i love jon as our tormented sicklyguy but tbh, maybe uncommon opinion, i really enjoy elias as like a closeted sicklyguy too. or maybe this is just me projecting ‘sicklyguy’ onto characters as one myself. who knows or cares. anyway, i just really like something-ambiguously-wrong-with-him elias. your boss who’s not quite right health-wise, obviously, but there’s no way you’re going to find out precisely How So. he doesn’t quite want that, and you can’t Look anyway. maybe jonah was originally some flavor of chronic-whatever and it’s just happenstance that elias is as well. maybe all of his bodies have been & it’s not happenstance at all. maybe the eye keeps it in check. maybe it doesn’t. certainly i like the idea that eye avatars are prone to migraines, as a base. to me jon has every fucking disease and does very little about this fact. i’m giving him my genetic and neurological bullshit. he even goes to physical therapy he’s like the perfect guy to assign this to. elias though? this one you have to trust me on. he can have EDS & POTS too. if we believe.
jon’s ‘there’s nothing wrong with him’ about jonah in mag192 is so funny tbh. do not worry this is healthy and normal behavior for the pupil of the eye <3 yaaay
also jon + jonah statement duet goes so hard forever. i love how martin is just there. cuck throne. HEART EMOJI
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.