The Amazing Digital Circus: Gay, trans, ace, and nonbinary humans trapped in a sinister video game. With some voice artist d*cks

 

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The Amazing Digital Circus is an adult animated series where humans are zapped into a virtual reality pocket universe that looks like a 1990s circus-themed video game.  They forget their names and their human lives, except for a few random details.  Every day a crazy AI named Caine sends them out on "adventures," some frightening (explore a haunted mansion), some just soul-destroying (work a shift in a fast-food restaurant).  

Showrunner Gooseworx notes a debt to the Harlan Ellison story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,"where a sentient computer kills almost all humans, leaving a few alive to torture forever.  But here Caine does not intend to torture the "players": he is honestly trying to provide them with fun and excitement, but he is not at all rational, plus he has no idea what humans are like. 

The result is terror, pain, and a lot of existential angst.  What are we doing here?  How can you find meaning when you are "just a sort of thing in a dream," or in this case a video game?  

When the angst becomes too great for the characters to maintain consciousness, lucidity, or body shape, they are "abstracted," reduced to a series of barely-coherent spikes, and sent to the Cellar. 

The main players are:

Focus character Pomni, a court jester, a supermarket accountant in her old life. She tries to keep the others coherent while searching for an escape.

Pomni is voiced by Lizzie Freeman (cishet).

Jax, a tall, purple anthropomorphic bunny.  As a human, he was 22 years old, living with his abusive mother and paralyzed by doubts about his masculinity.  In the Circus, he is condescending, sarcastic, sometimes cruel, and claims to not care about anyone or anything -- except for his abstracted chum that the others are not supposed to ever mention.  They later come out as transgender and begin using she/her pronouns.

Jax is voiced by Michael Kovach, left (ace, heteroromantic).  In the live action shows, he is played by actor/model Izatillo Ishonov (gay), top photo.

Ragatha, a Raggedy Ann doll with a missing eye.  In her human life, she had a wealthy farming family and an abusive mother.  She tries to be optimistic and friendly to everyone.

Ratha is voiced by Amanda Huffman (nonbinary).

Kinger, a chess piece with a purple robe and wobbly eyes.  A computer programmer in his old life, he was the first to enter the Circus, and is now unstable and prone to amnesia.  He spends most of his time hiding in a pillow fort.

Kinger is voiced by Sean Chiplock (cishet).  In the live shows, he is voiced by Ben Bishop (gay, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Gangle, four red ribbons arranged in a humanoid form, with a tragedy or comedy mask (but the comedy keeps breaking). As a human, she was shift supervisor at a fast-food restaurant.  One night she was hit by a truck, and awoke in the Circus. She is timid and self-conscious.

Gangle is voiced by Marisa Lenti (agender, ace).

Zooble, a constantly changing assemblage of random parts resembling a ZoLo toy. As a human, they were a nonbinary tattoo artist, and worked at a LGBTQ-friendly bar.  They often rebel against the AI Caine, and refuse to go on adventures, causing him to send them to therapy (with Caine playing the psychiatrist).

Zooble is voiced by Ashley Nichols (nonbinary).

More after the break.  

Ribbit, an anthropomorphic frog.  As a human, they were the genderqueer Leah, rejected by their strict Mormon parents. In the Circus, they were betrayed by Jax and abstracted before Pomni arrived. (She is the chum that the other players are not supposed to mention).

Ribbit is voiced by Skye Redden (queer, nonbinary).

Kaufmo, an Out-of-the-Inkwell type clown, remembered nothing of his human life, except that his name was Doug.  He was close friends with Ribbit and Jax, but became increasingly unstable, and abstracted in Episode 1.

Kaufmo is voiced by Arin Hansen (cishet).  Rule 34 Fan Art on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

The NPC (Non-Playing Characters) Chad and Max are Australian crocodiles who appear in at least two adventures.  

They are played by Jack Hawkins (left) and Hamish Plaggemars (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).  Probably gay.

Caine is voiced by Alex Rochon (cishet).

You may have noticed a lot of nonbinary, ace, agender voice artists.  Most of the characters also seem to be ace/aro.  

Other than Kinger, who came to the Circus with his wife (since abstracted), no one  mentions a romantic partner in their human life.  

Nor does anyone mention romantic or sexual dsire in the Circus, except Jax: once as a joke, and once in disdain. 

Close platonic friendships are all they want and all they need to survive.

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