Peter waxing poetic about how wonderful it is to be alone at sea, with absolutely no one around. Behind him, half a dozen employees are actually doing all the work on the ship. Peter continues talking about how he’s in complete solitude out here. One of the employees stares into the camera.
“I,” J- no, Elias now- spoke delicately, voice rough from the crocodile tears he’d been shedding, “cannot believe you wore navy to poor James’ funeral.”
“Can you at least hold the umbrella so that I’m not getting rained on?”
“One would think,” Elias ignored him, “seeing as funerals are the only social events your family holds, that you would have some proper clothes to wear for one.”
“It’s dark enough. It’s practically black.” No one at a Lukas funeral would have looked twice at Peter’s coat. No one would have looked once at him either. They all preferred to keep their eyes to themselves, like civilized people. “You’re the only one here who cares about this.”
“It’s my funeral; mine is the only opinion that matters!”
“You are the most self-centered person I know.”
The other Magnus Institute employees attending James Wright’s funeral edged further away from the pair.
Quote from Circe by Madeline Miller <3 Also, I really wanted to make a web weave kind of thing, so I put even more quotes I liked for their relationship under the cut:
“Zuihitsu” Jenny Xie // “Identity” Milan Kundera // A Conversation Between Timothy Morton and Jeff VanderMeer // Hannibal 3.03 “Secondo” // “I See/You Mean” Lucy R. Lippard // Mahmoud Darwish // Vincent van Gogh // “I never went to that movie at 12:45″ Dolly Lemke // “Abject Permanence” Larissa Pham // “Departure” Erika L. Sanchez
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
