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This is almost as good as going all John Amehrst on Elias's office.
Extremely late crack AU where Gertrude and Gerry met the guy with the clown-eating Monster Pig and just took it back to the Institute.
Jonah-James-Elias: I’m compelled to ask why
Gertrude: This is my new service animal.
Jonah: For what service?
Gertrude, with her longest pointed Stare: Eating clowns
Jonah:
Monster Pig, sitting outside Jonah’s office, staring in at him through the door he Knows was closed and locked when he came in: 🐷
And that’s where it stays. The titanic horror-hog wouldn’t go anywhere if it didn’t want to. It’d be there to greet Breekon and Hope the second they tried to walk in with their delivery. It’d devour them and the table in one sitting just to get at the Not-Them.
It’d lay in wait, lurking around Jon and the Archive crew like a massive pink shadow–
Jon: Elias, I understand Gertrude was attached to it, but are you sure we shouldn’t relocate th–
Monster Pig, in the corner: 🐷
Jonah, Knowing it knows where he sleeps: The Pig Stays, Jon
–and turn up at the Unknowing, at which point it would devour the entire circus.
Jon, Tim, Basira, Daisy:
Monster Pig: 🐷
Its job done, it goes snorting off into the night, maybe heading back to haunt its very best friend, Dylan Anderson…after a brief detour.
Jonah, sitting in his cell: Well, the Unknowing was a waste. At least there’s still the Dark Sun to string them along w–
Monster Pig, kicking down the door, having saved the best clown for last:
tl;dr: The Monster Pig was Flesh-aligned, Stranger-averse, pro-clown-cannibalism, and would’ve saved the day if Gertrude had only taken it away to let it do what it loved