Hello!! This is my first time asking to you guys specifically hahaha, before I do though I just wanna say I'm excited for the next ep and I really really REALLY!! Love the first ep so far, I've relistened to it at least uh...10? 13 times I forgot lol you can see I'm just waiting for it to come.
But onto the question I have two ish? I think it's two.
First one is about Mary, she seems like a sweet young woman and also seems to be quite knowledgeable. I was wondering if she had any hobbies growing up in her life? She seemed like an active person so I figured that she probably had multiple hobbies like maybe reading or painting I suppose?
Second one is about Father Jonas. Now, since I've relisten to the first ep multiple times and there are always new details and small stuff that I never noticed before, this one specifically to Jonas. Does he, tend to zone out or like, Blank Out in his mind often? Like he does it at least twice or three times in the pilot/first ep, at first I didn't think it was weird but now I'm getting suspicious and curious I would say. So does Jonas do that thing often? It's when he just seems like to pause and stare at something unblinking while he talks long sentences and when someone catches his attention, that's when he breaks that blank stare into the distance, ngl it kinda creeped me out a little hahah (maybe I shouldn't have listened to it at 3am)
So yeah those are my questions :)
It means a lot to me that you've listened to it so many times!
Mary was very isolated growing up, partly because of her upbringing and partly because her personality is a bit muted. She's very religious because she was raised that way and it tended to put other people off. She's a bit like Carrie (Stephen King) but less unpleasant to be around, but she wasn't exactly given all the tools to succeed socially.
For hobbies, she definitely had many, though mostly through lessons her parents paid for. Anything that they could pay someone to come to the house to teach her or things that were more specialized. Music lessons (piano, singing, etc), painting, horseback riding, golf, tennis. Rich people activities. When she was left bored at home during her Father's trips and her mother not paying too much attention to her, Gordon taught her how to garden and process meat and even shoot a gun once (which was very overwhelming yet exciting for her), and Fides taught her how to clean, sew and cook, to give her some practical knowledge for if she would ever live on her own (if she ever had the opportunity).
Her mother would have guests over but usually spent time drunk or doing her own thing, while her father was either too overbearing or too absent depending on the week.
When Mary lived in the city for college she didn't make too many friends, but her hobbies usually involved walking around the city parks and gardens, going to church, and reading. She also liked visiting churches and museums and drawing or painting the religious art there.
For the Father Jonas question:
I wouldn't say he was necessarily blanking. He's a very observant man, and the moments he seems to be blanking are moments he's noticing things the others do not, but often things he can't explain without sounding a bit crazy, so he sort of just brushes it off or explains it more slowly because he's uncertain how to say it in a way that makes sense to a layman.
"There's an evil presence watching us with hatred that doesn't feel human" is something he can't say without the confirmation of said "evil presence that doesn't feel human". But now that we have confirmation of something evil going on, he may be less prone to this behaviour.
That being said! He does have moments where he's thinking about or feeling things that are more nebulous and less concrete, and that's partly due to the Trauma™ that he's experienced in his life (referencing his experiences relating to the events of Hi Nay). He spends a lot of time doing concrete manual labour or work for his parish, because the moment he stops being busy and he gets stuck stuck with his own thoughts, he may spiral just a tad.
