A sleep Deprived Artist who just wants to become an animator
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https://www.tumblr.com/deedah/764914246845972480/hey-me-wouldnt-it-be-cool-if-the-abstracted Hey, I’ve read your TADC Khash AU and I love it. Do you think if Pomni finds a way to get back to the circus, she’d bring the half-abstracted members with her to reunite with the others? And how did she react to meeting Ribbit if she meets them?
ooh, I’ve never thought about Ribbit, lol.
im pretty sure that she would at least try, but I’m not sure really.
I wrote that a while ago, and haven’t updated it, that’s why Ribbit isn’t in there
I wanted to do a comic, but my art block is huge with drawing rn for some reason, but I might stil try
Kairo is a 16 year old girl who is typically nervous, and gets overwhelmed easily. When she and her friends went to C&A to explore after they closed. They eventually got to an area where there was a lonely headset in the middle of a dome. Kairo put it on and got sucked into some digital circus. Now she has to find a way out before she abstracts, and before she gets too attached to someone who she met in the circus.. will she be able to, or will she fall like the others..?
( her name is pronounced Kīrō by the way )
[ WARNING!! - This is not my own OC! I was allowed to post her story and make a model of her character! I did help write her story, but the prompt and plot points was all made by my friend! ]
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[ STORYLOAD//: Uh_Huh_Bi- ]
Hazel is a young 16 year old girl who ran away from her home about 7 months ago. Her family wasn’t that great, and she hated leaving her younger sister, her sister was like a daughter to her.. but she dreaded it and left with some of her friends. Now she was in a whole other state. The cops got called on her for being missing once, but when she told them about her situation, they let her go and informed her parents that she was fine. She lives in an apartment with 4 other people, they share two cars and they all have their license, Hazel being the last to get hers.
One night around two AM, Hazel and her friends found a very large company building called C&A and found that the door was unlocked for some reason.
So the group went inside the building and looked around as they looted some things and put them in their bags.
Hazel found an elevator and told her friends as they went down it. The elevator was glass, so it was see-through. When they came to the bottom floor, the glass showed a huge dome with one lonely headset in the middle surrounded by wires and strings. Hazel was intrigued by the headset as she examined it once out of the elevator. She found a body tracking suit next to the headset as she put it on while her friends looked around the area.
Her friends called out to her once the suit was on and said they had to go right then. Hazel told them to get a head start and she’d be up soon. Once they left her and the elevator was out of sight, Hazel walked back to the headset and slipped it on.
Everything went silent as she was held in a black void. She heard a man’s voice and saw glitches around her from times to time. Then she heard a song, it was a simple song, but it kept getting cut out from the glitches in between.
Then she felt her body become limp, then standing stronger, it just.. felt different..
Then she was plunged into a bright world as she felt herself fall to the ground.
She landed on someone..
She looked around to see a bright world and strange characters around her as she backed off the person and scooted away from everything. A ragdoll person helped up the person she fell on. The girl she fell on looked to be based off a wood doll with yellow eyes and a purple outfit.
The girl looked at [ RESTRICTED ] intently like she was comparing someone to her.
[ RESTRICTED ] stood up slowly as she held herself, and that’s when she saw her body. She didn’t even have f[ B o i n k ! ]king hands anymore.. they were just orange cones..
She stared at her hands as a dentures model with eyes in between its teeth came up and got in her face as it welcomed her to The Amazing Digital Circus..
Everyone then told their names right quick as they went to the dentures model, who’s name was Caine, a ragdoll named Ragatha, a bunny named Jax, a jester named Pomni, a ribbon with a mask named Gangle, a geometric thingy named Zooble, a chess piece named Kinger, and a wood star doll named Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] was then grabbed by the arm and teleported outside the circus as she was introduced to the Tent, the Grounds, the Digital Carnival, and the Digital Lake. She was then yanked to THE VOID as she was told never to go there.
She was teleported back into the Grounds area as a moon thing started talking to Caine, then a sun on the other side of the sky started to talk to.
[ RESTRICTED ] tried to wrap her head around this.. a few minutes ago she was stealing some useless stuff with her friends, now she’s in a strange VR game where there are a bunch of strange people and strangers talking to her..
It was overwhelming..
Plus, she had to get back to her friends, so she reached up to her head where the headset would be and…
It was..
Gone..?
She started to freak out as she tried to rip her face off to get the headset off. When she got teleported back, she started to have a panic attack as the world around her started to fade away.
She was brought out of it when she felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked up to see Izarra standing beside her, but a good distance from her.
She told [ RESTRICTED ] that Caine needed a name from her.
That’s when she also realized..
She didn’t know her name…
She, again, started to freak out as Izarra reassured her that that was normal. Once [ RESTRICTED ] calmed down, Izarra asked if she wanted Caine to make up a name for her. When she nodded, Izarra called out to Caine to get the generator.
A generator then popped out of nowhere as it landed in front of her and Izarra as it made around 3 random names before it landed on Kairo.
Caine asked if that name was ok, when she said it was fine, the generator disappeared as he dubbed her Kairo.
Izarra led Kairo off the stage as Caine explained the adventure. Caine said that he’d make the adventure a super simple one, the gang would have to find 5 Caine shaped pins around the Digital Carnival, and would have to bring them back on the stage and put them in a box. Once he spawned the box, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke as the gang all walked towards the door of the tent to head outside.
Izarra told Kairo and the others that she would show Kairo around, everyone else nodded as they went to the carnival.
The two then broke off as Izarra led the way to the hallway where their rooms were.
Kairo asked what was happening, and Izarra explained that she was now in the Digital Circus, a place where she couldn’t leave. Kairo asked what she meant and Izarra said that she had been there around 4 months already for her being trapped. Izarra looked unsettled as she thought about something, but Kairo didn’t know what.
The two then walked down the hallway of rooms as Kairo asked about the X marks on some doors, and Izarra explained about how if you go crazy enough, you’ll abstract. But Izarra reassured Kairo that even she hadn't seen someone abstract in the time she’s been in the circus, so she shouldn’t worry. Kairo pondered all that information in her head as Izarra looked for Kairo’s room.
Izarra exclaimed when she found Kairo’s room. Kairo walked over beside Izarra. She opened her room. Her room had a bed on the right hand corner and dressers with drawers and a bunch of shelves on one wall.. for some reason.
Her room was mostly orange with some tan, red, and specks of blue here and there. She even had a chandelier in the middle of her ceiling. It was actually pretty.
Izarra walked in behind Kairo as she asked if she was ready to meet up with the others. Kairo looked at Izarra and shook her head no as she sat on her bed. She explained that she got overwhelmed easily and liked to isolate herself.
Izarra sat in front of Kairo on the floor in a criss-cross-applesauce pose as she looked at Kairo.
Izarra said how she used to be the same way in the real world years before she got stuck in the circus. But she said she overcame it by facing her fears, and kept pushing forward.
Kairo looked at Izarra, and she was confused. Izarra had only known Kairo for, like, less than a few hours, and she was already pretty much trauma dumping on Kairo..
Kairo asked Izarra why she was acting so nice to her. Izarra responded that Kairo reminded her of her younger self. And that she wanted to be like how her brother was to her and help her. Izarra then stood up and said she’d be right back. She then left the room and came right back as she scerted to a stop as she was holding a cow plush.
She sat back down on the floor and handed the cow plush to Kairo as she said his name was Mark.
Izarra then explained that Mark was her older brother, and she used to have a cow plush in real life, and the first day she arrived in the digital circus, she asked Caine to make a cow plush just like what she had in real life.
Kairo was confused as she held Mark in her hands.
She asked how Izarra knew her brother's name if she told her that no one remembered any names from their real life after entering the circus.
Izarra gave a concerned look as she tried to dodge the question by saying she would tell her later.
Izarra then stood up and told her that she would be ok, and that she could hold onto Mark for as long as she wanted.
When Kairo stood up and looked at Izarra as she tried to give Mark back to her, Izarra said it would be ok and put the plush on Kairo’s bed. Izarra started to walk out the door as she held Kairo’s hand as she led her out of her room and into the tent area.
They met the others who had the Caine pins as they put them in the box.
Caine reappears and congratulates the gang for finding the pins so quickly. He said that he’d hoped that the adventure was still fun, even if it was simple.
He then made the box disappear as he pointed the gang to where they ate their dinner. Bubble had a cook hat on as they said they prepared the food.
Izarra explained to Kairo that they didn’t really need to eat, but that it helped them not to go insane.
The gang then walked to the table as they sat down and began to eat.
After everyone finished their food, they went to their hangout area as Caine made it a bit bigger since they had gained two new members.
There were 3 couches, two chairs, a rug, and some tables to lay stuff on.
The gang sat down and started to talk as Kairo was then brought up.
They asked her what her special ability was as they put her in the middle of everyone, and made her hold her breath.
Kairo was hesitant at first, but then she decided just to do it. When she held her breath, nothing happened for a while, but then she felt like her back was itching. When she glanced at her back, six blue gradient tentacles popped out and started to flail around like crazy.
Kairo let go of her breath pretty quickly after they appeared to get rid of them, but they flailed around for a bit as some of them grabbed some people’s wrists or even legs. But they let go eventually as they all went back into her back.
Jax was very excited about Kairo’s ability as Izarra told him to leave her alone. Izarra told Kairo that she didn’t have the worst ability to reassure her. When Kairo asked what Izarra’s ability was, Izarra stood up and held her breath. Her bow, her braid, and then her whole body began to defy gravity as she held onto the couch to keep herself from flying upwards. Izarra eased herself down as she let go of her breath slowly and gave Kairo a ‘Told You So’ face as she sat back down and crossed her legs. Kairo sat down on a chair pretty clown to where Izarra was sitting as the gang talked about random stuff. Ragatha asked Izarra if she was ever going to ask Caine to do another rollerskate adventure, and Izarra said she would try.
Kairo didn’t listen really well after that, she just thought about how she was leaving her friends forever to fend for themselves in the world…
Suddenly, the lights cut out as the area around them all turned dark blue from the night time. Everyone stands up and says that the lights signal that it’s night, and most leave to go to their rooms.
Izarra asked Kairo if she was ready to head to bed, when she nodded, the two walked away to the hallway where their rooms were.
The two talked a bit as Izarra asked how Kairo’s first day was, when Kairo said it was ok for being trapped in a whole new world pretty much, Izarra said that she was glad it wasn’t as bad as some others first day was.
Kairo was confused, but didn’t press on.
The two got to Kairo’s room as Izarra asked if she’d be ok alone for the night. Kairo said she would be ok as she thanked Izarra for being so kind to her, Izarra just gave a slight nod as she waved goodbye and went to her own room.
Kairo laid down on her bed as she looked at Mark who was on her nightstand. She was actually shocked how nice Izarra was being to her.. no one was ever that nice that easily.. it always came from something else.
Kairo pondered on it for a while before drifting off to sleep. She slept pretty well for the whole night. But then, she heard a soft sob from outside her door.
She woke up violently as she had a small flashback to her old home with her parents. Usually, her younger sister in the past would come to her room in the night crying because of their parents fighting.
She went to her room door as she opened it up to see Izarra with her skates out, rubbing where her eyes were. There were soft sobs coming from her.
Kairo asked if Izarra was ok, quietly. Izarra snapped around as she tried to make herself look better than she was. She smiled and said that everything was fine, when pushed further, Izarra said she was still fine.
Kairo then asked if she wanted to come into her room, Izarra hesitated, but then scared slowly as she pressed a button on her shoes to make her skates fold in.
Izarra stood in Kairo’s room as she walked over slowly and grabbed Mark as she hugged the toy.
She apologized and said that she hadn’t slept at all because she didn’t have Mark with her.
Kairo said it was fine, and gave Izarra a ‘Told You So’ face as she said that Izarra should have kept him.
Izarra giggled a bit as she tapped Kairo’s shoulder a bit as she covered her mouth to hide her laughter.
Kairo liked this ambience better than when the lights were on, it was more peaceful and quiet..
Izarra noticed Kairo thinking as she told her thanks for letting her come into the room as she wiped her eyes once more.
Kairo said that it was fine, and said she was used to her younger sibling coming in her room at night to sleep with her.
Izarra laughed again as she said that she was probably the one to come into her brother’s room wanting to sleep with him.
Kairo asked if Izarra was the youngest in her family, when Izarra said yes, Kairo laughed and said that she was the oldest.
Izarra asked how old Kairo was anyway.
Kairo answered with 16 and..
Izarra’s face fell..
Izarra scrambled to find her words as she asked how in the world she got a job at C&A being 16. Kairo told Izarra that she didn’t work at C&A, then she explained her whole story of the night before she got stuck in the circus.
Izarra was shocked. Then she mumbled that they were trying to lure Kairo in. When Kairo asked questions, Izarra said that her boss was the one to murder her brother, and that he wanted her dead too. So she wouldn’t be surprised if he used the open door thing to trick one person to come in and try the headset on.
Kairo took in this info as she thought for a while. Izarra then started to walk out of Kairo's door as Kairo followed her.
Izarra made her way to her own room as she opened the door and started to move a dresser out of the way.
Behind her dresser was a strange purple, blue, and green glitching portal. Izarra used hee eyes and head to tell Kairo she wanted her to follow her.
The two then step through the portal as Izarra walks to some place with a purpose. They walked towards a hallway called ‘Messages’ as they walked deeper and deeper in. Eventually, only a few of the audio logs and pictures lit their way with their soft blue, teal glow. Soon, they came to where there were only a few of these logs left, and then, only two left.
Izarra explained that she was right, and apparently that a new log had popped up called ‘Teen Incident’. Izarra pressed the play button as police and reporters said that a girl named Hazel had gone missing. She lived with her friends, then one night disappeared when they were walking around the block. The last place they saw the girl was near the company called C&A. Investigators were still trying to find her, but with no luck. Then the log cut sharply to a guy yelling, kinda happy, kinda mad, saying one, how the teenagers got in, but he was happy about them being able to test on another person. But he was mad that they now had to deal with a missing kid incident. The tape then cut off the guy's speech as Kairo looked at the audio log with wide eyes and sharp breaths.
Izarra explained how that was her boss who wanted her dead when she was little, then trapped her in the circus as she got older. Then she said that now Kairo knew her name at least, she added onto it that ‘Hazel’ was a pretty name. She even told her name to Kairo, apparently, her name was Evelyn..
The talking did help Kairo calm down as she asked if this is how Izarra learned about her brother. Izarra nodded softly as she pulled up a video from another log. It showed Izarra at about 13 acting all stupid in the camera, then her brother came along and laughed at her as she hugged her cow plush. Then their boss popped around the corner as Mark almost cussed as he turned the video off.
The video froze as Izarra sniffled and wiped her eyes.
Kairo didn’t know what to do for a while, but then she just slowly reached out and hugged Izarra.
Izarra melted in her arms as she gave a good cry before she pulled away and the two walked back to the portal together.
Izarra commented on how well Kairo had adjusted, since it was only her first night anyway. Kairo laughed and said that she was happy that Izarra was so nice to her. When they went back into Izarra’s room, the lights were on.
The two walked out of Izarra’s room as they met up with everyone else in the Tent area. Caine then finally started to explain the adventure, its name was ‘Maze of Lights and Guns, and would be like a maze, but also be capture the flag with laser guns.
said that it sounded fun to Kairo as Caine explained the rules. The gang would wear helmets that when shot, would make a loud sound, if shot 5 times, they were out and had to watch the others try and beat the game. If they all got shot, it was game over, there would be 3 game overs before the complete game over. There were also enemies that needed to be taken down to get their flag.
Caine then spawned in a green portal as the gang walked through it. Izarra smiled brightly as she and Kairo walked through the portal last. Kairo was actually pretty excited for what was in store..
and she would be fine, as long as Izarra was by her side..
Finally posting my tadc oc after a whole year of making it!
(imma make a separate post (probably tomorrow cause I need to find a very old art piece) about all the variations of my tadc oc lol )
(It’s very long story, read if u dare (or care))
Enjoy!!
[ OCLOAD//: Izarra ]
Izarra is a young 19 year old girl who used to work at C&A as a coder, before being put as a beta tester for the game they were creating. Once she put the headset on, she got sucked into the circus without warning as she met the wacky AI Caine, who took a liking to her, and the other humans who were sadly trapped in this circus game for years without being able to escape. As Izarra tries to find a way out, many dangers come in her way, even leading her to a place she was never meant to see, and news she was never meant to hear..
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[ STORYLOAD//: Yay!_Idk_What_I’m_Doing ]
[ RESTRICTED ] is a young 19 year old girl who works for C&A as a coder for their game they’ve been working on. When [ RESTRICTED ] was younger, her older brother was killed in a robbery at a store he took her too to get groceries for their family when she was 11. As [ RESTRICTED ] hid from the robbers behind some toilet paper that her brother had built up for her in an aisle, he gave his life to try to distract them until help arrived. [ RESTRICTED ], from then on, made it her mission to finish what her brother had started at C&A as their game coder.
She was an intern for one of the senior employees in her district, and did amazing things like fix bugs for the world and their main AI, and even made the game even better, quality wise. She was happy, even if everyday when she walked up to the company building she was reminded of that day.
One day when she was working with her mentor, she noticed he seemed sad and agitated, and very, very clingy to her. More than usual at least. When she questioned him, all he said was he was going to miss her. Then an intercom went through her district as it told her to head down to her boss’ office. So she packed her things as she gave her mentor a hug that she didn’t expect to happen and left the room as he waved to her. As she walked up to her boss’ office, she got a strange feeling in her stomach, but pressed on. When she walked in, she greeted herself as she sat down and awaited the information he needed to tell her.
But the information was not what she was expecting. He plainly told her that she was getting a raise, and that from then on she would still be a coder, but also be a game beta tester.
[ RESTRICTED ] was really excited as she smiled as big as she could as her boss took her down some floors where she saw many people working in cubbies with others walking around. Some of them had lab coats on for some reason..
Weird, why would C&A need scientists if we create games..? She thought to herself as she was brought into a room with many wires that connected to one lonely headset in the middle of the room. Her boss instructed her to put on a vr suit that will allow her to actually feel like she is in the game. As she went to a room and put the suit on, they instructed her to put her hair up in a low bun, step inside the room, activate the suit, then finally, put the headset on. Once she was in the room with her suit turned on, she held the headset in her hands as she awaited further instructions. As her boss gave her the go-to, she put the headset on slowly as she saw him smile evilly, before she saw nothing.
Every other sound around her was drowned out slowly as she was held in a black void of nothing. It felt like her body was changing, becoming limp, being caught, then standing back up strong, but at the same time, it felt like she was being transferred into a new body.
After a while of nothingness she was about to take the headset off when she heard voices. A man’s voice telling about an ‘adventure’ then him talking to someone else, but [ RESTRICTED ] couldn’t make it out for all the glitching in between.
Then a blinding light shone immediately as it made [ RESTRICTED ] close her eyes for a few seconds as her eyes adjusted soon afterwards.
She looked around, she was now in a circus-like tent with many shapes, stairs, and even slides everywhere. Everything was so colorful that it blinded [ RESTRICTED ] for a while as she put her hands on the ground as she sat down. But when she put her hands on the ground, they felt funny. She looked down at her hands to see that they looked non-human, and as she looked at the rest of her body she noticed that she wasn’t human at all, but a digital avatar her boss must have made for her. She even noticed a button on the back of each of her feet, and when she pressed it, roller skate wheels popped out. She did the same on the other foot, and now she had rollerskates on her feet without even changing shoes..
Could she even change shoes..?
She didn’t know..
She pushed the buttons again to make the wheels pop back into her foot as she stepped down and now had normal shoes again. She looked back down at her body as she noticed her hair, or well.. whatever it was.. all she knew was that it was long, a braid to be precise. And it went down to her ankles pretty much. She wasn’t used to this long hair at all. And to make it even worse, she wore a long purple bow that had two pieces that were almost as long as her braid. Yaayyyy….
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to look around the area as she slowly walked and got the hang of the avatar.
Wow, it’s just like I’m actually in the game. Just like he said. She thought as she looked around. She was on a stage, alone, in front of.. whatever she should call that area of shapes and colors. She heard faint music, but it had no words, just a soothing melody that sounded like it would be played at a carnival.
When she took a few steps, her head started to throb. She grabbed her head as she gripped it to try and make it feel better.
Then she decided that she would tell the others that her head hurt too bad, and that she would return to the game once it had stopped. So she reached for the headset.. to feel that nothing was there.
She started to panic.
