#dont let the monsters bite 🤨

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And where does the romance stem from without the trauma breaking down the previous perceptions of each other? Did it come before or after Jon openly discusses not caring if Martin lives or dies? 🤨

And like, the fault wasn't only in Jon. Martin wasn't the fat nice warm guy with a cup of tea who was wimpering and staring up with his beautiful cow eyes in s1. Abused for no reason and sooooo cute and sweet while evil nasty boss Jon told him to go explore the evil caves that bite and maim and kill. Martin was just as much a reason for them not working out in s1. Like, Jon has a deathly fear of spiders and complains on record about Martin scolding him for killing spiders. Martins noted as pushing peoples limits OFTEN. Anytime hes in scene he's scolding someone for not doing what he wants or what he says or talking out their "feelings". And on feelings, Martin spends the entirety of s5 badgering Jon to talk about HIS feelings sure. But ANY TIME before this Jon has been routinely beaten with rocks for talking about his feelings. Last time he talked about his feelings he was walked into a domain of the web, given a statement that may have been a lie from annabelle, and it was made JONS fault it all happened. Like.

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And like in s5 jon DOES try to talk about his feelings. But Martin tells him he won't hear it. Because Jon's feelings are monster feelings and Martin isn't willing to let go of "Jon" to realize what he has in front of him. There's no jmart without the trauma bestie, these two would have died hating each other if every other person in the room didnt prove themselves hostile when Jon literally stalked them. Followed them home and accused them of murder and treated them all like they did something wrong while they were in the middle of coping with THEIR worlds being taken apart.

Dont get me wrong they are like a brother to me but martin is not some abused little meow meow getting a cup of tea splashed on him and looking up all sopping wet winning people over with it. Martin was a dick too, and annoying to boot. They needed the trauma to break through BOTH of their perceptions.

Jon needed to have a REASON to want someone to be there to support him, because without Martin he still had an entire team who would listen to him and do their jobs to varying degrees who HE had history with. And Martin needed a reason for his constant demands of discussion would have a basis. Like. What was the theory here. Tea melts the cold devils heart of the abusive boss?? They needed something to push them to need each other's quirks to make those things palatable actually. Hope this helps.

Ill be honest i dont vibe w the jon was always in love with martin narrative