podcast-hemocytoblast:
TMA season 1, except instead of coping with the feeling of being watched through stubbornly ignoring it altogether, Jon takes the route that he does with many of the Statements early on, where he denies anything supernatural, and instead comes up with a more mundane explanation for why he feels constantly watched and scrutinized: corporate surveillance.
Clearly, Elias must be watching him through the security cameras, waiting to see if he messes up, because he knows that Jon is underqualified for this job! Jon, of course, deals with this suspicion in a very normal way. Throughout work, he talks out loud, directly to Elias, under the assumption that he’s listening, and whenever Martin does anything at all ever, Jon looks directly into the security camera like he’s on The Office.
effervescent-fool:
love when a man has dark brown eyes and an air of impending doom about him
Thinking about how much more compelling if would be to me if Jon did end the world himself. Like if instead of physically being unable to stop reading Jonah’s statement to end the world, I’d love to see a universe where he just needed to know what it would do. What if the tape recorder clicked on and off throughout Jon’s day, catching snippets of conversations where he’s just waiting for Martin to leave him alone to be can dig into the box of statements, the anticipation building. If there was no deception, no trickery to the statement itself. It’s just hidden in the box, but it’s the first one the Archivist is drawn to. It’s about him. It calls to him. He needs to read it. He needs to Know. The parallel of Jonah leaving Barnabas to his doom, Jon reading the statement that he knows is a Ritual. They have to do it. The burning curiosity would never leave them alone if they stopped now. They have to Know.
I don’t think Jon gouging out his eyes would actually sever him from the Beholding. He’s the narrator of the Beholding’s favorite little podcast. He speaks to tapes. He compels people to answer questions, to talk about their fears. He generally prefers calling it The Beholding instead of the Eye. Jonah’s powers are linked to his eyes. Jon’s powers are linked to his voice.