everything to the eye, so he is everything to elias.
psst. hey kid. *opens ominous trench coat and pulls this png out* i did a dtiys by @stageturn
as soon as i saw the original i RUSHED over to my drawing tablet,, it’s just like. the coolest thing ever AND IT’S A JON DTIYS so you know i had to do it
TMA au but it’s just Gerry posting insane things like “here’s *another piece of his art which is super impressive* sorry it took so long I was in prison” and “hey I haven’t been active for two months I was tracking down a cult got into a fight with a member and we both landed in a hospital (he died but that was not because of the fight)” and his comments are just people spamming “WHO ARE YOU???”
Elias Knows every time Jon reads one of the “Dear Jonah I’m breaking up with you because you’re evil” letters.
And every time Elias Knows, every time he’s forced to remember how Forsaken he is, Peter Lukas feels Jonah’s aching loneliness, the loneliness that Jonah refuses to acknowledge, the loneliness that he can only indulge with Peter.
[Image ID: a black and white typography edit. there are three boxes of text. they read “are you proud of how you function?” “is there is a part of your body that is more real than the others?” “could you demonstrate that realness?” to the right of the text is an anatomical model showing the internal organs of the torso. the model lacks arms and legs and does not have a head. lines connect the boxes of text to parts of the model. /End ID]
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martin <- jon <- elias/jonah -> peter lukas -> simon fairchild: their beautiful nightmare polycule that would never be called as such by any party. in my heart.
the thing that kills me about Martin putting tapes on the buried coffin is that he accepts Jon’s non-humanity more than Jon himself does. Jon’s still trying to believe that he’s human so much that he tries to bring himself back with his physical body, even though he’s been freely using it as collateral for years by this point. But Martin sees Jon, knows that his tie to the Eye is stronger than his tie to his body and loves him enough to bring him back anyways. S4 is WILD dude