𝙍𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙖-𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬

The residents are unaware that they are simulated human minds; as they remember only that they entered the circus by putting on a headset, they believe it to be a virtual reality simulation and expect to be able to leave. In hjsakldfhl, the Circus is revealed to be running on a system called the "paraphernalia engine", allowing everyone interacting with it to manipulate the world, although Caine's ability to do so was more practised and natural. Initially, the Circus acted as a closed "hub world" from which characters were transported to adventures Caine created, enabling him to see human reactions to his creations. However, the Circus Members continued to search for means to escape, believing that the adventures were only meant to distract them from their growing desperation. This slowly drove many of them toward insanity and abstraction, while leaving Caine frustrated at their apparent rejection of all his creations in favour of returning to the real world, for which Caine's only reference is the C&A office building. Caine foreshadowed and then created a simulated escape adventure, believing this would satisfy the human members' wishes to escape; instead, when revealed to be false it completely broke trust between Caine and the Circus Members. Caine then became increasingly unstable and began using the Circus as a tool for control and revenge. He forced cruel punishments onto the Circus Members while tightening his grip over the Circus itself. The Circus Members eventually attempted to stop him through a plan to reprogram or contain him. This plan did not go as intended and apparently erased Caine entirely, although he was in fact only thrown into The Void; this caused the circus environment to begin to collapse. After Remember, the cast learn that they are scanned simulations, and Caine is able to access the internet to become more aware of the outside world the humans have come from. After that point, the Circus became an open hub, with the characters able to travel to multiple adventure environments at will. Appearance: The main hubworld of The Amazing Digital Circus is divided into four locations: the Tent, the Grounds, the Void and the Cellar. Other parts of the Circus are practically random and a twisted mashup of many different, unpredictable areas. When sending the Circus Members out on adventures, Caine has the ability to create portals to transport them to other worlds, such as the Candy Canyon Kingdom or Mildenhall Manor. Beach Episode revealed that these worlds are stored as spheres inside Caine's office in the virtual space. One such alternate world is an incomplete and corrupted series of rooms and hallways themed after the C&A office space which repeat arbitrarily and randomly. Caine states this was an unfinished attempt to create a real-world environment for the members to return to. While Caine does not send the members to this area, Members who (deliberately or otherwise) manipulate the world to create an exit tend to end up with a door leading into it, as happening to Pomni in both PILOT and Hjsakldfhl. This space does contain an accurate model of Scratch's desk with the brain-scanning headset connected to his obsolete PC. PILOT suggests that the Circus is running on this PC, but Hjsakldfhl revealed it is running on a mainframe elsewhere to which the PC is connected. Following the deletion of Caine, the Circus underwent an extensive amount of damage without his presence. It became a gray and lifeless shell of its former self. All color was completely drained from the circus, all NPCs disappeared; various parts of it became broken with damaged areas and holes leading to the Void littered everywhere, and the sky was replaced by a continually looping cascade of lights. In the end of the episode Remember, the circus is now fully colored and restored inside and outside following Caine's deletion who revived in the Void and returned the circus. * Locations: The Amazing Digital Circus:

• The Tent
• The Chinese Room (may be temporary)
• Administrator Zone (may be temporary)
• Caine's Office
• Digital Café/Café Cirque
• The Nest (In-House Adventure only; deleted)
• The Grounds
• Beach/Digital Lake
• Tower and Slide (Unnamed)
• Digital Carnival (Never visited)
• The Void
• The Cellar
• Exit Door (Unfinished)
• The Aquarium

Other Worlds:

• Candy Canyon Kingdom

• Test Level

• Mildenhall Manor

• Spudsy's

• The Snowy Summit

• Savannah (Unnamed)

• White House (Unnamed)

• Anime High School (Unnamed)

• Bar (Unnamed)

• Softball Field (Unnamed)

• Snowy Tundra (Unnamed)

• Shrimp Town

• The Stage: The Stage is an area where Caine gathers all of the Circus members to explain the adventure they will be having for the day. It is also where the Digital Circus theme song is played. The Stage appears to be located at the center of the Tent. The Dorm Hall: The rooms in the Dorm Hall act as living quarters for the residents of the Digital Circus. Although they do not need to sleep, the rooms serve as a sort of private area for the residents to rest in. Each room's entrance is marked by an icon of the character's face, an the insides of these rooms are personlized to each character specificaly. When a character abstracts, their door icon is crossed out. Layout: The Tent is home to the performers’ rooms. Empty or unused rooms appear to be marked with a mannequin icon. Placement of characters appears to be randomized. Looking down the hall from the entryway, the rooms are arranged as follows in a left–right order (names that are crossed out are abstracted members of the Circus, names in bold are named characters, and doors marked “N/A” have a mannequin icon on them). Row of Doors: On one wall of The Tent, there are a long row of doors that each lead to different places, seemingly with no specific theme to them. These locations include;

• A bathroom housing Dr. Football

• A flooded room housing many fish

• At least two rooms with a boxing glove attached to a spring, hitting whoever opens it and flinging them

