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I left the theater like an hour ago and I can’t stop thinking about this, so I’m just gonna rant a bit, and you can totally ignore me! And I’m going to use he/him for Jax because I’m still kind of unclear on that since Pomni used those pronouns in the end.

Jax’s ending doesn’t make sense. We have these beautiful scenes of Pomni going into his mind, seeing the aspects of his crafted persona, learning his backstory, Pomni running to Jax and him sobbing that he doesn’t want to go. And… that’s it? I originally thought when Pomni was pulled away that by the rest of the circus, that we were going to work to find a way to bring Jax back. But they just get him settled in a dark place and that’s that. 

I read somewhere that Goosework’s said abstraction was a metaphor for suicide, but that doesn’t really make sense to me, what with us knowing Jax’s conscious is still there, just trapped inside. So, what, he and the other abstractions just have to stay locked in their minds for the rest of eternity? Are they in peace in dark? Was Jax only in anguish because Pomni was in his mindscape with him, making him experience all that again, but now that she’s out and he is in the dark alone, he’ll be at rest? 

It just feels so unfinished and half baked. If you want to go the suicide route and have them really be gone, couldn’t the circus members find a way to release them to nothingness? I don’t know, I just feel really disappointed by that whole plotline.