@jonahbus-week Day 7
Any AU (this is a prequel standalone to Good Strategy, my LE spy AU)
with the Sir Cameron book, I was scared that people might find the dynamic between the knight and the mad sorcerer too uncomfortable (because when they start fucking, the knight is essentially still a hostage). BUT WHAT I DIDN'T SEE COMING was people feeling sorry for the mad sorcerer! I just read a review from the most beautiful soul on the planet, who was anxious about whether the mad sorcerer felt coerced. which is lovely, but also really funny because in the first sex scene Cameron is chained to the wall and gagged, so it's literally this:
actually yeah that's true.
Jonahbus Week Day 6 - Music/Dancing
One of my favorite things about Elias is how comfortable he is being underestimated. I think a lot of people tend to write him as prideful and intolerant of disrespect, but he's really not?
His employees call him by his first name. The very first time we hear his voice it's Jon talking back and being snippy with him, and Elias barely admonishes him for his mistake in the first place. It was under Elias's supervision that Gertrude "let" the Archives fall apart, and Jon + his assistants are obviously aware of that.
He stole the body and identity of a weed-smoking failson that was too young for the position he was in and only joined the Institute a few years prior. The Institute itself is kind of a laughingstock, openly mocked by academics and dismissed as "crackpots" that will accept literally anything.
Elias comes off as borderline incompetent until episode 80. He dismisses Jon's concerns about Prentiss, "admits" that he ran away like a coward and abandoned Sasha during the attack, and then apologizes because he couldn't figure out how to work the fire suppression system fast enough.
Even in Season 3 he still comes off like a dolt sometimes. He conveniently can't find Jon after he's been kidnapped, and then this whole conversation happens:
And a bit later:
And in season four, with Basira!! He apologizes to her after she physically assaults him, and then stutters about a "miscalculation" when Basira demands to know why he sent them to the North Pole.
And then Peter sums it up nicely in 159, after revealing that Elias has "lost" most of his wagers against him:
All of this!! Probably for 200+ years! He's most comfortable being overlooked and underestimated, he doesn't care about being disrespected or looked down on so long as he wins in the end. And he did.
One of my favorite things about Elias is how comfortable he is being underestimated. I think a lot of people tend to write him as prideful and intolerant of disrespect, but he's really not?
His employees call him by his first name. The very first time we hear his voice it's Jon talking back and being snippy with him, and Elias barely admonishes him for his mistake in the first place. It was under Elias's supervision that Gertrude "let" the Archives fall apart, and Jon + his assistants are obviously aware of that.
He stole the body and identity of a weed-smoking failson that was too young for the position he was in and only joined the Institute a few years prior. The Institute itself is kind of a laughingstock, openly mocked by academics and dismissed as "crackpots" that will accept literally anything.
Elias comes off as borderline incompetent until episode 80. He dismisses Jon's concerns about Prentiss, "admits" that he ran away like a coward and abandoned Sasha during the attack, and then apologizes because he couldn't figure out how to work the fire suppression system fast enough.
Even in Season 3 he still comes off like a dolt sometimes. He conveniently can't find Jon after he's been kidnapped, and then this whole conversation happens:
And a bit later:
And in season four, with Basira!! He apologizes to her after she physically assaults him, and then stutters about a "miscalculation" when Basira demands to know why he sent them to the North Pole.
And then Peter sums it up nicely in 159, after revealing that Elias has "lost" most of his wagers against him:
All of this!! Probably for 200+ years! He's most comfortable being overlooked and underestimated, he doesn't care about being disrespected or looked down on so long as he wins in the end. And he did.
So you can see me now, my dear Jonah.
For @jonahbus-week prompts 2+3 since I was late: New Powers + Modern Era! evil edition.
So you can see me now, my dear Jonah.
For @jonahbus-week prompts 2+3 since I was late: New Powers + Modern Era! evil edition.
With Jonathing, where is his tongue? Also, when he is opening his mouth, can you see the eyeballs within? Or does it all work on dream magic tma style?
Love your design btw! Might draw him someday!
Thanks a bunch!
For the tongue question - I kinda figured it winds up on the backside of the bottommost "petal", usually.
For the eyeballs question, I guess I had figured the surplus eyes would be more on the dream magic level - not really visible unless they're being used to full effect - but that is a good idea. Just hit the Jonathan Fanshawe statement again when listening with a friend, and that meshes well with that too...
Maybe he starts getting small eyes showing up on the inside of his mouth when he's stressed or hungry, like horrible little cold sores?
Some concept scribbles for a "Jon gets what he wants but has to live with it" alternate ending.
Basically, Jon gets more of a lead time to settle in to panopticon-hood before everyone else manages to blow it up, and when they do he's able to realize that gravity is only in play as much as he says it is and can to adapt the structure to avoid having it collapse. With it unmoored from its foundations it's also now able to move.
So, yay, the ominous looming tower thing at the center of the universe has now been upgraded to a sort of castlevania dracula castle situation, and Jon can freely bother people as he chooses.
a recreation of how I slept last night (very refreshing!)
I got a good idea for a page at like 4am and was sitting in bed writing it on my phone, and when he tried to talk to me I went "shhhhhhh shh" and pinched his lips shut. and then he tried talking to a cat and I said "you can't talk to the cats either."
The last eye bender or smth idk i haven't watched the show
Jongerry week day 6: avatars
(i'll yap below about what's happening here)
i will NEVER participate in the elias bouchard hate elias my beautiful wonderful amazingly written antagonist they could never make me hate u
A gift for @beheldandcompelled !
This is an artwork inspired by it's fic, The Kiss Or The Sword
A JonElias vampire AU with great emotional moments, very well fleshed out characters, and all around great writing. If you're looking for a completed long fic to pick up and start reading, I recommend this one!