No Jax is not absolved for any of their actions.
The point isn’t that the cast was forgiving them, the point was that they wanted to open the door for them to improve and be better. But they didn’t. And it’s entirely on them and not the cast that this had happened. Jax has no one to blame but themself for abstracting and completely losing the opportunity to change and be better.
There’s a reason Jax is the only character not to get a happy ending. They serve as the anti-theme. Doing everything you shouldn’t do in this world because it’s so damaging to your mental health and to other people that you just end up mentally killing yourself.
They explicitly say that being angry and wallowing in hatred won’t solve anybody’s problems, so they choose empathy towards each other instead. They open a door for Jax to join them. Jax refused. And y’all took that as a “you should forgive your abusers” message?
Media literacy is dead, omg…
Gangle is ALLOWED to feel the way she does about Jax’s death. They don’t shake her for not crying about it. Nobody gets on a soapbox and cries “Guys you should forgive Jax because Jax is trans!” Or whatever. No one does that.
Jax THEMSELF SAYS EXPLICITLY “I am a terrible person. You’re supposed to hate me.”
And Pomni doesn’t refute that. She says “You should’ve talked to me man.” Describing what they could’ve done to not get to that point that they did.
The message is one of a warning to NOT end up like Jax. “If you choose to bottle up how you feel, avoid help, and proceed to abuse those around you for the sake of a cheap laugh, you will be a lot more prone to unhealthy habits, crippling depression, and even dying alone.”
They abstracted alone. Yes they were brought to rest by Pomni after, but the act itself of abstracting? They died alone.
I understand the “Jax is cruel and mean and nasty towards people” thing. But that in no way makes them a badly written character because they’re unlikeable. If anything them being unlikeable makes their downfall so riveting. As I always like to quote “Characters do not have to be likeable to be good. They just have to be interesting.”
Now if you find Jax not interesting whatsoever, that’s a different story I can’t refute. But that’s subjective.
Y'all would hate Total Drama/Disventure Camp. SO MANY characters in those shows are very sucky people who do bad things.
