parasight headcanon that whenever jane manages to successfully fluster jonah, she says she’s gotten “under his skin”. he says he hates it and it’s a stupid joke, but he grins a little everytime anyways.
jonah’s boring manager swag died a gruesome death in fanon and i won’t let that happen to lena. ok. she has even less personality than him like she seems to be actively suppressing the little personality she has. and i love that about her. she doesn’t even enjoy the corporate nonsense of it all like he did, it’s just. what she is made of. in fact she doesn’t seem to enjoy anything at all. except maybe chocolate cake. i hope she stays super serious at all times. i also hope there’s a scene where someone makes a joke and she fails to suppress a giggle and then proceeds to act like this is the worst thing to have ever happened to her.
i have a headcanon that elias is like, very literally the beating heart of the institute. like, he can feel things going on, is more place than person, etc. and i just wanted you to think about that in the context of parasight & jane worming it up in the walls
OHMYGOD. ok i am never going to stop thinking about this. holy shit. this is amazing. you have just rewired my brain chemistry. i am going to be so normal about this. no wonder he was so hesitant to do anything about that too soon. like he essentially got the same experience as the people that got wormed, it just left no physical marks on his body. and idk mayyybe he enjoyed it a bit. perchance.
anyways that also makes me think like. everything else that happened to the institute. like when martin started burning statements, did that feel like someone was burning something inside of him?? damn. not fun. also if the tunnels are a blind spot for the eye, then i bet someone entering the panopticon feels like a sudden sharp pain in your chest that wasn’t there before. the type of pain that makes you go “oh shit, am i about to die?”
overall, absolutely massive brain concept, will be thinking about this forever now, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.
also like. jonah saying "this place is very old. it has all sorts of idiosyncrasies" is so funny in the context of him being the place he's talking about. he said directly to tim's face "im old and weird. and a building"
michael distortion x jonah magnus. i think it’d be cathartic for whatever part of him is still michael to just fuck the hell out of the founder of the institute it used to work for
Chapters:
3/3
Fandom:
The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Tom Haan & The Flesh, Simon Fairchild & The Vast
Characters:
Tom Haan, The Flesh (The Magnus Archives), Simon Fairchild, The Vast (The Magnus Archives)
Additional Tags:
Fanart, Cuddling & Snuggling, Airplanes, Slice of Life
Summary:
michael distortion x jonah magnus. i think it’d be cathartic for whatever part of him is still michael to just fuck the hell out of the founder of the institute it used to work for
Afterwards, Michael gives Elias a performance review. Michael twists things enough to “justify” it being a bad performance review (which makes Michael feel a bit better) but Elias just heard “performance review” and got so hard [again] that he blacked out.
michael taking years of repressed employee rage out on elias who’s just like “wowh…do i get to sign a contract of some kind too…ttalk to me about how to improve my performance in the future…yes…is this going to affect my salary…hnnmhh….”
s5 from the perspective of georgie and melanie. turns out that whenever helen wasn’t bothering jmart, she was flirting with melanie in such odd and confusing ways that it only really counted as flirting inside her own terrifying mind. like somehow it was both clumsy and nonsensical. georgie wasn’t even mad because of how entertaining it was.
michael distortion x jonah magnus. i think it’d be cathartic for whatever part of him is still michael to just fuck the hell out of the founder of the institute it used to work for
Afterwards, Michael gives Elias a performance review. Michael twists things enough to “justify” it being a bad performance review (which makes Michael feel a bit better) but Elias just heard “performance review” and got so hard [again] that he blacked out.
michael taking years of repressed employee rage out on elias who’s just like “wowh…do i get to sign a contract of some kind too…ttalk to me about how to improve my performance in the future…yes…is this going to affect my salary…hnnmhh….”
Relistening to tma and my brain just goes “ jon fivehead” “martin kartin asian” “elias bouchard blond” and thats that. idk why it randomly decided to change up the designs but sure
Trying my best to break out of my horrendous 3 month long art block, its happening bit by bit
i couldn’t finish anything in time for brutal-pipe-murder-day, so i humbly offer this *puts it down gently and proceeds to book it in the opposite direction*
[ID: elias bouchard/jonah magnus holding a pink pistol in his right hand by his head, with his left hand stretched out down in the opposite direction. he’s standing on his left leg with his right leg kicked back behind the rest of him. the text to his left reads, “jonah magnus’, elias bouchard’s guide on how to kill an archivist” with “jonah magnus” crosses out. the background is an over saturated red with 3 circles resembling bullet holes on the background. elias/jonah is colored in an over saturated blue pallet with bright green accents. End ID.]
catch me at 7am in the OIAR when everyone else has left whispering sweet nothings to Augustus while Chester and Norris digitally retch in the background
oh i just realized it’s been far too long (like a few days) since i’ve made a parasight post.
imagine they’re like. just casually making out in elias’ office when some random employee walks in. cue immediate psychic eye attack so strong the employee just passes out and wakes up in the break room a few hours later like “i had. the most fucked up dream. i should call my therapist”
jonah magnus: —and it’s weird; she said it was because the desolation killed her cat which seems like… huh… am i supposed to believe she cared about her pet that much?? was she serious? was that supposed to be a joke??? i will never understand that woman honestly—
the eye: wait hold on what did she say it did?
jonah: killed her cat. i understand people love their pets but you’re telling me that inspired that much passion? that much action? all for a single animal that would die much before her anyway. and she never even seemed particularly angry at the desolation. in fact she seemed closer to it than to any of the other fears—
the eye: no what were her exact words
jonah: i believe she said that an incarnation of the lightless flame “destroyed her p
Hello gay people in my computer. have you ever thought about kissing a woman made of worms? would you like to?
