I never got to post it prior to my Florida trip, so here it is! My Halloween Jonathan Crane cosplay! I promise the name tag says ‘Jonathan’, I just have some trouble writing in tight cursive. I had a lot of fun with this, and I do owe you guys some ‘silly shirt Jon’ pictures. @voiceboss this one’s for you!
And have some bonus memes now that my merch package arrived
constantly sad that Martin and Sasha got hardly any audio time together. i wanna think they would have gotten along well. perhaps they did, and we just didn't get to see it.
Made my own Scarecrow design bc god help me I'm incapable of being normal about this guy. I'm making my own little verse too but it's very much a work in progress
ok but can we talk about how martin is such a manipulative lying little bastard. like the fandom likes to make him soft and scared (never mind the fact that this man likes spiders, my greatest fear) but he lied on his CV and got away with it for a while, fed jon lies on the tapes, manipulated peter lukas?? peter lukas???? stood up to elias while burning statements, and knew elias would come at him about his mother and was prepared to feel that and then move on because he had work to do
like this isn’t even getting to any of his behavior in S5. we gotta stop downplaying martin i need more content about him just straight up lying!
- lied about a MASTERS in PARAPSYCHOLOGY in his cv. why did he choose such a niche study like how many jobs could that even get you
- writes the most terrible poetry you’ve ever heard (said with love) and plays background music while recording it onto a tape recorder for the vibes
- when encountering a terrifying worm lady that tries to add you to her flesh hive, he MAKES SURE to keep some of her worms just so he can stick it in his bosses face
-the rudest guy in the world (said boss) does one nice thing for him that he didn’t expect and he immediately falls in love (this is real to me ok let me have this)
-wears video game shirts to work
-goes on rants about spiders importance to the ecosystem to a guy with the worst arachnophobia ever
-hides CO2 cans so that ‘the worms don’t find it’
-forces his boss to go on lunch dates with him so he doesn’t completely lose it to paranoia
-walked into his bosses office, found a DEAD BODY THAT WAS DEFINITELY MURDERED, and all he says is “oh jon 😕😕”
-has practically the same reaction later on when someone tells him his boss compelled them to relive their worst trauma
-gets told the guy he’s been in love with for multiple years treats him horribly and goes “yeah and”
-outsmarted an avatar of the lonely despite being in a horrible depressive episode with no contact to anyone else
-manages to make peter fully believe he’s dedicated to the lonely even as his crush of many many years is practically confessing his love at every interaction
s5 martin is my favourite id need a whole extra post for him loml
As much as it isn't fun to hear Jon yelling at Martin, the end part of Mag 56 is so hilarious to me.
Listen, there is NO evidence to support Martin's claim about lying on his CV, and frankly it's kind of a weak cover story. You are required to show proof of your qualifications when you get a new job on the strength of them - not to mention ID - and even though on a relisten we know Martin's telling the truth and that Elias has his own reasons for hiring Martin, Jon doesn't know any of that. There's nothing to back up Martin's story and given how paranoid Jon's been since Prentiss, not to mention the fact that his specific concerns about Martin were that he might be hiding his own cunning behind the image of someone bumbling and soft (Jonathan "right for the wrong reasons" Sims strikes again) it is wild to me that he accepts this so quickly.
It's almost as though he's eager for Martin to be innocent, even though everything he's previously said about him would indicate that he'd rather it was Martin than Tim or Sasha, the assistants he respects professionally and likes on a personal level. It's so easy to picture him just blue-screening while poor Martin sits there expecting to be fired/screamed at again.
Martin: Okay, that's the truth, do your worst. Jon? Jon??
Jon, internally: Martin's innocent Martin lied to Elias but not me Martin didn't kill Gertrude Martin's safe Martin's still my friend Martin doesn't want me dead