#jabber analysis

[your-denis215]

One of Jabber's most fascinating character traits to me is his loneliness, and I need people to talk about it more.

What he's looking for here isn't really a fight, at least, I don't think that's the full story. We've established Jabber as this person who forms connections through pain. Rudo and Zanka are friends to him because they've played together, because they've hurt and been hurt by each other.

What I think Jabber really wants, beyond any pain or fights, is a companion. He wants a real friend. He wants somebody by his side who won't leave, won't die, and won't run from him. Someone he can fight with forever.

Who does Jabber have in his life, really? He's an eighteen year old who hangs out with almost exclusively people in their twenties (and 40s, I see you Bundus) who use him for his body and demand he break himself and put himself back together for their goals and missions without really concerning themselves with his wants or need.

Does Jabber have any real friends his own age? Does he have anyone really looking out for him? When he's lonely or hurting in the middle of the night, does he have anyone he can turn to?

[faggerwockey]

Thinking about Jabber and Mankira and how fucking sad they make me.

Makira is protective. She *wants* Jabber to be safe, to think of himself, to get out as fast as possible. She shields him and works as a ranged weapon when she's unleashed. She's a one hit wonder. Jabber has to actively work against her if he wants to maintain a fight. She deflects poisons outwardly if he's attacked, but it's a punishment if he chooses to abuse this part of her.

And yet, he desires to be strong, to only feel weak on his own terms, to take back his control so deeply he betrays her entirely. Uses the thing that was meant to protect him, be *strong* for him in the ways he couldn't be, for things that she was never made to be.

Do you think she mourns the way Jabber forces her to punish him?