#Lonelyeyes
Aug. 26th, 2020 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI’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.
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.
