A huge appeal of jonelias to me is that the both of them are genuinely just unlikeable people. Theyre both sticks in the mud with superiority complexes who spend far far too much of their lives thinking about work. Jon is abrasive and rude to literally everyone while elias is bland and speaks in middle manager talk that is just polite enough you feel dumb getting mad at but you know its all a mask
Nobody wants to be around them and once people get over the shock of either of them dating anyone it makes perfect sense the two most insufferable people at the institute would like each other. All they talk about with each other is work and they *like* it that way. Absolute freaks
Oh yeah and all the spooky shit. Everyone in the institute thinks its a myth either of them blink