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| “ | My name? My name is, uh... U-U-Uh?! Oh, God! Why can't I remember my name?! | „ |
| ~ Pomni panicking after Caine asked for her name. |
| “ | Well...you don't have to be. The- The Circus- th- the place I'm from? Well, I- I'm originally from somewhere else. But...if it has to be my home.....maybe it can be yours, too. The people there are...interesting...at the very least. Maybe you......could be somebody real there. | „ |
| ~ Pomni to Gummigoo about joining the circus. |
Pomni is the main protagonist of the animated web series, The Amazing Digital Circus. 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 Lizzie Freeman, who also voiced Chizuru Ichinose in Rent a Girlfriend, Trish Una in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, Yanfei from Genshin Impact, ENA and Moony in the former's titular series. In her brief cameo in SMG4, specifically, SMG4: The Very Safe & Legal SMG4 Show, she was voiced by Elsie Lovelock.
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), and additionally acts in a frantic and unstable manner as she tries to escape the basement of Mildenhall Manor. 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).
Candy Carrier Chaos![]
At the beginning of the episode, Pomni has a nightmare in which she starts showing signs of abstraction. She then falls into the Cellar as Caine, Ragatha, and Jax look on, expressing dismissive disapproval, before waking up. She wakes up in a panic before clipping onto an ABC block that causes her to be catapulted across her bedroom.
Ragatha checks up on Pomni and tries to be supportive on her adventure to the Candy Canyon Kingdom, but Pomni is still in a sour mood as she concludes that the rest of her life is going to be LARPing. The seemingly Medieval Princess Loolilalu provides the humans a Mad-Max style war rig (which confuses Pomni) to track down Gummigoo's bandit gang and take back a maple syrup tanker that they stole.
The two factions quickly encounter each other and a high-speed battle ensues. Jax tosses Pomni at the bandits, causing her to get stuck on their truck (Max attempts but fails to capture Pomni due to his tiny arms). Kinger tries to throw objects at Pomni to assist her, but when he throws an anchor that's attached to the war rig it results in a collision between the two vehicles. Pomni and Gummigoo end up getting wedged underneath a cliffside, causing both to clip and fall into the Test Level.
Gummigoo has a near mental breakdown after finding his test model, but Pomni tries to explain to him that he is an NPC. Gummigoo realizes that being an NPC means that his past is fake and that his existence is meaningless. Pomni comforts him by offering to bring him back to The Circus so that he can live a more meaningful life and because she wants him as a friend. Gummigoo calms down and the two manage to use the block glitch to drive the test copy of the syrup truck back to the Kingdom (with the truck falling onto The Fudge's head, temporarily knocking him out).
Pomni informs the other humans of her intentions to bring Gummigoo back to The Circus. However, when he enters The Circus, Caine immediately causes him to explode into confetti with a snap of his fingers. Pomni is distraught over this, until Ragatha asks Pomni to attend Kaufmo's funeral. During the funeral, Pomni sees that the other humans (with the exception of Jax who refused to attend) do care deeply about each other. Remembering her nightmare, she envisions that her new friends will support her, even in the worst of times.
The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor[]
The episode starts with Pomni hanging out with the rest of the cast, holding her breath for a prolonged period of time. After exhaling the breath she was holding, she asks why it is that she's even doing this. To which Jax explains that everyone has a different reaction to holding their breath. Ragatha's hair sticks up into the air, Gangle's mask starts spinning, and Kinger begins to glow. Once more attempting to hold her breath, it's revealed that Pomni's reaction to holding her breath for long enough is that her face begins to change color.
Soon enough, Caine shows up, asking what they were all doing before introducting their next adventure. "The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor", centering around a haunted house that they all must explore through, once everyone (except for Zooble) enters through the portal to their next adventure, Pomni expresses her dislike towards horror, this being shown to us when she is startled by Ghostly so badly that her eyes fall out of her head cartoon-style. Kinger attempts to help her get them back in while Caine's voice as well as Ghostly explain how there are two paths that they can go down. The "Pacifist Route" and the "Mature Route". Jax, wanting to test the validity of such, grabs Gangle's comedy mask and throws it down the mature route, revealing a monsterous mouth as the route's true entrance.
Kinger, in an attempt to grab the mask, jumps through the door, accidentally pulling Pomni with him due to still having a hold of one of her eyes. Now trapped in the "Mature Route", Pomni and Kinger must work together, listening to audio tapes created by a man named Baron Theodore Mildenhall that speak of a monster who's been haunting his life.
