you could say this is NO BETA WE ABSTRACT LIKE THE LEFT ALONE CHARACTERS but it would foreshadow what im about to say (and also mention of suicide at the end of this)
i have a theory 😛😛
in ep6, when Jax starts yelling at Pomni he says this:
"Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?"
it made me think. hard. cause wdym "everybody else did too"? what did they do? what does it mean?
now, english aint my first language so i might interpret this wrong. but from what i learned in my english classes, him saying this as in "everybody else also blamed me for the abstraction of ribbit" doesnt make sense. like the very sentence, the respond to that doesnt really add up. remember, Pomni said:
"Have you ever thought that this might be what causes people to abstract in the first place?"
And Jax respond didn't start with his next line:
"You don't even know how people are like before they abstract!"
His first respond was:
"Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?"
which is just weird to me. like in my mind this doesnt mean "youre blaming me for something, and everybody else also blamed me for it". its more like "youre blaming me for something everybody else did" which make it sounds like hes not the only person who "caused abstraction". and the fact Kaufmo funeral was brought up right before this is just weird.
curious.
so, maybe he only caused Ribbits abstraction? or only Kaufmos?
or maybe he just was close with them, and he wasnt the reason they abstracted? what if the blame is on everyone, not just Jax? because of course, he could have "corrupted" them as Ragatha said, but if he knows how people are like before they abstract....
Jax says next:
"They are NOT pleasant to be around, like at all!"
he knows what its like to be unpleasant to somebody. i mean of course he knows. in the whole scene he shows signs that he is aware of how he is, which is literally confirmed right after his monologue, where his expression shows he does know whats up.
and everyone turned his back on him long ago. now, this is just speculation, but i believe abstraction starts slow. the only thing backing me up here is the fact before Kaufmos abstraction, he was increasingly more obsessed with the exit. it could mean a lot, but i think it means right when the first thought of exit came to Kaufmos mind, the abstraction begun (is that the right spelling of the past tense to begin? 😭😭😭)
all that to say, Jax was meant to abstract. he is abstracting since the first time we see him. he started to abstract even before Pomni was in the circus.
his abstraction started when Ribbit abstracted, and he was since then exposed to abstraction twice, and it was too much for him to lose his best friend, and he started obsessing with the whole "archetypes" thing, and how, in his words, "none of this is real".
and BECAUSE abstracting people arent pleasant to be around, he was the only one who was with Ribbit, and i wanna speculate Kaufmo, to the very end. because he knows what its like to be unpleasant. because he, to his core, is a bit of a jerk, and it only got worse as time goes on and hes abstracting. because the people who are around others, do not abstract. they dont show any signs of abstraction. he didnt show up to Kaufmos funeral, because he saw it as "fake friends mourning a person who they didnt even care about at the end". thats why he says "everybody else did too". they were also the cause of Kaufmo, or maybe even Ribbit, abstracting. probably Queenie too, but she stayed with Kinger till the very end.
thats why he pushes Pomni away. not only he doesnt want her to feel the pain of a close friend abstracting, he wants to abstract. he wants to be gone. i mean, his first thought to avoid the whole conversation with Pomni, was to make her shoot him. make her get rid of him, so he doesnt have to talk about himself. his whole coing mechanism is just escaping the inevitable. so he sees abstraction as his escape, his pass to freedom and peacefulness, his way to avoid talking about his pain he so carefully tries to hide.
abstraction is a parallel to suicide. suicide is often, in the mind of mentally unstable human, a way to escape the pain of the real world, real life. so for Jax, if endong up in the digital circus isnt enough to escape it, he prefers abstraction (killing himself). thats why he pushes Pomni away. because having people around him, he might not abstract (as i said before, everyone else in the circus doesnt show signs of abstractionbecause they are "likeable").
all that to say i AM NOT trying to defend Jax and blame everybody else 😉
okay, now let me just say, all of this is just theory, speculation, and a bit of theorizing as i go on. but i thought this might be an interesting perspective 😁 lemme know what u think of this in the comments
pls reblog i wanna be famous and i want ppl calling me smart lmao😭😭😭😭😭
A FOLLOW UP BECAUSE HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT IF I CONVINCE YOU I WAS RIGHT 🤔🤔🤔🤔in some ways...
i was scrolling tiktok as always and boom trailer for the next episode pops up. AN INSANE TRAILER but thats not the point.
this is the second "glitches scene". lets, first, focus on the picture. indulge me...
I KNEW ITTTTT THEY WERE BUDDIES BEST FRIENDSSSS I FUCKING KNEW IT YALL
my theory stands: Kaufmo and Ribbit abstracted, not only because Jax "corrupted" them, BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE LEFT ALONE BY EVERYONE BUT JAX!!!!
suave transition LETS focus on Jax's expression.
expression of pure horror. this almost feels like a silly thousand yard stare reference. he KNOWS hes gonna abstract. BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHY PEOPLE ABSTRACT. HE KNOWS HES GONNA ABSTRACT BECAUSE HES LEFT ALONE WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS HAVING FUN IN THE FUCKING BEACH.
his expression not only shows that he knows hes gonna abstract, it shows he knows theres nothing he can do. because maybe, MAYBE if he were honest and told everyone everything HE KNOWS about abstraction,aybe he wouldnt be left alone im his room waiting for the inevitable.
OHHH HOW TRAGIC OHH MY LORD I CANT WAIT
so, the full timeline (if my theory is correct) goes:
jax joins the circus (cause i believe when he joined ribbit and kaufml were already there?). hes quickly making friends with ribbit and kaufmo. hell, i bet he was friendly with everyone at first. for unknown reasons for now, ribbit's abstraction begins. it starts slow, and both jax add kaufmo speculate whats up, while everyone pushes ribbit away because he's "unpleasant to be around". but he's jax and kaufmo's friend, so of course they dont leave his side. at this point i bet jax was starting to go crazy, maybe he was mad everyone kept pushing ribbit away when he saw that what his friend needed was some mental support. and what definitely added up into jax's madness was the fear for his friend. ribbit abstracts. jax is getting more mad, more depressed, more angry and scared and everything in between. kaufmo cant accept the fact they lost their friend, he starts thinking of ways to prevent abstraction happening to everyone. yes, this is the point where his abstraction becomes inevitability. hes getting more obsessed with the concept of exit, of the circus, of this whole simulation they were forced into. all the while jax's doesnt know what to do, probably has some identity crisis, and i believe this is the point when ragatha starts saying how he "corrupts" people. yes she technically has only ribbit to go off but i think while everything was happening she was deeply hurt by jax, only because jax himself was hurting after ribbits abstraction. jax's ks getting more unpleasant, completely drifts off from kaufmo, while kaufmo is locking himself in his room more and more, longer and longer, untill he just stays there and doesnt come out. jax gives up entirely. pomni shows up, minutes after kaufmo abstracts alone in his room. and we know what happens next, they find kaufmo through jax having keys to every room (which i could write how it might be symbolistic of his madness and anger towards everyone, but i digress). back to now, jax is left alone just like ribbit was pushed away, and just how he left kaufmo alone. yeah im cool with that
LMFAOOOOO
I WAS RIGHT ABOUT ABSTRACTING LMAOOOOOOOLOO
quick reminder tgat i was somewhat right 😛😛😛🥱🥱
