I'm at MAG 22 in my relisten, and it got me thinking a bit about the fandom's certainty that Jon absolutely despised Martin's guts.
I'm pretty sure Jon's dislike of Martin was only ever prompted by the man's utter incompetence and didn't extend much further, considering how he offered Martin a room in the archives without any hesitation whatsoever. Jon's far more caring than most people give him credit for
I'm sort of continuing my TMA relisten (skipped the Prentiss attack because I didn't feel like listening to it at the moment) and I've got something to say about the MAG 42 supplemental and Jon's paranoia.
Fans consistently joke that Jon being suspicious of Martin's behaviour was stupid and entirely irrational and "stupid paranoid idiot, Martin's being attentive to your needs because he has a crush on you!" But you have to take into account Martin's very impressive (and entirely fake) resume, as well as him turning out to be quite resourceful during the Prentiss attack despite being previously bad at his job, not to mention the ominous unfinished letter he left behind that said he's worried about the others "finding out that he's been lying" - if I were Jon then I would sure as HELL be suspicious of him too. Also you need to remember the very likely possibility that Jon never really had many people care for him before (on the account of him being orphaned from an early age and his grandmother disliking him etc etc so. What might be obvious and logical to YOU doesn't necessarily have to be that obvious to HIM.)
It's strange that so many fans dismiss the thought of Martin putting up a front and pretending to be incompetent as completely impossible when he straight up admits to having done just that in S5. Yeah he didn't kill Gertrude, and he was bad at his job cause he lied on his resume, but that doesn't mean he's the world's most honest man cmon
One day I'll figure out a good way to portray mild cerebral palsy. And then I will give it to Jonathan Archivist Sims
Finally got around to finishing arcane and damn. Jayvik and jonmartin have almost nothing in common. You people were just too jmart brainrotted
I'm not saying that Jon could have avoided his fate if he had better friends, but man. So much unnecessary shit could have been prevented if the people in his environment actually cared about him and didn't just view him as more of a problem than a person