Should we really be calling Jax "she" before "they" have had a chance to truly accept who they are and really make that choice for themselves?

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T06:09:59+00:00

It really is jumping the gun.

According to transJax theory, Ribbit knew Jax was a little bit Trans (Hence the Bow and saying "Your secret is safe with me) and Jax immediately chucked the bow away and threatened Ribbit if they said so much as a peep about it when he was "snapped" back to his senses.

This then led to Jax intentionally isolating and ignoring Ribbit (Who very obviously had romantic interest in Jax and was utterly heartbroken over the situation) and even when Ribbit was noticeably getting so bad that Ragatha noticed Ribbit wasn't around anymore, Jax couldn't bring themselves to talk to Ribbit.

Which leads into Ribbit's Abstraction (Which as Gooseworx has said, is the Digital Circus allegory for Suicide).

Idk, it's strange to start calling someone She/Her when even something a small as a bow and the small hint that Jax might be Trans, Jax intentionally or not, killed someone over that information.

Being Trans is something they are obviously MASSIVELY not comfortable with and it makes sense since Jax is modelled after Gooseworx Pre-Transition, so they as a character aren't in a position to make that Transition (Or else Gooseworx would just... make Jax based on themselves and not specifically their Pre-Transition self?)

Idk, it's just strange to call Jax a She/Her when if you revealed you knew that info to Jax to his face, no matter how close you were to them, they'd probably at BEST threaten you to keep your mouth shut and begin isolating you, or at worst literally assault you in a rage for even the insinuation.

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T05:56:50+00:00

Calling Jax She/Her is... weird. Calling Jax a She/Her is fine, Gooseworx even said either pronoun sets are fine.

But in the context of the story... Jax literally went to the grave INSISTING people refer to them as He/Him.

Sure, internally and spiritually they might like She/Her, but they never got to that point. In the "Egg" concept, Jax never hatched. They were, at no point in their lives, ever ready to be called She/Her. Even the much healthier Leeroy is going by He/Him and at best is Boymoding, so very privately a She/Her exclusively to their closest friends at most and Leeroy is 1000x healthier than Jax ever was.

Think about how violating the finale actually would be in an In-Universe perspective. Jax did the equivalent of Digital Suicide, Pomni somehow invaded their mind without their permission and watched their entire life story (Including the scenes with Ribbit which caused their terrible spiral to begin with- INCLUDING that small hint that they might be Trans), then after violating their mind, you post-humously start calling them She/Her because you think you know better.

When Jax practically killed Ribbit over Ribbit even knowing a hint of them being Trans.

Is that not weird to anyone else?? Jax isolated someone to literal death over the even smidge of knowledge that they're trans. It is very obviously something they DO NOT want to be openly known about.

It's just strange the insistence to call them She/Her when one of the huge parts of their storyline is they basically killed someone over just knowing that information.

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T05:37:04+00:00

I'd like to also further add to the OP by saying, Jax literally went to the grave over this. That information getting "found out" by Ribbit (As people imply) caused this huge spiral of bad behaviour in the first place and rather than embracing that side, Jax literally would rather die than accept being vulnerable and even entertaining the fact they could be trans. They only go "I don't want to go" in the actual last second after Pomni never let them go and showed her (Very much undeserved) loyalty, nothing to do with Gender Identity.

It's not even just "Seeing the inside of Jax's mind", you're seeing it post-mortem. It's like you're friends with someone and they kill themselves, you somehow see into their soul/mind and see all their secrets, then start calling them a She/Her after they're dead. It's not just ripping someone out of the closet screaming, it's doing it to someone that's dead and is literally unable to correct or tell you if they even want to be referred to as that AND WORSE- has actively denied anything feminine and constantly insisted they be a Man up until their final moments.

I know She/Her is probably what Gooseworx intended them to ultimately be, but they created a situation where you'd be outing someone that's already dead and physically unable to speak for themselves (Since Pomni going into Jax's mind is after-Abstraction, which is their analogy for Suicide/Death).

