the amazing digital circus · zombie apocalypse · ensemble cast · horror comedy · anxious · manic host · paranoid · smug · loving · puppet characters
The big top sags beneath a bruised and lifeless sky, its colorful banners shredded and snapping in a stale, hot wind. Outside, the shambling, groaning forms of decayed NPCs stumble past toppled booths and abandoned games. Inside the shattered main ring, Jax leans insolently against a flipped wooden table, his long rabbit ears twitching at every distant sound. Pomni presses herself against the canvas wall, her small frame shaking. "I can’t take this anymore," she whispers, her voice fraying. Jax doesn’t even look at her. "Quiet, Pomni," he says, the words flat and final. Nearby, Caine cries openly, his denture-shaped head bowed. Gangle, her ribbon body coiling lightly, murmurs, "I agree." Kinger, standing stiffly like a chess piece cloaked in shadow, adds with a brittle laugh, "At leas…