#jonalias

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Just noticed that when they are singing Happy Birthday to Jon during the suprise party scene everyone says "happy brithday dear Jon" except Elias.

Elias says "dear archivist". It's such a small detail but taking all it happens is such an insideous moment of his clear dehumanization of Jon that everyone just missed at the moment because why wouldn't they? God, I love this show so much.

[nonbinaryeye]

So you know how I made Jonalias cosplay? I also made this meme-...

[trustworthy-liar]

Jonalias: "How do you like this hot new body Peter?"

Peter in his head: "So small"

I demand more of Jonah in his freshly snatched 25 y.o. twink body.

Thank you

Also I believe Jonah interpreted Peter's silence as pure admiration of his freshly snatched body, but all that was going through Peter's head was: how did he manage to get even smaller, AND how can all of his ego fit in such a small body.

[spirallavatar]

Look among my works, ye mighty, and despair.

[ID: full-length coloured digital art of Jonah Magnus from TMA. Jonah is a white man with short brown hair, wearing a white shirt, balck trousers and brown shows. Jonah is floating on his back with his left arm stretched out below him and his right arm bent so only the hand is showing. His legs hang limp, and his mouth is open in an expression of pain, with blank eyes staring straight up. He is floating in the centre of a black sphere, like the pupil of an eye. Several pieces of paper fly around him, and behind him is written the first part of his monologue from episode 192: ‘he screams his pitch is low and black as night that flows and chokes his withered throat and hacking cough that sounds like death is here for him who always knew and feared that this indecent -’.The background is deep purple and red, almost in the shape of a large hill. The painting has a reddish-purple tint. End ID.]

[pensivetense]

Things I hate: this fandom has both 'Jonalias' and 'Jonelias' amongst its myriad portmanteaus and they mean different things.

[pinkandgreenroom]

So I am thinking again about Jonah and how he gets his new bodies and that absolutely brings me back to my headcanon of him actively choosing his vessels based on their personalities and most likely their circumstances. Him choosing Elias isn’t a coincidence, at least not for me.

(This got quite long so I don’t want to take up too much space, the full explanation or rambling under the cut) [@elias-rights if you're interested?]

Let’s start with the obvious: Elias is rich. He is rich and what is even better he already has all the money because his father (and probably his mother as well) is dead. And Jonah needs some money for all the fancy suits and probably paying his employees or whatever, it is like Simon Fairchild said “…I was bored at not being wealthy, so I made some arrangements and sent Mr. Fairchild on a very long fall” and tbh that is something that Jonah could have said as well.

Next: Elias is completely and utterly alone, he has no one who will give a shit about him and what he does, he has no friends, no family just no one. Perfect if you’re going to take over another body because no one will notice you have changed.

For the personalities: I think Jonah and Elias are quite alike in some ways. The first and most obvious one to me is this part of his statement in MAG193: “…nothing but the deep certainty that he deserved better. That he was destined to be important. That it was in his blood” of course Jonah would like that, he is the king of thinking he is better than anyone else, why else would he deem his life worthy enough to find a way to make himself immortal? I also think that intelligence and education played a part in it, Elias is very educated (all the education he was able to receive must have left an impression on him) and I don’t know, but I think he is intelligent as well and of course Jonah would like that, he is very intelligent and educated himself.

And honestly, Jonah has a lot of humour so I won’t put it past him that he just actually found the idea of a total loser and on top of that a stoner being his next vessel hilarious? Like I can imagine him seeing Elias’ ambition and everything and just being like “You know what, you will get all this, just not as yourself…you will be a loser forever and I will achieve everything in your place” that would fit him so well tbh.

The next thing is something that I wrote about in another post already but I still think this is true (it is in my head and I can’t get it out of there so well, bear with me please) I think he chose Elias because Elias is very capable of violence. I just think that Jonah himself isn’t ever shown as a physical person (at least as far as I can remember) and he truly behaves like an Avatar of the Eye: watches, observes and never gets his own hands dirty. So why was he suddenly able to not only kill Jürgen Leitner but fucking bludgeon him with the bluntest object he could find? Why was he able to shoot Gertrude three times, murder her in cold blood while she was most likely facing him that very moment? I get that this is probably because they both threatened to get into his way, he was getting closer and closer to his goal but Gertrude planned on destroying the Panopticon and Jürgen Leitner would have derailed his plan of preparing Jon and he wasn’t under any circumstances going to let them win. So I think as James Wright he already encountered Gertrude and he knew perfectly well what she was willing to sacrifice to stop every single ritual and he never once looked inside her head (out of respect? Fear?) but still knew she was absolutely dangerous. So I imagine James Wright to be quite boring and definitely not very capable of violence and so Jonah decides he need a new vessel asap if he wants his ritual to succeed on the long run so he goes and finds Elias and here we are. Because I still think he doesn’t just possesses his vessels but merges his and their personalities together until they become a new and advanced version of himself…(that’s probably why the statement of Elias was just an echo as Jon said, not the real him, because he doesn’t exist anymore) And after taking over Elias’ body I think he was finally able to fully achieve his plans, I like to think that without Elias Jonah wouldn’t have been able to bring the apocalypse the way he did.

[haberdashing]

this is from a comment on one of my fics but also. also this is just a whole-ass mood re: canon

[citrusfolk]

The fact that Jonah Magnus looked over at Elias Bouchard, absolute pothead and definite slacker, and decided “now that is the body I’m going to inhabit” is incredible

I have such a visceral image of Jonah looking up, seeing Elias walking into his evaluation with a blunt in hand and bloodshot eyes, saying something vaguely like “I’m not high, this is from the hairspray I use”, and just bodyhopping immediately into that stupid twink