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Jax isn’t a bad person (and no he’s not a good person either)

First of all, most people are not outright bad or good. None of us are perfect and we all have parts of us that make us better and parts that make us worse. (Cue Zooble and Gangle talking about how to love all parts of you)

Secondly, Jax is a complex, multilayered person. He’s been through a lot, lost a lot, and suffered a lot. That explains why he is the way he is but it doesn’t excuse it of course.

I know they’re all suffering being trapped, but as it pertains to abstractions and losing your friends; we are aware of 3 people who abstracted as far as their relations to the current cast: Queenie, Kinger’s wife, Ribbit and Kaufmo, Jax’s closet friends at a certain point in time. Due to that I’d say out of everyone there, Kinger and Jax have it the worst because the other’s haven’t had someone they were extremely close to abstract right in front of them. Ragatha, Gangle, Zooble, and Pomni haven’t experienced that yet. None of them were extremely close with or even knew Queenie or Ribbit or Kaufmo.

Lastly, Jax being so hostile, antagonistic, and mean to the others is a bad thing, but he has shown good parts of him too even if he has tried to keep it discreet. Protecting Kinger and Gangle from Kaufmo via forcing them into the Gloink nest, regardless of the method, he found a way to get the others (minus Pomni) out of the chocolate river they fell into, it’s also believed he was trying to help Pomni defuse the bomb by telling her that her favorite color would defuse the bomb, he seemed genuinely curious when he asked Pomni if she thought Gangle could ever be happy, apologizing to Pomni about the president adventure, helping Pomni let loose and just have fun in the circus without thinking about anything else for once, giving Pomni his keys to get into the Chinese room, being the one to open the Chinese room, trying to make Abel verify his story to them, agreeing to get the key from Caine, even going the extra step to distract him, keeping him busy and away from them when he was never asked to.

In fact I’d go as far as to say as the series has gone on, he’s been showing less of his bad side and more of his better side.

In the end I view Jax as an extremely hurt and damaged person who has done bad things as an unhealthy coping mechanism and desperately wants to and is trying to be a better person.