>>47794>making all of the bodies like this way was a mistake, because it directly exposes everyone's greatest personal hangups. Yes, that's my point. Caine doesn't understand the nuances of human minds, he interprets things fairly literally. If Jax was actually trans then it would be a lot more blatant because Caine doesn't do subtle.
>the comment about having "masculine" ears and tail (literal dysmorphia) That was just a joke. It's a meme; "You may not think it but 'X' is Peak Masculinity". Nothing to do with dysmorphia.
>the shadows of themself in the torture scene What? The shadows in the 'torture' scenes are Pomni, Kaufmo and Ribbit, people he considers his friends, its about him being exposed and open to others, and a fear of being laughed at and tormented by his friends, thus why he pushes people away, that isn't trans exclusive, not even close.
Also the Mirror motif is mostly regarding Pomni and her dissociation with her cartoony body rather than dissociation with being male or female. Humans don't look like that, ergo dissociation, not sexuality related.
And again Real Jax didn't transition and Zooble is evidence of Caine taking dysmorphic mental issues very literally.
>The state of mind in which they press the red button must then be an intense fear of whatever they are failing to repress at this time The fear is that he and everyone else in the Circus are real people, because it would mean that his toxic behavior drove at least two people to ego-death (as far as he knows).
>don't see daddy issues or even abject poverty conferring the same kind of existential terror See the above, the terror is consequence of his actions being real, because he's a toxic asshole that doesn't own up to his shit, thus why he tells Pomni that he wouldn't care if she abstracted and that they were never friends, because allowing that would mean admitting to himself that he's a shitty person. Being trans is irrelevant to it.
>there remains a conspicuous abence of most indicators of gender Because Caine, of his own volition disliked sex and other non-child-friendly aspects and therefore eliminated it. They're all toybox caricatures, sexua
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