2021-04-07 22:26:43 ¶ ●

Yes, @trustworthy-liar​ and I have plenty of headcannons regarding all the lives of Jonah Magnus.

Continuation of THIS POST.

Jonah Magnus

- Charming young man who has one day appeared in the society and acted like he always belonged there. He doesn’t like talking about his past.
- When he was young he read all books in a family library. After arriving to London he was very surprised by how much he still doesn’t know.
- Met Barnabass Bennet for the first time when the young man was travelling through Scotland.
- Barnabass later intorduced him to all his acquaintances in the high society such as Robert Smirke and all the others.
- Very easily forgets himself in his studies and research especially when there’s no one around to drag him away and force him to eat and sleep.
- Still genuenly cared about his peers but unfortunately he cared about a knowledge a bit more.
- Infamous member of many gentlemen clubs.
- Dissapeared at age 83. His body was never found. There are rumors his ghost still wanders through the halls of the Magnus insitute.

(years mark the time Jonah’s conciousnes was inhabiting the body - who would guess that it correspond with time as the Head of the institute as well)

William Bennett

- Young, pretty, had decent amount of money and fascinated by all the wierd and obscure things. He was naturally very intriqued when Jonah Magnus offered him a private tour through the artifacts…
- Jonah took over William Bennett at age 21. Feeling sour after unsuccesful ritual he decided to enjoy the decadence.
- Met with Mordechai once. Lets say Mordechai was not amused by Jonah figuring some way to live longer. And also by the name of the person he chose.
- Accidentally got adicted to opium. Jonah didn’t realized till he skipped bodies becuase he was sure he could stop anytime he wanted.
- The only time Jonah travelled out of England - to the world expo in Paris in 1989 (“oh it will be probably lame not as cool as ours”). He realized he did not get over his seasickness and fear of ocean by skipping a body way too late.
- He met his death at age 47 becuase he got plenty of enemies and also there started to be several rumors about him. Also the opium addiction. Overall Jonah did not treat this body very well - yes, bodies are disposable but he is still living in them…
- Jonah made the death look like a murder and framed one of his enemies for it.

Edward Lyon

- Edward was boring looking librarian of the Magnus Institute who cared more about books than he cared about people
- Body snatched at age of 34
- Everyone wrote off Edward’s sudden change of personality as power getting into his head
- Jonah establisehed closer relantionship with the Lukas family again - through the dullest person ever, Thomas Lukas
- Went back to meticulously researching the rituals and haven’t stopped since
- Died at the age of 64, written off as a heart attact (but for real Jonah just wanted to enjoy 1920′s as a young man)

Augustus Moore

- Served in the WWI and after it ended he´was seeking a new life in London and decided to give a statement to the Magnus Institute where he caught the eye of the Head of the institute who offered him a job in the artifact storage
- Jonah was jeallous of Augustus being young and having fun so he took over his body at 28 even though he previously planned to wait a bit longer
- Around year 1929 he shortly reconnected with Thomas Lukas (who never figured out that he is the same person as Edward or Jonah Magnus - no matter how many not even subtle hints he was giving him)
- Spent most of the WW2 hidden in the tunnels scared for his life institute (”Did I miss a Slaughter ritual?”)
- During the great fog in 1952 got scared that there was succesfull Lonely ritual
- Because there was way too many fog problems in London he decided to skip bodies in 1965 just to be prepared if there was really some ritual
- Died at age 65 in a fire, absolutely unrelated to the conflict Jonah was having with the cult of the lightless flame at the moment

Richard Mendelson

- Worked in the Library, double faced, acted nice to everyone but behind their back tried to discredit them to make himself look better
- At last he got his promotion (to Head of the institute) at age 33
- To Jonah’s dismay Mendelson turned out to be lactose intolerant (no cakes for Jonah :( )
- This time he did not come to Lukas but Lukas came to him and boy was he disapointed, Nancy Lukas turned out to be real pain in the ass
- Made a wagger with Nancy wether woman can be the Archivist and survive at least 10 years on such position (almost no archivist actually did) - unfortunatley the chosen Archivist was no one else but Gertrude Robinson herself
- Unfortunately met his end at age of 47 in a car crash (because Jonah really wanted an icecream and cheese without consequences)
- This only fed the rummors about the position of the head of the institute being cursed by Jonah Magnus himself (technically they were not wrong…)

James Wright

- Filling clerk at the research department, unhappy, divorced and lonely man with past alcohol adiction problems
- Body snatched at age 45, Jonah wanted much younger body of a man who he thouht was named Robert, turns out his name really was just “Bob” and he coudn’t have that
- Turned out James had kids, one of them tried to reconect with their absent fater. Jonah was not very happy about it.
- In 1989 met with Peter Lukas
- Since he couldn’t have alcohol, he wanted to try opium again (moderately this time) and was shocked that it was illegal, so he turned to smoking and cake
- Staged his death at age 68 as a suicide

Elias Bouchard

- Worked at the artifact storrage
- Jonah took his body sooner than previously planned because Elias wanted to get some horrendous tattoo
- Jonah threw away all his clothes…but he kept the funny weed socks
- Til his end in the Spiral Michael Shelley never figured out why his friend started to act so weirdly (Jonah had it as his side hobby to induce the paranoia in him by acting like the good old Elias to him from time to time)
- Peter was very much not amused by this little stunt of Jonah Magnus
- Stabbed by his Archivist to death while he was crying like a little bitch he is

𝙁𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙪𝙠𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙝 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙪𝙨

Mordechai Lukas

- Already quite rich and well etabilished in the society
- Owns a shipping company, which is later the only reason why he still interacts with people
- Met with Jonah on gentleman business meeting, they were introduced to each other by Barnabas on Jonah’s demand
- To Jonah’s disgust he got married when he was in his early forties
- Around 1830s decided to disappear from the society completely only getting ocasionally annoyed by Jonah
- After meeting William Bennett he decided that one lifetime with Jonah was enough and dissapeared into the Lonely forever (as you do)

Thomas Lukas

- Mordechai’s possible grandson/grandnephew
- Rising child lonely at it’s peak
- Already married and with few kids when he met Edward. He heard that cheating partner makes one feel very lonely…
- Unlike the other lonely avatars Jonah ever encountered this one was trully indifferent towards anything, driving Jonah mad by rarely showing any reaction
- Had a brief relationship with both Edward and Augustus however never caught Jonah’s hints who he really is and just assumed that these eyevatars are all kinda the same

Nancy Lukas

- The great pain in Mendelson’s ass
- Neither impressed nor charmed by him
- Regularly calls him out on his bullshit (sexism)
- Lonely feminist - believes that independce for women will make everyone more lonely so she supports it
- Calls Mendelson “Dick” because that’s indeed short version of Richard
- Slightly intriqued by Gertrude Robinson (what a beautiful loneliness right there)

Peter Lukas

- First Lukas after Mordechai who really intrigued Jonah
- Originally started an affair with Wright because he thought it nice and lonely to be with someone old, who will soon die (boy was he surprised)
- Except the train documentaries his guilty pleasure are also romantic movies with tragic ending (Titanic my beloved)
- Actually figured it out on his own who Jonah Magnus is(because of course he wanted to play this game again with this fresh new Lukas)

Anyway both @trustworthy-liar​ and I still have plenty of headcannons about Jonah and all of his bodies (especially the oc ones) so you can probably expect more detailed posts with thorough biography of every single one of them in the future.

Just to be clear most of the dates as well as all the funfacts are really just our made up headcannons. We didn’t bother writing here some of the cannon events but they are marked on the well-arranged timeline.