#yeah good luck zooble

[tadc-incorrectquotes]

Caine: GET BACK HERE! I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING IGNORED!!!

Zooble: I wish we could ignore you.

[thescarletnargacuga]

TOY BOX

A BUTTONBLOSSOM/RAGAPOM/JESTERDOLL ONESHOT

A/N: I don't know which ship name is the most common, so I'm using all of them lol I may or may not have been drinking while writing this...

WARNING: none

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"Today's adventure is THE TERRIFIC TREASURE TAKEAWAY!" Caine introduced his adventure of the day with the usual display of flare, completely oblivious to the reactions of the unimpressed six in front of him. "You're going on a scavenger hunt! It'll be three teams of two searching the grand Museum for TREASURES! Avoid security! Or they lock you up and your teammate has to get you out! If both of you are caught, you're out of the game! The last team standing, or the team with the most treasures at the end of the time limit, wins!"

Pomni spoke to Ragatha out of the side of her mouth. "Do the adventure titles always have to be illiterate?"

"No." Ragatha covered her mouth and whispered back. "I think that's just a Caine thing."

"Three teams? We ALL have to participate?" Zooble groaned.

"The game is more fun than way! Come on, Zooble! Don't you want to play a game with your friends?" Caine was practically begging. He could not force them to play if they absolutely did not want to, but he REALLY needed an even number of people for the game to work properly.

Zooble rolled their eyes and turned to leave, but then overheard Jax.

"Looks like Zooble is going to be as boring as always. Come on Gangle, you're my partner."

Zooble stopped and turned on their heels. They marched to Jax and shoved him away from Gangle. They crossed their arms and didn't move when Jax got back up and glared.

"Fine. I didn't really want to be stuck dealing with her whining anyway." Jax huffed and stretched his arm out to grab Kinger by the scruff of his robe. "Kinger and I got this."

"Hey, Pomni. Would you like to be my partner? ...for the game! The game." Ragatha awkwardly felt like she needed to clarify.

"Oh! Uhhh, yeah, sure." Pomni was glad Ragatha asked first.

"EXCELLENT!! I do love full party participation!" Caine snapped and a colorful portal opened. "Good luck everyone!"

The group walked through and found themselves in the grand main hall of an enormous museum. Around them the main hall separated into three wings and had three floors. Above them hung a banner that read WELCOME TO ESCHER'S MUSEUM OF ODDITIES. A full T-Rex fossil was having tea with a wax figure of Abraham Lincoln on a display in the center of the room. Various random items were in display cases, many of them only vaguely resembling artifacts and art pieces.

Pomni nervously looks around. "Uh, any ideas as to what these TREASURES look like?"

"No clue. I'm more worried about this SECURITY Caine was talking about. His ideas of enforcement came be a bit...scary. BUT we won't know until we try taking something." Ragatha tapped the glass around a weird mask looking object.

"...it just occurred to me that Caine has literally sent us to rob a museum." Pomni thought out loud as she backed up against a wall, feeling exposed in the large liminal space.

"This is supposed to be a competition right? Outta my way!" Jax pushed Ragatha aside, into Pomni.

Ragatha braced herself against the wall, arm on either side of Pomni.

Pomni flushed, seeing Ragatha up close and personal always made her heart flutter but they've never been this close. She stared up into Ragatha's smiling, apologetic face. Her one eye soft on her.

"Hey..." Ragatha giggled.

"...hey." Pomni delayed in answering, but managed a smile.

Neither of them moved. They just stood their. Awkwardly. Neither wanting to tell the other to move, because what if that was rude?

Jax yeeted the glass case Ragatha had tapped and grabbed the mask. It turned into a cloud of sparkles and a +1 popped up before disappearing. "Ha! I knew it! The WHOLE museum is up for grabs!" He jumped on the platform with the dino and president tea display and tried removing Abe's head.

The whole room went red. INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!

"Oh noooo..." Gangle whimpered.

Massive drones came out of the walls and flew towards Jax. "Oop, time to go." He bugs bunny-ed his ass out the room as fast as he could, three drones on his heels. One drone shot a laser at Kinger and he disappeared. The girls screamed.

"Come on!" Pomni took Ragatha by the hand and ran. The maze like layout of the museum discombobulated those who could get away. Lefts was right, down was up. Every door hit a stairwell and every stairwell looped in on itself. At one point, they were on the ceiling. "What kind of place IS this!?"

Ragatha tried to keep up but Pomni was practically dragging her. "Pomni! The stai-" She tripped, fell over apomni and they both rolled and bounced down a countless flight of stairs. Ragatha wrapped her body around Pomni in an attempt to protect her from the fall, even though it felt like rolling down a bouncy castle.

They eventually stopped when they slammed through a closed door.

Ragatha still had a hold of Pomni, they laid side by side. "Are you alright?"

"Uhhhhh....I think so." Pomni had dizzy swirls in her eyes.

Ragatha couldn't help but snicker. It was a funny look on Pomni. "Good. Because that was actually kind of fun."

Pomni shook the swirls away. "Seriously? Falling down the stairs is your idea of fun?"

"Oh, well, no, not real stairs but it was...uh...never mind. I'm just glad you're okay." Ragatha let go and they both got up.

They saw no way out other than the door they knocked off its hinges. Colorful tiles covered the floor, small tables sat in neat little rows, and there was a large play area.

"Where are we?" Pomni asked, looking around.

"I don't know. A classroom?"

"This place doesn't make any sense."

"It wouldn't be one of Caine's creations if it did." Ragatha said with an irey lilt in her voice. "In fact, this actually isn't the weirdest place I've ever seen. I wouldn't even put it in the top five."

Pomni gaped. "Say what?"

"Yeah, you weren't here for the time he tried to make us all fly like him and Jax ended up on the underside of the sun."

Pomni smiled. "He did?"

"Oh yeah, he had to tap dance the heat off his feet until Caine figured out how to turn gravity back on. Took like an hour."

Pomni started to laugh. "It took him THAT long?"

Ragatha laughed with her. "Yeah! If you ask me, I think he did it on purpose." She loved hearing Pomni laugh, it was so rare.

"Wait, so is that the weirdest?"

