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Both are characters that committed something seriously tragic and transformed because of what they did. Jax stops trusting people with his backstory because he knows he will be judged for it, and so jax just stops trusting people. Asriel, hoping that he could take chara to the surface gets killed by humans, and then loses his soul, desperately revived as a flower and overall does not have the ability to trust or care for any monster because of the harshness he faced.

The issue for me is that while both of them are antagonists of the story and still a character that has an emotional conflict that ends with them being consoled by the protagonist, which leads to them not being redeemed but just less antagonistic- Flowey was the one who actually grew from the things that took place in the story, just not revived or let out from the underground in any form (a little similar to how jax remains abstracted by the end)

You could say that maybe jax isn't supposed to grow from this at all- but then what is the point of pomni being the only person desperately going after jax and by the end still being fine with how he turned out? I think the last few minutes of the episode just left me confused as to how the characters are happy with how things turned out.

In comparison, here's why flowey's story does not really feel unresolved while still being bittersweet. While jax was 'friends' with everyone in the circus, or basically just acquainted with them, he hated them. Flowey falls in a similar boat as he is familiar with a lot of the characters and has direct relations with a few of them. Flowey is a bully that will act rudely not because people deserve it but because he prefers the superficial power he recieves from acting superior to everyone. His attitude is soulless so that he does not have to deal with being a weak flower and not a monster like everyone else. He doesn't think he would be liked as a flower, and he pities everyone for being weaker. He has lost the life that made him like everyone else

The thing is though, that flowey watches frisk throughout the story and frisk's actions go against flowey's beliefs. Frisk is weaker than everybody, not in the fact that they don't have the ability to retry and overcome everything, since humans are way stronger than monsters, but the fact that frisk would eventually die at the hands of hostile monsters if frisk keeps acting peacefully. Despite all this, frisk becomes friend with every monster that flowey COULD'VE been friends with. Frisk proves flowey wrong by not killing in the true pacifist route and while flowey initially comes in the way of frisk in neutral, flowey himself chooses to assist frisk in little ways so they can be reunited properly. I don't think the flowey that helps out frisk suddenly gains a soul or had a change of heart. Frisk eventually makes it to the end, saving everyone and asgore but flowey takes over everyones soul to finally achieve his final form. In the end, it's frisk's ability to save their friends and for the same reason reach out to the parts of flowey that still act as asriel to make flowey finally grow out of his beliefs. In the end, flowey doesn't ask for forgiveness from any of the other characters, not even frisk, but frisk can hug asriel in this moment and asriel can make up for it by freeing everyone.

This mirrors jax in a way because he has the ability to be a little more friendlier with pomni than he does with everyone else because pomni does not fall into the same interactions with jax the way everyone else does. The issue is that in the last episode, pomni has to act out to help jax, but mainly because she believes jax can be helped out even as an abstraction. This helps pomni learn about jax's behavior but at the end while pomni does help jax feel strongly again, i don't think jax actually developed out of this at all. Throughout this whole segment, jax has never actively tried to understand pomni, and pomni's efforts seem one sided and in fact jax has zero change within him in how he feels about everyone else in the circus. This is a little ironic to me because frisk, a character who was constantly trying to be killed by this flower, still has to perform a very endearing and strong act of empathy to reach out to flowey, and i really liked seeing how it could make flowey have a change in perspective. I also like how pomni in the earlier episode is constantly pushed out of her comfort zones as she does not have the ability to be selfless and actively help out ragatha in the pilot, or that she keeps having experiences that scare her like the gummigoo situation and mildenhall manor, but she grew out of that. Despite all that, should pomni ACTUALLY go after jax, right after a scene where he chokes her like he wanted her dead? I suppose jax is comfortable with pomni and pomni definitely realises that and helps him for it, but in a show which gave highlight episodes to each character and their relationships (even jax and ragatha in episode 5) i think its weird that we don't get to see more into how jax feels about everyone else, the people who were there with him most of the time, and his unresolved conclusions with them IS why he abstracted in the first place. I think the reveal that jax pushed his mother out of discomfort made it a lot more reasonable why he is so afraid of himself. His actions had unintended consequences quite similar to asriel

