You think Peter Lukas hangs around Elias because his mere presence feeds the Lonely? That Peter knows he can never take Elias because he belongs so wholly to the Eye, but that immortality comes at the expense of any real bond, reducing everyone you've known and loved to a fragmented past, merely tools to be watched? To see and know everything and everyone but to never truly be known yourself must be the loneliest thing imaginable. A true smorgasbord.
Elias: *winding down after about an hour* and then after all that considerable effort, perhaps of years, and careful, subtle machinations and manipulation that even the Web would envy, I can begin to set into play the actions that will complete the ritual for the Eye. I'm thinking of calling it something that demands awed respect and trembling fear, like the Watcher's Crown.
Lena: We have Mr. Bonzo. He's like a bloodthirsty mascot we can unleash on people. I was thinking of putting his themesong on youtube because it summons him, and making it go viral.
Elias: There's no accounting for taste, I suppose.
Lena: There is. Forms 31.2.L through 31.2.LAAAC
Elias: ....Oh. What, ah, Entity does Mr. Bonzo serve?
Lena: Me.
Elias: ....Ah.
The beginning of mag 200 is so funny it's literally Jon coming there with badass music going like jonah magnus..... Time to pay for your crimes.... And elias just fell a 30 ft drop high as a kite hungover off his ass woozy as shit mascara smudged bedside hair like whah in the darnest boggin hen is going on my good fellow
You might be wondering hey mei do you have an artistic rendition of this and of course i do here goes
!!SPOILERS!! for season 1 finale/specifically episode 77
Okay so this is my first listen through of the magnus archives (i don't usually do horror, my overactive imagination makes it hard for me to sleep, ive been alright as long as i dont listen past 10pm lol, but wolfy really won me over with their fanart so here i am) and i adore Sasha, she's probably my favorite of the main crew
having said that I did get myself spoiled on not-sasha ahead of time while looking at something on the wiki (i think i recognized a name and was looking at something for continuity reasons? i dont remember), either way i noticed the change in sasha immediately at the start of season 2.
well, with context out of the way, ive just reached the episode with the ghost hunter that makes jon realize that something is wrong with her, and i really love the moments when jon's hard exterior breaks for a moment and you can see that he does care for the others. basically the point of this post is for me to yell about how excited i got when he immediately started looking into it, and i genuinely teared up when he couldn't get himself to say that she had been killed (and the finality at the end when he says hes going to figure out how to kill not-them to avenge sasha UGH it was so good i love it when the "emotionless" "cold" characters love their friends its so great)
also on the line of spoiling things i know vaguely about the Fears, but not enough about how they work (i realized what i was getting into and stopped looking into for spoiler reasons) but hearing gertrude mention The Stranger directly was cool i cant wait for jon to learn more about them so I can learn more about them lol
I know he’s kind of a polarizing character, but I have to say, Elias Bouchard truly is Iconic. When you hear the twist of “the boring middle manager was actually secretly an evil eldritch monster the whole time!” you sort of assume that the boring middle manager persona was just a facade, but no, he really does seem to just enjoy dull administrative work. He’s both exactly as boring as he seems on the surface and profoundly fucked up in ways you couldn’t imagine. He’s practically omniscient and playing 4-D chess with everyone, but he responds to even slight hiccups in his elaborate scheme with acts of extreme violence. He beats an old man to death with a metal pipe and when someone brings it up later he goes, “Yeah I may have overreacted there.” His employees are constantly trying to murder him. He broke out of prison just so he could give a dramatic monologue. He had a weird gay thing going on with seemingly every man he met in the past 200 years. He loves scheduling.
jonathan sims top character of all time. his best friend is his ex-girlfriend’s cat. he doesn’t drink coffee. he lies about his age but everyone believes him because he acts like a 60 year old man. the second he’s faced with death he asks his coworker if he’s a ghost. he later falls in love with that coworker. instead of having a beautiful narrative arc about the importance of friendship and surrounding yourself with anchors he had a meat freak rip out his rib. he’s canonically asexual.