I've seen some stuff, against my fucking will, there was no warning and I thought it was something a fan made or theory and only halfway through did I realize, nothing big just a few photos, but the ending in itself
If it is what I saw, if that was really real, then wtf is everyone mad about, it's exactly what I thought it would be down to a t, sort of there's a few things I'd never guess, but that's exactly what I wanted to happen, it just makes sense
Jax sacrifices himself for everyone else to escape (theory is from copper on tiktok), I add that yes this will happen but Pomni will switch in order to give him a second chance
But wait there's more
This a one way out, they'll have to stop this from happening again, so they either destroy the whole circus, deleting Pomni in the process or they don't succeed at all
Imagine after everyone else is gone, Pomni is all alone and she notices that time goes by and the program is not shut down, then one day as she walks aimlessly around the circus, a new character shows up
"Calm down, everything is going to be okay. I'm Pomni, what's your name?"
And it just ends there, the screen goes black, no credits music
Extra
We get an after credits scene of older kinger, ready to finally shut it down, you can see Pomni and all the newbies on his screen and he just says goodbye and it goes black again, we never get to see if he actually does it
I'm an emotional abuse survivor, and Ragatha's story in Digital Circus hits me like a train and genuinely, I have no idea how no one else is talking about it
I knew FROM THIS MOMENT exactly why Ragatha is the way she is. The way she pulls herself short because you DO NOT TALK about what you go through, you do not tell anyone what your parent does to you or says to you. No one gets it. It's embarrassing. It's too much.
But her torture scene in the new episode just cemented it for me.
It's always at the dinner table. You can't get away at dinner. You have to sit with your abuser, who has probably already hit their limit for the day and is looking for someone to unleash their stress at. And you have to take it, because it gets SO much worse if you get up from the table before you're finished.
All the mannequins make me wonder if Ragatha has a big family. That's an awful lot of people who have already been beaten down and aren't speaking up to defend her.
Ragatha is a rag doll because Caine can see in her mind files that she's been used that way all her life. Thats how she sees herself. She's a soft thing to be thrown about. She can stand up to rough treatment. You can fling as many knives at her as you like and it doesn't matter, because she's made of stuffing, it doesn't hurt. You can just patch her up and keep going.
But if course it hurts. Look at her.
(and obviously her mother didn't *actually stab her in the eye*, come on guys.)
But I have to go back to how Ragatha's mother is shown here, because it speaks volumes to Ragatha's entire character. It's so screamingly obvious to me, probably because I mould my own life exactly how Ragatha does, for better or for worse.
The mother looks like Ragatha. She has the same hair, the same body type.
And the whole time she's abusing Ragatha, she's *smiling.* She's enjoying it. She's exactly the type of vile bully that comes up with her most hurtful thing to say, and smiles in your face while she says it, because it makes her feel good.
THAT is why Ragatha is so accommodating. THAT'S why she doesn't tell Jax to fuck off until she's given "permission" by Pomni at the softball game (who immediately gets freaked out by her big feelings and tells her she's being irrational).
THAT is why she tries to keep the peace and not upset people. THAT is why, almost to the very last, she tries to placate Caine.
Because she thinks that if she hurts someone's feelings, *SHE IS EXACTLY LIKE HER MOTHER.* And in Ragatha's mind, there is nothing worse in the whole world than finding out you're just like your abuser. Cosmically, you might even think that's why they hurt you in the first place. Because you're bad. You deserve it.
So you make nice. You stay quiet. You give compliments. You make sure everyone is happy.
You pick yourself up and keep going, despite constantly being knocked down, dismissed, laughed at. You try your best not to set them off, not set *anyone* off, because if they freak out, you end up being the villain. And there's always that tiny part of your brain that is terrified, deep down, that you are going to hurt people in the same way you were hurt.
Well...at least we know where the red and blue motif got its start (besides the whole "I Must Scream and I Have No Mouth" bit). O_O Seriously though, Bubble was absolutely vicious here and it either means Bubble truly represents Caine's subconscious/insecurities that get reflected back on him or Bubble is the echoes of the blue program that Caine absorbed when he was still new and is torturing him, which would still technically make him a part of Caine's subconscious. O_O Maybe Caine's glitches even helped the blue programming come out more over time. :/ Plus, the fact the red and blue motif is present for the two of them like with Pomni's design as well as the background objects like the couches probably was a clue. :/
