2021-10-18 17:49:11 ¶ ●

Jon has gone through so much though. Think of the TMA statement that scared you the most. The one that felt like Jonny personally reached into your psyche and pulled out your worst fear. Now imagine actually experiencing that…

and doing so 14 times. 13 of them within two years. More, really, since some entities got Jon more than once. All while reliving other people’s horrific experiences week in and week out. All while watching people’s nightmares, having them, every night.

And he also has childhood trauma. What are the effects of that, of seeing something terrible and knowing it could have been you, at just eight years old?

And that’s just mental trauma. There’s the worms that tore into his flesh and it probably never healed quite right. He got burned and he got his lungs possibly scarred from getting strangled and he got stabbed three times and he’d probably have eye damage from looking at the Dark Sun if he wasn’t an Eye avatar. He is missing two ribs, which were pulled out of him. What does that even do to you? He even straight up died at one point. (Well. Two. But don’t get me started on Season 5.)

How is he still alive? How is he still functioning? Just. How???

[slight edit to reflect the fact that he is missing two ribs and I have underestimated the man’s propensity for attracting trauma. In a post about the full scope of his trauma.]