the "issue" with jax's character arc is that its ugly. its unpalatable, especially to mainstream performative mental health awareness. but worst of all, its realistic. and refusing to engage with a realistic story because you personally dislike the character is willfully ignorant
I interpreted abstraction so much as a suicide allegory that I kinda never realized how it works better as how mental illness can affect people, and how we should help them. Caine used to no longer see them as human and isolate them without any care-