My new oc, her name is Gangle!
she is the alternate universe version of gangle from the The Amazing Digital Circus: Beige AU
i was originally going to make her red, but it look weird.
she was born as a sad beige baby, raised by sad beige parents
her parents never allow her to buy or own anything that wasnt the color beige, cream, brown, or grey because they wanted the family to have a beige aesthetic
caine knew this, and made her avatar in the circus biege and made her room and everything in it completely biege
her non canonical nickname is rangle, i call her this outside of the context of the Beige AU so people can differentiate her from the Tokyo-based digital production company "G-angle" which shares the same name as Gangle
click "Keep reading" to learn more about her lore
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.
She is introduced in the opening theme song, but Pomni knocks over Jax, who falls onto Kinger, who in turn tumbles into Gangle. She lands face-first, which causes her comedy mask to break, making her cry and showing her next, sadder, mask. Jax is seen stepping on her comedy mask, cracking it even more, making Gangle sob in response.
Gangle later pipes up during a conversation quietly saying, "What about Zooble?" Showing her concern for the other performer. Gangle gets paired up with Kinger to find Zooble and deal with The Gloinks. Later in the episode, Gangle reappears with Kinger, as they're gazing down a pitch-black hole, where they can hear Zooble distantly screaming. Gangle has to remind Kinger that they saw one of the Gloinks carry Zooble's pieces down there, seemingly startling Kinger.
She then asks Jax how Kaufmo is doing, saying that she hopes he isn't mad at her for not laughing at his jokes. Jax then throws a bowling ball at Kinger, who smacks against Gangle, pulling her down. Jax goes down the hole with them, and they all tumble down a long and fun-shaped slide, entering The Gloink Queen's Nest.
After Jax states that he doesn't want to help Zooble anymore, Kinger and Gangle play rock-paper-scissors to see who will go and save Zooble. Gangle loses, saddening her, while Kinger looks ecstatic about getting to help Zooble. After the Gloink Queen is defeated, Gangle shows confusion and is surprised when she learns that Kaufmo was abstracted.
On their way out, Jax offers to let Gangle go first, but changes his mind immediately after muttering: "No, wait, why would I say that?" and shoves Gangle onto the floor, and she enters last. At the end of the episode, she can be seen eating the digital feast with the other performers discussing compost with the rest of the group. She appears to be eying Pomni with worry, asking her if she is feeling alright (even though the dialogue is inaudible).
Gangle is seen at the Tent with the rest of the crew (except Zooble) getting pushed into the portal by Caine, although she doesn't say anything much. In the Candy Canyon Kingdom, when they are walking to the castle, she expressed how much she likes the place, before a mannequin charges into her and breaks her comedy mask.
When the crew goes to the truck, Jax runs to it saying, "I call shotgun", before ironically forcing Gangle to drive after he is not pleased by the sound of the horn. Later when the crew is driving to catch the bandits, Jax says, "You drive over to the other truck and I'll shoot'em repeatedly until they're unrecognizable", before Gangle says, "I feel like that violates some kind of convention". When Gangle refuses to comply with what Jax wants, he threatens her on revealing about the "figurine thing", making her laugh in a forced manner before ramming into the bandits shortly after.
When the group returned to the circus, they attended Kaufmo's funeral. When it was Gangle's turn to speak, she showed a drawing of her and Kaufmo then began crying as she recounted her memories of her abstracted friend.
Gangle was seen on the couch taking notes on Pomni's special power when she holds her breath, it is revealed at Gangle's mask spins when she holds her breath, she enters the Mildenhall Manor with the rest of the crew (except Zooble). Jax throws her Comedy Mask into a door which turns out to be the scary door, causing her to be disappointed, she follows Ragatha and Jax into the normal door and meets Martha Mildenhall, who invites them to have tea, after the tea the group heads to the main entrance of the mansion where they learn they have to wait for the others before they can leave and she asks Ragatha how long that would be. After Pomni and Kinger reunited with the rest of the group Gangle asks if they remember to retrieve her Comedy Mask causing both of them to realize they forgot.