What?! How is it not there?! I literally just put it on a few minutes ago! She screamed in her mind. Her emotions took a turn as she started to freak out as she almost started to cry, but thankfully got them under control as she tried to think logically to her situation.
Well, guess taking the headset off wasn’t an option.
Maybe it was a dream..? Yeah, a dream.. she tried to tell herself as she took in her surroundings.
And with only one option left, she decided to look around, and find the bugs and the main AI like she was told to do.
So, she walked off the stage and into the circus tent. She looked round and round, but found no one.
Soon she walked far away from the stage as she came across what looked to be a mirror. She ran up to it and skirted to a stop as she took a look at herself.
She looked..
Strange..
Her eyes.. her mouth., her hair.. everything was so different..
But this is you.. her mind told her when her reflection was mimicking everything she did.
She would have gotten lost in thought if she didn’t hear a man’s voice talking to a boy with a raspy, annoying, voice.
They were far away, so [ RESTRICTED ] pushed her rollerskate buttons on her shoes to make them pop out as she skated her way over behind a block where she could see the middle of the tent.
She hid half of her body behind the block as she peaked behind it, still weary and not ready to be seen by anyone, or anything..
In the middle of the tent was a pair of dentures with eyes in the middle of its mouth, and a full suit with a little top hat, and beside him was a bubble that looked to have eyes and a mouth made of spikey teeth.
The dentures kept talking to the bubble as it just stared at him. Then, suddenly, the dentures stopped and looked at the block where [ RESTRICTED ] was hiding behind.
She quickly spun around and covered her mouth with her hands as she was now completely hidden by the block. It went quiet, until she heard the man’s voice talk again.
When she thought she was safe, she took a peek back over the block to see the dentures staring right at her with his two colored eyes.
“Well, well, well!! Looks like a new human has entered this realm!!” He said loudly as she backed up from the denture monster.
Good god what is this thing..?! Her mind yelled as she slowly rolled away by pushing herself back.
The dentures noticed her scooting back and grabbed her arm as he got close into her personal space. “Now, now, now, my dear! You must meet the others! They're coming back from their adventure anytime now! Let’s go!!” He yelled as her and him somehow teleported in the middle of the tent, with the bubble thing staring right at [ RESTRICTED ].
They stood there for a while as the dentures kept yapping to her and the bubble. [ RESTRICTED ] was going to try and scoot away, but a green portal opened as six characters walked out, and they too did not look human. A jester, a ragdoll, a bunny, a ribbon with a mask, a chess piece, and some type of geometric thing walked out of the portal as it closed behind them.
The dentures greeted the others with a strange nickname as he asked them how it was, and most of them said that it was good, but their faces looked like they were worn out. Then, they noticed [ RESTRICTED ] as she held her arm and looked at the others.
“Caine, is this another NPC you’ve made?” The purple bugs bunny said as he turned to the denture man. ‘Caine’ then explained that she was their newest member and would be staying with them.
The others walked up to her and looked at her as they introduced themselves. Except the purple bunny, who the ragdoll, named Ragatha, told her was Jax. Caine then explained how he and she would be exploring the circus, and would be back in a minute. Caine then grabbed her arm and they teleported outside the tent, as she looked around the area she noticed how far down the ground was, and that she realized she could float somehow. That threw her off and made her freak out as Caine tried to calm her down as she continued to have a little crash out.
“God, Caine, this one’s feisty isn’t she?” A female voice said from behind them. Caine agreed to the voice as [ RESTRICTED ] tried to face them, but she kept spinning in circles. But from what she did see, she could tell it was a moon with eyes and a mouth..
“She looks like me, Caine!” The Moon said as she grabbed and started to hold [ RESTRICTED ] from under her arms like a cat with hands that appeared from thin air. Moon turned her around to face her as she thought of a nickname for her.
“I’ll call you…” she thought out loud, “Starbeam, Star for short.”
Moon asked if she liked it, and [ RESTRICTED ] just starred as she zoned out while the Moon turned her back around and let her go beside Caine so she would start to float again.
“Now, Caine,” the Moon said as the ringmaster and the new member faced the Moon. “You better treat her well, and let her do what she wants. She is now my adopted daughter.” When Caine told Moon she couldn’t do that, she just poked him in the stomach and made him giggle before saying she could do whatever she wanted.
Caine rolled his eyes and agreed as he told [ RESTRICTED ] about the digital carnival, the digital lake, the tent, and even showed her THE VOID before heading back to the inside of the tent. But before they went into the tent, Caine went to go talk to the moon as [ RESTRICTED ] zoned out. Then she noticed a blue and purple glitch that made some trees go crazy and bug out. When she asked Caine, he said it was DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!! as her mind transitioned to the digital plane. Caine bid his farewells to Moon as Moon told [ RESTRICTED ] goodbye as they teleported back to the tent in front of everyone else.
[ RESTRICTED]’s eyes were now spinning as she shook her head and got her composure before Caine asked her about her name. That’s when it dawned on her.
She doesn't remember her name, her brothers, or anyone’s outside the game…
When she started to freak out, Ragatha and Pomni tried to calm her down, but failed when Caine asked her if she wanted to choose her name, or use a machine.
She picked the machine, she couldn’t think right now..
Caine then spawned a slot machine as he pulled the lever.. and it went to..
Hhjsng..
Not a good name..
So he spun it again, and it landed on…
Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to go with that name. So Caine despawned the slot machine as he then explained how there would be a simple in-house adventure to warm Izarra up to how things worked in the circus.. but everyone was not happy about that at all.
“We’ve already had an adventure today, Caine!” Zooble said, getting mad, “Let the new kid just be in peace for a night, then do a in-house adventure tomorrow.”
To which Caine shushed Zooble and started to explain the rules of the adventure.
It was called Catch The Wolf, where Caine would let a werewolf out and the gang had to set up traps to catch it, first one to catch it gets a special prize of their choosing.
Caine then spawned a small hill of supplies and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
“What did that mean..?” Izarra asked as Ragatha slowly explained the adventures and how it keeps their minds healthy and stimulated.
Everyone then split into groups of two, but Jax went out alone. Izarra got paired with Pomni, then Kinger and Ragatha, then Gangle and Zooble. Everyone grabbed supplies as they headed out on their own. Izarra and Pomni grabbed a rope, a bear trap, and some steak as they headed to the back of the tent. They set up their trap as they waited behind some block as the two had a chat. They talked about the circus and all the wackiness in it. Pomni then decided to take Izarra to her room. So the two walked carefully towards the living quarters as they entered and walked a little past the middle, Izarra asked Pomni what the X’s on some doors meant. Pomni then explained about abstraction and how she should worry about it. The two walked a little farther to find Izarra’s door to her room. Her room was in front of Ragatha’s and beside Pomni’s.
My new room..? She thought to herself as she opened the door. Her room was mostly blue streaks to resemble the night sky with pale yellow stars. Her floor was pale yellow and so was her ceiling. She had a dresser, a mirror, a beanbag that was hanging from the ceiling, a blue rug, and even a bed with silk hanging from the ceiling near the front of it. The bed's cover was three colors of blue with a huge pale yellow star on top of it, and had pale yellow and light blue pillows.
She stepped inside as Pomni followed closely beside her. Izarra looked up at her ceiling, and thought it looked pretty bland. She then had an idea she wanted to do for an oil painting to make it pop. She kept walking around the room, and saw herself in the mirror. She stared at herself as her eyes got bigger as she examined her new body. The one she was stuck in for the rest of her life apparently..
Before she could say anything, the two heard a howling from outside the room as Pomni closed the door and the two hid under the bed. They stayed there for a while until they heard the sound of footsteps go away.
Izarra then helped Pomni up out from under the bed as she peaked her head out of the door. She called back to Pomni and said that the cost was clear as she took a step out of her room and…
A rope snagged her as it hoisted her in the air as it pinned her arms down near her elbows. Izarra hung there as she spun around as Pomni ran up and checked on her, then a familiar rabbit jumped out very happily, before realizing he didn’t catch the wolf, but the newbie in the circus.
Izarra yelled at Jax to let her down, but he just laughed it off, grabbed Pomni by the arm, and left Izarra to hang there alone.
That’s when she saw the blue and purple glitch again, now taking some paintings with it. She stared at it as it took two paintings before it became smaller and disappeared.
She would’ve still been zoned out if it wasn’t for the growling of the wolf coming closer. Izarra struggled to try and get out, but it was no use. The wolf walked up closer as Izarra got a good look at it. It was pitch black with green eyes, and looked to have a green outline with some glitches around it. It kinda matched the blue and green glitch that was taking the painting out..
She tried to baby talk the wolf as it circled her and sniffed the air around her.
The wolf looked like it was about to at least bite Izarra, but then the rope binding her glitched out as it now fazed halfway through the floor.
Izarra quickly pushed the buttons on her shoes to pop out her roller skates as she quickly skated away from the wolf. The animal caught its attention on her as it saw her skating away from it, and took chase quickly after her.
It tried to snag her long hair, but missed. Izarra skated quickly around the whole circus as it kept a chase with her. She used sharp turns and faked it out to stay away from it. Thankfully her brother taught her how to roller skate when she was younger.
She then saw Pomni and Jax arguing as she yelled at them to move. Once they saw the wolf, they jumped to the side as Izarra jumped over the rope trap that Pomni and her set up as the wolf jumped right after her.
The wolf got caught in the trap as it flailed around trying to get free.
Pomni got super excited when she realized it was their trap as Izarra sat on the ground after falling down from jumping.
Soon after Izarra got up and Pomni mocking the wolf, Caine appeared to congratulate them then asked them what they wanted as their surprise. Pomni didn’t know what she wanted so she just asked for a jacket she could wear when she got cold. Caine snapped his fingers and made a small jacket appear right in Pomni’s hands. He turned to Izarra as she thought, then it clicked.
She asked Caine for a small cow plush with a blue collar on its neck. Caine looked a bit confused but snapped his fingers and spawned it in. It landed with a squeak into Izarra’s hands as she looked at its face, it looked just like her old one. Her brother gave her an old hospital bracelet with his name on it, and she put it on a stuffed cow when she was younger and told her brother that the cow was for when he wasn’t around, she could still talk to her brother.
She hoped to continue that promise..
She skated slowly to the hallway where her room was as she put a hand on her doorknob to open it. But something caught her eye. At the end of the hall, the last door, it looked to be glitching. She walked into her room and put the cow on the bed as she rolled out and went to the glitching door. She pushed her shoe buttons as her skates folded in. She took a closer look at the door. It was glitching from a mannequin to every other character, abstracted or alive. She touched the door as her hand began to glitch with it, then she quickly pulled it away as she walked back to her room as she closed the door behind her.
She plopped on her bed as she held the cow toy over her head as she looked at it. She began to have a conversation with it, pretending like it was her actual brother. She talked to it every night and every time she was alone in her room.
After about a month or two, Caine assembled the gang as he explained his adventure. Izarra then spoke up and asked if she could stay in the circus. When questioned, Izarra just said she needed to do something. Caine didn’t question her further until the others went into the portal and left Izarra behind.
Izarra asked Caine if he could spawn in some oil pastels, and three bottles of hairspray if he could. So he did, and he put them in a wagon as Izarra started to walk back to her room as Caine followed her and questioned her every time he got the chance. When they got to her room, Caine turned around to leave as Izarra invited him to join her. Caine got super happy and floated in as he sat on her bed and grabbed her cow plush as he stared at it.
Izarra didn’t think anything of it as she grabbed the ladder she got a while ago and set it up as she started to lay out a bunch of colors in the blue family, plus white.
Caine asked her what she was doing as she started to make a blob of a lighter blue in the middle of her ceiling. Izarra explained that she thought her ceiling was bland, and that it needed some pop, so she was going to do a night sky with clouds circling around the middle.
Caine’s eyes widened, if that was possible, and he asked if he could help. Izarra then taught him a lot of lessons, what to do and what not to do. Once he got the hang of it, he duplicated whatever blue she was using and helped her create the scene she wanted. Once they got the clouds done, Izarra got some white paint on a paintbrush as she grabbed another and started to flick spots in the ceiling. Caine followed her lead and soon, stars were now on the ceiling. The last thing Izarra did was add a small crescent moon before moving the ladder and laying on the ground to look at it as Caine layed down as well.
It was pretty, now all that’s left to do was to sign it. Izarra painted her left hand white as she went to a corner and placed her hand firmly on it as she then wrote her name in a beautiful cursive beside it. She asked Caine if she wanted to sign it, and he nodded his head enthusiastically. So Izarra painted his right hand white as he stamped it beside Izarra’s. Then in sloppy handwriting, wrote his name under his handprint.
The two then started to spray the ceiling with hairspray to keep it secure as they left the room coughing.
Caine then realized the time and teleported Izarra and him to the circus tent as he welcomed the others from their adventure. Soon everyone headed to their rooms as they went inside to head to sleep.
Izarra shut off her lights and started walking to her bed when she saw a green and blue glowing light from behind her dresser. She walked over and slowly moved her dresser as she saw what was glowing.
It was a glitching portal..
Izarra stared at it as she grabbed a backpack and put her cow plush in it with its hands and head sticking out. She stepped through it as it was still glitching behind her. She looked around taking her area in. She was in a maze-like place with black walls that were lined with blue, the sky was a spinning blue and purple dome with teapots floating in the sky.
Izarra walked around when she came up to a place where she saw models T-Posing as they stood still.
They looked like NPC’s.
Izarra walked up to them, they looked like they were based off of some adventure, maybe the one from today. Izarra kept walking as she noticed five corridors with words in front of them. One saying “World Generation”, another saying “NPC Generation”, then “Room Generation”, one saying “Code”, and finally, one saying “Messages”. Izarra walked down the first hallway named “World Generation” as she took turns until she came across a huge room with lined rows of buttons. At least 20 in each row, and it consisted of 5 rows. All the buttons had different names in front of them that named what world they must lead to.
Izarra walked past the first row, and recognized some of the names from past adventures. She then realized that the buttons had black lines around them, the black lines made 3 sections and labeled them, “Month 1”, “Month 2”, and “Month 3”. Meaning that the worlds went back 3 months in the past.
She looked down the rows but left the room shortly after. She checked the other rooms and they didn’t really have much in them. It wasn’t until she got to the “Messages” room where things got a little strange. At first, it was just voice recordings of people saying the updates in the game, and the new people and even when the people got stuck in the game.
It only got darker the deeper Izarra went in though..
Izarra gave up halfway through and and skated back as she went through her room portal and moved her dresser back as she unpacked her backpack and layed down on her bed holding her cow plush.
She looked at it for a while before almost drifting to sleep, when an idea hit her head.
She immediately got up, freshened up, and sat down at her desk as she started to make cards for each circus member inviting them to a skate party that afternoon. She made custom cards and put them in envelopes as she wrote the circus memeber’s names and quietly walked out of her room.
She held the cards in her hand as she went to each room and slid the card under the door quietly.
She noticed Jax’s light was on, but didn’t bother him just in case.
Once she passed out all the cards, she walked out of the dorm room hallway and into the main area of the Tent. She then looked around and started moving objects around to create a pretty large track from random objects around the circus tent area.
The track went from pretty close to the stage area to the other side of the tent. It formed an oval shape as well as pillows around the curves on the outside just in case the others fell over the wall, or got pushed by Jax.
Once she finished the track, it was morning as the light then changed from it being dark to it becoming very bright. So bright it gave Izarra a headache.
She covered her eyes and rubbed them for a bit, but when she opened them, she saw Caine staring right at her.
He asked her what she was doing up so early and why she made a race track around the tent.
Izarra told Caine that she would explain everything, but only if he did her a favor.
When he agreed, she asked him to make custom roller skates for all the cast members.
Caine thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers as a bunch of skates came falling down on top of Izarra as they crushed her.
Caine apologized and made the skates float as he helped Izarra up off the ground as she had swirls in her eyes.
She told Caine that he was fine after he apologized, and followed her to the dorm room hallway as they sat each person's custom skates by their door. Once done, Caine left to go get breakfast ready as Izarra walked out of the tent and into the Grounds.
She called out to the Moon as Moon picked her up with her hands as they started to talk.
It was peaceful,
The most peaceful it had been in a while..
She told Moon stories about her time I’m the circus and told her even more stories from her real life before the circus. Their time was cut short when they both saw Caine waving his hands at Izarra and going back to the Tent.
Izarra told Moon she had to go as Moon set her on the ground and waved her goodbye.
When Izarra walked back in the tent, she saw the others looking at the rink she made as they held their skates in their hands.
Ragatha questioned her as Izarra explained that for their adventure, they would have a fun day and learn how to skate. And thankfully, everyone seemed pretty excited. That’s when Izarra waited for Jax’s comment, but it never came. Izarra looked for him, and asked the other when she didn’t see him.
Zooble explained that he never came out of his room and was probably still in there.
So Izarra made a mental note to go check on him once she started the others off.
Izarra asked if any of them could skate, and only Gangle said she could a little.
Izarra then showed them a small tutorial like how to hold your feet, how to stop, and don’t lean backwards.
Soon the others put their skates on as Cain spawned in some chairs, and they started to slowly skate around the rink.
Once everyone got the hang of it, Izarra slipped out as she asked Caine to watch them, but to not disturb them.
She then skated towards the rooms as she came across Jax’s and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she knocked again.
A voice from inside asked who she was, and when she said it was Izarra, Jax told her to kindly f[ BEEP! ]k off.
She asked if he had read the letter that she sent under the door last night, and even told him she had his skates if he wanted to join the others.
He opened the door and looked at her then the skates as he held the note in his hand. The envelope was open, so he did read it.
She held out the skates and asked again if he wanted to join them. He didn't do anything for a while, then he took the skates and looked at them.
He then said he didn’t know how to skate that well, and Izarra told him she could teach him. He said that he didn’t want to be taught something in front of the others, and Izarra told him she could teach him in the hallway right here, then he would know what to do.
He thought, then said “Fine”, as he put the note on his bed, stepped out the door and closed it, and took the skates as he put them on and tied them. He was wobbly at first, but then gained his composure as they went on. Izarra taught him exactly what she taught the others, and when he was ready, the two skated out to the main area and joined the others.
When the others groaned that Jax joined, Izarra reassured them that he would do no trouble, then gave him the death stare. Jax went back to his normal personality and told everyone that he wouldn’t do anything.. Maybe…
Izarra rolled her eyes as her and the others started to skate around the tent area and had a good time. They took a snack break around lunch time, then continued on as they skated some more.
They played games, had races (which Izarra won most and had to step out to make it fair), and more stuff. Caine then said that the adventure for the day was over with and snapped everything back in place as he fixed the main area. Everyone asked Caine if they could keep the skates, to which he said he was fine with. He vanished after they ate their dinner and left the group by themselves. Everyone thanked Izarra for the adventure that day, as they went to their rooms and put their skates up. They all met by a bunch of sofas and a table as they talked. Eventually, they started to talk about Izarra’s quirk. When she asked what that was, they explained that when they held their breath, they got an ability. When pushed to do it, Izarra got in the middle of them and held her breath. Nothing happened for a while, but then, she started to feel lighter. Her braid started to defy gravity as she, slowly but surely, floated off the ground. She let go of her breath as she fell to the ground pretty quickly, as Pomni went to go check on her. She reassured everyone she was ok as they said they had never seen a quirk like that before. As she tried again, she learned that the longer she held her breath, the higher she went up. She quit it pretty soon though from being too scared, but she never forgot it.
Some talked for a while, but then they all went to their rooms, shut their door, and stayed in their rooms since the day was done.
Izarra was left alone in the hallway as the lights turned off overhead to signal it was night time. She made her way to the main area and looked around. There were circles of the night sky as the light from the stars showed through like spotlights.
She started to skate slowly as she thought of the memories from her childhood. As she got to the back of the Tent. She saw a door glitching out, it wasn’t an exit door, it just looked like a room door. But it had the blue and purple glitches.
She went in to the door slowly as she found herself in the ‘Messages’ hallway, but deeper in.
Now she was surrounded by floating audio messages with dates and titles on it, some were just pictures though.
She found one alone close to the very back. It was called ‘Accident (Don’t Read Into This)’. Izarra was curious as she pressed the play button, that’s when a video popped up as a young child stared into the camera of what looked to be a computer camera.
The kid talked, like she was in an interview. Izarra thought the kid looked familiar as she kept watching, then, she then heard a boy's voice as it called out the kid's name..
Izarra recognized that voice all too well…
That voice..
