• And I Must Scream: As expected by a show based on the original Trope Namer, all the players have been stuck in a digital world for years (except the newcomer Pomni) with no memories of their real names, unable to die or to escape from it, at the mercy of a jovial but eccentric A.I. who wants to understand humans by putting them into crazy, if not dangerous and traumatic adventures. Worst still, they are always pushing themselves to stay sane, or else, they would turn into mindless abominations, known as “Abstracts”, that would eventually be imprisoned in a dark void by Caine.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied by the show's official synopsis where it's stated Pomni and the other current humans are tormented by both Caine and "their own personal traumas".
• Despair Event Horizon: All of them are trying really, really hard not to cross it, because they'll get abstracted.
• Digital Avatar: Their Living Toy forms are all virtual manifestations of themselves.
• Doomed Protagonist: Players have no way to escape the circus, have trouble staying sane long-term and will suffer a Fate Worse than Death should they give up on living.
• Due to the Dead: Perhaps "dead" is not the right word for it, but whenever one of them succumbs to abstraction, the remaining members of the group organize a small funeral service to honor their memory.
• Dysfunction Junction: Every one of them has problems according to the official synopsis and it shows: Pomni is a Nervous Wreck, Ragatha is a Stepford Smiler, Gangle is The Eeyore and a Mood-Swinger, Kinger is another Nervous Wreck and a Cloudcuckoolander, Zooble is The Cynic and has completely lost their sense of gender and Jax is... well, just a Jerkass.
• Establishing Character Moment: Each player except Pomni has a short character teaser dedicated to them, which were recopiled in the "Meet the Gang" video.
  • Ragatha cheerfully waves at the camera, but gets a cleaver thrown into her head. She pulls it out and laughs it off, showing her optimism.
  • Jax chuckles mischievously before tripping Ragatha as she walks by to show that he's a Jerkass.
  • Gangle shyly waves at the camera and giggles before Jax pushes her down and breaks her comedy mask. She comes up wearing her tragedy mask and starts to sniffle, showing that she's sensitive.
  • Kinger looks around before getting startled by Bubble, showing that he's neurotic.
  • Zooble fiddles with the parts on their body and gets irritated, expressing their dissatisfaction with their appearance.
• Feel No Pain: They either feel limited pain or develop an incredible tolerance for it from repeated injury. Ragatha barely flinches when a cleaver is thrown into her head and getting torn to pieces simply makes Zooble annoyed; Pomni does scream when stabbed with multiple throwing knives, but that may well have been just from shock. On the other hand, despite putting on a brave face for Pomni, Ragatha admits glitching spread via abstraction is incredibly painful.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: For now, Pomni and Gangle didn't interact even once, but despite that, the little jester seems to consider the ribbon girl as a friend.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Justified. Since players can’t remember their true name once they end up in the digital world, they can either choose a new name (as long as it respects the realm's family-friendly content and doesn't infringe copyright laws), or let Caine pick one for them.
• Immune to Mind Control: One of the few limitations to Caine's powers is he cannot directly affect or read the players' minds, so that's one psychological horror they're spared. Unfortunately, it also means no one can help them if they go insane and abstract.
• LARP: Caine makes up scenarios for the players to act out and have fun with in order to keep themselves sane. Pomni describes their existence as LARPing.
• Living Toys: Their Digital Avatars evoke this due to the show's I Spy and Toy Story influences: Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax are dolls of different kinds; Gangle is a ribbon and theater mask; Kinger is a chess piece; and Zooble is a mix-and-match toy resembling ZoLO sculptures.
• Loss of Identity: As said by Caine, entering the circus forces them to inevitably confront a radically changed life. To demonstrate Pomni panics over forgetting her original name and Zooble's abandoned any gender identity because they've lost the concept of it.
