Pomni

**The following character is a canon character. Please refrain from adding fanon infomation (Eg. Fan-Made Personality, Fan-Made backstory, Fanon Relationships, ETC).**

"***W-what's going on? I-I-I put on some weird headset and now I'm here? Who are you people? Why can't I take it off? Where am I?!***"

## Pomni

* Portrait
* Glitched Hand
* 2D Artwork

### Aliases

XDDCC (the initial and former name given to her by Caine before it changed)
 New Stuff (by Ragatha)
 Newbie (by Jax)
 Kid (by Jax)
 New Sucker (by Jax)

## Description

### Species

Human
 Jester (The Amazing Digital Circus Avatar)

## Appearances

### Debut

A New Era (Teaser)
 THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS [OFFICIAL TRAILER]

**Pomni** is the main protagonist of The Amazing Digital Circus. She is the most recent human to enter its digital plane after putting on a headset.

## 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 black lines around her eyes that may represent eyeliner. Her pupils change appearance frequently, but most often appear as a red and blue pinwheel pattern. 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 pieces poking out from under her hat and two locks of hair framing the sides of her face.

Her outfit resembles that of a clown, like Kaufmo, but with similar traits 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 distribution 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. She also wears gloves, with the left one being blue, and the right being red. Inverse to this, her left shoe is red and her right shoe is blue.

## Personality

Pomni has a high-strung, timid, and paranoid demeanor. In the pilot episode, she is shown to be anxious and troubled in regards to her predicament, even succumbing to denial and exhibiting signs of paranoia and delusion. When she finds the "exit", she experiences moderate signs of paranoia and seems to believe she is hallucinating. Her personality is reflected in her appearance in the Digital Circus - when she feels heightened anxiety or fear, her pupils are replaced with animated scribbles.

In her initial appearance, Pomni is shown to have a degree of both empathy and selfishness, as she went back to check on Ragatha after the latter was attacked by an abstracted Kaufmo, and promised Ragatha that she'd find Caine to fix her. However, Pomni's desire to escape the digital circus overrode this, as she entered the exit door upon finding it and left Ragatha behind without hesitating. She later felt remorse for this action once Ragatha was fixed by Caine.

## Biography

### PILOT

During the introduction of the show, Pomni suddenly appears in the Circus and disrupts the song (and also breaking Gangle's comedy mask by accident). It's quickly revealed she was once a human from earth (implying 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 (Kinger is currently the one who stayed the longest and went crazy), and also reassures her that she will get used to her new home and body after she gets panicky.

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 new 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 to go check on Kaufmo with Pomni since he is unaware of the newbie's appearance, however Kinger reports of him going insane, rambling of some form of exit like Pomni. Jax proclaims that he, Ragatha and Pomni should go check with Kaufmo while Kinger and Gangle help saving Zooble, which gets Ragatha concerned 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 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 found 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 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 were 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 on 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's about to lose sanity while on 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 actually be their way out of the circus).

## Trivia

* In the Russian language, “Pomni” (Помни — 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."
* In promotional materials released before the pilot's trailer (including the series' official poster and Pomni's official 2D artwork), Pomni has a minor design difference from her appearance in the pilot's trailer, the pilot, and all media released afterwards, in that her gloves' colors are the opposite of her final design, with her left glove being blue and her right glove being red, thus contrasting with the colors of her shoes and her outfit on the same sides as them.
	+ The swapping of the color of Pomni's gloves was suggested by lead animator Kevin Temmer.
	+ This design difference is also present in the 2D Pomni that appears in the end credits of the Pilot, presumably because the design change was made after the 2D animation was completed.
* In the pilot, Pomni and Zooble were the only characters who openly cursed, though they were censored by Caine.
* In the pilot, the voice clip of Pomni saying multiple (censored) swears in quick succession is actually an early test clip recorded by Gooseworx's sister. According to Gooseworx, this scene was not recorded by Lizzie Freeman as the swear words were not written out in the script. Therefore, the test recording was pitched up and used in the pilot.
* Gooseworx revealed that Pomni was at one point concepted as a frog-like character.
* Her close-up and lifeless stare is somewhat similar to Anti-spiral's from the 2007 sci-fi anime series such as *Gurren Lagann*, when he is just about to be prepared for his battle against the other main characters.
* Gooseworx confirmed that Pomni's hair is meant to be black, although it appears dark brown in most shots due to lighting.
	+ However, Pomni's hair color is notably brown in her official 2D artwork, her official plushie, and some promotional material such as the poster for GlitchX 2023.
* Pomni's first given name, XDDCC, can be interpreted as the Roman numeral 1210. But the meaning behind it is that it is an inside joke between Gooseworx and her friends. It was originally DDCC, but Gooseworx added an X to make it difficult to pronounce.
	+ Putting it through a Caesar Cipher with 17 shifts also reveals the word OUUTT, which may refer to Pomni's goals to escape the circus.
	+ Running the code above it (PNCMM) reveals the word GETDD.
* Gooseworx had stated that Pomni does not like being touched.
* Gooseworx has stated in GlitchX 2023 that Pomni's favorite food is salmon.
* Gooseworx had stated that out of all the humans trapped in the circus, Pomni is the worst at cooking.
* Pomni is good at accounting.