Gangle is seen in The Tent playing softball with Jax and Ragatha, which results in Jax accidentally breaking her comedy mask.
While Jax and Ragatha argue, Zooble pulls Gangle aside to show her something in their room. In Zooble's room, Zooble pulls a plastic comedy mask from the "Zooble" box, containing all of Zooble's detachable pieces. Zooble explains that the plastic comedy mask may be more durable, as it isn't made of a glass-like/fragile material. Gangle tries on the comedy mask, to which she says in reply to Zooble's question of how it feels, "It feels… Normal."
Caine pulls Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle to the center of the tent to share the day's adventure which is "The Curse of The Violent Psychopath Butcher", to which Pomni dislikes the idea, and asks if they could chill with the horror, and that she really does not want it to be like last time. A confused Zooble asks what happened before Pomni vaguely explains what happened in episode 3. Annoyed, Caine calls everyone critics and asks them to come up with a better one, as he doesn't see them giving any suggestions. Zooble responds that they do and asks Caine if he's checked the Suggestions box at all, to which Caine responds by saying that he forgot they even had one. Gangle suggests that they pick a more "normal" adventure, and so Caine pulls out a suggestion for the cast to spend the day working at a fast food restaurant. Gangle agrees, and Caine deems Gangle as the shift manager. Ironically, Gangle mentions she was a shift manager at some point, possibly before she entered the circus. The seemingly down-to-earth adventure upsets both Jax and Zooble, but before they could protest, they were forcefully sent to Spudsy's to begin the adventure.
At the "Spudsy's" restaurant, Gangle starts up the shift for everyone and gets into "manager mode". It seems to be second nature for her to do so, further proving that she was once a shift manager-- and good at it too.
Jax throws Ragatha into a fryer, to which Gangle calls Caine and suggests a punishment for bad employees, to which Caine agrees, with a vague answer to what the punishment will be.
At lunch hour, Gangle asks Jax to clean the bathroom, which she describes as a "biohazard". Jax refuses and says that he prefers Gangle when she's sad. The sound of breaking glass is heard (meaning she cracked emotionally) and Gangle drags Jax to an empty room as a dated "employee training video" plays. In the tape, Gangle says the viewer is thinking they (the viewer) wants be a comic artist and then launch a web comic, adding it's cool to have dreams before she says the viewer's dreams are completely unrealistic and need to stop trying, implying that Gangle could've been an aspiring webcomic author/artist before entering the circus, but was discouraged by others. She is projecting.
In the employee training video, Gangle asks if the viewer is smiling, to which Jax replies "no", before the music stops, and Gangle asks "Why not?" and her face turns creepy. Suddenly, cartoonish extendable arms then tie Jax to a chair and bring him closer to the screen as Gangle says it's time for their re-evaluation as a mind-control/hypnosis-type video plays, flashing between Gangle's comedy mask and tragedy mask interchangeably.
Gangle approaches Ragatha (who, earlier, had accidentally ingested stupid sauce while trying to put it in a burger, which causes the same effect as being high) to request she does her work properly and help Zooble, to which an intoxicated Ragatha says "Why are you even the boss anyways? I feel like I'm way more responsible than you.", which Gangle replies by suggesting Ragatha just does as she's told so she doesn't end up hurt, and attempting to motivate Ragatha. Ragatha uncharacteristically and unintentionally replies with "No offense, but you're kind of annoying when you have your happy mask.", which is followed by a close-up of an annoyed Gangle, and once again the sound of glass cracking. Gangle asks Zooble to help with Ragatha in a depressed tone while heading to a corner.
Jax is eventually freed from the dark room, a blank expression on his face quickly turning to anger when he looks at the clock and realizes no time has passed since he entered. Jax asks Gangle if the clock is broken, to which Gangle replies almost losing the sense of reality; "Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones? How long has this shift really gone on for? Six hours? 8? 24? A week? A year? Does time even move in here? Will we ever go home? Will we ever achieve our dreams?" Before being cut off by the sound of her watch beeping and coming back to "reality", and replying "Oh wait, yeah that clock's broken."
