#sorry im a sucker for stories where elias gets bullied and harassed into being a benevolent fear demigod and boss

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au where elias can’t decide who should be archivist (jon and tim are both marked already but sasha and martin are curious enough that he’s pretty sure they will be soon) so he makes them all assistants and has to pretend to be a fictional archivist who is always working out of office and communicates through emails and the work whatsapp group. eventually he’s spending all his time juggling his schedule as himself, avatar of the beholding and head of the institute, and his fake archivist persona who agrees that yes, jon, something seems odd, and he’ll see if he can discuss sick pay in his next heads of departments meeting