I’ll let you in on a little secret: when you get better at lifting weights you also get better at lifting everything else. The muscles can’t tell the difference! They’re fucking idiots!!!
people get the wrong idea about the eye as a power because they take elias as like. the model eye devotee when he just absolutely isn’t. elias is, to me, a really interesting take on an evil cleric specifically because he’s an objectively bad servant of the eye. he isn’t doing what he’s doing because he’s so very desperate for the eye to win, or even really for the world to end, but because he thinks that he, specifically, deserves to be king of the apocalypse. it’s about the intent. he says himself that he could know everything, and actively chooses not to because he isn’t interested in knowing everything about everyone, he’s only interested in himself and his schemes. he only cares about knowing things when it’s useful to him, not about knowledge for the sake of knowledge. this is directly counter to literally the eye’s entire deal. jonah wasn’t chosen by the eye, he chose the eye. he looked at the fourteen powers and said ‘ok, but what can they do for me?’ and with the institute and resources at his disposal the eye was easy to serve, and gave him knowledge to help his schemes. i honestly believe that with jonah’s violent and manipulative personality, the web or the slaughter would have been much better fits, but neither of those give him what he wants. the eye is a weapon to him, it’s a thing that makes his schemes easier. the eye is about sitting back and watching and he decides to use these powers suited to sitting back and watching to block the cameras while he kills gertrude by human means. he directly intervenes in his own favour when he should watch what happens. he doesn’t need powers that kill, because a gun does the job just fine. his serving the eye is a roundabout way of serving himself, and his personal getting ahead is literally the only thing he cares about. the real model of an ideal servant of the eye is the jon that the statement givers see in their nighmares, who keeps coming back to watch their suffering and never tries to help
