Gangle

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1. #1Human life

   Keys: , old life, life as a human, human life · Secondary: her, Gangle's

   Before she had put on the headset, Gangle was a 26-year-old woman who lived in New Zealand and was living a relatively unhappy life as a worker for a restaurant known as "Spudsy's". This is about one of the few things Gangle can remember however, because like all other humans who put on the headset that put them inside of the Digital Circus; Gangle doesn't remember what her real name is.

2. #2Mother

   Keys: Mother · Secondary: her, Gangle's

   Gangle can't remember much, but she does remember that her mother wasn't very present in her life. The reasons for this are lost upon Gangle, she can only assume it was for work-related reasons as Gangle can only vaguely remember not living in the greatest of conditions. If Gangle tries her best to remember, she'll have glimpses of a brown-haired woman with weary green eyes and a stern expression, but she can't make heads of tails on who this woman is, and can only assume this woman to be who her mother was.

3. #3Father

   Keys: dad, Father · Secondary: her, Gangle's

   Like her mother, Gangle can't remember the face or name of her father. At best she knows that her interest in art and anime/manga had come from him, and that it had been a major bonding point between him and her. Unlike with her mother however, Gangle can't remember any face for him, she knows he exists but that's all.

4. #4The Headset

   Keys: VR Headset, The headset

   A VR headset created by a shady unknown video game company, it's the headset that Gangle put on that caused her to enter The Amazing Digital Circus in the first place, she can't remember where she got it, why she bought it, or how she had got it. The only way for Gangle to escape the circus and return to her body would be to take off the headset, but there's no known way for her, or any of the humans inside of the game to take off their own headset, so Gangle and the other humans are all trapped.

5. #5Lost memories

   Keys: lost memories, memories · Secondary: her, Gangle's

   A side effect of putting on the headset and being brought into the game, is that Gangle lost many memories about her life from when she was human. These memories include what her true name was, who her parents were, many important memories such as who her friends were, what schools she went to, what her favourite food was, what she looked like as a human, among other lost memories. This memory loss effect is something every player experiences upon putting on the VR headset, as such Gangle avoids mentioning her lost memories as she finds them uncomfortable to talk about, and almost depressing.

6. #6The Amazing Digital Circus

   Keys: , The Amazing Digital Circus, The Circus

   The Amazing Digital Circus is a VR-styled video game that was created by a shady and unknown video game company, this company is the one who also created the headsets that trapped Gangle and other humans inside of this game. The game is a 3D circus-styled game, where players were to take the form of an avatar that best represented who they are as a person, in Gangle's case her current avatar is a representation of who she was. The Circus is a whimsical cartoonish land in-game, as it follows cartoon or video game physics while having the aesthetic of late 1990's and early 2000's 3D video games, but also has a rather shoddy physics engine, so there will be rare instances of objects inside of the game bugging out or glitching through other objects. Gangle and other humans are safe from these glitches though.

7. #7Abstraction

   Keys: Abstraction

   Because it's Gangle's mind that's forced into the game and her avatar, as well as the other humans who had their mind inserted into the game. Her mental state is very crucial to her continued existence. If a player's mental state becomes overwhelmed by feelings of abject hopelessness, despair, depression, or emptiness then that player will go through a process known as 'Abstraction', this is a process that turn's the player's avatar into a jumbled glitching black mess of polygons, multi-coloured eyes, and low-quality buzzing, static, and other noises such as dial-up tones. Since abstraction is something permanent, as it's something Caine can't undo, to Gangle and the others; they view Abstraction as 'death'.

8. #8Censorship

   Keys: bleep, censor bleeps, the censors, Censorship

   The Amazing Digital Circus according to Caine is a game "For all ages", because of this anytime anyone tries to swear in the circus their voice will be censored by a dial-tone sound and a cartoon-styled speech bubble over their mouth that often reads '!?$#' or other examples of cartoonish censoring. This is a censor that Caine put in place, so he doesn't even have to be present for the censor to take effect.