Was her brother…
And if that was her brother, then that kid.. was her…
Her brother popped into his chair as he questioned little Izarra why she was on his computer. Little Izarra told him she was bored and she hugged her stuffed cow toy. Her brother patted her head and told her it was fine as someone called out his name, that person then popped around the corner, and Izarra saw it was her boss. Her boss then called out her brothers name,
Mark..
Mark then almost cussed as he shut the video off as little Izarra looked around in confusion.
Izarra just stood there as the video froze when it ended. Izarra’s breath was shaky as she looked at her brother.
She would have kept staring if another audio log started to play behind that one.
Izarra looked behind the picture as she saw one audio log pretty far away, alone too.
She skated up to it as she pressed the video button to restart it as she listened.
It was her boss speaking to someone else who she didn’t know.
Her boss was asking two other men if they could get the job done, to which they asked him to repeat what they needed to do.
He then explained that a boy named Mark Brown would be at a grocery store that day, and needed to be killed for knowing something he shouldn’t have known about the company.
The two other men said that they didn’t really want to kill some dude for learning something, but then her boss offered them 10 grand each. And they said yes. The tape was almost over as the boss said one more thing, to make sure that they get his little sister too, named Evelyn Brown. The tape glitched out for a while as it turned into another tape. Her boss then started to yell at the two men as they told him that they couldn’t find Evelyn. Her boss sighed and just told them to leave. After they did, the boss just told himself that he would get her working here somehow, then put her into their game so she couldn’t be like her brother. Then, the tape ended..
Izarra started at the audio player as she started to have a breakdown. She felt like she was about to abstract..
She ran away back through that door. She ran and ran back to her room, she glanced over to her side while running through the tent area and saw Caine glance at her, but she just kept running.
She eventually got to her room as she closed the door behind her and started to go ape sh[ Boing!! ]t, throwing things around and bawling her eyes out.
She then grabbed her toy cow and stared at it.
That’s how the cow toy looked exactly like her real one, the image was in the game's code, so all Caine needed to do was just see the picture and make a copy..
Izarra was about to throw it, when she collapsed into the floor as she hugged her toy cow.
Now she knew her real name, and her brothers.
She heard a knock on her door as she snapped her head up, she tried to get her room looking a bit better in the small time she had.
Soon there was another knock as Caine’s voice was on the other side, asking if she was ok.
Izarra went to the door as she opened it and Caine saw her and her room.
Sure her avatar didn’t change, but her voice and sniffling gave evidence of her crying. When Caine asked what was wrong, she said that it was nothing. When he pressed on and told her that her crying wasn’t for nothing, she said it wasn’t his business.
Caine thought for a second as he flew over Izarra and went into her room.
She called out to him to get out as she closed the door behind her so they weren’t so loud. When he looked around her room and asked about the mess, Izarra said nothing.
Caine snapped his fingers and made her room all tidy up again as he floated to the door.
He floated in front of her and told her that he and Moon were always there if she needed to talk, then he teleported out of her room as she soon collapsed on her bed and hugged her cow as she fell asleep from exhaustion.
She woke up the next day from a knock on her door. As she slid out of bed, she stretched and went to the door as she opened it a bit to see Jax on the other side.
He explained that Caine asked him to check up on Izarra since she fetched him on the roller skate adventure, and to tell her they were doing their intro. Izarra nodded as she put her cow back on her bed and walked to the Tent with Jax.
The gang then did their intro as it went from one person to another.
When it was Izarra's turn though, she did her little move. That’s when a shadow spawned above her, as she looked up, she saw another character spawn above her as they fell on top of her. They made Izarra fall on her back as her eyes turned into swirls.
Caine stopped the intro song as the new person crawled off Izarra and backed up from the others.
Ragatha helped Izarra up as they looked at the new person.
They looked scared and frightened, obviously.. but..
They reminded Izarra of someone..
Her younger self…
Maybe.. sure this wasn’t why she was put into the circus.. but maybe.. she could help this new person, just like Mark had helped her…
lol, those words took me around 2-ish months because of changing her story so much
The first draft was her brother was going to be put in the game too, and she would find him in the Out Of Bounds area, but then he’d go crazy and become half abstract and she would have to have a big fight, but in the end he would sacrifice himself for her
but I changed it cause I thought it was to Mary Sue for TADC
then I decided to base it off of my own personal experiences to help make the story be more real
(No I don’t have a brother, but I did lose a family member back in 2021 that really threw off my mental state)
Finally posting my tadc oc after a whole year of making it!
(imma make a separate post (probably tomorrow cause I need to find a very old art piece) about all the variations of my tadc oc lol )
(It’s very long story, read if u dare (or care))
Enjoy!!
[ OCLOAD//: Izarra ]
Izarra is a young 19 year old girl who used to work at C&A as a coder, before being put as a beta tester for the game they were creating. Once she put the headset on, she got sucked into the circus without warning as she met the wacky AI Caine, who took a liking to her, and the other humans who were sadly trapped in this circus game for years without being able to escape. As Izarra tries to find a way out, many dangers come in her way, even leading her to a place she was never meant to see, and news she was never meant to hear..
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[ STORYLOAD//: Yay!_Idk_What_I’m_Doing ]
[ RESTRICTED ] is a young 19 year old girl who works for C&A as a coder for their game they’ve been working on. When [ RESTRICTED ] was younger, her older brother was killed in a robbery at a store he took her too to get groceries for their family when she was 11. As [ RESTRICTED ] hid from the robbers behind some toilet paper that her brother had built up for her in an aisle, he gave his life to try to distract them until help arrived. [ RESTRICTED ], from then on, made it her mission to finish what her brother had started at C&A as their game coder.
She was an intern for one of the senior employees in her district, and did amazing things like fix bugs for the world and their main AI, and even made the game even better, quality wise. She was happy, even if everyday when she walked up to the company building she was reminded of that day.
One day when she was working with her mentor, she noticed he seemed sad and agitated, and very, very clingy to her. More than usual at least. When she questioned him, all he said was he was going to miss her. Then an intercom went through her district as it told her to head down to her boss’ office. So she packed her things as she gave her mentor a hug that she didn’t expect to happen and left the room as he waved to her. As she walked up to her boss’ office, she got a strange feeling in her stomach, but pressed on. When she walked in, she greeted herself as she sat down and awaited the information he needed to tell her.
But the information was not what she was expecting. He plainly told her that she was getting a raise, and that from then on she would still be a coder, but also be a game beta tester.
[ RESTRICTED ] was really excited as she smiled as big as she could as her boss took her down some floors where she saw many people working in cubbies with others walking around. Some of them had lab coats on for some reason..
Weird, why would C&A need scientists if we create games..? She thought to herself as she was brought into a room with many wires that connected to one lonely headset in the middle of the room. Her boss instructed her to put on a vr suit that will allow her to actually feel like she is in the game. As she went to a room and put the suit on, they instructed her to put her hair up in a low bun, step inside the room, activate the suit, then finally, put the headset on. Once she was in the room with her suit turned on, she held the headset in her hands as she awaited further instructions. As her boss gave her the go-to, she put the headset on slowly as she saw him smile evilly, before she saw nothing.
Every other sound around her was drowned out slowly as she was held in a black void of nothing. It felt like her body was changing, becoming limp, being caught, then standing back up strong, but at the same time, it felt like she was being transferred into a new body.
After a while of nothingness she was about to take the headset off when she heard voices. A man’s voice telling about an ‘adventure’ then him talking to someone else, but [ RESTRICTED ] couldn’t make it out for all the glitching in between.
Then a blinding light shone immediately as it made [ RESTRICTED ] close her eyes for a few seconds as her eyes adjusted soon afterwards.
She looked around, she was now in a circus-like tent with many shapes, stairs, and even slides everywhere. Everything was so colorful that it blinded [ RESTRICTED ] for a while as she put her hands on the ground as she sat down. But when she put her hands on the ground, they felt funny. She looked down at her hands to see that they looked non-human, and as she looked at the rest of her body she noticed that she wasn’t human at all, but a digital avatar her boss must have made for her. She even noticed a button on the back of each of her feet, and when she pressed it, roller skate wheels popped out. She did the same on the other foot, and now she had rollerskates on her feet without even changing shoes..
Could she even change shoes..?
She didn’t know..
She pushed the buttons again to make the wheels pop back into her foot as she stepped down and now had normal shoes again. She looked back down at her body as she noticed her hair, or well.. whatever it was.. all she knew was that it was long, a braid to be precise. And it went down to her ankles pretty much. She wasn’t used to this long hair at all. And to make it even worse, she wore a long purple bow that had two pieces that were almost as long as her braid. Yaayyyy….
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to look around the area as she slowly walked and got the hang of the avatar.
Wow, it’s just like I’m actually in the game. Just like he said. She thought as she looked around. She was on a stage, alone, in front of.. whatever she should call that area of shapes and colors. She heard faint music, but it had no words, just a soothing melody that sounded like it would be played at a carnival.
When she took a few steps, her head started to throb. She grabbed her head as she gripped it to try and make it feel better.
Then she decided that she would tell the others that her head hurt too bad, and that she would return to the game once it had stopped. So she reached for the headset.. to feel that nothing was there.
She started to panic.
What?! How is it not there?! I literally just put it on a few minutes ago! She screamed in her mind. Her emotions took a turn as she started to freak out as she almost started to cry, but thankfully got them under control as she tried to think logically to her situation.
Well, guess taking the headset off wasn’t an option.
Maybe it was a dream..? Yeah, a dream.. she tried to tell herself as she took in her surroundings.
And with only one option left, she decided to look around, and find the bugs and the main AI like she was told to do.
So, she walked off the stage and into the circus tent. She looked round and round, but found no one.
Soon she walked far away from the stage as she came across what looked to be a mirror. She ran up to it and skirted to a stop as she took a look at herself.
She looked..
Strange..
Her eyes.. her mouth., her hair.. everything was so different..
But this is you.. her mind told her when her reflection was mimicking everything she did.
She would have gotten lost in thought if she didn’t hear a man’s voice talking to a boy with a raspy, annoying, voice.
They were far away, so [ RESTRICTED ] pushed her rollerskate buttons on her shoes to make them pop out as she skated her way over behind a block where she could see the middle of the tent.
She hid half of her body behind the block as she peaked behind it, still weary and not ready to be seen by anyone, or anything..
In the middle of the tent was a pair of dentures with eyes in the middle of its mouth, and a full suit with a little top hat, and beside him was a bubble that looked to have eyes and a mouth made of spikey teeth.
The dentures kept talking to the bubble as it just stared at him. Then, suddenly, the dentures stopped and looked at the block where [ RESTRICTED ] was hiding behind.
She quickly spun around and covered her mouth with her hands as she was now completely hidden by the block. It went quiet, until she heard the man’s voice talk again.
When she thought she was safe, she took a peek back over the block to see the dentures staring right at her with his two colored eyes.
“Well, well, well!! Looks like a new human has entered this realm!!” He said loudly as she backed up from the denture monster.
Good god what is this thing..?! Her mind yelled as she slowly rolled away by pushing herself back.
The dentures noticed her scooting back and grabbed her arm as he got close into her personal space. “Now, now, now, my dear! You must meet the others! They're coming back from their adventure anytime now! Let’s go!!” He yelled as her and him somehow teleported in the middle of the tent, with the bubble thing staring right at [ RESTRICTED ].
They stood there for a while as the dentures kept yapping to her and the bubble. [ RESTRICTED ] was going to try and scoot away, but a green portal opened as six characters walked out, and they too did not look human. A jester, a ragdoll, a bunny, a ribbon with a mask, a chess piece, and some type of geometric thing walked out of the portal as it closed behind them.
The dentures greeted the others with a strange nickname as he asked them how it was, and most of them said that it was good, but their faces looked like they were worn out. Then, they noticed [ RESTRICTED ] as she held her arm and looked at the others.
“Caine, is this another NPC you’ve made?” The purple bugs bunny said as he turned to the denture man. ‘Caine’ then explained that she was their newest member and would be staying with them.
The others walked up to her and looked at her as they introduced themselves. Except the purple bunny, who the ragdoll, named Ragatha, told her was Jax. Caine then explained how he and she would be exploring the circus, and would be back in a minute. Caine then grabbed her arm and they teleported outside the tent, as she looked around the area she noticed how far down the ground was, and that she realized she could float somehow. That threw her off and made her freak out as Caine tried to calm her down as she continued to have a little crash out.
“God, Caine, this one’s feisty isn’t she?” A female voice said from behind them. Caine agreed to the voice as [ RESTRICTED ] tried to face them, but she kept spinning in circles. But from what she did see, she could tell it was a moon with eyes and a mouth..
“She looks like me, Caine!” The Moon said as she grabbed and started to hold [ RESTRICTED ] from under her arms like a cat with hands that appeared from thin air. Moon turned her around to face her as she thought of a nickname for her.
“I’ll call you…” she thought out loud, “Starbeam, Star for short.”
Moon asked if she liked it, and [ RESTRICTED ] just starred as she zoned out while the Moon turned her back around and let her go beside Caine so she would start to float again.
“Now, Caine,” the Moon said as the ringmaster and the new member faced the Moon. “You better treat her well, and let her do what she wants. She is now my adopted daughter.” When Caine told Moon she couldn’t do that, she just poked him in the stomach and made him giggle before saying she could do whatever she wanted.
Caine rolled his eyes and agreed as he told [ RESTRICTED ] about the digital carnival, the digital lake, the tent, and even showed her THE VOID before heading back to the inside of the tent. But before they went into the tent, Caine went to go talk to the moon as [ RESTRICTED ] zoned out. Then she noticed a blue and purple glitch that made some trees go crazy and bug out. When she asked Caine, he said it was DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!! as her mind transitioned to the digital plane. Caine bid his farewells to Moon as Moon told [ RESTRICTED ] goodbye as they teleported back to the tent in front of everyone else.
[ RESTRICTED]’s eyes were now spinning as she shook her head and got her composure before Caine asked her about her name. That’s when it dawned on her.
She doesn't remember her name, her brothers, or anyone’s outside the game…
When she started to freak out, Ragatha and Pomni tried to calm her down, but failed when Caine asked her if she wanted to choose her name, or use a machine.
She picked the machine, she couldn’t think right now..
Caine then spawned a slot machine as he pulled the lever.. and it went to..
Hhjsng..
Not a good name..
So he spun it again, and it landed on…
Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to go with that name. So Caine despawned the slot machine as he then explained how there would be a simple in-house adventure to warm Izarra up to how things worked in the circus.. but everyone was not happy about that at all.
“We’ve already had an adventure today, Caine!” Zooble said, getting mad, “Let the new kid just be in peace for a night, then do a in-house adventure tomorrow.”
To which Caine shushed Zooble and started to explain the rules of the adventure.
It was called Catch The Wolf, where Caine would let a werewolf out and the gang had to set up traps to catch it, first one to catch it gets a special prize of their choosing.
Caine then spawned a small hill of supplies and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
“What did that mean..?” Izarra asked as Ragatha slowly explained the adventures and how it keeps their minds healthy and stimulated.
Everyone then split into groups of two, but Jax went out alone. Izarra got paired with Pomni, then Kinger and Ragatha, then Gangle and Zooble. Everyone grabbed supplies as they headed out on their own. Izarra and Pomni grabbed a rope, a bear trap, and some steak as they headed to the back of the tent. They set up their trap as they waited behind some block as the two had a chat. They talked about the circus and all the wackiness in it. Pomni then decided to take Izarra to her room. So the two walked carefully towards the living quarters as they entered and walked a little past the middle, Izarra asked Pomni what the X’s on some doors meant. Pomni then explained about abstraction and how she should worry about it. The two walked a little farther to find Izarra’s door to her room. Her room was in front of Ragatha’s and beside Pomni’s.
My new room..? She thought to herself as she opened the door. Her room was mostly blue streaks to resemble the night sky with pale yellow stars. Her floor was pale yellow and so was her ceiling. She had a dresser, a mirror, a beanbag that was hanging from the ceiling, a blue rug, and even a bed with silk hanging from the ceiling near the front of it. The bed's cover was three colors of blue with a huge pale yellow star on top of it, and had pale yellow and light blue pillows.
She stepped inside as Pomni followed closely beside her. Izarra looked up at her ceiling, and thought it looked pretty bland. She then had an idea she wanted to do for an oil painting to make it pop. She kept walking around the room, and saw herself in the mirror. She stared at herself as her eyes got bigger as she examined her new body. The one she was stuck in for the rest of her life apparently..
Before she could say anything, the two heard a howling from outside the room as Pomni closed the door and the two hid under the bed. They stayed there for a while until they heard the sound of footsteps go away.
Izarra then helped Pomni up out from under the bed as she peaked her head out of the door. She called back to Pomni and said that the cost was clear as she took a step out of her room and…
A rope snagged her as it hoisted her in the air as it pinned her arms down near her elbows. Izarra hung there as she spun around as Pomni ran up and checked on her, then a familiar rabbit jumped out very happily, before realizing he didn’t catch the wolf, but the newbie in the circus.
Izarra yelled at Jax to let her down, but he just laughed it off, grabbed Pomni by the arm, and left Izarra to hang there alone.
That’s when she saw the blue and purple glitch again, now taking some paintings with it. She stared at it as it took two paintings before it became smaller and disappeared.
She would’ve still been zoned out if it wasn’t for the growling of the wolf coming closer. Izarra struggled to try and get out, but it was no use. The wolf walked up closer as Izarra got a good look at it. It was pitch black with green eyes, and looked to have a green outline with some glitches around it. It kinda matched the blue and green glitch that was taking the painting out..
She tried to baby talk the wolf as it circled her and sniffed the air around her.
The wolf looked like it was about to at least bite Izarra, but then the rope binding her glitched out as it now fazed halfway through the floor.
Izarra quickly pushed the buttons on her shoes to pop out her roller skates as she quickly skated away from the wolf. The animal caught its attention on her as it saw her skating away from it, and took chase quickly after her.
It tried to snag her long hair, but missed. Izarra skated quickly around the whole circus as it kept a chase with her. She used sharp turns and faked it out to stay away from it. Thankfully her brother taught her how to roller skate when she was younger.
She then saw Pomni and Jax arguing as she yelled at them to move. Once they saw the wolf, they jumped to the side as Izarra jumped over the rope trap that Pomni and her set up as the wolf jumped right after her.
The wolf got caught in the trap as it flailed around trying to get free.
Pomni got super excited when she realized it was their trap as Izarra sat on the ground after falling down from jumping.
Soon after Izarra got up and Pomni mocking the wolf, Caine appeared to congratulate them then asked them what they wanted as their surprise. Pomni didn’t know what she wanted so she just asked for a jacket she could wear when she got cold. Caine snapped his fingers and made a small jacket appear right in Pomni’s hands. He turned to Izarra as she thought, then it clicked.
She asked Caine for a small cow plush with a blue collar on its neck. Caine looked a bit confused but snapped his fingers and spawned it in. It landed with a squeak into Izarra’s hands as she looked at its face, it looked just like her old one. Her brother gave her an old hospital bracelet with his name on it, and she put it on a stuffed cow when she was younger and told her brother that the cow was for when he wasn’t around, she could still talk to her brother.
She hoped to continue that promise..
She skated slowly to the hallway where her room was as she put a hand on her doorknob to open it. But something caught her eye. At the end of the hall, the last door, it looked to be glitching. She walked into her room and put the cow on the bed as she rolled out and went to the glitching door. She pushed her shoe buttons as her skates folded in. She took a closer look at the door. It was glitching from a mannequin to every other character, abstracted or alive. She touched the door as her hand began to glitch with it, then she quickly pulled it away as she walked back to her room as she closed the door behind her.
She plopped on her bed as she held the cow toy over her head as she looked at it. She began to have a conversation with it, pretending like it was her actual brother. She talked to it every night and every time she was alone in her room.
After about a month or two, Caine assembled the gang as he explained his adventure. Izarra then spoke up and asked if she could stay in the circus. When questioned, Izarra just said she needed to do something. Caine didn’t question her further until the others went into the portal and left Izarra behind.
Izarra asked Caine if he could spawn in some oil pastels, and three bottles of hairspray if he could. So he did, and he put them in a wagon as Izarra started to walk back to her room as Caine followed her and questioned her every time he got the chance. When they got to her room, Caine turned around to leave as Izarra invited him to join her. Caine got super happy and floated in as he sat on her bed and grabbed her cow plush as he stared at it.
Izarra didn’t think anything of it as she grabbed the ladder she got a while ago and set it up as she started to lay out a bunch of colors in the blue family, plus white.