At dinner time, Gangle walks out through the back door, takes off her plastic comedy mask, sighs, and screams into her hands, before being caught by Pomni taking out the garbage. When asked if she's okay, Gangle replies "My comedy mask is usually broken by now…" Implying that Gangle is not used to keeping her happy "mask" or state of being on high for such a long period of time. Pomni asks if she has anyone to talk to before suggesting talking to Ragatha, to which Gangle replies "Oh, Ragatha. I love her, but… After a while, it gets kind of hard to tell how genuine she's actually being.", Both a reference to Ragatha hurting her feelings prior to this moment, and also a nod to Ragatha's overly optimistic "people pleasing attitude," before putting back on her plastic comedy mask and saying, "Anyway, we can't spend all night out here talking about our feelings. We've got work to do!" followed by a weak laugh, before she walks back into the building.
After this interaction, the restaurant begins to close. Jax leaves the second the shift is over, and Zooble offers to take Ragatha "home" due to her being intoxicated by stupid sauce. Gangle half-heartedly agrees, not even taking notice of the time. After Ragatha, Jax, and Zooble leave, Gangle is depressingly walking around the building after standing there for roughly an hour and heavily dissociating before Pomni snaps her back to reality and offers to close the restaurant for her. This seems to raise her spirits a bit and Gangle agrees, finally clocking out. Gangle leaves, and stops under a streetlight and stares out at the road before throwing her plastic comedy mask into the sky, smiling, and running onto the road, dancing and seemingly being truly happy for the first time all day, before tripping, and a truck racing towards her.
Just before she is hit, however, the scene then cuts to an office with Caine going over Gangle's performance review. He explains that she did a good job, but "cut her own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic." Caine then offered that she could put the blame onto Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, or Zooble, to which Gangle refuses and takes responsibility.
Back at the tent, Zooble approaches Gangle, who's drawing an anime/manga character on a notepad, and asks why she's so far away from the other cast members. Gangle replies with a sniff: "I messed everything up... The mask didn't work. And now I don't think anybody wants to talk to me anymore." And Zooble replies "I still like talking to you. Look, the new mask was a bust. So, what? I'm sure we'll find something that works eventually." before taking Gangle to hang out with the rest of the cast, and says to bring Gangle's art, which she is most likely embarrassed of due to what people thought of it before she entered the circus.
Gangle, along with her fellow circus members, go through a portal after an adventure with her broken comedy mask, but it gets fixed by Caine as she is about to leave. She then gets sent back along with the others by Caine, to discuss about the which adventures are better: Caine's or those in the Suggestion Box. Caine then decides on a “Lightning Round”, in which they all go through adventures based off of everyone's suggestions to prove his adventures are better. Gangle is so dumbfounded by this that her mask breaks upon hearing Caine's idea because of the sheer terror she feels just from imagining what could happen. He opens up a portal, and Gangle and everyone else get sucked in.
In the first adventure, "Poacher's Paradise", Gangle is seen as a rhinoceros, before getting shot and mauled by Jax. Due to his behavior, and following Zooble's suggestion, Gangle and the others vote Jax to be a vegan for the rest of the day, and to change the adventure. In the next adventure, "President Pomni", Gangle shows up in the oval office wearing a time bomb on herself. She plays the role of a New Zealander extremist, though she claims she doesn't know what extremists threaten people with, right before the bomb explodes. Everyone then moves on to Gangle's suggested adventure, in which they're all students in an anime-style school classroom. Even though she was flustered that Zooble knew it was her suggestion, she was happy with the current setting as she drew on her papers. However, when Jax was about to expose a secret regarding what Gangle does with her anime figures, she decides to change the adventure.