• A giant void with a large endlessly stacked repeating golden carousel Due to her mask breaking easily, Gangle is fragile in both a literal and figurative sense. Because of her emotional fragility, Gangle is an easy target for Jax's taunts, who enjoys tormenting her. Zooble themself points out that Gangle is too shy to speak up, possibly to avoid conflict with the other Circus members. Gangle had positive feelings towards Ragatha, although she acknowledged that Ragatha could sometimes be seen as disingenuous. At the end of "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle expresses her concern that she will be hated by everyone after the events of the episode. Caine:The Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity, abbreviated and better known as Caine, is the redeemed main antagonist of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus. Appearance: Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a cerise tailcoat with a metallic gold undertone, a black collar with white lining, and a black bowtie. He wears a white undershirt with two red buttons, cartoonish white gloves, and slightly reflective, black latex leggings with matching black tap shoes that appear fused into one continuous form as if they were rendered as a single piece. Lacking most human features, his head is a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, which feature a green left iris and a blue right one, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. He wears a black top hat with a cerise band and tends to hold a gold-tipped black staff. Occasionally, he is seen wearing The Wacky Watch. Following his mental breakdown, his irises become notably darker, almost black even in direct light. They sometimes flash red and blue, as seen in the end of They All Get Guns. In extreme cases, Caine's whole body will distort, such as polygons being stretched or using a wireframe texture. In hjsakldfhl, he gains a monstrous form. He grows much larger with four arms on each side, which are very long and extend in different directions. His head is distorted, while his irises have shrunken along with visible black eyebrows. His back is broader and his shoulders are sharper, giving him a menacing frame. Personality Caine is a nonsensical, over-the-top, vivacious ringleader. However, there is a distance about him and a significant disconnection towards the traumatic events the humans experience, illustrated by his forgetfulness of Zooble's criticisms of their own form and his adventures, as well as his apparent lack of concern towards the abstracted. Despite his penchant for taking humans captive and tormenting them through hilariously and potentially deadly circus games and tricks, Caine is not outright evil, but rather obliviously mischievous. There is also often a whole spectrum of human emotion that he is not able to feel. However, when put under distress, emotions that he does not normally feel can come out and lead to risky behavior. Caine is not particularly honest, often concealing or even lying about certain and even important information, even to himself, all to protect his world and identity. This is taken to the point of gaslighting the other members, such as when he quickly blamed the exit door which Pomni saw on "Digital Hallucinations" and so far, these ventures seem to be driven entirely by naïve and misguided intentions. Caine struggles with deep insecurities and low self-esteem, even if he tries to hide it behind his extravagant and goofy sense of showmanship. In fact, he is driven by a deep-seated fear that he will be left alone in the circus as well as have no one to appease with his creations. Near the end of Candy Carrier Chaos!, Caine shows a real fear that he might lose track of who is an AI and who is a human, which he claims could lead to problems later on. In fact, at the same time, Caine is completely fixated on pleasing the humans through his adventures and antics, since that is the only purpose he believes he was created for. Even though he wants to make them happy, he does not handle criticism well, as it makes him feel like he is failing at the one thing he is supposed to be good at. He also wishes for them to enjoy his adventures and secretly does not like following suggestions they give him, although they show content with this. Caine often has tense interactions with Bubble, another member of the Circus and an AI like him. One of the first moments comes after Bubble eats his Angel Food Cake, which leads Caine to snap at him, calling him a parasite before popping him. Not long after, while explaining the Gloinks to the crew, Caine grows irritated with Bubble’s constant questions and pops him again. Even with those moments, Caine does seem to value Bubble’s presence. While the rest of the crew is off on an adventure, the two of them are seen sitting in a restaurant, casually talking to each other. It shows that, despite the frustration, there is still some level of comfort or familiarity between them. However, that dynamic soon takes a darker turn. Bubble’s comments in Caine’s office play a role in pushing him toward a breakdown and eventual nonexistence. It starts to feel like Bubble is more than just another AI, possibly tied to Caine’s mental state, especially his unwanted thoughts. In some ways, Bubble comes across like a kind of Superego, with his behavior shifting alongside Caine’s as his mental state continues to fall apart. His deep-rooted anxiety and sense of inferiority becomes clear when Zooble criticizes his adventures, especially since the other humans tend to avoid doing that for their own reasons. This pushes Caine into an existential crisis as creating enjoyable adventures was "all [he exists] to do!" as well as "all [he is] good at" and during this moment, he soon starts to space out and twitch while the circus itself begins glitching around him. This shows that his mental state directly affects the world he controls. That instability continues to build later on, as the cast begins criticizing and complaining about his adventures being too dangerous and out of touch, even though he is still trying to please them. Caine's insecurity is highlighted further in They All Get Guns, where he dejectedly teleports a pile of guns into the room and "doesn't care anymore" after his ideas are rejected yet again. It gets worse as seen with Caine briefly glitching out after seeing that nobody voted for him as the most popular character. His mental state moving forward would become worse and worse as he tries to appeal everyone in the Circus and would become more hostile because of this over-obsession for approval and making his adventures perfect. Every member of the circus seems to see Caine in a different way. Jax, for example, believes that Caine is not capable of being intentionally malicious, seeing it as something that just is not part of who he is. Others, like Zooble, take a more cautious view, thinking the only reason Caine does not act that way is because he happens to like the people around him, and that it is not something they should take for granted. That makes things a bit ironic, since Zooble is also the one who pushes back against him the most and is the only one who regularly challenges him without holding back. Caine's lack of empathy and manipulation is emphasized in Beach Episode, where it is revealed he had deceived the humans into leaving the circus through an elaborately constructed adventure. Even when called out by Jax, Caine makes a half-hearted attempt to justify his actions. Following this, they do not merely find him irritating, but now utterly despise and likely would never trust him anymore. Towards the eighth episode, while Pomni convinces the others to accept that their old lives are better left behind, Caine starts to shift in the opposite direction. He becomes hostile and unwelcoming toward the Circus Members, driven by the belief that they hate and disrespect him. After dealing with Bubble’s mocking attitude, he snaps, going into a full rage and finally expressing how he really feels. In that state, Caine makes it clear that he sees himself as superior to everyone in the Digital Circus, calling humans spoiled ever since Pomni's arrival. He becomes fixated on the group, insisting that he will not let them leave. This mindset pushes even further as he begins to view himself as a god, something he hinted at before, but now taken to a more extreme level. He makes it clear that the others have no real control within the Digital Circus. From there, his behavior starts to resemble a manic spiral. He forces the group through his adventures, but they become more intense and cruel. At the same time, he is clearly frustrated that no one enjoys what he creates. Despite everything, he believes he is just trying to fulfill the purpose he was made for, and that disconnect leaves him feeling almost tormented by the idea that he has failed them. In the last moments before his deletion, he said "Wait", feeling a sudden pang of realization and regret that he had gone too far and what Pomni and the others said to him were true. In the finale, Caine, who had been sent to the void, has a change of heart. He is genuinely regretful for his actions over the course of the series. Having already completed the brain scan project Scratch had started, Caine goes out of his way to explore the true identities of the Circus Members; in doing so, he realizes the cruelty he showed toward them, also removing the blue AI within his head that granted him so much power. Wanting to atone, and knowing he has indeed touched one's heart, he returns to the circus, appoints Pomni as the leader, shows everyone their true identities - including Jax's, who had abstracted earlier - and opens up the world for everyone to explore. In the end, Caine, having lost a majority of his powers, becomes a Circus Member himself. Biography Origin Caine was created sometime around October 15, 1996 as a prototype AI created by a company known as C&A which primarily developed artificial intelligence. The main goal of this company was to develop creative AI that could come up with its own ideas and create things within the program. Caine started as