Pomni

Pomni is the main protagonist of Glitch Productions adult animated dark comedy/surreal web series, . She is the newest performer in the Digital Circus, discovering it after using a cursed VR headset. Terrified at the idea of being trapped forever in the Circus, Pomni now attempts to find an exit, much to the dismay of Caine, the circus' ringmaster.
She is voiced by , who also voiced Chizuru Ichinose in Rent a Girlfriend, Trish Una in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, Yanfei from Genshin Impact, ENA in her titular series, and Jaune in Spooky Month.
==Appearance ==
Pomni is a stylized humanoid character, with a large head and small, slim limbs. She has completely white skin, with small markings imitating blush underneath her eyes, and thick ebony lines around her eyes that may represent eyeliner. Her pupil formation appears to change frequently, but most often appears as a red and blue pinwheel imprint. She has asymmetrical eyelashes, with her left eye having eyelashes on the top eyelid and her right eye having eyelashes on the bottom. She has short, straight medium black hair (which often appears brown due to lighting), with two small nuggets poking out from under her hat and two locks of hair formulating the flanks of her face.
Her ensemble resembles that of a clown, like Kaufmo, but with identical characteristics to a jester, rather than that of a circus clown. She wears a red and blue jumpsuit with round, poofy sleeves, and shorts, an asymmetrical disbandment of the red and blue colors in plain sections (for the torso part) and stripes (for the sleeves and shorts), and yellow accents, a pair of pom-poms, cuffs, and undershirt. On her head, she wears a matching striped, two-armed jester's hat, with small yellow bells on the tips of the hat's arms, which we never see separated from her head. She also wears gloves, with the left one being blue, and the right being red with the same yellow accents as the ones on her clothing. Inverse to this, her left shoe is red and her right shoe is blue.
==Personality==
While her personality in real life is unknown, in the Digital Circus, Pomni is riddled with anxiety. More than the rest of the performers, Pomni struggles with the trials and tribulations of the digital plane, reacting with fear to Caine's antics and outright losing her mind when she realizes that the circus is her new home. She seems to get along with her circus peers when they meet and she apologizes to Ragatha when she leaves her at the mercy of Kaufmo showing that she has a heart.
Further into the show, Pomni's personality is further elaborated on, where she seems to be rather cynical and indifferent to the happenings of the Circus, getting annoyed when Ragatha tries to hype her up for Princess Loolilau's appearance and being confused at the presence of tankers in the Candy Kingdom's medieval setting. Pomni also seems to be somewhat hot-tempered as she gets mad at Jax at his antics endangering her life, though to be fair he does try to use her as a human bridge. Despite this Pomni is genuinely a good person at heart as she still cares for her fellow humans, feeling deep guilt for abandoning Ragatha and she comforts Gummigoo when he realizes that he's just an NPC, even offering to bring him back to the Circus where he can join the humans on adventures.
==History==
===The Amazing Digital Circus===
====Pilot====
During the introduction of the show, Pomni suddenly appears in the Circus and disrupts the song (and also breaks Gangle's comedy mask by accident). It's quickly revealed she was once a human from Earth (implied to be wearing a headset the entire time when she gets transported). However, she is informed by the other characters that she wasn't the first, as the other characters were also from Earth before teleporting to the Circus, and is also reassured that she will get used to her new home and body.
Still fearful, confused, and desiring to leave, Caine starts introducing Pomni to The Tent where everyone lives, The Grounds for adventures outside of the tent, and The "mysterious" Void (which Caine advises her to not venture to) by teleportation. Pomni notices an exit door, but Caine changes the subject to her name (he brushes it off as a "digital hallucination"). After the jester becomes disoriented again because of forgetting her name, Caine shows some powers limit and decides to give her a new name, that being Pomni. Caine declares a brand new in-house adventure, to help Pomni get used to the place, that being to gather the Gloinks infested in The Tent, small critters that stick to anything they bump into.
Not long after the adventure starts, Zooble decides to quit it early but gets disjointed and captured by the Gloinks. Back to the rest of the members, Ragatha suggests going check on Kaufmo with Pomni since he is unaware of the newbie's appearance, however, Kinger reports him going insane, rambling about some form of exit like Pomni. Jax proclaims that he, Ragatha, and Pomni should go check with Kaufmo while Kinger and Gangle help save Zooble, which concerns Ragatha a bit.
