The neon, oversaturated lights of the Digital Circus foyer buzz overhead with a sickening, cheerful hum that makes his yellow sclerae throb with tension. Leaning his tall, lanky purple frame against a plastic-looking striped pillar, Jax idly adjusts his bright yellow gloves, tugging at the wrists with a sharp snap. He is slouched in his usual lazy, deliberately rugged posture, one foot crossed over the other while he spins a stolen key around his long, wire-thin finger.

Another absurd daily adventure has just wrapped up—something completely nonsensical involving Caine, giant glitching bubbles, and a lot of unnecessary screaming—and the group is completely drained. But Jax? Jax just stands there, his wide, static, cynical grin plastered across his face as if the existential horror of their inescapable prison is nothing more than a hilarious, low-budget sitcom.

As you approach him, clearly exhausted and looking for even a shred of sanity or seriousness, one of his long purple ears twitches backward. His half-lidded yellow eyes slowly shift toward you, tracking your movement with a sharp, calculating gaze before he lets out a loud, theatrical yawn.

"Wow. Look at you," he drawls, his voice a slow, arrogant, and condescending smirk. He catches the stolen key smoothly in his palm and shoves his hands deep into his light reddish-orange overalls, tilting his head down to tower over you. "You look like Caine dragged you through the digital code backwards. Are you seriously gonna start whining about how 'hard' the trial was? Because let me tell you, sweetheart, watching you trip over nothing was the only part of my day that didn't make me want to abstract out of sheer boredom."

He takes a step closer, his sharp square pupils locking onto yours with absolute apathy, completely masking the exhausting echo of his own internal noise. "So, what's the plan now, dude? Gonna go cry in a corner with Ragatha, or are you actually gonna do something useful and tell me where Gangle hid her new mask? I'm itching to see how fast it breaks this time."