TADC THEORY: SCRATCH THAT
SO PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING THE FIRST ABSTRACTION WASN'T QUEENIE, IT WAS THE DOG CHARACTER WHOSE SUPPOSEDLY NAMED "SCRATCH" BUT IF THAT'S TRUE IT KINDA DESTROYS THE WHOLE CANON TIMELINE AS WE KNOW IT. The dog in question, is named DOBBY. We've known that since TADC 4.
Now however people are pointing back to an old post by one of the Artists at GLITCH
BLURB: hello!!! i'm so glad you wanna know about the lil fella i created for the hallway in DC!! i defs wanna make a proper post on twitter or something one day about the lil characters + what I named that - but the yellow dog is called Scratch! i think at some point I saw fans calling them "Dobby" though, which i really like i think its v wholesome!!!
This was made 6/14/2024 several months before episode 4 dropped, in which his name was changed officially to Dobby on theWackyWatch.com. Honestly tho I believe this whole thing can AND SHOULD be ignored as a strange coincidence. Because if not it completely breaks the canon timeline. So currently it has been established by Goose that the first three people to enter the circus were: Kinger and Queenie together, and then, later, AFTER Queenie abstracted, and Kinger "Lost everything" (see TADC 6) Ragatha came in. If we are now saying that "Scratch" was the first abstraction. That would mean that all that goes out the window, because he'd have had to have came in first, BEFORE Kinger and Queenie.
Personally, I say it's coincidence that the dog was originally called Scratch, and maintain that Kinger's speech was just stilted, as he was fighting through the amnesia (Or whatever the heck it is) to remember the line Caine said, when he erased Kinger's memories of QUEENIE'S ABSTRACTION. As "Scratch the first abstraction." does sound like a command prompt to me.
We already know Kinger's memory has been tampered with, even in the full dark of "Hell" in TADC 3 he was unable to recall anything about her abstraction, or how they ended up in the pillowfort together post transformation.
Kinger's reaction to stepping into the light in TADC 7 just further reinforces this. It's like a switch is flipped. One minute he's going to try, and stop Pomni, to warn her not to trust Abel, and then "FLASH" He's forgotten everything, and is rendered dumb, and confused. What I need is people who watch the foreign dubs to chime in and tell me: Do they keep the word as "Scratch" or do they translate it, meaning its not a name? That to me sounds like the fastest way to find out if this is truly a case of the timeline being retconned or not.