Managing to find a key to a nearby elevator after scavenging through the various drawers, the lights end up going out, leaving both Pomni and Kinger in complete darkness. Listening to more of Mildenhall's tapes, the beast who had been chasing them eventually reveals itself, beginning to chase them. Pomni attempts to escape while Kinger, being drawn to the monster's eldrich appearance, has to be pulled away and snapped out of it by the jester before he ends up being consumed by the skin of their teeth. Using the key she aquired earlier, the two get into the elevator, but instead of going up as they expected, ends up leading them further down into the manor.
Now trapped in an even lower level of the manor, Pomni and Kinger find another tape created by Mildenhall, revealing that he had shot his wife in a fit of insanity, Pomni and Kinger discover Mildenhall's corpse, sitting there with a gun hanging loosely off it. Realizing the value it could serve them in slaying the beast, Pomni anxiously retrieves the gun before handing it to Kinger. Upon the beast entering the area, Kinger manages to shoot both its head and its body, saving both him and Pomni from being killed.
However, to the shock of both Pomni and Kinger, the tape playing Mildenhall's audio reveals that the beast was actually an angel and then killing it meant that they would be dragged down to hell. Hands emerge from the floor, dragging the both of them down below even further into the manor.
Now trapped in hell, Pomni has had just about enough, attempting to run through it as quickly as possible to escape despite Kinger's warnings. Being possessed by one of the spirits trapped down there, Pomni begins to contort, face growing horrifying and limbs twisting in unnatural directions. Kinger immediately gets on the offensive, attacking the spirit and managing to boot it out of Pomni's body.
Pomni, now in a state of incredible distress, begins to have a breakdown, Kinger suggesting that they take a moment to pause. Pomni begins to vent about her time in the circus, stating that she hates the adventures she has been forced to go on and the emotional turmoil it has caused her. Kinger responds sympathetically, apologizing for the fact that he inadvertedly cause them to be trapped down this route. Pomni takes note of this, pointing out how Kinger has been acting differently lately. Kinger acknowledges this, revealing that the dark allows him to think more clearly. From there he explains how he used to have a wife who ended up abstracting, stating that the two ended up in Kinger's pillow fort together and that the darkness seemed to calm her down enough for him to touch her before she was sent away into the cellar, Pomni expresses shock at the revelation that Kinger even had a wife, rhetorically asking if he really did have on in the circus, to which Kinger confirms.
Kinger then tells Pomni how important it is to keep the good memories she has close to her and that it's important to be thankful towards others and to make sure they feel wanted, causing Pomni to start thinking about her treatment of Ragatha over the past few days she's been at the circus.
From there, Kinger has a revelation, recalling the previous tape and how the spirits are only able to possess you if you're breathing. He suggests that maybe they could get through if they don't breath. Pomni responds by stating that she is not very good at holding her breath, calling back to the beginning of the episode, Kinger suggests trying not to think about it. Pomni stutters for a moment before lamenting how the moment they leave, Kinger will go back to his usual crazy ways and forget any of this ever happened, Kinger responds by saying how as long as she remembers, that's all that matters.
From there, Kinger offers out his hand, which Pomni takes and together, the two of them walk through hell, holding their breaths. Once more calling back to the beginning of the episode, Kinger begins to glow, just as Jax stated, serving as a shining light as the two walked through the area together.
Escaping hell and making it back to the top of the mansion, Pomni and Kinger meet up with Ragatha, Jax, and Gangle. Ragatha asks if they're doing okay and if their adventure was scary, to which Pomni affirms that she was fine. Seeing Jax's bound state, Pomni asks what happened, to which Ragatha just tells her not to worry about it. Kinger, returning to his forgetful state, says that Pomni was very brave, before beginning to question himself, asking the jester girl if she was, Pomni responds by saying it was something like that.
Approaching Ragatha and getting her attention, Pomni thanks her for always being concerned about her and that she feels she hasn't been appreciative enough about it. Ragatha, showing clear surprise, thanks her, saying that everyone really cares about her (elliciting an eyeroll from Jax).
Having completed the adventure, Pomni, Kinger, Jax, Gangle, and Ragatha, all return to the circus, being greeted by Caine. Pomni watches Kinger crawl back into his pillow fort, Jax, having been released from his bonds, asks her what it was like being stuck with him, clearly expecting the jester to lament how horrible it was. Yet Pomni would respond by saying that it wasn't that bad. Rolling his eyes, Jax walks off, ending the episode.
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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.
- Pomni appears as the main protagonist of the non-canon production comics for The Amazing Digital Circus, in which she has:
- A much more cartoony and dumbfounded vibe.
- An "Iconic unicorn horn" which can intercept soviet radio signals.
- A mother who was married to Caine.
- A divorced brother-in-law named "The Bone Pastor" who lost his arm in his divorced and travels from his home to the Circus on a bike, which also implies the existence of a sister.
- Snapchat, which she uses to receive a snap from Jax.
- 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.
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