Jax Amboy

Jax

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Sand Warrior, The Cobalt Prince, The Red Maze, The Amber Anthem, The Emerald Gate

### Debut

The Sand Warrior

Jax Amboy is a protagonist in the Five Worlds comic series. He often wears a golden Starball uniform, sometimes a plain shirt and pants over it, and has brown skin and teal blue hair. His eyes match his hair and are angulated slightly.

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## The Sand Warrior

Jax is a famous Starball player who is performing on Beacon Day. During the attack at Starball Stadium his arm is crushed beneath the rubble. Oddly, multiple times his reactions are unusually delayed, including his reaction to losing his arm. He follows Oona Lee and An Tzu through the rubble and they eventually arrive at his Uncle's house, where it is revealed that he is actually an android and he gets a new arm. Later he helps Oona get the White Beacon where she can light it.

Also, at his uncle's house, Jax's new arm shows the order in which the beacons are supposed to be lit, and can shoot energy beams.

## The Cobalt Prince

Jax "sacrifices" himself to stop rouge Toki ships from attacking Oona and was believed dead by Oona and An Tzu, having crashed onto Salassandra on board the Toki ship. At the end of the book, he returns, and, as Oona and An Tzu note, he "seems different."

## The Red Maze

Jax tells the story of what happened to him. After sacrificing himself on Salassandra, he was dying. He met a group of mysterious creatures called the Devoti, and bonded with one of them. He discovered that the Beacons have to be lit in a different order (via his hand) before returning to Oona and An Tzu.

Jax rejoins Starball and confesses to his team mates that he used to be an android (now that he is bonded with the Devoti, he has human emotions). The leader of his Starball team plans to reprogram him, and eventually does so successfully. But An Tzu manages to reawaken Eske (the Devoti he bonded with), overriding the reprogramming. Jax goes with Oona and An Tzu after this.

## The Amber Anthem

Jax is trying to convince people to help him, Oona, and An Tzu light the Yellow Beacon. Suddenly, Oona is attacked by a evil android that looks just like Jax (it is the only survivor of the Jax army that was built and destroyed, unbeknownst to Jax, in the Red Maze) and Jax must fight it off. Later in the book he sings the Amber Anthem in the place of the Devoti.

## The Emerald Gate

Jax continues along in the quest, but doesn't have many important parts in the book until the end. In the Battle of the Emerald Gate, Jax is a powerful fighter, and is seen defeating his evil clone.

## Relationships

### Oona

Oona is originally angry at Jax in the Sand Warrior, because he was playing Starball on Beacon Day. She eventually warms up to him and now they are close friends.

### An Tzu

An Tzu was Jax's #1 Starball fan until he found out he was a robot. After that An Tzu would often call him "Bot Boy" and was angry at him, feeling lied to. But he also warms up to Jax as the stories go on, especially as Jax becomes more human; their relationship seems to almost be romantic in nature, especially in the later books, as Jax seems to exhibit a special care for An Tzu and An Tzu feels the same way about him. Jax acts very attentively to An Tzu’s mood and upon several occasions the two appeared to almost kiss.

## Trivia

* Jax does not have pupils (eyeballs) in the Sand Warrior, but when he bonds with Devoti, he gets them. When he is reprogramed in the Red Maze, his pupils disappear again, and he does not get them back until An Tzu reawakens Eske.
* The reason Jax's reactions are delayed in the Sand Warrior is because he doesn't actually have emotions and cannot feel pain as a robot. In the Red Maze, he describes what it feels like to suddenly have emotions.