our catmin of course is having their fun and by that i mean try to get everyone in trouble with sasha by putting his face on a golf ball and giving it to them to catalogue their varying levels of fear and enthusiasm at the idea of hitting their captain
me listening to mag 160 knowing that the second the apocalypse started, hundreds of miles away from the tape recorder that is the audience, deep within the panopticon, jonah magnus probably just came
okay this thought has been rattling around in my brain for like. two days now
so like, killing elias kills all the institute employees, right? heart of the institute whatever, we been knew. hard and fast rule, excluding ppl powerful in their own rights who could maybe weather the connection being severed
and the only way to quit the institute is to stab out your eyes, and sever the connection to the beholding that way.
so like. what happens if you stab out elias's eyes? if you steal jonah's eyes out of his skull after taking a knife to them? would that free all the employees? would that sever jonah's connection to the beholding, perhaps give og!elias his body back?
personally i think melanie should have gotten to at least TRY that. as a treat.
sshhh let ppl fantasize about an au where louis dates a nice, black, southern boy named jonah-who is also his childhood friend/ first crush-without feeling the need to ruin it. you don't have to point out the obvious. we know louis would chew him up and spit him out. but babbyy those 2 seconds they'd be together would be soo special and sweet 🥹
I'm just saying Elias Bouchard is autisic but it gets overlooked because a lot of his autisic traits overlap with his evil ones. Also he actively enjoys masking
I made a comprehensive list for every reason I think Elias is autisic and I think that alone should get me an autism diagnosis but that's asides the point. I'm gonna post it later after I clean it up a bit
Edit: check the reblogs that's where my autistic Elias master list is
we seriously need halle bailey and jonah hauer-king in more movies together... their chemistry is off the damn charts. even rob marshall said he had no choice in who would play prince eric (even though it was the right choice regardless) because as soon as halle screen tested with jonah they clicked instantly and the chemistry was crazy.
we need them in rom-coms or literally anything. i will take anything at this point. they can be "work wife and husband."
HEAR ME OUT... imagine when the remake of The Bodyguard is made like it was said it would in 2021. Billboard said the best option would be halle bailey, and many others agreed. we would just need jonah as the bodyguard. hollywood.... i'm begging! don't let chemistry like this go to waste!
I'm just thinking about like...when did Jonah fall for the Eye?
We know he must of had some form of power around 1924 when Barnabas got banished because he decided to watch him, he wanted to see what would happen.
Did he gain his powers around the time he established the institute? Maybe he was already an avatar before he met Smirke, and he used Smirkes research to feed himself and the Eye. I got no clue.
Maybe we'll get more backstory to Jonah in the magnus protocol. Perhaps a statement from himself, instead of his story being told from an outside perspective. I think that's why, out of all of the TMA villains, people hate him the most. His story is the one we don't hear. His side of things, what happened.
TMA is a story about choices and the lengths people will go to achieve some ounce of power. Why does he want power and immortality. There must be a deeper reason. All avatars struggled and felt so deeply that they became the thing that both haunted them and they relished in. So why did Jonah become an avatar. Just because he was an obsessive academic? Because he was an elitist snob? There has to be a deeper reason, people!
...Anyway, this won't be my final ramble about Jonah. There's so much more I can say about him
Elias (Statement): -if I leave a letter here, in your institute, you might find it, you might be able to save me. I have no other hope. I have no other hope. Please, Jonah, if you have any compassion within your heart, you will not leave me in this place. Your loyal servant, Barnabas.
Elias: Jonah Magnus did leave him in that place, Jon. He got the letter, oh yes, and was on good terms with Mordechai Lukas. He could have interceded, perhaps even saved him, but he did not. And it was not out of malice, or because he lacked affection for Barnabas Bennett: he retrieved those bones sadly enough when the time came. Bones that you can still find in my office, if you know where to look.
No, it was because he was curious. Because he had to know, to watch and see it all.That’s what this place is, Jon, never forget it. You may believe yourself to have friends, to have confidantes, but in the end, all they are is something for you to watch, to know, and ultimately to discard.
[From MAG 159]
Jon: Martin. He’s gone, Martin. He – he’s gone.
Martin: His only wish was to die alone.
Jon: Tough. Now – listen to me, Martin. Listen.
Martin: Hello, Jon.
Jon: Listen, I know you think you want to be here, I know you think it’s safer, and well – well, maybe it is. But we need you. I need you.
Martin: No, you don’t. Not really. Everyone’s alone, but we all survive.
Jon: I don’t just want to survive!
Martin: I’m sorry.
Jon: Martin. Martin, look at me. Look at me and tell me what you see.
Martin: I see…
I see you, Jon.
I see you.
Jon: Martin.
Martin: I… I was on my own. I was all on my own.
Jon: Not anymore. Come on. Let’s go home.
Martin: How?
Jon: Don’t worry. I know the way.
[CLICK]
End Transcript
Going insane about this for a multitude of reasons
When you love someone
You'll feel it deep inside
And nothin' else
Could ever change your mind
When you want someone
When you need someone
When you love someone
When you love someone
You'll sacrifice
Give it everything you got
And you won't think twice
You'd risk it all
No matter what may come
When you love someone, yeah
You'll shoot the moon
Put out the sun
When you love someon