Okay but why did Elias keep Barnabas Bennetts fucking BONES
sometimes when a horrible little man is very dramatic, very spooky, and very gay, he wants to keep a memento of a close relationship that ended because he let the man die in order to see what would happen, and he’s also from the same era that brought you vials of tears as a mourning item, so he just goes completely overboard in an outrageously creepy fashion and acts like it’s completely reasonable