In the fourth adventure, "Stargazing", the group Relaxes among the stars outside the Digital Circus. Zooble offers a sandwich to Gangle and she takes a bite of it, while Jax, Ragatha, and Pomni discuss Gangle's happiness. Caine watches them, and—frustrated by what he sees—decides to cut the scene and start an intermission. After the intermission ends, they find themselves in a 1930s-style bar. Zooble hands out drinks and asks Gangle what jobs she had in her past life. Gangle replies that she mostly worked in fast food, but also pursued graphic design in community college before dropping out and not doing much with it. While she didn't pursue her hobbies as much after that, Zooble was open to drawing art with her. Later, Jax brings up that Ragatha once told Gangle to kill herself, which Ragatha quickly denies, claiming she was "on stupid sauce" and would never say such a thing. Gangle smiles at the comment, showing that she doesn't seem to mind what happened at Spudsy's. Caine then gets bored and switches the adventure's one last time.
In the final adventure, "Good Ol' Fashioned Softball", Gangle and the others are players on "The BigTops" team, and while they're shown to be facing against their evil counterparts, the "The Evil BigTops", she was confused when she noticed that she didn't have an evil clone of her own. While benched on the side, Gangle giggles as Zooble whispers something in her ear, which (presumably) encourages her to suggest something in secret, and it ends up getting majority approval. Jax ends up wearing a maid outfit, much to his anger. When her turn came up, she hits a (off-camera) home run for the team, and as the game ends, she compliments Ragatha for her efforts on the field, before everyone returns to the Circus.
Gangle, along with everyone else, shows up to the main stage in the Tent as Caine announced the day's adventure. She appears interested when Caine mentions the sports he's come up with, and she is surprised when Jax first shoots Ragatha. Jax grabs Gangle hand and tells her to join him as his partner for the adventure, but Gangle doesn't let him and lets him know that she's actually going to be on a team with Zooble. Jax takes her comedy mask and puts it above him, out of reach for Gangle, prompting her to try and reach for it. Zooble grabs the mask from Jax and Gangle follows her, where they give the mask back to Gangle. She later asks Zooble to hold on to her happy mask, as she doesn't trust herself with it. She mentions that she wants to be able to fire a tommy gun while laughing maniacally and doesn't want it to break before that moment. Zooble assures her that she'll keep it safe. When the game begins, she yells at Zooble about needing to find the tommy gun, and they both run off.
At the railing above, right after Zooble shoots Kinger, she isn't sure if she and Zooble are safe up there, before they both duck when Kinger and Ragatha try to shoot them.
When Gangle and Zooble hide out in the Castle area, Zooble finds an AK-47 and asks Gangle if it will do in case they don't find the tommy gun and Gangle says yes. Gangle asks Zooble if they think Jax is going to be mad because she didn't team up with him. Zooble tells her to not worry about that right now, but Gangle is convinced that Jax probably wants revenge. Zooble sits down with her, reassuring her that she's doesn't deserve to think about that, and how she's not his toy, she's a human, but Gangle says that it doesn't always feel that way. She questions to Zooble "how are you supposed to like the part of yourself that just...makes you worse than everyone else?" Zooble replies "'cause it exists" and how the only you she should care about is the real you; she should have to choose to love herself, even it doesn't make sense. Gangle asks if Zooble has ever had to make that choice but then says "Of course not. You're Zooble." Gangle takes Zooble's hand and stands up, and Zooble says "I've got your back if you've got mine." Gangle then decides that they should now go kill Pomni and Jax.
