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>How is Jax's behavior not making things worse?
I didn't say it doesn't. Jax's behavior is a coping mechanism by masking and molding his character into something different from his actual persona, that is why he targets Gangle so heavily as he see's himself in her coping mechanisms and how they don't actually work longterm. But the problem with Jax is that if he actually drops the character he will drop the emotional dissonance with it and he won't be able to process his grief. That is why he almost goes into abstraction in the bathroom scene, it's not because of his coping mechanism but the level of stress that came with Pomni forcing him to try and drop it, he is so pathologically ingrained into this form of emotional dissociation that he is potentially too far gone to be able to address his inner demons. That is why the conflict will be Pomni trying to reconcile him but at a gradual pace to avoid him abstracting, she already tried the hard and fast route last episode so with the next episode or two she will learn that she needs to be more subtle as well as patient with breaking Jax out of it.