#rocking rambles

I still love Kinger. He's the best

I need Jax to abstract so bad please he's so close if he abstracts I'll cheer so loudly

Has anybody talked about the flashes of real life while Jax was having a panic attack??? Are we gonna talk about that??

"Scratch" is somebody and is somebody that Caine supposedly try to alter mentally, which resulted in an abstraction. Now, here's the fun question: Is Caine's meddling the Kickstarter of abstractions, just a speedrun to insanity and forces an abstraction, or the main cause of abstraction?

We saw Ribbit AND got a name drop in cannon! Kaufmo, Ribbit, and Jax were friends! They have super awesome selfies together!

Imagine Jax, newly hopeful and happy to have made friends despite everything, pinning the polaroids to his bedroom wall. Imagine him curling up in the unusual bed and the unusual room, looking at the pictures with a fond smile. Imagine him happy because he has friends.

Imagine him now

Why was he naked

I'm not gonna lie, Abel fooled me. I'm incredibly gullible and I believed him whole-heartedly

So Caine very pointedly mentioned being so happy that he would do one thing that the circus members asked him. Did Jax use that up by requesting to be returned to the circus, or is that going to be brought up in the next episode?

I think Caine envies Kinger. Like, based on the way Abel reacts about Kinger. ALSO! We have confirmation that Caine doesn't know about Kinger's lucidity in the dark? I mean, it's not directly stated, but Abel wasn't entirely sure what Pomni was getting at when she asked if the room would be dark.

Abel mentioned Kinger not using his wisdom wisely, or something along the lines. What if Caine is slightly bitter about Kinger not being able to make the rest of the cast like him? Kinger's some sort of mentor figure that Ragatha admits to trusting the most and he's a seemingly wacky guy. Even without being totally out of it, he seems to genuinely enjoy Caine's antics. He giggled at his joke, he plays along with the adventures, and he had fun in the episode where they got guns. So why, if he's so wise and admired, and he actually likes Caine, can't he convince the other players to have fun, too?

Abel also said that both he and Kinger had made mistakes. Do you think that most of what Abel said was just acting or Caine projecting his feelings onto the NPC?

....Abel should've been called Aibel... perhaps...

Idk I'm. Well, obviously my next step is to start a gay fanfiction and then add it to my ever-growing pile of infinite wips.

Episode one: All we know about Jax is that he likes antagonizing others and he's a cunt. We learn about abstraction, and some fans come to the conclusion that what had Kaufmo abstract was a sense of isolation. Kaufmo was shown getting obsessive over an exit and Ragatha apologizes for "not laughing at [his] jokes..."

Episode two: Pomni talks with an NPC about how she doesn't want him to "feel like nothing." Jax only shows up to want mindless violence and ends up "so disappointed" when he doesn't get it. The cast hosts a memorial for Kaufmo, except for Jax, who looks sad for a split second before angrily leaving

Episode three: We don't get much from Jax, who was bound and gagged in a kiddie wagon, but we still get something from Kinger. In this episode, we get a clearer headed Kinger who tells Pomni that "the worst thing you can do to somebody is make them feel unloved." Which ties quit nicely info...

Episode four: We get lots of Jax in this one. Especially exhausted and upset Jax. This is the most civil of him we've ever seen, and honestly I think someone should talk about parallels between Jax and Gangle because that could be quite interesting. Anyways, a post here on Tumblr (I don't remember who posted it) said that it seemed like Jax was reaching out to the others this episode. Trying to have a normal conversation with Zooble and Pomni and asking Ragatha if she could move when he could (and does) just step over her. Each time, he's dismissed because of the reputation he's carved for himself of being someone who gets joy out of hurting others and not much else. He's shown smiling as he leaves and immediately dropping his grin once he's out of everyone's sight.

Hell, think of the beginning of this episode. He accidently breaks Gangle's comedy mask and ends up arguing with Ragatha.

"Why do you always make me out to be a bad guy? I'm not a bad guy."