oh yeah i was thinking also about jon being raised by his grandmother…it’s just such a great flavor for an already repressed and uptight character, like of course those are mannerisms that come from being raised by someone old-fashioned (especially someone who explicitly resented him !! even though he acknowledges that she tried her best it was still apparent enough that it couldnt have not hurt him…)
i also like to think that jonah magnus was probably “precocious and impatient, quick to talk back, and even quicker to wander off whenever I grew bored”…i feel like they were similar in many ways right down to their childhood, two lonely guys driven by their curiosity into the arms of the unknown…