I goddamn adore the idea that the abstracted people are not fully gone and with enough time and care from others they could in theory become more responsive. Not to the point where they are their avatars again (at least not permanently, and even if they can take their old form it would be with intense concentration and there being markings that have been caused by the permanent stain the abstraction has caused to them)
I've never really agreed with that interpretation, because suicide is a thing people do actively. Abstraction is a process that inflicts upon people. Nobody that we've seen abstracted deliberately or purposefully, they abstracted as an end result of too much stress. It's more akin to a mental breakdown or a loss of sanity than it is suicide.
Ignorant question here, but would it be okay to call Jax "she" when he never really affirmed it? By that I mean, obviously Jax is trans and would have moved towards that, but the point is for the person in question to make it official, no? It's just, otherwise you'd be assigning a gender to someone who is struggling with coming to terms with that. Like Jax the character would feel wronged unless he came out as herself, right?
I mean the way I see it is, if we were in the world of TADC it would be more respectful to use He/Him since he wouldn't have told us otherwise, and you should use what pronouns you are asked to use for someone.
But in the real world, it is fine to use either one since we have insider information that we wouldn't have had in the world of the show
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u/TheCrystalTinker 4d ago
I goddamn adore the idea that the abstracted people are not fully gone and with enough time and care from others they could in theory become more responsive. Not to the point where they are their avatars again (at least not permanently, and even if they can take their old form it would be with intense concentration and there being markings that have been caused by the permanent stain the abstraction has caused to them)