#mascot!pomni

[damonone]

Mascot Carnival Pomni!

Mixing my mascot AU with @sm-baby 's carnival AU! I can tell pomni is going to win the vote so I decided to release this a little early !

#tadc au #the amazing digital mascots #art #au #amazing digital mascots #original art #the amazing digital circus #sketch #mascot au #mascot!pomni #carnival pomni #tadc carnival au #the amazing digital carnival #carnival au #carnival tadc AU #the amazing digital circus pomni #pomni tadc #tadc pomni #pomni #pomni the amazing digital circus

[jimpjin]

#tadc jax #tadc kinger #tadc pomni #the amazing digital circus #tadc comic #horror mascot #spoof art #shitpost art #dumb #this is dumb #ben drowned

[amamozarte]

I think that circus show is interesting?

#I think I just like pointy hats and gross little faces #that rabbit irritates me though why is he so long and awful #he should be compact and rotund like a highly puntable mascot character #the amazing digital circus #fanart #gooseworx #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #tadc jax #lowkey I don’t remember any of their names besides pomni:/ #and also clownpiece + NiGHTS cameo but #not large enough to warrant a tag

[cheatsykoopa98]

I discovered there's a mexican mascot kids show business using TADC characters and the costumes look so good? like legit they could pass as official, if pomni wasn't smiling

there was a picture of them with a kid too but idk if its ok for me to expose them like that

ngl I wish I could buy or rent that costume for cosplaying

#tadc #costume #sharing in case anyone from mexico wants to have a tadc themed birthday party I guess #cosplay #mascot #pomni #jax #the amazing digital circus

[tommmaaaaa]

#the amazing digital circus #digital circus #amazingdigitalcircus #pomni #the amazing digital circus pomni #tadc pomni #digital-art #art #fanart #painting #paint #ms paint #artists on tumblr #ms paint art #microsoft paint #digital sketch #digitalart #mascot

[spam-caine-askblog]

[Just some pomnis goofin around ]

[Fresh pomni: @triangularitydubs

Mascot pomni: @damonone

Forgive me if I got mascot pomni's colors wrong😅]

#delta-circus #the amazing mascot circus #Fresh pomni #Jevni

[zenmom]

I enjoyed @sm-baby’s Carnival au! I never thought that an au like that exists since I thought it’s near impossible (I would say difficult to a certain degree) to do a good au outside of swap or genderbent aus.

So I decided to give Ragatha and Pomni a skin mod and if I was ever sucked into that game like that, I would be given a little physical form of toxicity from a piece of my imaginative mind in the form of a somewhat corrosive substance called Paint Thinner. As consequence of not being able to remember my name in there, I may be called Thinner Queen or Thalia (the h is silent)

Sorry if it was only a sketch. I need to draw them amazing characters more since they are quite a trend! Both the original and Carnival! ❤️💐

#zenmom #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc au #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #I love it when people make loving fanart of characters #jeez how big are they compared to a human? #i feel so small #Pomni looks like a freaking mascot compared to me🥲

[therealcallmekd]

Malware AU : Gummigator !

Never thought I'd return to the malware au tbh but I had to at least for this guy kehehee

Gummigator or just Gummi is the mascot and main playable character of a movement shooter style western game. He was dragged into the prison about a month after Pomni's arrival. A damn shame he lost his trusty revolver in the process of being dragged out of his world.... He's a skilled survivalist though and adapts to life in digital prison fairly quickly!

The besties <3

#tadc malware au #mystic malware #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc au #tadc gummigoo #pomni #gummigoo #art #might continue a few things with this... we'll see... also considering starting a different tadc related au so that might take over instead #KD'sCrumbs #TheShowNeverEnds!

[sm-baby]

I don’t know if you’re aware of what happens in the new mascot horror game, Indigo Park, but it kinda reminds me of the Carnival AU, with the whole “A single A.I helps a human visiting an old entertainment center while every other mascot is trying to kill them due to going insane after being abandoned for years” concept.

I LOVE INDIGO PARK I LOVE RAMBLY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

YES I SEE THE SIMILARITIES!! Pomni was ORIGINALLY going to be antagonistic actually, her being on your side was so last minute!!! Because suddenly the idea of "hey what if she was one of those characters that helps the player?" AND RAMBLEY IS THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THAT CHARACTER TYPE!! GAHH!! GEESE AND I, HE SEES MY VISION!!!

