📂 impart some wisdom
my wisdom is that jon IS hot and if he did anything about it he’d be devastating.
as a human, he’s hot but doesn’t know it and doesn’t do anything about it on purpose. this frustrates tim to no end. he just has decent skincare and is very particular about his hair routine. its part of his ‘im a normal, functional, totally knowledgeable person’ persona, to be really well put together at all times. He dresses well at work and gives off Hot Professor or Hot Librarian vibes depending on if hes wearing pants or a skirt. kind of intimidating especially when hes speaking, but hes also like 5′3″. everyone thinks he’s hamming up the #aesthetic but no he’s actually just unironically worn a glasses chain since he was like 17 bc his ADHD ass kept losing them and yeah ok his cane is carved wood but it was a gift from his grandma, sooooo.
he gets a solid 9.5/10 on the attractiveness scale on sheer accident and it makes everyone else in the institute big mad except for elias who thinks its funny
after Prentiss, he gets into makeup to cover his facial scars. never anything really fancy, and it turns into a crutch quickly. and when his hand gets burnt and things pile up it doesnt do anything but exhaust him to apply every day. but it does create the effect of him being untouchable and distant, when him and tim should have had matching scars. ok so thats more depressing than about hotness, but u know what i mean. no one has any clue that he’s going off the rails to the extent that he is and he works really hard to keep it that way. overpresents as Competent and Normal. Totally fools rosie every day. places more of his agency on it than whats healthy. georgie never saw him without it until he was in the hospital.
he uses it as a disguise in s2 so no one suspects him, then as an anchor to normalcy in s3 and eventually for fun in s4, when he bothers with it less due to Circumstances. him, melanie, and daisy sometimes have Girls Nights and he gives them makeovers
without makeup his scars are prominent and just make him look like a very tragic victim instead of Rugged Survivor Man like tim’s do. s4 jon is a tragic little waif with big doe eyes asking pls sir can i have ur trauma? and u just cant say no to that he clearly needs it look at him hes dying
but after his death/ascension as an avatar he’s uncannily attractive. Like nothing about him changed physically, but he draws eyes. people remember him. he’s compelling. it’s a little eerie bc he is not everyones type and not quite at instagram model levels of hotness, but theres just something about him thats magnetic. he walks in a room and conversation stops. david from HR adds him to his Cheat List. the grad students put him at 10/10 on the Naughty Librarian rating scale. it makes people want to trust him, talk to him, unable to ignore him...
he still doesnt know.
(martin is NOT about to tell him)