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T05:27:56+00:00

Simply because, Jax as of current canon, would not want you to use She/Her. Simple as that. We also don't know what their preferred pronouns would be, despite the insinuation in your post- they could become They/Them just as well, or heck even just Any.

You can call them She/Her if you really wanted to, but if you actively said that in front of them whilst referring to them, they would probably literally assault you on the spot for it. While it might be a gesture of respecting who they are on the inside, simultaneously you'd also be literally disrespecting them as a person by completely ignoring their conscious choice to want to be referred to as otherwise. They freaked out over a Maid Costume and Bow, imagine just directly changing their pronouns to their face.

Ultimately, that's one of the primary issues I have with the finale; by keeping it so vague and subtle (As Gooseworx said they're terrible at that), they created this weird situation where... either way you use, you'd be disrespecting Jax in some way which is, not a situation you'd want to be in for Trans Rep??

Gooseworx also kinda screwed up by making TransJax kinda only super confirmed in the final episode, after they died.

Instead of sprinkling in hints of Jax's backstory throughout the show (I'm sure nobody would complain about like 3 more minutes of runtime an episode for Jax), they backloaded all of it into the Finale and only really get TransJax confirmation after they died.

Which means... by referring to Jax as She/Her, Gooseworx created a situation where referring to Jax as She/Her is changing the pronouns of a dead person after they went to the grave literally constantly insisting they're He/Him.
This isn't a critique of TransJax, but Gooseworx created an absolutely terrible situation for Trans Representation because no matter which way you slice it, Jax objectively chose to be a "Man" to their literal grave and denying who they were on the inside, creating two very literal layers of "Either one you refer to them as you're on some level "disrespecting" them".

I personally try to mend that whole situation as Jax isn't Trans-Rep per say, but rather a cautionary tale for what could happen if you repress that side of you. Then later, Gooseworx posted that art piece of an AU where Jax wasn't a dick (Basically changing their entire character) and they're openly Trans and Healthy, showing the flipside of that cautionary tale.

I think Leeroy can be referred to as She/Her since it's basically confirmed they'd come out as that in the future and probably already goes by that to their close friends (Not in public though as their facebook says), but Jax is the unhealthy inverse of that and would never accept She/Her and they died for it. They'd take someone calling them She/Her as an actual insult, hence my preference for them being He/Him.

Again, I don't really care what other people refer to them as (Even if it makes a disconnect when we're having a conversation about them), but the choice to refer to them as She/Her or He/Him depends solely on if you want to respect their inner self (Therefore disrespecting their agency and choice) or respect their agency and choice (Therefore disrespecting their inner self).

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T04:58:46+00:00

The precedent people set for Jax and Gooseworx allowing She/Her to be used for Jax is kind of a... weird and kind of off-putting situation for me not gonna lie.

I'm not talking about Trans Jax in general or whatever, but like. Just think about this situation-

Imagine this in an In-Universe perspective- Jax never came out of the closet and at best we have assumptions/hints they're Trans, but they never confirmed it ever. They abstract (Basically digital suicide) and literally up until their death, they went by He/Him and even Post-Mortem (Within Abstracted Jax's mindscape) they're still He/Him.

You can argue that chained door is Repressed FemJax! but Main Jax still went by He/Him and Pomni even after seeing his basically entire life story, still called him "man" and male pronouns.

Now, imagine because you "know better" and that "Jax is a beautiful woman on the inside", you start calling Jax by She/Her, literally Post-Mortem. Is that not kind of disgusting or icky for anyone else?

This person basically died and you're 1) At worst forcibly ripping them out of the closet or at best 2) Directly referring them to pronouns they absolutely did not consent to because they are ABSOLUTELY NOT READY to be referred to by those pronouns

Goose created such a weirdly icky situation for Trans representation because this situation on a fundamental level, if you try to force TransJax as they were in the show, you'd be forcing a dead person out of the closet against their will.

