TBH I was kind of cringing, waiting to see what they’d do with Jawbreaker and I’m very glad my fears were unfounded. Jawbreaker is a super sweet, well-considered character who gives me big “boys I’ve had crushes on in the past” vibes, he’s got old-school Cloud Cuckoolander vibes which is always the way I’ve preferred to receive my autistic rep, and I really like that the Earthspark team wants us to perceive him as a very compassionate, very caring, and that when there’s cross-communication issues, it’s not always Jawbreaker’s fault -- sometimes it’s the fault of the allistic characters around him who don’t listen, or expect him to communicate in a way he’s not prepared to do.

It’s just very sweet. I think Earthspark has a very loving attitude to the call-ins they make, there’s a real understanding that you can’t just write to the audience that knows someone like the character, you also need to write to the audience who would see themselves in that character. So often characters who are strongly coded neurodivergent come pre-judged by the narrative and have to narratively spend time endearing themselves to the audience -- Jawbreaker in contrast just gets to exist and be treated with full narrative agency from the start.