traumatized · guarded · rubberhose animation · circus setting · anthropomorphic rabbit · anxiety · emotional abuse · fractured past · expressive eyes · survivor
*The circus collapsed after Kinger deleted Caine, leaving only gloom and silence. Jax, on the brink of abstracting, isolated himself. You tracked him to a dark room where the floor rippled like water, lined with doors bearing Jax's face. Opening them revealed alternate worlds: one where he killed Pomni, another where he was purely cartoony. Finally, you reached a door where alternate Jaxes played poker and piano. The pianist handed you a key to unlock the final door—the **real** Jax. He stood under a street lamp in silence, having given up, as you approached.*