artifacts pt. 1 - cw: mention of death, blood Elias knows what this is. He knows what the sticky notes will show. It shows the Archivist, his Archivist in all his majesty, drawing on the power of their mutual patron, walking towards Elias, knife in hand. He doesn't want to see it. He knows how this will happen, after all, he knows what he'll see on that final sticky note and he knows that terrifies him more than he'll want to admit. But the part of him driven by curiosity wants to keep going. He wants to see the end, he wants to know what happens, if only so he can find a way to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Needless to say, as he grapples with this dilemma in his head, the sticky notes are totally bleeding. So there's Elias, rummaging through the break room, trying to find sponges and dish soap. And later he's at his desk, scrubbing wet, fresh blood off of any surface that's scrubbable.
groundskeep Elias is absolutely not doing any work. But he can help! He's down in the maintenance area, holding a flashlight, shining it on the circuit box as somebody else does the work of stripping the wires, clearing away any debris, and so on and so forth. That being said, Elias is absolutely using the Eye to cheat at electrical work and occasionally offers up suggestions.
"Maybe try the blue wire next?" he says, after connecting the red wire to the circuit box did absolutely nothing.
artifacts pt. 2 - cw: blood, blindness, body horror To his credit, he lasts a week or so before succumbing. At his core, he is part of the Eye. And the one fatal flaw of his patron and Elias himself is curiosity. He wants to know how it ends. He comes up with all sorts of justifications for himself: it would be good to be out of the way during whatever nonsense with the signal tower, other people here need to see him as mortal and fallible. But at his core, he wants to Know. He wants to see how he dies so that he can make sure it never happens.
That being said, the blindness is just as much of an inconvenience as the knowledge itself. It's anathema to him. He is of the Eye. He sees. And yet here is Elias Bouchard, stumbling around the ADI housing, hand on the wall, blinking blood away so that it keeps from crusting. When he hears someone approach, he can't help but ask, "Am I anywhere near the restroom?"
His face is a mess, caked with wet and dry blood, some of which has dripped down to his shirt collar. With every blink, he dislodges tears of blood from his eyes—but he doesn't stop blinking, just because the fear of his eyelids being caked together by dried blood, him unable to open them, plays in the back of his mind.
Elias Bouchard | ota!
Elias knows what this is. He knows what the sticky notes will show. It shows the Archivist, his Archivist in all his majesty, drawing on the power of their mutual patron, walking towards Elias, knife in hand. He doesn't want to see it. He knows how this will happen, after all, he knows what he'll see on that final sticky note and he knows that terrifies him more than he'll want to admit. But the part of him driven by curiosity wants to keep going. He wants to see the end, he wants to know what happens, if only so he can find a way to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Needless to say, as he grapples with this dilemma in his head, the sticky notes are totally bleeding. So there's Elias, rummaging through the break room, trying to find sponges and dish soap. And later he's at his desk, scrubbing wet, fresh blood off of any surface that's scrubbable.
groundskeep
Elias is absolutely not doing any work. But he can help! He's down in the maintenance area, holding a flashlight, shining it on the circuit box as somebody else does the work of stripping the wires, clearing away any debris, and so on and so forth. That being said, Elias is absolutely using the Eye to cheat at electrical work and occasionally offers up suggestions.
"Maybe try the blue wire next?" he says, after connecting the red wire to the circuit box did absolutely nothing.
artifacts pt. 2 - cw: blood, blindness, body horror
To his credit, he lasts a week or so before succumbing. At his core, he is part of the Eye. And the one fatal flaw of his patron and Elias himself is curiosity. He wants to know how it ends. He comes up with all sorts of justifications for himself: it would be good to be out of the way during whatever nonsense with the signal tower, other people here need to see him as mortal and fallible. But at his core, he wants to Know. He wants to see how he dies so that he can make sure it never happens.
That being said, the blindness is just as much of an inconvenience as the knowledge itself. It's anathema to him. He is of the Eye. He sees. And yet here is Elias Bouchard, stumbling around the ADI housing, hand on the wall, blinking blood away so that it keeps from crusting. When he hears someone approach, he can't help but ask, "Am I anywhere near the restroom?"
His face is a mess, caked with wet and dry blood, some of which has dripped down to his shirt collar. With every blink, he dislodges tears of blood from his eyes—but he doesn't stop blinking, just because the fear of his eyelids being caked together by dried blood, him unable to open them, plays in the back of his mind.