The thing about jonmartin is that Martin wants to be a romantic, he loves poetry and probably watches romance but for him it is a fantasy, a silly game he plays. Martin is at his core very cynical. Things don’t work out for him so he doesn’t really belive in romance, it is a pretty dream but that’s it. He is pratical and realist. Dating Jon he has to remind himself it is real and he actually struggles with romantic gestures, it is something he has to remind himself to do, to remind himself he can do even and honestly who even has the energy and what if Jon doesn’t even like it?
Jon on the other hand wants to be cynical. His first coping mechanism was pretend the things he was afraid of weren’t real and goddam if he isn’t afraid of love. It didn’t really work to him so far so it’s easy to pretend he doesn’t care. But he is a romantic at heart. He saw love and he read about it and he has enough evidence that it is undeniable. And to be honest Jon was always to much a bunch of mushy feelings hidden in a grumpy (and bitter and afraid) trench coat. Dating Martin he has to hold himself so he isn’t too much. He plays the grumpy unromantic guy at first. But he just can’t stop giving flowers and planing dates (this is the guy that saw a theme park on a fear domain and considered how he wanted to take Martin to a romantic ferris whell date [until he discovered Martin was afraid of them]) and making all the silly things one does when in love.
TR: Martin is deep down very cynical about love but wants to/pretends to be a romantic and Jon is deep down very romantic but wants to/pretends to be cynical about love.
I am getting brainworms from your latest comic and imagining an au where Sam and Jon met when they were young and also dated (they'll make each other so much worse, they'll both encourage each other's bullshit and the series would have ended in season 1 cause Jon managed to get all the marks because he and Sam won't stop getting into bullshit)
jon and sam dating (😰) would just be them doing this to each other back and forth until one of them dies
Kept thinking about how weak and disorientated Jon gets when cut off from the Eye, which got me thinking about Martin having to help him as his state got worse.
Surprisingly, instead of getting angsty, I ended up with Jon being carried around like a ragdoll.
