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Gangle gets first introduced in the Pilot episode (first episode) along with the rest of the circus cast. She gets mainly characterized as someone who is usually sad, very shy and often is scared of expressing her own opinions. She breaks down easily and is quite emotional as well.

One of the things that is very iconic from her from early on is how she has a two type of masks: Her sad crying mask, which would be her default mask and her happy mask, which she puts on top of her sad mask, giving the impression that she is in a good mood. There is a somewhat of a gag in the early episodes of her happy mask getting broken every other episode or adventure since the material is made of is quite fragile.

This could be considered an allegory to ¨masking¨, which would be a way to pretend an emotional state you really aren't or pretend to be someone you are not in front of others. It is used as a way to adapt to different type of social situations and can be emotionally draining if it gets pushed for too long.

It is unknown what type of mental condition Gangle has, the show makes clear that she appears to have something but it is left up open to interpretation. One of the possibilities could be depression, as she is shown to be constantly down and gloomy, even when she probably doesn't want to be.

Gangle uses her happy mask to present herself as a cheerful person around the rest of the humans and/or to make herself feel better. It is an object that is important for her, as it seems it helps her coping with her condition and emotions one way or another.

Another aspect that gets established from the Pilot is her relationship with Jax: She gets usually pushed down by him and he can be the main reason why her happy mask gets broken. Jax often treats Gangle very poorly, even more than the rest of the humans in the circus. He even calls her ¨submissive and agreeable¨ when forcing her to do stuff she doesn't want to like in episode "Candy Carrier Chaos!".

The episode "Fast Food Masquerade" is where she gets the main focus, exploring her struggles and hinting at some stuff from her real human life. The episode starts with Zooble telling Gangle that she found a special mask for her that is made of plastic, so it won't break down as easily. Gangle takes a liking into this mask, as not only makes her feel good but it makes her more confident as well.

When talking to Caine about choosing for a more calm type of adventure, she suggests working on a fast food restaurant since she work as a manager on food service at one point. Coming up with this idea could be Gangle looking for something she is familiar with in the circus or an environment she knows she can do well. Caine leaves her in charge of the adventure, with her promising that she will try to make it good.

She seems to have everything under control at the start, the rest are working and she appears to enjoy herself. However, things start getting out of control when Gangle becomes rather controlling with her mask, taking the adventure too seriously and partially pushing others around, coming off as bossy. This makes others uncomfortable, which gets mainly commented on by Jax and a drunken Ragatha. There is a point she even calls Caine to ask him to punish the players if they don't do their job as expected during the adventure.

During one of the scenes she puts Jax on ¨training¨, she talks about how it is bad to have dreams and you should give up on them, hinting at how she wanted to be a comic artist and draw her own web manga comics before she ended up in the circus.

¨I don't want a career in fast food. I want to be a comic artist and eventually launch my own manga inspired webcomic!¨

This gives off the idea that part of the reason of why Gangle is usually seen feeling down comes from her frustrations in her own life and not being able to follow her dreams and having to work in something that makes her miserable instead. In spite of showing a lot of enthusiasm for the adventure at the start of the episode, the reality is that working in fast food doesn't make her happy and instead makes feel worse than she was.

There is a part that she talks to Jax about how ¨aren't we the broken ones¨, including herself in the sentence. This hints at her seeing herself as broken, probably because of her own condition or thinking her new special mask isn't working like she wanted, or both things. Gangle doesn't seem to like herself much and has a low view about herself, which explains why she struggles with standing up for herself when she isn't wearing the special mask.

At night time, there is a moment that Gangle goes outside and throws her special mask on the floor, revealing her sad mask with tears. She screams loud out of frustration, not knowing that Pomni is there. Pomni tries her best in helping Gangle and suggests her to talk to Ragatha. Gangle answers with telling her that Ragatha is nice but at times she isn't sure how genuine she is actually being.

Before Pomni can say anything else, Gangle puts her special mask again and goes back inside the building.

While waiting for the others to leave so she can close the building, Gangle looks very lost and depressed even with her special mask on. All the work has been emotionally draining for her, finding no purpose in it. She walks aimlessly, she seems about to lost it before she gets interrumpted by Pomni again, who tells her that she can close for her so she can leave early.

The first thing that Gangle does when she gets out is to take off the special mask and throwing it far away, she starts running and dancing, feeling herself be free finally after a long day. She feels a huge relief but suddenly, without noticing, she gets hit by someone in the traffic. She appears inside Caine's office, who reviews her performance and brings up what just happened- Caine suggest to pass the blame to someone else but Gangle says that it was all her fault.

She is later seen very separated from the rest of the group, hiding away from them. Zooble asks her what she is doing, to which Gangle responds by saying she ¨messed everything up¨ in the adventure. She tried her best using the mask that Zooble gave to her but she thinks it made things worse and nobody wants to talk to her.

Zooble tells Gangle that she isn't mad at her and invites her to hang out with the rest of them, they also suggest bringing her art and Gangle decides to accept the offer.