• Name Amnesia: None of them can remember their name before the Circus, instead making up a new name or using bizarre ones chosen by Caine. This is a probable reference to AM doing the same to Nimdok in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
• The Needless: They don't actually need to eat or sleep, simply eating simulated food for the pleasure of it and sleeping to relax and manage a routine, all of which will hopefully keep some of them sane.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Each of the current players fall under one of these categories:
  • Gangle, Kinger, and Ragatha are Nice. All of them are very helpful and polite to each other, with Ragatha and Gangle in particular being Extreme Doormats who often get abused by Jax. Kinger is also a Kindhearted Simpleton despite having the least amount of sanity within the group and often provides Unwanted Assistance.
  • Jax is Mean. He is a sociopath who regularly abuses everyone in the Digital Circus (especially Gangle and Ragatha), puts both players and NPCs lives in danger for his own amusement, and cares only about himself and his own desires. He also never blames himself for putting everyone in danger, and seeks violence and despair in the adventures that he goes on.
  • Pomni and Zooble are In-Between. Both of them are the ones who keep swearing despite the Magical Profanity Filter coded in the game, and are prone to insulting or shouting at everyone's antics (particularly Jax and Caine). Additionally, Zooble shows disinterest in the adventures, while Pomni was more than willing to abandon everyone at the Circus if it meant finding an escape. However, they're also shown to have a softer side, as Pomni befriends Gummigoo after he learns the truth of him being an NPC and later grows more fond of the other Circus members, and Zooble had finished arranging everything for Kaufmo's funeral while the others were at the Candy Canyon Kingdom.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: It's impossible for them to be permanently injured by most things though they are pretty easily incapacitated. Could possibly be Complete Immortality but the apparent turnover rate for being abstracted obfuscates aging.
• The Noseless: Almost all of the characters lack a nose. The only exception is Ragatha who has a small red triangle for a nose.
• Seen It All: To some extent, all inhabitants in the circus (except the new Pomni and overly-emotional Gangle) have pretty casual reactions to the absurdities on Pomni's first day, further implying they've all been there for longer than they can remember. Jax and Zooble in particular have rather stoic attitudes in the face of everything and aside from brief shifts in tone, nobody is surprised or saddened for long that Kaufmo abstracted and has to be locked away.
• Slapstick Knows no Gender: Every player in the circus, no matter the gender, recieves Amusing Injuries in one way or another, especially Gangle and Pomni.
• Toon Transformation: Their new bodies are colorful, cartoonish and subject to Toon Physics (like easily deforming but recovering from injury).
• Trapped in Another World: They are trapped in a digital world via strange headsets that transported them there.
• True Companions: The second episode establishes that all of the players (except Jax) genuinely care about one another. They even honor Kaufmo's memory with a proper funeral after his abstraction. While Jax doesn't participate in it, he does express a brief bit of sadness before sulking off, implying that he may have at least cared a little bit too.
• Two Girls to a Team: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else was either male, or had an Ambiguous Gender in Zooble's case. After Pomni's arrival alongside Kaufmo abstracting, it's an inversion with Jax and Kinger being the only males and everyone else who's not Zooble being female. This is lampshaded in this comic, wherein Jax states that, now that Kaufmo got replaced by Pomni, there's now a big issue… there are too many girls now.
• Vague Age: Their avatars give little indication of their years though the director has specified they're all adults (Kinger is almost fifty, the others are 22–30). They apparently can't even tell each other's ages by looking, Jax calling Pomni "kid" despite her being older than him.
• Was Once a Man: These are all humans whose souls are trapped in the Digital Circus, but for some reason or another are changed into toys, some (like Gangle and Zooble) less human-looking than others.
• White Gloves: They all have gloves for hands barring Ragatha's three-fingered hands, Gangle's Fingerless Hands and the claw on Zooble's left arm.
• You Can't Go Home Again: All of the survivors but Pomni have accepted they can never escape the Digital Circus, and by the end of the pilot, she seems well on her way to feeling the same.

The main protagonist (technically), an anxious young woman stuck in the form of a toy jester.

• Action Survivor: Despite lacking combat capabilities alongside the glitching preventing her from making physical contact with Ragatha, she somehow manages to avoid being attacked by the Abstracted Kaufmo, even during the second chase sequence.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is pure white, like traditional clown makeup.
