#blandly professional. charged. and chilly. at the same time

[sparky-is-spiders]

I also think a season 1 au where they’re exes is very funny. Jon constantly bothering Elias. Everyone else trying to figure out what the fuck is up with the weird energy between those two. Jon unsure of why Elias promoted him (is he trying to get back together? Is he trying to sabotage me?).

There’s something about s1 and pre-s1 je that just gets me, y’know? Part of it might just be that I want to chew on those power dynamics, sure. But there’s also the juxtaposition of what Jon knows and what we know. Best if it’s from Jon’s PoV I think, where the biggest concerns are whether this is why he got the archivist job and how he can hide this relationship from his coworkers. Where the weight of their future looms large, impossible to ignore yet somehow background noise. And maybe there’ll be that moment when Jon makes a little observation or Elias says one of those little in-jokes and you get a glimpse of everything that waits for them both. Their inevitable fate waiting for both of them.