I honestly think it would fix a lot of problems if ribbit was scrapped and the person jax opened up in the past was ragatha. If they were former close friends that drifted apart, it would give weight to the weird tension/animosity between them that was pretty much scrapped by episode 7. Not to mention
It would give importance to their parallels of parental abuse
It would make jax's actions less heinous if he didn't drive two of their friends to suicide (kaufmo was more carelessness than outright malice anyway)
Ragatha could have a less than pleased reaction at jax badly injuring her mother and it would feed into her belief that she's not allowed to express any negative emotions if she want to keep her friends. Making so the both of them trigger each other's parental abuse traumas.
It would make the emotional moment between pomni and ragatha (jax's current and former bird) more powerful
It would generally tie the jax/pomni/ragatha subplot together a satisfying way
Having strict, religious parents fit with ragatha's character
Jesus, jax doesn't need three people to project their mommy issues onto
And if you think "why would you want to erase a nonbinary fem character?", ribbit is barely a character so it would be beneficial to take their role to flesh out a character who need it.
What are your thoughts?
Imagine those moments in this context. We could have had it all.














