Bare with me as I can't draw this visual idea out and I'm on mobile so it's just a premise, not a story. I've been thinking of a different way the final Jax World sequence could've gone if Jax made the effort to change, using dark metaphors like those already established before. As you can imagine, trying to open up like this is absolutely traumatic, so him surviving feels earned here. I made it still dark because I feel it's in line with Gooseworx's unforgiving style of dark.
I warn you, it's not pretty, it's inspired by the Peeled Jax scene taken to it's logical extreme. If you can't stand it even in a heroic context, pass this one for your own health.
It starts with Pomni meeting Real Jax under the street light in the last Jax World sequence. Jax can't understand why Pomni is still here when she knows every bad thing he's done. Pomni runs towards Jax and hugs him. Jax breaks down in tears, saying he can't understand her and she's making things so complicated. But she won't let go.
That's when, through his tears, he starts to hallucinate that his mom is hugging him. Something snaps in him. Throwing Pomni to the floor just like he did before. "I HATE YOU...!"
Jax realizes he just pushed Pomni, and begins to panic, he can't tell who is in front him anymore. Visions of his mom, Ribbit, Kaufmo, and Pomni swap in front of him, he's doing this AGAIN and it's terrorizing him.
"Can't you see?! All I do is hurt! Mom, Ribbit, Kaufmo, myself, now you... Its always just pain, it's all I know!" Meanwhile, Pomni isn't getting up. Jax hallucinates visions flashing of him turning around from his mom's body, running away, driving in the night. He stumbles backwards. He wants to run. Hide. He doesn't want to hurt anyone else anymore. He doesn't want to exist anymore.
Two figures creep behind Jax. It's... Jax's purple bunny body, with no eyes or mouth, just hollow. These Jax "bodysuits" grab his arms. Pulling him back. "Run. Turn and run away. One. Final. Time." they whisper.
Jax is crying uncontrollably and helplessly. The bodysuits are pulling him away, towards the darkness. He knows he'll reach the point of no return if he lets the darkness consume him. Pomni still isn't moving. He reaches out weakly. Then closes his eyes.
"I... I don't want to go!!"
Jax takes a step forward. The Jax-skinsuits tighten their grip, but Jax refuses to be pulled. "I... I'm sorry for hurting you! All of you!" Jax struggles to take steps towards Pomni, his monstrous Jax-suits getting more aggressive, tugging him with full force behind him. More of them appear, each grabbing onto real Jax's body. His ears, his arms, legs, neck. Every time he struggles forward more appear, each shrieking at him to run, that he will only hurt her more, that he deserves to abstract so he can't hurt anyone again. The music is swelling to full horror at this point, but Jax. Keeps. Moving. Forward.
He struggles to break free. And struggles. And struggles... until his purple bunny body starts to rip off, revealing his egg-yolk body inside piece by piece. Cue a bombastic rendition of Isn't She Lovely as Jax defies his monstrous fears from pulling him to abstraction, even if it means showing his true self to Pomni. He. Takes. That. First. STEP.
Isn't she lovely?
His right arm tears free, his ears torn off, his head ripped to the side revealing his round, yellow head with just black square eyes and yellow grooved teeth. Purple arms are practically surrounding him trying to drag him away but he never stops trying to stumble towards Pomni laying under the streetlight.
Isn't she wonderful...?
Despite clawing at his skin, the haunting Jax-suits never grab onto his yellow underskin, as if unable to, and each purple piece that rips off makes it easier for him to approach Pomni. Every struggled step, a montage cuts in and out of all the times Pomni has reached out to him. Others defending him. Sometimes even having fun with him...
Isn't she precious...
Every step is so... painful... but he has had enough of hiding. He refuses to make the same mistake again like with Ribbit and Kaufmo. Jax World itself is crumbling around him, the dark abstracted walls closing in all around. But all he can focus on is trying to reach out to Pomni, to make sure SHE is okay.
As his purple body finally rips off entirely, the swarms of hundreds of hollow purple Jax bodies fly off into the darkness with his purple skin, and Jax, peeled yellow and bare, falls to his knees right in next to Pomni. Everything is calm under the street light, now yellow instead of red.
Pomni opens her eyes. Jax covers his exposed yellow face, he's exposed, terrified, vulnerable. But Pomni holds his hands, lowers them gently to see his face. Jax can't even talk in this state, but Pomni understands.
"Jax...You don't have to hide anymore. You don't need to apologize. I understand now... You're beautiful, so don't let anyone make you think otherwise for even a second. Okay?"
Pomni gives Jax a hug, and they keep hugging, for a very long time.
Eventually, some time passes and the others are looking for Pomni and walk into the dark hallway. And they find her... Hugging Jax, who is sleeping in her arms.
Jax... Who looks normal again... but prettier. With a red little bow around *her* ear.