2023-05-13 6:07:35 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

itchyeye:

> fogandblackcoffee:

> > 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.

> elias also has the magical power to learn anything he wants at any time and turned towards beholding because of his relentles thirst for forbidden/esoteric knowledge

> i find it hard to believe that this is a man who would be incappable of feeding himself and go to these kinds of lengths to hide a skill he could magically implant into his own head whenever he wanted

> and even with no beholding powers elias is characterized by a thirst for knowledge, if there was a skill he wanted to have he would relentlessly work toward attaining it

> peter never learning to cook and never bothering to try 100% fits with his extremely canon incompetent effete richboy upbringing tho