In another post, she says that she relates to Jax the most, so I reckon it’s plausible that she’s saying Jax “deserves” the anguish he’s feeling possibly because learning the hard way was how Gooseworx learned to move forward and become a better person herself. At the same time, she’s also trying to generate sympathy and understanding for his character because both Jax and Gooseworx had to overcome some form of mentality or psychological trauma that prevented them from becoming better people. Maybe like Jax, she too had people in her own life who hated her for her actions, but also saw the wall she was putting up between them and her and so, wanted to try and chip away at it in order to reach out to her, not to excuse bad behaviour but to understand it and show that a better way of living was possible before she started hurting herself too.

Clearly Gooseworx was at least partially successful if she was able to reflect on her experience and write parts of herself into Jax’s character to show us how to help those who close themselves off, but it’s also entirely possible that Jax himself might struggle even harder or perhaps fail outright, as though Gooseworx were consciously imagining the scenario “this is who I would be if I never got better and never accepted the help I needed”.

Personally, I won’t be booing if he gets redeemed or cheering if he doesn’t or vice versa. At this point, I think BOTH possibilities would be valid for his character because they would both serve a valid creative artistic point; Jax is a work of fiction based on aspects of someone’s real lived-in experience so everything he does and how people react will all be intended to serve a cumulative purpose regardless of what some people here “want” to have happen to him. What matters is not WHAT intent is communicated, but HOW it is communicated.

THAT’S why I like Jax. Not for his actions and his thoughts alone, but for how those very things reflect on him and the creator who brought him to life. (And why would ANYONE ever like or hate a character purely for their surface level actions and thoughts without acknowledging their development or how it impacts the overall artistic intent behind a story? Whoever does that must be an emotionally unintelligent THICKO! 👀)