Peter gives James a smile then, as uncharacteristic as anything for a Lukas, though it’s just as sharp as the last time he did, like a mouth filled with knives and hard edges, and though light, filled with mockery. James finds that he doesn’t necessarily mind it.
Day Five - Courtship.
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Pairing(s): Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus/Peter Lukas, Peter Lukas & James Wright Words: 11483 Chapters: 1/1
i love you betrayals between people who still love each other i love you devotion to the point of destruction i love you selfish choices made in the name of love i love you devastating consequences of those choices
Elias Bouchard does not care about Peter Lukas. Please keep this information in your mind as it is very important for Elias that everyone knows that.
ELIAS: Good afternoon, Mr. Lukas.
His voice is dripping with politeness. He does his best to hide any signs of familiarity in front of the audience. There is no audience.
ELIAS: What a pleasant surprise!
He fills the silence in the time Peter is taking a seat with more unnecessary words. The previously done proclamation could not be any further from the truth. Peter’s presence is no surprise as Elias knew very well Peter was coming. Peter’s presence is also not very pleasant as Elias is still mad at him about the thing that happened the last time. It is not important for the audience to know what was the thing that happened the last time.
PETER: Likewise. Mr. Bouchard.
Peter hates performing the play. It is pointless. There is no audience to perform for and they both know the script. Unfortunately for Peter, he does not have much to say in it.
Oh, yes, and they also happen to be ex-husbands. Important details that should have been mentioned sooner in the script. Apologies.
I love any version of Peter with long hair, but especially when it’s extra long, not just a little scruffy. That man has never had been to a barbershop and he stopped getting haircuts the moment his childhood caretakers stopped cutting his hair for him <3
The first time Jonah saw him after becoming Elias, he itched to run his fingers through Peter’s hair. An instinct left over from Elias’s own preferences; James had liked to pull his hair, but had no further thoughts about it. But Jonah has never been one to deny himself what he wants, so Elias braided Peter’s hair and claimed it was to practice hand-eye coordination in his new body
Oh my god, just got to the TMA liveshow and Jon and Martin’s first meeting is so ridiculous I’m crying.
I don’t understand how it took Martin such a long time to figure out that Jon might do a good impression of a snotty, stoic academic but he’s actually an anxious idiot when their first meeting was so stupid!
Yeah fine Martin let a dog trick him with its cute face and sneaked into the archive but what kind of person responds with “…in general?” when asked if they’ve seen a dog? Did he think a perfect stranger was accosting him at work to ask him if he’s ever seen a dog in his life?
I can’t believe Martin was even surprised that Jon thought he was a ghost. I can’t believe Martin was ever intimidated by him. I can’t believe Martin ever let him live it down. Every one of their interactions for like, six months should be some variation of:
Jon: Martin, have you seen my glasses?
Martin: Yes Jon, they’re very nice. They make you look very smart.
Martin: Barnabas confuses me…In a way…I see myself in him. I see the ways in which we are similar and different. Though what worries me the most is the fog that curls around him. I…don’t know if anyone else sees it. I bring him a cup of tea every day…I hope that it helps.
Tim: Yeah me and Barney are tight. I get called to HR constantly so we’re best buds now. We like to watch movies every Tuesday. Last time was Back to the Future— cause I HAD to. I take suggestions. His partners are lowkey kinda weird though. Idk what’s up with Jon and his name buddy.
The fact that Jonah met someone with the very specific fear of eye trauma after seeing his friend’s eyes gouged out, and decided he would make a perfect new vessel (a process which involves cutting out his eyes and replacing them with Jonah’s own) is so funny
having a blorbo be like “Omg have you seen that one scene where he closes the door ????? 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍Oh and that other scene where he’s eating food ???😍😍😍😍!!!!!!! omg I love him so much 💕💕💖✨🌸💕✨💖💕💓💗🌟🌸💕✨💓”
god i don’t know how ANYONE listens to mag 161 and comes away with the impression that they always thought elias was this horrible boss to secretly hate (i mean i do know, it’s memetic mutation and it bothers me), the whole thing, which is exemplified in the birthday bit, is that they were a bit nervous because, as tim said, “double boss”, but he was personable and they liked him and he put in effort to get in good with them and they not only liked having him around and felt comfortable with him (real sasha’s last lines literally included her chuckling fondly over a quirk of elias’s) but that they trusted him with stuff, whether big or small, that they trusted him to look after them (and probably why tim got so angry at elias not doing anything about jon’s season 2 behavior, cuz he trusted elias to step in) which is part of the TRAGEDY.
it’s why we AND the archival crew are meant to take it as hard as we do when we realize that he (appears to) genuinely doesn’t care about any of them and whether they live or die. it’s the classic horror trope of thinking that there’s a greater power there to save you, mrs voorhees arriving at camp crystal lake to comfort alice, only to realize that no, this is even worse, this is someone who is going to cause you harm. his switch from “good boss who cares about his employees and wants to help them and is friendly with them” to “that guy who brutally pipe murdered a dude and WILL kill/psychological destroy his employees if they defy them” is suppose to hurt the audience and it hurts the characters. it’s that horrible gut feeling of not just realizing that no one is coming to help you, but that the person you thought would do so, the person you trusted and wanted to do so, not only isn’t going to, not only can’t be bothered, but will actively contribute to the problem.
and if i see anymore “season 1 era the archive crew secretly all hate elias and thinks he sucks” fics i will start throwing bricks in the street.
I know that Jonah Magnus is an evil asshole, but the fact that he decided to show up to a surprise birthday party to which he ABSOLUTELY wasn’t invited just to eat cake and drink wine is fucking hilarious.
This bitch showed up, asked for the cake, which at that point was still a surprise, and when he didn’t get to immediately eat it, INSISTED in the most bitchy way possible.
Honestly, maybe they could have convinced him not to end the world by offering him free cake for the rest of their lives, it would have probably worked.
I mean, there’s no cake in the eyepocalypse, Jonah. That was a terrible move on your part.
Actually the Top Jon Moment of All Time is when he spends the entirety of season 1 building up the idea that hes a hard weathered skeptic who doesn’t believe in any supernatural bullshit and then as soon as he has an emotionally vulnerable moment where it’s outed that this isn’t true he IMMEDIATELY asks his coworker if he’s a ghost. Like no hesitation at all. This man’s reputation gets shoved in the grave and he just grabs a shovel and starts burying it
Some of the fandom discourse on this website sounds like “I can’t believe that FaceWearer, the show about the serial killer who tears out his victim’s faces and wears them, would portray a relationship between a boss and his secretary, don’t they know that power imbalances in relationships are fucked up :/”
i love doing apologism for fictional characters. yes he killed people and ruined everything but thats ok bc i like him and hes my little baby. so who cares
[I.D: A photo of an iced cake on display. The cake is heart shaped, covered in red fondant, with white icing along the edges. In the center of the heart, a message is written in white icing script. It reads: “I am divorcing you”. Beside the cake is a label that says “Red Velvet Heart Cake”. End I.D.]
I love you characters who are bad people, I love you characters that make me think, I love you characters that represent what happens to a person if they make bad choices, I love you characters that make me scared, I love you characters who take out their problems on other people, I love you characters that dont get redeemed, I love seeing the dark side of the human condition
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