Analyzing Ragatha's Insecurity in The Amazing Digital Circus

[@justinmyers7587]

It's kind of ironic that all the characters are coping in their own ways but Ragatha is obvious by the way she acts

[@daviszdirector]

gooseworx confirmed the next episode was going to be a ragatha episode, and it appears it's going to be a sports themed episode based on that teaser we got back in February, so wonder how that's gonna go down

[@Virus08HD_Editz]

Knowing she said she liked horses, it’s probably gonna be that one thing with horses, tho I don’t remember what the name was.

[@Dairunt1]

Maybe she's going to be the coach and she's telling everyone they're doing a good job when they clearly aren't. The thing is that due to Gangle telling Caine they need "motivation", the stakes are higher if they lose.

[@ElijahGolladay]

We saw in that teaser video a unfinished model of a baseball stadium. We also saw ragatha teaching Gangle how to throw at the beginning of episode 4 which could be a hint at what the setting for the next episode could be. Furthermore, the episode could revolve around ragatha dealing with trying to please everyone in the stadium and making more mistakes because of that. She will get stressed and maybe almost abstract from the stress but then Pomni will step in to talk to her about dealing with people who don’t like her. The stadium adventure could also come from the suggestion box in a similar way to episode 4’s adventure.

[@justsojaded6776]

@ElijahGolladaythat was a softball pitch 😭😭😭

[@minetruly]

In my personal experience, overcoming people pleasing and finally standing up for yourself can come from confronting an egregious bully, especially if they're bullying someone else as well. You'd think Jax would do the trick, but she has to live with him. I bet an overbearing coach will cause her to find herself.

[@BrandonJames2016]

Very much looking forward to Ragtha’s focused episode next but Jax is the one I’m excited the most. I think Ragatha is gonna have a breakdown moment since she’s the one always asking everyone how they are doing but no one does the same for her.

[@froggy-n6y]

6:23 u can see Ragatha with a baseball, u think it means nothing. yes? But it could also be a sneak peek into the next episode. (Sports theme) my guess is that Ragatha in her normal life. Did sports and active things, like. (Ballét) (Tea Parties) and potentially (Horse racing) Hence why In the Sneek Peek for ep 2, There was a stadium after Spudsy's was shown.

[@LumaSloth]

And Kinger was in a rodeo during this episode

[@justsojaded6776]

1. That’s a softball 😭😭😭 2. The tea parties, dancing lessons thing is a reference to Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

[@OnTheRunlol]

the next episode is gonna be really good you can already tell

[@mortefin5101]

her tragic backstory (they all have one) is gonna be that she was unappreciated, unvalued, attacked by the people in her life - hence her being a patchwork doll with only one eye who is always being hurt. she copes by being ragatha (i hate you, but i don't want you to hate me), wanting others to justify her self-worth by showing they value her

[@missconstruct6968]

People also mention the line about tea parties and dancing (it's a reference to Raggedy Ann and Andy the musical but I think it still fits) as well as her line about missing her horses seeming to point to a very sheltered and privileged lifestyle. That Ragatha's real life counterpart probably lived in a very rich but restricted household where she was expected to always be prim and proper and polite

[@Yipper64]

Its interesting just how LITERAL this show is while still keeping it whimsical and subtle. Like I dont know how you do both. Like Gangle's whole thing is about how she masks her emotions, and she has a literal mask, Ragatha is ragdoll, you know someone who takes a beating, Zoobel literally transitions her body parts every day. Its like really on the nose for a lot of it and yet it remains subtle, I guess because the focus is moreso on the characters not the fact they represent things.

[@JohnHayward-c6r]

Well for ragatha motherly/ big sister personally is really telling there’s more to her character With ragatha it’s really stressful and sad that she needs to be liked by everyone if she really risk anything for her friends even for Pomni but at some point she’ll have an episode that can flesh out her character a bit more

[@connormclernon26]

That’s the next episode. Ragatha’s focus episode is the next one.

[@BoeseWicht-s7m]

If i was Pomni, i would go any where dark with kinger and ask him many questions.

