2025-08-05 9:42:19 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

dathen:

> (abuse mention, victim-blaming)

> I hate the Web’s “actually you ARE the chosen one!!” bullshit so so much like not only is it Nonsense but I keep seeing posts of people like?? Trying to reverse-engineer a way to make it true??

> Like projecting all sorts of bad qualities onto EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JON for why he could be assessed as “the person most likely to end the world” when Jonah could have used pretty much anyone for his fear punchcard as long as he kept them ignorant enough. There didn’t need to be anything special about Jonah’s victim–it was just “someone he chose”

> And yet I have seen *multiple* posts saying it’s because EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JON “clearly didn’t care about anyone but himself” and “doesn’t care about other people” when:

> - He was able to sense his grandmother’s resentment for raising him and feel guilt for burdening her

> - He was regularly physically and verbally abused and stolen from by a GROWN MAN and still ended up feeling survivor’s guilt over his death? and felt that he should have done something to help?? and said “some people deserve to be remembered”????

> - He grew up to care about people to a self-destructive degree, no matter how much he pretended otherwise

> - He’s EIGHT YEARS OLD?! Give me a break!! Like even if eight-year-old Jon was selfish or mostly cared about himself–which we didn’t really get any evidence of–that’s kind of?? How kids are???

> Like why are people so eager to justify the words of an evil spider god that they’re not only flat-out inventing up bad traits for its victim, but signing up for the “you can predict what a person will grow up to do from what they’re like as a child” school of thought.