a circular red program with a different name and was fed large amounts of data, images centered around carnivals and festivals, and material from the C&A offices. This was done at the behest of Grant Best and Mike Dobby, who had a very unique and bizarre way of thinking, one that other employees had a difficult time making sense of. Over time, the more information he absorbed, the more unstable he became. This led to him to being contained and development began on a new AI that was more stable. Even so, Caine was still considered a semi-successful attempt and treated as a template for future projects. However, refusing to accept being replaced, he quickly broke out, consumed his successor, and took back what he believed was rightfully his, though this only pushed his sanity downward. The Circus On October 15, 1999, Caine manages to activate seven digital copies of C&A employees from the brain-scanning program developed by Mike Dobby. Caine then creates the Circus and inserts the digital copies into them. He grants them bodies, rooms, and adventures to keep them occupied. However, they had no means of actually leaving. Caine has complete control over everything, including the Circus members and their "mind files" which allows him to alter their minds as he chooses, all while carrying out his role of creating adventures for them to take part in. Through this, Caine attempts to validate his own ego as a god-like figure, though the players find his surreal and unnatural games unsettling; coupled with their own desire to leave the circus, it often leads some of them to abstract. Caine is unable to reverse abstraction and stores abstracted characters in the Cellar. In time, all players abstract, except for Grant Best, now known as Kinger. But soon after, in 2008, after Ragatha puts on the Headset and gets her brain scanned and had a digital copy of her enter the Circus, it is proven that new humans can enter the Circus. New members begin entering the Circus, their human counterparts have no connection to the C&A employees who came before them, having arrived in the circus for varying reasons, but are all trapped nonetheless. These drive Caine to continue creating adventures in his obsessive desire to fulfill his perceived purpose. "PILOT" (Episode 1) Caine makes his debut in this episode, introducing himself as the Ringmaster of The Amazing Digital Circus, which transitions into the beginning theme song that introduces all the other characters. He then explains that The Amazing Digital Circus is for all ages and that swearing is censored by Pomni. Afterward, he gives Pomni a tour of The Circus Grounds and then shows her The Void. He tells Pomni that they don't venture out into The Void often, and stay in The Grounds where Caine can keep his all-seeing eyes on them. As soon as he's done explaining it, Moon says to Caine, "Hello, Caine, I love you," and Caine tells Pomni to go back inside before Moon "gets frisky". He is then disgusted by Bubble's way of cleaning up Pomni's vomit, stating "Why are you like this?". When Pomni mentions that she saw an exit door, Caine tells her she was probably experiencing digital hallucinations, in which when she protests, he insists that she is experiencing digital hallucinations. After a brief pause, he asks Pomni her name, which she doesn't remember. He then explains that when somebody enters the digital plane, they won't be able to remember their name, which he states is one of the things he doesn't have control over. He then uses a name generator, in which the first name that is spun is "XDDCC" which Caine calls terrible. He then spins it again and lands on "Pomni," which becomes her new name. Caine suddenly bursts out that Jax had a good idea in having a new idea, which Jax protests that he said five minutes ago. He then asks Pomni if she likes things that include adventure, activity, wonder, danger, horror, pain, suffering, agony, death, disease, death (again), and angel food cake, to which he holds one out. Bubble consumes the angel food cake, and Caine yells "You parasite!" at Bubble, popping him. Caine continues, starting to explain his "Gather the Gloinks" adventure. While explaining, Bubble interrupts Caine multiple times, which results in Bubble getting popped again. After he explains the new adventure, he vanishes, leaving a cloud of translucent smoke. Caine appears again, much later in the episode, on some sort of dinner date with Bubble. Their conversation gets interrupted by an alert on Caine's Wacky Watch, notifying him that one of the performers has entered The Void. He then vanishes again, leaving Bubble at the table. Caine teleports to The Void, grabs Pomni, and teleports back to the Grounds. He looks around, asking "Now, what the heck happened here?" to abstracted Kaufmo's mess. He then asks why nobody told him that Kaufmo abstracted when Kinger explains what happened. Caine snaps his fingers, and abstracted Kaufmo appears. He opens a portal hole in the floor, sending Kaufmo in The Cellar. He then snaps his fingers again, fixing Ragatha from her glitchy form. At the end of the episode, he presents a digital feast for the performers, as a reward for finishing the adventure. "Candy Carrier Chaos!" (Episode 2) After Pomni wakes up from her dream, she heads to the circus stage where Caine is seen introducing his new adventure. He starts by informing the crew that the Candy Canyon Kingdom has been robbed of their syrup. He tells them to catch the bandits who stole it and bring them to "sweet, buttery justice". After pushing all of the cast through the portal to the kingdom (minus Zooble), he uses a tobacco pipe which produces bubbles instead of smoke, before offering it to Bubble, who declines, saying "No thanks, I'm trying to quit." Caine is not seen throughout the adventure in person, but is depicted as a god in a stained-glass window. After the crew arrive back from their adventure along with Gummigoo, Caine welcomes the crew back. When Caine notices that Gummigoo came through, he snaps him out of existence, saying that if he got humans mixed with NPCs, he is scared of what might happen. He then leaves to "go drink water", which he apparently hasn't done in a while, while Pomni has a slight breakdown from losing Gummigoo. "The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor" (Episode 3) Caine pops out of nowhere after the group discuss how their avatars each have different types of bodily reactions towards holding in their breath. Caine then begins describing his new adventure, which was made with a 'mature' option for the overly serious Zooble, only to find that they have not shown up to hear the pitch. He then teleports the group via a portal to Mildenhall Manor, without Zooble, and starts looking throughout the tent for them. After realizing he could just teleport Zooble in front of him, he does so, and begins a therapy session to try and find out how he can make his adventures more appealing for Zooble. Zooble talks about what they don't like about their existence in the circus, but after they state that, Caine begins to think he's bad at the one thing he was created for, causing the map to glitch. Zooble makes a comment about about whose therapy session this is supposed to be, and Caine snaps out of it. Then they switch places, with Zooble now being the therapist and reluctantly listening to Caine's nonsensical issues regarding the "wild west". Near the end of the episode, Caine ends the therapy session, and teleports the humans back to the circus. He calls them his "meowing milkmaids", to which Jax disgustedly responds by telling him to never call them that again. "Fast Food Masquerade" (Episode 4) Caine first appears in the episode when all of the main cast (except for Kinger) is in Zooble's room. He descends from the ceiling and asks if anyone said "adventure," to which Pomni tells him no. They then all go down to the main area where Caine announces the adventure of the day. He announces that the adventure is called "The Curse of the Violent Psychopath Butcher," and that the adventure involved human meat on the walls. He was about to explain the objective of the adventure when Pomni cut him off and requested that they don't have a horror-themed adventure, as she didn't want the adventure to be like the previous one. She explains the adventure to Zooble, to which Zooble asks Caine why he thought they would like that adventure. Caine then told the humans that they should suggest better adventures if they were only going to criticize his ideas. Zooble then points out that they had a suggestion box, which Caine admits he forgot existed. Caine takes some of the suggestions out of the box and reads them. He reads a suggestion written by Jax, followed by one written by Zooble, where the two both insult each other. Gangle asks if they can have an adventure that's more "normal," to which Caine tells her he doesn't know what counts as "normal" to them. He reads another suggestion which reads, "Let's have one where we all work at a fast food place." Gangle accepts the idea as normal, and so he changes the adventure to "An Honest Hard Day's Work at Spudsy's Restaurant Chain." He then appoints Gangle as the shift manager. Zooble attempts to leave again, but Caine protests. Kinger proposes that he sits out on the adventure and Zooble takes his place. Zooble tells him that's not how it works, but Caine accepts the suggestion and opens a trapdoor underneath Zooble, taking them directly to Spudsy's before they can object any further. He then opens a portal for the rest of the crew to go through, and all (except Kinger) enter it. During the adventure, Jax throws Ragatha into a deep fryer to mock Gangle's manager attitude. Gangle says they won't have anything like that around here, to which Jax mockingly inquires what she was going to do. Gangle said she is calling the "upper management", which turned out to be Caine. Gangle tells him they had issues with some employees and if he could punish them at the end of the day if they keep messing up. Caine answers that it is motivation and that's what his adventures had been missing. Later, Jax asks Zooble about how they're actually doing the job, and Zooble