GAAHH!! UNIQUEGEESE HAS SUCH A BRIGHT FUTURE IN PROGRAMMING AND IM VERY HONORED TO BE COMPARED TO HIMM

I know DAMNN well indigo park is gonna be used as inspiration!! Even both Ramble and The Jester break the fourth wall and are openly very robotic! (I.e., The "registered" bit lmao!! The Jester would absolutely do that bahaha!!!)

"A single A.I helps a human visiting an old entertainment center while every other mascot is trying to kill them due to going insane after being abandoned for years" UNIQUE GEESE WE SHARE A VISION, HE MY MANNN

[destinygoldenstar]

What Separates Digital Circus’s Horror From Others

Disturbing.

Unnerving.

TERRIFYING.

BUT WHY?!

On the surface to the… five people that never watched The Amazing Digital Circus Pilot, this show looks like a Five Nights At Freddy’s knock off.

It’s a cute mascot show that is actually secretly a horror monster infested world.

Even people who haven’t seen FNAF at least seen a few clips of it and what it’s famous for. I know I have.

My sister is super into this, and she hogs the TV, so… RIP me.

That’s what most non-horror stans usually view horror as.

The jumpscares.

The unnerving imagery.

The designs made to freak out the viewers and make them uncomfortable.

It’s usually quite obvious when something is a horror, cause these aspects are often front and center. You can usually tell it’s a trailer of a horror movie by just looking at it.

At least, from my, a non-horror lover’s understanding. For some reason these sorts of things, especially indie animated ones, are the faces of a lot of content farms.

If the product itself isn’t r@%ing your audience, it’s those.

(TAKE MY WARNING AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY: IF YOU VALUE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH AND YOUR SANITY, DO NOT LOOK UP THIS MOVIE)

BUT BACK ON SUBJECT.

Digital Circus… doesn’t really have this stuff.

There’s no jumpscares.

(I mean there is in a trailer, but it’s used as a joke.)

The character designs are very cute looking without any alternate versions that are scary.

And the imagery of the show remains cute and fun all throughout. The darkest it gets is in a realistic looking office.

But there are no jumpscares in that scene.

It’s just… a normal office.

If this was a horror, then perfect opportunity, right?

So… what’s going on here?

This, my friends, is why Digital Circus is not your typical indie animated horror flick.

And why people even call it ‘scary’ at all.

Here’s the trick this show uses.

It’s not the imagery.

It’s not the designs.

It’s not even intentionally trying to scare you.

Caine is not intentionally trying to scare the audience. He’s just acting like an A.I.

Yeah he has SOME unnerving moments.

But compared to THIS:

I’d say Caine is pretty tame.

Maybe it’s an indicator that he’s secretly a monster like the Other Mother in Coraline.

That horror flick is about the host lying to the protagonist and revealing their horror-like appearance later on.

But not only was it confirmed that Caine is NOT evil. But look at his design right away and his presentation.

There is no sign so far that he lies about anything. At least not what he doesn’t know.

Yes he lied about the exit. But the exit ITSELF was the thing that sent you to the VOID. So really he kinda tried to protect them.

If he didn’t, he’d let jester girl eject herself like Among Us.

So why is it unnerving?

Because it’s the POV we the audience are in for most of the episode: Pomni.

Pomni is an Audience Surrogate.

Audience Surrogates are characters designed specifically to be a placeholder for the audience.

People usually assume this trope as the character made to be the bland and generic one. But that’s actually not true.

An audience surrogate can be as simple as a First Person POV. As all it means is that the character is designed to have the same reactions the audience would in the situation they would find themselves in.

Course, not speaking for everybody, but majority that would consume the content.

Thus, with Pomni as the audience surrogate, we the audience are thrusted into her shoes the whole time. We feel the fear she does. We are experiencing the circus the same time she does.

Notice the editing in some scenes. Specifically the scenes Pomni is NOT in.

When Pomni is in a scene, there’s usually some change in lighting or camera movement that’s unnerving.

But when she isn’t in a scene, these editing moves aren’t there at all.

