what would it be like if jon indefinitely lost his powers / had them suppressed ( like idk if youve watched charmed but if so think abt that kind of spell? ) if thats even possible but if it WERE ( does this even make sense idk but hERE WE GO ) ── @halfafreak .
three important facts that i always like to be clear about:
jon is, ultimately a sum of his parts
jon is so much more than just his demon blood ─ he is human, capable of making the decisions for himself, meaning every good and bad decision, is his even if the idea of culpability for said descisions might be a skew but basically pls stop ignoring his agency to be a big fucking dick
he is the biggest, largest, and scariest threat the entirety of the world ( mundane and nephilim alike ) has ever come close to facing and his history should be a cautionary tale for future generations and his legacy should not be so easily forgotten
okay with that said, it should also be noted that for the most part ─ he was deadly pre-resurrection. He was, to some degree, stronger than Jace. That’s canon. He is also stronger than everyone morally too. Because he doesn’t have that. He is not restricted by that. And most importantly, he was trained, rigorously, from birth to be the ultimate soldier his Father needed for his cause.
And the only downside to that is that he was too much of that soldier ─ too much of that monster he needed ─ too violent that he couldn’t be contained. And that is without all of his powers.
He only got stronger after it. Made invincible by the power of his demon mother. And just a whole lot of magic. But beyond that ─ his extra powers has always been limited. And most of them inaccessible outside of Edom. Cause that’s where his powers was built.
So to sum it up - extra strength, extra fast, some lowkey demon skills like talking to demons, some lowkey magic skills, and then can’t die by anything man-made.
Okay, if we take that away, what you’re left with is a boy, still very angry, still very deadly, still very skilled, and still very knowledgeable to all the means to end a life in the fastest, most efficient and most cruel way he could think of. So, he would still be a threat. Perhaps less of a threat to Jace but not to anyone else. Again, only in the context that he lost his powers.
The thing about his powers or his general constitution is that ─ it is partly one of the biggest definition he has to his person. So if you take it away, you are taking a large part of who he is. And for a boy who barely knows wwhat that is, that is going to be an emotional struggle for him. Because he has long accepted his role as this monstrous little thing that needs not be fixed and with that came this notion of absolute power. And you have to understand that, even with all his capability to make decisions for himself, it’s kind of a losing game in the end. Because he is making decisions out of a duty to a role that he didn’t decide to be ─ if that makes sense. It’s like he fell into it.
Because it’s what his Father had wanted. It’s what people have expected of him. It’s waht the world has demanded for him to play. So he plays. He plays it well.
( Which is why again, evil as a standard term doesn’t really apply to him as a person even though he does completely do evil and vile acts, because his intent is not towards that. But that’s again for a different conversation. )
So if you take it away ─ he is going to fight you tooth and nail because power is the only illusion of control that he has over himself. Over the universe. Over everything.
And once he does it get back, you have no idea of the hell he would unleash.
