The third episode of The Amazing Digital circus is here, fresh and new.
It is an excellent episode filled with details and secrets. We put this episode under our Magnifying glass.
And we rewatched the other two episodes at 0.5 speed to develop these crazy theories.
The amazing Digital Circus episode 3 is out on the channel Glitch; you can watch it here.
With nothing else to add, let’s start the theories.
Spoiler alert.
Kinger is one of the creators of The Amazing Digital Circus… Allegedly
Kinger? The crazy one of the crew? That nuthead is the creator of all that complicated world? Not only does Episode 3 hint at that, but we have had a lot of foreshadowing since the first time we saw the character on screen.
Let’s remember that in the first episode, Jax says that Kinger has more time in the simulation, and that’s why he’s crazy. Then Kinger opens the “door” from his pillow fortress and says, “Huh, did someone say something about an insect collection?” This foreshadows the death of his wife, Queenie, and shows us from the beginning that his memory works better in the darkness.
In the second episode, he puts a bucket in his head; it seems random, something that a crazy man would do, but actually, we can see how Kinger uses this method to gain more consciousness. He even helps Ragatha with her emotions and supports her while having the bucket in his head.
The Amazing Digital Circus. Glitch.
Kinger: (Muffled due to the bucket being on his head) Well, if worst comes to worst, we could always ask Caine to find her.
Ragatha: I’m more worried she’s having another horrible experience. She still seems upset about what happened yesterday. I don’t think she really likes me that much.
Kinger: It’s a lot for anybody to go through. Don’t take it too personally. I remember how long it took for you to adjust.
Ragatha: O-Oh. Yeah. I’m surprised you remember that.
Kinger: (Normal voice after the bucket is briefly lifted up) Remember what?
At the exact moment he takes out the bucket from his head, he loses his lucid consciousness again.
With those interactions and how he helped Ponmi in the third episode, not only by rescuing her from the monster and helping her pass the soul’s corridor but also by giving her emotional support, we can see that this King is not a crazy one. He’s pretty intelligent and also very kind, but he may have an obscure secret, something that torments him.
But we will get to that in a little while. Before analyzing his deep conversation with Ponmi, we have some other hints that lead us to Kinger’s self-forgotten secret.
In episode two, in the scene where the crew arrives at the Candy Kingdom, a candy butterfly flying next to Kinger captivates his attention.
Ragatha: Wow, Kinger, check out this castle. It’s amazing!
Kinger: They’ve even got little candy bugs here. It’s so beautiful.
Kinger is excited by that beautiful bug, without remembering that he (most likely) modeled it and put it in the virtual world because of his wife. This is another foreshadowing of the relationship Kinger with bugs, a symbolic meaning of the relationship with his entomologist wife.
Remember that in the third episode, one of the innumerable hints that hide behind Kinger is when Ponmi gets possessed by the spirit, and after he kicks the demon from her body, he says:
Kinger: I’m guessing the souls are attracted to living things. Just want a vessel to be able to leave with. Man… Seven years of computer science for this, huh? Heh.
Confirming that Kinger is a software engineer. And, most likely, a brilliant one.
Ok, we get it; he could work in the project of the digital world, but that’s it; he’s innocent. I don’t think so because a few moments later when Ponmi is giving up, and Kinger is trying to cheer her up, he says this:
(Overcome with all the stress and horrors she went through recently, Pomni begins to sob quietly to herself. Kinger attempts to reach out to her.)
Kinger: It was my fault we went down this path, wasn’t it? I’m really… sorry for that…
(Pomni stop sobbing and wipes the tears form her eyes.)
Pomni: Why have you been acting so different lately…?
It was my fault? He’s not referring to being trapped in the cellar; he’s the one who’s carrying Ponmi at that point. He feels regret because it’s his fault for creating the Digital World. And now that he is conscious again, he feels the weight of his actions.
Maybe he’s not the bad guy—I don’t think he’s the bad guy—but he has plenty of emotional baggage there, and that’s because he took the wrong decisions before. It’s no surprise that his defense mechanism to that reality and to losing his wife is to forget everything.
But who’s the bad guy? Is there a bad guy? Of course, Caine is just an IA; he’s programmed to torture the characters with his crazy adventures. Even in this episode, we can hear this line from Caine:
Caine: I DO NOT use my adventures to torture my guests! Any torment I inflict is 100% accidental, like any good war criminal!
He’s not aware of his bad actions; he’s innocent because he’s programmed that way. He doesn’t have any other option than to do what the code tells him to do.
Caine: Oh, Zooble, Zooble, Zooble. Making adventures is my art! It’s all I exist to do! All I’m… good at. A-And, uh… (Chuckles) …W-What you’re saying could imply that I’m bad at the only thing I’m good at, and that… (His weak chuckling turns to stammering.) That’d be…
(The area around them glitches out.)
So, if Caine is not the bad guy, who’s the man behind the strings? Is Kinger?
Or maybe someone more obvious, someone we could see being mischievous since the first episode.
I have another article about a crazy theory that points out that the real enemy is pretty close to the crew, a character loved by the fans and hated by me (it’s well written, but I hate it because I have hints that accuse him of being the main torturer of the whole Digital Circus).
If you want to know who I’m talking to, you can read this article, which has plenty of evidence and a lot of paranoia.
It’s Jax the mastermind of the digital world? here we have some evidence
Here you have it, this theory is craaaazy.
He’s not only an NPC, he’s much, much more than that.
Special Thanks!
Also, I wanted to give a shout-out to The Smg4 Wiki for making the transcription of the episodes.
And to the Film Theories for providing the basis for this theory, with their episode of Jax being an NPC.
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