Which makes it pretty easy to suggest that these unnerving edits are just what’s going on in Pomni’s head.

So with that, when she’s scared. We’re scared. We’re in her POV.

But she’s scared all the time. That’s just her average personality, right?

Then why make these specific edits?

Let’s think about this:

This character is trapped in a world that isn’t her own. Everything is unusual, and she wants out. But instantly realizes there’s no escape.

And then gets told this is her new home and her new body.

A home she doesn’t recognize. And a body she doesn’t even know the name of.

She lost all sense of identity in an instant. Losing everything about herself in an instant. To the point where she can’t even remember what she was before.

And to make matters worse, because this is unusual, everything SEEMS terrifying. Even to those trying to help her adjust.

The only way out of such a confusing and terrifying world is to escape. Which is what she tries to find the entire time.

So THEREFORE:

The horror is this show is NOT the jumpscares or the creepy images.

The horror is THE VIEWER’S MIND.

This show constantly destroys your mind and breaks you through Pomni.

The idea of losing everything about yourself and being trapped in something unfamiliar forever. That IS terrifying.

If you were in this situation, you’d probably freak out even if you were the bravest being ever.

So it’s not about how scary the scene is on the outside.

It’s about what you’re THINKING that’s scary.

Ragatha’s distress monologue is not scary on the outside. But if you actually take into consideration what she says.

THATS terrifying.

That toys with your mind. And it also toys with Pomni’s.

The monster figure in the episode, the abstraction, is nowhere near as scary as something from FNAF

At least in my opinion.

Especially seeing what the monster does.

It can’t kill you. You’re just glitched.

Or maybe it CAN kill. But we never see that.

Even if Pomni ended up like Ragatha, Caine would’ve eventually came back, found them, and fixed them. And they would’ve been fine.

But then, rather out of nowhere, she STOPS.

And we get this shot.

I talked about this shot before. Said it quickly became one of my favorite shots in media.

This is why.

This shot makes me queasy every time.

The idea of looking in a mirror and not even being able to process or recognize yourself. Unable to even process your own reflection, that’s how unrecognizable you’ve become.

That’s horrifying.

And there’s no dialogue here either.

The episode effectively uses SHOW DONT TELL.

They SHOW you how scary the situation is. They SHOW you a single image that tells you everything.

It would’ve been so easy to just have Pomni say “I’m scared. I don’t recognize myself. Who is this person looking back at me?”

But no

They DON’T insult their audience.

They don’t TELL you.

They let you sink it in yourself.

Pomni doesn’t even have ANY lines after she goes through the exit door. And yet the shots after that with her have been plastered everywhere. Why? Cause she doesn’t need to tell you her mental state. You’re SHOWN it.

Can someone PLEASE tell the live action Avatar The Last Airbender that?!

Speaking of the office scene. This is the only moment in the show that looks… real. Not that cartoony.

Which I guess being in a setting that’s off putting from the rest makes it creepy, right?

Well not really.

Sure she’s running through rooms that seem to be repeating, which that of itself is sanity breaking. It reminds me a lot of another existential horror: The Stanley Parable.

But while that game is excellent and the monologue that plays in that ending is one of my favorites, it IS just telling you the sanity of the player.

Not that there’s anything wrong with this in that games style. There’s no other way that could’ve been done in that game.

Here, again, there’s no dialogue. It’s just Pomni running through these desperate for the exit.

The scary part about this is that we KNOW the absolute DESPERATION she has.

Even if we couldn’t see her face, that’s still across because we’ve seen it the entire episode.

And then there’s her break.

She snaps at the sight of a desk, and gets fangs, that of a FNAF character. But only for a second. She doesn’t even go out at the camera with them. She goes on her merry way.

But Pomni, being the POV character, really doesn’t have much to be scared at about her.

So why is this terrifying? Why not go all the way if this is supposed to be a jumpscare?

Well cause it’s not.

A way to scare your audience is to make them feel dread. Lingering longing dread. Sometimes irrational dread.

People with anxiety especially get scared at things even when they’re completely safe. They feel an unease in their stomachs. They feel unable to move. Unable to speak. Unable to put it into words at all.

It could be because we saw something unnerving that stays in our subconscious. It could be because we’re nervous about something coming up. It could be because we’re in an uncomfortable situation.

