okay so iām literally in the middle of catching up on jack manifoldās recent stream bUT i am suddenly brainrotting so āØanalysis timeāØ
jackās current arc is him realizing that revenge wasnāt the answer. he regrets his anger and he regrets that his life was dedicated was killing an old friend. he wasnāt happy when dream killed tommy, and he doesnāt think he would have been happy if he had been the one to kill him.
heās still angry at tommy (and he has every reason to be), but the point is that he doesnāt think revenge was the answer. revenge wouldnāt have made him happy, no matter how it had played out.
now. niki. she hasnāt found out about tommyās death yet, so weāre shifting into āØcombined analysis and theory timeāØ
i think nikiās reaction will be a foil to jackās. i think niki will be overjoyed that tommyās dead, no matter how it happened. it will be wonderful, it will be interesting, it will be great story telling.
let me elaborate on that. jack mourned the fact that the only thing he cared about was tommy, and he mourned the fact that he lost him. jack mourned losing his attachments. emotionally, heās sort of lost now, but he realizes that. he values attachments and he values the attachment he had, now matter how toxic he realized it had been.
niki, on the other hand? the last thing she expressed attachment to was lāmanburg. she may not have been the one to blow it up, but she still destroyed it. she burned down the lāmantree, the last remaining symbol of the original lāmanburg, and she did it all without a hint of regret. niki, unlike jack, does not value attachments.
really, the only thing niki still has attachment to is the memory of wilbur, but even thatās not really an attachment in the same way everyone else on the server has attachments. she misses the memory of him, but the fact that he just,, left her makes her angry. that anger is her driving force and the only attachment she has left. no one else cares more about the memory of a person and the feelings they cause than physical people and physical things. there isnāt any other attachment thatās even comparable.
dream doesnāt care about anything but the idea of tommy. he only cares about the attachments tommy brings to the server and the fun tommy brings him. tommyās nothing more than a puppet to him. this doesnāt line up perfectly with nikiās situation, but the the parallels are undeniably.
dream just wants revenge against those who have wronged him. he isnāt driven by attachment (though he is still attached to that idea of tommy), heās driven by revenge.
niki just wants revenge against those who have wronged her. she isnāt driven by attachment (though she is still attached to the memory of wilbur), sheās driven by revenge.
so. in the end, niki should be happy that tommyās dead, no matter that she wasnāt the one to do it.
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