So it has come to my attention that the audiodrama community has quite some representation in the 2026 sexyman competition.
Therefore I'd like to give you reasons to vote for my personal favourite bastard, Elias Bouchard.
First off, the source media, the Magnus archives is an amazing horror podcast that started of with a small creator casting his family members and friends, and it has actual GOOD queer representation. (Including the main character(s)
NOW WE GOT THAT OUT OF THE WAY, LET'S GO TO ELIAS. (contains spoilers for up to s4 of TMA. But hear me out on him PLEASE)
● He is this at the first glance average middle aged guy in a suit, in charge of a completely disrespected academic institution that researches paranormal phenomena.
● He sold his soul to an eldritch god of watching and knowledge, yet spends most of the time in an unassuming office.
● LOVES SCHEDULING. Commited pipe murder. When interrogated about said murder he pulled an uno reverse card on the officer by listing HER crimes back to her along with her own THOUGHTS and proceeded to blackmail her about it. He wasn't even the suspect.
● He can read your mind, look out of any eye or depiction of an eye, know anything and put information in your mind. (I'll let the potential of these powers to your imagination)
● He later confessed to this and another murder, not out of necessity but simply to be a smug cat meme. HE IS the smug cat meme. He let himself be arrested and spent an entire season in prison before revealing he could've walked out at any point. He just didn't.
● He provides stable employment that you can never quit.
● He is in a CAST-APPROVED fanon on and off marriage with a man who serves the god of loneliness and funds his little academic institute. They single-handedly raised the statistic of divorce in britain because they always re-marry after each divorce.
● He MOANED when the main character used eldritch powers on him.
Listen to mag 82 eyewitnesses if you want proof, it's the interrogation episode. You won't regret it. His voice actor has an extremely attractive voice.
Last but not least, he's in one of the most dramatic polls here, there's loads of notes and percentages barely budge by 0.1s. It's better than a sports match to me.
I love you characters who try so hard to avoid becoming one specific thing that they end up becoming something arguably worse. I love you characters with backwards development. I love you characters whose ideals dissolve over time. I love you characters who start out bright-eyed and end their stories with several important pieces missing.
People don't actually crush on Jon a lot, so a lot of time Martin knows he's being kind of silly and Jon is playful about it because he's not going anywhere.
But then every once and while Jon meets someone he just connects with, because that's just the type of person he is. You either love him or hate him, and when someone loves being around him, they really love being around him.
And that makes Martin's jealously from "kind of silly," to something more serious that Jon is probably going to have to be really reassuring about, and even that likely isn't going to solve the whole problem, because Martin's jealously isn't really about someone liking Jon in general, it's more about the fear of abandonment. He worries that Jon will like someone more than him, or be happier in someone else's presence, or even leave him for someone else. And Jon does make genuine attempts to reassure him, but the doubt is something Martin really struggles with, so sometimes he has bad days where he can get caught up in his feelings about Jon seemingly connecting with someone else in an area which he "failed" at. So jealously is a struggle for Martin.
Then I think Jon is on the total opposite end of the spectrum, where if someone hit on Martin he would be more likely to just raise his eyebrow a bit, maybe have some light banter, then move on with his day. I don't think he would really read into Martin's innocent interactions with other people, or even have big reactions to Martin being flat out flirted with. Which I think could cause an issue in itself, where Martin see's Jon as "not caring," because he doesn't get jealous in the same way, but Jon's had more relationship experience and therefore he's just more settle into the dynamic of a relationship in general.
Plus, unlike Martin, I think Jon's self worth issues are more the loathing sort. Where Martin worries that he's not enough, I think Jon's self worth issues are more so along the lines of letting other peoples opinions of him having a large power over how he see's himself, guilt for things he limited control over, and unease about his wanning humanity. I don't think of any of THOSE issues would turn into jealousy. I think he's more likely to have "What do you see in a monster like me?" moment then a "Did you enjoy talking to that man more than you enjoy talking to me?" moment, where I think Martin is vice versa because his trauma presents very differently from Jon's despite being similar on paper.
And yeah I don't really know how to end this post. TLDR: Martin would probably struggle with jealously even if Jonmartin could be together in a better world. Jon probably wouldn't, because his trauma affects him in a different way.
had my apotheosis in the old radio tower and everyone was like nooo kesler you matter to us don't kill yourself. i think they hate me and this is the only way forward. anyway i fell on the ground and cried about it #girlthings
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