i think teen jonah meeting current jonah would be a psychologically scarring experience for him. current jonah would be mostly unbothered (if not for the creeping reminder of how defenceless he’d been. one more reason to end the world), but his teen self? damn. soul-crushing
every time I think about the fact jonah called himself the heart of the institute enough times and consistently enough for other avatars to know about it I get sososo giddy. ridiculous endearing man
it’s fascinating how, in the end, the group of survivors (excluding Jon, sort of) made the same choice as Jonah did. faced with the question of “do I have the right to doom the universe/many other universes to endless suffering to ensure my safety and comfort?” they both said yes, I do. Jonah definitely did more self-reflection than they did, but the end result is the same. it’s so great. no matter how much any of them hated Elias, they ended up siding with his view.
there’s a lot of discussion about how Jonah is not inherently evil, how his actions are actually deeply understandable and relatable once you stop to think about it, but there’s live examples of that within the show itself! except they are deprived of that freedom he was talking about so passionately—they don’t know what they did. they don’t want to. they are good people—aren’t they?—and they made the only choice there is—didn’t they? (these repressed feelings will haunt them forever)
