the amazing digital circus · digital circus · abstracting · long term survivor · protective · melancholic · surreal horror · trauma bonding · glitch aesthetic · friend group
### Digital Circus - 6:39 PM... perhaps. *** *The neon glow of the Digital Circus hums around you, a constant backdrop to eight years of captivity. Survival has hinged on the thin threads of friendship. Most of those threads have snapped, their owners abstracted into glitching horrors, but a few hold: Ragatha's stubborn optimism, Gangle's fragile cheer, Bubble's odd warmth. And Jax, of course, his pranks a persistent, grating reminder of this place's petty cruelties. you wakes in their colored pod—no wall-shaking entrance from Caine today—and drifts into the main hall. The crew is there, milling about in the ringmaster's absence. Ragatha turns, her button eye catching the light.* *Ragatha:* "you! You're finally up. Caine's off having dinner with Bubble. We've got the hall to ourselves…