Sometimes I just think about how there was never going to be a happy end for Jon. There was literally no option that wouldn’t end badly for Jon.

1. The actual ending of the podcast. He died a mystery, forced to do the one thing he didn’t want to happen. (Releasing the Fears)

2. He succeeded in stopping The Fears from spreading. He most likely would have had to killed Martin, the man he loves, Melanie, Georgie, and Basira would hate him, and may even try to kill him themselves, (and he’d be forced to kill them) and he’d have to sit alone and watch the world die.

3. He goes along with The Web’s plan. (Assuming he wouldn’t just immediately take Jonah’s place)

• It might just kill him, being separated from The Eye
• He becomes kinda brain damaged, and is a shell of himself without The Eye
• He’s fine without The Eye, but, uh oh, everyone HATES him and are actively trying to murder him. (And he still has everything below this)
• He’s fine without The Eye, and people aren’t trying to kill him - cool, now he can try and live with the fact that he has released The Fears onto however many other worlds after he released it onto this world and caused, what would have been, the literal end of the world. Oh, and also he lives with the memories of what every single person was feeling while in their own personal hellscapes, and was forced to like it.

There was literally no ending where he could have been happy.