“Mr. Spider wants more.” It’s not just the main sentence in “A Guest For Mister Spider,” it’s also a sentence that sums up Jon as a character.

Jon is a character who always wants more.

He starts reading statements, then he wants to learn more about how they all connect. He learns more about how they all connect, then he wants to learn how they work. He learns about how they work, then he starts to become a monster himself.

And when he starts to becomes a monster he also end’s up accidentally ending the world. But unlike other avatar’s who would be satisfied at that point, Jon decides that he wants more than to be the harbinger of doom. He wants to be the one to reverse the mistakes he made.

And he does…right after betraying his friends plan because, despite everything, he still wanted more than the ending he and the universe received.

Some Random Magnus Archive Headcanon’s

A: Michael Shelley had visual snow syndrome, which is a condition that makes you see static. It got worse when he became The Distortion.

B: After the apocalypse Rosie Zampano tries to use her limited (but still more than most) knowledge on Elias and The Institute to help people make sense of things. Any time she comes cross someone that’s frazzled she tells me as much as she can…and before long it becomes widely know that Rosie Zampano was the apocalypses secretary. This actually launches her into a bit of a fame and she get’s quite a few “tell all” offers in the form of book deals and interview offers. Though she’s very hesitant on whether she wants to take any of them.

C: The Admiral is a manx. And I headcanon this because the manx breed was popular as ship cat due to their skilled hunting abilities…So that adds another layer to his name.

D: Gerard Keay has missing and chipped teeth on the side of his mouth from running straight into a wall while chasing someone with a Leitner.

E: Agnes Montague didn’t even like coffee, but she was so unsure of as a person that she wasn’t totally sure what drinks she liked. Most of her life was a performance, just doing she thought others wanted her to be doing, and her food and drink “preferences” were one of those things. She would loved hot chocolate.

F: Melanie’s style takes a lot of inspiration from the 80’s grunge aesthetic. She also really likes 80’s new wave music.

G: Gertrude Robinson has massive burn scars all over her body from The Desolation ritual. And bonus headcanon about The Desolation ritual: It gave her fire resistance. She can still still get burned but it takes more to burn her than the usual person.

H: Jon’s hands are chronically cold. Martin’s hands are chronically warm.

I: Danny Stoker still made mix tapes. He made a lot of them on his travels and when he returned home he would give some personally crafted ones to his friends and family. Tim keeps his in a box on his dresser.

J: Anabelle Cane was the one responsible for posting the tapes to YouTube in-universe. It wasn’t necessarily her who posted it, but she had…contingency plans to make sure the new universe knew what they were getting into.

Jon and Tim will never not have an insane dynamic to me.

They aren’t even friends for 2/3 of the seasons of they interact, and yet when Tim dies it kills Jon’s humanity.

Not in a metaphorical sense either. In a quite literal sense as the events of the series are: Tim detonates off a bomb. The explosion kills him and mortally injuries Jon in a way that would have killed anyone else. Therefore, Jon has to give up his humanity and become an avatar to pull through.

Jon ending up as The Archivist is a direct consequence of him telling Tim to pull the trigger. It’s a direct consequence of him letting Tim go so he can keep an eye on him instead of leaving him back at The Institute.

It’s a direct consequence of him losing another friend.

Nearly everything that happens in Season 4 and 5 is because of the moment Jon and Tim’s arc come to end and their friendship ends for good. I know the phrase “haunt the narrative” gets tossed around a lot, but Tim really does haunt the rest of the series of the form of the numerus consequences that come from the aftermath of The Unknowing.

And quite frankly I don’t think Tim would want to haunt Jon is any other way.

TMA characters but it’s just media that I’ve hyperfixated on before that I think they’d like:

RIP Jonathan Sims, you would have loved “Marble Hornets.”

RIP Martin Blackwood, you would have loved “Undertale.”

RIP Tim Stoker, you would have loved “Date Everything.”

RIP Sasha James, you would have loved “Gravity Falls.”

RIP Basira Hussain, you would have loved “Squid Games.”

RIP Daisy Tonner, you would have loved “The Wolf Amoung Us.”

RIP Georgie Barker, you would have loved “Scooby Doo.”

RIP Melanie King, you would have loved “Telltale’s Batman.” / RIP Melanie King, you would have loved “Bojack Horseman.”

RIP Gertrude Robinson, you would have loved “World Of Zoo.”

RIP Gerard Keay, you would have loved “Supernatural.”

RIP Michael Shelley, you would have loved the “Life Is Strange” franchise.

RIP Annabelle Cane, you would have loved “The Sims.”