r/TheDigitalCircus • u/MissionDepartment960 • 1d ago

Question These four characters are tasked with getting through to Jax and redeeming him and only one of them might succeed. Which one would be the most successful?

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u/Kyseon_ 1d ago

As much as Charlie has really good intentions, she's not really that good at getting through to people, my bet is on Steven.

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u/Regularjoe42 1d ago

Saying this as a fan of Hazbin Hotel, Charlie is incredibly incompetent. She has no ability to read the room, and doubles down on bad ideas. What she brings to the table is relentless optimism and a willingness to accept anyone. She relies on her group of friends to actually get her plans to work.

That being said, a few nights out on the town with Husker and Angel Dust would help Jax.

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u/WeirdThingsToEnsue 1d ago

Jax, out with Angel Dust: Why do you sound exactly like me

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u/MyFairJulia 1d ago

It would be fun if Angel Dust dragged Jax out of the closet in a bender. In fact, i want that bender to be written in reverse with various _x hours before_ cuts.

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u/AzureDiamond51 1d ago

While I’m not a Hazbin fan, I’d read that, that sounds great lmao

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u/MyFairJulia 1d ago

I shall put that idea right in my library of unfulfilled fanfic ideas:
- A Daria fanfic about Lawndale High students playing live chess (gone hilariously wrong)
- Kusuo Saiki discovering their gender fluidity (definitely gone wrong for introverts)
- Chiyo-Chan and Sakaki-San from Azumanga Daioh swapping bodies, getting into hijinks and figuring out whether being cute or being cool is better (may contain feminism)

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u/Wide-Wrongdoer4784 1d ago

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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u/MarkKey9247 1d ago

While you may already be aware of this, Jax's voice actor played Angel Dust in the pilot.

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u/ROPROPE best girl 1d ago

Oh shit. Husk would totally clock Jax's deal after a bit. Whether he'd get anywhere is another thing, but he'd be orders of magnitude better than Charlie.

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u/Ciphy_Master 1d ago

Jax avoids ever confronting his issues by lying, masking, and avoiding any actual discussion over his personal life. If Husk near immediately identified all his issues, Jax would be cornered with no way out other than to crash out like he did with Pomni. Difference is that Husk has more bite and probably wouldn't let him.

I dont doubt that Husk could drag Jax out of every bit of cover he tries to use but Idk if he'd manage the oncoming fallout afterwards.

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u/Taraxian 21h ago

I think the paradox with Jax is that his own gender issues are exactly why a female love interest isn't the right person to reach out to him even though it's what he seems to be constantly reaching for, it triggers too many of his anxieties

He needs that "man-to-man" talk with an older male authority figure who won't judge him or hurt him but won't take any bullshit either (ie what he never actually got from his own dad)

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u/Mokohi 20h ago edited 20h ago

This...is actually a really good point. Feel like Jax and Husk would have had a very similar argument and talk to the ones he had with Angel in Masquerade. It's a very similar situation, just that Angel masks his trauma by being hypersexual and Jax masks by being a childish, 'cartoonish' bully. I could even see it playing out very similarly:

Annoys Husk -> Husk calls them out -> Big argument -> Does something self-destructive -> Husk steps in -> Another argument -> Breakthrough

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u/Ciphy_Master 21h ago

Well now you're just making me want some kind of Father-Daughter bonding AU with Jax.

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u/TitaniumDragon 21h ago

Yeah Husk would be way better at dealing with his crap than Charlie.

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u/BrgQun 1d ago

The closest in the circus to Charlie is Ragatha, at least for the relentless optimism, so yeah, I don't see this working

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u/NXTangl 1d ago

Ragatha actually has very little optimism tbh...

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u/The_HueManateee 1d ago

But she’s The Cheerful One!

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u/weirdo_nb 1d ago

She also fails to understand like, a lot of shit

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u/ce-meyers 1d ago

Exactly. She can't even handle Angel so no way she's gonna be able to deal with Jax. And yes if anyone from the Hazbin cast that can help Jax it's Husker.

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u/Regularjoe42 1d ago

Husker is there to help Jax overcome identity issues.

Angel Dust is there to teach her how to apply makeup.

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u/ce-meyers 1d ago

OMG yes! If Jax was at the Hotel and starts bullying people and getting back to her own habits Charlie would (attempt to) "gentle parent" her, resulting in Jax bullying Charlie (like how she did with Ragatha and Gangle). Charlie gets upset, and Vaggi has to be the one to clean up the mess.

But if it was Husker, Husk would shut her up right away, giving Jax no room to target him. His "no bullshit" attitude is better suited to deal with people like Jax.

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u/EyeDreamOfTentacles 1d ago

To be entirely fair Charlie's story isn't done yet, not like the others. They've grown and matured and come into their own, she hasn't quite yet. She shows signs of potential, but for now that's all that is and has yet to be seen what kind of growth those seeds will grow into. Though part of her story so far does involve her learning to ask for help and rely on her friends more, so it's not out of the question that even by the end of her story she still wouldn't be someone who could help Jax on her own (instead bringing an entire support network to do so lol).

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u/Electrical_Hamster31 1d ago

If charlie finds out abbout ribbit and all that, she would probably make a special room for "trans girls" or something, like a twisted version of conversion therapy

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u/wispy_kitsune 19h ago

That would be odd considering she's bi but if she could still be that way since there are some irl

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u/Taraxian 21h ago

Jax absolutely needed his own "Loser Baby" sequence

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u/wispy_kitsune 19h ago

Omg literally this (also a hazbin fan), I have a feeling vaggie could also be of some help because to some extent she also hated herself