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Me: oh my god Jax was abused. That reaction was the reaction of an abused person. He didn't press that button intentionally, that was pure fight or flight. That was a fear response, and he was terrified of returning.

The rest of the internet: Jax killed a child, and is on the run

Me: oh... Oh. Um... Okay... Guess... Guess that makes more sense... Um...

-TADC episode 9-

Jax: I was abused

Me: oh my god Jax was abused. That reaction was the reaction of an abused person. He didn't press that button intentionally, that was pure fight or flight. That was a fear response, and he was terrified of returning.

The rest of the internet: Jax killed a child, and is on the run

Me: oh... Oh. Um... Okay... Guess... Guess that makes more sense... Um...

-TADC episode 9-

Jax: I was abused

Me: oh my god Jax was abused. That reaction was the reaction of an abused person. He didn't press that button intentionally, that was pure fight or flight. That was a fear response, and he was terrified of returning.

The rest of the internet: Jax killed a child, and is on the run

Me: oh... Oh. Um... Okay... Guess... Guess that makes more sense... Um...

-TADC episode 9-

Jax: I was abused

Her actions were fucking abhorrent, but we were provided context and reason as to why she behaved that way. Like? Being real? They’re not justifiable (as in her past doesn’t make it okay) or excuse-able. I know from personal experience that no amount of shitty history justifies horrible behaviour. But it is understandable with context. You understand why she behaved and acted that way. You are being given the resources to realise that she’s not acting this way because she’s just someone who enjoys making others suffer for the fun of it, but instead because the girl’s incredibly fucking unwell and traumatised, and it’s the only way she believes she can cope.

I have plenty of characters like her. Those who hurt others because they’re terrified of being hurt first thanks to a history of familial and childhood abuse (they’re my babies, honestly. One of them is very similar to Jax but he’s ftm, and he’s my favourite OC). I have personally known people like that. I have personally been abused by someone like that. I am not someone like that, but I have hurt others unintentionally because I was hurt myself. But the story never rewards Jax’s behaviour, nor my own characters’ behaviour. I had to learn and understand by fucking up so many times that just because my behaviour had reason doesn’t take away from the hurt I caused (I already knew that, but I was young and mentally ill, and so was my friend. Different person that the one I mentioned in passing before. It was a whole thing of toxicity and a cycle of hurting each other, but we’re both in a much better place now in friendship and life).

People calling Jax bad trans rep is. Genuinely wild to me. Some of the worst people in my life have been trans. I’m trans. We’re just people. We”re just as human as anyone else. Jax being a bad person isn’t indicative of trans people being bad people. Like. Guys. We heard her say the same thing, right? What happened to the “hurt people hurt people” shit? Did we forget that it can be true sometimes? That is is often true, but just not in the ways people think it literally means? Episode 9 of TADC and The Backrooms movie really feel like a litmus test (am I using that right?) to see how well people understand human psychology, and the psychology of mentally ill people.

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The bottom three images aren’t exactly completely canon, I made them a year ago. Tora has been given more development, but he and Hitoshi are still exes.