"Oh, no. The absolute weirdest had to be Derby Day." Ragatha leaned against an oversized toy box. "Derby Day was when Gangle had to-"

The toy box opened, swallowed Ragatha whole, then slammed shut.

"Ah! Ragatha!" Pomni went to open the box and she too was magically pulled inside. She fell and fell and fell into an endless pit of vibrate color. Ragatha was just below her. "Ragatha!!"

"Pomni!!" She cried out as she tumbled through the air.

Pomni streamlined herself to fall faster and caught up with Ragatha. She tried to get Ragatha's hand but the ragdoll was living up to her namesake and accidentally kicked Pomni in the face. They both spun and free fell into a pile of pillows. They laid there for moment to collect themselves.

"What. The actual. [%$!#]." Pomni mumbled into a plush pillow.

"I take it back. This IS really weird." Ragatha moaned.

"...top five?"

"Top three."

Pomni sat up and didn't bother checking her new surroundings. It didn't matter where they were, they'd probably end up somewhere else in a minute anyway. Ragatha rolled over and stared at the new sky. She couldn't see the top, it was an abyss of kaleidoscopic color. "You know...for all the weirdness...I am grateful for one thing."

"What's that?"

"You."

Pomni jerked her head up. "What?"

"Yeah... I'm probably saying this because it doesn't matter if I do... But I enjoy your company."

"Oh...I...I didn't think anyone would. I'm not exactly...fun. And don't say you don't matter. If there's one thing in this digital scape, that actually does matter, it's our feelings. It's what makes us human." Pomni rolled over to join Ragatha looking at the weird sky. "A-and you've been wonderful to be around, too. I'm sorry I don't really say it. I tend to get lost in my own head."

"I understand. This place will do that to you." Ragatha paused, considering if she should say what she wanted to say next. "I'm... Grateful for one other thing today."

"What's that?"

"I got to hug you."

Pomni turned her head to Ragatha. They smiled at each other.

Ragatha continued. "I- I know you're not the biggest fan of touch so...the fact that you didn't freak out after we fell down the stairs-"

"Ragatha, I wouldn't freak out on you. Not for that. Sure, touch isn't really my thing but...I make a small exception for you."

"Would it be okay...if we hugged again?" Ragatha asked with a deep blush across her cheeks.

Pomni scooted closer. "Yeah."

They locked into a warm embrace. It was the most human thing either one of them had felt in a long time. Pomni felt anchored, her mind focused on only the here and now. No what ifs and maybes. It was bliss.

Ragatha felt a sense of comfort and connection that she thought she'd never get to feel again. In this place...it was getting hard to feel anything but melancholy.

As they hugged the pillows shifted. They tried to get up but they both slipped in the surface vertically against one another. It was like falling into quicksand.

"Great....were are we going now?" Pomni held on around Ragatha's neck.

"I don't know, but we're going together. That's all that matters to me." Ragatha held tight as they sunk further and further into the unknown.

[ghastigiggles]

danse macabre

so uh. uhm. hi. i kept forgetting to post this and i feel really bad about it. i'm so sorry tadc nation here's some food for you

npc oc because i didnt feel comfortable writing anyone as a ler - not yet, anyway. but pomni needed to get wrecked so bad. she's so cute. i get cuteness aggression every time she's on screen

usual disclaimer; sfw tickling fic, very soft and fluffy, even a little goofy and silly.

"Given that our last adventure took an exciting turn, I thought doing a rerun would be a better idea today!"

A rippling groan passed through the veteran players that Caine seemed to entirely ignore, turning his attention to Pomni with an exaggerated movement.

"Something a little more calm, I'd say! Should help bring you down from any thoughts of the Void from the other day!"

"Ahh… I don't –"

"You'll love it," He interrupted, swooping back into the air with an extravagant gesture; "It's a fan favourite! Everyone knows it, everyone loves it, it's… 'Where in the World is Sir Wigglesburg?'!"

Pomni, of course, didn't miss the way everyone else in the room tensed up – though she didn't catch the way Gangle actually perked instead, immediately shooting sideways glances at everyone else before poorly mirroring their tension. 

"... You're kiddin'," Jax muttered, his eyes narrowing in annoyance. Caine simply continued as though he didn't hear the rabbit while Bubble floated nearby with an empty look in her eyes.

"Sir Wigglesburg is one of our most esteemed citizens –"

"Not an actual player," Ragatha helpfully cut in with a glance to Pomni, trying to give her context.

" – with a terrible habit of wandering off! His dear wife has, once again, asked us – rather, you – to lend a helping hand and bring him home safe! The first to lead Sir Wigglesburg back to the stage shall win a prize! (To be determined, prize may or may not meet or exceed expectations.) Good luck!"

And, with no further context or instruction, their ringmaster and his companion entirely disappeared. There was a brief silence before Zooble grunted, already walking away.

"... Right. I'm going back to my room, then."

"Aww, somebody too chicken to help the poor guy?"

Jax sneered in their direction, and they shot him a searing glare; "Well, if you want a repeat of last time, be my guest. I don't."

"I will also take my leave," Kinger muttered in a hurried fashion, looking askance; "The last time we did this, it was before… Mngh…"

Ragatha offered him a sympathetic smile, nodding as the other two softened just slightly. 

"It's alright, Kinger. We understand."

"Thank you… If you do take on the quest, give Sir my best." 

With that, both Zooble and Kinger headed towards the living quarters, leaving Pomni to finally pipe up again, looking between Ragatha and Jax.

"... So, um… W-what's so upsetting about the rerun, anyway? Is it, um, bad…?"

"Oh – no, not – not per se," The ragdoll replied quickly, tapping her chin; "I mean, Caine wasn't lying… This is one of the calmer adventures."

"Yeah. You should do it, newbie."

Both sets of eyes snapped to Jax, who simply grinned passively. Ragatha squinted.

"... And I don't suppose you'd be coming along?"

"I will, actually. Could be funny. What about you, Rags?"

Though she grimaced, Ragatha sighed in resignation, turning a little to give Pomni a small smile.

"Well, I'm not gonna let her go it alone… Again."

That much, at least, gave Pomni heart, and she almost smiled back – until she realized one of their party wasn't accounted for, and her brow furrowed.

