2026-01-02 19:34:42 ¶ ● ⬈

boushards:

> something something jon and elias wearing each other’s clothes to work after they start seeing each other but they both dress in such similar outfits all the time that it takes virtually everyone in the institute a few months to realise that they don’t just buy clothes from the same brands or anything.

yeah no i’m still thinking about this actually. they start off just wearing each other’s ties or jumpers; items which could easily be mistaken as the two of them buying their clothes from the same workwear brands. over time, probably once they’ve been together for a while and rumours are starting to sprout like weeds throughout the cafeteria, it becomes more obvious in small and subtle ways.

elias seems to no longer wear tailor-made clothing, judging by the ill fit of some of his outfits these days.

jon takes a very strong liking to a particular jacket which has a dry cleaning tag on one of the inner seams made out to an e. bouchard.

elias’s taste in socks suddenly gets a whole lot more colourful.

jon accidentally packs his stuff into elias’s work satchel one morning and doesn’t notice his error until lunchtime.

elias wears a set of novelty cuff links one day, and the next day jon has the exact same pair on.

jon blows his nose with elias’s monogrammed handkerchief. he sometimes smells faintly of elias’s preferred cologne.

elias wears a shirt of jon’s with a very recognisable ink stain on one of the cuffs which jon hasn’t gotten around to cleaning yet. he’s not one for rolling up his shirt sleeves, so the whole archival team notice it when elias comes down to the archives early one morning and very politely asks jon for his office keys, which seem to have somehow magically appeared in one of jon’s trouser pockets.

it’s got to feed the eye somehow.