2025-09-17 1:15:01 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

eye-open-the-door:

> manueladominguezliker:

> > No but for real why didn’t Martin feed? He was fully an avatar in season four. Like he flat out just went ghost in front of Georgie and we’re not supposed to question that he could do the same sorta shit as Peter FUCKING Lukas without victimizing anyone? Or did they just decide that it only took Jon taking one live statement to make him haunt people’s nightmares because he was just that evil of a person? Like. Where is the logic.

> Stretching the interpretation FAR with my opinion : Martin did feed. He fed on Jon.

> All of S4, Jon is surrounded by people who despise him - Basira, Melanie, Georgie, even Helen to an extent*. He can’t escape them, but they hardly ever interact positively with him. It’s a special kind of isolation, the “alone in a crowded room” meshed with “please talk to me”. It’s the “they all know I’m here, but they all hate me and won’t acknowledge me unless it’s to tell me off”

> *Daisy an an exception here.

> And Jon is terrible at recognizing his own feelings, so he thinks this is normal.

> Martin. Dear Martin can feel the vortex of isolated self-loathing that is Jon. What better fear for the Lonely than a person so isolated and who believes that isolation is entirely justified?

> Martin doesn’t need to poof Jon into the Fog Domain, Jon inflicts his torture himself.

Yeah I’ve heard this take before too and I don’t buy it. Martin wasn’t around to see them despise Jon and he definitely didn’t instigate it. In fact, he very much tried the opposite: asking Georgie in confusion about why she wasn’t talking to Jon when she revealed it and telling the others to talk to Jon about his victims thinking they’d care enough to help him. Wanting them to communicate to keep Jon from isolating. And the fact it did the opposite does not negate that. So there’s no way he fed off it.

Try again.