AND ONLY NOW I REALISED THAT KINGER WAS UNDER POMNI'S DESK

AND THAT LOOKED SLIGHTLY INAPPROPRIATE

THAT LOOKED INAPPROPRIATE AND I'M PRETTY SURE I JUST UNDERSTOOD IT

THEORY FROM THE KIND OF NEW

Pomni is as much of an AI as Caine.

She's still learning, however she doesn't fully understand how actual people work.

Everything she displays is just what she had chances to learn.

She isn't aware of that fact, she just observes and uses her knowledge of human behaviours (you have a problem? I'm sure Regatha would like to help... You're helping us, so I'm helpful, so as a human, I'll buy you a beer!)

And like... She genuinely lowkey is the only character without mental... Hm. Basically, the doesn't really struggle with memory, identity, self-esteem, etc. she's just... There. Learns, talks to others, but... As a character she just feels so static?

Pluuus, since Caine and Bubble have mouths, and the rest of the cast don't... However outside of Pomni.

She's the only member with a mouth.

A mouth, just like Caine.

(which i am naming for I CAN)

Has anyone mentioned a theory that actually they all were real at some point?

But in the circus, those characters, are just copies. Real people who joined a game and the perfect copies of themselves were created and now live in the circus

The little thing I'm currently wondering about is how people compare Ellen and Ragatha.

Cause okay, both females, and showing kindness towards everyone.

But in Ragatha's case, there's often a lack of sincerity. She is worried about how she is seen. She seems to have kindness, but not the understanding of it.

Regarding Ellen... For starters, we know very little about her. Partially due to the length of the story, and partially because Ted isn't as rational as he claims to be. She is shown to be empathetic, but with choosing to be kind even if it meant not being /liked/. She doesn't care if she is getting kicked, she wants to help.

So my conclusion would be that she wishes to be empathetic for the sake of others, she does have a bit of a deeper understanding of empathy, outside of how she is perceived.

A contrast:

Ragatha was shown to choose her own comfort of not wanting to team up with Jax.

Ellen was shown to sacrifice herself even more for Ted, in attempts to... Well, "cheer him up" as I heard somewhere.

They both do self sacrifice in attempts to help other people.

I am not saying that Ragatha only cares about how she is being seen, no. However she is shown to be more insincere and self-preserving, in contrast.

Kinger

Zooble

Ones who have a mouth:

Pomni

Ragatha

Sort of have mouth:

Jax

Gangle

By definition, a mouth is an opening. And neither Jax nor Gangle embody that. Gangle being based off a mask, makes sense. Jax on the other hand... Slightly less, i would say.

The default NPCs don't have mouths either.

It stopped getting to them a while ago.

Sometimes they pass by the Abstracted Realm. They can't see it, but... Sometimes the moving realm is somewhere next to them. Sometimes it's as if its right behind the door, but when they walk in, there's noone there and the noises stop.

Sometimes they can hear it in open air. No doors, no walls, just... Screams. Right next to them. Yet out of reach.

Most of the circus was in there already. He was the last one alive.

He cursed the day he got out of therapy. Abstraction would mean an escape. Instead of being stuck here as the only remaining survivor.

He could manipulate everything however he wanted, but what was the point?

That is until...

Sometimes the characters are replaced by their AI versions, someone above checking if others will notice...

The others did not notice that Jax was replaced. He wasn't a perfect copy, he lacked his tail. And yet... Nobody noticed.

Nobody promised they were taken from the same time. Or even remotely similar.

Gangle in 2031.

Pomni disappeared around 2009. YouTube was still crawling, but she never got to see it get up and run.

Ragatha 2017. Rip Vine, rip Ragatha.

Jax in 1999. Right before midnight. He never saw the new millennium.

Kinger in 2022. Following the Queen's footsteps. Oldest, yet in reality the newest.

Zooble in 1961. Way before the next victim was even born. But they were not the first either...

Him making her the president, them laying together at the picnic, Guns, the Australian accent he deffo stole from Gumigoo (i trust y'all on that as i can't tell a single accent apart thank u), him chatting her up after his Gangle inflicted trauma at Spudsy's (is that even how u write it)...

Pomni - Russian

Ragatha - Danish

Gangle - German

Zooble - Bri'ish

Kinger - Dutch

Pomni's spinning thingy had 5 letters, but last time i checked none of [Jax, Regatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, literally all other characters i can recall outside of Caine] had a 5 letter name.

Those idiots. With all due respect, mostly towards her, however still applying. None of them got any idea what's going on, and Jax cannot decide if it's funny or terrifying. A little bit of both. For the more boring probably just terrifying. Trapped in a digital world, memory not working, blah blah blah.

As much as he realised that he doesn't need to be that much of a prick, he had decided a long time ago that if it's the darkest under the lantern, therefore if he wants not to be found out, he needs to stand out as much as possible. Even if at an expanse of a few broken masks.

If he actually were to put effort into this, he'd end up wooing someone and even if one girl in particular was just his type, he couldn't afford such a distraction.

Not flirting with anyone was slowly getting to him, yeah, the thrill of making someone a blushing mess or trying to match his attitude was the best kind of emotional rollercoaster. He absolutely loved it. The constant conversation monitoring and looking for ways to woo his current chat partner even just a bit... Yes, that's what he missed.

A little switch up from the current carousel of fuckery, some fun interactions... Will it be weird if he becomes a drunken flirt? One can't live off constant high bully-like tensions. Violence is funny, but he needs a break. Maybe Gangle could take over his duties as The Funny One, or something.

The game of life out there in real world was far better than whatever this circus had going on. This circus was not his, the monkeys weren't his either, and yet he was supposed to save them. Somehow.

As soon as he remembers how to save himself, possibly. Cause oh boy, he is d r o w n i n g.

Either in love or in madness. Undisclosed detail.