"Uh… Where's Gangle?"

The other two also seemed to only just notice Gangle's absence, and the three of them glanced around briefly before their search was cut short by a distant shriek from the player in question.

"That sounded like her…!"

"Is she getting hurt?! W-what if someone else abstracted?!" Pomni shot them a panicked glance; "Sh-should we –"

"Let's go investigate before anything else," Jax interrupted calmly, barely keeping the amusement from his face as he gestured for Pomni to take the lead. When Ragatha shot him a glare, he simply shrugged, following after her with the ragdoll shortly behind.

They had little more than a vague direction, down a corridor and two left turns that seemed to dim the further along they went; Gangle made no further sounds, giving them little in the way of direction, and eventually Pomni sighed haplessly, squinting into the darkness.

"... It's no use… Should – should we go find Caine again…?"

She was met with silence, and turned around – only to find Ragatha and Jax were nowhere to be seen, and her stomach dropped with dread.

"... Guys…?"

"Ooh? Who is this…? A face I've yet to see and greet?"

At a new voice, Pomni yelped, whipping around – and coming face-to-face with what appeared to be some kind of massive, cartoonish caterpillar. His body appeared to be covered in green fur, disappearing into the darkness past his neck – or so Pomni assumed at first glance, anyway. His face and what could only be described as underbelly were covered in white fur that parted around his features, such as a long purple nose and big black eyes – one of which sported a golden monocle. And, of course, his hands had the same cartoon glove sort of thing that Kinger had going on, though this time with black noodle arms seemingly attached.

In her shock, she entirely lost her voice, merely stammering wordlessly – and earning a chuckle from the caterpillar looming over her. 

"Such a small thing, you are! 'Tis a pleasure, indeed!" 

Smiling, he extended one of his hands for a shake, a gesture that finally managed to pull Pomni from her stupor.

"I am Sir Wigglesburg! And you, my gentile jester, would be…?"

"A-ahhh…" Though hesitant, she extended her own hand, despite it being barely half the size of his own, "P-Pomni – woah –!"

The moment their palms yet, Wigglesburg pulled her closer, twirling her around so suddenly that her eyes spun in alternating directions – and as she was steadied again, pulled along by his sudden movements, she was abruptly made aware of his overwhelming amount of hands, with a second dominant one taking her free hand to hold her steady while two more settled on her back and hip, respectively.

"Pomni, Pomni! A wondrously adorable and charming name! Please, indulge me with a dance – 'tis a formal greeting between my people!"

"I – I'm actually – ah!"

The hand on her hip pinched her side unexpectedly, making her jerk in an attempt to escape – yet Wigglesburg easily moved with her reflexive maneuver like it was a step in her dance.  

"I'm actually – ehh! – l-looking for s – hey! – some – sohome –"

The hand squeezed again, and again, and again; and every time, she tried to sidestep or wiggle away – and every time, it just encouraged their "dance", with Wigglesburg's gentle but firm grip keeping her upright despite the giggles bubbling in her chest and the involuntary smile that had been pulling at her lips. 

"My dear Pomni," Wigglesburg crooned as though she wasn't struggling to articulate a sentence; "You are a wonderful dancer!"

" – Ghhh, thank you…? But I – ah!! – would you plehease –"

She squeaked again as she was suddenly pulled into a dip, very nearly panicking before she realized Wigglesburg was still supporting her gently. His wide smile was kind and sweet, but undercut by the mischief in his eyes as he looked down at her.

"... That said, you are giggling quite a lot! I didn't think dancing with a wyrm would be that much fun for you!"

"I-It's not the dancing – GyaAH –"

"Is it not?" 

Pomni couldn't manage a reply, stuck in a fit of uncontrollable giggles caused by the fingers wiggling at both sides, forcing her to squirm back and forth with no true escape from the unexpected and overwhelming sensation. Wigglesburg hummed, tilting his head with an adoring expression.

"I say, I was under the impression that it was the jester who caused nobles to laugh, not the other way around! Yet, here you are, practically beside yourself…"

For a mercy, he did release her hands, and she immediately brought her arms in – not that they did much, proportionately, to protect her. 

"Aheheh, I can't – I cahahan't –"

"Oh, my poor dear, does it tickle? Are we feeling a little sensitive?"

She hiccuped through her laughter at that, shaking her head and ducking down; it felt like the teasing sent a shot through her nerves, which only made it worse when he started scratching experimentally at her ribs, prompting a few snorts to escape her as well.

"Ngh – nahahaa, not th - thehehere…!"

"What? Here? Or here – oh, dear me."

His hands shot to Pomni's underarms for just a few seconds, but it was enough to prompt a shriek from her, wriggling and kicking fruitlessly with even more vigour than before.

"NnnoOHOHO – gh – $%^@# – I cahAAHAAN'T –!"

"Yes, I can see that! 'Twould seem that 'tis an especially sensitive spot."

"Plhehe – PLEHEEHEEHEASE!"

She threw back her head with a loud cackle as Wigglesburg doubled down, every stroke of his fingers sending shocks down her arms and through her body – but she only had to endure it a moment longer before he finally laid off, lightly massaging her sides with his thumbs as she gasped for breath – an act that was more instinctual than actually necessary, given that breathing wasn't really a thing anymore – with a goofy, natural smile still stuck on her face.

"I do hope you can forgive my zeal in tormenting you," Wigglesburg offered after a moment, smiling apologetically; "I cannot help myself around the players."

"I – it's… Haah…" With a final breath, Pomni shook out the residual giggles, looking back up at Wigglesburg; "It's alright…"

"Oh, I figured! You never once asked me to stop, after all."

She stiffened at that, her eyes widening as she searched her memory – because, surely not… And yet, he was right.

She had no idea if the digital avatar could blush, but with how hot her face felt upon that realization, she really, really hoped it couldn't.

"But enough of that – you were searching for someone, yes?"

"Uh! Um. Y-yeah. You, actually, but also – Gangle, if you've seen her…"

"Oh! My dear Gangle has been here all along!"

Pomni blinked dumbly, and Wigglesburg chuckled, curling in on himself and cradling her close as his spine arched up to where she could see clearly – and, sure enough, Gangle was splayed out in the wyrm's green fur, seeming a little sleepy and out of it… Yet, content, even as she looked up and waved at Pomni.