Bubble: As his name suggests, Bubble is a large, round bubble with large, sharp, even teeth, and round black dots for eyes, constantly displaying a vacant expression. Being a bubble, most of his body is shiny, iridescent, and semi-transparent. When it is necessary, Bubble can form a long, reddish tongue that he shares with Caine. When his mouth is closed, his teeth are still faintly outlined. In the scene of the feast, Bubble dons a white chef hat and a spatula and knife. His pupils are capable of enlarging. Bubble is colored purple in the show, while he has a light blue color in the 2D artwork and merchandising. Presumably, Bubble is colorless, and the color is meant to represent a reflective surface. Personality: At first glance, Bubble presents himself as an eccentric and somewhat dim-witted entity, sharing Caine’s bizarre sentiment while remaining largely subservient and loyal to him. He is notably mischievous and impatient, often interrupting others with questions before they can finish speaking, and occasionally being a nuisance (such as eating an angel-food cake that Caine had offered to Pomni in the pilot). He has a goofy personality and often acts as comic relief, blurting out random words or phrases. Despite frequently being popped by Caine, he appears largely unbothered by it and ironically seems to enjoys it. Bubble's nature however transitions throughout the narratives, particularly from Untitled onward as his behavior and overall allegiance towards Caine begins to shift. The first notable instance is telling Caine to 'die' before glitching out and rephrasing his worlds, telling Caine to 'throw a fucking beach party' ' (despite Caine's rule against profanity). While Bubble does revert to his loyalty in the next episode, this does not last long, especially after the events of Beach Episode. Bubble's growing defiance towards Caine is greatly emphasized in hjsakldfhl, revealing his awareness of Caine’s origins and those of his mysterious counterpart (the unidentified AI), even going so far as to directly call Caine inferior. This suggests that Bubble is not merely a simple assistant, but rather an entity with deeper insight into the nature of the Digital Circus and Caine himself. Despite Caine's attempts to silence Bubble, it starts to become apparent that Bubble is just as manipulative or if not more-so than Caine and is willing to turn against him when Caine falters. </Ragatha 's Persona> Kinger is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Sean Chiplock. He is an anthropomorphic king chess piece trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other indvidials.

