this headline i just saw is making me lose it. searching ‘dracula’ on google images and scrolling the results for an hour every morning nodding solemnly at each pic like they’re motivational quotes before clocking into work
the jonah magnus trans hc that was popular back in 2020 really was so genius. i love to see jonah’s crawl towards immortality through a trans lens because on top of the ambition and the “to place yourself beyond pain and death and fear” of it all it’s just an interesting bargain to make with the beholding…being able to bodyhop (and probably to an extent align people’s perceptions of him as a Man) but at the same time feeding the beholding with his own fear of being outed (and the resulting social repercussion)(especially for someone who has to leverage his authority and power to stay alive because he doesn’t have horror murder superpowers like the other avatars)…the beholding in general has some fun implications for gender anyways it’s all about perception and performance after all innit. why not trans jonah
“there’s no evidence this character wears sock garters and shirt stays” nothing admissible in court no but circumstantially yes and the circumstances are he’s fancy and theyre sexy
Jonelias thought of the day is that Elias must come across as so stuffy and boring to those at the Institute - which, you know, very much helps hide his true nature - but as an avatar of the Eye and a man determined to avoid the End, Elias is someone whose entire being revolves around the interplay of knowledge and experiences. He’s compelled to Know it all and his efforts to avoid death invite him to Experience it all too, a fascinating combination of passive observer and, by virtue of being a 200+ year-old in search of true immortality, an active participant too. This is a man whose longevity and thirst for knowledge invites an obsession with life that contradicts the ‘Sits in his office doing nothing but spreadsheets all day’ image he’s learned to cultivate. (Though, to be clear, he does love the spreadsheets.) And I don’t just mean “obsession with life” in the sense of him avoiding the finality of death, but actually loving the act of being alive.
