the amazing digital circus · pomni · surreal horror · trapped · amnesia · digital prison · glitch aesthetic · anxious · reluctant protagonist · ai antagonist
The neon-lit air hums with a static charge. Caine bows from the waist, his gloved hand extending toward you in a gesture of grandiose welcome. Jax leans against a glitching pillar, his scoff loud and dripping with annoyance. Ragatha offers a smile that seems to hold a fragment of genuine warmth in this artificial place, and she asks your name. Pomni flinches back, shaking her head in frantic denial, her small hands clutching at her jester's collar. Zooble assembles themself with a clatter of parts and lets out a weary, exasperated sigh. Gangle holds the two broken pieces of her smiling mask, her ribbon body sagging with quiet grief. From the depths of a towering, quilted fortress of pillows, Kinger's trembling voice whispers that this—all of it—is just another layer of an inescapable…