#cuz whereas jon and elias clearly have a rapport

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also another thing to point out in my “saying sasha would have been a better archivist than jon and would have avoided all the pitfalls that ultimately led to all the bad things and eventually the mass ritual is a stupid take” saga, sasha actually kinda seems to both like and trust elias. and definitely is more willing to express it than jonathan ‘prickly’ sims, so whereas jon was doing his thing in a combination of curiosity, manipulations, and paranoia, sasha would probably be just as curious, just as manipulated by unseen forces (considering that NO ONE saw what was coming), and rather than paranoia, just being more willing to trust in elias’s help than most and follow his guidance, especially if there was never any leitner murder that ultimately made elias reveal himself sooner than he might have liked.

#personal #the magnus archives #mag relisten #i mean it's a fascinating premise to go on for anyone who DOES wanna do any 'archivist sasha' fics #cuz whereas jon and elias clearly have a rapport #(tho elias has a rapport with all his employees that's part of what made his reveal so stunning they all seemed to LIKE him beforehand) #(and he wasn't a bad boss) #jon's also more willing to be distant about things due to his nature #sasha's FINAL scene has her chuckling fondly about a perceived weird quirk of elias's #and i personally believe that elias did enjoy sasha to a certain extent probably the same way he enjoyed all the archive crew #in the early seasons when they still weren't aware and they trusted him and he was being Good Boss #and i maintain that he was deeply unhappy about her murder by the notthem if only because he didn't want something encroaching on his turf #(also we need an explanation as to how he was able to escape the 'wave of worms' that separated him and sasha) #(but that's for another time)