why do you like jonelias? i hope this doesnt come out as rude but i was just wondering, bc i never really saw them as a good couple when i was listening to tma so it surprises me that people ship them. i dont have a problem with it, im just curious. love all ur art btw!!!
Thanks! Also not rude at all!!! Thank you for asking i love any excuse to talk abt one of my fav ships >:]
The short and simple answer is that i like villains and i like messy bad relationships lol. I also really like their interactions in canon, like they’re just funny together. They’re both kinda posh British men who are very prim and proper but they have these snappy little arguments that are just so cute aldkfja. Elias going “oh don’t be so dramatic jon” is never not funny to me. Also when elias says moments later that he wouldn’t be able to replace jon so easily and jon instantly straightens up and is like “…well thank you” is so cute aldfjka. Oh oh also the bit where elias asks jon to defend him from melanie then goes “thank you jon” all sincere only to be immediately shut down aldfjasdkfj its great. There’s also an air of jon wanting to impress elias early in s1 that is very endearing.
Also just like, all the drama and horror and manipulation, like its so dramatic. Like obviously this is where the interpretive side of it comes in, but i love elias like, religiously worshiping jon. By the end of it, they’ve forged this connection that only they share, and whether jon likes it or not, elias understands him where his mortal friends can’t. It’s like, two people corrupting each other and falling farther away from their humanity, its just so isolating and sad. I think that’s at the core of what i like about the ship, its sad. Like its completely doomed no matter how you look at it —elias will never love jon more than he fears death and worships his god, and jon will never willingly give up his empathy to follow elias (unless you’re going super bad end which hey I’m here for it) even if he loves him. Like the idea that maybe if everything was different, then maybe they could’ve been happy, aaaaaa its so sad :’|
Also Elias’s last words to jon being “good luck” as he bleeds out from the stab wounds jon just inflicted on him aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! god the drama of it all!!! Just tell him you love him already this is embarrassing!!!!!
…Anyway this got long oops lol. I’m gonna close by saying i know there are people who don’t like it and i toooootally get why and i think they have every right to avoid it like the plague. I’m full heartedly here for respecting everyone’s boundaries 💕