"But… Her scream…"

"'Twas a scream of joy and laughter," Wigglesburg assured her; "Gangle is one of my favorite dancing partners – and I, hers! I admit, I went overboard this time, though… It has been too long since the last time."

"Oh."

A lot of things made sense, now. The way everyone had seemed tense and awkward when Wigglesburg's name came up; Gangle's quiet disappearance in the wake of the adventure's start. The little comments everyone was making towards each other… 

"Pomni! Are you alright?!"

Ragatha's voice pulled Pomni from her thoughts, and she looked down to see the ragdoll standing below, looking up with faint relief… And heavy amusement. Shortly behind her stood Jax, smug as ever – yet, notably, keeping a good generous distance between himself and the wyrm.

"Uh. Yeah," Pomni replied; "I found Gangle? And… And Sir Wigglesburg."

"We know. We heard you," Jax chuckled, easily side-stepping to avoid a tiny kick from Ragatha. For her part, the doll smiled.

"That's great! Let's head back to the stage and wrap up this adventure, then!"

Sir Wigglesburg, however, pouted a little, looking down at her.

"Oh, are you sure I can't convince you to share just one dance with me…?"

"Ahh… Maybe next time?"

Ragatha offered him a nervous smile, and Wigglesburg sighed dramatically – but he didn't object, simply setting Pomni on his back near Gangle before he began to crawl along on the path back to the stage. Distantly, Jax grumbled about not being offered a ride as he and Ragatha followed on foot.

In the softness of his fur, Pomni felt a tempting urge to "nod off", partially encouraged by the dance she'd just been through – but Gangle's voice, just barely loud enough to be heard – kept her in the waking world.

"... I'm glad you like his game. I've been the only one for awhile… Knowing someone else likes it makes me feel less weird."

And, with a small nod in response, Pomni hid her smile in the wyrm's fur.

Maybe not every part of the digital circus was terrible or terrifying.

[the-s1lly-corner]

can you make headcanons for all the tadc cast with a reckless reader?

also, have a good day :)

-daz

TADC cast x reckless! reader!

last post for this batch! ill get right back to answering stuff soon! my cinnamon roll dough is almost done with its first rise and ill have to shape them soon! also gotta make the frosting..! short post since the base of one of my thumbs is getting a lil sore idk if its because ive been typing so much these past few days or if i just slept on my hand wrong; maybe both

CAINE:

youre in luck reader! you cant really get hurt in the digital world...! well, not... traditionally.. you can definitely still feel pain, thats for sure, but i dont think your digital body has any bones to break or skin to scrape..! so hey at least you can kind of be as reckless as you want without consequence...! except, there are consequences. caine is not at all happy at your recklessness.. i mean sure yeah some of his IHAs can be more... intense, i mean zooble almost got turned into a gloink, but..! i think he tones down his adventures just so you wont throw yourself into the danger

POMNI:

tries to stop you but her words fall short as you run in yelling into whatever the threat is without a second thought. "i- wait- er..." and youre gone, leaving pomni to hurry and try to catch up with you. she probably has to drag you to safety, assuming this isnt a case where you got all glitched up by an abstracted circus member.. shes gonna have to work herself up to get you to chill out; perhaps ending in a whole emotional thing where she just. explodes? perhaps

RAGATHA:

just because you cant get hurt doesnt mean shes not going to fuss over you. if there were a need for it i think she would keep a pack of Band-Aids on her. however, because you guys cant get hurt in that way, she tries to keep you in bed when you inevitably get knocked a little too hard and need to rest it off. dont even think about trying to get up out of bed, shes going to give you this stern look that only a few percentage of people can muster.

you know the look

the stern one

scolds you too if you get caught up in something real dangerous

only really softens up if you threw yourself in danger for the sake of another person, because i think ragatha would do the same

JAX:

"bet you cant make that jump"

"bet i <> can!"

que you absolutely eating shit after you fail to make that jump, comically flipping over yourself and face planting. you probably have cartoon birds circling around your head. jax laughs at you before eventually coming over to help you up. he will not let you live this kind of stuff, down

KINGER:

he gets so so scared when youre not in his sight, i think if he knew you were willingly throwing yourself into harms way? this man would have a heart attack! like really, or he would if he still had his organs and stuff...if he could he would keep you in his pillow fort with him forever... but he cant, so he has to settle with following you around with meek attempts to try to stop you

ZOOBLE:

zooble would do similar stuff as jax, but when you actually. go to do the dangerous thing they just pull you back. "dude. i wasnt being serious"

bro has to keep you on one of those kid leashes because your first instinct someone says "bet" or "no balls" or anything in that vein, you need to prove yourself

GANGLE:

her comedy mask probably falls off from the sheer shock from how easily you just. launch yourself into things. on one hand she worries for you, but on the other hand she cant help but feel a little jealous; i mean shes just ribbon and a mask, shes not really... tough... strong.. durable... she wants to be able to run around and do the things you do but theres that fear of being immediately broken down or overpowered, you know? didnt mean to get silly there; anyways i think she would try to keep in you bed to sleep off the soreness, like ragatha

[triangularitydubs]

