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Prompt Post: The Magnus Archives #1
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1. All comments to the meme must be anonymous. Linking to fills on AO3/Tumblr/website of your choice is allowed, but comments here must still be posted anon.
2. Concrit is welcome if the author requests it, but character bashing, kink shaming, and hijacking threads by derailing prompts with contrary comments or asking for additions to the prompt are not allowed.
3. Warning for spoilers and subjects such as non-con, incest, underage, character death and worms is highly recommended, but not mandatory.
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7. While it should go without saying (kink meme and all) please be advised that much of the content here may not be appropriate for individuals under 18.
8. Update: All prompts can be filled by more than one person. Two cakes (or three, or four) are always appreciated.
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Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
(Anonymous) 2018-09-01 10:34 am (UTC)(link)(Magic 8 ball that is the fragmentary rest of the draft—this is here because it’s all that’s continuous from the top but we’re going... Places—says it’s currently very much on the dub side of the spectrum, ftr)
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“Thank you, Jon,” Elias says, not looking up when Jon comes in. Jon supposes he wouldn’t expect him to bother with it anyway. “I know you must be stretched fairly thin right now, between the urgency of your actual work and these… self-assigned extracurricular activities, so to speak. I appreciate you making the time.”
Jon thought—he did—that between halfway knowing what he needs to do, if not quite what he is doing, and sheer numbing exhaustion, he was about as prepared to deal with Elias as he gets. He really did.
He needs to stop thinking this kind of thing.
“What ‘extracurriculars’,” he asks, mouth too dry to draw power into it on a quick enough turnaround to matter.
Elias obliges him anyway, voice light and airy and wholly incompatible with human life. Of *course* he does. “Plotting my murder with the rest, obviously. Oh, come on Jon, don’t freeze like that. Come here. It’s been quite the team bonding exercise for all of you, anyway, and you did badly need that kind of thing. I wasn’t going to stop something that productive. Not too early for a meaningful return on investment, anyway.”
“Ah,” Jon grinds out. He makes it a reasonable simulation of appeasement in tone if not in difficulty, even, because he’s at least a bit certain Elias will take that as an insult. But he gets no real reaction and he takes a seat anyway. “Right. Let’s get it over with. You said you had more information on the Unknowing you’re suddenly willing to part with after all. What is it?”
“I didn’t say it was strictly information.” The chiding disappointment in his tone gets slightly lost in Elias’s breathiness at the question, at the act of Jon questioning. At whatever it is he does. (Jon really *didn’t* think he’d pushed the inquiry all that hard—if anything he’d just caught up from his vague shock to normal speech, really—so he’s easily able to conclude Elias is just foregoing restraint on purpose and being theatrical about it besides.) “It’s a strategy for protecting you personally,” Elias adds. He does not pause long enough to get a reply. “You’re welcome.”
“And will it *stop* the Unknowing itself?”
“No.” Elias pauses, again, still without leaving room for a real reaction but this time in a way that looks almost human, uncertain. “Unfortunately. Or only in that it will help keep you around for that effort. But I do hope you find your own survival to be a priority in itself, Jon. Too much depends on you for anything else.”
“Enough.” If Jon had any desire to hear about his continued existence and general negligence in related areas he could just let Martin talk for longer than five minutes without diverting him with a direct question or order. “What do you want to do, Elias.”
“I can make your skin unusable to Orsinov. I am not entirely sure how likely she is to try to use you again. At worst the risk is opportunistic. If you are willing to cooperate then I can at least reduce that likelihood to zero.”
“And ensure that if it catches me it kills me outright?” Jon asks, all told more wry than properly bitter.
“Perhaps.” Elias shows his teeth. “So don’t get caught.”
“I am *trying*,” Jon snaps. Then he gathers as much power as he can deliberately, welling up on his lips like blood and plasma from the heart of a star. (He hopes Elias appreciates the effort; maybe it’ll make him more properly manageable.) “What *exactly* are you proposing to do to me, Elias?”
