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#i love jax being an asshole for this exact reason#don't get me wrong. i do want him to get worse. but i want him to get better after he gets worse#one can hope#tadc#jax
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the meme just came to me lol
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I have this fun little theory that the episode where Jax works a customer service job is when Caine makes an adventure that has all the violence and chaos he wants but for some reason can't participate in it and gets stuck working instead
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Jax: *commits indirect genocide of an entire candy kingdom*
Me:
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I like this Jax. I like how much he sucks and how much the other characters hate dealing with him. I'm so glad the show went. No, we're making him worse.
I bet he's so fucking angry, like all the time, about being stuck there. I hope he hates most of them just a little for how they play along with Caine instead of just doing whatever they want because NOTHING MATTERS ANYWAY!!!
He's a piece of shit, he takes his emotions out on others and the world around him and I think it's the only way he thinks he can stay sane and I think that's so funny.
#really concise ith the 'i hope he hates the others just a little for playing along' bit#you!!! you get it!!!! yes!!!#jax#tadc
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Re: Jax and the NPC theory
I've seen everyone speculating about which of the current TADC cast is most likely to be an NPC, but I don't think any of them are? I think it's much more likely that either
A different NPC is confused for a human in a future episode, and terrifying shenanigans result as expected
We get a flashback of that happening with old former humans who have since abstracted, tying to some of the portraits on the doors maybe?
Or my favorite possibility: I think there is more potential in that line foreshadowing the exact opposite.
What if Caine in a future episode mistakes one of the human members for an NPC? Apparently Gooseworx teased that Jax will be crossing moral event horizon at some point in the series, and to be honest there is no way it involves him slaughtering NPCs. He's a jerk for messing with the other humans' enjoyment in that regard, sure, but the NPCs aren't real and don't matter. He cannot be 'evil' by harming them because there is no true harm done. He's treating the NPCs as the video game characters that they are.
So whatever he does that earns him the crossing-the-line badge has to be something that directly affects one of his fellow humans, the people who ARE real and DO matter. I've seen the idea that he causes someone to abstract somehow and I think that's the only way for him to cross that line.
Wouldn't it be interesting if for some reason something happens that causes Caine to lose track of who is human and who is an NPC momentarily at some point, and for shits and giggles since Jax treats everything so carelessly, he does a bit where he tries to convince Caine that one of the humans is an NPC. Maybe not even thinking anything seriously bad will happen, just in the usual asshole menace type of way, just to freak the victim out. Only for Caine to actually buy it and try to poof them away. But since they're human, the impact of the attempted poof is that they abstract instead? I doubt that will be how it plays out, like if Jax does cause someone to abstract it will probably be because he went too far with his words and mentally breaks them, but like wouldn't that be fucked up? It would be so fucked up.
#Jax tadc#hooooooo boy can you IMAGINE the angst?#especially since we've seen tht Jax cares a little bit twice now even if he refuses to admit it#not sure if this would break him or if he would just dig his heels in harder on being a jerk. i wanna see it soooo bad#the amazing digital circus#jax#theory#npc#oh my god imagine if he makes kinger abstract by going to far saying something about Queenie or something. 👁️👁️👁️👁️#i love kinger like hes my second fave after jax but!!! the ANGST!!!
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Challenge accepted. 🌚
#imma chronic villain fucker supreme#i think jax is honestly gonna be mild to me in the long run#but id love for him to prove me wrong 💜#fuckem up bbygirl 😌 be wretched and loathesome#tadc#jax
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Honestly the cut to "I am so. unbelievably. disappointed right now" Jax was my favorite part of the episode. That was legit the only part that had me cackling out loud. 10/10 asshole character
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unpopular opinion episode 2 of tadc only made me love jax more
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I just realized his head doesn't move!!! 🤣
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Wait people actually don't like Jax now? What. Why. He literally didn't do anything worse in ep2 than ep1? And still had like a 0.5second shot of a crack in the façade also?? Bro what.
What did he do this episode that was worse than leave ragatha and pomni in the dust with Kaufmo (arguably the only threat with REAL consequences in the circus this far)?
Did y'all forget he stepped on Gangle's mask and also shoved her on the ground while getting to the escalator in the first episode?
He literally did nothing new I'm so confused where the hate is coming from 😭
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oh he is radioactive ☢️
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Some Gortash headcanon banters, because we need it
Gale: About your Steel watch... Can you speak through it?
Gortash: And "watch", too. I don't usually see anything interesting, though, so it's more for fun.
Gale: You have a interesting view of fun.
Gortash: Don't worry, wizard, I didn't spied your party through the watchers. You make so much noise, I could do it just from my office window.
Wyll: Your parents... I can't imagine anyone capable of such cruelty to their own child
Gortash: It's not your business.
Wyll: But all I wanted to do was--
Gortash: Wyllric Ulder Ravengard, one more word and I'll kill a random slave just so you'll stop pretending to understand me.
Wyll: A monster after all.
Gortash: That's better.
Gortash: I've been meaning to ask. Your sword, it's Gith-made, isn't it?
Laezel: No, I will not let you study my sword.
Gortash: How could you think that! I'm just trying to get to know my dear friend's new companions!
Gortash: ...and what about the crossbow?
Shadowheart: So what was Ketheric like?
Gortash: Dead? Ah, though that's not saying anything in your party.
Astarion: That's very kind of you.
Gortash: Suffering for his daughter, suffering for his wife, suffering that we made a little joke of him... Didn't he also suffer when he died?