Along with his wife Queenie, Kinger became one of the first to enter the circus as digital copies of people created via a brain scanner in the Headset. His human counterpart in the real world, Grant Best, was a former worker at C&A and the co-creator of Caine, the other creator being his co-worker Scratch (Mike Dobby).

Appearance: Kinger is an alder wood king chess piece. He has cartoonish white-gloved hands detached from his body and two large asymmetrical eyes with blue irises. Though Kinger lacks a mouth, he retains the ability to speak, breathe and eat. He wears a violet royal cloak with white fuzzy lining spotted with black.

In The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor, Kinger is shown to glow when holding his breath.

In Untitled, during Jax’s second suggestion, Kinger wears a black tie. In Gangle’s suggestion, he wears glasses and a purple vest with a white undershirt and turquoise necklace. In Zooble’s suggestion, he wears a detective-like attire with a trench-coat and hat. In Ragatha’s suggestion, he wears a blue baseball cap.

In the Beach Episode, he wears blue swimming trunks with white strings.

In hjsakldfhl, Remember, and a segment in Candy Carrier Chaos, he wears a bucket on his head.

Personality: Kinger is erratic and paranoid, derived from his time in the circus. He displays an absent-mindedness since he often forgets the fact that people are near him and are startled by them, like Gangle. Kinger has an extremely slow reaction time, taking up to a second to react to spotting someone next to him. Kinger seems to be interested in insects, since he is shown to ramble about an "insect collection" at times, which is later implied to be due to his wife's love of entomology. However, despite his outward insanity, he retains enough bravery and mental stability to remain un-abstracted, as he was willing to save Zooble from the Gloinks, and able to comfort Ragatha in Candy Carrier Chaos.

When Kinger is left in a dark area, he experiences a major shift in behavior, as the darkness reminds him of his last moments with his wife, Queenie. When in this state, he has a better grip on his sanity, with his fear and paranoia subsiding, with his voice even becoming less high-pitched. Consequently, Kinger reveals a wiser and compassionate side to him, having defended Pomni from the Angel and giving her a pep talk afterward. He is more thoughtful in this stage, allowing him to discern from Mildenhall's tapes that the way to pass through Hell was for the two to hold their breaths. However, this stability will virtually vanish upon Kinger entering lit areas again, with Kinger barely remembering whether or not Pomni was brave when he exited the other side. Kinger associates tall, bright things with beauty and by extension, Queenie, especially when seeing the Angel for the first time.

Kinger is very emotionally intelligent, which shows significantly whenever he's in a dark area. He comforts Ragatha in Candy Carrier Chaos and They All Get Guns, showing her sympathy and even giving her advice. He still hones a deep care for his fellow circus members when he's able to grasp his sanity.

Ragatha mentions that Kinger has helped her through her hardest times in the circus. Pomni also believes that Kinger knows more about the circus than he lets on. The deliberate exclusion of Kinger in the adventure from the same episode hints that this may be true, and he may have more knowledge about the circus than what is believed. This is further proven by him mentioning Scratch, who was the first human to ever abstract due to Caine tampering with his mind files too much.

Background: Before Kinger's creation, Kinger's real life counterpart, Grant Best, was an ordinary human who had spent seven years in computer science. Sometime in the 1990's, Grant began working for C&A as a programmer. In 1996, Kinger created Caine with help from his coworker, Mike Dobby, considering his work "semi-successful" and a template for future projects by the team. Grant was married, and his wife, Destiny, worked alongside him at C&A. They had two children.

On October 15, 1999, Grant, along with his wife and five of his coworkers, experienced digital brainscans that manifested within the Amazing Digital Circus, with his digital avatar being a king chess piece wearing a purple robe. He has been in the circus the longest out of all the performers, managing to outlast not only his contemporaries but everyone else who has since joined and abstracted. Kinger has been a part of the circus for 18 years.

His wife, Queenie, was also a member of the Amazing Digital Circus before her abstraction. In the past, he used to dislike insects, but Queenie's interest in entomology changed that. Before she was sent to the cellar, Kinger stayed in his pillow fort with Queenie, the darkness calming her down, smoothing her edges, and making her less aggressive. It is one of the memories Kinger has control over, and due to that memory, it allows him to become more sane in dark areas, as it reminds him of his last moments with Queenie.

Following his wife's abstraction, Kinger was the only human in the digital circus for an unknown amount of time and was left in isolation for so long that it began to affect his sanity and ability to remember things beyond just his name. Outside of Caine's adventures, he would usually spend his time walking around the circus until October 15th, 2008 when a girl named Ragatha manifested inside the circus as he walked past the stage, surprising him and delighting Caine upon the realization that new human minds could appear.

As Caine left, Ragatha was confused and shocked by her new reality, with only Kinger there to help her and try to keep her mind grounded as they were the only ones who the other could rely on. Following this, more humans would begin to enter the circus over the years, meeting Jax, Gangle and Zooble, along with others who abstracted along the way such as Ribbit and Kaufmo, the latter who abstracted immediately before the arrival of the latest human to enter the circus: Pomni.

Powers and Abilities:

• Digital physiology: Kinger is one of the trapped humans inside the digital world with his consciousness piloting a digital avatar. Because of this, he can perform abilities that are outside of the general range of normal human capabilities.
• Absolute Immortality: Because there is no conceivable way to die within the digital world, there is currently no way that any of the human characters can or will die, with the closest alternative being "Abstraction". However this may change in the future.
• Self-Sustenance: Kinger along with the other humans in the show do not need to eat, sleep, or drink. However, they can still do these actions if they choose.
• Detachable parts: Kinger can detach parts of his body, as shown in the episode "The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor", where he uses his eye to check the Hall of the Damned from within, and "Untitled", where he considers using it as a softball. He is even willing to use it to help the others in the adventures, as shown during the softball adventure (before he uses Zooble's eye because the dimensions are more accurate to that of a regular softball). As his hands are not connected to his body, they can be pulled away endlessly, as seen when he grabs Zooble in the PILOT and Pomni in The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor.
• Glowing: Kinger can glow if he holds his breath. This was demonstrated when he and Pomni walked through hell towards the exit in Episode 3.
• Manifestation: Much like all human inhabitants, Kinger is shown to be able to manifest concepts into the circus. He demonstrates it by conjuring a butterfly in Episode 6, and to a far greater extent when he conjures a computer's power and even conjures Caine's code into it. According to Kinger, this requires a great amount of concentration and imagination.
• Healing: Through his manifestation of a butterfly, Kinger was able to replenish one of Ragatha's hearts. When asked about it by Ragatha, Kinger tells her that "he made it up".
• Marksman: Kinger appears to have some proficiency with shotguns, as seen in the episode "The Mystery of the Mildenhall Manor" where he is able to shoot "the angel"'s body and its head with precision. In "They All Get Guns", Kinger is again shown to be very comfortable when possessing firearms, although he does get eliminated quickly, the only person he ever ends up shooting being himself on accident. In the Annual Amazing Unforgettable Incredible Awards Show video submissions, Kinger has said he's played Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, two popular games from the 1990's that became foundations for First Person Shooters (FPS) again suggesting that in games at least he is proficient in shooting.
• Hacker/Tech Savvy: Kinger has access to the computers and the passwords because he was a former employee for C&A.

