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[onedozeneggs]

Jabber, cross faded out of her mind, grinding up on some stranger on the club dance floor, gaze catching on some guy copping a feel on a girl nearby only for her to whip around and land the most beautiful right hook Jabber’s ever seen

The poor schmuck stumbles back and the girl follows with, two jabs to the stomach and a cross to the nose sending him to the floor. She gives a swift kick to his ribs right as security surrounds them. And oh, Jabber needs that

She peels away from the dance floor, keeping an eye on the girl and her friends now arguing with security. Eventually the bouncers haul off the passed out groper. Jabber bides her time at the bar, waiting for her moment, downing another drink as she does

She prowls back into the crowd, giddy with excitement as she slinks behind the blonde and wraps her hands around her hips. The girl turns to glance at Jabber, then continues dancing. Huh. Okay, take two. One hand dips lower, copping a feel with a firm squeeze—damn, that’s nice, she gets why that guy tried it—bracing for a hit that…doesn’t come? What’s a girl gotta do to get her shit rocked?

Jabber keeps escalating, both hands roaming, grabbing, squeezing anything she can get. Her game of grab-ass feels pretty nice, but the blonde's not swinging on her and Jabber's getting bored. She lets go, about to leave when the girl finally turns, face red and scowling as she grabs Jabber's arm and hauls her through the crowd. Jabber would've preferred a public fight, but now security won't break them up once they start scrapping.

They end up in an alley, the stranger shoving Jabber against the brick wall as soon as the door swings shut behind them. Oh yeah, now we're talkin! Then the blonde is on her, grabbing a fistful of locs and yanking, as teeth sink into her exposed neck. Oh. Oh! It wasn't a fight, but Jabber supposed this was just as good

[arialityy]

If you don't like Jabber at his worst you don't like him at all because he is the worst

[svgarsilk]

Yall i'm so sorry, but to the opinion that Zanka is "equally as bad" as Jabber I have to disagree. Loudly.

Jabber literally kills people. And that's not something he is ever portrayed to be hung up about. He sees the act of killing people who are weak as inconsequent, subject to mood and convenience over any moral pressure.

The reason that Zanka and Jabber are such a compelling pair is because Jabber is LITERALLY one of Zanka's fantasies come to life. Jabber is that projection of someone with effortless talent and a superiority complex so deeply ingrained that he genuinely doesn't value life below a minimum strength threshold. And Zanka in a roundabout sort of way takes satisfaction in that because it means he doesn't have to feel guilty or even think twice about wanting to see Jabber suffer.

Personality wise, Janka are similar for sure. When Zanka was at the top, he also had an arrogance and saw everyone weaker than him as inherently beneath him, hence the inferiority complex when he loses that position. The difference between them is that Zanka never let that show. He never actually mistreated anyone. He needed to be perceived as both effortlessly successful AND gracious about it. He wanted to be admired and idolized. The weaker are not the people he dehumanizes, if that were the case, he wouldn't be so hung up on their approval. The deification of the stronger is what he uses to excuse his sadistic joys.

If you want to make the argument that Zanka is self centered and that even his altruistic actions are self serving, be my guest. He often projects bad intentions onto peers who outperform him to justify the negative emotions he develops in response, nobody is arguing with that one. But just because he enjoys fighting people he thinks deserve it (and notably, people he thinks can handle it) doesn't make him "the same" as Jabber.

Zanka has a sense of justice, which takes precedence over his indulgences. Jabber's actions are purely toward one end: entertainment.

[taroschain]

It’s so important to me in any Janka scenario that Zanka is absolutely furious about whatever is going on. I cannot stress enough how much I need him to be having just the worst time.

[zankacore]

we need to start pushing a selfish top zanka agenda

[lacquerheadd]

look at my client dawg i am not winning this case

[jacev]

ok ok ok ok OK but this hammerclaw ship? jabber clocking follo's potential on their first meeting? crossing paths after follo becomes a giver and jabber is desperate to fight him? jabber thinking follo is the cleaner who he can go all out for? follo feeling seen and maybe mistaking it for something more, until it does become something more? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[itsiitsu]

Lung of justice

[aethellren]

[yonmifanart]

little savior

[aethellren]

[svgarsilk]

I need the person who came up with iwtv janka and the person who came up with roaring 20s janka to meetup for a handshake

[vertigo-tango]

i think i saw a post on iwtv janka once, and i had a vamp au somewhere before. but like, now im really thinking about it. im boutta go crazy hold up

[vertigo-tango]

sketch

while I would make assistaff into a cane I think it'd be funny as hell if bro was just straight up hauling a sasumata around

[dreystea]

Look at my master dawg we’re gonna die

[svgarsilk]

I am in love with everyone who writes Janka aus mirroring their canon progression. Zanka going from being the pursued to the pursuer, and Jabber going from being enthused to disappointed is so important to me.

I constantly think about the way these two happen to each other. And while I think there's plenty of conversation about how Jabber happens to Zanka, I have intense emotions about how Zanka happens to Jabber. So here's my thoughts on that in a non canon-verse context (bc i'm committed to posting ch1 of my current project on april fools but I can't hold myself back in the meantime)

Jabber is such a fun foreground vs background character. A full composition. No matter the circumstances of his background, it has culminated in him being closely associated with a ton of different escapism motifs (using impersonal language, literal inebriation, seeking out pain, ect). He's fashioned himself a perfect mechanism for freedom, it's called avoidance and it works like a charm. Because for as long as Jabber can breeze through life with nothing to think about aside from his whims, he is free. He goes where he wants and does what he wants for as long as he wants, and the second he's bored, he's off to the next thing that takes his interest.

I would imagine he's either lost or deliberately eliminated any of the things that could interfere with that "freedom", even if they were once meaningful. It's a byproduct of the hedonistic philosophy. He has to sever ties with anything that might keep him tethered to something or someone he finds unpleasant. Meaningful friendships or don't last if you're only around in fleeting minutes, so it's safer not to have them in the first place. Romance doesn't happen if you're suppressing your emotions, so give up on that. Connections don't last when you aren't willing to maintain them.

Or rather, they shouldn't. But Zanka is committed to forcing some humanity into whatever they end up doing together. And he's not the quitter type; when he sets his mind on something he's in for the long haul, for better or worse.

So all that has to be manually excised, because Jabber's gone so far in telling himself that he doesn't actually want or need that stuff. He knows where he's headed and how to get there by now, and vulnerability is not a part of the typical route. He has to course correct when it starts getting emotional and messy, because the whole caring about other people and yourself and your future makes it impossible to properly escape from all the things you don't like about other people and yourself and your past.

[omtai]

Im sorry I didn’t reply to your message for three weeks. I did not forget about it infact I thought about it regularly every day. It will happen again

[soaked-doors]

favorite raiders 💉🎧