Fics like (Be)Hold Me

The Eye Knows and Sees all, but it cannot understand. That’s what the Archivist is for, to experience, understand, and archive terrible knowledge and fear, and filter that back to the Eye. If Jonah Magnus is the Pupil of the Eye, then Jonathan Sims is the brain that processes what the Eye and Pupil see, for the Beholding does not possess the neural pathways required to feel, let alone understand, fear. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you ask) that is about to change. What happens when a knowledge-seeking entity that cannot think is directly linked to a (lonely, stubborn, morally strict, self-deprecating) human who thinks plenty enough for the both of them? Or: the Beholding gains sentience and promptly realizes: life is unfair and existence is pain, but at least it has its funky little Archivist. Jon, freshly woken from a six-month coma, gains a loyal, if annoying, companion during his lowest point.

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