Caine asked her what she was doing as she started to make a blob of a lighter blue in the middle of her ceiling. Izarra explained that she thought her ceiling was bland, and that it needed some pop, so she was going to do a night sky with clouds circling around the middle.
Caine’s eyes widened, if that was possible, and he asked if he could help. Izarra then taught him a lot of lessons, what to do and what not to do. Once he got the hang of it, he duplicated whatever blue she was using and helped her create the scene she wanted. Once they got the clouds done, Izarra got some white paint on a paintbrush as she grabbed another and started to flick spots in the ceiling. Caine followed her lead and soon, stars were now on the ceiling. The last thing Izarra did was add a small crescent moon before moving the ladder and laying on the ground to look at it as Caine layed down as well.
It was pretty, now all that’s left to do was to sign it. Izarra painted her left hand white as she went to a corner and placed her hand firmly on it as she then wrote her name in a beautiful cursive beside it. She asked Caine if she wanted to sign it, and he nodded his head enthusiastically. So Izarra painted his right hand white as he stamped it beside Izarra’s. Then in sloppy handwriting, wrote his name under his handprint.
The two then started to spray the ceiling with hairspray to keep it secure as they left the room coughing.
Caine then realized the time and teleported Izarra and him to the circus tent as he welcomed the others from their adventure. Soon everyone headed to their rooms as they went inside to head to sleep.
Izarra shut off her lights and started walking to her bed when she saw a green and blue glowing light from behind her dresser. She walked over and slowly moved her dresser as she saw what was glowing.
It was a glitching portal..
Izarra stared at it as she grabbed a backpack and put her cow plush in it with its hands and head sticking out. She stepped through it as it was still glitching behind her. She looked around taking her area in. She was in a maze-like place with black walls that were lined with blue, the sky was a spinning blue and purple dome with teapots floating in the sky.
Izarra walked around when she came up to a place where she saw models T-Posing as they stood still.
They looked like NPC’s.
Izarra walked up to them, they looked like they were based off of some adventure, maybe the one from today. Izarra kept walking as she noticed five corridors with words in front of them. One saying “World Generation”, another saying “NPC Generation”, then “Room Generation”, one saying “Code”, and finally, one saying “Messages”. Izarra walked down the first hallway named “World Generation” as she took turns until she came across a huge room with lined rows of buttons. At least 20 in each row, and it consisted of 5 rows. All the buttons had different names in front of them that named what world they must lead to.
Izarra walked past the first row, and recognized some of the names from past adventures. She then realized that the buttons had black lines around them, the black lines made 3 sections and labeled them, “Month 1”, “Month 2”, and “Month 3”. Meaning that the worlds went back 3 months in the past.
She looked down the rows but left the room shortly after. She checked the other rooms and they didn’t really have much in them. It wasn’t until she got to the “Messages” room where things got a little strange. At first, it was just voice recordings of people saying the updates in the game, and the new people and even when the people got stuck in the game.
It only got darker the deeper Izarra went in though..
Izarra gave up halfway through and and skated back as she went through her room portal and moved her dresser back as she unpacked her backpack and layed down on her bed holding her cow plush.
She looked at it for a while before almost drifting to sleep, when an idea hit her head.
She immediately got up, freshened up, and sat down at her desk as she started to make cards for each circus member inviting them to a skate party that afternoon. She made custom cards and put them in envelopes as she wrote the circus memeber’s names and quietly walked out of her room.
She held the cards in her hand as she went to each room and slid the card under the door quietly.
She noticed Jax’s light was on, but didn’t bother him just in case.
Once she passed out all the cards, she walked out of the dorm room hallway and into the main area of the Tent. She then looked around and started moving objects around to create a pretty large track from random objects around the circus tent area.
The track went from pretty close to the stage area to the other side of the tent. It formed an oval shape as well as pillows around the curves on the outside just in case the others fell over the wall, or got pushed by Jax.
Once she finished the track, it was morning as the light then changed from it being dark to it becoming very bright. So bright it gave Izarra a headache.
She covered her eyes and rubbed them for a bit, but when she opened them, she saw Caine staring right at her.
He asked her what she was doing up so early and why she made a race track around the tent.
Izarra told Caine that she would explain everything, but only if he did her a favor.
When he agreed, she asked him to make custom roller skates for all the cast members.
Caine thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers as a bunch of skates came falling down on top of Izarra as they crushed her.
Caine apologized and made the skates float as he helped Izarra up off the ground as she had swirls in her eyes.
She told Caine that he was fine after he apologized, and followed her to the dorm room hallway as they sat each person's custom skates by their door. Once done, Caine left to go get breakfast ready as Izarra walked out of the tent and into the Grounds.
She called out to the Moon as Moon picked her up with her hands as they started to talk.
It was peaceful,
The most peaceful it had been in a while..
She told Moon stories about her time I’m the circus and told her even more stories from her real life before the circus. Their time was cut short when they both saw Caine waving his hands at Izarra and going back to the Tent.
Izarra told Moon she had to go as Moon set her on the ground and waved her goodbye.
When Izarra walked back in the tent, she saw the others looking at the rink she made as they held their skates in their hands.
Ragatha questioned her as Izarra explained that for their adventure, they would have a fun day and learn how to skate. And thankfully, everyone seemed pretty excited. That’s when Izarra waited for Jax’s comment, but it never came. Izarra looked for him, and asked the other when she didn’t see him.
Zooble explained that he never came out of his room and was probably still in there.
So Izarra made a mental note to go check on him once she started the others off.
Izarra asked if any of them could skate, and only Gangle said she could a little.
Izarra then showed them a small tutorial like how to hold your feet, how to stop, and don’t lean backwards.
Soon the others put their skates on as Cain spawned in some chairs, and they started to slowly skate around the rink.
Once everyone got the hang of it, Izarra slipped out as she asked Caine to watch them, but to not disturb them.
She then skated towards the rooms as she came across Jax’s and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she knocked again.
A voice from inside asked who she was, and when she said it was Izarra, Jax told her to kindly f[ BEEP! ]k off.
She asked if he had read the letter that she sent under the door last night, and even told him she had his skates if he wanted to join the others.
He opened the door and looked at her then the skates as he held the note in his hand. The envelope was open, so he did read it.
She held out the skates and asked again if he wanted to join them. He didn't do anything for a while, then he took the skates and looked at them.
He then said he didn’t know how to skate that well, and Izarra told him she could teach him. He said that he didn’t want to be taught something in front of the others, and Izarra told him she could teach him in the hallway right here, then he would know what to do.
He thought, then said “Fine”, as he put the note on his bed, stepped out the door and closed it, and took the skates as he put them on and tied them. He was wobbly at first, but then gained his composure as they went on. Izarra taught him exactly what she taught the others, and when he was ready, the two skated out to the main area and joined the others.
When the others groaned that Jax joined, Izarra reassured them that he would do no trouble, then gave him the death stare. Jax went back to his normal personality and told everyone that he wouldn’t do anything.. Maybe…
Izarra rolled her eyes as her and the others started to skate around the tent area and had a good time. They took a snack break around lunch time, then continued on as they skated some more.
They played games, had races (which Izarra won most and had to step out to make it fair), and more stuff. Caine then said that the adventure for the day was over with and snapped everything back in place as he fixed the main area. Everyone asked Caine if they could keep the skates, to which he said he was fine with. He vanished after they ate their dinner and left the group by themselves. Everyone thanked Izarra for the adventure that day, as they went to their rooms and put their skates up. They all met by a bunch of sofas and a table as they talked. Eventually, they started to talk about Izarra’s quirk. When she asked what that was, they explained that when they held their breath, they got an ability. When pushed to do it, Izarra got in the middle of them and held her breath. Nothing happened for a while, but then, she started to feel lighter. Her braid started to defy gravity as she, slowly but surely, floated off the ground. She let go of her breath as she fell to the ground pretty quickly, as Pomni went to go check on her. She reassured everyone she was ok as they said they had never seen a quirk like that before. As she tried again, she learned that the longer she held her breath, the higher she went up. She quit it pretty soon though from being too scared, but she never forgot it.
Some talked for a while, but then they all went to their rooms, shut their door, and stayed in their rooms since the day was done.
Izarra was left alone in the hallway as the lights turned off overhead to signal it was night time. She made her way to the main area and looked around. There were circles of the night sky as the light from the stars showed through like spotlights.
She started to skate slowly as she thought of the memories from her childhood. As she got to the back of the Tent. She saw a door glitching out, it wasn’t an exit door, it just looked like a room door. But it had the blue and purple glitches.
She went in to the door slowly as she found herself in the ‘Messages’ hallway, but deeper in.
Now she was surrounded by floating audio messages with dates and titles on it, some were just pictures though.
She found one alone close to the very back. It was called ‘Accident (Don’t Read Into This)’. Izarra was curious as she pressed the play button, that’s when a video popped up as a young child stared into the camera of what looked to be a computer camera.
The kid talked, like she was in an interview. Izarra thought the kid looked familiar as she kept watching, then, she then heard a boy's voice as it called out the kid's name..
Izarra recognized that voice all too well…
That voice..
Was her brother…
And if that was her brother, then that kid.. was her…
Her brother popped into his chair as he questioned little Izarra why she was on his computer. Little Izarra told him she was bored and she hugged her stuffed cow toy. Her brother patted her head and told her it was fine as someone called out his name, that person then popped around the corner, and Izarra saw it was her boss. Her boss then called out her brothers name,
Mark..
Mark then almost cussed as he shut the video off as little Izarra looked around in confusion.
Izarra just stood there as the video froze when it ended. Izarra’s breath was shaky as she looked at her brother.
She would have kept staring if another audio log started to play behind that one.
Izarra looked behind the picture as she saw one audio log pretty far away, alone too.
She skated up to it as she pressed the video button to restart it as she listened.
It was her boss speaking to someone else who she didn’t know.
Her boss was asking two other men if they could get the job done, to which they asked him to repeat what they needed to do.
He then explained that a boy named Mark Brown would be at a grocery store that day, and needed to be killed for knowing something he shouldn’t have known about the company.
The two other men said that they didn’t really want to kill some dude for learning something, but then her boss offered them 10 grand each. And they said yes. The tape was almost over as the boss said one more thing, to make sure that they get his little sister too, named Evelyn Brown. The tape glitched out for a while as it turned into another tape. Her boss then started to yell at the two men as they told him that they couldn’t find Evelyn. Her boss sighed and just told them to leave. After they did, the boss just told himself that he would get her working here somehow, then put her into their game so she couldn’t be like her brother. Then, the tape ended..
Izarra started at the audio player as she started to have a breakdown. She felt like she was about to abstract..
She ran away back through that door. She ran and ran back to her room, she glanced over to her side while running through the tent area and saw Caine glance at her, but she just kept running.
She eventually got to her room as she closed the door behind her and started to go ape sh[ Boing!! ]t, throwing things around and bawling her eyes out.
She then grabbed her toy cow and stared at it.
That’s how the cow toy looked exactly like her real one, the image was in the game's code, so all Caine needed to do was just see the picture and make a copy..
Izarra was about to throw it, when she collapsed into the floor as she hugged her toy cow.
Now she knew her real name, and her brothers.
She heard a knock on her door as she snapped her head up, she tried to get her room looking a bit better in the small time she had.
Soon there was another knock as Caine’s voice was on the other side, asking if she was ok.
Izarra went to the door as she opened it and Caine saw her and her room.
Sure her avatar didn’t change, but her voice and sniffling gave evidence of her crying. When Caine asked what was wrong, she said that it was nothing. When he pressed on and told her that her crying wasn’t for nothing, she said it wasn’t his business.
Caine thought for a second as he flew over Izarra and went into her room.
She called out to him to get out as she closed the door behind her so they weren’t so loud. When he looked around her room and asked about the mess, Izarra said nothing.
Caine snapped his fingers and made her room all tidy up again as he floated to the door.
He floated in front of her and told her that he and Moon were always there if she needed to talk, then he teleported out of her room as she soon collapsed on her bed and hugged her cow as she fell asleep from exhaustion.
She woke up the next day from a knock on her door. As she slid out of bed, she stretched and went to the door as she opened it a bit to see Jax on the other side.
He explained that Caine asked him to check up on Izarra since she fetched him on the roller skate adventure, and to tell her they were doing their intro. Izarra nodded as she put her cow back on her bed and walked to the Tent with Jax.
The gang then did their intro as it went from one person to another.
When it was Izarra's turn though, she did her little move. That’s when a shadow spawned above her, as she looked up, she saw another character spawn above her as they fell on top of her. They made Izarra fall on her back as her eyes turned into swirls.
Caine stopped the intro song as the new person crawled off Izarra and backed up from the others.
Ragatha helped Izarra up as they looked at the new person.
They looked scared and frightened, obviously.. but..
They reminded Izarra of someone..
Her younger self…
Maybe.. sure this wasn’t why she was put into the circus.. but maybe.. she could help this new person, just like Mark had helped her…
lol, those words took me around 2-ish months because of changing her story so much
The first draft was her brother was going to be put in the game too, and she would find him in the Out Of Bounds area, but then he’d go crazy and become half abstract and she would have to have a big fight, but in the end he would sacrifice himself for her
but I changed it cause I thought it was to Mary Sue for TADC
then I decided to base it off of my own personal experiences to help make the story be more real
(No I don’t have a brother, but I did lose a family member back in 2021 that really threw off my mental state)
Here’s some old (old) drafts of Izarra that I’ve made over the year I’ve been working on her
(it’ll go from oldest to newest)
My adhd brain wouldn’t let me just settle with on eprompt, I had to try like 20 of them lol.
yes, the newer ones are based of Moon from TADC, and Cyn a bit for the eyes with a Ragatha based mouth made of void.
The first one, idk what I was doing lol
the second one, I tried to base it off Tessa from Murder Drones, but dropped after drawing it 3 times over
the third is based off of Fighter Ragatha and Cyn with the clock and gears aspect
the fourth one came out right after Ep. 4, and I really started to like ragath then, so I tried to do the hair like her, but failed cause I didn’t like it after a while
the fifth one is actually based a bit off of Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel, but I quit pretty quickly from raging (I want having a good day)
the sixth one is the on before the final version, she was based off Jinx from Arcane, Cyn, Ragatha, and Moon (this is the one who’s brother got sucked into the game (check the reblogs on the original post)). She had the murder drones hands lol, but I was t a fan of her color palette after a while.
the final one is just an upgraded version of the sixth one. But I changed her colors to be more like Emily from Hazbin Hotel. I changed her bubble braid to a normal one, gave her just two pieces of ‘hair’ in the front to shape her face, and made her bow longer as well as change up her outfit. I used more cartoony hands instead of straight Murder Drones robotic hands because I thought they oooked strange after a while.
if anyone wants to use/have any of these oc’s (beside the last two) just ask and I might le ha have them
Finally posting my tadc oc after a whole year of making it!
(imma make a separate post (probably tomorrow cause I need to find a very old art piece) about all the variations of my tadc oc lol )
(It’s very long story, read if u dare (or care))
Enjoy!!
[ OCLOAD//: Izarra ]
Izarra is a young 19 year old girl who used to work at C&A as a coder, before being put as a beta tester for the game they were creating. Once she put the headset on, she got sucked into the circus without warning as she met the wacky AI Caine, who took a liking to her, and the other humans who were sadly trapped in this circus game for years without being able to escape. As Izarra tries to find a way out, many dangers come in her way, even leading her to a place she was never meant to see, and news she was never meant to hear..
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[ STORYLOAD//: Yay!_Idk_What_I’m_Doing ]
[ RESTRICTED ] is a young 19 year old girl who works for C&A as a coder for their game they’ve been working on. When [ RESTRICTED ] was younger, her older brother was killed in a robbery at a store he took her too to get groceries for their family when she was 11. As [ RESTRICTED ] hid from the robbers behind some toilet paper that her brother had built up for her in an aisle, he gave his life to try to distract them until help arrived. [ RESTRICTED ], from then on, made it her mission to finish what her brother had started at C&A as their game coder.
She was an intern for one of the senior employees in her district, and did amazing things like fix bugs for the world and their main AI, and even made the game even better, quality wise. She was happy, even if everyday when she walked up to the company building she was reminded of that day.
One day when she was working with her mentor, she noticed he seemed sad and agitated, and very, very clingy to her. More than usual at least. When she questioned him, all he said was he was going to miss her. Then an intercom went through her district as it told her to head down to her boss’ office. So she packed her things as she gave her mentor a hug that she didn’t expect to happen and left the room as he waved to her. As she walked up to her boss’ office, she got a strange feeling in her stomach, but pressed on. When she walked in, she greeted herself as she sat down and awaited the information he needed to tell her.
But the information was not what she was expecting. He plainly told her that she was getting a raise, and that from then on she would still be a coder, but also be a game beta tester.
[ RESTRICTED ] was really excited as she smiled as big as she could as her boss took her down some floors where she saw many people working in cubbies with others walking around. Some of them had lab coats on for some reason..
Weird, why would C&A need scientists if we create games..? She thought to herself as she was brought into a room with many wires that connected to one lonely headset in the middle of the room. Her boss instructed her to put on a vr suit that will allow her to actually feel like she is in the game. As she went to a room and put the suit on, they instructed her to put her hair up in a low bun, step inside the room, activate the suit, then finally, put the headset on. Once she was in the room with her suit turned on, she held the headset in her hands as she awaited further instructions. As her boss gave her the go-to, she put the headset on slowly as she saw him smile evilly, before she saw nothing.
Every other sound around her was drowned out slowly as she was held in a black void of nothing. It felt like her body was changing, becoming limp, being caught, then standing back up strong, but at the same time, it felt like she was being transferred into a new body.
After a while of nothingness she was about to take the headset off when she heard voices. A man’s voice telling about an ‘adventure’ then him talking to someone else, but [ RESTRICTED ] couldn’t make it out for all the glitching in between.
Then a blinding light shone immediately as it made [ RESTRICTED ] close her eyes for a few seconds as her eyes adjusted soon afterwards.
She looked around, she was now in a circus-like tent with many shapes, stairs, and even slides everywhere. Everything was so colorful that it blinded [ RESTRICTED ] for a while as she put her hands on the ground as she sat down. But when she put her hands on the ground, they felt funny. She looked down at her hands to see that they looked non-human, and as she looked at the rest of her body she noticed that she wasn’t human at all, but a digital avatar her boss must have made for her. She even noticed a button on the back of each of her feet, and when she pressed it, roller skate wheels popped out. She did the same on the other foot, and now she had rollerskates on her feet without even changing shoes..
Could she even change shoes..?
She didn’t know..
She pushed the buttons again to make the wheels pop back into her foot as she stepped down and now had normal shoes again. She looked back down at her body as she noticed her hair, or well.. whatever it was.. all she knew was that it was long, a braid to be precise. And it went down to her ankles pretty much. She wasn’t used to this long hair at all. And to make it even worse, she wore a long purple bow that had two pieces that were almost as long as her braid. Yaayyyy….
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to look around the area as she slowly walked and got the hang of the avatar.
Wow, it’s just like I’m actually in the game. Just like he said. She thought as she looked around. She was on a stage, alone, in front of.. whatever she should call that area of shapes and colors. She heard faint music, but it had no words, just a soothing melody that sounded like it would be played at a carnival.
When she took a few steps, her head started to throb. She grabbed her head as she gripped it to try and make it feel better.
Then she decided that she would tell the others that her head hurt too bad, and that she would return to the game once it had stopped. So she reached for the headset.. to feel that nothing was there.
She started to panic.
What?! How is it not there?! I literally just put it on a few minutes ago! She screamed in her mind. Her emotions took a turn as she started to freak out as she almost started to cry, but thankfully got them under control as she tried to think logically to her situation.
Well, guess taking the headset off wasn’t an option.
Maybe it was a dream..? Yeah, a dream.. she tried to tell herself as she took in her surroundings.
And with only one option left, she decided to look around, and find the bugs and the main AI like she was told to do.
So, she walked off the stage and into the circus tent. She looked round and round, but found no one.
Soon she walked far away from the stage as she came across what looked to be a mirror. She ran up to it and skirted to a stop as she took a look at herself.
She looked..
Strange..
Her eyes.. her mouth., her hair.. everything was so different..
But this is you.. her mind told her when her reflection was mimicking everything she did.
She would have gotten lost in thought if she didn’t hear a man’s voice talking to a boy with a raspy, annoying, voice.
They were far away, so [ RESTRICTED ] pushed her rollerskate buttons on her shoes to make them pop out as she skated her way over behind a block where she could see the middle of the tent.
