you can use your assistants as human sacrifices to stop the end of the world, and it will change nothing. you can use your assistants as lab rats to work out the closest thing to a magic system a fear-based universe contains, and all your work will be undone in a single night. you can ruthlessly sacrifice your friends, and it will make no difference. or you can do anything to save the people you love–you can send them away before you get out the axe, you can get stabbed mid-ghost bullet extraction, you can crawl straight into hell and spend days digging yourself out for a woman whose majority of interactions with you have consisted mostly of police abuse–and all it will do is end the world. and if you cling too hard to the one you love, you might just end all the worlds. & that is how you know the magnus archives gets horror.
Statement of y/n regarding being sold to the music group one direction, original statement given on wattpad, audio recording by Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institution, London. Statement begins: I woke up and pulled my messy brown hair into a loose bun-
The Magnus Archives AU where Adelard Dekker survives his fight with John Amherst and goes on to deal with all manner of fear-related problems by just fucking sealing their avatars in concrete. Eventually, he collects a complete set for every entity and it accidentally constitutes a successful ritual for the Buried.
[ID:screenshot from the unofficial transcript of magnus archives episode 40 reading, ARCHIVIST. MARTIN! How did she die? MARTIN. She was shot! Three times, that I could see. Three shots to the chest.
ID: screenshot from the unofficial transcript of magnus archives episode 200 reading, [FOOTSTEPS, FOLLOWED BY SOLID CONNECTION] ARCHIVIST. That was for Sasha. JONAH/ELIAS. J-John, wait! [ANOTHER BLOW, ACCOMPANIED BY WHEEZING] ARCHIVIST. For Tim. JONAH/ELIAS. [Afraid] P-Please John! [AND AGAIN] ARCHIVIST. For Gertrude, and all the others. [WINDED, LABOURED BREATHING] JONAH/ELIAS. [Wheezing, pitiful] P-Please John… [coughs] I don’t want to die. /end ID]
anyway in this house we love unshamedly, excessively romantic Jonelias ;; yes yes, Elias using Jon, yes yes Jon killing Elias, yes yes Jon being corrupted, but what if instead Jon loved Jonah Magnus just a little too much to consider killing him or going against him an option, and what if Jonah Magnus loved Jonathan Sims just a little too much to force him down a path he knows Jon doesn’t want; what if they both made the very dangerous choice of trusting each other with each other’s everything, because they loved one another just a little too much? what if they found a strangely strong equilibrium. what if they kissed also sometimes.
