a little death, or something like it (Jon/Gerry, The Magnus Archives, Explicit)
a little death, or something like it || Jon/Gerry || Explicit || 6k
Canon-Typical The Beholding Content (The Magnus Archives), Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Talking To Dead People, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Not Technically Necrophilia, MAG 117: Testament, Ghost Sex, Not technically a ghost either, Mildly Dubious Consent, Dirty Talk, Demisexual Character, Canon-Typical Musings on Death, Come Shot, Canonical Character Death
It would be nice, he thinks, for a friendly face to see him off. One last conversation that isn't haunted by worms and tunnels and doors and death. Or, at least, no deaths that are immediate.
The evening before the Unknowing, after everyone has given their testament, Jon summons Gerry for one last hurrah.
I tried drawing a sequence from The Magnus Archives episode #111 Family Business.
Definitely a memorable episode. I hope we learn more about Gerard, it was nice to hear a bit of comedy in the podcast. I've started season 4 and my goodness, it just gets darker and darker.
[VD: A grayscale Magnus Archives animatic of Jon and Gerry talking in episode 111 of The Magnus Archives. Gerry, a ghostly goth, and Jon, a thin brown man in a graphic T-shirt, sit together at a table. Gerry says scornfully, "Playing politics with things they didn’t understand. Reckoned her tradition was less the academic and more the, uh…" Jon offers dryly, "V-Village witch?"
Gerry laughs, pleased, and asks, "You sure you don’t know her?" He sighs, sobers, and says, "Yeah. But deep down what she wanted wasn’t all that different from the ivory tower idiots she hated. Y’know, I think, secretly, she dreamed of starting a little mystic dynasty of her own." He grimaces. "With me."
Jon says a little eagerly, "Like the, the Lukases? Or the Fairchilds?" Gerry corrects, "Well, Fairchild’s just a name, they’re not really family." Then he does a finger gun and says, "The Lukases, though, yeah."
He turns away, pensive and frowning, and says, "Thing is, it’s harder than it looks. What’s out there… doesn’t care about blood." Jon, grinning a little, says, "Well, I-I mean, except for the vampires…" Gerry scowls, "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires." Jon looks abashed, and Gerry looks down sorrowfully to say, "But they care about your choices, your fears, not your parents." End VD]
[ID: A still of the scene where Gerry scowls and says "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires" to an embarrassed Jon. End ID]