jazz fenton is the most slept on character of all time and no one can convince me otherwise. i could spend every day of my life picking apart every line of dialogue she has because i genuinely think she is more mentally unwell than danny is at any given point of the show and girl it is VISIBLE.
the first thing she does in the whole show is go on about parental neglect. she seems to genuinely think her parents are at the very least emotionally incompetent for a good chunk of the series. she has full-on mental collapses when proven to be wrong about things. she believes she is the only responsible person in her entire family. she is canonically implied to have ghost envy. like come the fuck on people!! she has EVERY disease!!!!
this girl has most likely been picking up the slack her parents werent when it comes to taking care of her brother, probably fell victim to their worst parenting mistakes, and might genuinely resent them on some level. no one talks about this ever. i swear to you half of the shit she says prior to finding out dannys secret is her projecting her own feelings onto him.
there is so much shit to unpack with her and i only ever see people address her desire to protect and care for danny. like. even if you just wanna focus on her and danny, SHE HAS GHOST ENVY. DANNY IS HALF-GHOST. SHE MIGHT HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES?? imagine how fucked up she might be feeling underneath all the worry and desire to help, in ways that ARENT directly tied to said worries. imagine how awful it must feel for her to look at her little brother, who she loves and wants to protect with all of her heart, who (half)died horrifically in a lab accident in a goddamn basement and has been in a tailspin ever since, and sometimes think "god i wish that were me". how do we think she copes with that
in fact, how does she cope with ANYTHING?? because one could argue she probably isnt, with how she projects onto and pathologizes everything and everyone. people like to look at her interest in psychology and make her self-aware and put together, but honestly?? i doubt that she is at all self aware outside of maybe the ghost envy, and i SERIOUSLY doubt she is using any of those coping skills for herself
idk ive lost the plot of this post like 7 times while writing it. everyone think about jazz fenton right the hell now
