as much of a fan that i am of eldritch!jon as far as S5 designs go, (which i very, very much am to be clear) personally i conceptualize him as being stunningly normal. like genuinely, stunningly, unusually normal — something seemingly untouched in a fundamentally altered world. he is ‘privileged’ in passage through this not-space and its horrors and its shows, he’s deemed special. i even like to think of him as appearing much healthier than he has since S1. almost as if rested, refreshed, recovered.

jonah on the other hand? i think he looks absolutely fucked. not in a transformation way or in a ‘cool’ way, i just think the role of the pupil of the eye in all its misplaced, misassigned glory, him as a mere placeholder even after everything, i think that would be very taxing on him. pointedly not enriching. physically decimating. ‘agonized bliss’ does not negate the agonized part or the truth of him not being powerful enough to appropriately control that position and exist through it as opposed to having himself overwritten and used as a vector to the degree that we saw. so in a sense i like to think that he looked remarkably normal in vulnerability. ‘powerful’ yes, but not him personally. not really. not anymore. omnipotence and omniscience as a falsehood.