No Sense of Personal Space: His enthusiastic personality causes him to near-constantly get up in the performers' faces, to their visible discomfort. Gaslighting: Pomni sees what is clearly an exit door, but Caine claims that she must be suffering a "digital hallucination" from her recent arrival.

Gentle Giant: Kinger one of the tallest performers (alongside Jax and Zooble), and while he's an emotional mess and is a bit of a coward, he's generally harmless and seems to care for his friends' safety and sanity.

Performers

Meaningful Name: In chemistry, "-caine" is a suffix for synthetic alkaloids used as local anesthetics. One alkaloid called procaine (also known as "novocaine" or "allocaine") has the signature use in dentistry. The one they used before was cocaine, which became better known as a recreational drug, fitting Caine's manic enthusiasm. The Gadfly: As he himself admits, he doesn't really care what happens as long as he gets to see funny things happen to people.

Token Evil Teammate: The other performers range from being friendly enough, like Ragatha and Gangle, to mentally disturbed but rather harmless, like Kinger and Pomni, to being a bit grumpy, like Zooble, but Jax is an outright douchebag who pulls mean pranks on the others.

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Punny Name: Other meanings aside, his name also sounds like "cane", alluding to one of his attributes as a ringmaster, the Classy Cane he carries.

Jolly Roger: a pirate flag with a skull and crossbones on it that could be used to create a spooky Halloween theme. Broken Smile: As her time in the Circus goes, she starts getting unhappy smiles all around, especially at the pilot's ending feast; you can practically hear her sanity crumbling in the grimacing, pained smile creeping onto her face seemingly against her will. Vague Age: Their avatars give little indication of their years though the director has specified they're all adults (Kinger is almost fifty, the others are 22–30). They apparently can't even tell each other's ages by looking, Jax calling Pomni "kid" despite her being older than him.While they scold Jax for saying to Pomni's face she can't leave, they bluntly say "Welcome to your new home... and your new body" because at this point, the only way to preserve her sanity is to help her accept it. Court jesters were entertainers who served and entertained royalty, but they were also at the mercy of their masters and subject to danger.

Immune to Mind Control: One of the few limitations to Caine's powers is he cannot directly affect or read the performers' minds so it's one psychological horror they're spared. Unfortunately, it also means no one can help them if they go insane and abstract.Only Sane Woman: Well, she's clearly not playing with a full bag of marbles herself, but she still comes off as far more well-adjusted and friendly than the rest of the Circus performers, all of whom run the gamut from neurotic to cynical to downright mean. Was Once a Man: These are all humans whose souls are trapped in the Digital Circus, but for some reason or another are changed into toys, some (like Gangle and Zooble) less human-looking than others. Jaws of death: a phrase often used to describe a dangerous or deadly situation, often seen in Halloween movies and stories.