#elias mannix

[meetmyillusoryclocks]

Mannix really went “Love is love but I need you to frame your boyfriend and ruin his life.” Like how did you think that was gonna go

[noobsomeexagerjunk]

nah but imagine being fifteen and fully realizing that the happiness you wanted for so long comes at the cost of so so so much blood on your hands and that to refuse that is to stop existing. so many saved, yes, only to be spat out by the universe due to the damning implications of your existence. imagine that, being cosmically unworthy of love

[holygayrightsbatman]

i dont think this is like a mindblowing analysis or anything but elias is a hypocrite. his whole thing is about love. so much that from what we know he named his cult KYAL and their moto is "know you are loved". and yet he mocks hillinghead for refusing to frame henry. "you did it for what... love?" for someone who proclaims to love everyone he cant seem to comprehend self-scarificial love. would he have done that for polly or hayden? somehow i think not

[yours-always-j]

watching “bodies” (netflix) with my mom was so fun because

— she also shipped the fuck out of henry & alfred (she was so soft too when the guys finally got close, we were both on the verge of tears lmao)

— we both loved shahara so much, best girl fr <33

— we both went ahead and said “i can make him worse” whenever carl was on the screen, doing some bad things idbzjbsh

— also just carl & esther being an adorable family and us both going crazy over them

— the scene in ep8 when alfred calls mannix “elias” and the man’s face goes like 😳wtf😳 WE BOTH CHEERED OMG

— stopping randomly to try and collect our thoughts and theories about wtf is going on like three times per episode😭

+1 us just quoting random shit from the series like “know you are loved” or that whole ass convo when polly was done with mannix and just wanted him dead/to kill him herself 😭

well anyways, stream BODIES on NETFLIX it’s freaking incredible!!

[spacer4t]

[number-0-iz]

I am watching episode 8 of netflix's bodies so here is a little bit of my thoughts

I fucking hate old Elias Mannix. Nice corrupted facist regime you got there bud but nah. You also fucked your many times great grandmother and somehow became your own ancestor?

^so basically the more removed the current timeline is from the original first timeline, the more incest there is

HENRY ASHE AND ALFRED HILLINGHEAD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME

George Parker having been Vasily Lantsov in Season 1 of Shadow And Bone is so funny because here he plays exactly what I think Vasily would be of he was gay and escaped Ravka to start a new life

I want the kind of love they have

IRIS MAPLEWOOD AND WILLIAM DEFOE WERE SO CUTE AND SO COMPLEX

"To Gabriel Dafoe. He never quite accomplished something."

"I will promise you, i will find out who kills you." (I will keep you safe)

The trope of "If I am to die soon, I am happy that you are the last person I spend time with."

"I never thought that it'd be you that'd shoot me."

"Find me at the next drop..."

I am so normal about them.

KARL/CHARLES AND ESTHER FULFILLING THE RELICTANT GRUMPY DAD ACCIDENTALLY ADOPTS A CHILD TROPE

THE WAY HE KEPT HER SAFE AND BOUGHT HER SWEETS SO DHE COULD BE HAPPU

THE WAY HE WANTED TO START A NEW LIFE WITH HER AS HIS DAUGHTER

THE WAY HE CARRIED HER TO SAFETY

THE WAY HE SCREAMED WHEN SHE DIED AND HELD HER LIKE HIS HEART WAS TORN APART

Hassan and Jawad and Elias 😭

I feel so so sorry for Teen Elias

To be so unloved that the universe would spit you out and you basically wouldn't exist if you didn't kill half a million people.

The way that you are being used and manipulated as a young child to do the bidding of others.

I truly think that if it wasn't for Barber, he would have been better.

Anyways

In a perfect life, Alfred would have had an amicable divorce from Charlotte, they would still be friends and take care of Polly.

Him and Henry would get married and be together.

Karl/Charles would adopt Esther and live their best lives.

Elias wouldn't be manipulated and hurt and brainwashed and confused and would get adopted by Hassan

Her, Ishmael, Jawad and Elias would form such a sweet and nice family.

Iris and Gabriel would become great friends at first, oblivious to their feelings for onee another until they are finally shoved into each others arms by the others and they would unexpectedly get married.

The End

Also saw this one post mentioning how funyn a crossover between bodies and Morse would be and that Thirsday absolutely semi adopt Hassan because of her mastermind brain but also go "Oh my god there's 2 of them." When her and Morse meet. And also maybe set them up together.

Would love that.

[themalhambird]

ALSO (my previous post was getting too long and this is related but still a tangent lol) the good thing about seemingly endless timeloops is that, y'know, a lot of roads get you to the same places, and this gives you endless AU possibilities. Do KYAL recruit Whiteman because in the first few loops he stumbles across the body naturally like Hillinghead, Hasan, and Maplewood, and proceeds to make such a fucking nuisance of himself - Hillinghead and Shahara's tenacity, but with a non-corrupt Inspector to back him up-- that the recordings Mannix does for himself the first fifteen times are all like "You've gotta do something about this guy, everything still works out okay but he's just ANNOYING." I mean, can't prove that's *not* what happens. In the middle loop, does Mannix question whether Hillinghead really has to die, because a live father in law is more love for him, right? So he changes things slightly and now convincing Hillinghead to let him court the man's teenage daughter is uh. Like trying to get a stone wall to move. Hillinghead's not *forbidding* anything he's just very aware that he doesn't have the money or the standing to protect Polly from a man like Harker if things go sour so spend the next three years convincing him that Polly's safe with you and then if POLLY is still interested, then you can marry. The recording from that timeline: this is what my last recording said happened, this is what I changed, next time round change it BACK and make sure you tell yourself that time round that it's better off that the man is dead even if it seems cruel. In at least three loops Henry Ashe punches Julian Harker in the face, you can't prove that he doesn't. One loop absolutely everything seems to be going exactly like the last time except for no discernable reason Whiteman and Esther slip their tail and make it up to Inverness. Now it's just. Panic because who's gonna shoot Polly and Mannix with their gunman playing dad to some kid he's known two minutes, all the way up in bloody Scotland?

