"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.
No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.
Still never gonna be over the fact that it took Maes Hughes one night to figure out the truth about Amestris when it took the rest of the cast half the series
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
girl you erected a mysterious black monolith that contained all the knowledge your culture had ever collected were you hoping he'd develop rudimentary tool use
I've been thinking of this line from episode six about how Zooble wonders why no one else in the Circus got Avatar Gimmicks, but..... They literally all have an avatar gimmick as Caine essentially confirmed this episode.
Caine says he makes a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files.
I have always said among my friends that Digital Circus's character design is one of the strongest parts of the show and it tells you everything you need to know about the character from the design alone. But their design is quite figuratively baked into the plot.
I will cover the characters and their designs a bit
Kinger's design is fairly straight forward. He is a Chess piece, yes, but he is only one half of a whole and folks who have played chess or know anything about Chess have clocked it immediately. And it makes sense he became this and not something relating to bugs or programing or computer science. Kinger is, well the King. He made Caine primarily. But the King in Chess is one of the weakest pieces yet most important piece on the board. The King is slow, can only move one step at a time, and has to be the one to be protected by the other pieces on the board. The Queen, obviously the more powerful piece and can move in any direction she wishes, but as a result, usually is taken out quickly in order to protect the King. The Game is over when the King can't move anymore and gets taken.
But I'm sure folks know this. What I'm trying to say, is that Kinger being the "weakest" but most important piece is a literal insecurity of his character.
We can infer a lot from his dialogue but I think it's obvious Queenie isn't a programmer or didn't work for C&A and wasn't supposed to be here. Kinger even in episode six says that he hated himself for the things he believed he was responsible for. To say he felt "useless" without his Queen I think is an understatement. Which makes sense he would take the form of a Chess Piece. He is the most important piece, but also... the most useless, and we have seen him extremely aware of that fact.
Even as early as episode 3 when we are introduced to the multitudes of Kinger, he knows that he is more or less useless in the light, even if he tries to be helpful, like warn the gang about Abel in episode 7, or just keep the bucket on his head as long as it takes for him to have a lucid thought. The surviving King piece with no chess pieces. The Strongest, but the most worthless.
Ragatha has been fairly obvious to me. She's a Rag Doll. One to be played rough with, and as Jax says "torn up every other adventure" Made to take the hits and absorb them. Her digital manifestation chose this form like so many other things in her life as a defense mechanism. Like if she just takes the abuse and makes everyone like her then everything will be fine.
Even in the digital Circus like everything in her life, her mother also is a major influence over her manifestation. Just absorbing all the hits and trying to control the energy in the room and hoping everyone will like them. Her avatar can take the brunt of so much physical abuse because she took the brunt of so much mental abuse so her mental manifestation would reflect that.
Get your Jax Toy, get a little laugh boy.
I love this torment scene. The whole torment scene of the cast is probably my favorite sequence in the entire show. Jax being revealed down to his barest essentials and people laughing at that person, not just people, but the three people who he knows can see through his thin facade. his rabbit skin is paper thin, but there's also something to be said for Jax's design avatar as it is, unpeeled. If you want to go with that this is a nightmare sequence and it doesn't count as his "true form" or whatever.
The thing about Rabbits... They're ultimately prey animals And throughout the show Jax has been painted as the Asshole, the scamp, the bully the cruel one, the violent one... But he is a Rabbit.
A very highly anxious social species, that can be timid as well as bold.
Not just that Jax is sad cus he lost his friends and also pushes those away... but that HE was the one who lashed out at Pomni, not the other way around, and HE's the one who ended up getting hurt the most by the fight. He was the one who hurt himself.
"you are my playthings" ....Sure Jax, from episode 6 onwards, you're the one who is like......Clinically depressed over pushing the one damn person who had a chance of being your friend and you know that.
Time will tell if "peeled Jax" is his true form and that was his avatar gimmick, and I kind of really hope that that is the case, but even if it isn't. This asshole being a Rabbittoid Avatar makes so much sense to me.
And it took me awhile to wonder why Pomni's physical manifestation was a Jester. Like, why could that possibly be the case, but rewatching the show it hits you all at once.
Pomni even says people feel like that ('nothing') where she's from... sounding like she speaks from personal experience. While Pomni has a high emotional intelligence, and a deep compassion for people it's pretty clear that she was in a line of work where that doesn't play to her strengths at all. She was an accountant for a supermarket chain.. a nobody, or... saw herself as a nobody. Or someone that had to keep their head down and not speak up. That her life had really little meaning outside of the circus.
So, her manifestation as a Jester is a bit ironic and cruel that she would take that form. Because it's one thing clear about Pomni throughout the entire show.
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