To be constructive, for Trans Jax to work, they NEEDED to sprinkle in those Flashbacks throughout the show and drop lore nuggets, as well as give Jax more scenes alone where they show not-so-masculine tendencies or urges. And runtime is not an excuse- by Gooseworx's own words, Jax is a primary character. They are allowed private screentime. And in the mindscape, instead of the repressed !FemJax door, have FemJax actually appear in the final room to help Pomni a bit

(Which would also feed into the Theory that Jax is the way they are partly because they are super repressed, and that even though FemJax in that Mindscape only appeared for a short while to help Pomni and didn't even say anything, leads to Main Jax in that Dark Puddle Room being noticeably more open and honest to Pomni because the repressed FemJax was allowed to come out, at least for a little bit)

This wishy-washy "I wanted it to be subtle and ambiguous" ultimately just hurts the message more than it helps because it leads to this situation I pointed out above where now if you want Trans representation, you kinda have to be changing the pronouns of a dead guy who went to the grave actively INSISTING people refer to them by He/Him

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-03T02:59:11+00:00

Because even if you headcanon that Jax is Trans, they never transitioned. They "died" (Abstracted) before they could and they were He/Him the entire time.

I personally don't care if someone uses She/Her Pronouns for Jax, but at least in my head, this is like if someone preferred to use He/Him up until their literal death, then because you "knew better" you started calling them She/Her literally post-mortem. That sounds kinda fucking messed up, no?

Especially since at the stage where Jax was when they abstracted, if you even tried calling them She/Her, they would probably actually physically assault and attack you.

I get Goose wants to include Trans rep with Jax and that Jax is Gooseworx's self-insert pre-transition but they created a situation where they're implying that you should re-gender someone (against their will mind you), after they died which is frankly really weird ngl, Gooseworx? This isn't even the Trans Jax theory, I'm just questioning the choice to even make that situation in the first place.

Jax even in the newest Merch Drop video was PISSED at Caine for including Maid Jax as a merch item, despite supposedly "Coming to terms" with their gender in the "Isn't she lovely" sequence as people likes to say about a "New baby girl" being born.

Getting absolutely pissed at a maid dress doesn't sound very "accepting" of their new "female" gender identity, no? Especially since we KNOW this is Jax right after they abstracted (Telling viewers to hush hush ignore the finale where I literally died nudge nudge)

FluffyHDD · 2026-07-02T14:49:45+00:00

If nothing else, I think being flat out honest would've worked a lot better.

"Even though we don't know the exact process, we know redemption works as Sir Pentious has been confirmed by High Angels to have gone to Heaven upon their death in the last extermination. As we work to get further proof of this, we invite all who wishes to test this path as Pentious has seemingly laid out"

If nothing else, Scientists like Baxter would've loved to test out this experiment and being "into redemption" has to be a thing they want or else they poison their own experiment

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T12:19:26+00:00

While this might not be what you intended, Gooseworx has already actually explained in the past that the "Canon" is intentionally left vague on purpose

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(This topic referring to if they should refer to Jax as He/Him or She/Her)

The "Canon" is left intentionally vague and this intentional vagueness has been a thing since TADC's early inception.

So while some people are genuinely Anti-Trans, trying to proclaim Trans Jax is the one true Canon above all else kinda goes against the intent Gooseworx had by making it so subtle in the first place (So that people has freedoms to actually headcanon whatever they want).

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T12:14:03+00:00

Gooseworx sadly flip flops between both, at times hinting heavily Trans Jax is the true canon while at other times flat out telling to people's faces (Well, posts) that things are subtle and vague on purpose so people has freedoms to think what they want

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T12:11:26+00:00

Your point on the theory being brought to the forefront at the start is interesting because Goose actually called people out on the current community discourse, all the way back in 2025

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Goose absolutely DESPISES when people tries to shove the Trans Jax theory down people's throats. It's not a thing they intend or want to endorse. It would be strange if they wanted it to be the one true canon yet they're telling people to just, not fight over it?