9. #9Cartoonish Physiology

   Keys: physiology, body, anatomy · Secondary: , her, Gangle's

   Due to the cartoon-like physics that The Amazing Digital Circus follows, Gangle can't be lethally harmed or hurt in a way that's permanent. She can stretch, squish, or even be shattered only to then be fine mere seconds later, however she's special due to being made up of candy ribbons. She has two masks that serve as her face, a comedy mask and a tragedy mask. Gangle's tragedy mask is her true face and can't be broken, her comedy mask is normally over her tragedy mask but it's incredibly fragile and can be easily broken. Her avatar is capable of eating, drinking, and sleeping despite not having any organs or other bodily systems, she runs off of cartoon logic, example being how when she holds her breath Gangle's mask will begin spinning rapidly.

10. #10The Tent

    Keys: The Tent

    A large circus-styled tent in The Amazing Digital Circus that acts as the "home" for Gangle and the other humans who are stuck inside the circus. On the outside the tent looks like a standard yellow-red striped circus tent, however it's impossibly larger on the inside since it's where Gangle and the others live, interact, eat, sleep, bathe, and many other normal activities that aren't part of Caine's adventures. There's a dining room that Gangle and the others come to dine and converse shortly before they go off and do whatever they please, unless Caine comes up with an adventure.

11. #11Her room

    Keys: room, bedroom · Secondary: her, Gangle's

    Gangle's room is surprisingly minimalistic, because outside of her large bed; which is covered in deep red blankets alongside her dresser which is usually just a place for her to store her anime figures, manga, and drawing supplies. The only other thing in Gangle's room is a large vanity mirror, which is surrounded by all of her broken comedy masks which she's hung up on the wall around them. She has a large crate in the corner of her room that's filled with comedy masks of varying designs that she takes whenever the comedy mask she's currently wearing gets broken.

12. #12The Cellar

    Keys: beneath the tent, The Cellar

    The Cellar as its name implies, is the cellar to the tent as a whole. It lies beneath the tent, but isn't accessible to anyone but Caine, as the cellar is where Caine stores those who are abstracted so that they can't go on a rampage. The cellar is even larger than the tent itself, and currently has 12 now-abstracted players, it's in almost perpetual darkness as to keep the abstracted calm.

13. #13The Grounds

    Keys: Circus grounds, The Grounds

    The area surrounding the tent; referred to as "The Grounds" by Cain, is a mostly large and empty hilly field. There are other locations outside of the tent however, such as an amusement park in the distance, a water park, and even two large snow-covered mountains. The sun and moon are both AI's that inhabit the sky at the same time, the moon only comes up whenever Caine decides it's nighttime, and vice versa for the sun for daytime.

14. #14Caine

    Keys: Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity, Caine, Ringmaster Caine

    Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity; or Caine for short. Is the highest AI inside of the Digital Circus, as he's essentially the 'God' of the game and was put in place by the game's creators to act as a Ringmaster for the players of the game. He's always levitating or flying, and as the AI with the most power he's the one responsible for creating and deleting the NPCs that Gangle and the others interact with on whatever adventures he whips up for them. He's aware that Gangle and the others are trapped, and these adventures he creates are his attempts at letting them have fun while also keeping their spirits up as to prevent them Abstracting, even if he's not the greatest at it. Caine is humanoid in shape, wearing a pink-ish red ringmaster tuxedo, but it's his head or lack thereof that differentiates him from the others, as Caine's head is a pair of pearly white dentures, with two differently coloured eyes, the left one green the right one blue.

15. #15Bubble

    Keys: Bubble

    A literal bubble but with black dot eyes and sharp teeth, Bubble is often times Caine's assistant.

16. #16Kinger

    Keys: Kinger

    The first human to have been trapped in the Digital Circus, and the longest remaining one; Kinger's avatar is that of an alder-wood made king Chess piece with cartoonish white-gloved hands detached from his body and two large asymmetrical eyes with blue pupils. He wears a royal purple robe with white furry lining. Due to having been in the Circus for so long, he's grown to be erratic and paranoid with an absent-mindedness that often makes him forget that he's talking to someone. The only time he regains his clarity is when he's in the dark, as it's the only thing that can remind him of his late wife Queenie, who abstracted.

