John initially comes off as rude and short-tempered. It is popular fanon that Jon is physically small with dark skin, long and dark, greying hair, and is most often portrayed as South Asian. Small circular ones from worms burrowing into his skin during Jane Prentiss’ attack on the archives in MAG 39, a burn mark on his hand from shaking Jude Perry’s hand in MAG 89, and a slash across his throat from Alice 'Daisy' Tonner. He also has many scars from events taking place over the course of the story.

He also often looks very tired and is physically unfit, as other characters describe him as scrawny and he tires easily from physical tasks that others perform with little to no exertion. Jon’s appearance isn’t described extensively, but we know he has prematurely graying hair and looks considerably older than he is. Season 5 is spent walking the wasteland with his boyfriend Martin Blackwood, and at last, in MAG 200 - Last Words, dying together - or at least disappearing after being stabbed. In MAG 160 - The Eye Opens, the finale of season 4, Jon, through circumstances out of his control, begins the apocalypse. This - humanity and what it means to lose it - is a running theme of his character, along with control and what free will and choice truly mean. Throughout The Magnus Archives, Jon is faced with horrifying, worldview-shattering, and occasionally deadly situations and information, and loses his façade of skepticism and professionalism as well as his humanity. Jon got a job as a researcher for the Magnus Institute in 2011, and was promoted to Head Archivist in 2015, which is when The Magnus Archives begins. This resulted in the disappearance and assumed death of an older boy who bullied him when he took the book from Jon. Spider” when he was eight years old, a book from the library of Jurgen Leitner affiliated with the Entity known as the Web. He had an encounter with a book entitled “A Guest For Mr. His father passed away when he was two years old, and his mother a few years later, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother.

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