A special kind of stupid :)

--This is building off of a headcanon I listed in a previous post:

Gobbles has an anxiety (bordering on panic, but for the sake of textual clarity, I'll be using "anxiety/panic") attack and is entirely foreign to it. In his world, there was only very small conflict, and it never got emotions involved. He's felt a little miffed before, and that's about it. He doesn't know what an anxiety/panic attack is, so when it happens, he can't communicate the intense, slimy dread, or the sweaty, shaky hands, or the painful thumping in his chest.

His heavy breathing is pretty audible though, so now the entire ship is watching him struggle. Flappers doesn't know what this is either, so he starts getting stressed too. Kit goes to help but she just uses words, and they seem to bounce off Gobbles, and is unsure if she should touch him or not.

Kaboodle loudly complains about how annoying the commotion is and goes over to fix it himself. He shoves Gobbles' headphones on him and thrusts the manual in his hands after pressing play on an introductory video, that way Gobbles isn't forced to provide input. To "make sure he doesn't need to take care of any other problems", he stands there and watches Gobbles try to distract himself. Kit takes over whatever task Kaboodle was doing beforehand with a worried crease in her brows and Flappers watches the video over Gobbles' shoulder.

Gobbles tries to slow his breathing now that the dread has subsided somewhat, but kind of fails. He can't unclench his teeth and it's starting to hurt, adding to the discomfort. Kaboodle notices this and gets mildly irritated (in his pov, Gobbles is being dramatic. *whispers* he also just hates watching this display. it makes him sad. gobbles shouldn't look like this. he should frolic and be happy like the learnasaurus he is or whatever).

Kaboodle leans over and holds one of Gobbles' arms. With his other hand, Kaboodle insistently pokes Gobbles' cheek repeatedly and goes "open up. Unclench. You're just hurting yourself, c'mon. Unclench, Barney" like Gobbles just has the choice to. Like it's just within his ability right now.

Turns out, the shock and silliness of Kaboodle poking him in the face actually does give Gobbles the ability to loosen his jaw. In fact, it gets a little laugh out of him. His chest feels a little lighter. Kaboodle realizes how effective catching Gobbles off-guard was, and decides to poke his arm too (the one he's holding) a little harshly. Gobbles giggles and tries to shrug him off playfully. Flappers joins in once he puts the pieces together, and now Gobbles drops the manual and headphones as he tries to escape the onslaught.

Apparently, Gobbles really likes physical touch, and being startled with it helps a lot with getting him out of his own head. For the next time Gobbles starts to panic, Kaboodle remembers this.

--Here are some rapid-fire ideas:

Kaboodle gets separation anxiety when the team is isolated from Kit due to an unforeseen circumstance. He insists that while the mission is important, reconvening with Kit is the utmost priority because last time they got separated, she was easily taken down by a single Syntax agent and a few floaties. She can't operate without him, he asserts, while he stresses and raves (very casually, he'll claim) about how screwed she is. Gobbles counters that the planet is running out of time and that Kit knows where the ship is. They argue until Gobbles realizes what's going on. He assures Kaboodle that Kit is strong and calms the robot’s nerves with a soft tone and headpats. Kaboodle "hates" it, but it works. They form a compromise.

Gobbles gets so stressed out and overwhelmed one day that he accidentally growls and snaps his teeth at Flappers when the dolphin got too close. Flappers is startled but immediately forgives him and Kaboodle loved the show, but Gobbles is instantly torn up over it. He would never dream of doing such a thing (he's a grown dino!), even to someone he didn't like. He literally has never growled before in his entire life. Gobbles feels intense, heavy shame for a long time, to the point that when Kaboodle happily mentions it to Kit hours later, Gobbles nearly cries. Kaboodle tells him that Flappers doesn't mind, but Gobbles can't get over how he even had the gall to do such a thing. Never before has he come close to expressing anger at someone, let alone an innocent. Kaboodle shares times that he lashed out at Kit when he wasn't actually mad at her, but instead at something else. He says that Gobbles isn't uniquely evil because he growled at someone, a bunch of people accidentally misplace their anger. Gobbles was having a bad day. As long as he didn't mean it, doesn't want to do it again, and Flappers forgives him, then it's not a big deal. Gobbles feels a little bit better at that.

So, this figure released after the movie, and my partner and I found the shape of the key to be oddly specific despite it not showing up in the movie itself.

They decided to dig into some symbols and found the key most notably shares similarities with the symbol of Mercury, the symbol being associated with transgender folk. If this is the case, what a neat easter egg!

Could this be the specific key to unlock the chained up door the Jax's scream at to shut up? The key required to free that version of Jax being a metaphor for transitioning would be incredibly on the nose; and let's not forget the door has chains and boards nailed to it to keep it shut, a clear effort by the other parts of Jax's self that so heavily fear the possibility of that part being free.

This would undoubtedly aid the reading of Jax being trans, given the copious amounts of evidence already in the show itself.