#thatoneart

So this whole thing starts in an alternate season 1: After Jon's first encounter with Michael, our confusing curly headed companion takes a special interest in him. This manifests as Michael randomly showing up and giving cryptic hints and confusing warnings during Jon's work when Jon is alone. Anytime anyone else shows up in the archives though, Michael vanishes, and while Jon thinks Sasha might believe him, Michael has him a bit paranoid of just about everyone.

[note: this kinda works as an "everybody lives/nobody dies... for now" au since Michael's warnings actually do help Jon keep an eye on Sasha during the infestation]

In truth, Michael is converting Jon over to the spiral, effectively slowing and corrupting his canon transformation.

and Elias is... not pleased.

It's unclear is Michael is just really interested in Jon, is purposefully messing with Elias's plans, or if there's something even deeper going on.

As Jon grows more dazed and confused and paranoid by the day, it may be up to the others to get to the bottom of this and save Jon before he's too far gone.