August 2025

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.

1. Jon is far more powerful now. More powerful than him.
2. Jon is the head of the Institute. It’s his decision to make.

So he slowly gets up and takes a step back.

AU Where there is Jon as fully developed Archivist and his ex-boyfriend Martin is fully developed Lonely avatar.

And one day Jon and Martin form other universe appeared and they are so sickly in love with each other.

And Lonely Martin and Archivist Jon are SO bitter about it. Like they would look at Martin and Jon comforting each other or just trying to figure everything out in a new place and they would be like:

“Disgusting. Can you imagine?”

Only that they can both imagine it very well. Bc they used to be like that too. And it hurts so deeply.

Jon sighed, massaging his temples. The tape recorder clicked and fell silent. That statement felt dry, almost as if Jon was chewing sand. He scowled to himself. He needed something real, something…

“Jon.” Martin smiled, “I will make tea. Do you want one?”

“Ah.. no. No, thank you, Martin. I.. I will take a break.” Jon decided and stood up. “I think I need some air.”

“Oh… Right. Right. Was it a bad one? Statement, I mean?”

Jon opened his mouth and then nodded only as he was leaving the room.

It was not bad enough.

The next thing he remembers was sitting across from a young woman who was crying hysterically.

“Please, please stop.”

Jon flinched and quickly got up, leaving the café. He ran back into the Archives and closed the door behind him, breathing heavily.

“J-jon… Are… Are you alright? "Martin blinked.

"Yes.. I… I didn’t want to be late,” he said. Martin chuckled and shook his head. Jon smiled tightly, “I should have eh… Slow down.”

“Archives are not going to run, Jon.”

Jon nodded again, and he suddenly turned around, knowing that the door would open. After a second, he was met with Elias’ pleased smile.

“Hello, Jon. You had a fulfilling walk? ”

Jon scowled at him and closed the door with a loud thump that made Martin jump.

“I… I didn’t tell him.” Martin said quickly.

“I know, Martin. I know.” The Archivist said.

When Jon and Martin started dating they thought that Elias is really homophobic but then they met Peter Lukas - Elias’ husband.

Turns out Elias is not only homophobic but also an asshole.