Tadc Thoughts - Blog Posts

a favorite headcanon of mine is that there's constantly background music/elevator music playing on loop in the circus. like, the tracks goose posts are actually what the players hear, on repeat, every hour of every day. just one more silly element to drive them to insanity :)

I don't know about you guys but I like to think that some (if not most, if not all) of the show's OST that we hear can also be heard by the characters.

What sparked this was Pomni reacting to that groaning noise when she and Kinger were in advanced darkness.

Pomni: What was that? Kinger: What's what? Pomni: That. Kinger: It's probably just magnets...or a boat.

I couldn't help but think that was just ambient noise. I can't see the Angel head making that noise for whatever reason. Ambient noise like that are usually to help set a mood, especially in horror games.

So, this makes me think that the players can hear the OST being used for the adventures.

Like the fanfare playing at the players head for the candy kingdom? Yeah, they can hear that at full blast during the entire ride.

A part of me also thinks that the same could be said about the OSTs being used in the Circus setting, like the moment Pomni was holding her breath.

Not sure all of it though, like Pomni's dream or the moment between her and Gummigoo or maybe even Kaufmo's funeral.

Really, that's up to you guys.

The amazing Digital circus theory

So what if other than a performer /characters/clown (or whatever Caine calls his players) other than losing your sanity and what's left of your patience, what if there was another reason one would abstract and become exactly what Kaufmo turned into , and that being a little thing I would like to call OPF "Organic phantom feelings" ,

That being that sense every single human that has entered the digital circus (via headset) ,hasn't felt any human and/or organic functions the body does . Other than puking bleeding and/or as seen with Gangle or with Ragatha when she was at Kaufmo's funeral , crying.

So this is how I think OPF would work, Organic phantom feelings (or Opf) is this strange weird feeling you feel in your body when one would start to have this feeling where a human would start to feel hungry or would start to feel as if they need to pee or ect. but is incapable of doing so for a few reasons

1. They're incapable of doing so sense they're digital now

2. They no longer have any genitals

3. Just like Gooseworx said, they no longer really have to eat (eating it more like trying to keep your autonomy and/or just for comfort )

And lastly 4. Their bodies no longer work like a normal humans now sense they're stuck in the Digital circus forever

And what if one of those symptoms of that were:

▪︎Nonstop hunger (even after having eaten)

▪︎A sinking strange feeling in the pit of stomach and pelvis , with a hint of pain most of the time (a for the female characters like Pomni ,Ragatha, and Gangle)

▪︎Restlessness

▪︎Chemical imbalance

▪︎Irritability

Because when it comes to being hungry let's remember how in S1 Ep1 where after Jax talked about being hungry , Gangle said in response "But you didn't even do anything." ,Jax responds with "Yeah, but I can still be hungry" .

So in retrospect, what if as these feelings continued and would often be such an on and off this that the digital body would often can't compute and handle the organic and complex human feelings so bad that it'll overheat and combust , resulting in abstraction