>>149001182
>So the only options for Jax is for him to be miserable, or for him to be happy by making other people unhappy.
You have a staggeringly low threshold for what "miserable" looks like.
And a bizarrely binary view of the character, conveniently locked on one side to the headcanon that facilitates your abuse fetishism.
I'm not even arguing that he's not an asshole, but you seem remarkably inflexible on imagining him as anything but what your toxic fanfic requires.
>1
Why is he completely unbothered by the Gloink Queen? Why does he take charge in talking their way back to the kingdom with a giant fudge monster?
>2
Gangle asks him what he wants directly, and he says a battle. The thing at the end may as well be him being petty that he didn't get one - but he seems mostly pleased that he got one over on everybody, and doesn't try to watch.
>3
...Mate, all he does is roll his eyes and leave. He was also tied up for nearly the entire adventure, and is probably just disappointed she doesn't share because he knows he won't get anywhere by asking Kinger.
>4
>seems completely defeated
So, the problem you seem to be having here is you can't distinguish between Jax backing off on his antics and Jax being reduced to a defeated, soulless husk, because you are so fixated on the idea that his entire soul is "trololol" all the way through. But he doesn't act like a husk - have you never seen a bored person, anon?
Fuck's sake, I don't even want to defend Jax but your headcanon is something else. I can't fix you, anon.
>>149001577
That anon is deeply invested in Jax's behavior being pathological because it fits his "tragic Bunnydoll" ship. What we see is that Jax has the capacity to choose not to act the way he does - he is capable of restraint, and it's in more than just episode 4 - but he instead chooses to act the way he does. In a vacuum, IMO this actually makes him a WORSE person.
Why he does this is a question the series hasn't seriously asked or answered yet.