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My new headcanon is that the reason Joxer's soul is entwined with Xena and Gabrielle's is that he was their dog in a previous life
Xena: Warrior Princess 4.19 Takes One to Know One | ID in ALT
I think it’s quite telling how important of a character Joxer is to Gabrielle when she told him something of which we don’t actually find out until Season 6. That Gabrielle wanted to be buried with Xena, Lyceus and Cyrene and not her own family or her Amazon tribe.
Joxer knew that information because he mentions it when he tells Amarice and Eli about what they would want when they died. Xena wanted to be buried next to her brother Lyceus and Gabrielle wanted to be buried next to Xena. However, in the episode we find this out as the audience, Gabrielle believes she’d be the one to die first and so requests to be buried with Xena’s family in Amphipolis. Stating that even though she’d be the one to be buried first, she’d be there waiting for her when her time came to die. Of course it does end up being Xena that dies first but gets cremated instead.
Therefore my personal headcanon was that Gabrielle would be too and she’d combine her ashes with Xena’s. I do mention that in the closing sentences to my thesis.
The fact Joxer knew that information before anyone else did - arguably even before Xena did as she does look surprised about it when Gabrielle confesses it in ‘The Abyss’ - just really goes to show you how much he meant to Gabrielle as a friend. That she told him first.
So enough of the Joxer hate please. He was important to Gabrielle even if it was annoying he pined after her.
Ultimately he knew where Gabrielle’s heart and soul lied and he was willing to risk his own life to make sure both of them ended up together in their final resting places.
In fact let’s just not have any hate over any of the recurring male characters in the show because all of them validated the love between Xena and Gabrielle and understood that they belonged together always.
Which is an incredibly remarkable thing in and of itself and would only be done in a TV show where its entire team of creators/cast/crew agreed with the fans and shippers that it is canon. It’d never happen otherwise.
Gabrielle: I told you it would put us in grave danger.
Xena: This isn't grave danger, Gabrielle.
Joxer: Oh, look. That guy is pointing his bow at us.
Xena: I mean, it's not ideal, but this is more of a pickle.
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For this one, I had to go with Jace from Xena, one of my favorite queer-coded characters in the Xena universe.
Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire is not perfect representation, and it is very much early 2000s TV doing early 2000s TV things.
But I still love this episode.
I already love Ted Raimi’s work as Joxer, with all that awkward, nervous, big-hearted chaos. But Jace takes it somewhere completely different. The feathers, the dancing, the confidence, and that full stage energy give him a whole new kind of softness.
Jace is fully himself, theatrical, playful, wonderfully over-the-top, and impossible to ignore.
Then Joxer sees his brother again, and suddenly all that joy gets complicated.
Jace just wants to enjoy the moment with his brother.
Joxer keeps pushing him away.
And then Jace stops reaching for something Joxer clearly cannot give him right now.
The episode gives them a little happy ending.
Real life is not always that kind, but I still enjoy this episode a lot.
Also, we should all watch more Xena again 😉
Happy Pride Month 🖤
