Blind Elias Bouchard headcanons (ft. Jon Sims, Peter Lukas, and Martin Blackwood)
Or, how to torment Elias even more than before
(bit of JonElias, Lonelyeyes, and Jmart)
- he got blinded (by Melanie, by Jon, by Martin, by any other avatar, it does not matter - although if it’s Jon, it gains new favours )
- he lost connection to the eye; therefore, he can’t lead his Institute anymore (Jon became the Head of the Magnus Institute, and oh, he struggles )
- The first thing that hits him is overpowering panic and the realization that he is going to die; his eyes are damaged, so he can’t jump bodies
- depression, grief, anxiety follows, and team up with disorientation, desperation, and chronic pain
- Peter, back from the Tundra, finds him in their shared apartment, and he takes care of him in the only way he knows how by taking him into the Lonely
- Elias slowly fades, he hardly remembers his name, he remembers that he knew a man named Peter Lukas once, but nothing more, he remembers the thrill of being a pupil of the eye, but just the feeling, not the whole situation
- Jon is doing his best, but it’s hardly enough. Without Tim and Sasha, it’s challenging; he keeps remembering them and Martin…
- They grew apart with Martin since Jon took Elias’ position. Martin got closer to the Lonely, and Jon got closer to the Eye
- So Jon turns to the only person who can help him - Elias
- but Elias is hard to find now, covered in a thick fog of the Lonely, hidden by Peter Lukas
- Jon hires two new assistants, and he immediately sees an Archivist potential in one of them ( he quickly cut him off, trying not to encourage him, doing everything to stop him from becoming another Archivist ) - he failed, failed terribly bc the space that he gave was everything that was needed for a new Archivist to rise
Supplemental!
After Jon found him, Elias works along with him, and a new Archivist is arising. One day, he (new Archivist) gets back to the Institute marked by one of the entities, and he is delirious. Elias quickly kneels next to him to help, and Jon just freezes. And one terrifying thought appears in his head.
Maybe it will be better to kill him now.
And bc Elias spends his time in the Institute mostly, Beholding found a way to him, and he sometimes can hear or know. And he picked up Jon’s thought. And his first instinct was to fight, but he quickly realized.
- Jon is far more powerful now. More powerful than him.
- Jon is the head of the Institute. It’s his decision to make.
So he slowly gets up and takes a step back.