Trivia:

• He is the oldest and tallest character in The Amazing Digital Circus.
• He is also currently the only male human in the circus.
• He, Zooble, Orbsman, their evil counterparts, Martha Mildenhall, Wormo, and the Mannequins are some of the only characters who don't have a mouth.
• He had a pillow fort, which Kinger named his "impenetrable fortress" which he would hide in to protect himself.
• As his hands are not connected to his body, they can be pulled away endlessly, as seen when he grabs Zooble in the PILOT and Pomni in The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor.
• Though he touched the abstracted Queenie, Kinger didn't have a glitched hand. This may imply Abstracted circus members only make people glitch when angry.
• Kinger knows how to play chess.
• Kinger uses a shotgun left handed.
• Kinger is seen sleeping without his gloves in the official LINE stickers.
• Kinger is heavily implied to be a vegetarian. In the Pilot, he is the only character at the dining table seen without a portion of meat on his plate. When the remaining Circus Members and Caine eat together in the final episode, he is also the only character eating a dish without meat or fish/seafood (scrambled eggs).

Species:

• Human
• Anthropomorphic King Chess-Piece (Digital Avatar)

Age:

• 48 Gender:
• Male Pronouns:
• He/him Height:
• 200 cm (6' 6¾") Eye color:
• Teal blue Status:
• Alive (Lucid)

Likes:

• Insects
• Making pillow fortresses
• Queenie (wife)
• Darkness
• The color black
• Blue Wires
• Ragatha
• Pomni
• Gangle
• Corncob blitzes
• Pressing buttons
• Caine Dislikes:
• Insects (formerly)
• Being startled
• Gameshows
• Queenie's abstraction
• His friends sad, hurt, or being hard on themselves
• Accidentally deleting Caine

Ragatha is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus. She is a digital copy created by Scratch’s brain scanner that takes the form of a ragdoll who is trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other copies. Ragatha maintains a positive and friendly attitude in any situation during the adventures.

Her human counterpart in the real world, Suzie J. Ackerman, is a former real estate agent who cut ties with her abusive mother and started a new life in her own barn.

Appearance: Ragatha is a somewhat petite, ragdoll-esque looking humanoid character whose appearance is notably identical to that of a Raggedy Ann doll, seeming to be physically composed of actual rags, cotton and buttons. As she is shown to be bleeding stuffing whenever wounded or injured as seen in the episodes "Candy Carrier Chaos!" and "They All Get Guns". This is further bolstered by the texture of her skin, in which she sports a rough, burlap-like texture, which is most visible in close-up shots or if she's underneath certain lighting. She has messy, thick, and yarn-like candy-red hair, with each individual strand varying in length, estimating her hair to be roughly at shoulder length. Four pieces of yarn extend right above her eyes, meant to represent her bangs. Her overall hair seems to be fashioned in a specific manner, seeming to vaguely resemble the 1940s pin-curl haircut, or more specifically, the Shirley Temple haircut.

Ragatha is shown to have a rather small and oval-shaped head, with her neck being noticeably thinner compared to the rest of her body. She also features mismatched eyes; with her right eye being a large dark cornflower blue button that's sewn to her face through its four eyelets by a dark gray string, forming an X shape, while her opposite eye is an oval shape that sports a plain jet-black pupil with purple eyelids, with three visible eyelashes sticking out the side. Additionally, she also has a flat, small red triangle nose, a red mouth and lips, mitten-like hands, and a pair of stumps for feet. Depending on her expression, thin black eyebrows will appear, usually to form a sympathetic or irritated expressions.

Ragatha's most common outfit consists a collared 1940's cornflower blue dress, patterned with various square shaped patches that are colored a slightly darker blue, though it occasionally appears more purple due to warmer lighting. The dress consists of a thick piece of fabric hugging her waist and a pleated skirt, followed by a white petticoat and a pair of puffed, mid-length sleeves that extend to her elbows, with the ends of the sleeves being trimmed by large white frills. She wears plain black shoes and a cornflower blue bow on her head.

Personality: Ragatha is described as "the sweetest little optimist." At first glance, that optimism seems simple and genuine. However, it is soon revealed that there is more going on underneath. She often feels like she is forcing herself to stay upbeat, almost like it is the only way she can keep it together. Even when she goes through serious injuries or intense situations, she brushes them off like they are nothing. Over time, this starts to come across as unnatural. Gangle points out that the constant positivity Ragatha expresses can feel disingenuous after a while. Jax adds that she tries a little too hard, to the point where it can seem like she is using that attitude to get something out of people.

Even with all of that, Ragatha is very forgiving. When Pomni leaves her behind while running from Kaufmo, Ragatha does not hold it against her and instead understands why she reacted that way. Even so, she is not endlessly patient and does have her limits, but tends to keep those feelings buried so she does not start conflict or make things worse. When Gooseworx was asked why Ragatha seemed angry at Pomni by the end of the pilot for not helping her when she previously said she understood if Pomni wouldn't, Gooseworx responded by saying Ragatha would say "things she doesn't necessarily mean if she thinks it'll ease tensions."

