Are we going to talk about how unnecessarily poetic and romantic it was when Elias said “when you came to me […] I knew it had to be you”? The moment of recognition, a sculptor realising he couldn’t ask for finer clay…
i love your choice of metaphor bc this is a parallel jon draws between gabriel and deborah and himself and elias
fic idea: s3 Jon reads a statement about someone’s fear of getting replaced/slowly changing without realising until they are a caricature of their former self with no one in their life noticing because they don’t actually know them. Jon wondering post statement if something is similar is happening to him. is he changing into something else or is he just not pretending being someone he never was anymore. do the people around him accept him as a monster because he really is one or they just don’t know him?
cut to s4, post coffin but pre hus feeding habits revealed, Jon finds either a second part of the statement or one somehow related to it. Jon thinks back on his previous musings and decides that he is more himself than he has ever been. he isn’t sure if it’s a bad thing
There was no way TMA wouldn’t have me in it’s grip from its very first episode. It opens up to Jon bitching about workplace incompetence while working in a place where workplace competence is very much not needed for the uninstructed listener (research institute for paranormal affairs). We don’t yet know what he did prior to being assigned to the archives but he has opinionsTM about people who waste his time with fake paranormal stories, instead of making his job worth it with the real paranormal stories he’s actually interested in. The world is going to shit and Jon’s biggest problem is other people being annoying and making his life specifically more difficult, which is objectively their worst crime. Elias is mentioned from the get-go. And he hates Martin <3 Best opening of all time actually
Jon feels a lot but has very very little empathy which is both very relatable and also so so interesting to me. He’ll get extremely attached to people he barely knows and then not realize that his friend is pissed at him for stalking him. He’s so??? Interesting??? Gets so deeply attached to a woman he talked to once because she made him feel like maybe he wasn’t the only one going through hell that he literally kills for her, but doesn’t understand why Martin would be so different after three people seemingly died. Low empathy jon the beloved you will always be real to me.
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