Fresh Pomni Story Part One

A single round gloink is rolling about below the Circus where the Gloink Queen used to reside. Little thing was minding its own business when a tentacle swooped in from the darkness and snatched it. Then came some weird sounds and clicks. Cut to black. "Who's up for another ADVENTURE?!" Caine had woken everyone up and gathered them in main area of the tent. "We literally just did that stupid Gloink stuff." Zooble complained. "Can you give us SOME sort of break?!" "No. Then I wouldn't be a good ringmaster!" He retorted. "Now, speaking of The Gloinks. Since The Incident with The Gloink Queen and Kaufmo, they have been running rampant in that lair." "What's that have to do with us...?" Gangle said quietly. "Well you all are going to CATCH them! Because frankly, They might eat the entire circus if we don't. That's not very practical or wanted. SOOOOOO let's make it fun!" Caine was sounding enthusiastic, "The winner gets ....." He stopped. A dramatic pause. "An ACHIEVEMENT!" "What does that even MEAN?" "I'm glad you asked, Jax." Caine pointed his fingers at Jax. "A fancy plauqe that says 'Gloink Hunter'!!" "Wooow," Zooble rolled their eyes, "Thats SOO worth it." "Thats the spirit, Zooble! TOODLES, Good luck!" He disappeared. He dropped 6 bags before he left. ADVENTURE START! The hole opened up shortly after Caine disappeared. "Well," Ragatha said. "No time like the present." Ragatha jumped in, Pomni followed after shortly. "Yeah Ragdoll is right," Jax pushed Kinger in the hole, who once again pulled Gangle with him. Finally Jax grabbed Zooble's wrist and down they went too. "Jax you motherf-" was the last thing heard in the tent. After a "fun" slide ride, they were at the bottom. "Alright how do we go about this?" "Easy exactly how we did last time. Crybaby, Hoo-Ha and Zoob on one team. Rags, Pomni and Myself on another." "Who's Hoo-Ha?" Kinger looked around confused. "Fair enough. Let's split!" Ragatha smiled. "Meet back here with whatever you managed to capture. Gangle, Kinger and Zooble went to the right while Ragatha, Jax and Pomni went to the left. It was dimly lit they could barely see in front of them. "We're like the dream team. Aren't you guys glad I split us up like this?" Jax was boasting. "Its an alright choice." Ragatha was hopeful. "I'd like to think at least I'VE made a good impression on Pomni." Pomni just walked behind them, zoning out. "Have I, Pomni?" Ragatha asked, looking back a bit. "Huh?" Pomni blinked and finally paid attention before realizing what Ragatha said. "Yeah, you have...just...still in my head about this.." "You'll get used to it, Pom." Jax chimed in. "Besides-" his voice had cut off. "Besides what Jax?" Pomni asked. Silence. "Jax?" She asked again. "Ragatha??" No response suddenly she was alone in the darkness. She stopped and stood there scared and confused, when suddenly a round gloink rolled in front of her, but it was weird.. it looked like it had... tentacles. She didn't recall Gloinks looking like that. She shrugged and went after it. It was giving a fight at first, but then it sorta realized what was going on.. and latched itself onto Pomni's face! She fought desperately to get it off, but...the thing that happened next was.. a bit gruesome. It wedged itself into Pomni's eye. And she blacked out. Everyone was missing except for Pomni, but she couldn't couldn't even control her own body anymore. She didn't have the jester clothes anymore. Slowly she was fading from her own mind. The intellect of a 90s Stereotype filled her brain. Pomni was gone. The new Fresh Pomni searched and searched The Tent, Grounds, Fair and Lake to find the other preformers but no luck. She sat on a bench in the Fairgrounds and sighed as she knew she was alone Suddenly a strange beeping noise occurred and her virus, True Fresh spoke to her within her mind. "I've left a gift for you at The Digital Carousel!"

[ramona-quinn]

Imagination in a Box (TADC!Nursery AU)

Plot: The babies are given an empty cardboard box, and they have to use their imagination to see what it can be used as.

Heavily based (and quoted) on a Baby Looney Tunes episode called “Card Bored Box”.

The clay booger bit is heavily referenced by a Bluey episode called “Stories”.

TADC! Nursery AU belongs to @txttabloid

It was raining outside, and the babies were staring out the window in their playroom.

“Man, this stinks…” Jax groaned. “Why does the rain have to ruin our fun and force us inside?”

“It’s spring. Caine says it rains all the time during the spring. What else is new?” Zooble rolled their eyes.

“I know! We can play in here until the rain stops,” Ragatha suggested.

“We’ve played with every toy in here. Many times.”

“Oh…”

“I can read from my insect books to you guys,” Kinger said.

“You read all of them to us. A bajillion times,” Jax countered.

Caine flew into the playroom to check on the babies and saw the bored expressions on the their faces.

“My, my! What’s with the long faces, kids?” Caine asked.

“It’s been raining for ages! We’re bored,” Pomni said.

“Hmm… why don’t you all play a game?”

“But we’ve already played with every toy and game and read every book in this whole circus. Many times,” Jax argued.

“Oh? How many times is that?”

“Too many!” the babies exclaimed in unison.

“I just wish there was something fun that we could do,” Gangle sighed.

“Something that we never did before,” Ragatha added.

Caine scratched his chin to figure out how the babies could be entertained. A lightbulb popped above his head when he got an idea.

“I’ll be right back,” Caine said as he flew out of the playroom.

The babies looked at each other with confusion and shrugged.

The ringmaster came back a minute later and brought in a giant cardboard box.

“Ooh, what’s inside the box?” Gangle pondered.

“Is it a new toy?” Jax asked excitedly.

Caine opened the box, which had nothing inside. The babies were shocked, then disappointed.

“Hey, where’s the new toy?” Jax frowned.

"There’s no need for a new toy for today's rainy day adventure, Jax,” Caine replied.

“Oh, great… another adventure…” Zooble muttered.

“I think you’ll like this one a lot, Zooble. Today’s adventure is called 'Imagination in a Box'," Caine announced. "You have to use your imagination to see what this box could be!"

"Caine, what's imagi… imagina…?" Ragatha questioned, having trouble pronouncing the word “imagination”.

"Imagination is when you picture things with your mind. This box here can be anything you want it to be."

The babies were still confused on what Caine was talking about.

“Why don’t you kiddos take a look out the window?” Caine asked as he pointed at said window. “See those clouds up in the sky?”

“Yeah?” the babies responded.

“The clouds can form into any shape your mind pictures them out to be. For example, I can imagine that one of the clouds is a dinosaur.”

“Ooooh!”

“What do you kids see?”

“I can see a beetle!” Kinger pointed at one of the clouds.

“And I see a puppy!” Ragatha exclaimed.

“See? That’s a prime example of using your imagination,” Caine said. “That’s what I want you to do with this box. Just imagine what this box can be and you won’t be bored. Good luck and have fun, my little superstars!”

Caine then left the playroom as the babies headed over to the box.

“So, we have the box. What are we supposed to do with it again?” Pomni asked.

“We have to use our imagination,” Gangle explained. “I’m going to pretend it’s an art school.”

“I don’t see it an art school,” Ragatha disagreed. “I see it as a doctor’s office.”

