MAG176 Blood Ties. I am not normal about you.
The statement itself and its absolutely spot on portrayal of pack mentality and the fear inherent in the act of obsessively searching members of your own community for flaws in order to feel safer by eliminating a perceived threat
Jon being audibly more mentally affected by the place than he's willing to share, because it centers around a fear that he had all through Season 2 (paranoia of friends turning against you)
Martin's voice of Very Calm Yes. Very Calm And Okay With All Of This. A Hunter Is On Top Of Me And Three Inches From My Throat But Yes Jon I Am Very Calm And Fine. Of Course.
Jon's genuine, real sympathy for Trevor. Not pity but sympathy. Recognition of how hard his life has been from beginning to end and apology for being a part of why it's come to this, even as he's on Martin, threatening to make Jon hurt the way he hurts. Knowing Basira was about to shoot him from the undergrowth and choosing regret and understanding over any other, more smug form of delay. It just. Means a lot to me. TMA is overarchingly about collections of people who do not remotely deserve the hand they were dealt being thrown together in ways that often hurt each other, and while Jon definitely didn't owe Trevor sympathy or an apology, seeing it extended felt right. He deserved it from someone. He did not deserve to be allowed to kill Martin to express his pain but he deserved to have it seen. I'm glad Basira got him instead of Jon calling the supernatural Shame Beam down upon him.
Basira...who knows how long she's been in there because "long" doesn't exist anymore, but even in the brief bit of her we get in the ep you can feel the list of mental rules for the place she's built up in order to survive it. It's so thoroughly not a surprise given who she is as a person but still. That's an impressively long time to survive that domain. Definitely not without a cost in the blood of other people but. An impressively long time nonetheless.