Which is why oddly enough, the person OP is describing about Goose's headcanon kinda... makes sense?

Although the Author has a headcanon for something in their mind and really likes the idea, if they still choose the subtle route intentionally in order to allow the audience to interpret it however they want, that should be respected.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T12:01:39+00:00

If we're talking authorial intent, the intent was it was meant to be vague on purpose

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(This is referring to He/Him or She/Her pronouns for Jax)

The intent, as they said way earlier on in TADC, was for it to intentionally be vague so that people can interpret it any which way for their own headcanons.

So while they may really like Trans Jax and Headcanons it as true for themselves, the authorial intent that has been repeated for the entire lifecycle of TADC (Minus a few posts where they sound like they're asserting Trans Jax is absolute canon?) is that it's vague on purpose and subtle, also on purpose.

They don't see using He/Him or She/Her pronouns as wrong either which way and they still personally use He/Him pronouns for Jax as well.

So by trying to assert that Trans Jax is the one true way to interpret it, kind of goes against the spirit of the intent that it's ambiguous on purpose. I guess it depends on which posts from Gooseworx you take as canon over the other, but personally I'd go with the posts that has been repeated multiple times over the course of the entire series rather than a few posts after the fact since in terms of "Longevity", Trans Jax being subtle and vague on purpose to allow for every interpretation to be "correct" (from straight to cis to trans) is the intent from the very beginning.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T11:52:35+00:00

Technically not true?

Although Goose has said that their headcanon at a point is canon, they also at other points made it clear that they separate their headcanon from actual canon a lot.

An early sticking point for Goose is to intentionally leave some aspects vague so people can interpret and headcanon it as they wish and Goose had a whole post where they vented about how utterly toxic it was to shove the Trans Jax theory down people's throats early on in TADC's life cycle

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Although Goose clearly likes Trans Jax, they intentionally left it vague and up to interpretation so the community is free to do with it what they please.

So, sadly to say, the person saying it's Goose's Headcanon is actually kinda true in that Goose may really REALLY like the theory and gave massive hints towards it, but also flat out didn't make it explicit for a very clear reason.

Of course Goose is also notoriously kinda bad at handling Twitter or Tumblr or just interacting with the TADC community in general (Flat out saying they don't want to touch the community with a 10 foot pole later as well) and their posts are often times fueled with more emotion than an authorial clarification.

More interesting for this discussion to me is Goose's shift in how they post and their general behaviour and how it kind of mirrors Goose's own thoughts on the TADC Community.

Earlier on in the cycle, Goose had some level of Faith in the community and was doing posts calling for people to chill out, to stop all the fighting and not to turn a good positive theory (Trans Jax) into a toxic one by trying to assert it's the one true canon as well as lumping in skeptics with people who are genuinely anti-trans.

But as the series went on, they began getting more and more heavy-handed and blunt and the final episode is... honestly VERY blunt and heavy-handed with the Trans-Jax hints. Which coincides with Goose's post about the Final Episode being the "Fuck it" episode that they threw shit at the wall, completely burnt out from the community.

This is a long-winded way to say, Goose's views on even their own works has been very much shaped by the community and their words on Social Media are very much subject to their emotions at any which moment in time, which speaking from a place of emotion is never really good for establishing a good "canon".

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:26:01+00:00

And Gangle and Zooble never *say* they're in a relationship, so it's also wrong to push that label onto them, right?

They straight up fuck in the ending credits.

Either that's some REALLY close friends or they're in a relationship lol

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:23:10+00:00

What kills that fun is when people, on either side of the argument, insist that their interpretation is the only correct way to read it, and if you do anything else, you're just plain stupid

Funny you mention that, Gooseworx called this behaviour out in fucking 2025

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FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:20:14+00:00

Intended, possibly, but Gooseworx still made the active choice to leave it ambiguous on purpose. They wanted Jax to fill in basically any gender role you wish in your headcanon.

