I’m gonna be real, I’m saying this just because but, I have a slight theory about the Amazing Digital Circus being slightly more digital than what you already know.
So, you know how Kingeris already known to have most likely worked on The Digital Circus? I’m making that a definitely whenever he and his wife are BOTH chess pieces whenever a character is supposed to be “random”
But this is not just about his wife, what about Kaufmo? I started thinking about what exactly makes them abstract, and I’ve realized, that it’s literally going insane, but it’s not gonna make since until I explain ANOTHER THING. (Hold on and trust me it’s gonna make sense in a second)
So you know how they all put on headsets (I’m guessing) and all? What if it’s not them but a copy? A complete brain scan and stuff, kinda like in SOMA just less traumatic. It would explain why a lot of memories are cut (probably because after too many people it would just waste too much storage) which would also explain why they are all given new names, but even then, the name machine had to have been made before hand since Caine doesn’t like showing off not finished products.
NOW going back to abstraction, maybe because they have become AI, going insane corrupts the data in turn corrupting the data the body is held in, which would also explain why Caine can’t get rid of them permanently like Gumigoo. The pit of them is my alibi to that, he can’t change the mind only the body, so if the mind is corrupted there’s no need to change the body. But we have also seen him clean minor infections of corruption like on Ragatha in the pilot episode, so why doesn’t he just fix their bodies? I’m guessing he doesn’t want to for a reason still as of yet unknown.
NOW FINALLY going back to Kinger and Queenie. A YouTube short caught my attention of a theory about the digital circus, more than usual, and it was that Kinger helped to make The Digital Circus which I was already wondering. And it did have solid proof since he and queenie both had what I’m guessing are custom characters. Chess pieces of a King and a Queen.Jow I’m gonna say (from the other theory) that Kinger is definitely put into a position of power because of his chess piece being a king, which I’m guessing if Queenie was still there, she’d always be second in command. He was the coach, the teacher, and Pomni’s advisor. But even when the queen falls, the king must keep going for everybody else. Now that we’re back, the whole theory is a bit far fetched but here we go.
I’m guessing that Kinger and Queenie helped to make The Digital Circus along with definitely other people, but they made it so you can brain scan and put a copy of yourself within The Digital Circus where adventures are everywhere. The reason unknown but I’m going to go on a cliff here and say perhaps it was a world where you could watch your AI copy so that you could see how you’d fare in wacky adventures. The reason the whole operation shut down was probably because of the abstraction of some people’s AI counterparts and insanity, probably disturbing them off of whatever site it may be on. Which centrally led to sharing their stories which scared other people, as some of theirs also abstract due to insanity. Something that was probably just in the games was that some of the characters would show up again in other adventures to be a sort of happy face you can count on, a reoccurring character of sorts, kind of like the disappearing man who everybody else other than Pomni seems to know.
Then after the servers got shut down and the building was abandoned I’m guessing some of the servers were left behind because of the sheer scale of the project, which Caine must of reactivated somehow, which would explain why in the pilot Caine only knows of places most likely show from within the cameras of devices within the building, which would also explain why in the unfinished exit doors the closer and closer to the void you get, you worse it looks, the older it looks, the more- of a look you’d see of an abandoned building WHICH WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN why he doesn’t know what the outside world looks like, it’s because he’s only ever seen as specific scenarios and seen the inside of a normal building, then abandoned.
Now of course Kinger most likely has horrible memory because it goes beyond his personal storage, I’m guessing the servers (no matter how many) still needed a lot of storage, so they cut back as much as possible, including AI memory, explaining Caines and Kingers problem with memory. Bubble is most likely for comedic affect, doing funny things at the perfect comedic timing, saying unhinged things to make you laugh. Most likely she also suffers from memory issues although less severe, Bubble probably has a longer memory span so she can makes jokes referring to the past, as of how far this memory goes? Yet to be determined.
And as of how many things in The Digital Circus work, I have no clue, but everything has an explanation no matter if it’s wrong or far fetched.
Also just realized most likely if an argument “then why hasn’t Kinger abstracted yet?” Is probably due to him already knowing he’s in a game, show? Gameshow? Still no clue. But he knows, and so he can’t be abstracted when he’s already willingly gone into a place with no exit. (Also explains why Kaufmo went insane, he most likely learned something along the lines of “we aren’t the people who we think we are” and so he realized there’s literally no escape)
Anyways this is my very first post on this platform, if you have anything to add or just hate on this. Please comment, I’d love to read especially since theories become greater mystery’s the more they grow and the more you learn, much like the Fnaf franchise. Hope I didn’t waste your time, anyways gn it’s like 1:42 for me right now.
Also if I misspelled that’s my bad please put corrections in comments.
ALSO I made this theory after countless days and nights of just thinking, so this is VERY different from what I originally first thought. Theories are like pyramids, if the base or a part of it isn’t stable then it crumbles, I’ve tried to make it as perfect as possible, if you see any flaws or anything I missed or got wrong, please correct, I’m just one man over here.
Last edit I’m actually going to bed now, haven’t watched episode 6 yet, if I haven’t included information from episode 6 that’s why, I’ll watch it tomorrow.