I saw a post that’s like “JonElias healthy fluffy dynamics so good” and like yeah that’s great but also I loovee JonElias being so toxic and abusive. Elias who breaks and molds and grooms Jon to be his perfectly overpowered pet. Jon who can do everything Elias can’t. Jon on the collar at the end of Elias’s leash. Playing dreadful mind games with each other like Jon giving Elias a blowy all while vividly imagining strangling the guy to death. And they are both immensely satisfied by this. Absolute rivals. Goading and baiting each other into performing more terrible feats. Elias killing more “loose ends”, Jon hungrily devouring statements from anyone he meets. Elias owns Jon, and Jon blames and hates him for everything. But they are just so devastatingly incomplete without each other. Two terrible forces of power eating each other to pieces, ending the world in a fury of self destruction and ruling the pieces as gods in eternal torment.
For both of these I keep thinking of Jon sleeping on a fancy couch in Elias’s office and what that would mean. Pet mode. Owned. Maybe he doesn’t accept it yet, or tries not to. But here Mr. Insomniac is finally getting some z’s in none other than the den of his biggest threat. Finding “safety” and comfort with the man who wants to ruin his life. The man he hates. Or should hate. Maybe it’s after a Blazing Row where Elias ends up performing some very not work safe Discipline to tame him. Jon’s tired, he’s weak, and yet so so sated and empty and Elias molds him easily like warm wax. Try all he likes to break free, he and Jon both know Jon enjoys this. There’s a part of him that craves this sort of comfort. To lick honey off a knife.