#elias bouchard my beloved

[starsandwriting]

Haha. Hahaha.

[ID: Alternating excerpts from the transcripts of The Magnus Protocol episode 11 and The Magnus Archives episode 112 and 67.

1.

Gwen: I thought he was going to kill me!

Lena: But he didn’t, which means you’ve passed the first part of your probation. Congratulations. Did you scream?

2.

(Elias): congratulations. You’re doing a lot better than I expected.

Archivist: Feels like all I’ve managed to do is… not die.

Elias: And believe me, that is a remarkably rare skill.

3.

Gwen: I don’t understand.

Lena: Yes, you do.

Beat.

Gwen: But… why?

Lena: “Why” comes later. For now, it’s best you try to process the “what.” I’ll let you know when I have another liaison assignment for you.

4.

Archivist: So you obviously know how to stop it. You could just tell me!

Elias: I could. But I believe that if I did so, you would fail. The Stranger is antithetical to us.

[The Archivist sighs heavily]

5.

Gwen (defeated): I… Ok.

Gwen opens the door.

Lena: Oh, and Gwen?

Gwen: Yes?

Lena: Get some sleep. You look dreadful.

6.

Archivist: Of course, of course. Understood.

Elias: And for God’s sake, get some sleep.

End ID]

Thank you @princess-of-purple-prose for the ID!

[hezekiahwakely]

I love the idea that Martin was maybe applying for a library position that only required a few years of college or a bachelor's degree, and being young and not understanding that being overqualified can make your resume look bad actually, he just. Gave himself a master's degree thinking it would be that extra little 'kick' to make him stand out from anyone else applying for the role.

Meanwhile Elias is just in his executive chair looking at this mans painfully researched massively overqualified resume vibrating with excitement for how hyped he is to torture this desperate little liar.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

Watching my dear friend @marspumpkin experience tma for the first time does kinda make me feel like Elias. She's like SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH SASHA and I just sit there. hands clasped in my lap. smug bastard mode. going Huh. How interesting. Sasha you say? Why don't you go listen to some more statements? See what you can figure out?

[nonbinaryeye]

Don't forget the iconic "just snitching to the police so they will do the dirty work" as was the case with Maxwell Reiner op <3

I still think it's really funny that Elias had to kill Gertrude with a gun and Leitner with a pipe because it really goes to show how useless the Eye is. The Desolation burns, the Buried crushes, the Corruption sickens, hell the Dark even had a monster that killed for them but Eye avatars are like . I see your death and it involves my hands around your neck

[somuchbetterthanthat]

I love Elias 'Jonah Magnus' Bouchard so much. I love this 200 year old man who loves spreadsheets and passively watching horrible shit going around him; I love him for how he heard there are horrible Fears Entities in the world, had his mentor tell him 'we need to balance them out!' whilst all their friends where picking a side and becoming horrible monsters or tragic victims and went "actually I'll pick one and just learn how to play the game until i'm untouchable". I love a man who was so afraid of death he decided he would just not die and then found a way to do it for decades without being found out. I love that he has all this terrifying fear power and he oftentimes uses it to know where there is cake in his institute.

He is a scholar. He is a boring boss. He is a smug evil prick who relishes into his evilness and power. He tells his employees to do admin to feel better. He sighs when he has to torture them because they keep try to kill him. He's impressed and horny when someone successfully challenges his expectations. His idea of comfort is to ask philosophical questions about humanity. He only starts to take actions in order to manipulate this one guy into being the key to his ritual and his equal.

I love a man who realized all the rituals meant nothing, went 'very well' and instead of like, calmly going 'this means i'm in peace" went "well i'm going to be the first one to succeed by thinking of what my good mentor had said once. they all need to be together, balanced out." and then he DID succeed. He did have his apocalypse. And it was glorious and he loved every second of horror it was.

I love a man who never once apologized for being selfish, evil, and power hungry, and embraced all his flaws quite so willingly. And who, at the end, dying, all of this going to dust, watched his most beautiful creation, his most perfect work, his legacy, rise to take his place as king,, and merely told him good luck.

[vinylfoxbooks]

Sometimes I forget how much I love Elias. And then I listen to more episodes and am reminded of my powerful love hate (mostly love, he is a fascinating character) relationship with this man.

[faultyvessel]

I have a disease and it’s called the inability to think of anything other than Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.

Reporting a significant flare up this morning. Send me all your Jon fanart.

[ineffablejaymee]

elias is gwens older brother and they used to be close, then she cut him off because she wanted to be a good daughter and hes an embarrasment to the bouchard name, and she realized she wanted to reconnect too late to save him from the magnus institute and jonah

and he died in the fire

and her guilt is slowly killing her

[the-amethyst-artist]

“Now you’re ready for the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 work”

A portrait of what I picture Gwen Bouchard looks like! She is getting herself in deep, so I put the wheel of the fears behind her. Can’t wait to see where the new series takes her and the rest of the cast!

[deaderthandoubledead]

Just finished MAG 192 and gosh I missed him

[the-magpie-archives]

In MAG 160 Jonah says through Jon that he hopes Jon will "keep an eye on" Martin after the change, aside from being a wonderful pun, it makes me wonder if he didn't expect Martin to be powerful enough to travel through domains of his own accord.

He comments that he knows Jon would be reading it alone, so it's fair to assume if he though Jon and Martin would be together at the time he knew Martin would at least be somewhere else for the execution of the ritual.

And Martin's clearly susceptible to the domains-MAG 170 proves that. If Martin hadn't got back from his walk in time would he have been sent into one?

Yes Jon would've found him, freed him, but he would've had to watch Martin suffering until he could manage it. He struggled enough having to watch Martin's nightmares, what would seeing Martin truly tortured have done to him?

But equally, would that have been the fairest thing to do? The ability to wander the domains is often more a curse than a blessing. To have to survey that level of suffering, ignore the agony that so many innocents face in every domain. Is it better to suffer yourself, or to be free of pain but forced to ignore the pain of others? Martin has a great deal of care and empathy, if given the choice would Jon force him to endure all that they did?

Martin is Jon's reason. His reason to carry on, to fight for himself, but if Martin wasn't in a position to choose, would Jon afford himself that kindness at the possible expense of Martin? Yes if he did nothing he'd be in pain for a while, but he wouldn't die, he'd be safe eventually.

The question is, could he put his reason on the line for the sake of his venture? And if he didn't have Martin would he even have been able to get up off the cabin floor in the first place?

[salad-storm]

Some doodles/early designs for characters while I was listening to s3

[therainbowtea]

Sketch dump for my beloved TMA! God I hate Elias, little rat man. And for anyone wondering, YES I did rewrite Big Boy Man for Martin to sing about Jon!

[bornetoblood]

BACK IN THE 90s (process sketches under the cut!!)

ooough the little!!!!!

[bloodydrew]

I love tma eps that are just “Agnes is here so everyone has a bad time” but I also get very sad at the end of them

[luvnotpercival]

Elias Bouchard - I know most people hate him but I love him for some unknown reason

I haven't really drawn for a while so this was nice