if the magnus archives was a comedy podcast, elias would’ve yelled “unhand me!” when he was getting arrested and that’s how it would’ve been revealed that he’s jonah magnus.
calls some officer “foul villain” and then tries desperately to remember how the people curse today, going through, in no particular order, Victorian insults and 80s slang
eyes darting around the room to gauge everybody’s reactions as he says shit like “you- you grody dipsticks- damn mutton shunters and fiends-!”