[ID: fan art of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus archives. A bust shot of Jonathan sims looking at the viewer, he is covered in orange glowing eyes and his own eyes are glowing too. The lighting is dark and green and the orange stands out against it. He looks quite shocked, poor guy. End ID]
I wanted to draw this lad normally but the urge to green squiggle was too great :>
[ID: Magnus Archives fanart of Jon Sims sitting at his desk, clicking a tape recorder and beginning to read a statement. Much of the background is filled by the snaking green coils of Jon’s speech bubble, which contains the opening lines of MAG75- A Long Way Down.
The next two paragraphs are the statement text; otherwise, the ID ends here.
Jon reads: “Statement of Stephen Walker, regarding his brother’s disappearance from the top of Tour Montparnasse in October 2006.
Original statement given November 7th 2006.
Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.
Statement begins.
"I hope my brother is dead. He must be dead. I would love to believe that this is all some elaborate prank, some bizarre attempt to fake his own disappearance, but deep down I know that’s not my…” End ID]
so exciting to be alive for a new more inclusive era of gay representation thus allowing me to hate on the other male canonical love interest for getting in the way of my yaoi. we’ve all come so far #feminism
Based on their conversation in mag 17 and some of Jon’s comments in season 1 I’m convinced that Jon was a constant pain in Elias’s ass from the minute he started at the institute. I also think that’s a big part of why Elias chose Jon to be Archivist. Just…
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The way they talk to eachother, Jon is, as always, unnecessary snippy and abrasive. Elias is patient but quietly exasperated. There’s a definite familiarity there. They’ve had many conversations like this before. Then at the end of the episode Jon says
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I like to imagine that Jon’s been in Elias’s office at least once a week since he started badgering him about whatever case he’s working on. How many times has Elias had to give the old “record and study, not interfere or contain” speech?
Im just obsessed with Jon and Elias’s comfortably antagonistic pre canon relationship. Like obviously Jon respects and maybe even looks up to Elias as an authority on his chosen field. But he’s also comfortable enough with him to be his unadulterated bitchy self around him.
It’s harder to tell what Elias thinks of Jon since at this point he is keeping his true nature under wraps. But I like to think he’s got an exasperated affection for Jon. Kind of like a pet who’s constantly getting into shit but is so cute you can’t truely get mad at them.
Jon is an insufferable bastard and so is Elias even though he’s (kind of) pretending not to be. Knowing Elias I bet he loves arguing with Jon, probably purposely riles him up because it amuses him. Of course Jon also enjoys arguing with Elias, it’s like one of his main ways of communicating. They are have an ideal bastard for bastard relationship.
I bet the first time Jon came to Elias insisting they should do more with a case he was like, yes finally, this is exactly the obnoxious little guy I’ve been waiting for. Yes Elias chose Jon because he was marked by the spider but I think he also chose Jon because he liked him and was a little bit obsessed with him.
The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it
It’s about rage, it’s about obsession, it’s about making that two-person war your entire raison d’être. It’s about loving and mistaking it for hatred and loving and loving and loving to the point of destruction. His or yours, it doesn’t matter. And you think seeing him dead at your feet will make you feel better, but all you feel is a whole lot of nothing.
