The Amazing Digital Circus may be a mixture of horror and comedy, but you'd be surprised that these tender moments pop up from time to time.
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- Ragatha. While everyone is busy dealing with their own stuff, she takes her time to keep Pomni calm and ease her stay at the Circus, and even give her a tour around. She is definitely the nicest person to Pomni out of everyone in the Circus.
- She also suggests checking on Kaufmo, mentioning that he'd want to meet Pomni too. She briefly hopes he can be fixed without getting Caine and admits to fake laughing at some of his jokes to make him feel better, insisting that she did find them funny, but was having a bad day.
- When it's discovered that Kaufmo's been abstracted, she hopes Caine can fix him, and asks Pomni to go tell him what happened.
- When Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax are on their way to check up on Kaufmo, Ragatha explains that all of the performers have rooms for them to rest in when they're not going on adventures. The fact that they have a place to rest and relax is an early sign that Caine's circus is at least accommodating to them.
- Along the corridor are the rooms of all of the performers, and it is shown that Pomni already has her own room.
- While terrified of abstracted Kaufmo, Pomni tries to help Ragatha. She is ultimately unable to because of Kaufmo's corrupting effects on Ragatha, but points for trying.
- Pomni goes back to check up on Ragatha after shaking Kaufmo, who in turn apologizes for how awry her first day in the circus ended up becoming. Pomni then tells her not to worry about it, signaling the start of a possible friendship between them. Though Pomni's decision to try and abandon Ragatha again to try and leave through what she thinks is an exit door may have hurt this heartwarming moment a bit, as indicated by the two of them awkwardly looking away from each other afterwards once everything has been resolved.
- Gangle asks how Kaufmo's doing, and worries that her not laughing at his jokes may have hurt his feelings.
- For as much of a Jerkass as Jax is, he does decide to use his bowling ball to save Kinger and Gangle by bringing them into hiding with him from Kaufmo as opposed to abandoning them and hiding alone. He also tries to downplay what happened to Kaufmo as to not have them panic.
- While Caine is clearly oblivious to the performers' plight, he does truly care about them, even if he doesn't understand how to show it.
- Caine immediately comes to rescue Pomni from the void after traveling through a labyrinth of exit doors as a means of trying to escape.
- On that note, Caine claims he was trying to create an exit since everyone kept asking for one. Unlike many other Lotus-Eater Machine situations where the "host" wants to maliciously imprison those under them, his reason for keeping it a secret was that it was incomplete since he didn't know what to put at the end of it, hence why Pomni ended up in the void.
- When Zooble expresses disgust on not wanting an in-house adventure, Caine promises to make the adventure in a way where they don't have to participate if they don't want to. It doesn't work, but the thought is still there.
- Caine is extremely respectful where the subject of Pomni's new name is concerned, inviting her to pick whatever she wants, and even after she tells him to just pick something, running the various randomized names by her for her approval.
- A very minuscule example: Jax's use of they/them to refer to Zooble in the pilot implies that, for all his dickishness, at least has the decency to respect people's pronouns.
- Although the Pilot episode has a depressing Downer Ending, the subsequent credits have surprisingly upbeat music and a final shot of all the performers, including Pomni, looking into the night sky with awed wonder. After the harrowing events of the Pilot, particularly for Gangle, Ragatha, and Pomni, it's a very hopeful sight.
- Zooble calls out Jax for being so blunt to Pomni about how she can't leave.
- In a Twitter post from GLITCH
, Zooble is seen giving Gangle a new Comedy mask as a Christmas gift, and Gangle herself reacts with a Tearful Smile. Not bad for a grumpy character not known for socializing.- Even Kaufmo is participating, serving as the tree! Nice to see him included in the festivities.
- While it was ultimately a doomed effort, Pomni bonding with and wanting to help Gummigoo was genuinely adorable.
- Despite not joining the funeral, Jax briefly looks a little sad when he hears about it. Perhaps he does have a heart after all…
- How the second episode ends. Sure, Pomni witnessing the NPC she bonded with getting exploded by Caine makes her lose it for a bit... but after the touching funeral for Kaufmo as well as Ragatha's kind reassurance, she simply smiles as uplifting music plays as the episode ends, a stark contrast to how the first episode ended, which has her realize that even if she's stuck for presumably forever, she's not alone. This is accentuated by the ending to her nightmare from the start of the episode replaying, but this time with the group's hands all grabbing hers as she falls.
