if jon wore glasses (he absolutely did) what if, during the wax museum explosion, the lenses shattered and blinded him
doctors said he would never see again (doctors said he was dead tbh wtf) and everyone martin was super worried
and then he woke up, opened his eyes and looked right at basira and georgie, with green eyes that he did not have
basically this is just like the brown to green eyes thing except his brown eyes were destroyed with the rest of them and his green eyes were the least human part of him
this post is getting attention again (and is way more popular than i would've imagined LMAO) so i wanna mention something i saw in the comments
i don't think this would count as severing the connection to the beholding because i think that action HAS to be voluntary
eric and melanie chose to give up the Pursuit Of Knowledge that the beholding feeds on, your need to Know that overrides any worries or dangers. jon wasn't choosing to give that up, if anything him exploding was the result of that need, he wanted to see the unknowing and it got them pulled in
i think breaking the connection with the beholding is a lot more of a mental thing, like giving up the knowledge and power through a physical action
so yeah!! uncanny green eyes that don't blink quite right and seem to stare directly at your deepest fears when you look into them!! the eyes that grew to replace the ones that tied jon to his humanity!! i think instead of being the least human part of him they're what keep him from being human, how could he see things from a person's perspective with the eyes of a monster?
