I feel like every week I see some rendition of the “martin said they’re not together in every universe so guys they aren’t” or “martin’s wrong actually jmart will be together all the time” and I just chuckle
Like… my outlook on it, taking what I know about tmagp into account, is that they do not meet in every universe. They can have completely separate lives from one another if things don’t align to bring them together. But the ones they do meet in? They get together, in one way or another, regardless of first impressions
Multiverses are infinite. There are still infinite timelines where they’re together, and infinite ones where they aren’t. So of course Martin would fixate on the possibilities where they’re not after being influenced by the Lonely
Jon is the one who will pull him out every time. So when Martin meets Jon, every time, he will fall first, and Jon will fall second. Not every life where they don’t meet will be miserable for them, either, because they don’t know what they could have had
Somewhere else, they’re bumping into each other in a bookstore, and Jon is cursing out the clumsy man stocking the poetry shelves as he hurries out. The man doesn’t get to tell him the book he’d been holding got knocked out of his hand and fell into his bag
Somewhere else, Martin’s walking dogs to make some side money and one pees on an unfortunately very attractive man’s shoe. He hastily says he’ll make it up to him, say, with a quick stop by the cafe?
Somewhere else, Jonathan Sims goes missing at eight years old and is never found. Martin Blackwood lives a quiet life working in a library.
Somewhere else, Martin Blackwood doesn’t have a funeral, because no one planned it. Jonathan Sims is curled up on the couch with a cat on his chest, not knowing why the rain feels different tonight
Somewhere else, Martin cannot for the life of him get this poor man’s order right at a coffee shop, because he keeps getting distracted by his voice when he gives it. He just gives up and hands him tea. The man never orders tea, but comes back every time and drinks it.
Somewhere else, they’re both together and apart indefinitely. Because that is the way of the multiverse.
Somewhere else, a dog is lost in the archives.