I have to stop the rituals from ever succeeding -> someone is going to succeed, and everyone will suffer anyway, so why should I be among the sufferers? -> even if nobody succeeds, I will never be free of pain and death and fear in this human condition. I am willing to sacrifice everyone to craft my ritual, even if they wouldn’t fall victim to the fears otherwise.
i love male characters who are extremely stuck-up and “inside the box” [like, proper, way too formal, cold, almost boring] from an outside perspective but their brain is actually an assembly of the weirdest shit you could possibly find
The note on the kitchen counter, right next to the French press:
I made a fresh pot of coffee just for you before leaving for work. Have a wonderful day.
Love, Elias 🖤
The email that Elias receives three days after his husband disappears without a trace:
Elias Bouchard,
I am sorry to say that our marital agreement is no longer suitable for my lifestyle, as I found your behavior on the morning of August 23rd of 2020 extremely inappropriate. It was a severe invasion of my boundaries and has caused immeasurable damage to our previous agreement and our working relationship.
You will receive divorce papers in the mail within 3-5 business days. Please sign them at your earliest convenience. Do not attempt to contact me again or I will be forced to take legal action.
At some point during seasons 1-4 Elias says something ominous to Jon and then adds “an old friend of mine used to say that the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it”. Jon blinks once, twice and then answers: “Elias, that’s just a quote by Oscar Wilde”.
Silence. No one ever mentions this again.
Fast-forward to the middle of the apocalypse when Martin sees Jon stumble and suddenly say, completely unprompted: “He was friends with Oscar Wilde??????”
My headcanon I have absolutely zero basis for is that Elias and Tim totally fucked before Tim joined the Magnus Institute. By which I mean that Peter and Elias seek out lonely people desperate for human affection, and have godawful threesome sex with them. Like, just the worst. Elias likes to watch and everyone can feel the judgment in his gaze, meanwhile Peter doesn’t seem to look at person even while he’s fucking them like they could be a fleshlight for all he cares, and half the time they’re bickering like the old married couple they are (and their one night stand is not a part of the conversation at all, just forced to sit and listen). It’s just altogether objectifying and Bad.
Anyway, Tim after his brother’s death was totally a lonely soul ready to get dragged into whatever that is.
I would love for someone to explain to me how Jonah’s body hopping makes him a bad character to headcanon as trans. Like! Genuinely I do not understand how literal possession (not possible irl) is the reason. Like, the reason is not him being manipulative, predatory, and hiding his true identity. No, no. It’s “body snatching” that makes trans headcanons a bad stereotype. I just don’t understand
Drawing podcast characters is so hard. And even ones I’ve settled on designs for, I’m still questioning. I actually still have no idea what Rosie’s description of Elias’s old fashioned haircut is supposed to mean. Men’s haircuts all look the same to me, in that things don’t change all that much except for what length of hair is acceptable. “Far too old for him,” doesn’t seem like powdered wig level of old
I’m making an embroidered jacket for myself, and I’ve been looking at way to many Pinterest posts for inspiration. And now I am filled with the urge to completely sew from scratch a fancy embroidered historical cosplay for Jonah. Or maybe just a fancy outfit inspired by Jonah that I would wear. Eyes hidden all over it.
if the ship isn’t toxic and codependent and deeply deeply fucked up and ends with a messy breakup but they still cant stay away from one another i dont want it. i only want fictional relationships that if they were real you would refer them both to a psych ward
My workplace has a groupchat, the same app where our schedules are posted and it’s used for any important updates, so like, you have to use it. And one of our chat channels is Quotes Without Context.
Anyway, point of that info was I just think The Magnus Institute should have a workplace groupchat with an out of context quotes channel too, just so there can be quotes shared by people who absolutely did not physically overhear the words, the Eye just shared the gossip with them and they needed to share it with everyone else
We’ve all seen the “Elias just dresses like a normal dude” and “Elias is covered in eye motifs for the entirety of canon” suggestions, but here’s a new one:
The Institute logo is an eye and ALL the employees are covered in eye motifs. It’s just a fun thing everyone does to make work a bit sillier. People wear eye jewelry and eye ties and eye cufflinks and clothes with eye prints, ranging from hyper-realistic to cartoonish to just sorta morbid. Elias, of course, strongly encourages this.
(Tim walks around and just sticks googly eyes to things as he goes about his work day.)
wanderer above sea fog, peter lukas | he finds talking to people directly very difficult. especially explaining the more, um – esoteric side of things? charming chap, I’m sure you agree – absolutely lovely – but even if you can convince him to actually give you a straight answer, he’s just not that good at actually putting these things into words.
I’m at the part where Elias’s assistant is not allowing Jon and Martin to come see him because they don’t have an appointment, and tbh I really hope they just have to turn around and leave. The harbinger of the apocalypse and the ruler of all the ruined lands is the horrors of beaurocracy incarnate and yes you slogged through all the rings of Hell to get here but no you cannot see the Devil without an appointment scheduled 3-6 months in advance.