“I think it’s supposed to be a house?” Pomni questioned.

“What about you, Zooble?” Ragatha asked.

“I don’t know, a pirate ship, I guess?” Zooble shrugged.

“Those ideas are silly,” Jax laughed. “I say that it’s the world’s fastest racing car!”

“Well, I think it’s the world’s tallest, biggest castle in the world, given the fact that I’m a royal,” Kinger said. “It even has a humungous room for my insect collection!”

“No way!”

The babies started arguing about what the box was really for. They argued and argued until Ragatha cried out, “Wait!”

“This isn’t working out. There’s only one way to know what the box is,” Ragatha said.

“I’m glad you’re starting to see things my way,” Jax smirked with pride.

“No, Jax, we should take turns imagining all of what we just said. We’ll play art school first, then doctor, then house, then pirate ship, then race car, and then castle.”

“So we’ll see which idea is more fun than the others?” Gangle asked. “And then, the best idea wins?”

“Exactly!”

———

Gangle’s Idea: Art School

“Welcome to art school!” Gangle greeted her students. “I am your teacher, Miss Gangle, and we’re going to be making things out of clay.”

“What kind of things are we making?” Pomni asked as she raised her hand.

“You can make anything you want. All that matters is that you have fun and get creative! Now, get to work, class!”

The rest of the babies spent some time crafting and sculpting whatever they wanted with the clay that Gangle gave them.

“Alright, let’s see what you came up with,” Gangle said once time was up. She flew around to critiue her students’ projects, starting with Pomni.

Pomni made a duck, Ragatha made a cat, Kinger made a butterfly, and Zooble made a penguin.

“You guys made such great sculptures!” Gangle praised. “But, where’s Jax?”

Jax snuck behind Gangle and sneezed while holding up a clay next to his nose. Gangle yelped and jumped in surprise.

“Booger!” Jax shouted as Gangle ran away crying.

“Eww!” the rest of the babies cringed.

“Jax, you can’t scare the teacher,” Ragatha berated.

“What? Gangle said we can make whatever we wanted, didn’t she?” Jax shrugged.

“Anyway, it’s my turn.”

———

Ragatha’s Idea: Doctor’s Office

“There you go, sir,” Ragatha said to Kinger after giving him a pretend checkup. “Just drink plenty of water and rest, and your sticker-itis will go away in a few days.”

“Thank you,” Kinger, covered in stickers, nodded.

“Oh, I almost forgot your lollipop.”

Ragatha went over to her doctor’s bag to grab a lollipop for her patient when she saw that they were gone.

“Hey, where did my lollipops go?” Ragatha questioned.

She then heard a burp and looked over at Jax, who had lollipop wrappers and sticks next to him.

“Nurse Jax! Those lollipops were for the patients!” Ragatha scowled.

Jax let out another burp, which made Ragatha sigh and face palm.

———

Pomni’s Idea: House

Pomni was setting up the table at her house when the door knocked.

“I’ll get it,” Pomni said. “It must be the guests.”

The jester went to the door and opened it for the guests. Ragatha and Zooble were the parents, Gangle was the parents’ daughter, Kinger was the family’s dog, and Jax was Gangle’s baby brother.

“I hate this…” Jax grumbled.

“Hello there. Welcome to our house,” Pomni greeted. “Please come inside.”

The family then walked inside the home.

“My, what a cute baby you have!” Pomni cooed at Jax.

“Wah! Wah!” Jax pretend-cried.

“Oh, my! Your baby must be hungry.”

The jester pulled out a baby bottle and put it in Jax’s mouth, only for him to spit it out.

“Blegh! Baby formula!” Jax exclaimed.

“Now, now, baby, that’s not polite,” Zooble scolded. “Remember, you’re a guest in someone’s home.”

Pomni put the bottle back in Jax’s mouth, causing everyone to laugh.

“Okay, this isn’t so bad,” Zooble chuckled, which made Jax glare at them.

“Why don’t we all sit down and have some refreshments?” Pomni proposed as everyone sat around the table. The jester handed Kinger a squeaky bone and served the rest of the babies some cookies on a plate.

“You didn’t have to go through so much trouble,” Ragatha said as she took a bite of a cookie, only to recoil at its taste.

Zooble and Gangle each ate a cookie, only to shudder in disgust as well.

“Yeah, Pomni… you really shouldn’t have…” Zooble gagged.

“Uh, Miss Pomni, what kind of cookies are these?” Gangle asked.

“It’s my famous recipe: pureed beets and oatmeal raisin,” Pomni said. She saw the disgusted looks on her guests’ faces and her face fell. “Are they not good?”

“Now, now, Mama, Dada, and big sister, that’s not polite,” Jax smirked. “Remember, you’re guests in someone’s home.”

Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle managed to eat all of the cookies on the plate.

“Those… those were really good cookies,” Ragatha groaned.

“Yeah, it’s a shame they’re all gone,” Zooble mumbled.

“All gone? I made a lot more so you can take some to go,” Pomni said as she pulled out another plate of her cookies.

Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle screamed in horror and fainted. Jax laughed and wheezed while Kinger took a bite of a cookie and gagged.

“Kinger, cookies aren’t good for dogs,” Pomni chastised.

———

Zooble’s Idea: Pirate Ship

Zooble had transformed the box into their own pirate ship. They looked through their telescope and spotted a chest of toys.

“Argh! I spot some burried treasure up ahead!” Zooble exclaimed. “First mate Ragatha!”

“Yes, Captain Zooble-beard?” Ragatha asked as she walked over to the captain.

“Go down to the deck and tell the crew to hoist up the anchor so we can set sail.”

“Yes, Captain Zooble-beard.”

Ragatha climbed down the box and headed to the galley, where Jax, Kinger, Pomni, and Gangle were swabbing the poop deck.

“Attention, crew, Captain Zooble-beard said to-” Ragatha began to say.

“Yeah, yeah, we heard her,” Jax rolled his eyes.

Ragatha climbed back up to the ship.

“This isn’t fair… Zooble and Ragatha are doing all the fun stuff and we’re stuck down here doing all of the chores,” Jax complained.

“What are we going to do?” Kinger asked.

Jax thought about it for a minute, then got an idea.

