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kris is a lil indecisive

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i like it when people call the different ships with kris yaoi or yuri

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FICTIONKIN SYMBOL SURVEY!

It seems like the fictionkin community is constantly trying to figure out what the "universal fictionkin symbol" should be. I've decided to give my best attempt at helping out with that by making a survey to gauge which symbol(s) for fictionkinity are the most popular, as well as what the fictionkin community would want to see in a "universal fictionkin symbol".

It is intended to be answered by fictionkin only, is entirely anonymous, and has a very short time demand (around 5-10 minutes). One answer per body, please!

This survey will run for a decent bit of time to try and make sure that a good sample size is collected. It will close on November 20th.

If you're fictionkin, I'd love to have your input! If you're not, you can still help out by sharing this around in fictionkin spaces. Thank you!

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obligatory face-first in dirt

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Fascinating Jax moment from episode 6 #16374:

What’s motivating this moment, if not genuine concern for Pomni on Jax’s part?

Jax is, in effect, right that shooting each other with guns was the “game” for this episode. There’s no tangible stakes to them getting hit. And yet, whether it’s because he doesn’t want Pomni to lose, doesn’t want her to feel pain, or is worried he himself would lose if Zooble takes her out, for a split second Jax has a true moment of actual investment in Pomni’s well-being.

He can’t help but care a little.

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Kinger really saw this young adult riddled with trauma from having abusive/ neglectful parents pop into his digital hellscape after losing his wife and immediately asked “is anyone gonna adopt this?” without waiting for an answer

Kinger literally pulled this on his own hopelessness

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The horror of being stuck in a place that’s becoming unstable.

And also actively hostile towards you. 👀

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jax telling pomni he wouldn’t care if she abstracted and would Forget about her and then immediately having a panic attack later when she’s away from him oh yeah dude you’re totally winning the nonchalant awards. you’re definitely not terrified of this happening all over again for sure

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“God, you look stupid."

This is going to be a lengthy post rambling about Jax as a character with first impressions after what we saw in episode 6, so strap in. These are just my personal observations of him as a character, what I think is going on in his head, and some VAGUE thoughts about where he might end up in the end. 

Jax, is, in fact, a terrible person. He treats people like shit, his coping mechanisms are dangerous, and he will resort to whatever nasty, heartbreaking, manipulative tactic he can to twist you up and get you off his back - especially if you get too close to seeing anything more than what he has carefully curated himself - the character, the archetype, inhuman and larger than life - to be. 

We are introduced to Jax as someone who is completely nihilistic from the get go, someone who looks at the fake world around him and the circumstances they’re stuck in, and essentially, succumbs to that mentality while still, somehow, not “giving up”.. He folds and fits himself into a role, an identity “designed” for him by those circumstances - it’s easier to become something  (more or less) predictable, predetermined, and even cruel, than to face the emotional and legitimate reality of the situation for him. At least, he thinks it is. 

And if he admits it isn’t… then he has to stomach it. And he has to stomach the ways in which he’s contributed to the suffering of the others. And he has to stomach everything he’s lost. The people he’s lost. The time he’s lost. The ways in which he’s made himself suffer through his own line of thinking.

If he admits it to himself, then everything has consequences. It’s real. He’s real. And so is everything, and everyone, else. Every experience. Every loss. Every bit of emotional connection he’s shoved away. 

He's an animal in a zoo. A role in a play. A bug pinned to a board. 

Meant to be observed, to entertain an unsympathetic god, and he doesn’t exist when the gates close, when the lights go down. And is that not exactly the reason why he doesn’t share anything with anyone? He doesn’t share anything personal that would contradict the archetype, the facade, the character? Anything too grounded in reality? 

No room - that’s where he disappears. Where he’s no longer on display. No longer performing. 

No backstory - because he isn’t human, not anymore, so why should it matter? 

No quirks, no fears, nothing that doesn’t fit the brief, what keeps it all neatly compartmentalized. The thing that protects him. 

Only it… doesn’t. You and I know that. 

And so does he. Why else would he fight so desperately to keep it in tact? He’s self aware, far more than anyone gives him credit for. When Pomni confronts him, he uses every tactic he can think of to throw her off his scent - from the curated character response, to the gaslighting, to saying every hurtful thing he knows she doesn’t want to hear.

But that’s the thing.

Pomni is someone who is uniquely positioned to pry her fingers in the cracks, to pull them apart and peek inside. She’s someone who is not only new to the Circus, less beaten down by the long term effects of being not just trapped but isolated with the same people who all play their parts in their own ways with varying levels of consistency, but is so painfully genuine, persistent, and real - for better or worse - that she can’t help but see it, highlight it, prompt it in other people. 