ALT
They wait the 3 months for Rosie to call them in but before they get to Elias’s office Rosie asks if they have filled out Form 2H-B and they have not filled out Form 2H-B and they’re both lacking in 2 forms of Class A Proof of Identity documentation or 1 form of Class B Proof of Identity documentation so they actually have to turn around and walk all the way back to Scotland where Martin gets his birth certificate out of the safety vault wondering if it’s still valid considering the department that issues them no longer exists and Jon is frozen on page 87 of Form 2H-B figuring out if “Addressment of Formal Grievance” is the right category to file for a meeting with your boss where you intend to kill him.
They get back to London and have to wait another 3 months.
Gertrude, speaking into the camera for an office-style mockumentary: “I have reason to believe my current boss, Elias Bouchard, is actually the body-swapped reincarnation of my previous boss, James Wright. In fact I believe he is every head of the Magnus Institute dating back to Jonah Magnus himself. He’s been careful to hide all evidence but I’ve caught him in a key slip up.”
–*camera cut to Elias Bouchard sitting in a library chair, Gertrude filing away books behind him*–
Gertrude: “Oh excuse me James can I sneak through?” Elias: “Oh, yes.” *scoots chair* “Sorry about that.”
–*camera cut to Gertrude opening the door to Elias’s office*–
Gertrude: “Excuse me Francis but do you have a moment?” Elias: “Sorry, what was that?” Gertrude: “I was asking if you have a minute, Richard.” Elias: “If it’s quick, I have a meeting in 10 minutes.”
–*camera cut to Gertrude and Elias standing in a Starbucks*–
Elias: And where do we pick up— Gertrude: The table over there. I ordered ahead for us. Elias: *studies the table, lights up subtly and grabs the coffee cup second from the left, camera zooms in on the label that says Jonah Magnus. Elias walks away while Gertrude makes eye contact with the camera.
Jon being like “You know Martin🥺if you wanted to stay behind in The Lonely 🥺 I’d understand. If you wanted the comfort of forgetting 🥺I’d understand. 🥺If you wanted to stay here and leave me🥺I’d understand 🥺🥺🥺.” like DEFINITELY fishing for Martin to be like “No Jon I would never leave you! Jon it’s because of YOU I’m not Lonely anymore I would never!”
And instead Martin’s like “Nah it’s not even like. A good comfort.” and Jon doesn’t even have a good recovery he’s just like “Oh. Right. Good. J-just checking.”
The Elias wearing obvious eye-motif stuff is fun but improbable. He’s a subtle evil emplopyer, he probably wears a Magnus Institute patterned tie and maybe socks and that’s it.
What’s funnier is imagining Elias dressing like a Normal Boss and Peter Lukas turning up in Season 4, going ‘well I’ve got to play the part’ and deliberately wearing eye-covered everything. Shirts, trousers, a captain’s hat covered with googly eyes.
“What do you mean Elias doesn’t dress like this all the time? Sorry Martin, complimenting my eye-tie counts as an overly personal remark. I can’t hear you, my eye-earrings are jangling too loudly”
*guy who’s trying to pretend he’s not trapped* big fan of narratives. big fan of the ceaseless and repetitive flow of events given life by an audience and mutated by their perception
Can you believe I said verbatim, “Elias doesn’t fuck,” when I was still early on listening to this podcast? I have done a complete 180. Jonah Magnus changed my brain chemistry
Can you believe I said verbatim, “Elias doesn’t fuck,” when I was still early on listening to this podcast? I have done a complete 180. Jonah Magnus changed my brain chemistry
Look. I’m ace, I’m sex repulsed. I am so highly tempted to write smut about Jonah Magnus. I would not be good at it.
no there is only one post :) it is yours and it is so good
If I were interested in and also capable of writing smut, I would share their entire encounter. I don’t write, so… But still, I do think LonelyEyes would enjoy having threesomes and orgies more than having sex with each other hear me out
I have like five paragraphs written of this one LonelyEyes WIP, but I need to finish it. I have a dozen little Lukas family employee OCs for a fun outsider POV thing, and they do not have names but they do not need names. They mean so much to me
I don’t think Elias has the ability to Compel people like the Archivist can. I don’t think he can make anyone answer him truthfully. But that doesn’t matter, because that’s not what he wants. It’s quite easy to lie to him. He doesn’t need to hear the words to Know.
Words are faulty. Ideas, concepts, experiences are too hard to translate perfectly, completely into words. There is always information lost between the speaker and the listener, details that aren’t conveyed between what one is trying to say and what the other interprets their words to mean. And when Jonah read centuries old tomes, he mourned that he could not know the full, lived experience of the writer’s life from the few words that were inked onto the parchment. He mourned the knowledge that was lost between the words.
So while his collection grew into an archive focused on written and narrated accounts, his powers focused elsewhere.
His interview with og!Elias demonstrated quite beautifully! You can lie to him, quite easily in fact. You can try to hide behind a mask, but Eyes are the windows to the soul. Meet his gaze, and he can See quite easily what you’re trying to hide. And when he Sees, he sees as they saw.
Their fear, their firsthand experience becomes his experience. He longs to live, and he will live uncountable lifetimes through the lives of others. Through the eyes of others.
Elias isn’t a capitalist, but the Lukas family are co-founders of a space station. Peter Lukas’ ritual was literally just being a shitty landlord. We don’t compare Peter “I love looking out at the world and being separate from it” Lukas to entitled billionaires enough
Counting on my fingers trying to remember all the Fear Entities like okay so there’s the Eye we love the Eye, and then there’s all that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and
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