“I know! We’re gonna sneak up to the deck, and then…” Jax said to the crew before whispering the rest of his idea to them.

“Are you sure that’s a good idea, Jax? What if we get in trouble?” Pomni worried.

“No need to worry! It’s four of us and two of them.”

Jax, Pomni, Gangle, and Kinger ended up getting caught and tied up by the captain and first mate.

“Since you four decided to betray your own captain and take over the ship, I shall make you walk the plank!” Zobble declared.

“Walk the plank?!” Jax gasped.

“Walk the plank?!” Kinger trembled.

“Walk the plank?!” Pomni gulped.

“Walk the plank?!” Gangle whimpered.

The crew then got confused.

“What’s a plank?” The crew asked Zooble.

“It means that first mate Ragatha and I are going to throw you overboard,” Zooble frustradedly clarified.

“Well, I’m over this and bored,” Jax rolled his eyes. “It’s my turn to show you what the box is really used for.”

———

Jax’s Idea: Race Car

Jax set the box up like a race car. He pretended that he was speeding and racing against other race cars.

“Uh-oh, better pull into the pit stop,” Jax said as he drove over to the said pit stop. “Alright, team! Change the oil! Refill the gas tank! Change the tires! We’ve got a lot to do if I’m gonna win the grand prix!”

The pit crew, however, didn’t budge. They were completely bored and didn’t care about Jax’s race car game.

“For the last time, we’re not changing anything,” Zooble stated.

“You’re not even gonna refill my sippy cup with carrot juice?” Jax asked as he held out his empty sippy cup.

“No.”

“Well, I think it’s my turn now, and I think you guys are going to like this game,” Kinger spoke up.

———

Kinger’s Idea: Castle

Kinger was sitting upon his throne, admiring his beetle plushie and pretending it was his pet.

“Oh, Maxwell, it is a lovely day in my kingdom,” Kinger said as he got up and walked over to his friends, who were dressed up in royal costumes.

The chess piece held the plushie to his ear. “What’s that? Oh, yes, we should invite my royal subjects to a tour to of my insect collection room. Our collection has grown a lot over the past year!”

“Gee… this may be fun for you, but this is ridiculous for me,” Jax, dressed as a knight, complained. “I enjoyed the race car game the best.”

The bunny proceeded to throw his race car costume in the box.

“I had much more fun playing doctor,” Ragatha, dressed as a queen, said as she tossed her doctor’s kit in the box.

“I liked playing house,” Pomni, dressed as a prince, stated as she chucked her cookies in the box.

“Pirates wasn’t even that bad,” Zooble, dressed as a princess, admitted as they threw their pirate stuff in the box.

“And I liked art school,” Gangle, dressed as a dragon, said as she put her art supplies in the box.

The babies began squabbling over which game was the best. They shouted and began playing tug-of-war with the box.

Suddenly, the box flew out of the babies hands and transformed into something new, something that caused the babies to gasp in awe. The box transformed into a mega house that had all of the babies' stuff split into different sections.

“What is it?” Ragatha asked.

“It’s a pirate-castle-art school-racing-doctor-house!” Gangle realized.

“Oh, come on! There’s no such thing,” Jax scoffed.

“Not if you use your imagination.”

The babies excitedly ran over to the box.

———

Caine went into the playroom to check on the babies when he saw them having the time of their lives, doing their own thing in the box.

“My, my! What’s happening in here?” Caine asked.

“We’re using our imagination,” Kinger said.

“Yeah, and do you know what the best part about it is? We put our imaginations together,” Pomni said.

“Well, I must say, I’m impressed!” Caine smiled. “You turned a plain, old box into a… uh, what is it, exactly?”

“A pirate-castle-art school-racing-doctor-house,” Gangle explained.

“Oh, a pirate-castle-art school-racing-doctor-house! That’s impressive!”

Caine then flew over to the window and opened the curtains.

“I came in here to tell you that the rain stopped, so you guys are free to go out and play,” Caine said, only to notice that the babies weren’t really paying attention. They were laughing and having fun with their pirate-castle-art school-racing-doctor-house. Caine chuckled at this and flew off, leaving the babies to their adventure.

[lazysloth19]

Now hear me out I hadn't felt well and had a messed up dream.

Sedatephobia

Digital circus AU:

The series continues as normal leading up to the recent episode except in my dream it's added more horror elements to it.

Caine is actually a person, whose mental state was transferred into this mental code to function in a simulation similar to Chappie. The reason for this was the company made the circus originally as a virtual game show for people all over the world to be able to participate anonymously, with the promise of highly advanced AI program. But with a deadline, and no luck Caine (actually named Carter Robinson) participated, after being promised his chronic medical needs are paid for him to live. What they didn't tell him is he'll be pronounced dead to the public and be contained in a comatose state, stuck as the AI

They were on a strict deadline and missed some major bugs, such as the most important system of logging off (Similar to sword art online the first season.) that's why the characters five senses function normally, able to feel pain, basically keep them alive.

The characters are random civilians responding to a lottery ad on magazines about the simulation. The winner basically is given a code to access the simulation for free.

I'm going on the idea of the game Portal, we discover that the testing is necessary and if Glados or Wheatley don't do different tests, it's like an itch that will get increasingly worse. Not only is Caine terrified of dying in real life if the developers find out he's not doing what he was programmed to do, if the characters don't finish or do an adventure after a while he can hear the heart monitor slowly slow down.

The truth of Caine being alive takes place after the recent episode, on the next adventure Caine couldn't decide what adventure he can assign that Zooble will like... Again. So he decided to look through the suggestions, but decided that took too long and ultimately made Zooble spin a wheel. Zooble not wanting to go alone made the character's draw lots

The adventure was about a maze Mansion. They would have to find the right doors to open to find their way out. The map was made in a hurry and Caine warns them to be careful that it was quite bugged. Pomni much like the first episode finds an exit door, but instead of an exit door it looks like a dark hospital room, a dummy on the bed dress like a patient and a computer screen and keyboard. A sticky note is next to it has a written password, she type sit and she now has access to what looked like surveillance cameras labeled with people names, but were locked except for one named "Carter" she goes to click but Caine pulls her out of the adventure and locks her in a room

Caine having to keep his persona up, tells Pomni she ran into a bug and will temporarily be taken back, but Pomni stops him and questions him about the surveillance, since one of the locked ones seemed familiar. Caine glitches and for the first time doesn't sound cheery.

