Do you have. Sorry hello i am a polite girl i swear. Do you have jonahbas thoughts to share with the class ❓❓
my god i haven’t thought about them in years… but yes, i do have them.
jonahbas strikes me as a first young love that was never allowed to separate. the chaste kiss between two children that was frowned upon, and then as they both grew in a world that could easily have both of them ruined for that fact, they were forced to stay close lest that knowledge risk being unveiled. beholding fear and all <3
in his letter to jonah, barnabas is the only one of magnus’ letters that has a certain degree of entitlement. all the others- albrecht, jonathan, robert, sampson- either treat him as an equal colleague or the soured relations of an equal they can no longer stand. but barnabas? he expects jonah to save him. he demands it. that displays a level of intimacy one wouldn’t expect from our mr magnus. it strikes me as them having something older and deeper. and, in all likelihood, something that should’ve ended a long time ago.
put yourself in jonah’s shoes. you have this person whom you truly care for. you care for him enough to keep his bones by your side for 200 years after his death. but as you look into the world of fears and, even before that, traipse through the dog-eat-dog world of 1800s noblemen and their petty god fearing disputes, you realize that he Knows things about you. things that could lose you everything you’ve built up so far. things that could get you killed. and you do still love him, of course, you have always loved him. but he’s a liability. a danger.
it’s much easier to observe rather than make the commitment yourself, no?