So many possibilities to have a play around with....

[narcissus-in-a-rainbow-suit]

I hope I put the right number of greats

Original under the cut

Also, in case it's unreadable the @ is @/icantthinkofanythingfunnytoputheresoallyoullgetisthisfont

[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

it would be awesome if you could draw something from bodies, it's still such a new fandom :) absolutely no pressure tho!

Elias my son

[thinkanamelater]

Past & Present & Future

[the-great-anteater]

Elias' eyes haunt me fr

And Shahara and Karl are just my faves <3 bisexuality....

[yours-always-j]

so i was rewatching some scenes today and got to the part in ep3 when they ask defoe’s “ghost” who killed him and he wrote “MA”

now i’ve been wondering… did he mean to write MANNIX or MAPLEWOOD? because technically it was iris who shot him🤔

this is so random and meaningless btw don’t mind me🙈

[nu-fin]

One thing I think about a lot is Elias and his mum. Like, the only reason he changed his mind and decided to detonate the bomb is bc his mum wouldn’t come out and talk to him. She didn’t even want to *see* him (from Elias’ pov at least). Despite the fact that earlier in the series he was adamant that he didn’t want to have anything to do with her (although I have wondered whether that’s an idea that the Morley’s planted in his head, or maybe straight up told him to say), she’s still his mum and he still needs her. Then later in the series in the last few seconds before he ceases to exist when they’re hugging, the idea that that might be the only time in the series when he actually genuinely knows he is loved, and how the whole loop is him chasing after that feeling of being loved yet it takes the loop breaking for him to get it. Stuff like that.

[spectral-kitkat]

Finished Bodies on Netflix and wow! After the initial mindfuck had worn off and I was able to comprehend everything this series was amazing!

I saw it advertised on fb a while ago and was like “mum I have a new series to watch!”

Spoilers for the next bit if you haven’t seen it

Top 3 favourite characters:

• Karl Weissman/Charles Whiteman:

His one liners and general idgaf attitude were just 😚👌🏻 chefs kiss. He did what needed to be done no questions asked. Need to kill this bitch - done. Need to frame this guy - no problem! No fucks were given and I love him for it! Plus his reluctant “adoption” of Esther made me feel all types of emotions. Their back and forth conversation in the police station was hilarious and I really wished they could’ve gone to Inverness together.

• Alfred Hillinghead:

He gave his life just to close this case and not only that he gave his life to spare the only person he could be his true authentic self with! Give me the “gay closeted victorian romance that leads one of them to die just to protect the other” Pain. That is all. He risked everything to try and solve the murder, his family, his reputation, his job and I respect the hell out of him for it! His love story with Henry was tragically beautiful and I love it! Their final goodbye where Alfred tells him to run knowing that he’s actually going to turn himself in - cinema! That final kiss between them hurts me on such an emotional level I actually feel sick when I think about it! Alfred knew that was the last time he’d ever see Henry and he did not hold back!

• Shahara Hasan:

She was on a mission the entire series and did not let anything stop her! Even finding out that the exact same body was found in 1890 and 1941 didn’t dissuade her. She still went “alright wtf that’s weird but it’s still a murder and I’m gonna solve this bitch!” and then she did! No doubt made harder by the fact her boss was in on it… What a badass! Her future self was no slouch either. She really went from “I need to help this kid who clearly has some mental issues” to “fuck this kid - we need to dismantle everything he’s done” and all this whilst suffering the pain of knowing she could probably have prevented Elias from detonating the bomb and killing half a million people including her own son! Damn woman, you dropped this: 👑

Iris gets a honourable mention since the timeline would never have righted itself if she hadn’t sacrificed her life in 2053 to tell Hillinghead what happened and how he can prevent it. Her jumping into The Throat was the catalyst that started the end to Mannix and his weird fucked up timeloop of a life.

Also props to Tom Mothersdale for lying on the floor naked in the exact same position for godknows how long as various people find him. Especially in 1941 with the rain machine pelting him with cold water

I was also thinking up potential ship names for Alfred and Henry and the only 4 I could come up with are:

- Candid Constable

- HillingAshe

- Alfrey

- PhotoCop/PhotoCopper

Idk if any of them are any good but eh 😂 i tried

[mellkellyismyhero]

Hey wait a minute. Mrs. Morley fucking bit her tongue in half. She really didn't have to do that. I can excuse the whole "killing yourself and others in service of a cult" thing that the rest of KYAL had going on, but Mrs. Morley FUCKING BIT HER TONGUE IN HALF because she was SO DEVOTED to Elias' cult!!! what the fuck!!!