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"Why is Jax afraid of corn?" "It reminds him of the farm."

TADC episode 5 spoilers under the cut

With the revelation that Jax's friend, Ribbit, abstracted before Kaufmo, and that he is canonically afraid of corn, I've got a theory. Jax's fear of corn comes from the Farm adventure, where Ribbit abstracted. Just by seeing the vegetable it reminds him of it...

You can also see I put his tail there as a jab to the theory that Jax lost his tail when Ribbit abstracted, since real life rabbits lose their tails due to trauma or injury.

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Following the release of TADC episode 5, I have made a liiiiittle change to my AU.✨🐸🤝🐰✨

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Hey yall!

To my surprise, I haven’t seen many people talk about this scene.

Moment when Jax suddenly becomes a vegan during the adventure.

Which is strange, considering that - ever since the pilot we’ve known from Kane that:

“One of the few things I don't have control over are your minds.”

After digging into it a bit (since Kane is an AI, and I’m definitely not an expert in that field), I think I’ve found a way to explain it.

So, Zooble says:

Does this mean that participants (not just Zooble, but anyone) can alter each other’s mental states?

Yes, BUT - only within the adventure structure.

Here’s how it works

An “adventure” is a controlled simulation that includes:

• Structure,

• Narrative frame,

• Reset resolution,

• And the ability to install temporary ��perception rules”.

When a character (like Zooble) says:

“Let’s make Jax a vegan for the rest of the day.”

they’re basically assigning a variable:

Jax.isVegan = true (while adventure_active)

That variable doesn’t just change behavior

It overwrites part of Jax’s mental structure. So deeply, in fact, that he doesn’t even realize it’s happening.

(Which explains why he freaks out a bit when he notices it.)

When the adventure ends, all temporary mental modifications are rolled back.

Honestly… this creeps me out a little. If this logic holds, you could (probably) write in any mental override for a character - as a joke, or not.

What do ya think?

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fwog

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Funny doodles

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abstragedy ran so that your favourite boring toxic het ship could fall on its ass and die.

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@gooseworx PLEASSEEEE WHAT IS THE FROG’S NAME??!?!!? I BRING AN OFFERING!

You have shared Queenie’s name before. 🥺

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kinda messed up that people are more forgiving of Jax for his own coping strategy and not Ragatha for hers... like they're all trapped here together, they all have problems, and sometimes people clash over opposite coping methods.

Its not about taking sides, Pomni wants to be on good terms with everyone. She even brought up Kinger's wife, hoping it would be an opportunity for everyone to know more about him.

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round

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i need to see them fist fight

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evil jax be like you look nice today

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your existence is an issue.

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So how's your friday going

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FOUND A STRANGE COMPUTER!😱EXPLORING AN ABANDONED OFFICE PART 1!🤯

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Okay I watched the new TADC episode. Absolutely wild, amazing lore drops but I have a theory about the Mannequin that I'd like to talk about.

My first initial thought was that this a self aware NPC that Caine missed. But then I rewatched the episode...

As Jax walks past the doors there's Kaufmo, a normal Mannequin and a Frog guy (presumably an old friend of Jax that abstracted) We know that Mannequins are used as placeholders for the characters. So maybe we can see it as some type of default skin. It seemed weird to me that there was a door shown with a Mannequin on it and not a picture of Queenie for example. Why didn't they choose another abstracted character? And then I thought back to a weird scene in which Jax mentioned that his tail went missing. Pomni kinda giggles at this and says how he never had a tail to begin with. But Jax seems so distraught by this. Which could imply that he actually had a tail at some point. Caine is somewhat capable of changing their appearances for certain adventures. But what if his AI glitches and things disappear? What if a new player enters the circus and they are left with the default mannequin skin? So they go unnoticed. I may be completely wrong on this but it could be an interesting concept to explore. Especially to show that Caines AI is going off the rails.