#tma165

“Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing” - MAG 165

like, the Eye and the Stranger are opposites and while Jon did make her feel the fear that her victims were going through, it was by doing something inherently in opposition to anonymity - exposing her to being Known

for other entities like the Dark or the Distortion, i think it would be much more difficult for Jon to actually affect them.  the Dark because it is the direct opposite of the Eye, purposefully shrouding things so that they can’t be seen and the Distortion because it is meant to be un-understandable.  it’s like looking at a graph of randomly plotted numbers and trying to figure out the pattern.  there isn’t one, but for the Eye, which seeks to Know everything, the confusion and madness of the Distortion would be hell

like, it wasn’t like Jon did what Elias/Jonah said he could do to Melanie, place an image in her head.  he didn’t put Not!Sasha through the actual suffering of her victims by showing her that pain.  instead he made her feel a pain so great to her that it would be equivalent (or a fraction of realistically given there were so many people) to the suffering of the victims, but only to the Stranger

to be fair, the only other character Jon killed was Peter Lukas and again, it was because Lukas’s entity was based on being alone and distant and untouchable.  for Jon to say “I see you” and be able to find him anywhere?  to the point he would never be able to be alone?  that’s against everything the Lonely has ever sought so of course it’d be effective to simply Know Peter Lukas