random rat

Your friendly neighborhood rat I'll just pretend I know what I'm doing until I get the hang of it

[wretchedwomenblorbos]

Holding my blorbo up by the scruff of her neck to show her to you

[randomrat26]

[randomrat26]

thabk you rachel

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[randomrat26]

ok yeah it’s Jax

[weedle-testaburger]

this really is the underrated moral of this finale and show tbh

[dragonfangstudios]

Im genuinely so happy and overjoyed to get so much (actually thought out and correct) characterization about j in this fashion. Her being the older sibling figure that had to step up to keep things in a semblance of how they were like Liam said and trying to protect v and n from cyns horrors. Her using her coprate persona as a mask to hide how much she's hurting from them, how deeply afraid and guilty she is about everything.

Okay scene by scene breakdown:

Firstly the "plans" for getting the workers

V's suggestion about leaving the planet freaked her the fuck out just based on how she shouted "NO" because she knew that was very against the rules and she really doesn’t want to face and potiential punishments from cyn because she is so afraid of her. And shes afraid of what will happen to v an n again because she truly does care about them. (And also she might be worried if anything goes wrong with this mission, cyn may wipe the two's memories again and all of this will be forgotten leaving only her to remember)

And then after this she hides in her secret office (which is actually so lovely) trying to get that corpo high.

Really interesting ans so charming how she used individual pieces of paper to make her have a corner view skyscraper office.

AND HER DETOX ROOM WITH HER DRAWINGS EVERYWHERE AND IT BEING A MESS. Shes so autism coded its fucking insane. She has to cool off her social battery for the day by getting wasted and being herself without her mask.

And then she gets the fucking phone call and I immediately got spamton core from it. Evil wretched red phone.

And the fucking cinematography in this scene was IMSANE. like holy fuck. The detail of her trying ti hurry cyn along so she can not hear her voice.

AND THEN CYN SAYING SHE WANTS TO DO A FACE TO FACE MEET UP. poor fuking j is MORTIFED at this because she knows seeing cyn in person means seeing the stretched out contoured rotting corpose of her former best friend (lover) again.

AND THEN CYN TELLS HER "do not be afraid. J. You aligned with the. Correct side. It was the only rational calculation. Wouldn't you agree?" And she solemnly agrees almost certainly thinking about tessa and how she has given everything to this eldritch monster in order to save herself and the closest thing she has to a family.

And like FUUUUCK I WASNT EXPECTING THIS FROM A POST SHOW MURDER DRONES SHORT. THIS SLOTS SO WELL INTO EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT J'S CHARACTER ITS INSANE.

Like god this bit of her almost crying only to force her mask back on HITS.

[greenlingooberin]

pov: everyone before episode 9

[randomrat26]

it seems I haven’t posted these here yet

[palette-system]

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

JANGST IS CANONICALLY CONFIRMED TO BE REAL. SHE KNOWS ABOUT THE SOLVER, SHE'S TERRIFIED OF THE SOLVER AND SHE FEELS SHE HAS NO WAY OUT. ITS REAL AND CANON!

NOT JUST THAT, BUT CANONICAL MINIEPISODE IN 2026!? A DIRECT PREQUEL TO EPISODE 1 SPECIFICALLY? NEW EP 1 UZI RENDER??? HEAVEN IS REAL

[ottersdontdance]

I NEED YOU ALL TO REALIZE THAT J IS JUST AS MUCH OF A VICTIM OF THE SOLVER AS THE OTHER DISASSEMBLY DRONES GOD DAMN IT LOOK AT HER

[randomrat26]

oh god, they got me thinking about murder drones again… I said I’d never go back, but the brain worms are coming for me.

[randomrat26]

go my doomed yuri

tbh I wasn’t sold on oilrose until the finale, and this just makes it even better. J you could’ve had a beautiful gf and a wonderful found family but you fumbled (and was manipulated by a robot demon).

[randomrat26]

lets be clear: we ARE NOT getting a season 2, we were never GOING to get a season 2 and never WILL get a season 2. Murder Drones ended nearly two years ago now, Liam and Glitch stated that it’s over multiple times, the creators are happy with the product, Liam is now even going away from social media. To still ask for a season 2 on top of the new merch and content Glitch is giving us is both incredibly disrespectful and annoying.

HOWEVER-

This, I guess “mini episode,” of J was actually genius. The story of Murder Drones is pretty much wrapped up, and a season 2 wouldn’t add much to the story anyway. However, a sort of “prequel” like this works so well. We get more time with a character that has a ton of narrative importance but “dies” in the first episode and doesn’t get time to shine practically at all until the finale. We get a better look at relationships between the characters that were close at the beginning but fell apart, again, in the first episode. We get some more background to the lore/story as well as the characters.

The places that needed the most time to be properly developed/explored after the finale took place before the main storyline, not after. So something like this is a great way to do that, if only a little bit.

[randomrat26]

J angst in the big 26 hits so hard actually

watch her get more screen time than in the actual show

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

i think there is something fundamentally wrong with me but that's okay

[syrenki]

there is something within me that i would like removed

[sleepybeastx]

“Jax, look, I know we don’t get along but I think you need to transition into a woman.”

[randomrat26]

this is the best one

[jazlikespodcasts]

:)