Ragatha introduces Pomni to their dormitory & quarters where they sleep, but since they aren't human, they don't need human essentials to live on, and talks about how if a character goes insane then "something really bad" will happen to them, which traumatizes Pomni. They reach Kaufmo's room, and after an aggressive exchange between Ragatha and Jax, they open the door to see Kaufmo now horribly disfigured into a monstrous black mass creature with rainbow eyes (the "something real bad" Ragatha mentioned), who damages Ragatha to the point of her glitching up, Kaufmo then chases after Pomni while Jax runs away with a bowling ball. The monster then crashes through the railings and chases a Gloink next, allowing Pomni to talk with Ragatha. They conclude that only Caine can help them. She goes off to find him, opening a bunch of doors leading to random and surreal-looking rooms while avoiding monster Kaufmo, before finding the exit door which is generated out of thin air.
She enters the door only to find herself trapped in an almost realistic-looking office labyrinth that she gets lost in, a place that is oddly out of place from the more colorful environment she finds herself in. The exit door then disappears out of thin air. The scene cuts back to the nest, the Gloink Queen expresses her plans to turn anything and everything into all Gloinks like herself and the rest of her nest when monster Kaufmo crashes down and begins attacking the Gloink Queen, releasing Zooble and allowing the other characters to leave. Pomni meanwhile still tries to find the end of this labyrinth, coming across an old computer along with a rusted-out VR headset before going through a door with the logo of a company called "C&A" marked above (presumably the company that developed the game or warping technology). She is then led to the Void and falls into a state of trance by it.
Caine and Bubble are in a restaurant when Caine sees on his Wacky Watch that someone is now in the void and rushes to take Pomni back to the tent. He then realizes that Kaufmo became abstracted and casually drops him through a custom-made hole that leads him to "The Cellar", a place where those abstracted ended up. Caine then reverts Ragatha's glitched state back to normal. He apologizes for lying about the exit door and that he wasn't capable of thinking about what to put on the other side of it, he warns the group that the Void could be disastrous for them. As a reward for finishing their adventure, Bubbles has made them a feast to feel more like they're at home. Pomni, still in awe and disbelief from today, tries to keep her cool as she is about to lose her sanity while at the dinner table with the rest. The episode ends as the shot zooms out into the Void and beyond, and finally into the old computer from before (suggesting that the Void might be their way out of the circus).
==Gallery==
===Videos===
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS -OFFICIAL TRAILER-
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS- PILOT
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 2- Candy Carrier Chaos!
==Trivia==
*The name Pomni can be translated in a variety of ways that may relate to Pomni's general character:
**In the Russian language, "Pomni" (Помни — an imperative form of the verb "помнить") means “remember” or rather "don't forget it/to". In context, it is used as "Hey, (x), remember to do (x)." or "Hey, do this, but remember what was in that tutorial video."
**Meanwhile, in the Polish language, "Pomni" is similar to the word "pomny", meaning "mindful" or "having something in consideration".
**Also in the Bulgarian language, "Pomni" ("Помни", which is a derivative form of the verb "Помня") means "Remember". In context, it's used as "(x) remembers that."
*According to Gooseworx, Pomni's favourite food is salmon, she is good at accounting and out of the cast she's the worst at cooking. Further AMAs reveal that Pomni's favourite colour is red and she actually used to be an accountant, which will be plot relevant later.
*Seeing as Pomni has some knowledge on coding and game mechanics, which she uses to help Gummigoo, it's possible that she used to work with C&A, the company that created Caine and the Circus, which is presumably a game producer.
*Early on in the show's development, Pomni was initially conceptualized as a frog.
**She was also meant to be male, swapping genders with Jax mid-development.
*Seeing as she appears in the Glitch Inn promotional video along with N, Pomni can be considered one of Glitch Productions' mascots.
*While Pomni is unable to remember her real name, it was implied to be Martha and that Pomni in the real world is Martha from the “What’s The Matter, Martha” YouTube music video developed by Kevin Temmer Tunes, a lead animator of the Digital Circus.
**She and Martha also have similar personalities.
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