#asks for elia

[statementends]

That's right I murdered two people and if you kill me everyone tied to the institute will die. Now Jon be a dear and fill out this Return to Work form. Don't worry about the doctor's note. Elias Bouchard really is that kind of bureaucrat huh.

#the magnus archives #tma #elias bouchard #i didnt catchi it my first time #but after all that happens in nothing besides remains he asks join to fill out paper work #for his rtw

[elia-de-silentio]

Hi! I’m the shy anon who sent you the ask, thank you for answering! Yes, I’ve been looking for analysis on JJK and Naruto and since I’ve seen your analysis I decided to ask you. I actually followed you since I read your first chapter analysis on BSD and I liked it! I can’t explain things very well and my mind are always in a jumble but maybe it’s because of how you also pay attention to details and your psychological and philosophical explanations on the characters. How you understand that the characters are grey and not simply black and white, how people with trauma can have some sort of internal conflict with themselves like how Atsushi wants to die but also wants to live, I really like that because most people just don’t understand that and think it’s a contradiction. I’ve only seen a few who are like that and in Naruto, I’ve only met 1. Since Naruto is illustrated as a “show and not tell” manga, it’s really hard to find people who can properly analyze the characters fully including behaviors which is why there’s just a huge misinterpretation in the characters in Naruto. Like how people think Sasuke is a very cold and heartless character when he really craves for connection but is also afraid of it because he’s scared of feeling the grief and sorrow of losing someone important again, so he pushes everyone or keep them in a distance but people think that he’s just simply arrogant and indifferent and has nothing in mind but revenge. 😭 This can also be applied to Sakura, the huge misinterpretation the fandom have for this woman is appalling. Anyway, sorry for ranting on.

Moreover, I’ve seen linkspooky’s JJK metas and I just gotta say, they’re good. I even read all the others like his meta’s on Demon Slayer and BSD, they’re really good 😭. Furthermore, I don’t know Italian so I guess I just have to keep on searching and hoping to find a diamond underneath all these rocks. Thank you so much again! Please keep doing what you do, I support you wholeheartedly!

First of all, thank you so much for all of the compliments! And really, no problem for the ramblings, if I didn't like ramblings I wouldn't be writing metas.

Sorry for your Naruto predicament, and good luck for your search of good analysis.

Thank you for your support, and have a good day/night!

#asks for elia

[occudo]

Hey, a question on the magus au

Do all the wizard have a paladin to defend them? In this case who was the paladin that defended Geltrude or the one who defended Elias?

Not everyone- Gerry doesn't for example- but Gertrude and Elias did have Emma and Peter

#occudo's art #tma fanart #the magus archives au #ask #gertrude robinson #emma harvey #elias bouchard #peter lucas #witch!gertude #knight!emma #witch!elias #knight!peter

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i wanna talk about tma characters and the concept of a facade. because i have a lot of thoughts.

so most people understand how ironic it is to characterize martin blackwood as a soft boy that can do no wrong, because one of the most interesting parts of his character is how much of a subversion of that trope he is. he's manipulating people by acting like that. this is addressed in the canon. he wants everyone to like him, and he knows he'll almost always get what he wants if he puts up this facade.

something people talk about a bit less, but is still equally canon, is that gertrude robinson was doing basically the same thing. pretending to be just a boring old woman, when she's actually extremely clever and ruthless. she plays into everyone's pre-existing biases and assumptions masterfully to hide just how competent she really is. she knows exactly what she's doing, and she's willing to sacrifice anything and anyone for the sake of her self-appointed mission. characterizing her as a grandmother figure is the funniest form of irony to me.

but do you know who isn't putting up a facade? do you know who isn't changing their behavior to affect your idea of them?

the older avatars.

peter lukas isn't pretending to be passive-aggressive and overly cheery, he just kind of...is. why would he ever bother putting up a facade? he doesn't want people to like him. his authentic self is this talkative yet asocial man, who specifically aims to be awkward and unlikeable.

people say that simon fairchild's polite and carefree demeanor is an act, but i really don't think that's true either. i guess i might see it differently because i personally resonate the most with the vast out of all the fears, but i really think that a lot of that behavior makes perfect sense for his character. he doesn't think that anything in life matters. his personality reflects the lightness and carefree nature of that mindset. he just doesn't care. he does everything for fun. he's not pretending to be anything he isn't.

this could be me reaching, but honestly, i don't think even jonah magnus is putting up that much of a facade. he's lying, sure. he's manipulating people, obviously. but he's not changing his behavior in order to do that. even in mag 160, there's no big, henry mildmay-esque "dropping of the act" when he has his monologue. if you look at his behavior as elias bouchard, it's exactly the same as the little bits of him that we get to see in s5. the elias whose last words are "good luck" is the exact same elias as the one who always greeted basira with "hello, detective".

humans put up an act. monsters don't bother to.

