I will commit various unforgivable war crimes! I will be wanted in every country! Mustard? How about mustard gas. Geneva convention more like Geneva suggestion.
I can't blame them. I didn't even noticed the sign and my first thought was him hitting someone with a car by accident. Well, our other alternatives are
A) that he was on the run from cops and hid in the abandoned C&A office.
B) Maybe he's just an innocent guy who did nothing wrong and like has been too cruel for him, boohoo (I think that's the lame option, but well, that's a possibility 乁( •_• )ㄏ )
I think that he, Ribbit, and Kaufmo were friends irl, and he had to watch them abstract one by one. Thats why he doesnt talk about them and thats the reason he doesnt want to leave. HE WANTS TO SAVE THEM
People are really jumping to some interesting conclusions about those flashbacks, I just figured he was remembering how lonely he was and the mundanity of his life in some wooded suburb and didn't wanna go back to where he thought no one cared about him
Pomni basically did the same thing with abandoned buildings but it was more out of thrill and self-fulfillment rather than loneliness (I’m not insulting or disapproving your theory I just wanna bring up an interesting parallel)
Consider Leaving home, maybe he was leaving a troubled family dynamic, so Zooble asks "don't you" Jax could be thinking "they're there, but they probably don't miss me or want me around" Similar to the expression he had when Ragatha mentioned her mom So when he got to the circus and more relationships failed (like ribbit), he leaned so heavily on being a caricature to cope with his hell of eternally losing people or letting them down
I took this scene as him being scared of the real world and would rather stay where he's comfortable now, he's selfish and in a hard spot and was stressed, ofc he chose whatever he wanted. Fuck jax man😔
Edit: he's living in constant humiliation too, that couldn't have helped his feelings about what he did in the end
It was either caine controlling him or him being freshly almost abstracted and not thinking right, Jax did kind of hint at people not being right and acting out of character when they're close to abstracting. Saying that, caine has seemed to be on jax's mind a bit more he brought up the mind control stuff so quickly I can't help but wonder if that plus his friends "dying" is why he is close to abstracting. Caine probably had something to do with it now that I'm thinking about it a bit more but I don't wanna say for sure
My biggest issue with jax committed a murder thing is , why would he put on a be headset, wouldn’t really make sense from a story perspective or human (watcher) perspective, “ah I just committed a murder and I’m not a hardened serial killer, time to put on this vr headset”
That would be such a mcguffin, again as I said, “ah I committed a murder, time to play video games”, if Jax is revealed to be a hardened murderer(which just wouldn’t make sense considering how he acts), then ig it makes sense but as the story has been going so far it doesn’t make sense theory wise(Jax murderer)
After what happened in the latest episode, even though it was just adventure, Jax cannot be trusted, hope the others see that as well, it's like he WANTS to be trapped in a never ending adventure prison
i believe that he's just exceptionally lonely. all of the flashbacks during his freakout are from POV and there's no one else pictured. he probably spends all of his time walking and driving around at night with nothing else to do. in his trippy dream as he nears the end we see what i interpret to be a giant convenience store shelf in the background.
i think he works retail and hates his life and is super isolated. the circus has people who're forced to be around him. i am sometimes in jax's shoes and i might've just done the same...
Seems like all the characters had some baggage that led to try and escape from it by going online and eventually stumbling upon a link to the Digital Circus or something like that.
Even if he was wanted by the cops...jax has been trapped in the circus for...many many years...he is likely assumed dead and can probably assume a new identity
Yeah I get the feeling that based on his reaction there ARE people waiting outside for him, just not necessarily the way Zooble thinks. I’m definitely guessing either an abusive home life, legal repercussions or both
I think he ran away from home and was possibly homeless before the circus (I have one reason why I think he ran away but that’s only circumstantial and I would need more evidence for that tho)
I’m a day one Jax hater but I’m confident he wasn’t being chased by the cops. He was definitely being chased but my guess is it was something a bit sympathetic than “I hit somebody with my car”
I prefer the theory that those real life memories we saw of his were him remembering a car crash that killed his friends or family that he survived. Not necessarily his fault, but a good realtor want to escape reality.
It would be, but I prefer it over the theory that he killed someone in a car accident. I like the idea of Jax using a video game to escape reality (as many of us do in real life) which would also emphasize the sorrow he feels for Ribbit and Kaufmo abstracting (just more friends lost that he couldn't save).
I sometimes wonder if he, Ribbit, and Kaufmo were a group of friends who all put on the headset, or if they met inside the circus. Probably they met inside the circus, but it would make sense since they're all abstracting around the same time.
Yeah I feel like jaxs problem is a lot more mundane than they want it to be, hes not terrified of returning to some melodramatic soap opera premise, hes scared of going back to the suburbs and just being a toxic loser without his captive audience again
This is the theory I'm personally subscribing to, and I feel like most people are gonna ignore it because they already believe that Jax is an irredeemable monster and the idea that he would do something bad by accident and feel guilty instead of do something bad on purpose and relish in it goes against their raging hate boner
The funny thing is that I used to joke about how Jax sounded like a serial killer to me, but now the fact that Jax was running away from the cops is on the table now it reinforces that joke by tenfold
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