"Pomni... Are you having fun?" He asks as the room was eerie silent... But Pomni faintly hears a rumble of what sounds like AC unit on. She doesn't know what to say as Caine stares at her blankly, standing there in the blank room."... Are you happy?" He glitch closer." Happy with your friends?" He got closer."... Happy you're ali-"

She wakes up in her room, she rushed out to the lobby, was it a dream? Some nightmare? Maybe that's all it was. But Jax, the talkative bunny, asks " And just where did you go Pomni? Caine said you had already finished. You obviously cheated somehow." He smirked crossing his arms. Pomni freezes, she swears she could have seen Caine in the corner of her eyes blankly staring at her, as if daring her to say, her ears ring.

Beep beep beep beep

"... You good Pomni? You don't look good?" Ragatha breaks her blank state. Pomni looks back, Caine is not there."... Yeah... How was the adventure... Tell me all about it." Pomni suddenly doesn't want to be somewhere quiet.

Pomni I'm going to place her around 18 or early 20s, her name is going to be Patricia Bartlett, college student, working part time at a library.

Gangle, probably early 20s, is a manager to some business or company, she is Gloria Finley.

Ragatha, mid 20s, I'm going on the theory she's rich, Rachelle Anton Greyer.

Jax, mid 20s, gives me punk vibes, Joseph Damien Rox

Kinger, Mid 30s or early 40s. He has a degree in computer science so maybe works as some sort of technician or to make things interesting as a computer coder technician (wink wink) his name is Richard Harper West.

Feel free to do what you want with this, peace and love, happy new Year.

[the-s1lly-corner]

GENERAL JAX HCS

mix of a bunch of stuff, probably going to be writing random stuff while waiting for requests to come in so i have something to do side note i never actually felt a knot in my neck form, only wake up with them after getting them in my sleep... until today, felt one form right in the back of my neck while i was just. standing and oh my god it sucks so much i hate knots but actually feeling it. develop. right there. sucks more i think anyways this is a mixed bag of just basic jax hcs + stuff that can tie in with other characters or the reader, we'll see since i write these notes before doing anything else

would this really be a jax hc post by the silly corner if i didnt mention the fidget headcannon? literally the hc that i bring up the most in my posts when theres readers who have accessories or tails or what have you?

i think hes going to mess with anything he can get his hands on; usually passing them between his hands or perhaps tossing them around in the air and catching them.. if its something bouncy hes going to be bouncing it along the ground while he's walking.. i think sometimes with other characters, he does try to mess with them out of habit (plus given how he snatches zoobles arm it kind of. shows hes comfortable doing that sort of thing, you know?)

sometimes messes with ragathas bow, or zoobles antennae (though with zooble its more on purpose and to annoy them).. i think you get the idea

speaking of ragatha i think they would be good friends, i mean i personally think if ragatha didnt like jax she would keep her distance from him (though to be fair we still only have the pilot so far + i think ragatha would still be polite if she didnt like him)

as for his dynamic with zooble i think they kind of egg each other on, but on the rare occasion they do agree on something they do so begrudgingly

i think his ears twitch when hes thinking or when hes irritated, not huge movements... mostly little... twiks, you know?

i dont think he really has fur personally, and if he does its really short and smooth... in my opinion he looks like he would be made of the same material as those small squishy animal toys

these ones, i got a handful of them and theyre genuinely so soft and squishy, me thinks jax would feel like these things

on the off chance he needs to cook for whatever reason, hes a terrible cook. like i think he can make one meal but outside of that hes a disaster in the kitchen... also doesnt make a good kitchen partner because hes going to think its funny to hand you the wrong thing when you ask him to pass something

malicious incompetence but hes doing it to annoy you and will probably give you the right thing after a few rounds of messing with you

no one is safe from his antics, assuming he and ragatha are good friends, shes still subject to his jokes at the bare minimum

so.... if youre friends with him youre at least going to go through the same thing

i dont think he would be a good secret keeper most of the time. like yeah sure if its something serious and important i think he would put aside his douchbagie-ness for once and keep it

but if its something outside of that? yeah no you're have more luck confiding in caine, who imo would pounce on the opportunity to gossip

probably shouts random stuff, like "hey caine, (reader) thinks youre (insert outrageous lie)!" just to mess with you. does this to other people, usually ragatha or gangle... sometimes does it to kinger, i think... only reason he doesnt do it to zooble is because they will get his ass, and hes giving pomni a 'grace period' before he decides to drag her into his shit

hes an ass but i dont think he would just jump on someone/j

speaking of, while he can be mean to some people i do think he has his limits, like hes not going to kick you while youre already down or make fun of you for something you cant really control or manipulate you by hanging something over your head (see the secret keeping thing, while he will tease you about more basic stuff if its something serious hes not going to do it imo)

you know?

though i do think hes the type to steal something from someone in order to make them talk to him; especially if he has a crush on someone... hes just a little shit like that

has this LOOK on his face when the person comes to retrieve their thing, and tbh... i can also see him waving it around over their head (hes tall, and if they can still reach it he probably jumps.. gets on his toes.. stumbles away and holds them back ect) just to keep them around for just a little longer

whether this is actually successful in getting with the person romantically depends... personally it wouldnt work for me but hey, some people find that behavior endearing and/or will be able to eventually pick up on what hes doing

does not like being vulnerable, this goes for really anything regarding feelings as he thinks it ties in with weakness (spoiler, it doesnt)... probably has a "eeeewww feelings..." mindset (though might still let you vent to him... will act uninterested but if he really didnt care hed just walk away.. more actions than words, this one is)

rarely talks about how he actually feels about things if the feeling in question is anything less than indifference or amusement... though hes not opposed to expressing anger or annoyance... will let you do what you will with that information...

naturally because of him being weird about his feelings, romantic feelings fall into the "eeeeeewww feelings..." category so hes not going to be blunt, again, actions over words here... and even then the actions here are mostly him messing with the person and trying to get them to spend time with him as a result (even if its not... hanging out..)