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Ooohhh, please explain?

assuming youre asking about this i would LOVE to explain but this isnt a fully formed theory yet so heres some bullet points in the absence of an essay:

first i gotta say there are definitely a lot of ways in which jon is scully and martin is mulder. ofc it isnt all gonna be one way or the other but i do think martin is more scully and jon is more mulder on the whole

jon is more prone to paranoia, mania, impulsivity, self-sacrifice, and the sort of lone wolf mentality that comes of thinking that you can get to the bottom of a big conspiracy and anyone you trust enough to help you is someone you actually want to keep far away from it whenever you can so they dont get hurt. but thats not your choice is it sir.

he has this intense dedication to his job, and then to his cause when it becomes clear that his cause goes beyond and sometimes directly contradicts his actual job.

also just the fact that theyre down there in the basement trying to stop evil shit while their superiors upstairs are, at best, so bogged down in bureaucracy as to be incompetent, and at worst, actively perpetrating the evilest shit of all and lying about it while the wacky basement guy nearly gets himself killed on a weekly basis in his search for the #Truth

on the subject of their superiors: elias fills the roles of both skinner and csm in various ways and within those analogies jon is mulder

jon represses his emotions (fear, love, survivors guilt, confusion, anger at loss of agency, self-loathing, etc.) until he bursts (frequent snark and snappishness, occasionally explosive) bc he doesnt trust anyone enough to open up and he doesnt know how to deal with feelings (and he greatly overestimates his own skill at hiding them)

martin represses his emotions (fear, love, parental guilt, jealousy, anger at injustice, self-consciousness, etc.) until he bursts (frequent passive aggression and petulance, occasionally boils over) bc hes been rewarded for doing so in the past and he doesnt want to burden anyone (and he excels in making himself smaller for the benefit of others)

a guest for mr spider is jons praying mantis epiphany

martin is just generally more levelheaded and practical than jon tbh. scully would think of a corkscrew is all im saying

martin is constantly underestimated and underappreciated and relegated to jons second fiddle. but hes also smart and hardworking and loyal and always surprising people who dont take him seriously.

jon and mulder have loud and enigmatic genders while martin and scully have genders that are subtler and more secure. iykyk

they both have something to prove in a big way but its like. different. jon and mulder have significant childhood traumas that are connected to the Big Mystery they have to solve so they think by solving the Big Mystery theyll solve their own lives. whereas scully and martin have a very specific need to be effective and practical to prove that they deserve their place and deserve to be counted at the table

i think that basically. like you know how mulder needed to look down from the stars and scully needed to look up from the microscope and they made each other better and made each other see what they were taking for granted. and jon and martin kinda both needed the same thing, which was mostly to be loved and accepted, but its like. in different ways. i think jon needed to be loved in a grounding way and martin needed to be loved in a freeing way. sorta. if i figure out what i mean by this i will let you know.

thanks for coming to my ted talk i guess?