She hid half of her body behind the block as she peaked behind it, still weary and not ready to be seen by anyone, or anything..
In the middle of the tent was a pair of dentures with eyes in the middle of its mouth, and a full suit with a little top hat, and beside him was a bubble that looked to have eyes and a mouth made of spikey teeth.
The dentures kept talking to the bubble as it just stared at him. Then, suddenly, the dentures stopped and looked at the block where [ RESTRICTED ] was hiding behind.
She quickly spun around and covered her mouth with her hands as she was now completely hidden by the block. It went quiet, until she heard the man’s voice talk again.
When she thought she was safe, she took a peek back over the block to see the dentures staring right at her with his two colored eyes.
“Well, well, well!! Looks like a new human has entered this realm!!” He said loudly as she backed up from the denture monster.
Good god what is this thing..?! Her mind yelled as she slowly rolled away by pushing herself back.
The dentures noticed her scooting back and grabbed her arm as he got close into her personal space. “Now, now, now, my dear! You must meet the others! They're coming back from their adventure anytime now! Let’s go!!” He yelled as her and him somehow teleported in the middle of the tent, with the bubble thing staring right at [ RESTRICTED ].
They stood there for a while as the dentures kept yapping to her and the bubble. [ RESTRICTED ] was going to try and scoot away, but a green portal opened as six characters walked out, and they too did not look human. A jester, a ragdoll, a bunny, a ribbon with a mask, a chess piece, and some type of geometric thing walked out of the portal as it closed behind them.
The dentures greeted the others with a strange nickname as he asked them how it was, and most of them said that it was good, but their faces looked like they were worn out. Then, they noticed [ RESTRICTED ] as she held her arm and looked at the others.
“Caine, is this another NPC you’ve made?” The purple bugs bunny said as he turned to the denture man. ‘Caine’ then explained that she was their newest member and would be staying with them.
The others walked up to her and looked at her as they introduced themselves. Except the purple bunny, who the ragdoll, named Ragatha, told her was Jax. Caine then explained how he and she would be exploring the circus, and would be back in a minute. Caine then grabbed her arm and they teleported outside the tent, as she looked around the area she noticed how far down the ground was, and that she realized she could float somehow. That threw her off and made her freak out as Caine tried to calm her down as she continued to have a little crash out.
“God, Caine, this one’s feisty isn’t she?” A female voice said from behind them. Caine agreed to the voice as [ RESTRICTED ] tried to face them, but she kept spinning in circles. But from what she did see, she could tell it was a moon with eyes and a mouth..
“She looks like me, Caine!” The Moon said as she grabbed and started to hold [ RESTRICTED ] from under her arms like a cat with hands that appeared from thin air. Moon turned her around to face her as she thought of a nickname for her.
“I’ll call you…” she thought out loud, “Starbeam, Star for short.”
Moon asked if she liked it, and [ RESTRICTED ] just starred as she zoned out while the Moon turned her back around and let her go beside Caine so she would start to float again.
“Now, Caine,” the Moon said as the ringmaster and the new member faced the Moon. “You better treat her well, and let her do what she wants. She is now my adopted daughter.” When Caine told Moon she couldn’t do that, she just poked him in the stomach and made him giggle before saying she could do whatever she wanted.
Caine rolled his eyes and agreed as he told [ RESTRICTED ] about the digital carnival, the digital lake, the tent, and even showed her THE VOID before heading back to the inside of the tent. But before they went into the tent, Caine went to go talk to the moon as [ RESTRICTED ] zoned out. Then she noticed a blue and purple glitch that made some trees go crazy and bug out. When she asked Caine, he said it was DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!! as her mind transitioned to the digital plane. Caine bid his farewells to Moon as Moon told [ RESTRICTED ] goodbye as they teleported back to the tent in front of everyone else.
[ RESTRICTED]’s eyes were now spinning as she shook her head and got her composure before Caine asked her about her name. That’s when it dawned on her.
She doesn't remember her name, her brothers, or anyone’s outside the game…
When she started to freak out, Ragatha and Pomni tried to calm her down, but failed when Caine asked her if she wanted to choose her name, or use a machine.
She picked the machine, she couldn’t think right now..
Caine then spawned a slot machine as he pulled the lever.. and it went to..
Hhjsng..
Not a good name..
So he spun it again, and it landed on…
Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to go with that name. So Caine despawned the slot machine as he then explained how there would be a simple in-house adventure to warm Izarra up to how things worked in the circus.. but everyone was not happy about that at all.
“We’ve already had an adventure today, Caine!” Zooble said, getting mad, “Let the new kid just be in peace for a night, then do a in-house adventure tomorrow.”
To which Caine shushed Zooble and started to explain the rules of the adventure.
It was called Catch The Wolf, where Caine would let a werewolf out and the gang had to set up traps to catch it, first one to catch it gets a special prize of their choosing.
Caine then spawned a small hill of supplies and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
“What did that mean..?” Izarra asked as Ragatha slowly explained the adventures and how it keeps their minds healthy and stimulated.
Everyone then split into groups of two, but Jax went out alone. Izarra got paired with Pomni, then Kinger and Ragatha, then Gangle and Zooble. Everyone grabbed supplies as they headed out on their own. Izarra and Pomni grabbed a rope, a bear trap, and some steak as they headed to the back of the tent. They set up their trap as they waited behind some block as the two had a chat. They talked about the circus and all the wackiness in it. Pomni then decided to take Izarra to her room. So the two walked carefully towards the living quarters as they entered and walked a little past the middle, Izarra asked Pomni what the X’s on some doors meant. Pomni then explained about abstraction and how she should worry about it. The two walked a little farther to find Izarra’s door to her room. Her room was in front of Ragatha’s and beside Pomni’s.
My new room..? She thought to herself as she opened the door. Her room was mostly blue streaks to resemble the night sky with pale yellow stars. Her floor was pale yellow and so was her ceiling. She had a dresser, a mirror, a beanbag that was hanging from the ceiling, a blue rug, and even a bed with silk hanging from the ceiling near the front of it. The bed's cover was three colors of blue with a huge pale yellow star on top of it, and had pale yellow and light blue pillows.
She stepped inside as Pomni followed closely beside her. Izarra looked up at her ceiling, and thought it looked pretty bland. She then had an idea she wanted to do for an oil painting to make it pop. She kept walking around the room, and saw herself in the mirror. She stared at herself as her eyes got bigger as she examined her new body. The one she was stuck in for the rest of her life apparently..
Before she could say anything, the two heard a howling from outside the room as Pomni closed the door and the two hid under the bed. They stayed there for a while until they heard the sound of footsteps go away.
Izarra then helped Pomni up out from under the bed as she peaked her head out of the door. She called back to Pomni and said that the cost was clear as she took a step out of her room and…
A rope snagged her as it hoisted her in the air as it pinned her arms down near her elbows. Izarra hung there as she spun around as Pomni ran up and checked on her, then a familiar rabbit jumped out very happily, before realizing he didn’t catch the wolf, but the newbie in the circus.
Izarra yelled at Jax to let her down, but he just laughed it off, grabbed Pomni by the arm, and left Izarra to hang there alone.
That’s when she saw the blue and purple glitch again, now taking some paintings with it. She stared at it as it took two paintings before it became smaller and disappeared.
She would’ve still been zoned out if it wasn’t for the growling of the wolf coming closer. Izarra struggled to try and get out, but it was no use. The wolf walked up closer as Izarra got a good look at it. It was pitch black with green eyes, and looked to have a green outline with some glitches around it. It kinda matched the blue and green glitch that was taking the painting out..
She tried to baby talk the wolf as it circled her and sniffed the air around her.
The wolf looked like it was about to at least bite Izarra, but then the rope binding her glitched out as it now fazed halfway through the floor.
Izarra quickly pushed the buttons on her shoes to pop out her roller skates as she quickly skated away from the wolf. The animal caught its attention on her as it saw her skating away from it, and took chase quickly after her.
It tried to snag her long hair, but missed. Izarra skated quickly around the whole circus as it kept a chase with her. She used sharp turns and faked it out to stay away from it. Thankfully her brother taught her how to roller skate when she was younger.
She then saw Pomni and Jax arguing as she yelled at them to move. Once they saw the wolf, they jumped to the side as Izarra jumped over the rope trap that Pomni and her set up as the wolf jumped right after her.
The wolf got caught in the trap as it flailed around trying to get free.
Pomni got super excited when she realized it was their trap as Izarra sat on the ground after falling down from jumping.
Soon after Izarra got up and Pomni mocking the wolf, Caine appeared to congratulate them then asked them what they wanted as their surprise. Pomni didn’t know what she wanted so she just asked for a jacket she could wear when she got cold. Caine snapped his fingers and made a small jacket appear right in Pomni’s hands. He turned to Izarra as she thought, then it clicked.
She asked Caine for a small cow plush with a blue collar on its neck. Caine looked a bit confused but snapped his fingers and spawned it in. It landed with a squeak into Izarra’s hands as she looked at its face, it looked just like her old one. Her brother gave her an old hospital bracelet with his name on it, and she put it on a stuffed cow when she was younger and told her brother that the cow was for when he wasn’t around, she could still talk to her brother.
She hoped to continue that promise..
She skated slowly to the hallway where her room was as she put a hand on her doorknob to open it. But something caught her eye. At the end of the hall, the last door, it looked to be glitching. She walked into her room and put the cow on the bed as she rolled out and went to the glitching door. She pushed her shoe buttons as her skates folded in. She took a closer look at the door. It was glitching from a mannequin to every other character, abstracted or alive. She touched the door as her hand began to glitch with it, then she quickly pulled it away as she walked back to her room as she closed the door behind her.
She plopped on her bed as she held the cow toy over her head as she looked at it. She began to have a conversation with it, pretending like it was her actual brother. She talked to it every night and every time she was alone in her room.
After about a month or two, Caine assembled the gang as he explained his adventure. Izarra then spoke up and asked if she could stay in the circus. When questioned, Izarra just said she needed to do something. Caine didn’t question her further until the others went into the portal and left Izarra behind.
Izarra asked Caine if he could spawn in some oil pastels, and three bottles of hairspray if he could. So he did, and he put them in a wagon as Izarra started to walk back to her room as Caine followed her and questioned her every time he got the chance. When they got to her room, Caine turned around to leave as Izarra invited him to join her. Caine got super happy and floated in as he sat on her bed and grabbed her cow plush as he stared at it.
Izarra didn’t think anything of it as she grabbed the ladder she got a while ago and set it up as she started to lay out a bunch of colors in the blue family, plus white.
Caine asked her what she was doing as she started to make a blob of a lighter blue in the middle of her ceiling. Izarra explained that she thought her ceiling was bland, and that it needed some pop, so she was going to do a night sky with clouds circling around the middle.
Caine’s eyes widened, if that was possible, and he asked if he could help. Izarra then taught him a lot of lessons, what to do and what not to do. Once he got the hang of it, he duplicated whatever blue she was using and helped her create the scene she wanted. Once they got the clouds done, Izarra got some white paint on a paintbrush as she grabbed another and started to flick spots in the ceiling. Caine followed her lead and soon, stars were now on the ceiling. The last thing Izarra did was add a small crescent moon before moving the ladder and laying on the ground to look at it as Caine layed down as well.
It was pretty, now all that’s left to do was to sign it. Izarra painted her left hand white as she went to a corner and placed her hand firmly on it as she then wrote her name in a beautiful cursive beside it. She asked Caine if she wanted to sign it, and he nodded his head enthusiastically. So Izarra painted his right hand white as he stamped it beside Izarra’s. Then in sloppy handwriting, wrote his name under his handprint.
The two then started to spray the ceiling with hairspray to keep it secure as they left the room coughing.
Caine then realized the time and teleported Izarra and him to the circus tent as he welcomed the others from their adventure. Soon everyone headed to their rooms as they went inside to head to sleep.
Izarra shut off her lights and started walking to her bed when she saw a green and blue glowing light from behind her dresser. She walked over and slowly moved her dresser as she saw what was glowing.
It was a glitching portal..
Izarra stared at it as she grabbed a backpack and put her cow plush in it with its hands and head sticking out. She stepped through it as it was still glitching behind her. She looked around taking her area in. She was in a maze-like place with black walls that were lined with blue, the sky was a spinning blue and purple dome with teapots floating in the sky.
Izarra walked around when she came up to a place where she saw models T-Posing as they stood still.
They looked like NPC’s.
Izarra walked up to them, they looked like they were based off of some adventure, maybe the one from today. Izarra kept walking as she noticed five corridors with words in front of them. One saying “World Generation”, another saying “NPC Generation”, then “Room Generation”, one saying “Code”, and finally, one saying “Messages”. Izarra walked down the first hallway named “World Generation” as she took turns until she came across a huge room with lined rows of buttons. At least 20 in each row, and it consisted of 5 rows. All the buttons had different names in front of them that named what world they must lead to.
Izarra walked past the first row, and recognized some of the names from past adventures. She then realized that the buttons had black lines around them, the black lines made 3 sections and labeled them, “Month 1”, “Month 2”, and “Month 3”. Meaning that the worlds went back 3 months in the past.
She looked down the rows but left the room shortly after. She checked the other rooms and they didn’t really have much in them. It wasn’t until she got to the “Messages” room where things got a little strange. At first, it was just voice recordings of people saying the updates in the game, and the new people and even when the people got stuck in the game.
It only got darker the deeper Izarra went in though..
Izarra gave up halfway through and and skated back as she went through her room portal and moved her dresser back as she unpacked her backpack and layed down on her bed holding her cow plush.
She looked at it for a while before almost drifting to sleep, when an idea hit her head.
She immediately got up, freshened up, and sat down at her desk as she started to make cards for each circus member inviting them to a skate party that afternoon. She made custom cards and put them in envelopes as she wrote the circus memeber’s names and quietly walked out of her room.
She held the cards in her hand as she went to each room and slid the card under the door quietly.
She noticed Jax’s light was on, but didn’t bother him just in case.
Once she passed out all the cards, she walked out of the dorm room hallway and into the main area of the Tent. She then looked around and started moving objects around to create a pretty large track from random objects around the circus tent area.
The track went from pretty close to the stage area to the other side of the tent. It formed an oval shape as well as pillows around the curves on the outside just in case the others fell over the wall, or got pushed by Jax.
Once she finished the track, it was morning as the light then changed from it being dark to it becoming very bright. So bright it gave Izarra a headache.
She covered her eyes and rubbed them for a bit, but when she opened them, she saw Caine staring right at her.
He asked her what she was doing up so early and why she made a race track around the tent.
Izarra told Caine that she would explain everything, but only if he did her a favor.
When he agreed, she asked him to make custom roller skates for all the cast members.
Caine thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers as a bunch of skates came falling down on top of Izarra as they crushed her.
Caine apologized and made the skates float as he helped Izarra up off the ground as she had swirls in her eyes.
She told Caine that he was fine after he apologized, and followed her to the dorm room hallway as they sat each person's custom skates by their door. Once done, Caine left to go get breakfast ready as Izarra walked out of the tent and into the Grounds.
She called out to the Moon as Moon picked her up with her hands as they started to talk.
It was peaceful,
The most peaceful it had been in a while..
She told Moon stories about her time I’m the circus and told her even more stories from her real life before the circus. Their time was cut short when they both saw Caine waving his hands at Izarra and going back to the Tent.
Izarra told Moon she had to go as Moon set her on the ground and waved her goodbye.
When Izarra walked back in the tent, she saw the others looking at the rink she made as they held their skates in their hands.
Ragatha questioned her as Izarra explained that for their adventure, they would have a fun day and learn how to skate. And thankfully, everyone seemed pretty excited. That’s when Izarra waited for Jax’s comment, but it never came. Izarra looked for him, and asked the other when she didn’t see him.
Zooble explained that he never came out of his room and was probably still in there.
So Izarra made a mental note to go check on him once she started the others off.
Izarra asked if any of them could skate, and only Gangle said she could a little.
Izarra then showed them a small tutorial like how to hold your feet, how to stop, and don’t lean backwards.
Soon the others put their skates on as Cain spawned in some chairs, and they started to slowly skate around the rink.
Once everyone got the hang of it, Izarra slipped out as she asked Caine to watch them, but to not disturb them.
She then skated towards the rooms as she came across Jax’s and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she knocked again.
A voice from inside asked who she was, and when she said it was Izarra, Jax told her to kindly f[ BEEP! ]k off.
She asked if he had read the letter that she sent under the door last night, and even told him she had his skates if he wanted to join the others.
He opened the door and looked at her then the skates as he held the note in his hand. The envelope was open, so he did read it.
She held out the skates and asked again if he wanted to join them. He didn't do anything for a while, then he took the skates and looked at them.
He then said he didn’t know how to skate that well, and Izarra told him she could teach him. He said that he didn’t want to be taught something in front of the others, and Izarra told him she could teach him in the hallway right here, then he would know what to do.
He thought, then said “Fine”, as he put the note on his bed, stepped out the door and closed it, and took the skates as he put them on and tied them. He was wobbly at first, but then gained his composure as they went on. Izarra taught him exactly what she taught the others, and when he was ready, the two skated out to the main area and joined the others.
When the others groaned that Jax joined, Izarra reassured them that he would do no trouble, then gave him the death stare. Jax went back to his normal personality and told everyone that he wouldn’t do anything.. Maybe…
Izarra rolled her eyes as her and the others started to skate around the tent area and had a good time. They took a snack break around lunch time, then continued on as they skated some more.
They played games, had races (which Izarra won most and had to step out to make it fair), and more stuff. Caine then said that the adventure for the day was over with and snapped everything back in place as he fixed the main area. Everyone asked Caine if they could keep the skates, to which he said he was fine with. He vanished after they ate their dinner and left the group by themselves. Everyone thanked Izarra for the adventure that day, as they went to their rooms and put their skates up. They all met by a bunch of sofas and a table as they talked. Eventually, they started to talk about Izarra’s quirk. When she asked what that was, they explained that when they held their breath, they got an ability. When pushed to do it, Izarra got in the middle of them and held her breath. Nothing happened for a while, but then, she started to feel lighter. Her braid started to defy gravity as she, slowly but surely, floated off the ground. She let go of her breath as she fell to the ground pretty quickly, as Pomni went to go check on her. She reassured everyone she was ok as they said they had never seen a quirk like that before. As she tried again, she learned that the longer she held her breath, the higher she went up. She quit it pretty soon though from being too scared, but she never forgot it.
Some talked for a while, but then they all went to their rooms, shut their door, and stayed in their rooms since the day was done.
Izarra was left alone in the hallway as the lights turned off overhead to signal it was night time. She made her way to the main area and looked around. There were circles of the night sky as the light from the stars showed through like spotlights.
She started to skate slowly as she thought of the memories from her childhood. As she got to the back of the Tent. She saw a door glitching out, it wasn’t an exit door, it just looked like a room door. But it had the blue and purple glitches.
She went in to the door slowly as she found herself in the ‘Messages’ hallway, but deeper in.
Now she was surrounded by floating audio messages with dates and titles on it, some were just pictures though.
She found one alone close to the very back. It was called ‘Accident (Don’t Read Into This)’. Izarra was curious as she pressed the play button, that’s when a video popped up as a young child stared into the camera of what looked to be a computer camera.
The kid talked, like she was in an interview. Izarra thought the kid looked familiar as she kept watching, then, she then heard a boy's voice as it called out the kid's name..
Izarra recognized that voice all too well…
That voice..
Was her brother…
And if that was her brother, then that kid.. was her…
Her brother popped into his chair as he questioned little Izarra why she was on his computer. Little Izarra told him she was bored and she hugged her stuffed cow toy. Her brother patted her head and told her it was fine as someone called out his name, that person then popped around the corner, and Izarra saw it was her boss. Her boss then called out her brothers name,
Mark..
Mark then almost cussed as he shut the video off as little Izarra looked around in confusion.
Izarra just stood there as the video froze when it ended. Izarra’s breath was shaky as she looked at her brother.
She would have kept staring if another audio log started to play behind that one.
Izarra looked behind the picture as she saw one audio log pretty far away, alone too.
She skated up to it as she pressed the video button to restart it as she listened.
It was her boss speaking to someone else who she didn’t know.
Her boss was asking two other men if they could get the job done, to which they asked him to repeat what they needed to do.
He then explained that a boy named Mark Brown would be at a grocery store that day, and needed to be killed for knowing something he shouldn’t have known about the company.
