my personal favorite like brand of jon lines is basically where he’s just [picture of edwardian offense] I’m hip

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Jonas and Martha with the different versions of each other

I have a lot of feelings about Jonas and Alt-Martha. There's always a certain angst between them, considering that she is not "his Martha". Eva herself tells Jonas that it took her a long time to accept that Jonas would always choose his Martha over her. However, I think neither of them realizes just how much both versions of Jonas did love Alt-Martha.

When Jonas enters Eva's world and talks to Eva or Stranger!Martha, he clearly says he wants to go to his world and try to save his Martha. But when he is with younger Alt-Martha, you can see it in his eyes how he can't stop himself from also having feelings for her. He is clearly shaken, he can't tear his eyes away from her in school, he goes to her rehearsal and you can see he is visibly upset about seeing her with Kilian, you can see the way he looks at her when they are under the bridge, the way he is concerned about her when she storms off into the desert, and you can see the love in his eyes in the scene where they finally kiss and have sex.

Then, he has the nightmare about his Martha. I think this nightmare both shows his grief about recently having lost her, but also his guilt about the fact that he is clearly growing to have feelings for this other Martha, as if he feels like he is betraying his Martha. After this nightmare, you can see he tries to distance himself from Alt-Martha, he tries to be all business about having to go to the power plant, he tells her that he is wrong here, and all that (but he still can't help but reciprocate when she kisses him).

But then when they're back at Eva's headquarters and he is shot, I think you can see how much he regretted having pulled away from her. With his last strength, he tries to caress her face and gives her his super significant Saint Christopher medallion, something he wouldn't just give to anyone, something that symbolized the same love he had for his Martha. I think at this moment, he is probably thinking that he regrets making her feel like he didn't love her enough or making her think that their night together didn't mean anything to him. With his last strength, as he is dying, he tries to tell her that yes, he did love her and she does mean something to him.

And then you have Stranger!Jonas and Adam. Stranger!Jonas clearly distrusts her, he doesn't want to let himself feel anything for her. But when she tells him about how she can't hope but believe she can change things and grabs his arms, you can see how he is both cynical and sympathetic, because she reminds him of his younger self. Then she gives him the substance and you can see the hope return to his eyes a little, all because of her, that maybe he can have the companionship of this new Martha, only to be crushed when she abandons him. But then, years later, as Adam, he realizes that she never truly betrayed him. That she was there on his own orders, that she left him that day because she loved him and wanted to save him and believed that this is what she had to do. And when he's about to kill her to "destroy the origin", you see his hesitation and the tears in his eyes, because even though she is not his Martha, Adam can't help but love her as well.

Then, in the reality where Claudia interferes, what is the last thing Adam does? He goes to Eva, who is a version of Alt-Martha he hasn't even met (because he only met the one he killed), and tries to comfort her, caresses her face, and he is the one who reaches for her hand as they disappear.

Finally, we have the third version of Jonas that goes to the origin world. He also seems to quickly develop feelings for her, seems to be a little jealous of this other Jonas that she loved, and doesn't hesitate to tell her that they are perfect for each other.

I just love that no matter what world, no matter what version of Martha, Jonas can't help but love her. (This isn't meant to disregard Jonas' feelings for original Martha, by the way. I just wanted to point out how Jonas also loves Alt-Martha, even if it's never going to be the same as his love for his Martha).

this stupid little beaver bitch

Helge's fake weapons in the bunker vs Claudia's real weapons in the same bunker

i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me

They should remove the age requirement for presidency. Its time for america to enter its despotic boy-king era

this is sending me

mr. bonzo at a strip club was NOT on my magnus protocol bingo

COQUETTE BONZO?????

in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. yuor arms off

he shouldve been at the cluuuu- oh. oh he was? oh. did he have fun? oh

pov: you're Mr. Bonzo