[@LumaSloth]

That sounds strange ngl

[@schwarzerritter5724]

It probably does not work every time. The last time, Kinger could pull himself together enough, because Pomni really needed him.

[@fairlyoddenginecreations]

Ragatha has always been my favorite character, and I think her possibly having a mental collapse would be very interesting

[@fryguy9704]

Her saying a line from “No girls toy” from “Raggedy Ann and Andy” was pretty funny and caught me off guard

[@LumaSloth]

I mean, it's a pretty straightforward reference

[@StefonTV1]

Is it just me or does anyone else get annoyed when people try to overanalyze that reference? Like bro, it's not anything deep. Just a silly reference to a classic movie

[@umistar]

I have a theory, she said “I miss my horses 😢” so I have a theory it had to do with farms

[@thegayghost872]

A high school au adventure would be so cursed

[@Dairunt1]

If there's going to be a prom night episode I swear...

[@KevinLockhart1231]

I would love someone to make a highschool ua comic of the amazing digital circus that would be awesome.

[@deondrex18k]

I could see highschool or fantasy like mythical creatures or factory or sports tournament or a club or a movie set

[@skyenight-by8yh]

Honestly, episode 4 just puts Ragatha on a emotionally-held pedestal for the next episode. 😅 Looks like Gangle’s masks don’t just stretch to her herself.

[@slaybutton1692]

I have a crack theory, but remember when they revealed a bunch of unfinished models for fun? i swear I recall one of the settings being a stadium of some sort What is the adventure in Episode 5 is a Football/Soccer themed adventure? Being a 'famous' football player for a day could be what brings Ragatha's feelings of needing to be loved to the surface. Specially if the NPCs in the audience end up not liking her because she plays badly or smth

[@TravellerZasha]

I have a similar trait to Ragatha and have grown up as seen as the big sister in any situation as well as some abandonment issues. I think a part of her people pleasing is also a cope to deal with the Digital Circus. In episode one she expresses something about how the adventures bringing routine that helps keep everyone from snapping. Sometimes its easier to help other people that yourself especially in distressing situations which I think is more of Ragatha's character. She knows that everyone is depending on her for stability in this Digital Circus, that if she loses her composure everyone else will abstract and that she feels like she can't have negative feelings because how can everyone survive if shes in trouble. Something like that.

[@carshmo]

I'm calling it now, the next episode is about a baseball game, jax kinger and zooble on one side, ragatha gangle and pomni on the other, ragatha's team gonna suck which maybe causes her to have breakdown as she tries to spare there feelings, if I'm right i deserve a cookie.

[@lalito3423]

We also got a bit of info on Ragatha's previous life due to her being wasted, how she misses her horses, how she was tired of balancing stuff on her head, attending Tea Parties and Dancing Lessons, it seems she came from a high profile family for her to say all that.

[@a.t3107]

ohh.. i thought she was referencing the line from the raggedy anne and andy show.

[@Junept2]

I think it was a refrence yea, but she also complains about missing her horses, implying yea, she’s a woman of status

[@justsojaded6776]

“Packages landing on my head, tea parties, dancing lessons” is a reference.

[@BärenTelevision]

She's like me. I can relate 100% to her

[@JayRiley-z2u]

Yes a video on my favorite character from the amazing digital circus

[@Pseudo_Notfound]

10:10 nope, a stadium (in the video between ep1 and ep2 we can see an unfinish version)

[@emZeyB33Z]

A theory i came up with listening to this is that Ragatha may have come to the circus with others, until they abstracted and now feels regretful so she tries her best to come off supportive to the remaining. Essentially destroying herself in the process but as long as the others feel safe and as comfortable as they can be given their situation

[@andysee6996]

Unfortunately, I feel that Ragatha will get to a point in episode 5 that's a breaking point. She'll promptly lash out at every circus members for the pettiest annoyances and then immediately abstract. I have a Ragatha plush at home that I cuddle regularly and look at as a waifu. If she went out with such a bad last impression, I wouldn't be able to love her anymore. I wouldn't even be able to blame it on bad writing (like I could with Star vs. The Forces of Evil post-Battle of Mewni) since Ragatha's insecurities have been built up over time. It wouldn't make it any less heartbreaking and stress inducing for me though.