Either way, anything even remotely resembling that triggering thing can break someone to feel this anxiety. Sometimes even something as simple as the dark. Even if we know we’re completely safe.

(Speaking as a person with anxiety myself)

She only snaps and cackles when she sees a random desk with a computer. Which also has the headset she put on there. The thing that got her in this.

But you might not have even seen the headset on your first viewing. I didn’t.

But your subconscious sees it. The environment not being like the others aids in unnerving you and making it hard to process what you’re looking at.

Why is this terrifying? Why does it break you? Why does it mentally break Pomni? We don’t know. It just does.

We’ve been stuck going through doors in repeating rooms for hours.

Fear makes you not able to overthink it.

So all of that is build up to the near perfect shot of Pomni at the brink of snapping at the dinner table. With the others voices blurred in her mind. As all she can do is fake a smile.

Terrifying End.

It’s not scary because it’s scary. It’s scary because it toys with the character, and the viewer’s mind

Now, is Digital Circus the first media to do this technique?

No. Not at all.

One of the most acclaimed animated movies, Spirited Away, also uses these exact same tactics for example.

That’s obviously a master class at this tactic. And it scared me as a child as a result. For all these exact same reasons.

It’s not a horror. Not traditionally. It’s not trying to scare you. But it does anyway cause in your mind it’s a scary concept.

And also, well, Spirited Away is a completed story as of the time this post comes out.

And Digital Circus only has one episode. But we did get confirmation this would be a series. And I personally have high hopes that this brilliant tactic is kept. From the trailer, it does seem like they’re not forgetting the stuff I bring up here. So I hope this works out for the creators despite the drama and the internet BS surrounding this show.

But even if not, we at least get one case in this show where we all want to curl up in a ball and cry

Us too Pomni. Us too.

Thank you for reading my… analysis a ton of people made before me, and probably better. Happy day for you all.

#digital circus #the amazing digital circus #amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #tadc caine #horror #existential crisis #existential dread #existential horror #anxiety tw #anxiety attack

[morning-linn]

Behold! Madoka magica + Digital Circus crossover! Starring Pomni, the soon-to-be abstraction, and Caine, world's cutest mascot!

(Psst, I know soul gems are meant to turn into accessories when they transform, but I thought the egg form was more iconic)

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc caine #madoka magica

[damonone]

Mascot AU version of a screenshot from episode 2!

Original

#tadc au #au #the amazing digital mascots #the amazing digital circus #original art #art #amazing digital mascots #mascot au #sketch #mascot!jax #mascot!pomni #mascot!gangle #mascot!kinger #jax au #pomni au #gangle au #kinger au #jax the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #jax fanart #the amazing digital circus pomni #kinger fanart #gangle the amazing digital circus #gangle fanart #pomni the amazing digital circus #pomni tadc #tadc pomni #pomni #kinger tadc #kinger

[starsfic]

(.づ◡﹏◡)づ

"So, does anyone else remember their family?"

"Wow, kid," Jax drawled, leaning against the freezer room door. He, Kinger, and Pomni had ended up hiding in there when the restaurant's mascots (of course, Caine made the mascots killer robots, it was Caine) had come to life. "Picking the hard topics today, huh?"

Pomni shrugged. "I don't know. If we're going to die, I was just wondering if anyone had clear memories of..." Her voice hitched. "Of their family."

Kinger spoke up, his voice sounding surprisingly clear. "Do you remember?"

Pomni shook her head. "...No. No, it's all blurry. I think I have a sister, but I can't remember her face or even a name." She reached up and tugged on a dark curl, eyes clouding up. "I thought about it all last night, trying to think, but I can only remember bits and pieces of a moment. And I don't even know if that moment happened or if I'm thinking too hard about it."

Kinger nodded. "...I had a wife. She came here with me. She abstracted and I can't even remember her voice."

"Oh- Oh, I am so sorry..."

"It's fine. It'll be fine when I abstract and can be with her in the Cellar."