Elias shudders predictably, mouth falling slightly open; that’s even fair, Jon figures, he’d geared that one up to hurt. Or… whatever Elias feels. Anyway, he answers soon enough. “The Beholding has little inclination toward formalized cults as an end in themselves if other means are available, as I assume you’ve noticed. As such our legacy as far as rituals and signifiers go is somewhat sparse. However, one of the more useful recurring options outside our direct function, for as much history as I have access to, has been in terms of body modification – irreversible forms, of course – scarification, tattooing. Tattooing most of all, in fact. It’s an extension of the duty to record and a permanent mark of service to our master. Rarely necessary as the general cultures changed, you understand, but highly appropriate. I know how, of course. I am proposing– ”
He pauses for breath consciously there, for more than the little sips of air taken between words. Jon even lets him, finding his feelings illegible.
“In your case,” Elias restarts, “the practical benefits may be twofold. It might – *might* – intensify your access to your own power; I’m not certain. I *know* I can mark the Eye’s claim on you so deeply Orsinov and her ilk would hesitate to so much as touch you.”
“All right,” Jon says, when he feels the question close out. Then he swallows. He hadn’t expected – “All right. Now?”
“Yes.” At least Elias seems a bit surprised as well. It’s the little things, Jon supposes. “Yes, I think that would be best.”
“Here?” Jon looks around, mouth curling a little. His reactions feel some mix of self-evident and alien, exhaustion melting into something else. “It’s not exactly a…”
“The Eye cares more about symbolism than what we’d consider general practicalities,” Elias says. “Fortunately. Cuts out the healing time, done right, or I’d have more reservations suggesting it now.”
“Oh, glad you’ve thought of everything, then.” Jon passes a hand over his eyes, wondering distantly if he’ll realize this is real before or after Elias breaks skin. “And you do know how *to* do it right.”
*“Jon.”*
“Will it hurt?” Jon asks, quieter than he’d meant.
Elias studies him for a moment. “Is there an answer that will change your mind now?”
“I…” Jon wets his lips; they seem to need it. “I suppose not,” he says.
“Good.”
He doesn’t feel uncertain, or trapped in anything but his own oddly smooth and glassy certainty, but Jon looks around again anyway. Like doubt is a garish physical object he’d put down carelessly and it should jump out at him at a glance. “What do you need me to do?”
“If you could str– no,” Elias says, catching himself before Jon is forced to really think about what he interrupted himself saying and why. “No, that’s unnecessary. The torso should be sufficient.”
Jon watches him stand, watches consideration flicker over Elias’s features with rapid subjectivity, and… lets him. What else is he going to do? His fingertips feel a bit numb as the understanding that he doesn’t understand slowly creeps up them, but it’s not like Jon can just back out.
Can he?
(It’s irrelevant. He isn’t going to.)
“Take off your shirt and anything under it,” Elias says after a moment. “If you push that chair back slightly I can brace myself on the desk and that should be more than enough.”
His fingers are already unbuttoning his shirt while Jon thinks over how many uncharacteristic uncertainties he just heard. The buttons resist him slightly, if only in the way he’s gotten used to through the layered burn scarring on his fingertips.
Re: Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
(Anonymous) 2018-09-01 11:55 am (UTC)(link)Thank you for writing this! I really enjoy the way you write their dynamic. I love how Elias is just being so casually assholish here while also being sort of helpful. “So don’t get caught.” What an Elias thing to say! And Jon being frustrated with him, but still going along with it. Also, I enjoy the way you incorporate the show's mythology in this story.
I'm definitely looking forward a lot to the next part! (I've certainly been enjoying the snippets you've been sharing on the discord!)
Re: Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
(Anonymous) 2018-09-01 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)Ahahahahaha successss, I’m so glad they work
Maybe the real kink was the worldbuilding we made along the way! (it is) (this fic produced me screaming in my nsfw account “WHY IS THIS HOW I DISCOVER MY OMNISCIENCE KINK”)
As long as you’re here and know how fragmentary my drafting process is, uh, any further requests? Though a couple hundred words of bridge and I should get us to the lowkey breathplay so that’s nice.
dkendjshs I don’t know why I’m surprised you’re there but thanks for springing that on me I choked slightly laughing irlRe: Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
(Anonymous) 2018-09-01 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)I'll give you a shout-out if I think of anything, but for now, I'm perfectly happy with what I know is ahead. Breathplay is definitely A+. Maybe some praise kink?
Re: Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
(Anonymous) 2018-09-08 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Fill: Elias/Jon, dub-con/non-con tattooing (1/???)
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