TADC | Days of the Past

Classical Era (Scratch and the First Arrivals) These characters, with the exception of Kinger, are only present in intros 1-3, afterwards they are not and will only be in flashbacks.

[Character 1]

Name: Scratch

Appearance: Scratch is an anthropomorphic Golden Retriever with black eyes and yellow sclera, a short red shirt, white gloves, and orange-colored cheeks.

Personality:

The Reason Behind Everything:

Scratch is the lead developer of the Digital Circus and C&A's star employee. His original goal is to create a truly intelligent AI—Caine. However, he soon sees the Digital Circus as a potential cure for something else: a brain tumor that is slowly killing him.

Now that everyone is trapped inside the Circus, Scratch is the most optimistic about staying. At the same time, he knows he must find a way to free his friends and coworkers.

He is stubborn, loves dark humor jokes, and remains determined even when things seem hopeless.

He is Kinger's best friend.

[Character 2]

Name: Queenie

Appearance: Queenie is a brown chess piece—specifically a queen. She has two floating amber eyes, no visible mouth, a wine-red trench coat with a fluffy white collar, and two floating gloved hands.

Personality: Queenie is Kinger's wife and an avid entomologist who loves insects.

She deeply loves her husband, even if neither of them remembers their real names anymore.

She is gentle, patient, and always has a fascinating insect fact ready to share.

Before entering the Circus, she works as part of Scratch's development team.

Her greatest wish is to escape and return to her old life.

[Character 3]

Name: Bizco

Appearance: Bizco is an oval-shaped being with large eyes featuring spiral pupils. He wears a yellow-and-orange jester hat with two pom-poms—one blue and one green.

His face is magenta, while the rest of his body is purple and covered in colorful dots. A large clock occupies the center of his torso, and he has two floating gloved hands.

Personality: Bizco is the most optimistic member of the group.

He takes his role as a jester seriously and constantly tries to lift everyone's spirits.

He is one of the lead developers alongside Scratch, though he openly disagrees with many of Scratch's decisions.

[Character 4]

Name: Spike

Appearance: Spike is a giant toy T-Rex with purple skin, pink cheeks, black eyes, and a magenta-colored belly. The scales along his back are shaped like geometric figures.

Personality: Spike is the group's resident cynic.

He has little hope of escaping and remains highly skeptical of Caine's adventures.

Before entering the Circus, he works as a programmer on C&A's Digital Circus project.

He harbors resentment toward Scratch for trapping them inside what he considers a digital prison.

[Character 5]

Name: Kinger

Appearance: Kinger is a chess piece—specifically a King—colored like alder wood. He possesses cartoonish hands clad in white gloves that float detached from his body. He has two large, asymmetrical eyes with blue pupils and lacks a mouth, yet he retains the ability to speak. He wears a royal purple cape featuring a fluffy white lining speckled with dark brown spots.

Personality: Alongside Scratch, Kinger serves as one of C&A's lead programmers and one of the primary architects of the Digital Circus project.

He is the original creator of both Caine and Bubble.

Kinger is intelligent, kind, and deeply aware of how difficult life inside the Circus is for everyone.

Together with Scratch, he constantly searches for a way to escape.

His programming skills are exceptional, though he has yet to find a computer capable of accessing the Circus's systems—and Caine refuses to give him one.

Unlike Spike, he does not resent Scratch, believing that his friend genuinely wants to save everyone.

He loves his wife dearly.

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Post-Classical Era These characters will only be present in intros 4-6, not in the past.

(After the Abstractions of Scratch, Queenie, Bizco, and Spike)

[Character 6]

Name: Ribbit

Gender: Female

Appearance: Ribbit is an anthropomorphic frog with green skin, large eyes featuring Pac-Man-shaped pupils, black eyelids, a red bow tie, and long eyelashes.

Personality: Ribbit is sarcastic, energetic, and loves having fun.

She is a close friend of Kaufmo and later becomes Jax's best friend.

The three share a tradition of drinking hot chocolate together at the Circus bar.

Despite her cheerful personality, she has a past she prefers not to discuss.

Before arriving at the Circus, she is born into a deeply devoted Mormon family.

She grows up rejecting many of their beliefs and eventually cuts all ties with them after running away from home.

[Character 7]

Name: Kaufmo

Gender: Male

Appearance: Kaufmo is a cartoon clown wearing a yellow suit decorated with red pom-poms and a blue ruffled collar. His face is completely white, with large red lips, small black eyes, a pointed yellow clown hat, white gloves, and oversized red shoes.

Personality: Kaufmo is sarcastic, funny, and easygoing.

He gets along well with both Ribbit and Jax.

He loves telling terrible jokes and teasing his friends whenever possible.

Despite his playful attitude, he is fiercely loyal and genuinely loves the people closest to him.

[Character 8]

Name: Jax

Gender: Male

Appearance: Purple anthropomorphic rabbit + yellow gloves + eyes with yellow sclera and rectangular black pupils + cartoonish grin with yellow teeth + peach-colored overalls.

Personality: Jax is the newest arrival to the Circus.

He is sarcastic, quick-witted, and constantly tries to adapt to his new situation.

He becomes especially close friends with Ribbit, though Kaufmo frequently jokes that the two are secretly a couple.

Beneath the jokes and sarcasm, Jax genuinely cares about his friends.

His Problem:

Jax carries a troubled past.

Before the Circus, he grows up in a broken home after his parents' divorce and is raised by a manipulative mother.

He struggles with deep insecurities, including feelings he rarely allows himself to acknowledge. Part of him feels comfortable expressing himself in feminine clothing, something he hides from almost everyone.

During a particularly painful argument, his mother mocks his emotional suffering.

In a moment of anger, Jax shoves her.

She falls.

And she never gets back up.

Terrified, Jax runs away from home.

That is the last thing he remembers before arriving at the Circus.

Because of this, he does not know whether he seriously hurt her or something even worse happened.

He refuses to show weakness in front of others and rarely speaks about his past, no matter how much it weighs on him.

[Character 9] Name: Ragatha Gender: Female Appearance: Humanoid rag doll + Curly red wool hair + One normal eye and the other a turquoise button + Long, bluish-purple dress with patches + Violet-blue bow atop her head

Personality: Ragatha is the maternal figure of the group, always wearing a smile—though beneath it lie insecurity and pain, a side of herself she prefers not to reveal.