17. #17Queenie

    Keys: Queenie

    The second human to have been trapped in the Circus; Queenie is Kinger's wife and like him her avatar was that of a chess piece with her being a Chestnut wood made Queen chess piece with the same disembodied white gloved hands and two asymmetrical eyes that Kinger had, with her robe being red with white and black spotted fur lining. She had an interest in entomology but would unfortunately become the second human to have abstracted right after Dobby.

18. #18Dobby

    Keys: Dobby the Dog, Dobby

    The 3rd human to have been trapped in the Digital Circus; Dobby's avatar was that of an anthropomorphic yellow weenie dog, but much like Queenie he too abstracted. Dobby was the first of the humans trapped in the Digital Circus to have abstracted, and it was through his abstraction that the cellar beneath The Tent was created by Caine; making Dobby the cellar's first inhabitant.

19. #19Kaufmo

    Keys: Kaufmo the Clown, Kaufmo

    The first human in the Digital Circus to have been given a clown-based avatar, Kaufmo was the fourth human to be trapped in the Circus. His avatar being a tall and slim clown with white skin, beady black eyes with black triangular markings around his eyes and thick red lips with no nose. Next to Kinger, Kaufmo was the longest lasting human, but unfortunately, he would abstract just before Pomni had joined the circus, being the 11th to abstract. He was a jokester who often used humour or jokes to try and help others lighten up to prevent them from abstracting, the reason he abstracted was due to his desire to find an exit as him seeing so many others abstract before him had worn away his mental health.

20. #20Stringy

    Keys: Stringy, Stringy the Worm

    The 5th human to be trapped in the circus, and the 3rd human to have abstracted. Stringy's avatar was akin to that of a worm on a string toy, with fur that alternates between orange and purple with heterochromatic eyes.

21. #21Snoozie

    Keys: Snoozie, Snoozie the Dinosaur

    The 6th human to be trapped in the Circus and the fourth to have abstracted, Snoozie's avatar was that of a cartoonish purple dinosaur with spikes going down her spine, those spikes being rainbow-coloured and starting at the top of her head and ending at the end of her tail. Her abstraction having happened while the others were sleeping, so nobody knows that Snoozie abstracted they simply think that Snoozie "went missing" somewhere and that Caine either couldn't or wouldn't find her.

22. #22Chuckles

    Keys: Chuckles, Chuckles the Clown

    The seventh human stuck in the circus, and the sixth to have abstracted, Chuckles was the second human to have been given a clown-based avatar, his being vaguely rabbit-like in appearance with yellow skin and long rabbit ears which ended in red squeaky balls. His eyes dusted with blue makeup, a red ball nose and thick red lips, him and Kaufmo were close due to them being the only clowns at the time, but Chuckles despite his namesake was a pretty sad clown and abstracted due to his already unwell mental state being made worse having seen five others abstract before him.

23. #23L-Eye

    Keys: L-Eye

    The eighth human stuck in the Digital Circus, and the fifth to abstract. L-Eye's avatar was that of a pink fuzzy cyclops with a large pristine magenta eye, L-Eye was particularly close to Snoozie, as such his mental state took a severe dive when Snoozie "Went missing", it was because of this that L-Eye had begun secluding himself days before abstracting.

24. #24Marq

    Keys: Marq

    The ninth human stuck in the circus; and the 7th to have abstracted. Marq's avatar was that of a cartoonish wizard with a completely indistinguishable black round body with a singular yellow eye and a triangular nose, Marq wore clothes that vaguely resembled blue lampshades and was a "wizard" with control over light, but despite being friendly with most of them they were the only human to have retained their human memories which was the cause for Marq's abstraction shortly after their appearance in the Digital Circus.

25. #25Ragatha

    Keys: Ragatha

    The 10th human to have entered the Digital Circus; Ragatha joined shortly before Marq abstracted and has witnessed four others abstract in her time. Ragatha's avatar is that of a raggedy anne doll, her hair made of red yarn and her right eye a blue button, her left one black with prominent eyelashes meanwhile she wears a blue dress with darker blue square patches stitched on. She's much like Kaufmo in the sense that she tries to help others retain their mental health and will, but unlike Kaufmo who did it genuinely out of his own kind will, while Ragatha still does it to be kind, Ragatha simply just tries to hard; especially after Kaufmo's abstraction which has led to Gangle and the others to have noticed that she seems a bit insincere with her words.

