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katie killjoy's EPIC backstory

(based on this reblog chain with @rubixpsyche, sorry I did not include the cooties joke maybe next time </3)

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I apologize for nothing!

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it’s the least he deserves. After that ending.

after seeing the new TDAC episode i predict Gummigoo will be on the Sexypedia within hours. mark my word.

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Wouldn’t it be fucked up if Gumigoo does show up in a later episode, but when Pomni goes up to him he doesn’t remember at all. Because he’s an NPC. He’s already reset.

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TADC: Thoughts on Jax in Episode 2

Thoughts on Jax after Amazing Digital Circus Episode 2 Dropped.

Massive spoilers below the cut. Just watch the ep before you read.

Amazing Digital Circus had an amazing second episode as we're introduced more to what the adventures are like, and what NPCs are like and ofc the existential horror of being a living AI only created for a source of entertainment.

Also, I love the dream sequence at the beginning, because we actually get some deeper insight into Pomni's thoughts on Ragatha. Feeling like her helpfulness is the guise of like "man, you're not cut out for this like the rest of us" which is typically something a lot of people who have been bullied in highschool perceive genuine acts of kindness and engagement. (which I kind of suspect Pomni might have been, or at least, been a shut-in and didn't have a lot of friends in her human life. )

Jax wasn't really the main focus of the episode, but it wasn't really until the end of the episode I understood his behavior and what this episode is foreshadowing overall.

Since while Jax isn't the focus emotionally, he is definitely the plot device to push things forward. And I mean, a plot device in a very active and quite literal way. He's the one that causes Pomni to clip out of the map, takes advantage of everyone and is just... genuinely an unpleasant person.

I actually really like this.

As, I know the first episode in the digital circus, many people (me included) could perceive or analyze Jax's actions as someone who is "helping" in a roundabout asshole way. Episode Two has none of that here. He just wants Bloodshed, And I love that we're getting additional context on his character.

It's hard to tell how much fan reception Gooseworx saw of episode one before episode two hit production, so I don't know how much of the fandom perception of Jax had an influence on the writing process, but I can't deny that might have been a factor in assuring us "no he's not secretly helpful, he's just an asshole" But I'm just going to assume that this has been part of his characterization from the start and it becomes way more clear as the episode goes on.

But there was something in his behavior throughout this whole episode that seemed off to me. Like Jax was taking up a majority of the B-plot, while Pomni had the A-plot. So I was wondering why Jax seemed to be the protagonist with the B-plot when Pomni was the A-plot when they seemed to be so disconnected with eachother in motivations and telling us things about the characters.

But then it hit me when the episode ended and the two plots merged together.

"who... knows... what could happen..."

And then it hit me.

Pomni finds comfort in an NPC who is going through a similar experience to her and can emphasize, despite their being other humans who have gone through the same thing, due to her self-admitting to being a loner in her human life. Well, she didn't admit it outright, but from how she perceives Ragatha's kindness as an act, or patronizing, it seems like she doesn't have a lot of friends...

Meanwhile... Jax... He treats the adventure like a videogame. Why shouldn't he? He's trapped in a videogame, right? But it really goes beyond that.

The fellow humans that Jax is trapped with, he treats THEM like they're NPCs, while Pomni treats the NPC like they're human.

Jax says to Gangle "Aren't you supposed to be the suggestible one?" Which you wouldn't typically wouldn't say to a person, right? That's something you would say more about a character that you maxed out the dialogue trees in.

He calls Pomni "His Bridge" even.

They're his objects. His tools, his own npcs he's exhausted the dialogue options on.

Jax dehumanizes the players in a way that Pomni humanizes the NPCS.

These are two opposite ends of the spectrum but what really sold it for me was Jax's reaction to the funeral.

And Jax is the one member out of the cast who doesn't even show up to the funeral. (aside from Caine and Bubble but they are AI.)

He does NOT want to think about the Players as real people. And showing that opposite perspective compared to Pomni I think is much as important going forward.

Jax was the plot catalyst of this entire episode, and served the thematic theme of the episode quite well, even if it didn't look like it on first glance.

I absolutely loved this episode and I can't wait for more.

Also... Poor Pomni can't have shit in Detroit

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rest in peace gummigoo. you would have loved brokeback mountain

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caine saying npcs sticking around is bad because then he can’t remember who is real and who isn’t better be foreshadowing to one of cast members being fake

assuming the show is heading in a direction of everyone escaping, this would be great potential for a scene where everyones leaving but one of them Cant. because they Aren’t A Real Person.

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i like that pomni is like, an adult. i mean sometimes you see this kind of "sad, pathetic, wet cat" character and they're just totally meek and Going Through It at all times and it's written like kind of childish? and i'm not saying she doesnt go through it, but I like that she reacts like an adult. she's frustrated, Done With It, swears liberally. there's a good amount of emotional maturity and willingness to get mad for her own sake. it's nice.

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Ooooh I knew as seen as this scene happened that they were setting me up for a fall,

but it still hurt

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JUSTICE FOR GUMMIGOO!! ✊

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TADC SPOILERS AHEAD!! //

don't forget

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THE PARALLELS FROM THE BEGGINING AND THE END OF THE EPISODE? AND POMNI REALIZING SHE DOES HAVE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR HER NOW AUGH MY HEART

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I love how this shot of Jax sulking away got people theorizing and making miles long posts about his Sad Backstory™ and Trauma™

ONLY FOR IT TO TURN OUT THAT HE IS MAD THAT HE DIDN'T GET TO CAUSE CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION.

Man, I love you Gooseworx, you don't disappoint, you absolute madwoman.

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Pomni decided to make a second memorial⚰️❤️

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BRING MY BOY BACK HE DID NOTHING WRONG!!!!!

#I AM UNWELL

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Here is how you can hate Uzi!

Be a misogynist.