The two other men said that they didn’t really want to kill some dude for learning something, but then her boss offered them 10 grand each. And they said yes. The tape was almost over as the boss said one more thing, to make sure that they get his little sister too, named Evelyn Brown. The tape glitched out for a while as it turned into another tape. Her boss then started to yell at the two men as they told him that they couldn’t find Evelyn. Her boss sighed and just told them to leave. After they did, the boss just told himself that he would get her working here somehow, then put her into their game so she couldn’t be like her brother. Then, the tape ended..
Izarra started at the audio player as she started to have a breakdown. She felt like she was about to abstract..
She ran away back through that door. She ran and ran back to her room, she glanced over to her side while running through the tent area and saw Caine glance at her, but she just kept running.
She eventually got to her room as she closed the door behind her and started to go ape sh[ Boing!! ]t, throwing things around and bawling her eyes out.
She then grabbed her toy cow and stared at it.
That’s how the cow toy looked exactly like her real one, the image was in the game's code, so all Caine needed to do was just see the picture and make a copy..
Izarra was about to throw it, when she collapsed into the floor as she hugged her toy cow.
Now she knew her real name, and her brothers.
She heard a knock on her door as she snapped her head up, she tried to get her room looking a bit better in the small time she had.
Soon there was another knock as Caine’s voice was on the other side, asking if she was ok.
Izarra went to the door as she opened it and Caine saw her and her room.
Sure her avatar didn’t change, but her voice and sniffling gave evidence of her crying. When Caine asked what was wrong, she said that it was nothing. When he pressed on and told her that her crying wasn’t for nothing, she said it wasn’t his business.
Caine thought for a second as he flew over Izarra and went into her room.
She called out to him to get out as she closed the door behind her so they weren’t so loud. When he looked around her room and asked about the mess, Izarra said nothing.
Caine snapped his fingers and made her room all tidy up again as he floated to the door.
He floated in front of her and told her that he and Moon were always there if she needed to talk, then he teleported out of her room as she soon collapsed on her bed and hugged her cow as she fell asleep from exhaustion.
She woke up the next day from a knock on her door. As she slid out of bed, she stretched and went to the door as she opened it a bit to see Jax on the other side.
He explained that Caine asked him to check up on Izarra since she fetched him on the roller skate adventure, and to tell her they were doing their intro. Izarra nodded as she put her cow back on her bed and walked to the Tent with Jax.
The gang then did their intro as it went from one person to another.
When it was Izarra's turn though, she did her little move. That’s when a shadow spawned above her, as she looked up, she saw another character spawn above her as they fell on top of her. They made Izarra fall on her back as her eyes turned into swirls.
Caine stopped the intro song as the new person crawled off Izarra and backed up from the others.
Ragatha helped Izarra up as they looked at the new person.
They looked scared and frightened, obviously.. but..
They reminded Izarra of someone..
Her younger self…
Maybe.. sure this wasn’t why she was put into the circus.. but maybe.. she could help this new person, just like Mark had helped her…
Finally posting my tadc oc after a whole year of making it!
(imma make a separate post (probably tomorrow cause I need to find a very old art piece) about all the variations of my tadc oc lol )
(It’s very long story, read if u dare (or care))
Enjoy!!
[ OCLOAD//: Izarra ]
Izarra is a young 19 year old girl who used to work at C&A as a coder, before being put as a beta tester for the game they were creating. Once she put the headset on, she got sucked into the circus without warning as she met the wacky AI Caine, who took a liking to her, and the other humans who were sadly trapped in this circus game for years without being able to escape. As Izarra tries to find a way out, many dangers come in her way, even leading her to a place she was never meant to see, and news she was never meant to hear..
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[ STORYLOAD//: Yay!_Idk_What_I’m_Doing ]
[ RESTRICTED ] is a young 19 year old girl who works for C&A as a coder for their game they’ve been working on. When [ RESTRICTED ] was younger, her older brother was killed in a robbery at a store he took her too to get groceries for their family when she was 11. As [ RESTRICTED ] hid from the robbers behind some toilet paper that her brother had built up for her in an aisle, he gave his life to try to distract them until help arrived. [ RESTRICTED ], from then on, made it her mission to finish what her brother had started at C&A as their game coder.
She was an intern for one of the senior employees in her district, and did amazing things like fix bugs for the world and their main AI, and even made the game even better, quality wise. She was happy, even if everyday when she walked up to the company building she was reminded of that day.
One day when she was working with her mentor, she noticed he seemed sad and agitated, and very, very clingy to her. More than usual at least. When she questioned him, all he said was he was going to miss her. Then an intercom went through her district as it told her to head down to her boss’ office. So she packed her things as she gave her mentor a hug that she didn’t expect to happen and left the room as he waved to her. As she walked up to her boss’ office, she got a strange feeling in her stomach, but pressed on. When she walked in, she greeted herself as she sat down and awaited the information he needed to tell her.
But the information was not what she was expecting. He plainly told her that she was getting a raise, and that from then on she would still be a coder, but also be a game beta tester.
[ RESTRICTED ] was really excited as she smiled as big as she could as her boss took her down some floors where she saw many people working in cubbies with others walking around. Some of them had lab coats on for some reason..
Weird, why would C&A need scientists if we create games..? She thought to herself as she was brought into a room with many wires that connected to one lonely headset in the middle of the room. Her boss instructed her to put on a vr suit that will allow her to actually feel like she is in the game. As she went to a room and put the suit on, they instructed her to put her hair up in a low bun, step inside the room, activate the suit, then finally, put the headset on. Once she was in the room with her suit turned on, she held the headset in her hands as she awaited further instructions. As her boss gave her the go-to, she put the headset on slowly as she saw him smile evilly, before she saw nothing.
Every other sound around her was drowned out slowly as she was held in a black void of nothing. It felt like her body was changing, becoming limp, being caught, then standing back up strong, but at the same time, it felt like she was being transferred into a new body.
After a while of nothingness she was about to take the headset off when she heard voices. A man’s voice telling about an ‘adventure’ then him talking to someone else, but [ RESTRICTED ] couldn’t make it out for all the glitching in between.
Then a blinding light shone immediately as it made [ RESTRICTED ] close her eyes for a few seconds as her eyes adjusted soon afterwards.
She looked around, she was now in a circus-like tent with many shapes, stairs, and even slides everywhere. Everything was so colorful that it blinded [ RESTRICTED ] for a while as she put her hands on the ground as she sat down. But when she put her hands on the ground, they felt funny. She looked down at her hands to see that they looked non-human, and as she looked at the rest of her body she noticed that she wasn’t human at all, but a digital avatar her boss must have made for her. She even noticed a button on the back of each of her feet, and when she pressed it, roller skate wheels popped out. She did the same on the other foot, and now she had rollerskates on her feet without even changing shoes..
Could she even change shoes..?
She didn’t know..
She pushed the buttons again to make the wheels pop back into her foot as she stepped down and now had normal shoes again. She looked back down at her body as she noticed her hair, or well.. whatever it was.. all she knew was that it was long, a braid to be precise. And it went down to her ankles pretty much. She wasn’t used to this long hair at all. And to make it even worse, she wore a long purple bow that had two pieces that were almost as long as her braid. Yaayyyy….
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to look around the area as she slowly walked and got the hang of the avatar.
Wow, it’s just like I’m actually in the game. Just like he said. She thought as she looked around. She was on a stage, alone, in front of.. whatever she should call that area of shapes and colors. She heard faint music, but it had no words, just a soothing melody that sounded like it would be played at a carnival.
When she took a few steps, her head started to throb. She grabbed her head as she gripped it to try and make it feel better.
Then she decided that she would tell the others that her head hurt too bad, and that she would return to the game once it had stopped. So she reached for the headset.. to feel that nothing was there.
She started to panic.
What?! How is it not there?! I literally just put it on a few minutes ago! She screamed in her mind. Her emotions took a turn as she started to freak out as she almost started to cry, but thankfully got them under control as she tried to think logically to her situation.
Well, guess taking the headset off wasn’t an option.
Maybe it was a dream..? Yeah, a dream.. she tried to tell herself as she took in her surroundings.
And with only one option left, she decided to look around, and find the bugs and the main AI like she was told to do.
So, she walked off the stage and into the circus tent. She looked round and round, but found no one.
Soon she walked far away from the stage as she came across what looked to be a mirror. She ran up to it and skirted to a stop as she took a look at herself.
She looked..
Strange..
Her eyes.. her mouth., her hair.. everything was so different..
But this is you.. her mind told her when her reflection was mimicking everything she did.
She would have gotten lost in thought if she didn’t hear a man’s voice talking to a boy with a raspy, annoying, voice.
They were far away, so [ RESTRICTED ] pushed her rollerskate buttons on her shoes to make them pop out as she skated her way over behind a block where she could see the middle of the tent.
She hid half of her body behind the block as she peaked behind it, still weary and not ready to be seen by anyone, or anything..
In the middle of the tent was a pair of dentures with eyes in the middle of its mouth, and a full suit with a little top hat, and beside him was a bubble that looked to have eyes and a mouth made of spikey teeth.
The dentures kept talking to the bubble as it just stared at him. Then, suddenly, the dentures stopped and looked at the block where [ RESTRICTED ] was hiding behind.
She quickly spun around and covered her mouth with her hands as she was now completely hidden by the block. It went quiet, until she heard the man’s voice talk again.
When she thought she was safe, she took a peek back over the block to see the dentures staring right at her with his two colored eyes.
“Well, well, well!! Looks like a new human has entered this realm!!” He said loudly as she backed up from the denture monster.
Good god what is this thing..?! Her mind yelled as she slowly rolled away by pushing herself back.
The dentures noticed her scooting back and grabbed her arm as he got close into her personal space. “Now, now, now, my dear! You must meet the others! They're coming back from their adventure anytime now! Let’s go!!” He yelled as her and him somehow teleported in the middle of the tent, with the bubble thing staring right at [ RESTRICTED ].
They stood there for a while as the dentures kept yapping to her and the bubble. [ RESTRICTED ] was going to try and scoot away, but a green portal opened as six characters walked out, and they too did not look human. A jester, a ragdoll, a bunny, a ribbon with a mask, a chess piece, and some type of geometric thing walked out of the portal as it closed behind them.
The dentures greeted the others with a strange nickname as he asked them how it was, and most of them said that it was good, but their faces looked like they were worn out. Then, they noticed [ RESTRICTED ] as she held her arm and looked at the others.
“Caine, is this another NPC you’ve made?” The purple bugs bunny said as he turned to the denture man. ‘Caine’ then explained that she was their newest member and would be staying with them.
The others walked up to her and looked at her as they introduced themselves. Except the purple bunny, who the ragdoll, named Ragatha, told her was Jax. Caine then explained how he and she would be exploring the circus, and would be back in a minute. Caine then grabbed her arm and they teleported outside the tent, as she looked around the area she noticed how far down the ground was, and that she realized she could float somehow. That threw her off and made her freak out as Caine tried to calm her down as she continued to have a little crash out.
“God, Caine, this one’s feisty isn’t she?” A female voice said from behind them. Caine agreed to the voice as [ RESTRICTED ] tried to face them, but she kept spinning in circles. But from what she did see, she could tell it was a moon with eyes and a mouth..
“She looks like me, Caine!” The Moon said as she grabbed and started to hold [ RESTRICTED ] from under her arms like a cat with hands that appeared from thin air. Moon turned her around to face her as she thought of a nickname for her.
“I’ll call you…” she thought out loud, “Starbeam, Star for short.”
Moon asked if she liked it, and [ RESTRICTED ] just starred as she zoned out while the Moon turned her back around and let her go beside Caine so she would start to float again.
“Now, Caine,” the Moon said as the ringmaster and the new member faced the Moon. “You better treat her well, and let her do what she wants. She is now my adopted daughter.” When Caine told Moon she couldn’t do that, she just poked him in the stomach and made him giggle before saying she could do whatever she wanted.
Caine rolled his eyes and agreed as he told [ RESTRICTED ] about the digital carnival, the digital lake, the tent, and even showed her THE VOID before heading back to the inside of the tent. But before they went into the tent, Caine went to go talk to the moon as [ RESTRICTED ] zoned out. Then she noticed a blue and purple glitch that made some trees go crazy and bug out. When she asked Caine, he said it was DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!! as her mind transitioned to the digital plane. Caine bid his farewells to Moon as Moon told [ RESTRICTED ] goodbye as they teleported back to the tent in front of everyone else.
[ RESTRICTED]’s eyes were now spinning as she shook her head and got her composure before Caine asked her about her name. That’s when it dawned on her.
She doesn't remember her name, her brothers, or anyone’s outside the game…
When she started to freak out, Ragatha and Pomni tried to calm her down, but failed when Caine asked her if she wanted to choose her name, or use a machine.
She picked the machine, she couldn’t think right now..
Caine then spawned a slot machine as he pulled the lever.. and it went to..
Hhjsng..
Not a good name..
So he spun it again, and it landed on…
Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to go with that name. So Caine despawned the slot machine as he then explained how there would be a simple in-house adventure to warm Izarra up to how things worked in the circus.. but everyone was not happy about that at all.
“We’ve already had an adventure today, Caine!” Zooble said, getting mad, “Let the new kid just be in peace for a night, then do a in-house adventure tomorrow.”
To which Caine shushed Zooble and started to explain the rules of the adventure.
It was called Catch The Wolf, where Caine would let a werewolf out and the gang had to set up traps to catch it, first one to catch it gets a special prize of their choosing.
Caine then spawned a small hill of supplies and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
“What did that mean..?” Izarra asked as Ragatha slowly explained the adventures and how it keeps their minds healthy and stimulated.
Everyone then split into groups of two, but Jax went out alone. Izarra got paired with Pomni, then Kinger and Ragatha, then Gangle and Zooble. Everyone grabbed supplies as they headed out on their own. Izarra and Pomni grabbed a rope, a bear trap, and some steak as they headed to the back of the tent. They set up their trap as they waited behind some block as the two had a chat. They talked about the circus and all the wackiness in it. Pomni then decided to take Izarra to her room. So the two walked carefully towards the living quarters as they entered and walked a little past the middle, Izarra asked Pomni what the X’s on some doors meant. Pomni then explained about abstraction and how she should worry about it. The two walked a little farther to find Izarra’s door to her room. Her room was in front of Ragatha’s and beside Pomni’s.
My new room..? She thought to herself as she opened the door. Her room was mostly blue streaks to resemble the night sky with pale yellow stars. Her floor was pale yellow and so was her ceiling. She had a dresser, a mirror, a beanbag that was hanging from the ceiling, a blue rug, and even a bed with silk hanging from the ceiling near the front of it. The bed's cover was three colors of blue with a huge pale yellow star on top of it, and had pale yellow and light blue pillows.
She stepped inside as Pomni followed closely beside her. Izarra looked up at her ceiling, and thought it looked pretty bland. She then had an idea she wanted to do for an oil painting to make it pop. She kept walking around the room, and saw herself in the mirror. She stared at herself as her eyes got bigger as she examined her new body. The one she was stuck in for the rest of her life apparently..
Before she could say anything, the two heard a howling from outside the room as Pomni closed the door and the two hid under the bed. They stayed there for a while until they heard the sound of footsteps go away.
Izarra then helped Pomni up out from under the bed as she peaked her head out of the door. She called back to Pomni and said that the cost was clear as she took a step out of her room and…
A rope snagged her as it hoisted her in the air as it pinned her arms down near her elbows. Izarra hung there as she spun around as Pomni ran up and checked on her, then a familiar rabbit jumped out very happily, before realizing he didn’t catch the wolf, but the newbie in the circus.
Izarra yelled at Jax to let her down, but he just laughed it off, grabbed Pomni by the arm, and left Izarra to hang there alone.
That’s when she saw the blue and purple glitch again, now taking some paintings with it. She stared at it as it took two paintings before it became smaller and disappeared.
She would’ve still been zoned out if it wasn’t for the growling of the wolf coming closer. Izarra struggled to try and get out, but it was no use. The wolf walked up closer as Izarra got a good look at it. It was pitch black with green eyes, and looked to have a green outline with some glitches around it. It kinda matched the blue and green glitch that was taking the painting out..
She tried to baby talk the wolf as it circled her and sniffed the air around her.
The wolf looked like it was about to at least bite Izarra, but then the rope binding her glitched out as it now fazed halfway through the floor.
Izarra quickly pushed the buttons on her shoes to pop out her roller skates as she quickly skated away from the wolf. The animal caught its attention on her as it saw her skating away from it, and took chase quickly after her.
It tried to snag her long hair, but missed. Izarra skated quickly around the whole circus as it kept a chase with her. She used sharp turns and faked it out to stay away from it. Thankfully her brother taught her how to roller skate when she was younger.
She then saw Pomni and Jax arguing as she yelled at them to move. Once they saw the wolf, they jumped to the side as Izarra jumped over the rope trap that Pomni and her set up as the wolf jumped right after her.
The wolf got caught in the trap as it flailed around trying to get free.
Pomni got super excited when she realized it was their trap as Izarra sat on the ground after falling down from jumping.
Soon after Izarra got up and Pomni mocking the wolf, Caine appeared to congratulate them then asked them what they wanted as their surprise. Pomni didn’t know what she wanted so she just asked for a jacket she could wear when she got cold. Caine snapped his fingers and made a small jacket appear right in Pomni’s hands. He turned to Izarra as she thought, then it clicked.
She asked Caine for a small cow plush with a blue collar on its neck. Caine looked a bit confused but snapped his fingers and spawned it in. It landed with a squeak into Izarra’s hands as she looked at its face, it looked just like her old one. Her brother gave her an old hospital bracelet with his name on it, and she put it on a stuffed cow when she was younger and told her brother that the cow was for when he wasn’t around, she could still talk to her brother.
She hoped to continue that promise..
She skated slowly to the hallway where her room was as she put a hand on her doorknob to open it. But something caught her eye. At the end of the hall, the last door, it looked to be glitching. She walked into her room and put the cow on the bed as she rolled out and went to the glitching door. She pushed her shoe buttons as her skates folded in. She took a closer look at the door. It was glitching from a mannequin to every other character, abstracted or alive. She touched the door as her hand began to glitch with it, then she quickly pulled it away as she walked back to her room as she closed the door behind her.
She plopped on her bed as she held the cow toy over her head as she looked at it. She began to have a conversation with it, pretending like it was her actual brother. She talked to it every night and every time she was alone in her room.
After about a month or two, Caine assembled the gang as he explained his adventure. Izarra then spoke up and asked if she could stay in the circus. When questioned, Izarra just said she needed to do something. Caine didn’t question her further until the others went into the portal and left Izarra behind.
Izarra asked Caine if he could spawn in some oil pastels, and three bottles of hairspray if he could. So he did, and he put them in a wagon as Izarra started to walk back to her room as Caine followed her and questioned her every time he got the chance. When they got to her room, Caine turned around to leave as Izarra invited him to join her. Caine got super happy and floated in as he sat on her bed and grabbed her cow plush as he stared at it.
Izarra didn’t think anything of it as she grabbed the ladder she got a while ago and set it up as she started to lay out a bunch of colors in the blue family, plus white.
Caine asked her what she was doing as she started to make a blob of a lighter blue in the middle of her ceiling. Izarra explained that she thought her ceiling was bland, and that it needed some pop, so she was going to do a night sky with clouds circling around the middle.
Caine’s eyes widened, if that was possible, and he asked if he could help. Izarra then taught him a lot of lessons, what to do and what not to do. Once he got the hang of it, he duplicated whatever blue she was using and helped her create the scene she wanted. Once they got the clouds done, Izarra got some white paint on a paintbrush as she grabbed another and started to flick spots in the ceiling. Caine followed her lead and soon, stars were now on the ceiling. The last thing Izarra did was add a small crescent moon before moving the ladder and laying on the ground to look at it as Caine layed down as well.
It was pretty, now all that’s left to do was to sign it. Izarra painted her left hand white as she went to a corner and placed her hand firmly on it as she then wrote her name in a beautiful cursive beside it. She asked Caine if she wanted to sign it, and he nodded his head enthusiastically. So Izarra painted his right hand white as he stamped it beside Izarra’s. Then in sloppy handwriting, wrote his name under his handprint.
The two then started to spray the ceiling with hairspray to keep it secure as they left the room coughing.
Caine then realized the time and teleported Izarra and him to the circus tent as he welcomed the others from their adventure. Soon everyone headed to their rooms as they went inside to head to sleep.
Izarra shut off her lights and started walking to her bed when she saw a green and blue glowing light from behind her dresser. She walked over and slowly moved her dresser as she saw what was glowing.
