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taddymason · 11 months ago

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A fun example of jay being a violent guy, it’s a skybound clip (hoping this link sends) https://x.com/legotim82/status/1813002886730682705?s=46&t=gUEBy-jzuRkP_f6TD5QNig Jay just went for the kill in this, he straight up forgot the sword seals them away. Makes sense why he would go for the kill in order to defend Kaida. He’s just a bit of a violent lad

I was just thinking about this topic about "Evil Jay" and the things he can do when I got this ask hjsvkh

yeaah I agreed if Kaida's life is in danger, the guy goes completely crazy, no doubt (although Kaida is much worse in that regard if Jay's life is in danger but that conversation for another day-)

Now I don't think Jay is an inherently violent person who enjoys doing those things or can do them with a cold, calculating mind, that's not Jay. He's the type of person who makes bad/violent decisions in the heat of the moment, in the middle of a fight where adrenaline and his own impusivity lead him to not really think about morals and stuff. I will always say this, but if you compare him to the rest of the team, he is the most morally questionable, that's why I don't understand when people say he's a pacifist. At least in this AU, one of his biggest problems is that he really does bad things, feels terribly guilty, justifies himself not having to think about it, and then makes those same decisions again the first chance he gets.

It's funny because I've recently seen this discourse recently about whether or not it's realistic for Jay to be a villain or do bad things. But we have already seen him in DR be deliberately negligent with the lives of the people his department relocates. And that EVEN if he didn't see the point in arresting Zane&Bonzle he was still going to do it. Idk there you have a guy with doubts and uncertainty doing bad and negligent things because he doesn't really want to reason about another alternative or why they are wrong. Obviously we won't get an "Evil megalomanic Jay" but a Jay who does those things in the name of obedience because that's how indifferent he has become.

#I think Jay is more likely to do “bad things” as long as he doesn't see the consequences of his actions #with how things work in his department #like. haha funny. cloud people in the underworld but also #prob a lot of people end up in a place they shouldn't #and that's not incompetence on Jay's part. It's simply indifference #It's just a job for him he doesn't really stop to reason what happens when his employees make a mistake #(He's not that irresponsible in this AU as a manager but that's only because as a father he doesn't want to lose his job either)#I don't know how to explain it exactly in words but sometimes I imagine him in this AU as Jesse in BB #but thats just me #dad jay au #The next chapter of LP is actually quite about this

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