I think this opening scene is actually pretty significant. We see the birth of Caine and the death of what I assume to be Abel. The scene kinda reminds me of twin absorption.
The shedding of Jax's skin reminds me of depictions of St Bartholomew, who's often shown holding his own flayed skin. I doubt this was intentional, though. My brother said he was shucked like a corn husk, which is a more likely connection if any.
I instantly noticed that Bubble's face was gone here, and assumed it was due to the deletion of Caine. But then I saw this:
As we can see in this earlier scene, Bubble was already gone. I'm not entirely sure what this means at the time of writing this.
The computer fell, potentially landing in the cellar. But that also has me thinking:
What became of the people in the cellar? Now that Caine is gone, are they free?
Is Abel free?
Also shout-out to Kinger for being the GOAT! He may have messed up, but he still managed to eliminate the problem. And I know that even though Caine was having second thoughts, I genuinely think he would've done something horrendous if he'd found Kinger trying to mess with his code. I mean, he'd already shredded him earlier just because he dared to return from the adventure in one piece.
I'm an emotional abuse survivor, and Ragatha's story in Digital Circus hits me like a train and genuinely, I have no idea how no one else is talking about it
I knew FROM THIS MOMENT exactly why Ragatha is the way she is. The way she pulls herself short because you DO NOT TALK about what you go through, you do not tell anyone what your parent does to you or says to you. No one gets it. It's embarrassing. It's too much.
But her torture scene in the new episode just cemented it for me.
It's always at the dinner table. You can't get away at dinner. You have to sit with your abuser, who has probably already hit their limit for the day and is looking for someone to unleash their stress at. And you have to take it, because it gets SO much worse if you get up from the table before you're finished.
All the mannequins make me wonder if Ragatha has a big family. That's an awful lot of people who have already been beaten down and aren't speaking up to defend her.
Ragatha is a rag doll because Caine can see in her mind files that she's been used that way all her life. Thats how she sees herself. She's a soft thing to be thrown about. She can stand up to rough treatment. You can fling as many knives at her as you like and it doesn't matter, because she's made of stuffing, it doesn't hurt. You can just patch her up and keep going.
But if course it hurts. Look at her.
(and obviously her mother didn't *actually stab her in the eye*, come on guys.)
But I have to go back to how Ragatha's mother is shown here, because it speaks volumes to Ragatha's entire character. It's so screamingly obvious to me, probably because I mould my own life exactly how Ragatha does, for better or for worse.
The mother looks like Ragatha. She has the same hair, the same body type.
And the whole time she's abusing Ragatha, she's *smiling.* She's enjoying it. She's exactly the type of vile bully that comes up with her most hurtful thing to say, and smiles in your face while she says it, because it makes her feel good.
THAT is why Ragatha is so accommodating. THAT'S why she doesn't tell Jax to fuck off until she's given "permission" by Pomni at the softball game (who immediately gets freaked out by her big feelings and tells her she's being irrational).
THAT is why she tries to keep the peace and not upset people. THAT is why, almost to the very last, she tries to placate Caine.
Because she thinks that if she hurts someone's feelings, *SHE IS EXACTLY LIKE HER MOTHER.* And in Ragatha's mind, there is nothing worse in the whole world than finding out you're just like your abuser. Cosmically, you might even think that's why they hurt you in the first place. Because you're bad. You deserve it.
So you make nice. You stay quiet. You give compliments. You make sure everyone is happy.
You pick yourself up and keep going, despite constantly being knocked down, dismissed, laughed at. You try your best not to set them off, not set *anyone* off, because if they freak out, you end up being the villain. And there's always that tiny part of your brain that is terrified, deep down, that you are going to hurt people in the same way you were hurt.
While a lot of extremely noteworthy things happened in this episode, this one sticks out to me the most.
It sounds like Caine is confirming the theory that the humans in the circus are clones of their consciousness, not truly the original versions.
This would mean that there is no escape, and the only ending from this point is virtual death. Not to mention we don't know the ramifications of "killing" Caine, and what that will do to the Circus. But with how it was falling apart immediately, I doubt it'll hold up much longer.
Just a quick comic (one hour I think??) about possible consequences of deleting Caine,,, haven't made traditional comics in a while but I think this one looks pretty cool?? lol
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