apocalypsokane: red-scribbler:my thesis supervisor encouraged me to mess around with a poster maki

apocalypsokane: red-scribbler: my thesis supervisor encouraged me to mess around with a poster making website for practice and instead of doing anything useful, I graphic-designed up a fan theory I’ve been thinking about for a while enjoy! (click to full view) OP I apologize in advance, but I have essayitis and it’s incurable This is honestly one of the best what-Jonah-is-up-to theories I’ve seen. Not just because it’s, ‘Yay! The fucker’s dead!’ but because, wow, wouldn’t that just be a massive shortcut to the big tragic un-reveal that there is no magic undo button for the Change. No Big Boss Villain to defeat. No fix-it switch. I just reread the transcript for “The Sick Village,” and I realized I was misremembering a line. I heard Jon say, “I can feel him moving in there.” But that wasn’t it. The script goes: MARTIN: “How is [Jonah/Elias]?” Jon: “Hard to say. The, The way this works, this - new sight, the knowledge is, is… (sigh) somehow wrapped up in the Panopticon? An eye can’t - see inside itself. But I can feel him in there.” Not moving, just there. And isn’t it so funny and convenient that the Eye can’t* let Jon magically Know what’s going on in there? *If I didn’t know better, I’d almost assume it was pulling the same selective-enlightenment gimmick it did to him pre-s5, going out of its way to dissuade him from learning anything that might hinder his Archivist evolution and/or let him escape the Institute. But I’m sure the Eye wouldn’t do that now.** **It’s not like it’s been purposefully drawing Jon to the Panopticon like a pin to a magnet, using the lure of Confronting-Jonah-Will-Help-Things!-No-Really!-Honest!-Jonah-Who-Is-Definitely-Alive-And-For-Sure-Sent-Those-Tapes-To-The-Cabin-Which-You-Couldn’t-Actually-Tell-The-Origins-Of! So yeah, I can buy Jonah being dead. Maybe the Change didn’t give him all the bells and whistles he was expecting and he tried to make a demand too many of a patron Fear that had long since grown bored of him. Maybe he’s trapped in the Panopticon, fused into its stonework, omniscient at last, but immobile and useless. Or maybe he was planning to do what others have theorized–an attempt at doing a body snatcher job on Jon to steal his status and the Eye, player-of-favorites that it is, reacted very, very poorly to someone thinking of doing harm to its Archivist. What did Jon say in “Revolutions” again? JON: “God forbid you actually catch us. Doesn’t bear thinking about.” I’ve been wondering about that bit ever since it dropped. The way he phrases it, it sounds less like ‘I, the Archivist, will zap you,’ and more like ‘Touch me and the Eye will zap you.’ As if the Ceaseless Watcher is content to smite Jon’s targets when asked, but will act on its own if the domains/avatars take a real swing at him. If so, it makes sense that the avatars with actual brain cells to rub together–hi, Oliver and Annabelle–have given him plenty of space. Which would also tie in neatly to Jonah not only being dead, but dying by hubris. He got what he wanted. His plot worked, the Change came, and he was a king of a ruined world. He could’ve been satisfied with that. But he was still not the most powerful player; not the Eye’s dear demigod Archivist, the favorite avatar, the Harbinger. And so he planned to take Jon’s spot with another eye swap. A plan the Eye Knew the moment it occurred to him. Meaning, if both these theories hold, that would mean Jonah was smote by his own god for taking aim at the one and only person in the world that was off-limits. RIPieces. # IN WHICH I DERAIL AND MONOLOGUE AD INFINITUM please feel free to keep derailing oh my godim sitting here with my head in my hands thinking about this but also grinning like a lunatic bc it makes so much senseI never even thought that the eye might keep info from jon if it didn’t want him to know like it did before! he thinks he is omniscient but how would he know if he wasnt if the eye didn’t want him to know!!something big is going to happen to jon as soon as they get to “his” domain and the idea terrifies mei had heard the jonah body-snatching jon theory floating around and didn’t pay it much mind but in conjuction with what you’ve proposed it makes perfect sense and ties it all togetheralso the karmic retribution is delicioushonestly 10/10 addition, chef’s kiss -- source link

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