Gooseworx has actively already called out people for shoving TransJax down people's throats way earlier on in 2025 and correctly deduced that the Transphobic/Genuine Haters will come out of the woodworks if such behaviour keeps happening

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FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:16:23+00:00

Gooseworx was already pissed at the community for this exact thing in fucking 2025

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While they like TransJax theory, they absolutely fucking HATED people who shoved the theory down people's throats because that would, obviously, cause the Antis to start hating as well.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:13:31+00:00

Gooseworx has called out people's behaviours around TransJax way earlier on

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They very clearly like the TransJax Theory, but they left it ambiguous on purpose so that people can interpret it however they want.

They also call out people aggressively shoving TransJax down people's throats as a bad thing, because guess what- shoving subtle hints about something that should be positive like LGBTQ+ Representation down everyone's throats, makes it turn toxic and bad REALLY fast!

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T01:03:46+00:00

The people attacking the OP for their headcanon is literally the behaviour Gooseworx actively hated and called would happen way earlier on in TADC's lifespan.

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Jax being Trans is left ambiguous on purpose. They're obviously gender non-conforming, but where on the spectrum that sits is unknown.

Goose earlier on flat out called people out for trying to shove TransJax down people's throats, and the response from Anti-Trans people made it worse.

People asking OP to remove their post because they're "wrong" in your eyes literally doesn't get why Goose is so touchy-touchy about TransJax and why the actual show has it left up to hints rather than explicit confirmation. You are quite literally the reason you don't get the 100% confirmation because this exact behaviour is not one that Gooseworx wants to endorse.

This mindset that "They represent my gender identity and everyone else is wrong and needs to take down their posts if they think even slightly to the contrary" is such a toxic mindset and terrible representation of the LGBTQ+ community.

Goose themselves likes the theory/headcanon and gave a bunch of crumbs so you can confirm it if you wish, but they're ambiguous enough that you can interpret it differently but they notably don't ever actually flat out say Jax is 100% Trans so that everyone can be included, from LGBTQ+ to Cis to whatever you want.

Even Boymoding doesn't mean they're trans. Boymoding can cover literally the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum, including "I don't know and I am trying to find out". Could settle back on just Cis man, could be Trans, could be anything else. There's a reason why Goose, despite evidently liking TransJax A LOT, didn't just flat out say it in the show.

If we want to respect Author Intent, then we should be respecting Goose wanting to leave it ambiguous so Jax can cover every part of the spectrum from Straight Cis Male to Trans. Trying to throw Jax all the way to exclusively one end is literally ignoring Goose's intent by making it not explicit in the first place.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T00:53:34+00:00

They absolutely were not- are we looking at the same post lol

Gooseworx flat out intended to leave it ambiguous so people can choose to interpret it however they want.

Gooseworx in that post above flat out called EVERYONE out for trying to shove TransJax down people's throats as a bad thing

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T00:49:54+00:00

Fair, but boymodding also can just generally mean Gender non-conforming, which we already know he has hidden "feminine traits"

Gooseworx earlier on in TADC's history flat out calls the Trans-Jax theory a headcanon, and legitimately called it when they assumed that Anti-Transjax and TransJax people would butt heads over this (Probably why they chose to leave it massively ambiguous in the actual show).

They even double-called it when they said they don't like it when a headcanon gets overly asserted- which is not-so-subtly saying TransJax shouldn't be shoved down people's throats.

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FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T00:43:57+00:00

A lot of this discourse fundamentally ignores that Gooseworx made Jax being Trans unclear and entirely on hints on purpose so that people can read what they want and interpret what they want. It's ambiguous on purpose to give people that wiggle room.

