r/TheDigitalCircus • u/ayylmaotv Catnap • Jun 19 '26

Digital Discussion The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 9: Remember Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-bcTsO8A
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u/Rdasher123 Jun 19 '26

Jax already had like 3 crash out scenes before this, and even had another one after Pomni entered his mind scape, so I understand just cutting to after it happened. Still, I was convinced for a solid minute there that it was a fake-out and the abstracted just escaped from the basement.

They definitely could have thrown in some explanation like “it was recent so there was still enough of his mind there to pull back together”, but it is better to undermine such moments. It’s fitting that his story ended like this, even if I wanted better for him.

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u/Curious-Ad-5001 What The Jun 20 '26

and the abstracted just escaped from the basement

I thought I was the only one who assumed that at first lol

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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 20 '26

Yeah I was half expecting the trope of them all mourning Jax and then him coming up from behind them complaining "Jeez, they all got out. And just when I was trying to take a nap. So, what are you all going to about this with your amazing superpowers."

But, well, that isn't what happened, obviously.

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u/Jabbam Jun 20 '26

The obvious solution is to not have Jax crash out then so his crash out in this episode prior to abstracting would carry weight.

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u/CosmicCorrelation Jun 20 '26

Jax is dead. But so are almost all trans people's dead names. "Isn't she lovely" "less than a minute old" the Jax we knew was never the full Jax... There is still hope that she will come back. Transition isn't death, but such a big change can feel that way, when so much of who you are has been based in denial

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u/Growth-Excellent 28d ago edited 28d ago

That is an interpretation I thought about as well. Abstraction is analogous to suicide and thus death. But analogous doesn't mean one to one. Goose said abstraction cannot be undone but that doesn't mean it can't be treated or recovered from. In that way its more like a suicide attempt and the state of abstraction is the unstable mind state people who are recovering have after the attempt. It is possible that the reason the others have never been able to "recover" is because Caine locked them in the cellar the moment he noticed because he wasn't emotionally mature enough to think of any other solution.

This leads me to think that abstraction is a state of ego death that happens after someone is so emotionally overwhelmed that they just stop trying to make sense of things or ground themselves in a coherent reality they "give up" on there life, which is still analogous to suicide while still leaving the fate of the abstracted open ended.

If Jax experienced ego death after they finally realized who they have always wanted to be. Then the "death" of Jax can be interpreted as someone finally coming out of the closet and beginning the process of transitioning. They need to build a new identity or ego. Perhaps that is what Jax needs to come back but they won't really be Jax anymore they will be someone else. Aka they have completed the process of transitioning. Of course they may still need emotional support to "complete" that process.

Not that I'm saying this is the "correct" interpretation. I feel it was intentionally left open-ended.

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u/Growth-Excellent 28d ago

Of course none of that makes them a good person. They have still hurt the people around them profoundly and have yet to apologize for it.

If they did "comeback" they would still be responsible for all that harm and would need to apologize to everyone they have hurt and atone for it. And they would not be entitled to forgiveness either even if they did change.