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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.

It made zero sense to me that there was no scene of Ragatha and Jax actually getting along even though it was said that they were friends, makes me wanna rip out my hair whenever I think about those pov flashbacks from Jax. Almost like they were strangers that don’t know each other at all. In my opinion, half of the show would’ve been really different if Ragatha was kept in the narrative and we actually dive deeper into her friendship with Jax and both Ribbit and Kaufmo being this almost terrible friends to him and often teasing him to open up more.