This Sane Looking Concept Art Kinger Scares Me More Than He Has Any Right To.

This sane looking concept art Kinger scares me more than he has any right to.

Dead/Abstracted Performer Headcanons Volume 5/5

Name: Stroinga (saw someone name this character something derpy with and S and it kind of sounds like string)

Avatar: Worm on a string headed weasel like character with a small acrobat type outfit and nubby limbs.

Personality: Energetic and very polite, she usually tried to make the best of a situation, even if her generally clumsy nature (and new body) got in the way.

Fun fact: She was the last of the first four performers to join the group and they all entered the circus at once.

Abstraction: Her's was the first ever, brought on by a typical existential crisis, at least, typical by the digital world's standards. Sine Stroinga was Caine's first experience with abstraction it took a little while to catch her, especially since he also had to make the cellar. Luckily, she didn't manage to do any real damage. Syghti was hit the hardest by her abstraction.

Name: Denz (from density, since it's the principal by which things float on water)

Avatar: Ring floatie torso, flipper sandal feet, snorkel pipe neck, entire cartoon dolphin body as a head. His entire body is very rubbery and hollow.

Personality: Slightly overbearing guy how props himself up as a sort of life coach for other performers. He can be really annoying but always means well. Denz has a deep love of music, so much so that he often asked Caine to turn up the in-game audio, much to everyone else's frustration.

Fun fact: He had tended to use his room for storage of mementos from various adventures and preferred to sleep on the digital lake.

Abstraction: He tried his best to help everyone with whatever personal stuff they could remember, no matter how little. Naturally, he took every abstraction he saw really personally, the perceived guilt and being seen as nuisance by most remaining performers proved to much for Denz. Ironically, he abstracted during a lake adventure, glitching Edgallen and Jax.

And that's it! I've know racked my brain over 10 dead cartoon characters how may or may not prove completely irrelevant by the end of the series and I regret nothing. I really do hope you enjoyed these!

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Dead/Abstracted Performer Headcanons Volume 2/5

Name: Barridge ( A simple play on barrel of a gun and widget, also kind of sounds like barrage)

Avatar: Pink sloshy blob in a canon unicycle with a jester hat on the back.

Personality: Energetic and slightly clingy goober who was something of an adrenaline junky and enjoyed almost all the adventures.

Fun fact: Barridge had full control of the canon at all times, but not of his fluid head. Bonus: The other members of the first four took to calling him Barry and future arrivals all thought that was his actual name

Abstraction: He was the longest lasting member of the first four humans to enter the circus. The weight of missing his friends and Caine pressuring him to interact with the new performers just ended up being too much. His abstracted form broke a ride at the outdoor carnival and briefly glitched one other person.

Name: Queener ( Even I have to take the easy route some time)

Avatar: Only difference between her and Kinger that's not visible in the portrait is a longer robe.

Personality: Wine aunt who arrived at the same time as Kinger, neither could remember the other's human life, but felt they should stick close together and formed a very close but nebulous bond. They were fiercely protective of each other.

Fun fact: She had a Canadian accent.

Abstraction: Kinger started letting go of his inhibitions to have more fun on adventures which worried her but she kept those feelings buried until it was too late. Her rampage broke a bunch of crap in the tent but fortunately, no one was glitched. Kinger blamed his perceived recklessness for her snapping which made him even more paranoid than he would have been if she just abstracted on her own.

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I'll do you one better:

Ignacio thought John was getting too close to the truth and so decided to burn his house down without telling the other cultists, for all Evermore knows, John really did just burn his own house down out of negligence.

Evermore is definitely part of the cult, but what if his "blah blah blah" thing with John was genuine, what if he genuinely believes he's just helping run an elite group of rich members of the town searching for immortality, and because he's all wrapped up in it, the idea of it being a cult is absurd to him

....Shit I'm gonna headcanon a full design, backstory, personality and specific abstraction for each of them now, aren't I?

I spent way too much time analyzing different angles during the hallway scenes so I could build an almost complete map of the hallway in the TADC pilot:

There are 28 doors in total.

1 is never visible (may or may not be important)

10 are "blank", showing a generic mannequin

10 are crossed out

6 are the characters we see in this episode

1 is Kaufmo

So that suggests that 17 humans have entered the circus and 11 of them have gone violently insane, assuming the doors are never reused. That's a 35% survival rate at best! Not looking good for our protagonists.

A closer look at the presumably abstracted characters:

Some kind of purple jester? Kind of looks like Marx from Kirby.

A furry pink cyclops?

An orange dog.

A green and orange worm-on-a-string (iconic).

Queener??? Looks just like Kinger, but mauve, a queen chess piece instead of a king, and with cartoon "girl" eyelashes. This is almost certainly important.

Only seen during the chase scene; too blurry to make out much other than the colors orange, green, and pink. The "X" is visible, though.

A purple dragon/dinosaur with multicolored head plates.

Also only seen during the chase scene. All that can be made out is a blue blur with something yellow around neck height.

A sad yellow clown worm?

A floppy-eared blue puppet with a red flower and cartoon "girl" eyelashes. Kind of looks like a rabbit, or like Tutter the mouse from Bear in the Big Blue House.

Interestingly, we can count at least four clown/jester characters, including Kaufmo and Pomni, making it the most common "archetype". May be significant.

New HB teaser!

So we finally got the second teaser for the midseason special, here's the link. To me, this reads as the first time Fizz and Ozzie really bond after Fizz starts working for Mammon.

I know some people have other predictions for the episode, but at least for me, there doesn't seem to be a way for this episode to not explore Fizz's life between the fire and the present.

All that actually brings me to a new theory: Maybe the titular musical is a dramatized version of Fizz's career starring Mam and Fizz as themselves and the new teaser could be Fizz remembering his encounter with the real Ozzie while reenacting it on stage with a stand-in. This could be a parallel to Blitz having a flashback on the sitcom set in Seeing Stars.

On a side note, line recording for season 3 has started and we've been told the following things: Wally is confirmed to have a speaking role in season 3, the voice of Perrito from Puss in Boots 2 joins the cast, and it seems there will be a court case of some kind.