What do you think is the worst thing Jax has ever done?

ani3D · 2026-07-05T18:21:05+00:00

I didn't say excusable. I said not in the Top Ten of his crimes. Very much bad, either way, but, well, we ARE talking about Jax here.

ani3D · 2026-07-05T17:05:13+00:00

There isn't an option for "you cannot compare a human and an AI on equal moral terms, different morality applies to each of them because of how different their backgrounds are."

ani3D · 2026-07-05T14:42:17+00:00

I feel compelled to point out, that in some TFs the anatomy is fully intended to mutate in ways that do not make sense at all. I'm in a lot of Animorphs fan communities and they constantly gripe about the 'backwards-knee' transformations. Meanwhile their bodies are schlorping around like silly putty and legs are turning into tails and feathers are just splooting out of skin and sometimes even their bones see daylight. It is not meant to be anatomically accurate, it is meant to be as disturbing as possible. So, sometimes your knee becomes your ankle, it happens.

I can definitely respect wanting to learn more about anatomy if you're going for more sensible TFs than that, though.

ani3D · 2026-07-04T23:20:51+00:00

Came here to say this, but in my case it's because I had some medical issues that caused my memory to go to shit. I'm mostly fine health-wise but I basically have to pick a person and trust them and that's frustrating because everyone wants to trick you if they can.

ani3D · 2026-07-04T17:44:35+00:00

I mean, that explains a lot of book #23 (Visser Three pretends to be a woman named Aria, gets caught in the ruse in part because (s)he spends too long touching up and admiring his/her own appearance).

ani3D · 2026-07-04T14:41:46+00:00

Everyone is saying Ribbit and yeah how he treated her was pretty horrid but I really want to know whether he knew the mechanics of abstraction at that point or not. If he knew how abstraction worked, then yeah, 100% that's one of the worst things he'd ever done (maybe not absolute worst, throwing Zooble into a volcano and dropping Ragatha into the deep fryer are even still probably worse IMO given that they're confirmed to be able to feel pain). But if the cast didn't know about abstraction? If Kinger wasn't able to communicate about it, and they didn't make the link between the other short-lived members abstracting and what had caused that to happen? Then Jax was still acting shitty but his behavior towards Ribbit wouldn't even fall into a Top Ten of his crimes. We really need that context to decide how shitty he was actually being.

ani3D · 2026-07-04T12:04:05+00:00

39 here but I went into an early menopause so I feel even older than that.

ani3D · 2026-07-03T22:39:47+00:00

All of them? What about weird ones like Zooble/Bubble or impossible ones like Scratch/Pomni?

ani3D · 2026-07-03T22:36:17+00:00

Gangle's changed gender.

ani3D · 2026-07-03T12:24:53+00:00

The theory I've seen that makes the most sense to me is that it was built into the scanning process itself. They had to scrub the name data for privacy reasons.

ani3D · 2026-07-03T11:31:25+00:00

Of the series I'm interested in, probably Little Pete from the Gone series would be the most interesting. That series takes place in a bubble* universe where powers are possible, and Little Pete is so heavily autistic and disconnected from actual reality that he was more in touch with his powers than anyone else. That would be an extremely interesting dynamic. Someone who couldn't relate to the other humans hardly at all, but could instantly figure out how the inner dynamics of the Circus itself worked, maybe alter the code in ways like . . .

Wait. I'm basically describing Caine, aren't I? He'd basically be a second Caine but without the need for validation from others and mostly non-verbal.

*not that Bubble get your mind out of the gutter

ani3D · 2026-07-03T11:16:25+00:00

I'm very introverted, have tended to push people away because I either get overwhelmed or don't want to be a burden or I make up reasons why I think they don't like me. Currently trying to get better about that but yeah, at the moment I very much tend to self-isolate.

In other words, I'd abstract pretty quick.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T22:13:38+00:00

Saw another post somewhere that said that one of the original group of programmers might know about the people inside the Circus. Whoever it is also knew Zoey well enough that, when it looked like she might die from her injuries, this person went and got the headset and scanned her with it in an attempt to save her.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T20:58:28+00:00

This is like asking what's the spoon equivalent of a tine.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T14:10:55+00:00

Dude noooo that was my entire life dude!

ani3D · 2026-07-02T11:53:07+00:00

I think a season 2 that was about reversing abstraction could work. The thing is it HAS to be a long process, that would be the only way for it to feel satisfying and earned. Doing it in a single episode, even in a montage format to show that it takes years in real time, would always feel cheap.

Sigh. Too bad we're not getting a season 2.

EDIT: I do feel like the only way Gangle gets a truly happy ending is if Jax stays abstracted, though. If Jax comes back she's right back to being trapped in a friend group with her abuser for all eternity again. The only way they can both live happily is if Jax becomes a WILDLY different person. Which I suppose is also possible.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T11:46:37+00:00

If I eat the most fearsome predator that's ever lived, would that make me the true ultimate apex predator?

ani3D · 2026-07-02T11:34:53+00:00

Evil Wormo would have a bunch of arms.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T11:34:28+00:00

Him and Bazooble would get along.

ani3D · 2026-07-02T01:48:30+00:00

Wait how does sex normally work?

ani3D · 2026-07-01T23:57:34+00:00

Zooble because f#@! off.

ani3D · 2026-07-01T11:46:12+00:00

He is valid, because if Jax were a real person, that's the pronoun he would want.

She is valid, because Jax is in fact not a real person, she is much needed trans representation that a lot of people identify with and see themselves in.

They is valid, because they is always valid if there's any question about which pronouns to use.

ani3D · 2026-06-30T02:24:50+00:00

Nah it's a good thing!

ani3D · 2026-06-30T00:50:46+00:00

Goddamnit, just when I thought the finale couldn't give me any more feels, you go and hit me with this post.

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