Sometime after Gangle and Zooble both lose two lives, presumedly caused by Jax and Pomni, they are getting chased by the duo in some large multi-colored aboveground tunnels Zooble and Gangle run through a long stretch of tunnel, barely dodging bullets from Jax and Pomni. They get a break around the corner, where Gangle seems out of breath. While Zooble shoots back at Team Bad Guys, Gangle notices that the tommy gun is next to her, then she tells Zooble "It's time." Gangle, now with her comedy mask, runs out into the tunnel with the tommy gun, laughing maniacally and shooting wildly. Somehow, Jax and Pomni dodge the bullets, but Gangle shoots around Jax and Pomni in a circle, breaking the tunnel, now with holes around the side of it. The tunnel collapses, and Gangle, Jax, Pomni, Zooble, and their weapons fall out onto a level of the tent below, right outside of the bedroom hallways. Gangle's comedy mask somehow manages to stay intact, and she seems very happy about it. Gangle and Pomni both pick up a gun. They both shoot at the same time, but Gangle barely misses, and Pomni shoots her right in the forehead. After Gangle falls to the ground, her comedy mask breaks, revealing her sad mask still smiling. She disappears and is transferred to the loser corner.
When Zooble pops in to the loser corner, Gangle, Ragatha, and Kinger are cosplaying as cats with black ears, whiskers, and tails.
At the Favorite Character Awards, Gangle sits next to Zooble and behind Kinger. When Zooble gets an award, Gangle is smiling next to her.
When Caine sees how many Committee members voted for him, it is shown that Gangle got three votes.
Pomni finds Zooble hiding in a box. Pomni explains to Zooble that Gangle had been searching for them, and Gangle picks them up out of the box with a happy greeting. Pomni mentions that she actually hasn't seen Caine all day. upon seeing this, she ironically finds a note from Caine that he is out for the day.
Gangle, along with the rest of the gang, is taken to the A Day At The Beach Adventure by Caine. Before smashing a watermelon, blindfolded, with a bat, Zooble draws Jax's face into the watermelon before Gangle smashes it, making her amused.
Gangle sits with the rest of the circus members after the revelation about Caine's last adventure. She remains quiet while Jax and Zooble argue about how he could have ruined their one chance to escape, even if it wasn't real but when the argument escalates, Gangle sides with Jax. Gangle states that it doesn’t matter what could have happened and that continuing to argue will only hurt everyone further. Gangle says that the only thing they can do now is be there for each other. Pomni suggests abandoning the idea of leaving the circus. When Zooble expresses distress over losing their dreams and goals, Gangle tells them that they have made a mark in her life. Zooble becomes emotional and hugs Gangle, who is surprsed by this before returning the hug and smiling.
During Caine's musical number she goes through Caine's torturing and hurting the circus members in multiple ways, but in the separate punishments Caine inserts a tire pump into her mouth and starts pumping it, turning her into a ballon. Caine then grabs her by the neck and twists her into a balloon dog before popping her with a pin. In one of the finale scenes of the song she can be seen having a cannon blow up in her face, and having her mask knocked off her body.
A few days after Caine’s musical number, Gangle returns from another adventure with the others holding her comedy mask which has broken in two. She then tries to catch Zooble as she falls apart but only manages to catch her body. When Zooble apologizes for antagonizing Caine, Gangle tells them it wasn’t their fault while holding her head and re-attaching one of her pieces.
In the crows-nest she is sitting with the circus members on the barstools eating cake with berries on top, and is unfazed when Pomni who is sitting next to her disappears into thin air but more aware when she comes back. After the discussion with Kinger about C&A she joins in with Ragatha and Zooble in distracting Caine while Pomni and Kinger work on their plan.
During this, Caine uses Gangle as part of his entertainment, transforming her and the others for his own amusement. First into a bowling pin and later into a piece of abstract art. When Pomni returns confronting Caine, Gangle joins the others in expressing their grievances. She says that he discourages them from thinking outside the box and doing things their own way.
After reaching his breaking point, Caine transforms and subjects each of the members to personal torture. Gangle is surrounded by images of her expressions as they spin around her and begin to melt off the canvases before she is struck by a truck.
Caine then restrains the group, smashing them against a wall and demands to know why they torment him. As this happens, Kinger attempts to alter Caine’s code. After Kinger accidentally deletes Caine, Gangle watches as the circus begins to darken and break apart. With the others, she is left in shock with an open mouth, as they realize Caine is gone and the circus has fallen apart.