I wrote this as my part of an art trade with the lovely @oh-shit-i-spilled-my-genderfluid, and i had a great time! Jane/Elias is definitely a very new ship to me but their voices were so compelling that the fic ended up several hundred words longer than i intended, so enjoy that
Something about Jon blaming himself for how he was bullied as a child (a form of victimhood and powerlessness) as a way to retroactively claim agency in the same vein as Jonah emphasizing he’s done everything because he wishes to.
tim called elias useless and a waste of a suit as an insult but somehow i feel like he would interpret that as a compliment. he would be like thank you tim that’s exactly what i was going for :3
why does everybody keep de-sillyfying peter lukas wtf. it’s so important that he’s the only true, fully committed lonely avatar we meet, and yet he is so cheerful at all times. he’s not shy either. he’s extremely talkative, but only when he gets to decide the topic of conversation. he enjoys being disliked and purposefully makes social situations uncomfortable.
i feel like a lot of the fanon interpretations of him i’ve seen depict him more as a victim of the lonely, rather than an avatar of it. and i simply do not agree.
jonah’s insistance that everything he does is of his own accord and that he’s in complete control of his actions vs. his literal role in the universe. as the eye’s prophet and acolyte. did you want to do it, or did your god want you to do it. is there a difference, if the only thing you truly want is to serve your god. are your wants the same as its, by definition. how much free will can any avatar at all have. sure, you can stop any second you want, but what’s even left of you without this. you say you want to do this, because if you don’t, then all of this has been for nothing. you have to want this. were you silent or were you silenced. ykwim.
WHY AM I HAVING SO MANY. FEELINGS. AND THOUGHTS. ABOUT NOT!THEM.
it died screaming and crying. it already knew how to hurt. it didn’t know how to fear.
imagine you are a thing, and your purpose is the fear of the unknown. imagine this is all there is to you. you don’t know want, you don’t know need, and you don’t know pain and fear. these are things you are meant to inflict, not experience.
then imagine that one day, you are known. your masks, which have always defined you, are now forced off, and to you, you faceless creature, this is equivolent to someone tearing off what you are. imagine you are seen and beheld every second, and for the first time in your existence (because you have never truly lived), you know fear and you know pain. now you know shame, and now you cannot hide, no matter whose skin you wear.
the death of not!sasha was both incredibly cruel and, ultimately, an extreme act of mercy on jon’s part.
i like to think that the avatars actually hated the eyepocalypse too.
it’s explicitly shown that not!sasha did not enjoy the mortifying ordeal of being Known. helen probably hated the fact that she was constantly Seen, a distortion doesn’t want to be understood. simon fairchild can say whatever he wants, but as a vast-aligned girl myself i just know he missed the sky. jude perry, who spent a good majority of her first appearence bragging about how superior the desolation was, was forced to serve what she saw as an inferior power. every Hunter lives in fear of becoming Prey. etc etc.
jonah magnus possessing someone for the first time. one eye at a time. jonah magnus looking in the mirror, oh, my eyes inside someone else, and they look a bit too different. jonah magnus scared, terrified of what he’s done, staring at his own body. just sitting there. seeing himself fully with his own eyes, a perspective no human is supposed to view themself from. this is how everyone else sees you. jonah magnus examining his own body. this is what my face looked like. jonah magnus picking up the knife again, just out of curiosity. just to see if it still hurts. jonah magnus sitting in his own lap, cutting into his own skin, falling asleep in his own arms, beholding himself.
i feel like parasight act like they wouldn’t care if the other got hurt (it’s so easy to lose people when you’re an avatar. safer to not care.) but at the same time, they’d get weirdly protective of each other real fast.
jane’s a very new avatar. someone might see her as competition, try to take her out too early. that’d be inconvenient and cause problems for jonah’s plan. so, obviously, he has to protect her at least a little bit. it makes perfect sense. it’s all just a part of the plan, for sure.
jane’s reason is a lot more simple: jonah magnus is of the corruption. in a way. or at least close enough for her to consider him a part of her hive. the hive must protect its own. even the clueless little parasite that thinks itself a watcher of some sort. he’ll realise soon enough. she has to make sure he survives long enough to realise this is where he belongs.
i am speaking absolute nonsense and have zero evidence of this
what if the reason lena didn’t originally want to give gwen the promotion is because elias is one of her bosses and he doesn’t want gwen anywhere near the actual work of the oiar
U know ur far gone when your thinking about ur faves during breakfast... was eating a raspberry turnover thing a second ago and had the thought "Man I bet Mike Crew would love blackberry flavoring" like girl why did you think that. Why do you care. You weren't even eating anything blackberry.
