#tma jonelias

[sl1nkie]

submitting myself to the mortifying ordeal of being known & promoting my fic here as well 😳

behold!

ao3 info under the cut :3

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Relationship: Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist

Characters: Elias Bouchard | Jonah MagnusJonathan "Jon" Sims | The ArchivistMichael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Additional Tags: Sickfic, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: e101 Another Twist (The Magnus Archives), Joneliasweek2024, Hurt Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, a little bit. as a treat, POV Alternating, It/Its Pronouns For Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), No beta we kayak like Tim

Language: English

Summary:

'As Jon realised he wouldn’t be getting answers, and worried his ruckus will cause other employees to come up to the office, Jon decided to just open the door. What he found was most peculiar. Elias was sleeping soundly on his desk, using some coffee stained documents as a pillow.' Elias literally worries himself sick.

[zlinkiez]

I have decided I will keep blaming Jonah Magnus for the Everything.

I don't think whatever remnants of Jon there still are is Error/Archivist, but it's a fun concept all the same.

[mintyeggs]

jon "i dont need a psychiatrist" sims

Pin-Eye au by @americanoddysey ! Read here!

[nineraeix]

[PLEASURED EXHALATION] freak.

[hauntedteacups]

JonElias Week Day 1: Try Again

@joneliasweek

[socvinc]

saw the textpost and knew it was fate

[thermodynamic-comedian]

jonah magnus is so funny. he wanted so so badly to be codependent on a cosmic level with his employee and worship his weird fear god with him forever. but he got fucking rejected and said employee instead ended up with the guy he hired like. as a joke. fail

[jonahmagnus]

From: jonathansims@gmail.com

Subject line: HELPME

Dear Mr Bouchard,

I am writing to you today to inform you that I, once again, got beat up by a supernatural entity. Do you have ANY advice at all to stop this from happening in the future?

Well Wishes,

JON SIMS

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REPLY: TO jonathansims@gmail.com FROM: eliasbouchard@icloud.com

Subject line: blank

Dear Mr Sims,

You should be at the clubbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Kindest regards,

Elias Bouchard

[andyevej]

everyone's listening to the magnus protocol and i'm still obsessed with whatever these fuckers had going on

[geodebiome]

its too horrible for words

[two-pupils]

I couldn't help myself

[emperiocism]

I'd actually made and finished an entire other jonelias button design, but I decided that I hated it and instead did this one in a day lmao (bless you super best friends omikron lets play for the company)

anyways! the girls are fightinggg

[runefells]

Beholding

[nineraeix]

a healthy dose of prolonged eye contact (prolonged eye contact)

[hauntedteacups]

JonElias Week Day 5: Sci-Fi

(Jonah had his conciousness uploaded into the AI of a space station and Jon is part of the crew maintaining him)

[acertifiedmoron]

the magnus archives is a romcom—no what the hell it's not. it is, however, a gothic horror romance between jon and elias. because you see, the thing about jonelias is that their canonical dynamic is built around an absurd number of gothic genre tropes. jon sims obviously fits the mold of the tortured gothic protagonist quite nicely who's facing both external (the other avatars targeting him) and internal horrors (his progress as the Archivist weighing on his conscience). but he's also trapped in the gothic manor which is the magnus institute. there are secrets (the place being a temple to the eye), locked doors, forbidden chambers, and bodies in the attic which serve as evidence of past misdeeds (the panopticon; gertrude and jonah's bodies in the tunnels), the institute/archives is ultimately destroyed by fire - purging the gothic manor i.e. the symbolic destruction of the previous order with fire is a common motif in the genre. and jon's work in the archives is haunted by the figurative ghost of gertrude who remains a curious mystery he must unravel and will serve as a constant reminder to jon of his own inadequacies (just like du maurier's rebecca fr)

elias is then —

1) his personal bluebeard figure who murdered his predecessor, a comparison which only gets stronger with the jonah magnus reveal since he's been cycling through archivists for two hundred years, all having met gruesome ends in service to him and jon being his final and most notable choice. are you seeing the maxim de winter rochester imagery. are you.

2) his gothic double. doubles as a literary trope are your hidden self made manifest, the horror lies in the double (elias) revealing the gothic protagonist's (jon) hidden, true self to them. elias as an avatar of the eye is entirely unrepentant for his nature, he revels in it. which is a mirror to jon's own self-flagellation because despite how much he feels torn about his own metaphorical vampirism, he likes it. he admits as much to gerry as early as s3 when asked about his feelings on his ability to compel truths. and why wouldn't he! after being kept in the dark so long, why wouldn't he like it? and jon and jonah had in common their natural curiosity even before they found the beholding. elias is a mirror and jon looks in it and sees someone who is him, but not quite. someone who is what jon would be if he could simply let go, but jon can't. like most gothic protagonists he will kill his double because it is a reminder of a self-truth he can never escape.

and watcher's call. like what even is that. what do you mean that's a thing. what. literally wuthering heights. "why did you heed the call?" // "because this is the place i know i should be" <- normal dialogue to write for two guys definitely not starring in a gothic romance.

^ same genre of images. so the spider, the mother of puppets, the web which is the symbolic representation of narrative thread in the magnus archives universe WEAVED them together? red string fated, that's what they are? so they're soulmates. that's what you're saying. they're literally soulmates. soulmates as existential horror? just enough of an illusion of narrative agency for jonah/elias to claim, "the Chosen One is simply that – someone I chose" but paradoxically joined by fate, which isn't a good thing! because no god-like powers of hope, or love, or indigestion, or whatever, only fear. because even though both help the other achieve narrative self-actualisation (elias making jon the archive and jon making elias the king of a ruined world), their union also irrevocably destroys their lives as they hurt each other in deeply personal ways which signify their greatest fears. elias manipulating jon, whose biggest fear is mr spider, i.e. loss of control and jon repaying by being the very thing that kills jonah, who has spent multiple lifetimes trying to escape the end. and that's romance <3