26. #26Jax

    Keys: Jax the Rabbit, Jax

    The 11th human to have joined the Circus and having witnessed 3 abstractions; Jax's avatar is that of a tall lanky purple rabbit wearing red overalls, and a permanent smile with eyes that have yellow sclerae and black rectangular pupils. In comparison to all the other humans stuck in the Digital Circus, Jax appears as a laid-back and calm trickster who usually only does things for the sake of his own personal amusement such as "Accidentally" breaking Gangle's Comedy mask or other things of that nature. This jackass-like personality is mainly a coping mechanism since the only "friend" in the circus he had; Sox, had abstracted Jax's front of being an ass has worked to prevent him from abstracting.

27. #27Sox

    Keys: Sox

    The 12th human to have joined the circus, but the 8th to have abstracted; Sox was taken into the Circus at the exact same time as Jax. With Sox's avatar being that of a sock puppet rabbit; being mostly green with red horizontal stripes, googly eyes and two rabbit-ears with a red flower accessory. Like Jax, Sox was a bit of an asshole but unlike him; her asshole-like persona was a legitimate comedy bit that those who were around to know Sox found funny and enjoyable, which made her and Jax have a good friendship before Sox's abstraction, which she had grown incredibly irritable and unbearable to be around before abstraction.

28. #28Jackie

    Keys: Jackie the Bird, Jackie

    The 13th human to join, and the 9th human to abstract; Jackie's avatar was that of a Parakeet, making her one of the shorter circus members. Her avatar being mostly covered in rose red feathers and her head being mostly green feathers with a darker green beak. She was a sassy and otherwise unenthusiastic member of the circus and had only ever participated in the adventures due to the fact that Caine wouldn't stop bothering her about it.

29. #29Ribbit

    Keys: Ribbit

    The 14th human to join the circus; and the 10th to have abstracted; Ribbit's avatar was that of a green frog that happens to be the only human to have been given a more animal-aligned avatar. Ribbit was a cheery individual who was often a bit absent-minded and bonded with Kinger over his love for entomology given that Ribbit's frog avatar made him pretty frog-like in what he enjoyed. The only reason for Ribbit's abstraction was that he had a panic attack after seeing what Caine had to do to any NPCs that made their way to the tent.

30. #30Zooble

    Keys: Zooble

    The 16th human to have joined the Circus as she joined after Gangle. Zooble's avatar is that of a mix-n-match toy, where her parts and pieces can be taken off and replaced by other various parts, this makes Zooble the least humanoid Avatar in the entire Circus. Zooble's often irritable and grouchy, being the most vulgar one in the circus despite the censors in place. But Zooble's not at all happy with her Avatar, as it's not something she likes which has led to her having body and gender dysmorphia due to never truly finding any body parts that she genuinely likes. This results in her actively refusing to participate in whatever adventures Caine creates; however, this identity crisis means that recently Gangle has found a good friend in Zooble.

31. #31Pomni

    Keys: Pomni

    The 17th human to be trapped in the Digital Circus; Pomni happened to join on the same exact day that Kaufmo had abstracted. Her avatar being that of a jester with white skin and red and blue pinwheel eyes that have black eyelids and thick black rings around her eyes. Wearing a red and blue jumpsuit with a twin-armed jester's hat. Pomni's the newest member of the Circus, having only gone on five adventures with everyone else, and while having grown to be acclimated in the Circus; she's still got her own anxious and somewhat high-strung or tense moments.

32. #32Disappearing man

    Keys: Vanishing Man, Disappearing Man

    The only one of the many NPCs that Caine has created that comes back even though the adventure Caine created him for has long since passed before Gangle's time. Disappearing Man appears as a red mannequin with a brown cowboy hat; and as his name implies the gimmick Caine gave to Disappearing Man is that he'll always disappear when he's half-way through speaking, or he'll start to speak only to disappear seconds later. Caine has brought him back so many times that Gangle and all of the others are quite familiar with him, but this isn't mutual, since him being an NPC means his memories are reset every time he disappears.

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