Magnus/Tesla?


They definitely had feelings for each other, right? Especially at the end of season 4? But what about back during their Oxford days? Helen had a thing for Druitt.

What is their relationship?

I'm asking because I'm not sure. Nikola always seemed the flirty type, so it'd be understandable that he always hit on Helen, but how much of it did he mean? And Helen seemed to enjoy "bantering" with him. However, they are extremely good and old friends who have been through a lot together (even though Nikola did try to kill her once...) which explains how and why they are so close and playful with each other.

In the episode of Nikola's first appearance "The Five" S1E07, he confesses that he loves Helen. But we later that episode see him kind of taking back his words.

Food for thought.

I haven't seen ALL the episodes of Sanctuary so please bear with me and do NOT be worried about spoilers. :)

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They are each other's forbidden fruit.

For them to make anything out of it would be taboo.

When considering alternate realities, time-lines, or universes, they could be a couple, yet they would never be an item in the main Sanctuary universe/time-line/etc.

They are a dark and twisted version of Samantha Carter & Jack O'Neill from Stargate, only Jack & Sam actually became a couple off-screen (which was revealed in a deleted SGA scene).

Magnus & Tesla would always only be immortal teases for each other.

In other words:

Absolute torture!

And one of them loves it. Or perhaps both.

The real question is, who loves the torture more?

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only Jack & Sam actually became a couple off-screen (which was revealed in a deleted SGA scene).


Sorry to jump off topic, but you wouldn't happen to remember which episode? Is it on the DVDs or something? I had wondered off and on about this for years.

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Yep.

SGA season 4, episode 16, "Trio".

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Thanks :)

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I can´t agree to the forbidden fruit thing. It is even implied that they had something in the past, on "Vienna in Springtime, remember" that was highly teasing and then the delated scene, there we learn that Magnus visited him twice and on time there was wining and dining. Amanda said once, when asked why did they never had something going on, she said "who said they hadn´t. So it´s not imposible.
I really think, that if we had gotten a season 5, that they would have written them together, how that would have looked I don´t know, but without a doubt it would have been funny.

Amanda often said that Helen loves him, regarding the final kiss she said that is was a "good buy, I love you, get the *beep* out of here, everything is going to explode and one of ous has to survive"

And that she said: "They (Magnus and Tesla) are best friends, he drives her crazy, she drives him crazy and yet there is that tremulous and profound love as only people who have known each other for 150 years could have. There are a lot of sweet, kinda little moments...and because, you know "The Five" is slowly dying out or disappearing, the two of them really have each other."

That is so sweet! And that:

"Within the world of Sanctuary Nikola Tesla is kind of an evil genius and Magnus kind of let's him go about his merry way, why?

Amanda : That's such a good question. You're actually going to see a lot more of the friendship between Magnus and Tesla this season. I think that they ah to know people for that long I mean is inconceivable because none of us have lived that long but to have one of your best friends in your life for over 150 years and to be able to trust them so implicitly and know ultimately at the heart that they are not going to do anything so stupid that it would hurt you. I mean they may do something do a lot of stupid things that will annoy you. [laughs] I think that there is just such a level of trust "

IMHO at the end of season 4 it became pretty clear that they have serious feelings for each other and that everything is not only fun anymore. I think Helen finally realized that she can no longer surpress her feelings for him, even if she wants. I think she realized that with the kiss.
And Nikola of course always loved her, but he has to become serious about that, so that Helen can trust him and so that they have a chance.

I think it is obvious that he will at least for a while go with the team to the new Sanctuary and now, after the kiss he has the certainty that she has feelings for him too, so maybe he will start a try. Or she will make an attempt, that I think is even more likely, cause in this aspekts Tesla is really a coward IMHO. He loves her all time time and is in 100 years not able to tell her, and that in a way that she believes him? No no, I think if we leave that to Nikola then they would never be a couple, so it´s up to Helen.

So that was my little Teslen rant, I absoloutly adore these two and I really wish that they end up happy together, they deserve some happyness, now that the show is cancelled.

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they shoulda had Will strive for her with Tesla. Someone put that on the could've list.

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Well she did kiss him in the final episode. Of course we were probably supposed to think that was good bye and that she would die, which of course she didn't.

Poor Bigfoot.

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