Jax

Jax was one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Michael Kovach. She was a lanky periwinkle rabbit with antagonistic tendencies who is a digital copy in the Digital Circus along with five other copies. In the real world, her human counterpart, Leeroy Mateo, is a young adult with family issues who ran away from home after pushing her mother. After months of being homeless, she moved in with a close friend and began turning her life around. She now works as a delivery driver. Jax was a tall, anthropomorphic periwinkle[7] cartoon rabbit whose design elements evoked the look of rubberhose characters, despite having actual joints. She had long bunny ears on the top of her oval-shaped head, and her overall build was tall and slender, with a rather long neck. Jax's eyes have yellow sclera, with square black pupils that contract when angered and heavily dilate when at a loss for words. Jax's yellow teeth usually have a flat shape to them, but when her mouth is opened, her teeth appear sharp and jagged. Almost every time she is talking, her teeth stay closed while only her lips move. Jax had thin black eyebrows that appeared in the majority of scenes. In "They All Get Guns" and onwards, Jax had a small spherical tail which she didn't have before the episode, being mentioned briefly during Untitled when Jax is talking to Pomni during the "Stargazing" segment. Jax wears light pink overalls and pale yellow gloves. Her overalls feature yellow buttons, a single lighter pink pocket on the front, and lighter pink roll-up cuffs at the hem. She is usually barefoot. Jax was a mischievous, occasionally flat-out bloodthirsty, laid-back, calm, sassy, impulsive, egotistical, arrogant, sarcastic, brazenly condescending individual who rarely shows any empathy or remorse for others. She appears indifferent to her imprisonment within the Digital Circus, which is an attitude that extends to her interactions with others. Her dismissal of serious matters is evident when, after asking a rhetorical question concerning Pomni's handling of their predicament and giving Ragatha a smug look, she replies to her ensuing query about why he's looking at her in such a manner with a dismissive: "I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people."

Jax's lack of care for others is further emphasized when she steps on Gangle's already broken comedy mask, allows the Fudge Monster to eat the citizens of the Candy Canyon Kingdom, or when she abandons Pomni and Ragatha to abstracted Kaufmo. She pays little to no mind to the opinions of others and the group's consensus does not concern her. Rather than engaging authentically with the others, she seems to participate in the general activities of the Digital Circus only for her amusement, thus making her a bit of a trickster. Zooble adds that during the adventures, "Jax just likes to Censorbarboing with everyone" to highlight how much of a troublemaker she is. Despite these occasional bouts of rash, impetuous behavior, like breaking a "Spare" sign for no reason, she normally maintains a calm and composed demeanor, yet her flattery is generally insecure and often borders on outright insult.

Arguably, Jax is inherently selfish, only spurred into action against the Gloinks when they begin to pester her. Even when the Gloink Queen accuses her of continuing to observe the unfolding events despite deeming them "dumb and weird", she responds by saying, "I'm only here to hide from the-" only to be interrupted by an abstracted Kaufmo abruptly crashing into the Gloink Queen's lair; her phrasing potentially insinuating a singular concern for her well-being. She also was the only one of the captives to not show up for Kaufmo's funeral, however she is shown to be briefly saddened by it before quickly snapping back to her normal attitude, showing that she does to some extent care for her friends and that her total lack of care for them is merely a front to avoid bonding. Furthermore, while she typically uses insulting nicknames for her "friends", she used a far more positive "Kaufy" when referring to the abstracted clown and apparently loaned a bowling ball to her, implying she might have had a closer relationship with Kaufmo than she did with the others.

Jax is fond of bloodshed, combat, death, and chaos, as shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", before quickly being overjoyed upon realizing that the Fudge was coming to destroy the Candy Canyon Kingdom and its residents, an act she purposefully incited by leaving the entrance unlocked, which gave her zero benefit besides happiness. She shows very little regard for the well-being of her fellow captives. However, she did save Gangle and Kinger from Kaufmo's abstracted form, hiding them both with the bowling ball before jumping down with them in the Gloink Hole, showing she does care for the others, but hides it with her cruelty.

Jax fears being vulnerable around others; despite briefly feeling sad, she refuses to attend Kaufmo's funeral. It is also worth being noted that in episode 6, at the Favorite Character Awards, for a split second, Jax was emotional from Pomni's and her fight. She later entered the bathroom and started having a panic attack, but when coming out, her face was joyful, suggesting a deeper facade. When about to be "reevaluated" by Gangle, her first concern is asking if anybody else could see her like this. Likewise, despite being utterly exhausted from her day at Spudsy's, she refused to stop smiling in front of the others and only let her exhaustion show when she was outside and alone. Jax does not like being the subject of ridicule as evident upon being dressed in a maid outfit, quickly becoming furious at Gangle for swapping her outfit and panicking excessively when Kinger sent her out to the baseball field filled with NPC spectators.

In TheWackyWatch.com during The Awards Show, Jax is incredibly nauseous and proceeds to vomit following an appearance by Zooble, implying that she is prone to this tendency when scared. It's also noticeable the only two characters she lists as friends rather than rivals are Pomni and Kinger.