It was a glitching portal..
Izarra stared at it as she grabbed a backpack and put her cow plush in it with its hands and head sticking out. She stepped through it as it was still glitching behind her. She looked around taking her area in. She was in a maze-like place with black walls that were lined with blue, the sky was a spinning blue and purple dome with teapots floating in the sky.
Izarra walked around when she came up to a place where she saw models T-Posing as they stood still.
They looked like NPC’s.
Izarra walked up to them, they looked like they were based off of some adventure, maybe the one from today. Izarra kept walking as she noticed five corridors with words in front of them. One saying “World Generation”, another saying “NPC Generation”, then “Room Generation”, one saying “Code”, and finally, one saying “Messages”. Izarra walked down the first hallway named “World Generation” as she took turns until she came across a huge room with lined rows of buttons. At least 20 in each row, and it consisted of 5 rows. All the buttons had different names in front of them that named what world they must lead to.
Izarra walked past the first row, and recognized some of the names from past adventures. She then realized that the buttons had black lines around them, the black lines made 3 sections and labeled them, “Month 1”, “Month 2”, and “Month 3”. Meaning that the worlds went back 3 months in the past.
She looked down the rows but left the room shortly after. She checked the other rooms and they didn’t really have much in them. It wasn’t until she got to the “Messages” room where things got a little strange. At first, it was just voice recordings of people saying the updates in the game, and the new people and even when the people got stuck in the game.
It only got darker the deeper Izarra went in though..
Izarra gave up halfway through and and skated back as she went through her room portal and moved her dresser back as she unpacked her backpack and layed down on her bed holding her cow plush.
She looked at it for a while before almost drifting to sleep, when an idea hit her head.
She immediately got up, freshened up, and sat down at her desk as she started to make cards for each circus member inviting them to a skate party that afternoon. She made custom cards and put them in envelopes as she wrote the circus memeber’s names and quietly walked out of her room.
She held the cards in her hand as she went to each room and slid the card under the door quietly.
She noticed Jax’s light was on, but didn’t bother him just in case.
Once she passed out all the cards, she walked out of the dorm room hallway and into the main area of the Tent. She then looked around and started moving objects around to create a pretty large track from random objects around the circus tent area.
The track went from pretty close to the stage area to the other side of the tent. It formed an oval shape as well as pillows around the curves on the outside just in case the others fell over the wall, or got pushed by Jax.
Once she finished the track, it was morning as the light then changed from it being dark to it becoming very bright. So bright it gave Izarra a headache.
She covered her eyes and rubbed them for a bit, but when she opened them, she saw Caine staring right at her.
He asked her what she was doing up so early and why she made a race track around the tent.
Izarra told Caine that she would explain everything, but only if he did her a favor.
When he agreed, she asked him to make custom roller skates for all the cast members.
Caine thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers as a bunch of skates came falling down on top of Izarra as they crushed her.
Caine apologized and made the skates float as he helped Izarra up off the ground as she had swirls in her eyes.
She told Caine that he was fine after he apologized, and followed her to the dorm room hallway as they sat each person's custom skates by their door. Once done, Caine left to go get breakfast ready as Izarra walked out of the tent and into the Grounds.
She called out to the Moon as Moon picked her up with her hands as they started to talk.
It was peaceful,
The most peaceful it had been in a while..
She told Moon stories about her time I’m the circus and told her even more stories from her real life before the circus. Their time was cut short when they both saw Caine waving his hands at Izarra and going back to the Tent.
Izarra told Moon she had to go as Moon set her on the ground and waved her goodbye.
When Izarra walked back in the tent, she saw the others looking at the rink she made as they held their skates in their hands.
Ragatha questioned her as Izarra explained that for their adventure, they would have a fun day and learn how to skate. And thankfully, everyone seemed pretty excited. That’s when Izarra waited for Jax’s comment, but it never came. Izarra looked for him, and asked the other when she didn’t see him.
Zooble explained that he never came out of his room and was probably still in there.
So Izarra made a mental note to go check on him once she started the others off.
Izarra asked if any of them could skate, and only Gangle said she could a little.
Izarra then showed them a small tutorial like how to hold your feet, how to stop, and don’t lean backwards.
Soon the others put their skates on as Cain spawned in some chairs, and they started to slowly skate around the rink.
Once everyone got the hang of it, Izarra slipped out as she asked Caine to watch them, but to not disturb them.
She then skated towards the rooms as she came across Jax’s and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she knocked again.
A voice from inside asked who she was, and when she said it was Izarra, Jax told her to kindly f[ BEEP! ]k off.
She asked if he had read the letter that she sent under the door last night, and even told him she had his skates if he wanted to join the others.
He opened the door and looked at her then the skates as he held the note in his hand. The envelope was open, so he did read it.
She held out the skates and asked again if he wanted to join them. He didn't do anything for a while, then he took the skates and looked at them.
He then said he didn’t know how to skate that well, and Izarra told him she could teach him. He said that he didn’t want to be taught something in front of the others, and Izarra told him she could teach him in the hallway right here, then he would know what to do.
He thought, then said “Fine”, as he put the note on his bed, stepped out the door and closed it, and took the skates as he put them on and tied them. He was wobbly at first, but then gained his composure as they went on. Izarra taught him exactly what she taught the others, and when he was ready, the two skated out to the main area and joined the others.
When the others groaned that Jax joined, Izarra reassured them that he would do no trouble, then gave him the death stare. Jax went back to his normal personality and told everyone that he wouldn’t do anything.. Maybe…
Izarra rolled her eyes as her and the others started to skate around the tent area and had a good time. They took a snack break around lunch time, then continued on as they skated some more.
They played games, had races (which Izarra won most and had to step out to make it fair), and more stuff. Caine then said that the adventure for the day was over with and snapped everything back in place as he fixed the main area. Everyone asked Caine if they could keep the skates, to which he said he was fine with. He vanished after they ate their dinner and left the group by themselves. Everyone thanked Izarra for the adventure that day, as they went to their rooms and put their skates up. They all met by a bunch of sofas and a table as they talked. Eventually, they started to talk about Izarra’s quirk. When she asked what that was, they explained that when they held their breath, they got an ability. When pushed to do it, Izarra got in the middle of them and held her breath. Nothing happened for a while, but then, she started to feel lighter. Her braid started to defy gravity as she, slowly but surely, floated off the ground. She let go of her breath as she fell to the ground pretty quickly, as Pomni went to go check on her. She reassured everyone she was ok as they said they had never seen a quirk like that before. As she tried again, she learned that the longer she held her breath, the higher she went up. She quit it pretty soon though from being too scared, but she never forgot it.
Some talked for a while, but then they all went to their rooms, shut their door, and stayed in their rooms since the day was done.
Izarra was left alone in the hallway as the lights turned off overhead to signal it was night time. She made her way to the main area and looked around. There were circles of the night sky as the light from the stars showed through like spotlights.
She started to skate slowly as she thought of the memories from her childhood. As she got to the back of the Tent. She saw a door glitching out, it wasn’t an exit door, it just looked like a room door. But it had the blue and purple glitches.
She went in to the door slowly as she found herself in the ‘Messages’ hallway, but deeper in.
Now she was surrounded by floating audio messages with dates and titles on it, some were just pictures though.
She found one alone close to the very back. It was called ‘Accident (Don’t Read Into This)’. Izarra was curious as she pressed the play button, that’s when a video popped up as a young child stared into the camera of what looked to be a computer camera.
The kid talked, like she was in an interview. Izarra thought the kid looked familiar as she kept watching, then, she then heard a boy's voice as it called out the kid's name..
Izarra recognized that voice all too well…
That voice..
Was her brother…
And if that was her brother, then that kid.. was her…
Her brother popped into his chair as he questioned little Izarra why she was on his computer. Little Izarra told him she was bored and she hugged her stuffed cow toy. Her brother patted her head and told her it was fine as someone called out his name, that person then popped around the corner, and Izarra saw it was her boss. Her boss then called out her brothers name,
Mark..
Mark then almost cussed as he shut the video off as little Izarra looked around in confusion.
Izarra just stood there as the video froze when it ended. Izarra’s breath was shaky as she looked at her brother.
She would have kept staring if another audio log started to play behind that one.
Izarra looked behind the picture as she saw one audio log pretty far away, alone too.
She skated up to it as she pressed the video button to restart it as she listened.
It was her boss speaking to someone else who she didn’t know.
Her boss was asking two other men if they could get the job done, to which they asked him to repeat what they needed to do.
He then explained that a boy named Mark Brown would be at a grocery store that day, and needed to be killed for knowing something he shouldn’t have known about the company.
The two other men said that they didn’t really want to kill some dude for learning something, but then her boss offered them 10 grand each. And they said yes. The tape was almost over as the boss said one more thing, to make sure that they get his little sister too, named Evelyn Brown. The tape glitched out for a while as it turned into another tape. Her boss then started to yell at the two men as they told him that they couldn’t find Evelyn. Her boss sighed and just told them to leave. After they did, the boss just told himself that he would get her working here somehow, then put her into their game so she couldn’t be like her brother. Then, the tape ended..
Izarra started at the audio player as she started to have a breakdown. She felt like she was about to abstract..
She ran away back through that door. She ran and ran back to her room, she glanced over to her side while running through the tent area and saw Caine glance at her, but she just kept running.
She eventually got to her room as she closed the door behind her and started to go ape sh[ Boing!! ]t, throwing things around and bawling her eyes out.
She then grabbed her toy cow and stared at it.
That’s how the cow toy looked exactly like her real one, the image was in the game's code, so all Caine needed to do was just see the picture and make a copy..
Izarra was about to throw it, when she collapsed into the floor as she hugged her toy cow.
Now she knew her real name, and her brothers.
She heard a knock on her door as she snapped her head up, she tried to get her room looking a bit better in the small time she had.
Soon there was another knock as Caine’s voice was on the other side, asking if she was ok.
Izarra went to the door as she opened it and Caine saw her and her room.
Sure her avatar didn’t change, but her voice and sniffling gave evidence of her crying. When Caine asked what was wrong, she said that it was nothing. When he pressed on and told her that her crying wasn’t for nothing, she said it wasn’t his business.
Caine thought for a second as he flew over Izarra and went into her room.
She called out to him to get out as she closed the door behind her so they weren’t so loud. When he looked around her room and asked about the mess, Izarra said nothing.
Caine snapped his fingers and made her room all tidy up again as he floated to the door.
He floated in front of her and told her that he and Moon were always there if she needed to talk, then he teleported out of her room as she soon collapsed on her bed and hugged her cow as she fell asleep from exhaustion.
She woke up the next day from a knock on her door. As she slid out of bed, she stretched and went to the door as she opened it a bit to see Jax on the other side.
He explained that Caine asked him to check up on Izarra since she fetched him on the roller skate adventure, and to tell her they were doing their intro. Izarra nodded as she put her cow back on her bed and walked to the Tent with Jax.
The gang then did their intro as it went from one person to another.
When it was Izarra's turn though, she did her little move. That’s when a shadow spawned above her, as she looked up, she saw another character spawn above her as they fell on top of her. They made Izarra fall on her back as her eyes turned into swirls.
Caine stopped the intro song as the new person crawled off Izarra and backed up from the others.
Ragatha helped Izarra up as they looked at the new person.
They looked scared and frightened, obviously.. but..
They reminded Izarra of someone..
Her younger self…
Maybe.. sure this wasn’t why she was put into the circus.. but maybe.. she could help this new person, just like Mark had helped her…
lol, those words took me around 2-ish months because of changing her story so much
The first draft was her brother was going to be put in the game too, and she would find him in the Out Of Bounds area, but then he’d go crazy and become half abstract and she would have to have a big fight, but in the end he would sacrifice himself for her
but I changed it cause I thought it was to Mary Sue for TADC
then I decided to base it off of my own personal experiences to help make the story be more real
(No I don’t have a brother, but I did lose a family member back in 2021 that really threw off my mental state)
Finally posting my tadc oc after a whole year of making it!
(imma make a separate post (probably tomorrow cause I need to find a very old art piece) about all the variations of my tadc oc lol )
(It’s very long story, read if u dare (or care))
Enjoy!!
[ OCLOAD//: Izarra ]
Izarra is a young 19 year old girl who used to work at C&A as a coder, before being put as a beta tester for the game they were creating. Once she put the headset on, she got sucked into the circus without warning as she met the wacky AI Caine, who took a liking to her, and the other humans who were sadly trapped in this circus game for years without being able to escape. As Izarra tries to find a way out, many dangers come in her way, even leading her to a place she was never meant to see, and news she was never meant to hear..
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Check out her old Designs here!
[ STORYLOAD//: Yay!_Idk_What_I’m_Doing ]
[ RESTRICTED ] is a young 19 year old girl who works for C&A as a coder for their game they’ve been working on. When [ RESTRICTED ] was younger, her older brother was killed in a robbery at a store he took her too to get groceries for their family when she was 11. As [ RESTRICTED ] hid from the robbers behind some toilet paper that her brother had built up for her in an aisle, he gave his life to try to distract them until help arrived. [ RESTRICTED ], from then on, made it her mission to finish what her brother had started at C&A as their game coder.
She was an intern for one of the senior employees in her district, and did amazing things like fix bugs for the world and their main AI, and even made the game even better, quality wise. She was happy, even if everyday when she walked up to the company building she was reminded of that day.
One day when she was working with her mentor, she noticed he seemed sad and agitated, and very, very clingy to her. More than usual at least. When she questioned him, all he said was he was going to miss her. Then an intercom went through her district as it told her to head down to her boss’ office. So she packed her things as she gave her mentor a hug that she didn’t expect to happen and left the room as he waved to her. As she walked up to her boss’ office, she got a strange feeling in her stomach, but pressed on. When she walked in, she greeted herself as she sat down and awaited the information he needed to tell her.
But the information was not what she was expecting. He plainly told her that she was getting a raise, and that from then on she would still be a coder, but also be a game beta tester.
[ RESTRICTED ] was really excited as she smiled as big as she could as her boss took her down some floors where she saw many people working in cubbies with others walking around. Some of them had lab coats on for some reason..
Weird, why would C&A need scientists if we create games..? She thought to herself as she was brought into a room with many wires that connected to one lonely headset in the middle of the room. Her boss instructed her to put on a vr suit that will allow her to actually feel like she is in the game. As she went to a room and put the suit on, they instructed her to put her hair up in a low bun, step inside the room, activate the suit, then finally, put the headset on. Once she was in the room with her suit turned on, she held the headset in her hands as she awaited further instructions. As her boss gave her the go-to, she put the headset on slowly as she saw him smile evilly, before she saw nothing.
Every other sound around her was drowned out slowly as she was held in a black void of nothing. It felt like her body was changing, becoming limp, being caught, then standing back up strong, but at the same time, it felt like she was being transferred into a new body.
After a while of nothingness she was about to take the headset off when she heard voices. A man’s voice telling about an ‘adventure’ then him talking to someone else, but [ RESTRICTED ] couldn’t make it out for all the glitching in between.
Then a blinding light shone immediately as it made [ RESTRICTED ] close her eyes for a few seconds as her eyes adjusted soon afterwards.
She looked around, she was now in a circus-like tent with many shapes, stairs, and even slides everywhere. Everything was so colorful that it blinded [ RESTRICTED ] for a while as she put her hands on the ground as she sat down. But when she put her hands on the ground, they felt funny. She looked down at her hands to see that they looked non-human, and as she looked at the rest of her body she noticed that she wasn’t human at all, but a digital avatar her boss must have made for her. She even noticed a button on the back of each of her feet, and when she pressed it, roller skate wheels popped out. She did the same on the other foot, and now she had rollerskates on her feet without even changing shoes..
Could she even change shoes..?
She didn’t know..
She pushed the buttons again to make the wheels pop back into her foot as she stepped down and now had normal shoes again. She looked back down at her body as she noticed her hair, or well.. whatever it was.. all she knew was that it was long, a braid to be precise. And it went down to her ankles pretty much. She wasn’t used to this long hair at all. And to make it even worse, she wore a long purple bow that had two pieces that were almost as long as her braid. Yaayyyy….
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to look around the area as she slowly walked and got the hang of the avatar.
Wow, it’s just like I’m actually in the game. Just like he said. She thought as she looked around. She was on a stage, alone, in front of.. whatever she should call that area of shapes and colors. She heard faint music, but it had no words, just a soothing melody that sounded like it would be played at a carnival.
When she took a few steps, her head started to throb. She grabbed her head as she gripped it to try and make it feel better.
Then she decided that she would tell the others that her head hurt too bad, and that she would return to the game once it had stopped. So she reached for the headset.. to feel that nothing was there.
She started to panic.
What?! How is it not there?! I literally just put it on a few minutes ago! She screamed in her mind. Her emotions took a turn as she started to freak out as she almost started to cry, but thankfully got them under control as she tried to think logically to her situation.
Well, guess taking the headset off wasn’t an option.
Maybe it was a dream..? Yeah, a dream.. she tried to tell herself as she took in her surroundings.
And with only one option left, she decided to look around, and find the bugs and the main AI like she was told to do.
So, she walked off the stage and into the circus tent. She looked round and round, but found no one.
Soon she walked far away from the stage as she came across what looked to be a mirror. She ran up to it and skirted to a stop as she took a look at herself.
She looked..
Strange..
Her eyes.. her mouth., her hair.. everything was so different..
But this is you.. her mind told her when her reflection was mimicking everything she did.
She would have gotten lost in thought if she didn’t hear a man’s voice talking to a boy with a raspy, annoying, voice.
They were far away, so [ RESTRICTED ] pushed her rollerskate buttons on her shoes to make them pop out as she skated her way over behind a block where she could see the middle of the tent.
She hid half of her body behind the block as she peaked behind it, still weary and not ready to be seen by anyone, or anything..
In the middle of the tent was a pair of dentures with eyes in the middle of its mouth, and a full suit with a little top hat, and beside him was a bubble that looked to have eyes and a mouth made of spikey teeth.
The dentures kept talking to the bubble as it just stared at him. Then, suddenly, the dentures stopped and looked at the block where [ RESTRICTED ] was hiding behind.
She quickly spun around and covered her mouth with her hands as she was now completely hidden by the block. It went quiet, until she heard the man’s voice talk again.
When she thought she was safe, she took a peek back over the block to see the dentures staring right at her with his two colored eyes.
“Well, well, well!! Looks like a new human has entered this realm!!” He said loudly as she backed up from the denture monster.
Good god what is this thing..?! Her mind yelled as she slowly rolled away by pushing herself back.
The dentures noticed her scooting back and grabbed her arm as he got close into her personal space. “Now, now, now, my dear! You must meet the others! They're coming back from their adventure anytime now! Let’s go!!” He yelled as her and him somehow teleported in the middle of the tent, with the bubble thing staring right at [ RESTRICTED ].
They stood there for a while as the dentures kept yapping to her and the bubble. [ RESTRICTED ] was going to try and scoot away, but a green portal opened as six characters walked out, and they too did not look human. A jester, a ragdoll, a bunny, a ribbon with a mask, a chess piece, and some type of geometric thing walked out of the portal as it closed behind them.
The dentures greeted the others with a strange nickname as he asked them how it was, and most of them said that it was good, but their faces looked like they were worn out. Then, they noticed [ RESTRICTED ] as she held her arm and looked at the others.
“Caine, is this another NPC you’ve made?” The purple bugs bunny said as he turned to the denture man. ‘Caine’ then explained that she was their newest member and would be staying with them.
The others walked up to her and looked at her as they introduced themselves. Except the purple bunny, who the ragdoll, named Ragatha, told her was Jax. Caine then explained how he and she would be exploring the circus, and would be back in a minute. Caine then grabbed her arm and they teleported outside the tent, as she looked around the area she noticed how far down the ground was, and that she realized she could float somehow. That threw her off and made her freak out as Caine tried to calm her down as she continued to have a little crash out.
“God, Caine, this one’s feisty isn’t she?” A female voice said from behind them. Caine agreed to the voice as [ RESTRICTED ] tried to face them, but she kept spinning in circles. But from what she did see, she could tell it was a moon with eyes and a mouth..
“She looks like me, Caine!” The Moon said as she grabbed and started to hold [ RESTRICTED ] from under her arms like a cat with hands that appeared from thin air. Moon turned her around to face her as she thought of a nickname for her.
“I’ll call you…” she thought out loud, “Starbeam, Star for short.”
Moon asked if she liked it, and [ RESTRICTED ] just starred as she zoned out while the Moon turned her back around and let her go beside Caine so she would start to float again.
