2023-05-13 4:44:08 ¶ ● ⬈

spiderwebteacup:

> Jonah Magnus never learned to cook.

> Therefore Elias Bouchard, head of the Magnus Institute, London, cannot cook. He never bothered. Having grown up a Victorian Gentleman ™ he considers it to be beneath him.

> He has however reached the point where he knows that it’s embarrassing that he doesn’t know how to turn on a stove. (Peter has made fun of him relentlessly). He still refuses to learn, but refuses to be mocked.

> And so, the performance begins.

> “I’ve seen Elias cook.”

> “Did you? Or have you just seen him plate things?”

> “But…we’ve cooked together!”

> “Really? Or was he standing by the sink, washing one vegetable for over an hour while you did all the work?”

Personally, I think Peter’s the one who’d be confused by a stove. Elias is a very self-sufficient, adaptable man who is happy doing menial work like paperwork. I don’t think cooking is going to be beneath him. I don’t think he’s that vain (actually, I think he’s the opposite of vain; this is a man who was happy being seen as the bumbling, but well-meaning boss for years and a ‘waste of a suit’). Peter, meanwhile, is a lazy little rich boy who sits in his captains cabin all day and has his food delivered to him by his first mate. I can’t really see him cooking when he canonically has food delivered to him 99% of the time, much less being any good at it.

I don’t think Peter would try to hide his inability to cook though. He doesn’t need to know how to work a stove; that’s for peasants people who don’t have enough money to hire personal cooks.