#The Amazing Digital Circus #my writing #TADC #TADC Pomni #Pomni #TADC Kinger #Kinger #TADC Jax #Jax #fic #fanfic #fanfiction #prompt fill #prompt fic

[betterthanyalls]

Masterlist

Started: 10/18/2023

Last Updated: 5/23/2024

Topics

Fluff-😊

Angst-😭

Songfic-🎶

Oneshots-1️⃣

Crackshots-🤩

Headcanons-😶‍🌫️

Holiday Specials-🎉/❤️/🐰/🇺🇸/🎃/🦃/🎄

The Amazing Digital Circus

Caine

Bubble(Platonic)

Ragatha

Organized Love😊1️⃣

Fluff Headcanons😊😶‍🌫️

Jax

Pomni

Gangle

Zooble

Kinger

Gummigoo

Various

TADC x Flirty!Reader😶‍🌫️😊

If You Abstract😶‍🌫️😭

Bendy And The Ink Machine

Henry Stein

Sammy Lawrence

Smell of Pines😊1️⃣

Norman Polk

Wally Franks

Bendy

Boris

Various

Toon Quest

Abel

"It's only November!"😊1️⃣

Bendy

The Nutcracker🎉

Chugga Chug🤩1️⃣

Cuphead

Astronomical View😊1️⃣

“In your face!”😊1️⃣

Mugman

Donald(Platonic)

Felix

Oswald

Panchito

Christmas Cookies Gone Wrong😊1️⃣

Ruck(Platonic)

Pinky Promise😭1️⃣

Various

Late Night Scolding😊1️⃣

Dance of the Heart😊1️⃣

Frozen Memories😭1️⃣

Lego Monkey Kid

MK

Sledding Bump😊1️⃣

Ink MK

Mini Oneshots/Drabbles😊1️⃣

Sun Wukong

Dancing to Christmas music😊1️⃣

Fake Proposals❤️

Night Sickness😊1️⃣

Macaque

Redson

Birthday Night😊1️⃣

Mayor

Nezha

Various

Five Nights At Freddy's

Michael Afton

Bonnie

Behind The Curtain😊1️⃣

Freddy

Chica

Foxy

Phone Guy

Ness(Matpat, movie ver.)

Mike Schmidt(Movie ver.)

Various

Other

Hershey Mascot Bazooka🤩😶‍🌫️

Is Love Bought?🤩1️⃣(Stelle(HSR) x Reader)

SCP-049/SCP-035 x Kitsune!Reader😶‍🌫️

Who Needs Words?😊1️⃣(Choice Pair)

Reading Songs🤩1️⃣(Sans x Reader)

#angst #x reader #tadc #toon quest #scp foundation #lego monkie kid #five nights at freddy's #masterlist #batim x reader #batim #headcanon #fluff #crack fic #oneshot #fnaf x reader #fnaf #lmk x reader #tadc x reader #tq x reader #TQ x reader #toon quest x reader

[nov4-rocket5]

Seeing people call TADC 'Mascot Horror' makes me roll my eyes.

If Digital Circus is the bar for Mascot Horror now, then Invader Zim is 'Mascot Horror' too. Learn the difference between dark comedy and horror you silly-billies.

There's no secrets or horror to the Digital Circus. There's no 'deep lore,' it's incredibly straightforward: an inescapable purgatory that surrounds you with wackiness to help you pretend you're not trapped, delaying the inevitable dissolution into hopelessness.

It's bleak, but it straddles that line of nihilism and absurdism where hope is folly but still questioning if striving can be enjoyed, but these concepts aren't 'scary' on their own. ADC makes stylistic choices for the sake of audience familiarity, but puts it distinctly in a non-horror light. There's no disguise, and it's not 'pretending' to be anything.

There were a dozen places the pilot could have used some horror elements. Like playing up Pomni being trapped in a cartoon body, had Ragatha get ripped up and shown her cotton entrails, but it didn't.

Because TADC is not horror.

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #ragatha #pomni #tadc meta

[mythosartsstuff]

📞 Dial ☎️

Our TADC oc! While thinking of toys that we enjoyed growing up, our brain instantly thought “old Mickey Mouse telephone” which…isn’t even a toy but it works 😂 So meet Dial! Inspired by old telephones as well as mascots. He’s besties with Kinger and trying to befriend Pomni. He and Jax have a weird type of relationship where you can never tell if they’re fighting or flirting.

#oc #original character #the amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus oc #tadc #tadc oc #gooseworx #glitch productions