#Lonelyeyes

[rynling]

I’m having a lot of fun with The Magnus Archives, and gosh I appreciate Peter Lukas and Elias Bouchard a whole lot. I love Elias’s “performance review” conversation with Melanie, in which he smoothly and politely tears her down and breaks her psychologically, and I’m a big fan of how Lukas pulls out all the stops of his "friendly" abusive isolation tactics when he bullies Martin.

They are both awful, terrible, extremely well-written people, and I think they should be married.

I’ve had a wealth of real-life experience with shitty and abusive people, but every single one of them has been utterly without talent or grace. It’s kind of cringe how delusional they’ve been, actually. If someone is going to be evil and manipulative then I very much need them to be powerful and charming.

I’m not super interested in participating in the fandom for this ship, which seems to be overwhelmingly concerned with fluff. I’m very interested in writing about this sort of bad behavior, however. There was a post circulating on Tumblr not too long ago that said something to the effect of “if you write the characters as so OOC that they’re unrecognizable then you might as well just create OCs,” but I think I’d like to do the opposite. Namely, I’d like to write OCs with pitch-perfect canonical characterizations of Lukas and Elias.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

I love Elias so much. What a delightful bastard. I feel like I haven't seen enough of Peter to figure out how I feel about him (but it's also his thing to not be around all the time so...), but when he does show up, I am intrigued by his schtick. I can definitely see the ship potential. And also... yeah, fluff wouldn't be what I'd want for Elias/Peter, either. Definitely for a bunch of other characters, but I'd just want a series of fics that's like Shitty Husbandos and Their Sixth Divorce or something. Or if it is fluff, then like a Very Not Acceptable By Human Standards version of fluff.

Fandom is weird, dude.

Also I fully support these future OCs that mirror these two. What a marvelous idea! 💕

[rynling]

Thank you! And you know what's super weird? Actually having a large body of canonical information relating to the characters.

I don't tend to get this with Nintendo characters. Sometimes I think about how lucky the Dragon Age people are to have all that text to play with, and sometimes I consider actually picking up one of the games, but honestly there's a lot to catch up on and who has the time. I would rather just read the fanfiction.