ooc: timeline post!!!!! important to knowing how gerry becomes archivist
things go mostly the same except the cancer starts affecting gerry later— he gets to london and chills for a bit. eventually he has to be hospitalized. gertrude dies and gerry is almost dead in the hospital when elias comes in and does the thing oliver did with jon (except much more manipulative in stinky bastard jonah fashion). elias manipulates him into not only becoming an eye avatar but also into becoming the archivist. he convinces him by showing how gerry would be able to prevent ppl from being affected by the entities n stuff. gerry accepts because he wants to and fuck up the fears and he’s too delirious from fucking dying to realize this is a bad idea. he becomes an eye avatar and gains an end mark from evading death when he wasn’t supposed to.
