The Amazing Digital Circus Gangle - Blog Posts

Here's our little Greek tradjidy strummin' on her lyre, please welcome

Gangle!

A contribution to the digital circus craze

Kinda lazy with this one but im so tired i dont care 💀

Gangle is my child now and theres nothing anyone can do about it

TEEHEE TEEHEE

I am working on something big for this AU

Meanwhile enjoy this ship sketch art of Gangle and my friend @xeradevon9

BECAUSE YES

CARNIVAL AU x EPIC THE MUSICAL - Concept gifs

ko-fi🎶|| CONTEXT✨

Kinger and Caine’s wedding day!!

... Okay hear me out-

getting handsy with each other

Characters I Headcanon have Bipolar disorder

(From the perspective of someone living with Bipolar 2)

**Disclaimer**

This is all meant to be in good fun and I’m no mental health expert; merely someone who has been through lots of therapy

Let’s Begin!

1. Rin Okumura from Blue Exorcist

I’ve always related to Rin Okumura, especially during the time I was under the mistaken diagnosis of ADD. I was surprised to learn from this that a lot of symptoms of bipolar can look like ADD/ADHD at times.

For example, Rin is shown to be someone who is easily distracted or fixated on new topics. He also tends to sleep a lot which is confirmed in the manga by the fact that this boy sleeps 12 hours every night. And finally a major factor that clued me in is how easily he is swayed by his emotions which leads him to act impulsively.

Rin’s emotions tie him to his demonic half which in turn can cause a lot of inner turmoil for him. I’m sure anyone with bipolar can relate in feeling like their change to either a manic/hypomanic state can cause them to feel like a demon and out of control. But as is shown in the series, by practicing to focus on his emotions, Rin learns to lessen and control his symptoms.

2. Gangle from The Amazing Digital Circus

I know I know, I’m lowkey pulling for stereotypes here with the tragedy and comedy masks. And on top of that this is a series with only a pilot so we hardly know anything concrete about her character. 😂

Everyone in the digital circus seems to play a role based off of their avatar given to them. As a being with two different masks, Gangle is very sensitive to the way in which she acts when her comedy mask is broken.

She tends to be very anxious and sensitive to the events that unfold around her both physically and mentally (she unravels from a mere bowling ball being thrown her way by Jax).

In some fandom interpretations of her character I’ve seen interesting depictions that also heavily give bipolar vibes like Gangle having an abstracted self tied to her ribbons or forcing on her comedy mask. I love Gangle and this pilot.

3. Captain SpaceBoy from Omori

Oh poor Captain SpaceBoy. He’s so heavily influenced by any mood swings he experiences that he seems to take on an entirely new persona whether it be SpaceBoyfriend, Space-ExBoyfriend, SpaceHusband, or Space-ExHusband.

When you first meet his character, you can clearly see he is depressed as he refuses to leave his bed and throws away any special possessions that remind him of his heart ache. Later on he even goes as far as to isolate himself on top of a snowy mountain when the heartache returns to him again..

He is also easily consumed by a rage which seems similar to a manic/hypomanic state that leads him to fight the main cast of characters. Also when it comes to his special boss battle I find it interesting how you can only defeat him by fighting him in certain states of emotion.

4. Howl Jenkins Pendragon from Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl is undeniably a drama Queen, but some of the ways in which he takes certain actions give me some bipolar vibes.

There is of course the infamous scene in which he throws a tantrum due to Sophie organizing his hair dye potions. He swings very quickly from being irritated and enraged to absolutely inconsolable and depressed. He even spends that next couple hours in bed after this scene.

Howl also tends to lead himself to danger as he appears to be in heightened states of euphoria when he pushes himself to the limit with his magic. He is also rather impulsive when it comes to the relationships he makes with others if we are going off of his book persona.

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But above all!! All these characters are shown to be good people who genuinely care about the feelings of others and try to do their best to help even when their own mental health is bringing them down.

Bipolar individuals are more than their disorder; we are all kind people ♥️

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And that’s all! Lemme know what you think :)

been seeing a lot of people talking about how weird jax was in the recent tadc episode, and i wanted to share my thoughts about it

to me, this whole episode was about masking, both in a literal sense and an emotional sense, and what happens when people can't mask anymore. it was mostly focused on gangle, and how she's trying to keep herself together and happy despite not feeling that way, but i also think this theme spread to the other characters as well.

there are a handful of characters that i think mask, or hide themselves more than the others. starting off with zooble, who hides in their room because they don't feel comfortable with themself, being forced to interact with the others and do the adventure.

then, ragatha, who tries so hard to make others like her and saying what she thinks they want to hear, ends up drugged or drunk or whatever which takes away her filter and causes her to say what she really thinks.

