Thoughts on Jonah being known as a weirdo by all of polite society and Elias being known as freakishly normal and boring? Been thinking about this a lot.
(Wednesday anon)
I LOOOOOOOOVE THIS SFM 🖤🥰🖤💕🥰🌟💕🖤💕💕🌟💕✨️🖤💕✌️🙌✨️✨️🖤
you know jonah loves it TOO!!! the constant victorious appeal of hiding in plain sight, of perfect camouflage (which is necessary for any accomplished voyeur)
i also love that his personality as a nerdy little square who loves filing and spreadsheets and admin is actually not a ruse at all, it’s genuine!! he loves bureaucracy!! he loves regimine!! i like to think that it’s satisfying for him to be able to embody that part of himself so completely when he’s elias 🥰 no spooky reputation with the underlings!! just a genuine and open delight at the academic administrative rigor he’s surrounded himself with
i’m also sure the other avatars who are all aware of his history/true nature are like “he’s got you all fooled with this dumb act” but it’s NOT an act!!! he loves scheduling! he loves a bit of mindless filing!! he meets with the library staff on wednesdays!! happy as a clam!!!
i will never run out of unhinged rants about this but do u actually know the kind of strength necessary to bludgeon a man to death? idc how heavy the metal pipe is, killing someone through repeated blunt force trauma takes a significant level of resolve and physical strength to accomplish. that is a cold, iron willed, terrifying thing to be able to do. especially on a whim because the man whose head you’re beating into a paste got slightly in your way a bit.
Also as an aside, I’d like to add how many people, including Peter Lucas, were so taken aback that Elias finally “got his hands dirty”. It was mentioned how unlike him doing that was, and considering how long he’s lived, and from what I can tell his general avoidance of offing anyone generally (his mentioning to Tim when confronted to “just kill him” when genuinely it would be the easier out and his response of “I’d rather not”, plus I believe mentioning in a different conversation about preferring not to “resort” to that) like to me that is FASCINATING. Elias being a villain who objectively does not prefer to kill others, especially, it seems, by his own hands.
And yet here with Leitner, in a rare bout of breaking habit and his typical ideal, he did. And in the most brutal and gruesome and personal way possible. In his own way, he did it all to protect Jon and frankly, what Jon represented.
Pretty king shit right there.
“oh no we’re all doomed by the narrative” maybe you are. i’m the narrative’s favourite.
update: turns out this is not a good thing for me
writing a death threat and dotting all the i’s with hearts
putting on lipstick and kissing the envelope before i mail it off
