[grumbles in empathyweird autistic] can't believe ppl are rly out here gushing abt how jon "developing empathy" (actually just consciously trying to make more compassionate choices--with, shall we say, notable missteps) is synonymous with him "becoming more human" (read: a fuller/softer/kinder person), as though empathy is a necessary prerequisite for a) compassion & b) personhood, when a) low empathy people exist and are in fact people as well as capable of compassion, & also b) elias "brutal pipe murder" bouchard (also known as jonah "collected those bones sadly enough when the time came" magnus) exists and is, like, right there















