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## Coronet

personalmephistopheles:

> Rating: T (feels like it should be more but I guess technically not)
> Fandom: The Magnus Archives
> Characters: Jonah Magnus
> Ao3 Link: archiveofourown.org/works/32770078

> “The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. Then, suddenly, time stopped for him. Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone.” -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

> In the end, The Watcher’s Crown, while not the apotheosis that Jonah was hoping for, turns out to be…something else.

> Written as part of @jonahmagnusweek for the prompt ‘Ritual’

> Day 1 (Letters) - Day 2 (Manipulation) - Day 3 (Limits) - Day 4 (Bones/Possession)

> Keep reading