I know a lot of people see og elias as this funny little stoner dude, but i think he would have been more quiet. quite the opposite of what Jonah elias is, i believe he would have been gentle and often living in his own little world. you know that feeling that something is very wrong but you can’t quite figure out what it is, i have a funny feeling he might have been haunted by that feeling, even before he lost his friend. his family was never that supportive, i believe the weed was probably escapism. he didn’t really know why he joined the institute and despite his previously bad college habits, he took it seriously enough to be promoted. perhaps because he was following that feeling, trying to figure it out both for his friend and for himself. it’s just a shame that when he eventually did it was too late. i can imagine the real elias seeing what his possessed self has done and both feeling an impossible sense of guilt, but also a strange and sickening sense of reservation when he realizes the truth of the world just out of his grasp before. this is all just my thoughts tho and it might make no sense