Maybe given that this episode is supposed to be influenced by more bleaker tones of something like the end of evangelion, i guess a more helpless ending was inspired for jax but i still think with only shinji and asuka being the survivors, they were explored more and shinji's overall emotional state showed us some form of development within him as well. Him putting out all his final anger into choking asuka, and still stopping himself is emotionally strong as well

I suppose most of my doubts with why the digital circus finale doesn't feel like jax was given emotional closure is because it all ended with pomni hugging him and jax being surprisingly passive in the episode that is focused strongly on him. Even worse, i think the fact that everybody is happy with how their real counterparts are doing and how jax never gets to see his, and that everyone else does results in even less closure than before. I think viewers might have gotten closure, but when i'm trying to take the story authentically, i would much rather see how the characters feel when they go through strong closures with everything that has happened than just me, the person watching it and knowing their endings are 'happy'. I guess knowing that frisk as a person could emotionally transform flowey was much more impactful to me than just me, the player, watching it happen. The fact that frisk reveals their true name in this moment goes to say simply that both characters went through a strong emotional closure, and that in turn reflected back to the player instead of seeing pomni be comforted by jax, whilst jax only got his feelings off his chest, but didn't reflect the type of emotional realisation that would've been impactful

I didn't buy the bait bag before at all. Beedle only offers bait but not bag.. Where do i get it?

Does the switch version run on 60, and is it worth playing over the one on steam?

I finish school and scored very mediocre so i give entrance tests. I know from my previous experience that engineering is not for me, i don't want to sit down and mind wrack at fucking physics questions or stuff, i like to write and cover opinions and media and i don't like sitting with fucking science subject notes. I make an attempt to study some other stuff, tried to cover economics and i actually was able to cover a good bunch but those scores went into shit anyway cause i was enrolled in a private college for guess what- engineering course.
Okay, i tried to read a lot in the first semester and pay attention, but the bullshit got to me because my mind was not getting any breaks out of studying something continuously that my brain didn't want to register. I end up hanging around a group of guys but i never had anything personal to do with any of them and it felt like a chore to even sit near them any day as they mind their own shit and i do what interests me. Since my brain doesn't memorise shit, i have to sit with 50-60 pages of notes in the middle of the night before just to get through the shitty exams, and first semester i somewhat score acceptably mediocre again.

I don't have it in me to tell parents that i want to get out of this place after the first semester, so i go through second sem, but i genuinely couldnt take it anymore and broke out of the 'friend' group, and i dont fucking feel like getting familiar with anyone after a whole fucking 6 months when i didnt try getting familiar with a whole group of people who were the only ones im around. So now i have nobody to rely on in terms of study material, and i even start taking off on 1 or 2 weekdays just so my brain doesnt feel uncomfortable sitting 9 hours in that college feeling overwhelmed by bullshit and periods where nothing is covered significantly. At least when i start feeling a little better at home i get a huge fucking backlog and now i dont even get the time to pick back up, and second sem exams are here but i just want to get debarred and fuck out of here. I tried to learn things, but its just not for me and i dont want to be told to put effort when i never was fit for this type of shit. My hair is thinning staying up at night and i don't even feel like going out after spending too much time at this shitty place, and now i just want to tell it to their face that i dont want to get graded for their exams that im not fucking in for. I just want to take a different path im so tired

Accidentally deleted mine and i just thought it'd save a lot of time if someone was archiving their saves at certain points in the game. I just wanted to go past the tutorial where you recieve the mabel stuff and i wanted a chikorita, and i selected female player, but kinda not in the mood to do it all over again

If you know any way of manually rewriting save files to fake progress upto that part then pls tell thx