Librarian Jon AU University Years!
Jon works towards his library science degree while also picking up some history and religion courses â anything that can help him get more information on the Horrors that lurk behind. Rationally, he knows that he should stop getting invested before he crosses a line, but the hunger has already settled in. (And maybe the guilt as well. He got his bully killed because of a dangerous book, Jon should take responsibility, right?)
Sometimes, he drags Gerry with him to class. Gerry has a 20 minute âdiscussionâ with Jonâs history professor about self-important researchers, thinking they know best.
They live together, although Gerry is in and out of the apartment, tracking down Leitners and other monsters in need of destruction. Jon has school, so he canât go with him always. He does have a knack for finding books that are bound to entities, or in the state of becoming such, that hadnât been claimed by Leitner yet.
Georgie is pretty much his only other close friend. They are something for a while that Jon is terrible at putting a term on, and when it fades out, itâs on amicable terms.
After a while (after Georgie nearly touches an anatomy book that reminds her of those on the shelves of the Medical Sciences Building) it occurs to Jon that his library needs a better place to store them. He thinks of the Distortionâs empty endless hallways â heâs never been, but the pamphlet from his school days (London by Daylight!) lets him Know â and wants something similar. Something just like it, but more personal, settled deep into his skin, his very soul.
Gerry, for his part, is very much not on board for taking a tattoo needle and putting a mess of lines on Jonâs back according to the cursed map in the cursed city pamphlet. But he supposes this is the better option than letting Jon try it himself. They are friends, family, the kind of partners in crime you can only be after having been sufficiently fucked up by the same kind of horrors that nobody else gets that being together is natural and comfortable. (âPretty sure itâs actually codependence, Jon.â âDoes that mean you wonât do it?â)
Well, in any case, matching tattoos (shoutout to @samwise-1548 for the idea) and, beyond that, Jonâs back is covered by a library, a bookshelf, script in Latin and Sanskrit and lines that donât make much sense at all. The tattoo does what itâs supposed to, it stores Jonâs books. Sometimes, A Guest for Mr. Spider crawls up his spine, the title of the pamphlet sometimes escapes to his wrists and itâs alright. Jonâs more comfortable like this. (Or so he lies, his nightmares get worse, but heâs hungry and needs to eat and he canât destroy what creates him. He crossed the line a while ago, hate and love are near inseparable.) All in all, university is pretty alright. Sure, they nearly get eaten by horrible books a couple of times, and Gerard gets accused of murdering his mother towards the end but hey! They survived this far! Canât get worse, right?
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