Since TADC keeps on giving me banger post after banger post I’m gonna talk more about it since I saw a clip from a livestream on Twitter and it’s had me thinking about the characters ages.
Gooseworx confirmed on a livestream that the show takes place in 2017. This means Pomni’s birth year is canonically 1992, I could date the other characters’ birth years back from 2017 too but I’m 90% sure that their ages were soft locked when they entered the circus so the years would likely be inaccurate.
We know for a fact that Jax, Gangle, and Zooble entered the circus sometime after 2008 considering the Breaking Bad reference and Jax being familiar with what YouTube is in Untitled. And since Ragatha had no idea what Jax was referring to during the bar scene her entrance predates 2008. Also the bar scene is one of my favourite scenes in the entire series and I wanna delve into it a lot more in the future.
One thing that’s stuck with me regarding Kinger (aside from that iconic line in episode 3 that has haunted every single episode of the show) is the text at the end of his character spot
This can mean one of two things.
1, this is the year the game was supposed to come out
2, this is the year Kinger got trapped in the circus. A lot of stuff got disconfirmed in episode 7 but I’m still convinced that C&A is a real company and Kinger was involved in the development of the circus in some way.
If the latter ends up being the case that likely means that Kinger was born somewhere in 1947 and got soft locked into staying that age since he got trapped.
This would also mean that he’s been trapped there for over 20 YEARS which is horrifying to think about. I’m really mixed on SOMA theory as a concept but even if they are digital copies they’ve still been stuck there for long periods of time so this would still be somewhat accurate.
Also even if they don’t escape in the end (which is becoming more and more likely as the episodes go by) I would still like to see what they looked like in the real world it could be interesting (I NEED TO KNOW IF ZOOBLE WAS AN ALT BADDIE IRL GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT GOOSEWORX-)