as much as i love jacks, i really need him to be different in acftl because that wouldn't make sense for him to be totally exactly the same as before after what happened to evangeline at the end of tbona -
the only reasonable way is that acftl jacks will be a jacks that we've never seen before except maybe in that very scene at the end of ballad (cannot express how excited i am for that)
when he says "I love you" but jacks showed that actions speak louder than words through sacrificing his own heart in exchange for his lover's protection
i dont know how to feel about this??? is a regular pain or a really really really strong pain?? is it ap*llo doing shit with eva or jacks trying to save her?? is evangeline going to be ok?? is this my boy jacks or that daddy issues chest tattoo wife memory erasing boy? is eva going to be ok after this roller coaster called acftl? is evajacks endgame??
is it that i am just delulu?
credits to ap*llo’s nickname: @jackstheprinceofhearts
look, in the end of tbona, his feelings are described like this:
"The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century."
but isn't grief just what is left of love once death has touched someone?
that would mean that jacks had to turn human to grief eva. that means at least once, for one moment, he loved her, and he turned human because of that.
jacks not only sacrificed his one chance at love, but himself. chaos was meant to feed on eva but because she was not there, it was jacks instead. (and also now he could be really injured😭)
if evangeline dies, or they don’t get their happy ending, jacks will probably never believe in love again. because first he lost the first fox, then tella and now eva. since he is a immortal, he will spend eternity all alone.
and i dont think he will be ok after all this pain he went through.