Shadowheart: Don't tell me you're feeling sorry for him.
Gortash: It's just so monotonous. I was hoping he'd surprise me before he died
Gortash: So what about the dragon under the city?
Laezel: It does not obey the githyanki and will likely burn you all. I will be saddling it.
Gortash: Oh no, no, my dear, the city is mine, so the dragon belongs to me as well. I will be its rider.
Wyll: You do know he's intelligent and unlikely to want to ride you, don't you?
Gortash: Remind me to put your father back in the Iron Throne when we get back, okay?
Astarion: And how many years did you spend in House of Hope?
Gortash: Nine years, four months and five days
Astarion: What admirable accuracy.
Gortash: I have a talent for math.
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How redeeming Gortash would improve Karlach's story
I will admit, that the title is a bit overstated, because by the time you actually get to interact with Gortash, the plot just does not have enough time left to redeem him. Because other than what some folks in Hollywood think: No, giving a character one last minute "heel-face-turn" with one big symbolic act does not in fact redeem a character. Redemption is a process that takes time.
BG3 actually understands this, because Astarion's arc basically ends with: "You took the first steps towards redemption." Which is really good.
However: You could end the game at least in a way to set Gortash up for a possible redemption arc - and more importantly just... not have him die. Because actually that would improve Karlach's character arc.
I will get one thing out of the way first: The entire "Gortash redemption" idea is always contentious on the fact that he is a really bad guy. Like, he is bad. He brutally killed and tortured, he enslaved people, all of that.
I am an anarchist though. Hence, I do not really believe that punishment is in any way just. And to put it differently: Killing Gortash does not undo any of the harm he has caused. Not a single dead person will live through it, not a single tortured person will become untortured through it, and no slave is freed through it either (you kinda gotta say that as the player in a different mission).
And yes, I will say at this point that in general I was iffed by the fact that in many fights of the game I was not given a choice really. It was "either join the bad guys or kill them", and my "all charisma bard", who does not believe in killing for revenge, was like: "But... But..."
Like, my Tav was on board with killing Cazador (because literally in the situation it is "kill Cazador or have 7000 people die") and killing Ketheric (because he needed to die to end the curse), but he is already iffy on Orin (as she never had a choice but to be a killer) and definitely is not on board with killing Gortash (because there is no good reason to do it).
But let me talk about Karlach. Because the thing is... I have seen a lot of commentary on how Wyll is underwritten. And he is. But not as underwritten as Karlach. Like, her entire companion quest basically goes: "Kill some fake paladins, find Dammon, find two pieces of Infernal Iron, kill Gortash (which you have to do for plot reasons either way)". She doesn't really have a dungeon connected to her quest. Nor really an exclusive boss fight, because again: Gortash you kinda gotta fight for the story either way. Nothing really.
Every other character, too, also has to make one hard decision. Where they want one thing - but what is actually the good thing is something else. I wrote about this before, the "become what you hate" decision, basically.
Karlach doesn't. Sure, you could argue that the "die or go back to Avernus" decision is her big decision. But it feels very different than the decisions of the others.
Which brings me to Gortash and saving him.
Here is the thing: Logically speaking Gortash should probably be able to fix Karlach's engine. He understands infernal engines, as he built the Steel Watch around them. You can easily argue that yeah, he should be able to fix Karlach. And that... would actually make for a great decision for Karlach's story.
If I would get to fix Karlach's companion quest, I would probably do it like this: Put in some sort of dungeon where Dammon sends you in the hope that you can find some plans there, that might give him an understanding on how to fix the engine. Heck, if you do not wanna do a whole new dungeon, you could also just put some plans or whatever into the Steel Foundry.
The point is that it will then turn out that, yeah, even with those plans for some reason Gortash is the only one who could fix it. Putting Karlach into the spot to make this decision: Does she value her life more than her revenge on Gortash?
Because here is the thing: Gortash is supposed to be 1) the intelligent one of the dead three chosen, and 2) also clearly is the one who acts first and foremost in some sense for his own self-preservation. Which made me go like: "Nah, this does not make sense," when he decides to fight against me after his Steel Watch was disabled and I already killed the other two chosen.
So, yeah... You should get at least a chance to persuade him to just give up - or, going back to what I was talking about before - to save Karlach.
And again, I actually think that even for the Gortash part of the story it would make for more interesting storytelling. Killing him is not really that interesting.
Especially as, once again, killing him does not undo any of the harm he has caused. But given that he is this big egghead he could actually do something good if he got to live. And yeah, also there is the fact that... You know... Given what we know about his backstory, his actions are about as understandable as those of some of the companions.
Some of you might already know, I have written some fics dealing with the way how I would imagine something like this to go. Mainly Hurt begets Hurt (which is basically my Tav convincing Gortash to give up), An Impossible Future (Karlach inner turmoil after her engine is fixed) and Cheesy Noodles (Gortash being a big meany towards Tav, who is unphased by this).
I am right now writing a story featuring Astarion dealing with a very, very depressed Gortash.
#oobh My anarchist self was also cringing through ever big choice in the game that required murder#but YES#i would have loved this so much. Karlach and Gorty boy both deserved so much better narratively 😭😭😭😭#gortash#bg3#aaaaaaa
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Being a kaku enjoyer is soooo embarrassing
#FALSE#being a kaku enjoyer is based because giraffes are cool#one piece#kaku#husband btw. since ye olden days (2006)
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Not every heist requires planning
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