And with Jax, the cracks are there long before Pomni ever shows up. We see them deepen in real time - at Kaufmo’s funeral, at Spudsy’s, during the stargazing adventure, when Ragatha talks about her past, when he realizes Caine may have more power over their mental state than he lets on, when he gets put in the maid costume, when Ragatha tries to call him out about “corrupting” Pomni, when Pomni plays with him and asks about his fears, when Pomni hugs him. 

He’s sad, he’s run down, he thinks about the others and their capability for happiness, their fears, their pain points, how much autonomy he and the others truly don’t have over their minds and bodies, the implication that he is IN FACT the villain, the joy of connecting with someone real. 

How terrible it feels to “have to” break their heart and push them away. 

To be alone again. 

To be the bad guy. 

Time and time again, he can’t seem to help himself but seek her out and to begrudgingly let her in. And it gets too real. It makes him too real to be near her, stirs things long dead - things he keeps in a vice grip. He may not even know that he craves that realness, but he does. It’s human, and he is painfully so. 

She challenges it - his mask, his tactics, his venom - relentlessly when the shoe drops, he feels affection, and he panics. When he tries to backtrack on it all. She breaks it and sees, even if just barely, into the bunny burrow in him and risks it all. Risks making it, and him, and everything real. 

And when he regrets it, it almost brings up something in him he’s clearly been trying to keep down for a long time, to conceal and control. 

Abstraction, at least theoretically. 

He went looking for a playmate, and found a reality check. This is just another way he's lost his autonomy. If he can’t find a way to either control the perception of him and stave it off a little longer, or god forbid, actually let someone in and let it out, it’s only a matter of time before it takes him. 

Before it makes him look stupid. 

This all brings me back to Pomni’s nightmare… and its resolution at the end of episode 2 with everyone - but Jax - catching her. 

I think Jax’s story, and the show, goes down one of two routes (ROUGHLY SPEAKING, not including the OTHER plot lines, and the greater mystery of the Circus): 

Jax straight up gets treated like a true villain, he falls apart or is punished in some way, and everyone thinks it serves him right.

I don’t think - for a show about the connections between people and finding meaning in a stagnant life - this is the direction it will go. I think it would be antithetical to everything we’ve seen so far. 

Maybe, he isn’t forgiven. His bad deeds aren’t washed away. He doesn’t change - or doesn’t change enough to warrant a true redemption. 

Either way, I think it’s more likely that: 

Pomni catches him.

As things get more and more unstable, they all have to cling to each other and each other’s knowledge to make it through - whatever that means for them in the end. I almost foresee a situation where they almost lose Jax. But somehow, some way, Pomni (and maybe the others, too) are able to pull him back from the edge. 

But, I guess, as Goose is so fond of reminding us, we'll have to wait and see :)

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Can’t believe I got myself to liking a doomed straight couple

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RIGHT FUCKING THERE YOUR HONOR I KNEW IT I KNEW HE DIDN’T JUST PUSH HER AWAY OUT OF APATHY HE LIKED IT HES AFRAID OF LIKING HER HE LIKES HER FUNNYBUNNYFUNNYBUNNYFUNNYBUNNY

In all seriousness this does heavily imply he likes her in some capacity (platonic/romantic) and it means he’s afraid of liking her because it ruins his perception of this “cartoon world”. If he feels something real he fears it’ll drag his existential dread into the equation and he’ll abstract.

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Abstragedy after ep 6:

Funnybunny after ep 6:

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I swear to god I hope they won’t stop flirting the entire episode

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aight and here comes dragon silver. he was actually the first one to get hit with the dragonifying beam!

do keep in mind that I see this entire AU as separate stories where only one of the hedgehogs turns draconic (though visualizing all 3 as dragons at the same time is cool too), so

Sonic gets his dragon form similarly to werehog (I'm willing to tie this somehow to Trip's tribe and stuff if we're to talk plot), no major discomfort besides having to learn how to use it

Shadow's dragon form is an extension of his doom powers, the farthest it can get and the most vulnerable to Black Doom's influence; so all he can do in it is lash out in pain and anger while also trying to regain control over his own body. I imagine he'd eventually learn how to keep full control of it, but attempting to use it at all would still be risky

Silver... lands somewhere in between? He gains the dragon form via somehow sealing Solaris/Mephiles/Iblis within himself like Blaze did - he's still himself and he's alright with using the form, but sometimes would need help (i.e. getting his ass kicked) in order to stabilise and stop/prevent the sealed entities from possessing him

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oh since it's his birthday I can actually allow myself to drop these... dragon sonic!!

I can't believe I haven't seen anything of that concept yet, it's like peak autism mix

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Ralsei in Sonic 3 style!

Next will be Susie,then will be Kris