#statement hunger

Thing is at some point my brain started to ask how exactaly does Jon gathers energy from the writen/recorded statements at all after going full avatar? Because at that point I had gotten the idea that the way he feeded was by giving the Eye the new forms of fear and was wondering how would that work when the Eye already knows this statements. You can't just eat the food you already ate and if they are on the archieves... well... I mean tecnically you can and it will be less nutritive (and gross) but that would mean that old statements that passed by the hands of too many Archvists wouldn't work at all or way less and we have no evidence of that being the case.

“What do you say, Daisy. You and me head down in the tunnels, hunter and hunted, and just have at. You catch me, you kill me like every other monster you've put down."

"You catch me..."

"I catch you, I rip the fear out of you like Jared ripped the bones out of me, until you're completely empty."

 Post MAG146- Jon's eating habits are being monitored. It doesn't go well.

With every statement he takes in, he loses a little more of his humanity, until there's not much left at all.

This one’s a one shot, but its 10,000 words, which is, as I’ve come to appreciate, chunky enough to turn the scroll bar into a scroll box. I don’t look at clocks while reading tho, so I couldn’t estimate the reading time even if I knew how your reading speed compared to mine.

Contrary to what the summary indicates, this fic assumes knowledge up to MAG 160. So keep that in mind if you’re one of those people who couldn’t help looking into fanfic a bit early.

Jon isn't entirely human anymore, may not be human at all, not entirely clear on that. Point is, he is currently relying on the Eye to keep him alive. Statements, written or taken directly, seem to keep up his health. He says outright that he felt weak when he began hunting. We've heard Jude Perry's say on the matter, "Feed your patron, or it will feed on you." This isn't hunger, it isn't addiction, it's mutualism of a horrible sort where one party cannot choose to back out. If Jon were still human, the Eye would outright be a parasite. Point is, the Eye will eat at him unless he feeds it. At that point, most people would give in.

Daisy underwent something similar, and we've seen what it took to even loosen the connection between her and the Hunt. She had to go into the heart of a completely different entity, and even now that she's out and actively trying to resist the Hunt, she's weak and very clearly in poor condition. And she was still human.

Basira and Melanie are correct that feeding off of people's fear and trauma is a terrible thing to do, but I'd bet anything Basira wouldn't mind if Daisy got right back up to her Hunting shtick and started killing avatars again. She has an intense bias about the situation. Daisy's situation was easier than Jon's, in some ways. Daisy is able to back down. Melanie has felt an entity, been influenced by one. She didn't get a choice in having it excised from her, and has lost trust in everyone involved in the situation. She was the least afflicted of any aligned human in the Archives, and still had a rough time getting back to who she was without the Slaughter.