On that note, I don’t get why it’s so hard for people to believe that Jon went against the plan and became the Pupil because he genuinely believed it was the right thing to do? Like he made himself very clear during the entirety of TMA 199, we don’t have to guess at his motivations at all, but it’s MORE common for me to see some completely different reason given in meta or fics instead of…what he plainly said….including:
- He just did it in order to die (despite him expecting to live for centuries with Martin at his side while the fears starve) (despite him changing his mind to ASK MARTIN TO KILL HIM)
- He just did it for revenge (despite the ENTIRE SMITING ARC being about him deciding his revenge wasn’t worth it)
- He just did it because of the ~evil influence of the Eye~ (this one just feels cheap, like the only way anyone could disagree with the WEB’S PLAN was if they were being puppeted by Evil Forces).
- He “didn’t realize he’d be killing Martin” when…he wouldn’t be! Martin wasn’t in a domain, and Jon would have no reason to move him to the End domain! Martin would have lived as long as the world itself did, probably several lifetimes!
- He just “didn’t think it through” and “lol Jon stupid and reckless” and in the fluffy Somewhere Else fics he goes on and on about how Martin was clearly right about everything and now that he can think straight he realizes that :))
- That he really just wanted to be a part of the Eye and all the reasons and crying were just an act to cover up his ~monster lust~
Like. We got a finale centered around a moral quandary with no right answer. Jon was the ONLY one who chose one side of the options. We have a whole show building up to that choice, it makes perfect sense in character and he doesn’t try to hide his reasoning!! He tries to convince the others! He breaks down crying because he hates what they’re planning to do so much!! And it kills me that the last true choice of what Jon actually wanted and actually believed in just gets discarded and ignored because people are so intent on making a “the Web plan was 100% right, Jon should always just do what Martin says, love wins!!” moral out of it.
You don’t have to think Jon was RIGHT to respect that he had beliefs!