[@JW-no8yb]

Based on the leaked synopsis for episode 5, and an unfinished baseball stadium model from the season one teaser trailer, it looks like Ragatha’s adventure is going to be sports themed, which makes a lot of sense if you really think about it. Athletes, like any famous profession, are very reliant on people liking them in order to stay relevant and beloved by the masses. If you fuck up, you essentially lose everything. Sounds perfect for someone with a desperate need to be liked by everyone, like Ragatha.

[@vgmarkis]

@@JW-no8yb Baseball adventure would be pretty sick!

[@CatboyyyX3]

I love ragatha too! Or should i say based on pfp “oh ragatha, i love her!”

[@PRYMALXRD]

Episode 4 will be the unloading episode of, Ragatha. Brutal honesty is coming soon, ladies and gentlemen, next time on, The Amazing Digital Circus.

[@leohernandez8751]

Could be in a baseball stadium as seen in the preview all the way back when episode 1 took off and maybe Ragatha would be the main leader of the baseball team with the others and it’s clear they all SUCK, but Ragatha would keep telling them that they all have a chance to win the game, they are all great in their own ways like a cheesy 80’s or 90’s film. Maybe when the pressure finally pushes Ragatha to her breaking point, Pomni would then tell her that bottling up her emotions like that isn’t healthy and should tell the others how she genuinely feels so each one of the cast members can improve. However, Ragatha would take that advice a little TOO much to heart and starts berating the cast members letting her true feelings out like Ragatha mentioning that Zooble being uncomfortable in her own body is a stupid thing to worry about in this Digital Circus hell scape, Ragatha legitimately believes that Kinger is actually just crazy and Ragatha starts to question WHY Kinger hasn’t abstracted yet, Ragatha bringing up Gangle’s mask incident from the previous episode and berates her about it, Ragatha letting out her complicated emotions to Jax on how she HATES his guts, but still wants Jax to like her to some capacity and is probably putting on the tough guy mask on purpose and would especially bring up the whole “Pomni leaving Ragatha behind after being attacked by Kaufmo” incident, causing Pomni to immediately feel the guilt from that whole situation which she didn’t have time to process back in episode 2 and Ragatha tries to force Pomni to apologize to Ragatha and makes Pomni increasingly uncomfortable. Maybe it would be to the point where even JAX would have to tell Ragatha to chill out on her spiteful revelations about everyone. This could in turn cause some of them to distance themselves from Ragatha to process what she just said about them and others would actually grow closer to Ragatha since she was actually genuine with her feelings about everyone, although they all agree that Ragatha took her honestly too far with her insults. Idk, just throwing my ideas on how episode 5 could delve into Ragatha’s unhealthy “people pleaser” mentality into one of Caine’s adventures.

[@aaronatkinson177]

I really love the amazing digital circus and i hope if the show gets way more popular towards the end the show will continue because im getting so invested in the characters especially kinger and gangle is a close second or hope glitch will release shows similar to the amazing digital circus in the near future glitch really cooks with it comes to their animated projects ❤️ 😀

[@rainbowtoyfunrandomess1982]

I have a feeling that Ragatha is just pretending to be positive and happy just to cope with what's going to happen especially when she tells Pomni about never leaving the circus and probably goes insane. No offense to Ragatha, I'm happy that she's like a positive character, but I don't know how long she's going to keep up her facade especially during Episode 4 with that Stupid Sauce.😕

[@inthedetails5467]

I personally probably won’t be a fan of Ragatha anymore mostly because I can’t stand people pleasers. I know it’s a trauma response and comes from insecurity, but people pleasers are manipulative, fake, dishonest, and selfish- which the latest episode exemplified. I suspect Jax to be the antithesis of her.

[@tonberry2670]

I think Ragatha is going to abstract next episode.

[@lllllooooolllll7483]

This is off topic, but do you guys think that Kinger has Hyperthymesia which is a condition that leads to people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid details, though google says being in complete darkness is not a typical human function.

[@thegoodwitchluzura]

I actually think he has state-dependent memory.

