In MAG 160 - The Eye Opens, the finale of season 4, Jon, through circumstances out of his control, begins the apocalypse. This - humanity and what it means to lose it - is a running theme of his character, along with control and what free will and choice truly mean. Throughout The Magnus Archives, Jon is faced with horrifying, worldview-shattering, and occasionally deadly situations and information, and loses his façade of skepticism and professionalism as well as his humanity. Jon got a job as a researcher for the Magnus Institute in 2011, and was promoted to Head Archivist in 2015, which is when The Magnus Archives begins. This resulted in the disappearance and assumed death of an older boy who bullied him when he took the book from Jon. Spider” when he was eight years old, a book from the library of Jurgen Leitner affiliated with the Entity known as the Web. He had an encounter with a book entitled “A Guest For Mr. His father passed away when he was two years old, and his mother a few years later, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother.
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