1% evil, 99% hot gas

Don’t ask whether or not I had to completely redraw this. Bc I did. And it took 4 more hours.

magma doodle of these idiots

Just finished The Amazing Digital Circus. It was far from perfect, but fun!

What I found quite interesting is how each members of the circus mirror one aspect of Jax, yet they're able to pull through with their connection with one another, but he did not. Mainly because he's an abusive ass and is weird about opening up due to trauma history. Example of what I observed:

- Kinger missing his family / Kinger could have filled the role Jax's Absent Father left like he does for Ragatha/Pomni

- Ragatha & Jax both have emotionally abusive mother who weaponizes their emotions against them

- Zooble's struggle with their queerness & dysphoria / Jax was confirmed as trans

- Gangle's masking / Jax's cagey-ness about his own emotions and hides behind 'character archetype'

- Pomni as basically a fusion of his abstracted friend, having Ribbit's kindness and openess + Kaufmo's whole Clown Thing

- Ragatha's kindness is only a ploy so she can manipulate him like his mom did. I wanted her tears to shape kinda sharp like in that scene where Rag's moms throw knives at her. Jax is made of papers here and it would crumble him.

- The reason he's so harsh on Gangle is because she showed up right after Ribbit abstracted, and he's deep in denial about his own responsibilities at this point that he leans hard on to this mask/ cruel nonchalant archetype and pushed it on to her the most. Hence Gangle is in place of the ribbon Ribbit placed on him and linking directly to her. Furthermore, Gangle is feminine and she cries and she's everything he looks down upon and yet afraid to be like, so she got a fucking chokehold on him.

- Zooble in pieces because hes also aimless about his own identity. Not sureeee if this is conveyed as well as I wanted but Zooble is supposed to be in a fallen-down position with all their pieces apart similar to how Jax pushed his mom in their final argument. That's kinda the overarching fear haunting him ever since I believe: everything he touches he ruined and hurt. Fear of hurting loved ones is a very common reason why people commit suicide after all.

- Not much more on Kinger, just I wanted him to be half-way 'out of the picture' since he's not there all the time due to his fractured mind.

SPREADING MY KRISNIX SITUATIONSHIP AGENDA I LOVE TOXIC SHIPS I LOVE ANGST I LOVE TV GIRL whatever man. Sorry to my one friend who hates Krisnix who has to see this on his dash. Klavier drawing next week tune in on friday