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.
