i thought everybody saw how different lena and jonah are just in terms of personality but i guess i should point it out anyways. jonah acts like everything is a part of his plan, and everybody involved is just a source of entertainment. he makes jokes only he could possibly understand, he's either amused or mildly irritated by genuine threats, he has banter and witty comments and seems to be generally having a better time than everyone else. lena is never having a good time. she seems to actively avoid everyone, her consistant mood is disappointed and tired, she takes almost personal offense to every joke she hears. she's a killjoy and she's actively trying to get rid of what little personality she has. the only time her demeanor changes is the scene where gwen blackmails her. and it doesn't change into anything smug or amused, it changes into carefully concealed anger and fear, threats just vague enough to be a bluff, she's not dramatically dropping an act, she's revealing just another aspect of herself.

with jonah, it always felt like everything he did was a part of his plan. with lena, it feels more like a part of her training. do you get that.

OH my god i just stumbled upon...

Jonah!Elias. Jonah!Elias. Elias headcanoned as Jonah Magnus. From in the ye olden days before it was confirmed. Careful thats a piece of history right there

og Elias had different colored eyes than Jonah but no one noticed when he switched them because he was always wearing sunglasses to cover up the fact he was high

The lads in the computer!!!! Digitally edited+unpainted versions below the cut+some sketches :•)

I’m super happy with how this turned out, it’s nice to actually finish things!!!!

Okay, but imagine:

Jonah Magnus, who, immediately after taking over Elias's body, has to go through said body's drug withdrawal symptoms.

Imagine him trembling, nauseous, and incredibly miffed at this inconvenience he has to go through for the first time in his existence. And he looks into the mirror, sees Elias's pale, sweaty face, and thinks:

"I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN MARK FROM ACCOUNTING."

"Would you like a seat?" Gerry asks over his shoulder as Sam follows him deeper into the apartment. "Only if it isn't a bother," Sam says despite the throbbing in his hip. "Oh, it's no problem at all. Let me just--" The young goth rushes ahead into some sort of studio, clearly expecting Sam to follow. Every spot in the room is either occupied with a painting, or painted on, or splattered, or filled with utensils, tools, and other stuff that is necessary for art. Gerry sweeps a pile of pencil sketches from a chair and offers it to Sam, who sits gratefully, eyes still wandering over the atelier in overwhelmed amazement. "I can make some tea?" Gerry offers. "Oh," Sam says with an awkward smile. "I'm more one for coffee." "Do you mind if I make one for myself, then?" "No, go ahead." The sounds of an electric kettle being filled and switched on reaches Sam, whose eyes fall onto the sketches. He leans a bit closer to get a better look. It's not very polite, to go snooping into the drawings of a potential friend, but he can't help himself. He's always been so damn curious. The first sketch shows a short, thin man with dark hair that is starting to go grey despite his young but tired face. His brown skin is covered in scars and his eyes are glowing. Sam blinks, and for a second he feels like the drawing blinks back at him. He quickly moves the sketch to the bottom of the stack and shakes his head. It's the sleep deprivation. He's not starting to see movement in traditional sketches. The next few sketches show the same man, over and over again, eyes blazing, mouth set in a thin line, exhaustion weighing down a face that could once have been called handsome. He's not the only one, though. There's a second man, tall and broad, with red hair and a dusting of freckles on his nose and cheeks. He's barely recognisable in the fog that surrounds him that gets thicker with every new sketch Sam discovers. The last one is that of a man who wouldn't have looked out of place in Pride and Prejudice (as written by Cassandra Austen), with a neatly pressed collar and a cravat, as well as jewellery in the form of eyes. His grey eyes are intense, piercing Sam through the page. Sam is about to put the sketches back when a piece of paper slips, and his heart stops. The woman on the paper is a detailed pencil drawing of Celia. It's almost scary how perfect that sketch catches her likeness. Surely Gerry would have needed more than one look at her to draw her so realistically? Sam fights the wave of jealousy that wants to overtake him. It's none of his business who Celia meets in her free time. There is only that one sketch of her, and as Sam finds the last page, he's a bit disappointed to discover that there is just two sentences scribbled in nearly illegible handwriting.

The maze is sharp on my mind. The angles cut me when I try to think.

They are underlined with so much force that the pencil nearly broke through the paper. In the kitchen, the kettle turns off, and Sam quickly places the pages back in order. "Gerry," he says when his host returns, mug of tea in hand, "who are these people you sketched?" Gerry glances over his shoulder, then shrugs. "Now that you say it...I have no idea. These are from a while ago. Why, did I accidentally draw someone you know?" He says it with a smile, like it's a joke between artists. Did I accidentally draw you? Sam's gaze drifts back over the man with the glowing eyes. "I don't know," he says softly. "I don't know."

(i made a whole post about this already but fuck it we ball) most interpretations of s5 jon i've seen have long hair, but most interpretations of s5 elias still somehow have short hair? even though jon probably had access to scissors for all of s5, whereas jonah absolutely did not? idk just. why are we as a community afraid of giving that freaky little angelthing the wavy waist-length unruly golden brown hair he probably had when he died

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The thing about Elias Bouchard is that he IS the most annoying, frustrating, and evil characters in the pod but he is also MY little meow meow and I love him dearly.

As someone who's mostly creeped out by Jonah Magnus I also absolutely see the appeal of a character with the weird wealth of Mr. Darcy, the obsessive academic tendencies of Dracula, and the ability to know all of your desires without you ever having to figure out how to communicate them.

He gives off a very similar appeal to Mads Mikkelson's Hannibal I think... like a good jonelias fic has the energy of a really good hannigram fic.

i hear james wright was married to mr bouchard's husband does this mean Institute heads have a type or does it mean his husband has a type

either way kinda weird

Hi! Not sure where you’re getting this information, Peter Lukas (I looked up his name) was born in 1970 and therefore would have been three years old when James Wright became Head of the Institute.

I did find something weird though. Apparently according to gossip at the time, Jonah Magnus had quite a close relationship with Mordecai Lukas??? Peter Lukas’ great-grandfather?????

writing fanfic got me crying at points and blushing and kicking my feet at others

and the characters in question are eldritch horrors

what a wild wonderful ride it is

and also i just know if adelard dekker and jonah magnus ever interacted, they would've had the craziest dynamic. sexual tension through the roof. tossing around the most unhinged, passive-aggressive, indirect yet cutting insults.

need to spit my shit here.

i dont think augustus is jonah (BOOOO TOMATO TOMATO)

will not be elaborating any further.

@vague-magnus-archives

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.

Trapped in the computer bc they unleashed the horrors U_U

If Jonah is actually in there i'll eat my keyboard