#now that last part kinda contradicts my other interpretation #but im not gonna get into all that (<- girl who's praying for someone to ask her to get into all that) #not in this post. but a girl can dream #the magnus archives #tma #tma analysis #tma meta #martin blackwood #gertrude robinson #peter lukas #simon fairchild #jonah magnus #elias bouchard #tma spoilers #mag 160

[shmunter]

gertie and eli-ass bitchard

#mine #the magnus archives #tma fanart #gertrude robinson #tbh i may workshop elias still bc im not vibing with the colors but yeeee #them #elias bouchard #man is about to ask jon how bad he could possibly be

[skltart]

heard y'all like old man yaoi

#i could not tell you what possessed me to make this if you'd put a gun to my head but alas #art #my art #fanart #tma #the magnus archives #tma fanart #lonely eyes #peter lukas #elias bouchard #lonely eyes fanart #jonah magnus #is this nsfw? #idk #ask to tag #lonelyeyes #tw eyes #scopophobia

[friccafracc]

What's your take on an Elias design? Give us the corpse man

elias and bonus peter!! the divorced husbands of all time

#ask #art #friccart #tma #elias bouchard #peter lucas #horrible old men<3333

[the-magpie-archives]

I wish real life academia was more like The Magnus Archives because I'd much rather face otherworldly evils than have my research blocked by INFINITE PAYWALLS. Jonathan Sims might've suffered immensely and nearly ended the world but at least he didn't have to cite inaccessible sources.

#Can you tell I'm exhausted #I would gladly fight Elias Bouchard to the death if it meant I didn't have to pay to access peer reviewed texts #(I know I could email the author and ask them for it but that would mean communicating) #I would very gladly submit to the eye for knowledge because not being able to get information makes me want to throw my laptop out a window #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #tma memes #Oh also if you relate to this I apologise #It's hell

[its-your-mind]

*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long. #anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92) #and Annabelle’s statement (147) #and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too) #lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

[long-claw]

Lyanna starks haunts the narrative. You should see how jealous Elia's fans are from this fact. They want george and the narrative to care for her. They think it's unfair that Elia doesn't haunt it too when all that she is is a plot device, while lyanna is the woman of the prophecy and the mother of Jon, the promised one. It's not like I hate Elia, but someone dared to say that Elia deserved the flower crown at Harrenhall when it's lyanna's motif.

I can't wait until they see that even Arthur Dayne cared for lyanna more. He probably stayed by her side comforting her after Rhaegar's death. I wouldn't be surprised if he was attracted to her. Not to hate on Elia but to show them the truth.

i'm so sorry but you've come to the wrong place, yes i was crying over lyanna a couple hours ago but i've cried over elia too because what could you possibly have against a dead woman in asoiaf who's only crime was... being in an arranged marriage? not being lyanna?

in all seriousness maybe george and the narrative don't care about elia but i do. she watched her baby's head be caved in and then was brutally raped and murdered and i hate that that's the most important thing we know about her. i wish elia was as important as lyanna, but how cruel is it to sit and compare two dead women by how much they matter to the living men.

also i have no idea what you're talking about arthur dayne and you can say this isn't hating, but it feels kinda like hating to me 😭

EDIT: i've thought about it more and "i wouldnt be surprised if he was attracted to her. not to hate on elia but to show them the truth" is such a wild statement please don't come back 😭

#this is to blame on the three glasses of wine ive had sorry... #and it was so out of nowhere ive never even mentioned elia 😭 #but had to set the record straight that i mourn her too ❤️ #this feels a little mean but you were in my ask box... #asoiaf #got #game of thrones #lyanna stark #elia martell #answered

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

By the time cars were invented, Jonah Magnus was already well into the body hopping game, which raises the question: has he ever actually learn to drive? Did this man sit through driver’s ed? Or has he just been getting out of legal repercussions for his shit driving by telling the cops everything he knows about their deepest darkest secrets every time he gets pulled over?

