The Lonely trying to enact its ritual only as a means of stopping The Extinction from enacting theirs is very funny to me because that’s probably the only way you could even convince The Lonely to do their ritual.
The Fear rituals are all about unleashing their specific brand of chaos and torment on everyone else. But what the hell does The Lonely care about everyone else? The Lonely wants nothing to do with the 5 other people in line at the grocery store, let alone the world. Do you know how many more people they’d have to get involved with if they apocalypsed the entire world? The effort? The nuisance? Who would bother?
I like to imagine Peter Lukas has a little sheet of paper in his desk with a list of “pros” and “cons” for enacting the Lonely Ritual with the “cons” list just a mile long detailing every single distinct human interaction that would be required to end the world, and the “pros” list like “–will stop receiving phone calls about car extended warranty” “–cashier will stop asking if I want to donate $3 to Paws for Life charity” “–will not have to talk to Jonah Magnus anymore”
Like the only thing more annoying then enacting The Lonely ritual would be enduring the consequences of living in someone else’s fear hell so the pro-vs-con balance finally tipped with the (apparent) advent of The Extinction and Peter got grumbling out of his chair to go answer Jonah’s phone call.
Even funnier to me that Jonah had to hand Peter an Avatar of The Lonely because recruitment for The Lonely is probably hard as hell. Lightless Flame got to build a whole cult following for themselves but I bet the second Peter converts an Avatar to The Lonely they go “neat” and vanish off the grid to haul off to a cabin on 400 acres of uninhabited land in Montana with a “no soliciting” sign tacked on the front door.
Like Peter’s just standing there watching his 14th Avatar convert hitch up a bindle and hop on the nearest passing boxcar to buttfuck-nowhere and Jonah comes along shoving Martin at him like “here, this one literally cannot leave. do whatever you want with it” and Peter was like “!”
honestly the best thing mr jonny sims writerman ever did for Jon’s character was making him say “good lord”. it is simply the best thing ever. that’s just his catchphrase. “good lord” “good lord mahtin” “oh good lord” it is essential to his character that he says “good lord”
actually while i’m here: jonathan “gotta compromise the structural integrity of my skeleton before i jump into the Crush You To Death Dimension” sims is fucking COASTING on the quality of his voice. this man impulse-murdered a coffee table with an axe because he was pissed at the eldritch being imprisoned within it and was SURPRISED when destroying the horror prison released the horrors. by season 2 he is accusing his coworkers of murder for being nice to him and is literally on a first name basis with the autonomous physical manifestation of losing your mind. he makes the most absurd possible choice at every turn and somehow STILL manages to come across as straitlaced and reasonable because he talks like if a bbc documentary voiceover was disappointed in you personally
