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Name: Kates
Age: 30
Contact: allikateor @ plurk, Kates#4814 @ discord
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Character Name: Elias Bouchard (really Jonah Magnus but when your real name only gets revealed 4/5 of the way through the podcast, you get stuck as Elias Bouchard on the taken list)
Age: 200+, looks to be in his 40s
Canon: The Magnus Archives
Canon point: Episode 200, after the Archivist releases him from the Panopticon but before he gets killed real good.
History: A fan wiki page for Elias Bouchard and Jonah Magnus.
Personality:

+ PATIENT: Elias is very good at the long game. You kind of have to be when your strategy for starting the Apocalypse means that your Archivist has to get touched by twelve different entities. He's willing to wait things out and suffer annoying situations as long as it takes. A lot of his plans involve sitting around and waiting for someone to do something. It's notable that the one time he takes quick, direct action (pipe murdering Jurgen Leitner), even he admits it was a poor decision and he should probably have waited a bit. And you know that he probably doesn't enjoy being in jail in season 4. But considering everything and considering his plans, he's perfectly fine waiting things out in order to get what he wants.

+ CURIOUS: Why does someone spend their entire life serving a manipulative fear Entity based entirely around knowledge? Because they want to know. Even from the start, when Jonah Magnus joined up with Robert Smirke's little group to learn about the fears, he's been driven by curiosity. There are plenty of times where Elias will sit and wait, wanting to see how people will react to things or how things will play out instead. One of the entities is about to start off an apocalypse and Gertrude Robinson isn't doing anything to stop it? Let's sit and watch and see what happens instead of jumping in there and stopping it himself. Jane Prentiss is attacking the archives? Let's see how Jon reacts to that before setting off the CO2.

- MANIPULATIVE: Elias isn't above blatantly manipulating a situation to get what he wants. He regularly withholds information or releases certain facts at certain times in order to push people in the right direction. He'll happily tell Basira and Daisy that killing him kills all other Magnus Institute employees after Basira signs an employment contract (and even then, he tells them that knowing full well that it might not be 100% accurate). He'll play up the importance of stopping the Unknowing even though he suspects that it will fail because Jon just needs to get marked by the Stranger. He is perfectly fine manipulating whoever and whatever in order to get what he wants.

- AMORAL: Hot damn does this man have a body count. Even if we're not counting the people he directly pipe murdered, Elias is perfectly fine sending people to their death if it helps him accomplish his goals. Likewise, he's fine with blackmail, threats, coercion, going right back to manipulation, forcibly making it so that people relive their traumas, framing people for murder, lying & gaslighting, etc. Elias does not subscribe to traditional ideas of morality, he only subscribes to doing what he wants to get what he wants (which is unfortunately, immortality and an apocalypse). If he has to kill a man and take over his body in order to keep living, well he's gonna do that! If he has to send his employees to their deaths in order for Jon to pick up another mark from another Entity, well it was nice knowing you Tim, have fun on your revenge quest. He's selfish in his amorality because the most important thing is him. He does not want to die, he is going to do whatever it takes to keep that from happening.

- CONTROL FREAK: Elias is a prideful, arrogant, amoral jerk. But it's noticeable that he's mostly a prideful, arrogant, amoral jerk in a situation where he has control. He's perfectly fine reacting to situations like knife cat when he knows he can easily regain the upper hand. It's only in situations where he doesn't have that control that Elias reacts in a way that's not an 'I know better than you' style arrogance. He is VERY annoyed when Martin's burning statements and VERY scared when he realizes that Jon is going to kill him—that's the only time we see Elias's collected facade slip as he starts to beg for his life. And it's in situations where he doesn't have that control, where things might not go exactly according to plan, where Jurgen Leitner might tell the Archivist about how everything works before Elias deems the Archivist ready to receive that information, that he acts a bit rashly and bludgeons an old man to death with a pipe.

Suitability: Stuck in a different world with a whole new set of Entities about to start up a new apocalypse? There is so much about this situation that he wants to learn about. And as a pupil of the Eye, seeking out that knowledge is paramount. He'd stick around ADI because he's a nosy little bastard who wants to learn more about how the world works. And honestly, ADI seems like (for the moment) his best chance. Who knows? Maybe this time will be different.

Powers/Abilities:
As an Avatar of the Eye, Elias has some remarkably OP powers. As a character in a rp game, some of them are getting nerfed to hell and back. A list of his powers include:

• Limited omniscience: Elias can know whatever he puts his mind to. People's backstories, what someone is doing, This does have limitations: he doesn't know what everybody is doing all of the time (sometimes he's eating), and occasionally other Powers can hide what they're doing from his knowledge (he can't see what's happening in the corridors of the Spiral). Likewise, his power requires concentration. If he's focused on or talking with someone else, people can evade his detection. There have been multiple times in canon where Elias is dealing with a problem (Martin is doing a bit of arson) and therefore doesn't notice what other people are doing (Melanie is stealing some stuff from his office). I'll have an opt-in post for Elias to use this power on player characters.


• Memory insertion: Elias can insert a memory directly into someone's mind. The memory has to be of something that's actually happened: he makes Melanie mentally relive her father's death and makes Martin know just how much his mom hates him. Again, there will be an opt-in post for anybody who wants to play with this power.


• Limited technology manipulation: Mostly based around cameras. Elias was able to doctor CCTV footage to give him an alibi when he murdered Gertrude Robinson. This will remain unnerfed.


• Bodyhopping: Elias is able to transfer his consciousness from body to body. While the specific nature of how this is done is unknown, part of the process involves removing the eyes of the new body and replacing them with his own. This is going to be removed entirely.


• Head of the Magnus Institute: I highly doubt this power will come into play here in a non-canonmate situation, as there is no Magnus Institute, but for reference & canonmate purposes, being head of the Magnus Institute gives Elias some ties to his employees. There is a link between Elias and employees of the Magnus Institute. If he is killed, then the employees will absolutely suffer, perhaps die. Elias theorizes that the people may or may not survive depending on their connection to the Institute or other Entities but no matter what, it's not gonna be pretty. He also has a specific tie with Jon Sims, the Archivist. He's able to call Jon to his location in the tunnels underneath the Institute.

Entity Affinity: The Eye. Because, I mean, /gestures emphatically at his history. This man served the Eye for over a hundred years and orchestrated an apocalypse for it, he's affiliated as hell.

Inventory: The clothes on his back.

Samples: sample one! and sample two!