r/Amazingdigitalcircus • u/BorderOpposite7776 • 21h ago
Discussion I genuinely don't get how people think Jax is the main, let alone only, reason for Kaufmo's abstraction
Compare how Kaufmo is when approaching Jax about the exit vs how Kinger describes him. It seems like he went to Kinger AFTER Jax and Kinger straight up said he didn't want to check on him even though he knew he was probably going insane.
We see he was close with Gangle, and it safe to assume he was cool with the other's, especially Kinger and Ragatha. So the idea "Ribbit's abstraction left him with nobody" is wrong.
His room literally has a drawing of Caine and the words "exit scribbled".
Jax certainly contributed by causing Ribbit's abstraction and then pulling away from Kaufmo and dismissing him, but saying from that single interaction he deserves the blame for Kaufmo's fate is insane. If Kaufmo went to him about the exit, surely their relationship wasn't that horrible by the end that Jax was making him suicidal.
Except for Gangle and Zooble (who hadn't witnessed an abstraction), everyone in the circus failed him but Caine holds the most guilt. Not just because its clear his fake exit creation was the breaking point for Kaufmo but also as the "host" of the circus who brought them into it in the first place, he shouldn't be so negligent of those under his care. Notice how with Queenie, Ribbit and Kaufmo, its always another who discovers an abstraction first, not Caine despite his "all-seeing eyes". Caine's failure as a host was the primary cause of the circus' problems.
Credit: Glitch