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    "We were so worried, we heard you—" Ragatha starts, and then looks up. She meets Jax's gaze dead-on, and goes silent. Tears brim in the corner of her eye. Her hand flies up to cover her mouth. He can't tell if the look on her face is relief or fear.

    Gangle's staring at him like she's seen a ghost. Pomni slowly raises to her feet, brows furrowed. She winces as every movement jars her wavering form.

    Cowered on the floor, panting, confused and disoriented, with everyone standing above him, taller than him… it reminds Jax of something deeply unpleasant. They're all staring at him. They're all seeing him.

    Jax knows they're not going to like what they see.

    His breath quickens until his head is spinning, and he feels like he's going to vomit. He forces himself upwards with a frustrated cry, swaying in place, and then turns and bolts towards his room as fast as he can.

    "NO!" Pomni screams.

    (or: pomni pulls jax back from the brink.)

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    12 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 25

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    Nobody really believed that unabstraction was possible. Nobody...except for Pomni.

    Jax's words rang in her head every day. "I don't wanna go." His final plea, his last desperate grasp at life. It didn't matter what he'd done, he deserved to live just as much as they did. She wasn't going to let it be ignored.

    Now that her plans have worked out better than anyone could have expected...Jax has to grapple with the fact that he's conscious again. Not only that, but every horrible thing he's done is getting a second chance to eat at him.

    All that's left for him is a group of people who care for him, and a lot of apologies that need to be made.

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    11 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 22

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    !!! SPOILERS FOR TADC EPISODE 9 PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE FINALE !!!

     

    After Jax abstracts, Pomni is making peace with what is left of him, often visiting the dark tent the others built to keep his corrupted form calm. She knows he is gone, still, she finds comfort in his presence nonetheless. But when Caine mistakes her situation for something he can fix, he searches through the circus’s archived files and accidentally restores Jax from his original brain scan — the version of him from the day he first entered the circus.

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    09 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 43

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    Made after the events of Episode Nine!!
    I'm going to put the summary as Chapter One, to avoid any accidental spoilers. I tried to avoid spoilers in the tags as well, but please don't read until after you've watched The Last Act!

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Rec 19

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    [SPOILERS FOR EP. 9 The Last Act!] I repeat! [SPOILERS FOR EP. 9 The Last Act!]

    If you haven't seen that DONT READ THIS.

    Gangle wakes up one night with a realization about Jax's behavior three months after he abstracted. Overwhelmed with blurry emotions she goes to be together with him one on one.

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    08 Jun 2026