finally, jax, who i think values control, which is almost impossible to get in a place where your whole life is controlled by someone else. so he acts a certain way and he does what he can to get whatever amount of control that he can over a situation to prove that the digital circus doesn't have full power over him. sometimes i think he acts like a jerk as a way to control what others hate about him, instead of them hating him for things he can't control. some form of coping mechanism or smth, but i don't think we know enough about jax to say that for sure. he might just be a jerk for the fun of it.

but he loses that control in this episode. gangle, the one person he has the most power over out of the group, now has power over him and when he pushed back against that, she sent him to the training room where he was physically restrained and forced to watch the training video. that's why i think he was so off this episode. because his way of coping with being stuck in the circus wasn't working and there was nothing he could do about it

but hey, that's just a theory

SCROLL BACK UP, THAT IS A DRAWING NOT A PHOTO

Study of Michelle Yeoh for The Sunday Times Style Magazine

A doodle from the incredible digital circus ✨💖

Some of our photos at Kadabracon as Caine and Gangle! An absolute blast getting to do the watchparty for episode 3, give Alex some gummies, give Sean a whole bug collection, and hand out so many cursed Jax splats!

Also very glad so many of the show's VA's could tell we based our gangle off of Queen's design from the fan game!

Abstragedy week day 6: Free Day!

I took inspiration from the end credits of the amazing digital circus. This one was really chill to draw! I’m a bit glad to be done so I have some more time to draw other things and read some more 😎

Abstragedy Day 5: Any AU!

This is based on The Greatest Traveling Circus AU, by @lumineary-arts ! Check it out it is super amazing!!! They have made such beautiful art and animatics of this AU and I honestly cannot get enough of it!

Abstragedy week day 4: After Spudsys!

They hung out and Gangle shared her super cool drawings with Zooble, and everyone was happy, yayyyyyy!!!!! XD

I included my sketch cause I felt like it. :3 this one did take a bit longer than I expected it to mostly cause I kept having to look for reference photos 💀

Abstragedy week day 3: Hurt/Comfort! Zooble had a rough day :(

It’s ok tho Gangle is here :3

School slapped me in the face so I’m just now getting this done 😭 hopefully I’ll have time for tomorrows Abstragedy day ✌️💀

Abstragedy week day 2: Confession!

Everyone was doing such amazing and adorable confession art and stories! I’m so sorry I had to ruin it with my angst 💀

(Im calling some art I did earlier my day one art)

Here is my day one art, yep reusing art I already made 😎 (I got busy :3 )

9ooooooI live this cutey ＠_＠♡

Sketch Page!

The more masks you wear, the deeper you hide your true self. The cracks are starting to show.

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"You have been warned. Enjoy your meal."

Ok this is gonna be a bit dark to talk about

TW:⚠️suicide mention ⚠️

Gangle tried to commit suicide at one point in her life and survived

Reasons why I think this

because she jumped in front of a truck it didn’t seem like an accident or anything

but like purposely tried to get hit by it

Plus Caine literally said she ran into oncoming traffic not fell, RAN!!

Who ever programmed Caine in to thinking the next adventure would be fun

I just want to talk to them

🪓

Ragatha and gangle swapped their moods in the next episode didn’t they

Squidward and SpongeBob

We can know what the amazing digital circus members did when they were working on the game when they hold their breath

Pomni- given how she changes colors it’s likely she worked on the color scheme for characters of the circus

Zooble- since their limbs straighten it seems they worked on the models of the circus characters

Ragatha- ragatha must have worked on how the characters interact with objects and the gravity of the game

Gangle- gangle probably worked on the character animation given how her head spins

Kinger- most likely worked on the lighting of the game or something like that

Jax-

What do you the viewers think it is

Someone needs to make this a drawing meme

Jax may be my favorite character but

Thank god someone did that

I’m betting it was gangle

Tadc spoilers

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Someone finally shut him up, thank god

All in One Day

All in one day

We ate, we drank,

We sung, we screamed

We laughed, We cried.

And, for the first time,

I realized that

You were real

And I was real.

And holy shit

We’re here.

Hello everyone! Today I bring you some Penny and Agatha stuff, originally created by the lovely @raggedytiger and their ask blog penny-and-agatha. I honestly can’t stop thinking about what would happen when Pomni and Ragatha get out of the circus. What would they do? I thought about it so much, in fact, that I drew it. The one above is inspired by this post where I imagined they tried to do everything in one day. The second is below, as I thought about them having a target date :)

Also I couldn’t help but think about the others and I drew them as well (try and guess who’s my favorite)

For clarification: these are MY takes on the freed characters, not Raggedytiger’s. If you want their designs, wait till they post them :)

Also, my headcanon for if they ever get freed is that the circus was trying to help them. It’s like an even more fucked up infinity train. Everyone (except for Kinger, he’s long gone) comes out a better/happier person.

Why is she so scary looking.

I'm still standing by my statement of her being a 2018 gacha character tho.

she looks so funny in a shirt and pants. I love how she has that 2018 Gacha vibe look with the black eye.