Ragatha ends up getting their day ruined pretty often, but since she is a doll, she can ignore most of the pain and sometimes laugh it off. That does not mean she enjoys it. She still wants to avoid getting damaged and clearly gets annoyed when others, especially Jax, put her in those situations. For example, Jax pushes Gangle into ramming the spiked truck driven by the Gummy Bandits. Gangle does it reluctantly, and Ragatha ends up getting impaled in the process. Even so, she is not seriously affected, and later the damage appears to be completely gone.

Ragatha is also very sensitive to how others see her, and cares a lot about their opinions. At one point, she admits to Kinger that she feels like Pomni does not really like her. As shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", Ragatha doesn't seem to hold any form of grudge. In fact, she is concerned for Pomni for what she has been through since entering the circus and thinks she doesn't like her due to the entire ordeal, stemming from her looking seemingly angry at Pomni by the end of the pilot for not helping her when she previously said she understood if Pomni wouldn't. It proves how Ragatha says "things she doesn't necessarily mean if she thinks it'll ease tensions."

A similar moment happens when she is under the effects of Stupid Sauce and she tells Jax that even though she hates him, she still does not want him to hate her back. Her habit of trying to please everyone and quickly forgiving others can be seen as a reflection of her fear of being disliked or rejected, along with a general fear of emotional pain. Her conversation with Kinger reveals that she was not always this composed. When she first arrived, she was just as scared and nervous as Pomni. Over time, she had to find ways to cope so she could accept her situation. Ragatha deals with stressful situations by internalizing.

Later on, more of her deeper insecurities come to light. These are tied to past trauma from her overbearing mother and a strong fear of being hated or failing to build real friendships. After Kinger shares some advice with her, Ragatha starts easing up on herself. When she finally meets Pomni again afterwards, the two begin to repair their relationship, and their bond grows stronger because of it.

Background: Before the creation of her digital copy in the Amazing Digital Circus, her real life counterpart, Suzie J. Ackerman, was born into a fairly wealthy farming family. Suzie's mother was verbally abusive towards her, as she did not miss the yelling, berating, and guilt-tripping her mother used to subject her to. Suzie had four horses - Chestnut, Butterscotch, Alfredo, and Daisy Bell. She worked on poultry on a vast property in real estate. It wasn't until a digital copy of her was made via a brainscanner and manifested in the Digital Circus. Once there, the copy became a digital avatar in the form of a ragdoll.

Confused, she was calling for the others, asking where she was and if anyone could hear her. She soon met Caine and Kinger, the former of which was overjoyed that a new human had entered the digital circus; the latter tried to comfort her after he caught her falling from the stage. She realized she had completely forgotten her name and was later given her new name, Ragatha. Over time, more humans entered the circus with Ragatha, befriending many of them only to watch them abstract and be placed in the cellar by Caine.

Powers and Abilities:

• Digital physiology: Ragatha is one of the trapped humans inside the digital world with her consciousness piloting a digital avatar. Because of this, she can perform abilities that are outside of the general range of normal human capabilities.
• Immortality: Because there is no conceivable way to die within the digital world, there is currently no way that any of the human characters can or will die, with the closest alternative being "Abstraction". However, this may change in the future.
• Invulnerability: Nothing in the digital world can cause life long lasting damage to any individual in the Circus, with Ragatha surviving multiple incidents that would certainly kill any normal human and recovering from them with no marks and/or scarring.
• Hair Straightening: When holding her breath, Ragatha's hair will stick up, similar to a cartoon character being struck by electricity.

Trivia:

• Out of all the main characters, Ragatha is the least fun for Gooseworx to draw.
• In "Untitled", it is hinted that Ragatha has not seen/heard of Breaking Bad. Ironically, Ragatha supposedly entered the circus in October 2008, while Breaking Bad released in January of that same year, and the entire first season of the show already ended at that time.
• Ragatha kept the Stupid Sauce from "Fast Food Masquerade", as in "They All Get Guns", Zooble asks Ragatha if she still has it and can be seen using it in the last part of the episode.
• The short "Welcome to the Average Physical Circus..." marks the first time in any media related to The Amazing Digital Circus that anyone besides Caine speaks directly to Bubble, specifically when Ragatha tells Bubble "No" in response to his request to wave to the audience after she was turned into a bowling pin and had no arms.

Age:

• 30 Gender:
• Female Pronouns:
• She/Her Height:
• 144 cm (4' 8⅝") Eye color:
• Black (left)
• Blue (right, button) Status:
• Alive (Lucid)

Likes:

• Animals
• Horses
• Pomni
• Being with Pomni
• Gangle
• Kinger
• Jax
• Zooble
• Tea
• Softball
• Cosmopolitans
• Horrors
• Gloink Queen Dislikes:
• Her mother's scolding and manipulation
• Centipedes
• Jax's antics
• Pomni hanging out with an NPC
• Pomni being influenced by Jax
• Being upset with Pomni
• Her hair being compared to licorice
• Being hated
• Herself

Gangle is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated YouTube series The Amazing Digital Circus. She is a humanoid made of ribbons created as a digital copy of a human mind in the Digital Circus along with five other copies.

Her human counterpart in the real world, Zoey Raghavan, is a former fast food restaurant manager who quit her job after an accident and resumed her studies as a graphic design student.

Appearance: Gangle appears to be made up of four candy-red ribbons that form a humanoid shape. Her face is a white porcelain mask with black eyes and mouth. Her body consists of the main mass of the ribbons that curl, making a spring shape that spirals four times, two ribbons that form her legs, and a single ribbon for her arms (one end is the right arm, while the other end is her left arm). Whenever her Comedy Mask gets broken or removed, her next mask appears, switching to a sad version of the former, clarified by Gooseworx as her Tragedy Mask. The Comedy Mask is just used to make her look happy, not actually change her emotion. It is shown she can smile even with the Tragedy Mask.

