#jonahkola

[jonahmagnus]

The circus and her acrobat

+ high qual version

[teamfortresstwo]

No cause like there is no circus without anyone to watch it there’s no uncanny valley with no one to feel the unease and there is no jonah magnus without a thousand different layers of people who she is not and will never be do you understand do you fucking hear me jonah and Nikola despite being opposites make up the very core of eachother’s being and thags why they’re in love #yuri win ‼️‼️

[enteragoodnamehere]

like 99% percent of nikola ships are so funny and/or based to me even as a loveless aro who doesn’t like romance.

judenikola? my girls, i love them and their evil butch4butch friends with benefits swag. janenikola/ringworm? based, so much cute fanart and so many good themes to explore. jonahkola? incredibly funny and also very good themes. I don’t talk about it here but I also like helen/nikola and annabelle/nikola too. the unknowing would have worked purely for the fact that instead of collecting marks nikola was collecting girlfriends that belonged to different fears

hmm do I go take a nap or do I stay up and think about nikola’s gay little polycule

[jonahmagnus]

Death & the Empress

Details and such under the cut

[jonahmagnus]

'Cause Im in love with you!

[jonahmagnus]

Nikola calling Jonah "Elias" so insistently is so funny to me because you know her ass fucking knew. She knew that was not his god danm name and he knew she knew. Their little games are so fun to me.

[jonahmagnus]

Woah mr magnus what are you two up to

[jonahmagnus]

love wins !

[jonahmagnus]

Based on @enteragoodnamehere ‘s tags <3

[jonahmagnus]

Their kissing. Did you know that? Their kissing.

[jonahmagnus]

Yuri

[jonahmagnus]

Dang. Gay people real

[jonahmagnus]

Yuri

[teamfortresstwo]

Jonahkola is like…. Oh to only ever be content when someone is in the process of trying to unmake you…

[jonahmagnus]

panty shot

[teamfortresstwo]

Please. PLEASE. Share the promised Jonahkola thoughts.

+ The devious little freaks. For motivation

Okay so this is less talking about how Jonah and Nikola blend into eachother’s powers and more just Jonahkola propoganda because I’m doing this in the middle of class and a lot of it is just me throwing my Jonahkola thoughts at the wall but!! I hope you enjoy anyway-

•Nikola is one of the only early avatars to show any kind of respect towards Jon- “You’re pretty powerful yourself!” While most other avatars act hostile and belittling towards him. This also reflects Elias’s own feelings towards Jon, ultimately empowering him but also patronizing in a similar way to Nikola. (They actually act weirdly similar in a lot of regards to Jon, but that’s a different story)

•Both Elias and Nikola have this specific way of acting in which they are constantly unaffected up until the moment things get off track. Elias immediately jumping to murdering leitner instead of going for anything less drastic, Nikola dropping her happy facade when Tim is the one with the lighter.

•Literally the only relevant corpses in the unknowing are the ones Elias himself killed, coincidence? I think not.

•Elias doesn’t want Tim to go to the unknowing. Yes, this is perhaps because he’s worried about how it might stunt Jon’s progress, but as we see with leitner, if that was a concern then he’d probably just take up Tim’s offer of killing him. And, if it isn’t the concern, then what is??

•Well, I mean, Jon certainly wasn’t the one to kill Nikola. Just saying. I think elias wanted Nikola to live, but ultimately was unwilling to make any compromises about serving the eye (allowing the unknowing to happen so he could watch and not telling her that it wouldn’t work as that would interfere with his own ritual) (God I love when a TMA ship has tragedy caused by the fear powers, favorite kind of TMA yuri.)

•Both Nikola and Elias have strange connections to the web too?? The web has a lot of theatre implications, like in mag 172 “strung out”, plus Nikola’s whole thing as the angler fish which includes addiction in the form of cigars and strings. Elias meanwhile is a master manipulator (see: Jonathan Sims, Peter Lukas, Basira Hussain, and most of the other members of archival staff) and a lot of people speculate -from what I’ve seen - that if he wasn’t so absolutely of the eye, he might’ve been of the web instead.

•Okay I genuinely don’t recall, what was the point of distracting elias during the ritual?? Like, were they afraid he’d interfere? He’d have no reason to, right?? So like, IDK Tim walking in on her and Nikola going at it yuri style theory feeling less farfetched 😳😳

•Elias is sooooo theatric. Literally every part of him is a performance until you can no longer comprehend which parts are truly him and which parts are the mask he puts on, and I think that’s very stranger of him <33

•Okay I was looking at mag 44, “tight rope” and the statement givers name is Yuri let’s go ❗️❗️

•Okay but actually, Ivan-Yuri’s brother-has dreams of being put tied up in a rough sack despite having little to no memories of the whole ordeal. Y’know who else makes people live through awful things in their dreams? Thas right baby, the archivist ‼️‼️Which, Nikola takes the role of as Gertrude, connecting her to the most prominent figure of the eye and also in Elias’s life.

•The circus of the other also puts him (Ivan) in the role of tight rope walker-which btw I think elias totally would be but that’s a different thing- and it follows around the eye, Jon being put into the situations of every statement giver, endlessly becoming and cataloging the experiences of people who he is not. (Writing this, I’m realizing that the fact that for the duration of a statement Jon “becomes” the statement giver is a little stranger core.)

•Weird relations to humanity and personhood. Nikola can still die, but they cannot bleed. It’s interesting, I wouldn’t say bleeding is at all as necessary to a person’s idea of a human as dying-especially if that person is the mortality fearing jonah magnus-and yet he frames that in a way that would exclude Nikola from being a person, something she’d never want to be. I like to believe this is out of a fondness for her.

•I don’t think Elias ever speaks bad of Nikola? Which, he seems dismissive of Prentiss and basically pretends to not believe she exists, so there’s a reason not to speak bad of her. And he displays distaste for Michael and the spiral is pretty damn close to the stranger. But nope, no shade towards the clown lady…for some reason.