Jon was such an asshole in early TMA because he stopped turning his socks inside out once he got promoted to Head Archivist due to some paranoia about professionalism (as if anyone would literally Ever notice) and as a result he is constantly hyper aware of the feeling of the Seams Touching Him.
Martin wears cute socks when he first starts working in the archives. Little clouds and suns and cows. They often match his jumpers too. He looks disgustingly cheery for someone who’s wearing such hedonistic socks the right way out. Jon wants to set every pair of socks in the building on fire and use Martin as kindling. Anything but therapy.
