@beerecordings suggestion for jackie here we go
johnny, as some of you may know, has celestial blood in his veins. that’s why his eyes glow red when he feels overwhelming emotions, that’s why he can summon weapons, do SO many other things normal humans cannot do.
so because of his celestial blood, he’s really protective of marvin, and of course he’s very very protective of his other friends too but wow marvin is like. don’t fussing touch marvin- john will FUSS you UP bro. he doesn’t know exactly why, (i know why, marvin and anti are royal stars, and johnny has a “knight” star’s blood so he has an automatic “protect defend follow orders” button) but he just. he’s gotta protect marv. he feels really happy when marvin is happy and gets excited when marvin says he did something good.
but he’s also..... lowkey protective of anti. almost addicted.
when anti comes around he gets a little excited. he tries to justify it as “oh it’s bc im gonna fight him” but they both know it’s because he likes anti. he loves him. anti is like a drug he can’t place his finger on, something that makes him so high on adrenaline and so rushed and excited and so fired up to fight and punch and kill that he just. good god. he hates himself for it but he knows he likes anti’s presence. he knows how he feels when anti says “good job” or praises him for beating a bad guy half to death or how sometimes, he thinks about anti telling him what a good fighting dog he’d be. that’s when he hits a little harder.
johnny sometimes misses anti. he craves the feeling, that rush, that high, no one else makes jonathan moore fight harder than anti does. no one else hits like he does, no one else makes him feel so powerful.
anti actually helped john discover one of his powers, so, that was a huge help to this whole thing, too.
tea- ldr; johnny has celestial blood, and is lowkey addicted to anti and the danger he feels when he’s around. even though he hates himself for it.