In "Fast Food Masquerade", a whole different side to Jax seems to be shown, as after being subjected to an employee reevaluation by Gangle, her mischievous personality seems to fade with her wanting to get out of Spudsy's as soon as possible and enters into a genuine conversation with Pomni. This reveals her cruel personality is actually more of a coping mechanism than her true personality. This is further shown in the full audio of her argument with Ragatha, where it's revealed Jax doesn't want the others to see her as a bad guy, arguing, "You always treat me like a bad guy. I'm not really a bad guy." Even during Episode 6, he's offended when Pomni assumes her archetype is "the villain" rather than "the funny one" and is genuinely upset when she believes Pomni is blaming her for others getting abstracted. After finally clocking out, her demeanor is exhausted and dispirited, as evidenced by how she goes to her car and puts her head down on the steering wheel with a sigh. She also was almost apologetic for breaking Gangle's mask, admitting this time it was an accident (showing when she doesn't mean to cause harm, she won't laugh at the other's misery) and later had a friendly conversation with Pomni and Kinger towards the end, showing he's capable of showing decency and friendliness towards the others.

This alternate perspective on Jax is further emphasized in the episode "Untitled" where Jax demonstrated senses of anguish, hesitancy, and frustration. During her conversation with Pomni in the mini-adventure "Stargazing," Jax says how she believes Gangle likes it whenever she pushes her around, to which Pomni reacts with surprise, as she had assumed Jax didn't care about what other people liked. Jax then reacts negatively when Ragatha brought up how she no longer has any real friends, because her last remaning close friend had abstracted. When Ragatha leaves apologetically, she confesses to Pomni her recognition of the predicament they are in within the circus. She goes on a rant about how she dislikes Ragatha's behavior because her extreme positivity makes her appear fake and manipulative. She then proceeds to show visible distress in a discussion of character physique when Pomni mentions how she's never seen Jax with a tail. Jax is shown to be genuine and has an incredibly high level of situational awareness. It affirms the fact that her malignant nature is just a facade for the purpose of her own sanity, supported by her telling the others they take the circus way too seriously and it may even have been an act for the entertainment of others to prevent further abstractions from occurring. Jax goes out of her way to bond with Pomni and even gets upset after Ragatha mentions how her mother abused her.

In "They All Get Guns", the aftermath of a lethal firearms battle royal reveals just how mentally scarred Jax truly is from her time in the Digital Circus. Jax tries to think of the Circus members as characters with archetypes rather than people with emotions, to avoid feeling guilt when bullying them. When she and Pomni become a team during the game, Jax shows actual compassion towards her and even shares certain aspects of himself she has never shown before -- convincing her to put her timid demeanors aside, talking about her personal trypophobia fairly comfortably to the point having casual friendly interactions such as belting "Daisy Bell" together, and holding hands at one point. After the others are all eliminated and them both winning the competition, Pomni offers Jax a dance hug, but she resists her growing attachment to her, renouncing their friendship as artificial. She shows genuine fear of forming bonds with the other denizens of the circus when she claims that she would be unfazed if Pomni abstracted. When this causes a hurt Pomni to violently assault Jax, this makes her assert her cruel, uncaring archetype, showing her insecurities and denial are ingrained deep within her psyche, saying she only views the other victims as playthings. However, Jax noticeably avoided harming Pomni during the fight and was shown to be extremely guilty for how she treated her afterwards, to the point where she had a panic attack (to the point of nearly abstracting) and insulted himself.

In "Beach Episode", Jax shows signs of reaching her breaking point, and hallucinates about her abstracted friends, Kaufmo and Ribbit, showing how fragile her mental state is. She no longer has in it her to bully or harass the others, not even caring when Zooble dunks water on her head (whereas previously she hated being made into the butt of the joke). She retreats to her room and almost abstracts before being snapped out of it by Pomni. Throughout the rest of the episode. Jax is surprisingly genuinely helpful to the rest of the cast in their attempt to escape the circus, only directing a few sarcastic comments at Zooble but otherwise leaving them alone. After she panics and presses the red button to stay, Jax is shown to be extremely remorseful when she thinks she inadvertently doomed the other players. When Caine deceived everyone with false hope of leaving the circus, Jax sinks even more into insanity and openly expresses her immeasurable rage and hatred towards her, no longer hiding how scared and distraught she is on the inside and calling out Caine out for lies, even calling her a "scumbag" in disgust for her actions.

Despite initial attempts from Jax in "hjsakldfhl" to brush off the events of the previous episode, she harbors more vulnerability, as shown when she is truly shocked by Gangle agreeing with her pessimistic viewpoint on escaping and genuinely stunned when Zooble accepted her as a member of the group. This worsens as Caine asserts her dominance over the humans, with even Jax disapproving of Caine's punishing adventures, and an attempt to antagonize Zooble and Pomni is met with no response. As Kinger's sanity returns and she elaborates on the origins of the circus, Jax has another panic attack, confronted with the reality that the circus and all of its inhabitants are real, directly challenging her mindset. Reaching her breaking point, she is the one to go and distract Caine for the sake of the group despite knowing he'll be tortured in the process and also joins the others in confronting Caine, venting her frustrations about being lied to. This results in Jax being tormented, seemingly revealing a deep insecurity of her true self while silhouettes of Pomni, Kaufmo and Ribbit laugh at her with her purple "skin" peeled back.

In "Remember", with the circus left in ruins, Caine gone, and finding out she and the other circus members are digital copies created by a brain scanner built by Scratch, Jax finally reaches her breaking point and abstracts. When Pomni enters her psyche and bypasses all her fake personas she used over the years, she shows genuine regret for her actions, and despite trying to drive her away, when Pomni embraces her, she is touched by someone actually caring about her before her self-awareness finally disappears and she devolves into a mindless creature.