I am once again thinking about the Jekyll & Hyde Musical and how Jonelias-coded it is
Ok let’s go. This is solely about Confrontation because I’m listening to it right now and it is a banger
For this, Jekyll is Jon, and Hyde is Elias/the Eye (I’ll note who sings which lines, if you don’t know the song). A lot of this is either pretty obvious or purely vibes based, so notes range from pretty simple statements to things only tangentially related.
- Jekyll singing
- Jon is the only person alive who really knows about Elias and his body hopping. That in itself is a tragedy for the original Elias, but could also pertain to Jonah himself, depending on your opinions on how lonely he may have been over the years and the such. But I digress
- Jon tries to keep his Statement-taking and indulgence into the Eye a secret
- Jon’s story is a tragedy
- Jekyll singing, but the last line is interrupted by Hyde.
- Jon questions his morals. Jonah stopping this line short shows his lack of care for it; does it really matter whether they’re “good” or “human” anymore?
- Hyde (these are the lines that interrupted Jekyll)
- Jonah is obsessed with Jon. He is invested in Jon’s progress as an Archivist, and genuinely cares about him (whether this is good for Jon or not is up for debate)
- Jon was doomed from the moment Jonah first laid eyes (hahaha) on him
- From this point onwards Jekyll’s lines have purple dots, Hyde’s have green.
- Look I can’t put any thoughts into actual words but the themes. You get it.
- Jon wants to kill Jonah, and be gone with the Eye. The Eye – and Jonah – are the reason for his nightmares, therefore the seperation from them wil result in the end of the nightmares
- The apocolypse is a waking nightmare.
- This is an other “vibes and themes” one, but mostly just because everything in this bit has been said elsewhere
- The Eye will ditch Jonah in an instant when Jonah is dead. Jon will “become whole” as he becomes one with the Eye (even if he doesn’t actually want that to happen)
- The effect Jonah/the Eye had on Jon will live with him forever, if he manages to survive e200
- Jon and Elias are a bonded pair, whether Jon likes it or not.
- When Jonah died, Jon soon followed. But first, Jon “became” Jonah by unwillingly taking his place. So for this one, the lines of Jekyll and Hyde are swapped.
- I am a firm believer in the theory that Jon reminded Jonah of himself. They are cut from the same cloth, and have later been pushed into the same role
- ngl the desperation in Jekyll’s voice on this last line really reminds me of Jon
- Jonah has done a lot of bad but so has Jon; Jon has served the Eye just as much as Jonah has, whether it was willing or not
This was much more detailed and made much less sense than I was expecting. I hope you enjoyed it. I have spent the last however-long it took for me to write this in silence because I needed the lyrics from Spotify. I would *love* to hear y'all thoughts on it though