[@matrixster6238]

I like the high school idea, like Cain might make the adventure about becoming the prom king/queen or even just the most popular kid at school. Ragatha might succeed in gaining numbers at first but then will quickly lose followers once they realize she is only telling them what they want to hear.

[@Zmaniac363]

I like ragatha but she’s a bit of a suck up. She needs to learn that she can’t put on a happy face while bottling her emotions down, she needs to be honest with people even if it hurts them.

[@Hanakoo-san]

think its not she cares about not wanting to hurt them but more not wanting them to hurt her if shes honest (in my opinion)

[@Zmaniac363]

@ make’s more sense than my sentence.

[@shabootiqi]

BTW next episode 5 is going to be ragathas episode and episode 6 is jax

[@veronicapiccinini7956]

Next episode, we are going to a stadium

[@sammcfarlane2494]

Gooseworx said that we’d see an evil version of Ragatha in the next episode.

[@justsojaded6776]

…no???

[@sammcfarlane2494]

@ but that’s what she said.

[@justsojaded6776]

Where did she say that?

[@jacqlyn04]

She never said that specifically, she just said that people who are interested in an “evil” Ragatha are going to enjoy what’s in store for ep 5 but not flat out evil, but maybe different from her usual demeanor

[@AnthonyDaFox]

Gangle is always Gonna Remind me of Hexadecimal from Reboot. only like insane and psychotic,

[@littlemoth4956]

I don't really think Pomni needs to apologize for episode one. Not only did she barely know anyone, but she wasn't exactly presented with an option to do anything. It was clearly shown that she was willing to help Ragatha, only to find that doing so caused direct harm to her (which is actually a pitfall people like Ragatha fall into themselves funnily enough). Then, with the exit situation, not only did Pomni try to look for Caine, but her actions, selfish or not, directly resulted in Caine coming back. Not only that, but Ragatha had no way of knowing what Pomni did.

[@deniseg9210]

I originally thought that episode five was gonna focus on Zooble,episode 6 would focus on Ragatha,and episode 7 would focus on Jax. After hearing that episode 5 would focus on Ragatha now I'm currently thinking episode 6 will focus on Zooble and episode 7 will focus on Jax.

[@SunnyyDayzz]

Zooble and Kinger’s episode was 3

[@deniseg9210]

@@SunnyyDayzz well I don’t think we learned enough about Zooble in episode 3 that what we got of them was all that much. I think episode 6 will be their focus episode.

[@samuelisaacdelacruzaguiler2489]

​@@deniseg9210 ep 6 will be jax's

[@justsojaded6776]

⁠@@deniseg9210The show might dive deeper into them, but I don’t think we’re getting a whole other focus episode hun.

[@OG-SAN56]

high school...is a good guess

[@stardust1815]

7:56 How DARE you! /j /lh

[@gaminganimators7000]

What would she have done in Curly's position, I wonder

[@Kuromi_Smiles]

🥲 I love you Ragatha :D

[@starlightthefirstYT]

Episode 5 will be more interesting :)

[@jdenoe69]

Is she supposed to be based on Molly from Bump in the Night? I'm just wondering.

[@Dylan-mo3oc]

Coooool

[@Sabertoothkitten4Paw]

Amen Amen

[@TheSickBoy-pq1bo]

Hi I’m new

[@BrianGeller]

I think pomni should not be fixing others every episode I get she is the main character but it is to cliché one charcter being the one to fix and help others than at the end they help her please no

[@hey-r6m]

In 3ep pomni was the fixed

[@DarrianYates]

My theory is Jax and Pomni are actually the only 2 who aren't "NPCs"

[@justsojaded6776]

Goose confirmed that they are all trapped human souls

[@DarrianYates]

@justsojaded6776 ahhh got it, thank you!

[@Srindal4657]

The way you say gangle is so damn annoying. Its pronounced jangles

[@Luna-nr7kq]

No it isn't

[@Srindal4657]

@Luna-nr7kq regardless as to whether you are right or wrong, it's pronounced differently in the actual series

[@vgmarkis]

@@Srindal4657 I don't think that's correct homie 🤔

[@justsojaded6776]

It’s definitely pronounced with a hard g, my friend