I am so weak for the ‘Jon looking for comfort in Elias bc everyone else thinks he is a monster’ trope.
“Elias, am I still human?”
“Oh Jon… You are so much more. Can’t you see?”
Additional points for Elias adoring Jon like a God. Looking at him as if he were a miracle. Taking pride in Jon developing new powers.
Elias letting Jon use compulsion on him. Elias feeding Jon his own statement from the past.
Jon getting accustomed to the fact that Elias is always watching. It starts to bring him peace. It shifts from being watched to being watched over. Protected, under care.
“I will be watching.” Said Elias with a smile.
“I know,” Jon answered gratefully.
And Jon sees him. For the first time, he truly sees Elias. He sees Jonah Magnus. He sees his flaws, anxieties, dreams, nightmares, and fears. He sees his devotion and determination. He sees himself through Elias’ eyes, and it’s so different from how he perceives himself.
And he takes it all in, accepts it all in, and through that accepts himself as he is.
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.
More EyeTrauma! For all of the zero people who requested it, I love each and every one of you dearly. 👁️🫶
This piece depicts an attempted telling off, and Elias being willfully ignorant to the concept of personal space.
(Second image is the full drawing, click for acceptable resolution)
This is a pose I made a while ago and finally got around to doing something with. I’m also trying to get better at sketching and being okay with less than perfect results.
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.
I can’t stop thinking about that post about Jon and Elias licking each others eyeballs as foreplay (in reference to an article saying young Japanese couples were doing that irl and should stop) and their form would be different when they licked the others eyeball… Jon’s softer, velvetier, and droolier while Elias is more forceful and kinda flexes his tongue so he can lap properly by the way
Elias Bouchard’s Observations of the Archivist’s Progress
day 23
I told the Archivist to get a follow-up statement from Sharon Menon.He began asking questions like “Who’s Sharon Menon?” and “How do I contact her?”
We have a long way to go, but these are hurdles we will overcome.
day 157
I sent the Archivist to buy more stationary from Monde du Papier, a store he’s never heard of in a neighborhood he’s never been to.
He managed to navigate there successfully, but paused frequently as if unsure of himself.
day 202
At the start of our quarterly meeting, I asked in Swedish for the Archivist to retrieve my Montblanc pen from my office. I intentionally left it in the bottom drawer rather than in the cup on the desk.
The Archivist returned in four minute with the pen.
postscript: Upon his return, Mr. Blackwood asked him what language I spoke in, to which he appeared confused.
For someone who has made such progress in Knowing, he seems to remain rather unaware.
Okay everyone, so, I wouldn’t usually share this stage in my process (I won’t even lie, it is due to a lack of faith in my artistic ability) BUT, I am happy with how this one is coming along, and it has enough form at this point that you can see the idea.
Here is THE VERY BEGINNING of the ‘EyeTrauma Hades and Persephone AU’ art piece that I have been meaning to get around to for a bit now.
(Yes, the pomegranate seeds will be horrible clusters of eyes, thank you for asking. 👁️🫶)
