2022-03-14 22:01:36 ¶ ●

why do i keep consuming media where it’s revealed that a formerly-human guy named john caused the apocalypse?

(ID below the cut)

[ID: a four-way Venn Diagram with the four circles labeled “John Egbert (Homestuck)/The Heir of Breath”, “John Hunger (The Adventure Zone: Balance)/The Hunger”, “Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)/The Archivist”, and “John Gaius (The Locked Tomb Series)/The Necrolord Prime”

The overlap sections are as follows:

Gaius/Egbert: “surprise relatives”, “no canon voice”, “bible themes”

Egbert/Hunger: “travels between universes more than once”, “plays games”, “chess imagery”, “weird time stuff”, “depression”

Gaius/Egbert/Hunger: “actually named John, not Jon”

Hunger/Sims: “podcast character”, “monologues”

Egbert/Hunger/Sims: “ended own world”, “hangs out in weird liminal spaces with physically distant characters”, “actually has at least one friend”

Hunger/Gaius: “uses victims against enemies”, “rarely called John”, “way older than he looks”, “destroys other worlds”

Hunger/Gaius/Sims: “kills people”, “complex relationship with (other) protagonist(s)”

Gaius/Egbert/Sims: “died and got better”, “from Earth”

Sims/Egbert: “ended the world by mistake”, “protagonist”, “manipul8ed by spiders”

Sims/Gaius: “weird eyes as plot point”, “works with people who want him dead”, “despised by underlings”, “revenge-driven”

All four: “Ascended”, “formerly human”, “obscenely powerful”, “can only be killed/defeated under specific circumstances”, “called John”, “responsible for the apocalypse”, “leadership role”, “eye imagery”]