When Jon tells Melanie that he knows what a meme is I’m 100% convinced that this is the type of meme he’s talking about and that he finds them hilarious:
When Jon tells Melanie that he knows what a meme is I’m 100% convinced that this is the type of meme he’s talking about and that he finds them hilarious:
It’s crazy how many headcanon’s I have about this alone:
First off, some of the the crew were way more fine not hanging out much outside of work than others.
Jon never had any real desire to see anyone outside of work. He really wanted to appear professional, and to him that meant not inviting his collages into his personal life. Tim was the same. He liked everyone well enough but he’s a “keep work and life separate” type of guy. Well, for the most part. He did wish he spent more time with Sasha outside of work, but other than that he liked boundaries.
Sasha would have been open to hanging out outside of work, but she never really made plans or anything like that on account of always being busy with something. Martin DID try to make plans since he wanted the workplace to be a friendly space (*cough* And he wanted he to get to know Jon better *cough*) but he always got turned down even though he must have asked at least fifty times. Sasha was always busy, Tim was too though he also didn’t really want to give a weekend /afternoon to work, and Jon just straight up declined out of “I don’t want too.”
As for the curry nights around Christmas: Jon never actually participated much in them. He’d bring a curry then go back to his office and get testy with anyone who dared to speak to him while he was doing some extra work. Tim thought it was hilarious to wear one of those mistletoe hats, though he obviously didn’t expect anyone to kiss him, and the best he ever got from that was a very brief cheek kiss from Sasha.
Martin was fantastic at making curry and he honestly held curry night on his back. He was so good at it that Tim and Sasha would totally have had him cater if they ever had a curry night outside of work. Sasha would usually be in charge of the decorations because she could be a bit of a mirco manager about stuff like that, so she’d spend a lot of the party playfully pointing out the work she put in and making sure it was appreciated.
She would also bring games and one time she brought a dart board that turned into a pretty high stakes competition that even Jon got in on for a bit. Turn’s out Sasha and Martin are amazing at darts. Tim’s fine at them, and Jon is just straight up bad. Sasha ended up winning but it was close between her and Martin.
That’s it for the headcanon’s! Something about reading about the curry night’s set a bomb off in my brain and I couldn’t stop thinking about the concept until I wrote 200 headcanon’s.
Jon and Tim’s dynamic is great because it’s kind of like the miscommunication trope, but eviler.
Tim saying “Honestly, I hope that John learned something from her” (“her” in reference to Gertrude) is crushing in the context I think he means that in.
Tim wouldn’t be happy if Jon took notes from Gertrude’s playbook. We see that in The Unknowing when Tim gets upset that Jon and the rest of the crew want to focus on blowing up the building instead of trying to save the dancers who have already been skinned, which is exactly what Gertrude would have done if she were in the situation.
So Tim doesn’t actually want a Gertrude version of Jon. He doesn’t actually want him to put stopping the fears over having humanity for the people around him.
Except in one case. He does want Jon to be strong as Gertrude when it comes to sacrificing one person.
And that’s himself.
He wants Jon to have the strength to use him to pull the trigger because he’s done, and needs Jon to have a strong resolve in order to see that through. That’s what his speech really boils down to. Tim is saying that he wants Jon to be cold enough to sacrifice him. Not the dancers who were innocent people caught in a nightmare, and not the humanity that went with them.