i think that the idea of a tma where there’s no apocalypse brewing would be so funny. like. jonah legitimately just wants to escape death and study the world around him as it changes.
is he still a very bad dude? yeah of course! dude kills people to steal their bodies and traps them in eternal employment contracts and watches everyone’s fear gleefully.
but it would be so funny if he’s just a bodystealing asshole from the eighteen hundreds who likes to do paperwork and drink wine and wants to get an archivist this time who actually. like. archives so that he can go find that one statement about joshua gillespie again easily and he can go home and read it over a glass of chardonnay. and then write papers about the taxonomy of fear and go to avatar cocktail parties and laugh