I’m just thinking about like…when did Jonah fall for the Eye?
We know he must of had some form of power around 1924 when Barnabas got banished because he decided to watch him, he wanted to see what would happen.
Did he gain his powers around the time he established the institute? Maybe he was already an avatar before he met Smirke, and he used Smirkes research to feed himself and the Eye. I got no clue.
Maybe we’ll get more backstory to Jonah in the magnus protocol. Perhaps a statement from himself, instead of his story being told from an outside perspective. I think that’s why, out of all of the TMA villains, people hate him the most. His story is the one we don’t hear. His side of things, what happened.
TMA is a story about choices and the lengths people will go to achieve some ounce of power. Why does he want power and immortality. There must be a deeper reason. All avatars struggled and felt so deeply that they became the thing that both haunted them and they relished in. So why did Jonah become an avatar. Just because he was an obsessive academic? Because he was an elitist snob? There has to be a deeper reason, people!
…Anyway, this won’t be my final ramble about Jonah. There’s so much more I can say about him