From Tim’s perspective, the worst thing about everything is that he doesn’t have any real allies in his corner. While he’s drowning in his rage, Elias is trying to hold him under, Martin is in a lifeboat, and Jon is drowning with him, but pulling away every time Tim tries to reach out for his hand. There is no one coming to save him and knows it.

Then Tim’s put in a situation where, even if someone would dive in with him and offer to help pull him out, he couldn’t trust the hand that reached for him anymore than a sailor could trust a siren.

He knows that he can’t take anyone at face value now, and he goes from longing for a connection and starting constant confrontation because he’s not getting one, to avoiding everyone with the tunnels because even if he got that connection, he couldn’t trust it.

Tim Stoker is just such a sad character and seeing this two paragraph’s side by side with each other gave me psychological damage so I decided to make it everyone’s problem.