The thing about jmart that gets me is that Jon has been treated so horribly by everyone around him (with a couple exceptions) in season four, is constantly told that he’s a horrible monster for eating people’s fears despite being forced into the whole thing and Martin, the person who is supposed to love and care for him… treats him exactly the same. Calls all avatars evil and horrible to Mr “i am an avatar grappling with my humanity”’s face without even a scrap of nuance and we are still meant to believe that they are a sweet couple and ohhhhh how tragiccccc that they have to stab each other. Like. At least when Basira or Melanie did something they weren’t Jon’s romantic partner.
I know omg like Martin just acts like everyone else does and for some reason he doesn’t get any shit for it when he does it? it’s all kinnies not wanting to think critically about the character that they’ve been using as their like self-insert i swear 🥀🥀
check tags ig. This is so real guys for real this time really!!!!!!!!!
what are you actually talking about im so lost why is moby dick there
Does this even count as “hate” per the tags when this is just, straight up truth?
The cast of the Magnus Archives gets mischaracterized a LOT but Martin really does seem to be the absolute worst case of the bunch. He gives off “the author had an Idea about what they wanted, but the character they wrote didn’t actually Fit the Idea, but ahead we now go!” vibes to the extreme.
Martin is a ball of neurosis and anxiety, but he’s also a sarcastic and snippy prick. He is self-destructive but even moreso is he a Petty Motherfucker. His entire segment of dialogue with Peter and Elias where he sits down and calls them all complete morons who fucked up their entire manipulation game came because, despite originally going along with it because it was “an easy way to get killed”, he seriously couldn’t help himself. He just had to have his moment.
He simultaneously hates Avatars but also uses Jon like an attack dog throughout the final season. Martin is a character of contradictions and extremes. But, he’s always characterized as “Big huggable fluff man” and “the BF who brings his anxious partner tea” - if at any point the narrative recognized “We have created an asshole” and actually worked from that, I’d actually like Martin as a character because he might actually get utilized in a way that works. But, as it is, the last season really just gives me “Abusive boyfriend complains for several episodes while Jon basically suffers the entire time” while really, really wanting you to believe it’s cute and romantic?Ceaseless Watcher, gaze upon this bs I guess?