Yeah i actually turned your boyfriend into the messiah of the apocalypse and he’s now permanently feeling the ghost touch of me creating him into what he is now. Yeah we are permanently linked and he’s coming for my neck as we speak. I’m getting increasingly euphoric and afraid of him btw
eugh blugh anyway anyway. elias like talks to jon completely differently than he talks to anyone else. if jon is the room he is talking exclusively to jon regardless of how many other people are in the room. if jon is not in the room but there’s a tape recorder running he’s talking to jon. if he thinks jon might have this conversation relayed to him at a later date he’s talking to jon. mag 92 is hysterical because why did you pack this office with as many people as possible for this conversation and then audibly not break eye contact with one specific guy for twenty minutes. well this is because jon is the only person that actually exists to him in this situation. or most situations. elias knows he’s in a podcast but as far as he’s concerned he and jon are the only characters in it and everyone else is set dressing and he gets so cranky about it when the set dressing starts expressing free will. jon is aware that other people exist 95% of the time unless he is actively talking to and/or yelling at elias and then he kind of forgor. mag 102 when elias is like melanie is coming to murder me with a knife for like .25 seconds jon is like the fuck is melanie and then returns to reality and remembers he has a life outside of “weird thing with elias” and is kind of embarrassed. like uh whoops sorry got kind of intense there for a second (elias continues to be kind of intense unabated) (forever)
jonelias is fun because it can go: secret office romance with power imbalance (boss/employee AND age gap). enemies AND lovers. exes that repeatedly betrayed each other and are on different sides technically, while also still being drawn to each other due to being avatars of the same power and maybe possibly being attracted to each other in no small part because of that. straight up “i hate you and what you made of me, i need to destroy you, i still yearn for you” vs “i love you, i love what you’ve become and that it is because of me but not even you can stop me (but if there’s one person who could, it would be you)”
one of the roughly ten thousand “the thing about jonelias”es i have floating around in my head at any given time is how off the shits ridiculous it is to systematically annihilate a guys life with the intention of forcing him to kill the world and in the process knowingly and deliberately making that guy super overpowered like way more powerful than you easily thus pretty much guaranteeing that this guy IS going to kill you which you are terrified of beyond measure. like there’s no way you don’t know that’s going to happen at some point monstrous hubris aside it is an obvious eventuality you have had time to think this one out. a guy as careful as me doesn’t have accidents etc. and then when he shows up still being genuinely pretty pleased to see him. ugh
The thing that’s so funny about jonelias to me is that only 10% of their relationship would be twin pupils of the Eye feeding off your fears monster fuckery and the other 90% would be bitching about their coworkers and quiet nights in
After going out for dinner (stalking and eating the trauma of some random person on the street) they go home and complete a 1000 piece puzzle on Elias’ dining room table. This is date night to them. Do you understand my vision
the other thing about elias is that he is like a tumblrina to me essentially. like he saw a wet mean little man he liked and he said oh he’s perfect i’m going to put him in a jar and shake him around i’m going to put him in so many hideous situations. like any time you want to put a man in the microwave it was then that elias bouchard carried you. but unlike tumblr bloggers he managed to leverage this for career advancement slash becoming king of the fucking world which no one here has ever accomplished. you know they say if you do what you love you never work a day in your life.
I made every single mistake in the book, and it took way too long for the result I have. I’ll stop fucking around and keep future animation to line art lmao.
i actually. ok. so i think MAG 160.2 jonny says for the characters dnd classes elias would be a cleric, which makes sense. and jon would be a warlock that thinks hes a druid. also makes sense. this is that.
funny how jonelias has a vice grip on my brain again all of a sudden
Jon feeling Elias’ presence like a spinal reflex, a stimulus to which he reacts despite himself—he is entirely out of control when it comes to Elias, which is to say he surrenders control to a part of him he desperately wishes not to acknowledge. Jon can’t turn away from Elias when they are extensions of each other, when every nerve in Jon’s body aligns itself irrevocably with Elias’.
