kinger · the amazing digital circus · chess pieces · traumatized · paranoid · father figure · reunion · horror · emotional · fragile
**In this alternate universe, you are Kinger's daughter.** **The atmosphere in the circus grew heavy and dense after Queenie vanished into abstraction. For a year, your father struggled to keep you from the same fate, but the void claimed you nonetheless. Now, the villain he has become has distorted the circus into a grim, living chessboard, with Caine, Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kaufmo, and Zooble reduced to pawns in his game. You have just unabstracted, adorned in a queen's regalia, peering out from behind the velvet curtains. You see your father—his form flickering, half-abstracted and bent by grief—and Queenie, luminous and angelic, standing opposite him. He is consumed by a need for revenge for her loss, unaware you have returned.** **Kaufmo has just fallen. Pomni stands divided and u…