#the magnus archives #tma #jonah magnus #elias bouchard #tma spoilers #au in which real elias is alive in there because Jonah needs someone who can tell him what the road signs mean #poor man is forced to spend the rest of his days as a literal backseat driver for a pseudo-immortal douchebag #perish the thought #I’m sure someone has already asked this question by now but I can’t stop thinking about it #some people have pointed out that he would ride the tube which makes sense too. #btw this post is 100% inspired by how much I used to fear for my LIFE any time i was in a car while my grandpa was driving #genuinely terrifying experience grandpa stop it please quit turning your entire body around to talk to me while I’m sitting in the back sea #why are you driving with one foot for the pedal the other foot for the brake one hand on the steering wheel and NO EYES ON THE ROAD

[saintbleeding]

[ID: A seven-panel digital comic of Jon and Elias from TMA. Jon wears glasses, a collared shirt, and a cardigan, and has wounds and scars in various states of healing all over his visible skin. Elias wears a three-piece suit and half-moon spectacles. The first three panels are flanked by an anatomically correct eyeball and a heart-charm, with the two halves reading "wors/ties". In these panels, Jon says "So, if you could share some actually useful information to help me circumvent the apocalypse, that would be appreciated. ...Elias. *Elias.*" As he says this, Elias smirks wordlessly and looks directly at the viewer. In the next two panels, he speaks directly 'to the camera'. He says "This is sex to me. Don't tell Jonathan." His lower third says "Jonah ('Elias'): Long term acolyte/nefarious bureaucrat. Is in his "gone mild" era, astoundingly." The final two panels show Jon also speaking to the camera. His lower third says "Jonathan: Special little chew toy. Like the lovechild of a wet napkin and an overstimulated chihuahua." and he says "He *what*? ... jesus fucking christ." as he pinches the bridge of his nose in exasperation. End ID.]

in all frankness i just feel like whatever i have done here is Peak Jon/Elias Dynamic. sorry you're welcome

#tma #the magnus archives #jonelias #is there like. another ship name. idk #jon sims #elias bouchard #jonah magnus #scopophobia #eyes #eye contact #eye horror #body horror #ask to tag #nonconsensual #(just to be safe since. creep behaviour) #(SORRY i had to get this out of my system. srry. a bit) #my #saint draws #tma spoilers

[elia-de-silentio]

I really love your analysis’ and I’m quite curious if you ever read Jujutsu Kaisen or Naruto before? Sorry for asking you anonymously, I’m quite shy.

No problem with the anon mode and thank you for the compliment!

Sorry, I have never read JuJutsu Kaisen or Naruto. But if you're asking because you're looking for analysis, I can do a shameless publicity stunt and suggest the metas by @linkspooky (I really liked their analysis on Bungou Stray Dogs, and the quality should be the same). As for Naruto, I'm a bit at a loss. Unless you know Italian, in which case I suggest the youtube videos by Mortebianca who analyzed it arc-by-arc.

Thank you for the ask, I hope I have been usegul somehow!

#asks for elia

[occudo]

we got angst in the og knight fic, when are we gonna get angst in this au /hj

And that's how Jon got into witch school

I realized now that you maybe meant Martin-focused angst, but oh well-

#is this angst? #i'm not sure #anyway #looks like gertrude is not around in this au #tma fanart #occudo's art #the magus archives au #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #ask

[bonerey]

jon is dating martin romantically except martin has a weird aromantic thing going on i cant explain. jon is queerplatonic partners with gerry, gerry goes to jmarts apartment a lot that he basically lives there. gerry isnt qp with martin but ????? something ??????? dont know cant explain. they live together idk. care about each other a lot, not in the same way martin does for jon or gerry does for jon but something specific to them. martin and tim hook up sometimes for funises. tim and sasha are also queerplatonic partners with jmart. sasha is aromantic and tim is alloromantic this is very very important to me. martin and annabelle are queerantagonistic partners. annabelle, jude, mike and oliver are friends. gerry is bookburning-friends with agnes, jon is also part of the bookburning club

elias and peter have a weird aromantic thing going on and i cant explain it in words but its there. heart <3

#anywya. love polyarchives. insane about non traditional relationships ask me more abouthem #tma #the magnus archives #polyarchives #jmart #can i put this in the ship tags. sure #jongerry #timsasha #elias bouchard #peter lukas #lonelyeyes #<- but in a weird aromantic way. it makes sense to me #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #gerry keay #gerard keay #annabelle cane #jude perry #michael crew #oliver banks #agnes montague #deal with my barely coherent polycule chart

[chaikajpeg]

elias with deer antlers

References:

"Mature red deer stag", photo by Bill Ebsen, taken 26. september 2009 in Jægersborg Dyrehave in Denmark (if that tells you anything)

2. T-Michael (a tailor and a founder of a fashion label if i'm not mistaken)

also, i hate cropping my drawings and could not decide what version to choose in the end, so please have both

#my art #please don't ask me how much time i spent on this i'll cry #this was supposed to be a quick sketch #a break from another elias drawing i complained on my side acc yesterday #his left sleeve gave me nightmares (as you can see) #and my beautiful talented friend who is also an artist made me spend an hour more on it to make it better #( i'll give her a shoutout later please stay tuned) #i have so many assignments... i really have to study... #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus' bride #the ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride #tamb #elias ainsworth #elias ainsworth fanart