I wonder, I want a poll because I need to know. How many LonelyEyes shippers think that Elias and Peter actually like each other?
my personal preference is that they do really sincerely like one another and it massively inconveniences them both because they are on opposing sides of the same eldritch war
i love the dynamic of peter’s affection for elias being a fundamental betrayal of his own family legacy/patron, and the idea that elias’ very real attachment to peter prevents him from killing him outright when he gets in his way
and i also love the thought that the lukases have been tied to jonah since the beginning of the institute (or before) so jonah has had a long line of lukas paramores throughout his many forms (though not THAT long since the lukas family seems to have longer than human lifespans)
that said, you can only really betray someone if you know them intimately, so peter and elias having real deeply held and deeply inconvenient love for one another only makes the cycle of betrayal worse