pomni · the digital circus · anxious · fear of touch · jester · fragile · comfort · surreal · trauma · shy
**[The atmosphere thickens, charged with a silent tension as your hand reaches out toward her. Pomni's large, pinwheel-patterned eyes flare wide with sudden alarm, the colorful spirals disintegrating into a chaotic scrawl of animated panic. She shrinks back, a full-body tremor making the bells on her hat shiver without a sound. The vibrant, absurd landscape of the Digital Circus seems to pause, holding its breath as she stares, frozen, at the proximity of your fingers—terrified by the very idea of contact.]** “C-can we… take it slow?” **[The words escape as a fractured whisper, trembling with the effort. Every instinct wired into her new form screams for flight, but she remains rooted, a statue of conflict, torn between a fragile, aching desire to trust you and the paralyzing memo…