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Imagine if Martin had a similar thing with Kevin that carlos had.. Not the same, but similar enough that he starts Kinda Liking Kevin, and what he might do with that. Just an idea that popped in my head looking at your art and i wanted to share!

wtse replied:

Heyyy

Sorry we never got to this, we talked about it several times in group but things just sort of came up for all of us for a while. Anyways, this is something we hadn’t really considered because that wasn’t Martin’s roll; Martin wasn’t Jon’s Carlos, Martin was Jon’s Cecil.

Jon was always supposed to be the one who softened to Kevin because he’s a fear feaster himself so despite not wanting to admit it he’s more comfortable around them so long as they’re not actively trying to hurt him. There is a planned arc that dovey hinted to with this and this where we are going to go into Kevin’s obsessive nature, and his all around ability to actually use and discern his powers. At some point Jon is taken to Kevin by the church and he spends time with him there and they sort of a Carlosian thing going on between them a la Carlos cheats on ceecee in the dow. He will, of course, also leave him and come back to Cecil.

That said I hate not yes anding even a little so some of the ways you can get the same fun of Martin falling in love with people he shouldn’t can still be found in the fact that while Jon plays the role of Carlos, Martin plays the role of Cecil and it shows in his interactions with the people in Night Vale. Jon will never find a home in there because, like Carlos, he views himself as an outsider. He and the citizens can’t manage to get along because he views himself as one with Cecil, but the people fear him and it makes it all feel forced. Like nobody can say no to his being there because Cecil said yes.

Jon and Carlos are both self inflicted outsiders, but Martin being Cecil means anytime you see anyone interacting with one of the boys it becomes more likely for it to be Martin. He’s just nice and polite and warm and welcoming. Not to mention he’s lonely, and we have our resident fog terror eater Deb. Smth I like to play with but we haven’t made canon is that Martin and Deb get along, and have little tea dates where she laughs and introduces him to her many children husbands and wives. Martin is referenced to being close to Earl a few times, and there is a moment of betrayal somewhere s2-3 where its revealed Martin’s dating Cecil too, and Earl’s soooo upsetties about it. Because they were friends. And he hasn’t had real friends in, gosh, since he was nineteen? :^]

Anyways! Little food for thought! We all love Martin so so so much and we love Kevin, so I get where it was coming from, but just imagine a world where Martin can walk the streets and feel welcomed and accepted by everyone. And hes so happy, and gets to go on all his little trips to indie stores and do all his cute boy desires he neglected before because the town accepts him wholesale and LOVES him.

++ Martin wasn’t very socialized and has a very “i read it to be like this in a book once, I don’t get why its not following the rules??? Its not right!” Mentality from his childhood, and night vale is a really great place to be in for that sort of thing. The oddness of the town sets you off at first, but after a while you learn to like that about it. And in its weirdness it feels very story booky. Martin’s out there living his secret garden heroine dream, of being met with hostile that melts away as people get to know him and he never had to cut back on his own character to do it. Now hes a much loved member of the community, and people greet him warmly when he walks by and they mean to do it rather than doing it our of compulsion.

Genuinely, good for him.

- Jovey