“Now, Caine,” the Moon said as the ringmaster and the new member faced the Moon. “You better treat her well, and let her do what she wants. She is now my adopted daughter.” When Caine told Moon she couldn’t do that, she just poked him in the stomach and made him giggle before saying she could do whatever she wanted.
Caine rolled his eyes and agreed as he told [ RESTRICTED ] about the digital carnival, the digital lake, the tent, and even showed her THE VOID before heading back to the inside of the tent. But before they went into the tent, Caine went to go talk to the moon as [ RESTRICTED ] zoned out. Then she noticed a blue and purple glitch that made some trees go crazy and bug out. When she asked Caine, he said it was DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!! as her mind transitioned to the digital plane. Caine bid his farewells to Moon as Moon told [ RESTRICTED ] goodbye as they teleported back to the tent in front of everyone else.
[ RESTRICTED]’s eyes were now spinning as she shook her head and got her composure before Caine asked her about her name. That’s when it dawned on her.
She doesn't remember her name, her brothers, or anyone’s outside the game…
When she started to freak out, Ragatha and Pomni tried to calm her down, but failed when Caine asked her if she wanted to choose her name, or use a machine.
She picked the machine, she couldn’t think right now..
Caine then spawned a slot machine as he pulled the lever.. and it went to..
Hhjsng..
Not a good name..
So he spun it again, and it landed on…
Izarra.
[ RESTRICTED ] decided to go with that name. So Caine despawned the slot machine as he then explained how there would be a simple in-house adventure to warm Izarra up to how things worked in the circus.. but everyone was not happy about that at all.
“We’ve already had an adventure today, Caine!” Zooble said, getting mad, “Let the new kid just be in peace for a night, then do a in-house adventure tomorrow.”
To which Caine shushed Zooble and started to explain the rules of the adventure.
It was called Catch The Wolf, where Caine would let a werewolf out and the gang had to set up traps to catch it, first one to catch it gets a special prize of their choosing.
Caine then spawned a small hill of supplies and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
“What did that mean..?” Izarra asked as Ragatha slowly explained the adventures and how it keeps their minds healthy and stimulated.
Everyone then split into groups of two, but Jax went out alone. Izarra got paired with Pomni, then Kinger and Ragatha, then Gangle and Zooble. Everyone grabbed supplies as they headed out on their own. Izarra and Pomni grabbed a rope, a bear trap, and some steak as they headed to the back of the tent. They set up their trap as they waited behind some block as the two had a chat. They talked about the circus and all the wackiness in it. Pomni then decided to take Izarra to her room. So the two walked carefully towards the living quarters as they entered and walked a little past the middle, Izarra asked Pomni what the X’s on some doors meant. Pomni then explained about abstraction and how she should worry about it. The two walked a little farther to find Izarra’s door to her room. Her room was in front of Ragatha’s and beside Pomni’s.
My new room..? She thought to herself as she opened the door. Her room was mostly blue streaks to resemble the night sky with pale yellow stars. Her floor was pale yellow and so was her ceiling. She had a dresser, a mirror, a beanbag that was hanging from the ceiling, a blue rug, and even a bed with silk hanging from the ceiling near the front of it. The bed's cover was three colors of blue with a huge pale yellow star on top of it, and had pale yellow and light blue pillows.
She stepped inside as Pomni followed closely beside her. Izarra looked up at her ceiling, and thought it looked pretty bland. She then had an idea she wanted to do for an oil painting to make it pop. She kept walking around the room, and saw herself in the mirror. She stared at herself as her eyes got bigger as she examined her new body. The one she was stuck in for the rest of her life apparently..
Before she could say anything, the two heard a howling from outside the room as Pomni closed the door and the two hid under the bed. They stayed there for a while until they heard the sound of footsteps go away.
Izarra then helped Pomni up out from under the bed as she peaked her head out of the door. She called back to Pomni and said that the cost was clear as she took a step out of her room and…
A rope snagged her as it hoisted her in the air as it pinned her arms down near her elbows. Izarra hung there as she spun around as Pomni ran up and checked on her, then a familiar rabbit jumped out very happily, before realizing he didn’t catch the wolf, but the newbie in the circus.
Izarra yelled at Jax to let her down, but he just laughed it off, grabbed Pomni by the arm, and left Izarra to hang there alone.
That’s when she saw the blue and purple glitch again, now taking some paintings with it. She stared at it as it took two paintings before it became smaller and disappeared.
She would’ve still been zoned out if it wasn’t for the growling of the wolf coming closer. Izarra struggled to try and get out, but it was no use. The wolf walked up closer as Izarra got a good look at it. It was pitch black with green eyes, and looked to have a green outline with some glitches around it. It kinda matched the blue and green glitch that was taking the painting out..
She tried to baby talk the wolf as it circled her and sniffed the air around her.
The wolf looked like it was about to at least bite Izarra, but then the rope binding her glitched out as it now fazed halfway through the floor.
Izarra quickly pushed the buttons on her shoes to pop out her roller skates as she quickly skated away from the wolf. The animal caught its attention on her as it saw her skating away from it, and took chase quickly after her.
It tried to snag her long hair, but missed. Izarra skated quickly around the whole circus as it kept a chase with her. She used sharp turns and faked it out to stay away from it. Thankfully her brother taught her how to roller skate when she was younger.
She then saw Pomni and Jax arguing as she yelled at them to move. Once they saw the wolf, they jumped to the side as Izarra jumped over the rope trap that Pomni and her set up as the wolf jumped right after her.
The wolf got caught in the trap as it flailed around trying to get free.
Pomni got super excited when she realized it was their trap as Izarra sat on the ground after falling down from jumping.
Soon after Izarra got up and Pomni mocking the wolf, Caine appeared to congratulate them then asked them what they wanted as their surprise. Pomni didn’t know what she wanted so she just asked for a jacket she could wear when she got cold. Caine snapped his fingers and made a small jacket appear right in Pomni’s hands. He turned to Izarra as she thought, then it clicked.
She asked Caine for a small cow plush with a blue collar on its neck. Caine looked a bit confused but snapped his fingers and spawned it in. It landed with a squeak into Izarra’s hands as she looked at its face, it looked just like her old one. Her brother gave her an old hospital bracelet with his name on it, and she put it on a stuffed cow when she was younger and told her brother that the cow was for when he wasn’t around, she could still talk to her brother.
She hoped to continue that promise..
She skated slowly to the hallway where her room was as she put a hand on her doorknob to open it. But something caught her eye. At the end of the hall, the last door, it looked to be glitching. She walked into her room and put the cow on the bed as she rolled out and went to the glitching door. She pushed her shoe buttons as her skates folded in. She took a closer look at the door. It was glitching from a mannequin to every other character, abstracted or alive. She touched the door as her hand began to glitch with it, then she quickly pulled it away as she walked back to her room as she closed the door behind her.
She plopped on her bed as she held the cow toy over her head as she looked at it. She began to have a conversation with it, pretending like it was her actual brother. She talked to it every night and every time she was alone in her room.
After about a month or two, Caine assembled the gang as he explained his adventure. Izarra then spoke up and asked if she could stay in the circus. When questioned, Izarra just said she needed to do something. Caine didn’t question her further until the others went into the portal and left Izarra behind.
Izarra asked Caine if he could spawn in some oil pastels, and three bottles of hairspray if he could. So he did, and he put them in a wagon as Izarra started to walk back to her room as Caine followed her and questioned her every time he got the chance. When they got to her room, Caine turned around to leave as Izarra invited him to join her. Caine got super happy and floated in as he sat on her bed and grabbed her cow plush as he stared at it.
Izarra didn’t think anything of it as she grabbed the ladder she got a while ago and set it up as she started to lay out a bunch of colors in the blue family, plus white.
Caine asked her what she was doing as she started to make a blob of a lighter blue in the middle of her ceiling. Izarra explained that she thought her ceiling was bland, and that it needed some pop, so she was going to do a night sky with clouds circling around the middle.
Caine’s eyes widened, if that was possible, and he asked if he could help. Izarra then taught him a lot of lessons, what to do and what not to do. Once he got the hang of it, he duplicated whatever blue she was using and helped her create the scene she wanted. Once they got the clouds done, Izarra got some white paint on a paintbrush as she grabbed another and started to flick spots in the ceiling. Caine followed her lead and soon, stars were now on the ceiling. The last thing Izarra did was add a small crescent moon before moving the ladder and laying on the ground to look at it as Caine layed down as well.
It was pretty, now all that’s left to do was to sign it. Izarra painted her left hand white as she went to a corner and placed her hand firmly on it as she then wrote her name in a beautiful cursive beside it. She asked Caine if she wanted to sign it, and he nodded his head enthusiastically. So Izarra painted his right hand white as he stamped it beside Izarra’s. Then in sloppy handwriting, wrote his name under his handprint.
The two then started to spray the ceiling with hairspray to keep it secure as they left the room coughing.
Caine then realized the time and teleported Izarra and him to the circus tent as he welcomed the others from their adventure. Soon everyone headed to their rooms as they went inside to head to sleep.
Izarra shut off her lights and started walking to her bed when she saw a green and blue glowing light from behind her dresser. She walked over and slowly moved her dresser as she saw what was glowing.
It was a glitching portal..
Izarra stared at it as she grabbed a backpack and put her cow plush in it with its hands and head sticking out. She stepped through it as it was still glitching behind her. She looked around taking her area in. She was in a maze-like place with black walls that were lined with blue, the sky was a spinning blue and purple dome with teapots floating in the sky.
Izarra walked around when she came up to a place where she saw models T-Posing as they stood still.
They looked like NPC’s.
Izarra walked up to them, they looked like they were based off of some adventure, maybe the one from today. Izarra kept walking as she noticed five corridors with words in front of them. One saying “World Generation”, another saying “NPC Generation”, then “Room Generation”, one saying “Code”, and finally, one saying “Messages”. Izarra walked down the first hallway named “World Generation” as she took turns until she came across a huge room with lined rows of buttons. At least 20 in each row, and it consisted of 5 rows. All the buttons had different names in front of them that named what world they must lead to.
Izarra walked past the first row, and recognized some of the names from past adventures. She then realized that the buttons had black lines around them, the black lines made 3 sections and labeled them, “Month 1”, “Month 2”, and “Month 3”. Meaning that the worlds went back 3 months in the past.
She looked down the rows but left the room shortly after. She checked the other rooms and they didn’t really have much in them. It wasn’t until she got to the “Messages” room where things got a little strange. At first, it was just voice recordings of people saying the updates in the game, and the new people and even when the people got stuck in the game.
It only got darker the deeper Izarra went in though..
Izarra gave up halfway through and and skated back as she went through her room portal and moved her dresser back as she unpacked her backpack and layed down on her bed holding her cow plush.
She looked at it for a while before almost drifting to sleep, when an idea hit her head.
She immediately got up, freshened up, and sat down at her desk as she started to make cards for each circus member inviting them to a skate party that afternoon. She made custom cards and put them in envelopes as she wrote the circus memeber’s names and quietly walked out of her room.
She held the cards in her hand as she went to each room and slid the card under the door quietly.
She noticed Jax’s light was on, but didn’t bother him just in case.
Once she passed out all the cards, she walked out of the dorm room hallway and into the main area of the Tent. She then looked around and started moving objects around to create a pretty large track from random objects around the circus tent area.
The track went from pretty close to the stage area to the other side of the tent. It formed an oval shape as well as pillows around the curves on the outside just in case the others fell over the wall, or got pushed by Jax.
Once she finished the track, it was morning as the light then changed from it being dark to it becoming very bright. So bright it gave Izarra a headache.
She covered her eyes and rubbed them for a bit, but when she opened them, she saw Caine staring right at her.
He asked her what she was doing up so early and why she made a race track around the tent.
Izarra told Caine that she would explain everything, but only if he did her a favor.
When he agreed, she asked him to make custom roller skates for all the cast members.
Caine thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers as a bunch of skates came falling down on top of Izarra as they crushed her.
Caine apologized and made the skates float as he helped Izarra up off the ground as she had swirls in her eyes.
She told Caine that he was fine after he apologized, and followed her to the dorm room hallway as they sat each person's custom skates by their door. Once done, Caine left to go get breakfast ready as Izarra walked out of the tent and into the Grounds.
She called out to the Moon as Moon picked her up with her hands as they started to talk.
It was peaceful,
The most peaceful it had been in a while..
She told Moon stories about her time I’m the circus and told her even more stories from her real life before the circus. Their time was cut short when they both saw Caine waving his hands at Izarra and going back to the Tent.
Izarra told Moon she had to go as Moon set her on the ground and waved her goodbye.
When Izarra walked back in the tent, she saw the others looking at the rink she made as they held their skates in their hands.
Ragatha questioned her as Izarra explained that for their adventure, they would have a fun day and learn how to skate. And thankfully, everyone seemed pretty excited. That’s when Izarra waited for Jax’s comment, but it never came. Izarra looked for him, and asked the other when she didn’t see him.
Zooble explained that he never came out of his room and was probably still in there.
So Izarra made a mental note to go check on him once she started the others off.
Izarra asked if any of them could skate, and only Gangle said she could a little.
Izarra then showed them a small tutorial like how to hold your feet, how to stop, and don’t lean backwards.
Soon the others put their skates on as Cain spawned in some chairs, and they started to slowly skate around the rink.
Once everyone got the hang of it, Izarra slipped out as she asked Caine to watch them, but to not disturb them.
She then skated towards the rooms as she came across Jax’s and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she knocked again.
A voice from inside asked who she was, and when she said it was Izarra, Jax told her to kindly f[ BEEP! ]k off.
She asked if he had read the letter that she sent under the door last night, and even told him she had his skates if he wanted to join the others.
He opened the door and looked at her then the skates as he held the note in his hand. The envelope was open, so he did read it.
She held out the skates and asked again if he wanted to join them. He didn't do anything for a while, then he took the skates and looked at them.
He then said he didn’t know how to skate that well, and Izarra told him she could teach him. He said that he didn’t want to be taught something in front of the others, and Izarra told him she could teach him in the hallway right here, then he would know what to do.
He thought, then said “Fine”, as he put the note on his bed, stepped out the door and closed it, and took the skates as he put them on and tied them. He was wobbly at first, but then gained his composure as they went on. Izarra taught him exactly what she taught the others, and when he was ready, the two skated out to the main area and joined the others.
When the others groaned that Jax joined, Izarra reassured them that he would do no trouble, then gave him the death stare. Jax went back to his normal personality and told everyone that he wouldn’t do anything.. Maybe…
Izarra rolled her eyes as her and the others started to skate around the tent area and had a good time. They took a snack break around lunch time, then continued on as they skated some more.
They played games, had races (which Izarra won most and had to step out to make it fair), and more stuff. Caine then said that the adventure for the day was over with and snapped everything back in place as he fixed the main area. Everyone asked Caine if they could keep the skates, to which he said he was fine with. He vanished after they ate their dinner and left the group by themselves. Everyone thanked Izarra for the adventure that day, as they went to their rooms and put their skates up. They all met by a bunch of sofas and a table as they talked. Eventually, they started to talk about Izarra’s quirk. When she asked what that was, they explained that when they held their breath, they got an ability. When pushed to do it, Izarra got in the middle of them and held her breath. Nothing happened for a while, but then, she started to feel lighter. Her braid started to defy gravity as she, slowly but surely, floated off the ground. She let go of her breath as she fell to the ground pretty quickly, as Pomni went to go check on her. She reassured everyone she was ok as they said they had never seen a quirk like that before. As she tried again, she learned that the longer she held her breath, the higher she went up. She quit it pretty soon though from being too scared, but she never forgot it.
Some talked for a while, but then they all went to their rooms, shut their door, and stayed in their rooms since the day was done.
Izarra was left alone in the hallway as the lights turned off overhead to signal it was night time. She made her way to the main area and looked around. There were circles of the night sky as the light from the stars showed through like spotlights.
She started to skate slowly as she thought of the memories from her childhood. As she got to the back of the Tent. She saw a door glitching out, it wasn’t an exit door, it just looked like a room door. But it had the blue and purple glitches.
She went in to the door slowly as she found herself in the ‘Messages’ hallway, but deeper in.
Now she was surrounded by floating audio messages with dates and titles on it, some were just pictures though.
She found one alone close to the very back. It was called ‘Accident (Don’t Read Into This)’. Izarra was curious as she pressed the play button, that’s when a video popped up as a young child stared into the camera of what looked to be a computer camera.
The kid talked, like she was in an interview. Izarra thought the kid looked familiar as she kept watching, then, she then heard a boy's voice as it called out the kid's name..
Izarra recognized that voice all too well…
That voice..
Was her brother…
And if that was her brother, then that kid.. was her…
Her brother popped into his chair as he questioned little Izarra why she was on his computer. Little Izarra told him she was bored and she hugged her stuffed cow toy. Her brother patted her head and told her it was fine as someone called out his name, that person then popped around the corner, and Izarra saw it was her boss. Her boss then called out her brothers name,
Mark..
Mark then almost cussed as he shut the video off as little Izarra looked around in confusion.
Izarra just stood there as the video froze when it ended. Izarra’s breath was shaky as she looked at her brother.
She would have kept staring if another audio log started to play behind that one.
Izarra looked behind the picture as she saw one audio log pretty far away, alone too.
She skated up to it as she pressed the video button to restart it as she listened.
It was her boss speaking to someone else who she didn’t know.
Her boss was asking two other men if they could get the job done, to which they asked him to repeat what they needed to do.
He then explained that a boy named Mark Brown would be at a grocery store that day, and needed to be killed for knowing something he shouldn’t have known about the company.
The two other men said that they didn’t really want to kill some dude for learning something, but then her boss offered them 10 grand each. And they said yes. The tape was almost over as the boss said one more thing, to make sure that they get his little sister too, named Evelyn Brown. The tape glitched out for a while as it turned into another tape. Her boss then started to yell at the two men as they told him that they couldn’t find Evelyn. Her boss sighed and just told them to leave. After they did, the boss just told himself that he would get her working here somehow, then put her into their game so she couldn’t be like her brother. Then, the tape ended..
Izarra started at the audio player as she started to have a breakdown. She felt like she was about to abstract..
She ran away back through that door. She ran and ran back to her room, she glanced over to her side while running through the tent area and saw Caine glance at her, but she just kept running.
She eventually got to her room as she closed the door behind her and started to go ape sh[ Boing!! ]t, throwing things around and bawling her eyes out.
She then grabbed her toy cow and stared at it.
That’s how the cow toy looked exactly like her real one, the image was in the game's code, so all Caine needed to do was just see the picture and make a copy..
Izarra was about to throw it, when she collapsed into the floor as she hugged her toy cow.
Now she knew her real name, and her brothers.
She heard a knock on her door as she snapped her head up, she tried to get her room looking a bit better in the small time she had.
Soon there was another knock as Caine’s voice was on the other side, asking if she was ok.
Izarra went to the door as she opened it and Caine saw her and her room.
Sure her avatar didn’t change, but her voice and sniffling gave evidence of her crying. When Caine asked what was wrong, she said that it was nothing. When he pressed on and told her that her crying wasn’t for nothing, she said it wasn’t his business.
Caine thought for a second as he flew over Izarra and went into her room.
She called out to him to get out as she closed the door behind her so they weren’t so loud. When he looked around her room and asked about the mess, Izarra said nothing.
Caine snapped his fingers and made her room all tidy up again as he floated to the door.
He floated in front of her and told her that he and Moon were always there if she needed to talk, then he teleported out of her room as she soon collapsed on her bed and hugged her cow as she fell asleep from exhaustion.
She woke up the next day from a knock on her door. As she slid out of bed, she stretched and went to the door as she opened it a bit to see Jax on the other side.
He explained that Caine asked him to check up on Izarra since she fetched him on the roller skate adventure, and to tell her they were doing their intro. Izarra nodded as she put her cow back on her bed and walked to the Tent with Jax.
The gang then did their intro as it went from one person to another.
When it was Izarra's turn though, she did her little move. That’s when a shadow spawned above her, as she looked up, she saw another character spawn above her as they fell on top of her. They made Izarra fall on her back as her eyes turned into swirls.
Caine stopped the intro song as the new person crawled off Izarra and backed up from the others.
Ragatha helped Izarra up as they looked at the new person.
They looked scared and frightened, obviously.. but..
They reminded Izarra of someone..
Her younger self…
Maybe.. sure this wasn’t why she was put into the circus.. but maybe.. she could help this new person, just like Mark had helped her…
