#i'm not tagging everyone in here bc its mostly about jon

[tiredmaster]

Kind of in love with how Jon only starts loving other people when they prove useful. Under the cut is a necessary deep dive(ish) into this aspect of Jon.

Likes Basira due to her providing tapes

Likes Tim and Sasha at first due to them being useful in sorting out the archives. He explicitly states he wanted them on his team due to their ability to work. (Also favours Sasha who coincidently was meant to be the next archivist suggesting she has more technical skill)

Liked Daisy due to her providing tapes for Basira and eventually protecting the archives and agreeing to help take down Elias.

Olive Banks revived Jon by saving his life and Jon implicitly likes him later in S5. (Enough that Martin is jealous)

Starts liking Helen when she helps him by providing Jared in her hallways so Jon can save Daisy.

That's all I can say definitively- and for some others that are kinda reaching??

He started liking Melanie because she was grounding? She not hesitating to give him attitude which grounds him, or perhaps her making him realise Not!Sasha was... not Sasha. But their relationship is very wavy.

Martin??? Maybe in S2 because martin works as an easy blame victim. Or perhaps in S3 when Martin works to distract Elias- in which Jon immediately starts acting nicer to him in S4? I'm eh on that one he is clearly reacting to Martin no longer paying attention to him. TBH it's either that or a mix between them.

Georgie is pure speculation. Potentially she grounded him as well? But their becoming friends again is distinctly marked by her providing Jon protection. So.

Gerry when he helps Jon by blatantly answering questions. This one is iffy as Jon seems to adore Gerry before they even meet. Sooo... yanno.

As an opposite to this:

Jon hates Elias almost all the time. However, his hate is heightened in S3 when he finds out Elias has been hiding information, is useless when it comes to protecting them, and all of that.

Hated Peter Lukas as he is helping Elias- therefore isn't of any help to Jon. Also stops Jon from seeing Martin.

Not!Sasha, Jude, and other avatars as they helped Elias' plan and also repeatedly force him further into Eye-hood.

Jon hated Martin when he was purely focused on reorganising the archives and Martin distinctly lacked this ability.

I also adore how as their relationships develop, Jon begins to adore them for more than what he immediately deems as useful. He later loves Basira for her humour, Daisy for her brashness and how they relate, Tim and Sasha.... uh, etc.

I'm not too sure how elegantly I worded all of that, but I think it's super interesting when looking at Jon as a character. I've only listened to TMA once so obviously not all of my takes are going to be hot(tm) but here it is.

In more fanon territory; I like to think this shows Jon unconsciously values himself for what he can achieve and his worth to others. I feel like this is pretty supported by canon- but if it was intentionally shown through his relationship with others... idk. I might add on to this later about how this makes him the perfect match for Martin because Martin also constantly craves to be useful but I need to be stopped I think. I'd love any other thoughts on this!