Heyo everyone! As you can tell from tell from the title, this is a TADC theory. And of course it's about Jax lmao. So, y'know how Jax is supposedly the jerk out of all the circus members?? What if he's just trying to protect them from going insane? Or in other words, abstracting. We already know that he has feelings (wowie) by the way his face suddenly turned emotional at Kaufmo's funeral?? So, he cares about all of them right? In a way, his bullying and pranks benefits both him, and every other circus member. We already know that he keeps sane by doing this, and by pranking others, he makes them focus on him, and all of their anger. Instead of focusing on their sanity. You see what I'm saying? And he targets Ragatha and Gangle right? That's because those two are probably the most likely to abstract. So yeah, that's my theory :)