If there is one lesson that Gangle gets by the end of "Fast Food Masquerade" is try not too hard to do masking and pretend to be someone who she isn't, because it kinda ends up making things worse for everyone, herself included. She should try more to be herself, even if it is a part of her she doesn't like much. She also appears to have taken Pomni's suggestion of finding someone to talk to since at the end she is seen talking to Zooble and starting to form a deeper friendship with her because of that.

In the following episode Gangle is seen hanging out with Zooble, such as when they are having a picnic together in the Stargazing adventure or when they are seen talking to each other in the softball match. It appears that they have formed a close bond after episode 4 and Gangle is more willing to talk about her problems with someone else.

¨Untitled¨ episode doesn't have much focus in Gangle as "Fast Food Masquerade" but it has some good scenes that are followed up from that episode.

The first thing is that one of the adventures is anime inspired, being a suggestion from Gangle. In episode 4 it gets mentioned that she likes anime and manga and here it gets explored futher in this adventure. The adventure has the characters being anime style inspired and being stuck in a school setting. Gangle could be described as a sort of ¨otaku¨ by this, which is often a name anime fans are called.

In the bar adventure each of the characters with exception of Jax tells or learn more about each other. Gangle tells them she used to work in a fast food chain, something that she had shared in episode 4. She also was in community college for graphic design but she dropped out for unknown reasons. She gave up art after that.

This gives more context to her earlier lines about not pursuing one's dreams during her training employee video, because she couldn't follow her dreams of working in something graphic design/art related. Gangle is someone who is frustrated with her life and feels like she couldn't do the things she wanted to do or live up to her full potential.

In the softball match, Zooble and her come up with the idea of putting Jax in a maid outfit, making Jax really mad as result and trying to chase Gangle before he gets called to bat. This is a good example of Gangle standing up to Jax and trying to get back to him for how he constantly he pushes her around. This goes to show that Zooble has been a rather good influence on Gangle, giving enough confidence to do that.

This development is further continued at the start of ¨They All Get Guns!¨ episode when everyone is looking for a team partner, Jax inmediately drags Gangle to form a team only for Gangle to push away and telling Jax that she is pairing up with Zooble.

This is a huge contrast to how Gangle would just go along with everything that Jax demanded of her, like shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!". She has grown to be a more sure of herself, enough to be able to tell to Jax when she doesn't want to do something and pull away from his bad influence.

While they are hiding and looking for a tommy gun, Gangle and Zooble have a personal conversation. First Gangle tells Zooble about her fears of Jax wishing to get revenge on her for not teaming up with him. She is very scared of Jax and can't help but be afraid of what he could do if she doesn't go along with what he wants.

Jax's constant bullying and pushing Gangle around has affected in deeper levels psychologically speaking that she is scared of him. She is so used to being Jax's puching bag that she believes that she is his ¨toy¨ in a way.

Gangle process to ask ¨How are you supposed to like a part of yourself that makes you worse than everyone else?¨ which indicates there are parts of herself that she dislikes or hates, having certain level of self hatred for herself. She in general has a low view of herself and has described herself as ¨broken¨ in the past as well.

Zooble's answer is that part of her makes her who she is, (¨It's real¨) and that ¨the only you that you care about it the real you¨, meaning that Gangle should try holding off to her humanity and her real self that makes her who she is. She may not fully like those parts of herself but she can accept them as part of her. Zooble also adds that loving oneself is hard and has to be intentional from the person.

When they finally find the tommy gun, Gangle grabs it and laughs maniacally while shooting at Pomni and Jax, bringing the place they were standing on down. Pomni manages to shoot Gangle before she can and Gangle falls to the floor, her happy mask gets broken but her sad mask reveals to be smiling underneath instead of crying. In spite of loosing, she is shown to be happy.

In ¨Beach Episode¨ Gangle is seen hanging out with Zooble while they are having fun at the beach. At this point they could be considered to be somewhat of best friends now since they are usually seen hanging out together.

While waiting for Jax to distract Caine and grab the key from him, Gangle brings up that she feels bad for not warning Kinger about what they are doing and Zooble agrees. They both tell him about their plan before they can move on with it.

Before they are about to finish their plan on escaping from the circus, Gangle asks Zooble if they are going to keep being friends once they get outside. Zooble affirms Gangle that their friendship was real and they will continue to be even when this ends. Gangle thanks Zooble for always be there when she needed it.

In ¨hjsakldfhlñ¨ episode, Gangle is seen still processing how Caine had tricked all of them into believing that they could leave the circus in the previous episode, only to turn out to be other adventure. When Zooble shouts to Jax about how he could have ruined their opportunity in the circus, Gangle brings up it isn't a priority right now, what matters is that Caine lied to all of them about the exit to the circus and fighting between them isn't going to help them get anywhere.

This highlights that she doesn't enjoy seeing people arguing with each other, more so if it isn't the right moment for it. She would rather first process the moment and the humans to ¨be there for each other¨ as she puts it.

She is later seeing standing up against Caine along the other humans, calling him out for how discouraging their ideas and doing things their own way. This is another moment that shows Gangle's growth, having the enough courage to tell Caine what she thinks of him, something that probably wouldn't have happened at the start of the series.