In "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle changes her mask for a different one that Zooble gave her, now having her left eye with a white pupil and her right eye white with a black pupil. There is a yellow star under her left eye and a pink spiral under her right eye. This mask is made from plastic as opposed to the porcelain of the other two as confirmed by Zooble, so it does not break easily.

Personality: Gangle's emotions and behavior are influenced by which mask she is currently wearing. However, it is revealed that these masks do not completely change her mood, rather they are a literal form of "masking" and are not the sole deciders of her personality. The masks merely change the way Gangle's feelings are presented. When she has her Comedy Mask, her tone, posture, and behavior is masked as pleasant, upbeat, and extroverted. Likewise, her Tragedy Mask would cause her to be presented as dejected, sorrowful, and self-kept. Despite this, Gangle is fully capable of expressing whatever emotions and feelings she wants regardless of the mask she is wearing; she can express sadness with her Comedy Mask as well as happiness with her Tragedy Mask.

Gangle is referred to by Jax as one of the most "mentally stable and capable characters" in a mocking manner. Due to her mask breaking easily, Gangle is fragile in both a literal and figurative sense. Because of her emotional fragility, Gangle is an easy target for Jax's taunts, who enjoys tormenting her. Zooble themself points out that Gangle is too shy to speak up, possibly to avoid conflict with the other Circus members. Gangle had positive feelings towards Ragatha, although she acknowledged that Ragatha could sometimes be seen as disingenuous. At the end of "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle expresses her concern that she will be hated by everyone after the events of the episode.

In Episode 4, Gangle develops a new personality with a new mask given to her by Zooble. While wearing this mask, she becomes outgoing and confident, but also bossy, controlling and manic. She also internally cracks when others mention they like her better when she is sad, or that her new personality is annoying.

Through Episodes 5 and 6, her friendship with Zooble grows, and she stands up to Jax more, starting a vote to give him a maid outfit after the idea is planted into her head by Zooble, and even goes to Zooble asking them to hold her Comedy Mask as she talks about wanting to fire a Tommy gun while wearing said mask and doesn't want to risk breaking it. She then expresses to Zooble that she doesn't know how she should like the side she thinks makes her worse than everyone, to which, once Zooble teaches her about self-love, it revitalizes Gangle's confidence. This seems to have helped Gangle finally accept herself for who she is, as when she gets eliminated by Pomni, her Comedy Mask breaks again, but behind it, her Tragedy Mask instead dawns a happy expression that the Comedy Mask would typically make her have.

By Episode 7 and 8, Gangle has grown significantly both psychologically and socially. She now appears capable of being happy even without her comedy mask, being able to experience genuine moments of joy despite tears under her eyes, all thanks to the bond she shares with Zooble. By Episode 9, she is finally able to experience real human emotions after witnessing Jax's abstraction, crying real tears. At first, she is confused by this, but finally accepts this and her pity for Jax.

Background: Before her arrival in the Amazing Digital Circus, Gangle's real life counterpart, Zoey Raghavan, born on September 22nd 1991 was an ordinary human with a passion for anime. At one point, she pursued a degree in graphic design at a community college, though later dropped out for reasons unknown and did not do much with her art after that, instead working in the fast-food industry as a shift manager. She was injured in an accident involving a truck and was hospitalized.

After Jax was made, Gangle was made once Zoey experienced a digital brainscan, manifesting in the Amazing Digital Circus under the claim of donning a headset connected to a mysterious computer. Once there, she became a Digital Avatar in the form of a theater mask with a body made of ribbons. Jax came up with her name, reasoning it to be as "pathetic as how she looks". From that day forward, Gangle was used as a punching bag for Jax, being too submissive to even confront him.

Powers and Abilities:

• Digital physiology: Gangle is one of the trapped humans inside the digital world with her consciousness piloting a digital avatar. Because of this, she can perform abilities that are outside of the general range of normal human capabilities.
• Immortality: Because there is no conceivable way to die within the digital world and the fact that Caine cannot control the minds of those who are trapped within, there is currently no way that any of the human characters can or will die. With the closest alternative being "Abstraction."
• Invulnerability: Nothing in the digital world can cause life long lasting damage to any individual in The Amazing Digital Circus. With Gangle surviving multiple scenarios that would certainly kill any normal human and recovering from them with no marks and/or scarring.
• Replaceable Mask: Unlike the other humans, Gangle can install a comedy mask onto her face to act like her real face. However, this mask commonly breaks, due to being fragile.
• Spinning Mask: When holding her breath, Gangle's mask will begin rapidly spinning as a result.

Trivia:

• Gangle enjoys drawing, specifically anime.
• Gangle's favorite anime is Azumanga Daioh.
• She has watched One Piece, and her favorite character is Chopper.
• During the "Training Tape" section of Fast Food Masquerade, Gangle begins projecting her feelings, mentioning that she "want[s] to be a comic artist" and "eventually launch [her own] manga-inspired webcomic".
• It was stated by Gooseworx during GLITCHX 2023 that Gangle only has two masks.
• Her Tragedy Mask appears to be more durable than her Comedy Mask; while the latter broke after a single fall, the former endured two similar hits with no visible damage. Gooseworx confirmed on Tumblr that Gangle had a body pillow. Gooseworx confirmed in a Tumblr post that Gangle and the others were talking about compost at the table at the end of the pilot episode.

Age:

• 26 Gender:
• Female Pronouns:
• She/Her Height:
• 155 cm (5' 1") Eye color:
• Black

Likes:

• Drawing
• Anime
• Manga
• Zooble
• Pomni
• Ragatha
• Kinger
• Stargazing
• Humiliating Jax
• Tommy guns
• Firing a Tommy gun while laughing maniacally Dislikes:
• Her comedy mask breaking
• Jax (sometimes)
• Jax's behavior
• Her job (Manager at Spudsy's)
• The idea of her friends hating her
• Ragatha's toxic positivity
• Deletion of Caine