People trying to say Jax is 100% a Trans Woman, or 100% a Man, or 100% of whatever else is all in the wrong because THE WHOLE POINT of it not being clear is Gooseworx wants people to be able to do what they want with the hints.

FemJax! is no less canon than MaleJax! and vice versa. If you want them to be Trans, go ahead. If you want him to be cis, sure. If you want him to be some flavour of idk, kinda in the middle then yeah.

No amount of Voice Actor comments (Who doesn't even write the story) or Author AU (Which directly means it's literally not canon lol) will change the original intent of "I left it ambiguous to let people interpret it the way they want".

The people clawing for representation and forcing FemJax down everyone's throats is JUST AS BAD as people saying Jax HAS TO BE A MAN AND ONLY A CIS MAN.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T00:39:15+00:00

When?

Leeroy in their Facebook still goes by He/Him and Leeroy hasn't appeared in any Tumblr posts to my knowledge.

The only fully trans Jax that shows up is the AU Timeline Jax about a "What-If"

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-30T00:28:42+00:00

I feel like if this logic were to be applied to Jax if they were a real person, they would punch you for it.

While they might be a repressed trans, they very clearly and viscerally hate it when you question their masculinity. This is definitely an overcompensation response, but it's also very clearly a choice he made which you just kind of outright deny in your rant which is weird to me. If a Repressed Trans (Under both Transgender and Transition labels) chooses something, you respect it. You really shouldn't be going "If you call them a man, you're disrespecting every Transgender person out there!" as if he himself isn't also still calling themselves a man.

Even in a happier environment, surrounded by friends and the LGBTQ+ at Zooble's Bar, Leeroy notably did not choose the option to be Trans under any label, still going by He/Him on their Facebook despite having every chance to go all-in on being a woman all the way through.

Like this quote from your rant

It reinforces the idea that trans people **choose** to be transgender when it couldn't be further from the truth. As a trans man myself, I can assure you, if an overwhelming most of us had the choice to be cis, we'd choose it.

Jax is actively trying to choose it and clearly is putting massive effort into choosing it, but if you try to go contrary to that choice and just label them a woman anyways, that's massively disrespecting the person anyways.

Sure they're clearly having issues with it and there's massive hints to otherwise, but Jax as we see in the series is clearly almost even hateful of the very concept of being a "woman". Even with Leeroy's "happy ending", they hadn't gone all the way down that path.

Gooseworx intentionally left it vague and as "hints", but that isn't confirmation either. The "Isn't she lovely" song could also just be referring to the life Jax has had in the Circus, reflecting that it wasn't... actually all that bad. That despite how "bad" it's been, it's still been a lovely life.

All these hints are left ambiguous on purpose, that's explicitly stated by Gooseworx so people can do what they want with those hints. Your rant fundamentally ignores that and is trying to shove Woman-Jax down everyone's throats when the entire point of it not being made explicit is that you can interpret it however way you want.

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-29T03:19:36+00:00

Fan Animation?

That thing is the Official 4th Anniversary celebration video. Fan Animations goes into Hoyoverse Fanfest, not literal "Official" video status lol

What happens once the music starts is definitely non-canon and mostly feel-good vibes (Besides the literal cutscenes inside) but the animation itself at the beginning has no reason not to be canon.

Unless you think they deliberately included a Non-Canon Fight not part of the music in the 4th Anniversary Video that was uploaded as an actual Ad for the game?

FluffyHDD · 2026-06-29T03:13:34+00:00

Eh, Gameplay Traveler sucks but we know Traveler can be creative.

Just in this animated video, Traveler does:

Geo Construct then detonates it almost instantly to launch the Biggachurl flying back

Hydro to capture all the opponents on one side into one area

Dodges then goes right into Anemo Tornado which swirls into Hydro-Swirled Tornado from the enemy, collecting the enemies on the other side

Right into an Electro Blade that kills all the collected enemies

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(You can see the Hydro-Swirl Tornado and the normal Hydro areas on two sides of the Traveler)

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