#all the characters in tma (excluding the terrible ones. lookin at jonah) are just... so HUMAN

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Jon from the Magnus Archives for the character ask game?

character: hate them | don’t really care | like them | LOVE them | THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS

ship with: Martin, ofc, but also i’m honestly SUCH a sucker for jonmartimsasha. polychives is my jam

friendship them with: Melanie King. They’re both so prickly, dedicated to doing their job way harder than they’re supposed to, absolutely zero self-preservation instincts, snarky, fuelled primarily by spite - the list goes on. i just Love the idea of their dynamic as it would have developed if they weren’t trapped in the basement of a horror-tragedy together, yknow?

also!! Gerry Keay. other people have said it better than me but they operate on the same wavelength of wordplay/gallows-humour, and just.. get each other so well? they would have been so powerful together. if gerry had been alive jonah would’ve been dead by season 3, jon wouldn’t have been marked by half the things he was bc gerry would just tell him “yo here’s everything you need to know,” so many people wouldn’t have died for stupid reasons like “eaten by a table” and “caught up in the disaster that followed the destruction of said table,” and i just. want gerry back so badly

general opinions: absolute disaster of a human being. so much self-hatred that he comes across as pompous. absolutely neurodivergent, and i vibe with hyperempathy headcanons (hyperempathy jon/low empathy martin was metioned in a post i saw exactly one time and it will be my true belief forever)

he tries so hard and is genuinely so intelligent but desperately needs a support network to keep him from self-destructing in a well-intentioned effort to keep everyone else safe. his love language is causing problems on purpose (which is probably part of why it’s so distressing for him when he causes problems by accident. jon must do everything RIGHT except for when he deliberately knocks other people’s cups off the counter). jon sims is a bitch and i like him so much

#tma #the magnus archives #ask game #i LOVE this ask so much thank you words can't describe how much i care about jon #a lot of the time people are like 'meh' about main characters #but i think that's bc a lot of the time main characters have less in the way of personality than everyone else #like harry potter is just kind of.. almost a Y/N self-insert in terms of how blank he can seem? esp early on in the series #or at least that's how it comes across to me #but jon sims. jon sims has SO MUCH personality #and it's all terrible! he's a MESS and all about those bad decisions and personal flaws #and he's still a good person #or at least - an ordinary one #which is to say absolutely unique #a mess who's trying his best and it's genuinely not his fault that it was never good enough #i have so many feelings about jon #all the characters in tma (excluding the terrible ones. lookin at jonah) are just... so HUMAN #and i wish they could be happy bc it's never a question of 'deserving' #none of them deserved what they got. absolutely none of them #i guess that's why it's a tragedy #ask me about jude perry sometime i have feelings about her too #jonathan sims #character ask game #ask linden