• Audience Surrogate: As the newest "addition" to the Circus, she serves as the relatable viewpoint of the audience, that being scared and confused out of her mind as she tries to make sense of the world she's now in and interacting with her more experienced fellows.
• Blush Stickers: Her design comes with them, giving her a cute and innocent look.
• Classical Anti-Hero: A scared and confused Nervous Wreck, Pomni doesn't display much in the way of heroic qualities and her primary objective is to escape the Digital Circus. She is not entirely without redeeming qualities (at least attempting to help Ragatha escape an Abstracted Kaufmo despite the significant risk to her own safety) but she's not without her weaknesses either (choosing to prioritize her own escape over Ragatha and the others' well-being).
• Character Development: While not a big one the second episode show us a more braver and empathic side of her while confronting one of the bandits she was suppose to defeat, a huge difference from her behaviour in episode 1. Also while she's still fearful of being trapped in the Circus, seeing how the gang (minus Jax) act during Kaufmo's funeral make her realize that she is not alone in this nightmare.
• Court Jester: As her avatar for the Circus, she was forcibly transformed into a toy-like version of a jester.
• Deadpan Snarker: She starts to develop into this after the pilot in response to the daily insanity of the Circus, likely as a coping mechanism.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her colorful pupils become random, squiggling black scribbles when she's feeling particularly traumatized or stressed out.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A downplayed example but in most promos released before the pilot's trailer (including her original 2D artwork before it was updated and the series' main poster), the gloves and shoes in each of Pomni's sides had the same color as each other (blue for the right glove and shoe, red for the left ones). From the pilot's trailer onwards, Pomni's right glove is red and her left one is blue, leading to the shoes and gloves on each side to have different colors instead.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are six-part segmented circles with a red and blue pattern and a black outline, looking like the top view of a circus tent.
• Extreme Doormat: A consistent part of her character is the fact that she gets tossed around by her circumstances with ease, such as letting someone like Jax constantly insult her and easily giving into her desires when she gets trapped in the Digital Circus by trying to escape for her own sake, only to fail and fall under a severe Sanity Slippage.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: The red and blue are inverted on opposite sides of her clothing and her eyelashes are on opposite eyelids.
• Happy Harlequin Hat: Her clown outfit comes with a two-pointed jester's cap. Pomni herself however, is anything but happy.
• Heroic Neutral: She's the protagonist, but she really only wants to escape. The only reason she has to cooperate with the other players' awful circumstances is because she is now in their situation alongside them and they all have to share the torment of being under the leadership of the Obliviously Evil circus ringleader, Caine.
• Hidden Depths: In Episode 2, she seems to have some knowledge about computer science, as she immediately realizes that she and Gummigoo ended up “under the map” in the middle of the truck chase, and takes advantage of the surrounding obstacles to create a glitch that would send them back to the Canyon Candy Kingdom reality.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Gooseworx confirms that Pomni's hair color is meant to be black, but it is often depicted inconsistently; while her 3d model depicted her with hair that looks to be a dark shade of brown, the lighting in some scenes makes it appear to be black. Some 2d artwork also depicts her with hair that's a lighter shade of brown, or, in the case of her image on her bedroom door, it's depicted as a dark shade of grey.
• Interspecies Friendship: In Episode 2, she develops a friendship in Gummigoo, an alligator NPC. It unfortunately doesn't last as Caine deletes Gummigoo from existence upon seeing him in the circus, in order not to get NPCs and human avatars mixed up.
• I Reject Your Reality: Upon her arrival, to cope with being stuck in the Circus, she immediately tries to convince herself she's in a dream. The other members respond with Stunned Silence aside from Jax.
• Ironic Name: The word "pomni" can mean "remember" in several Slavic languages (помни), yet it becomes her name because she can't remember her original one.
• Laughing Mad: A good sign she's lapsing into a Heroic BSoD is cracking into shrill Mirthless Laughter.
• Lovable Coward: Physically small and in way over her head, it's no wonder Pomni spends most of her screentime panicking or frozen in fear. It's not always played as an endearing trait, as she ends up abandoning Ragatha twice, though even that's portrayed sympathetically.
• Nervous Wreck: She's constantly frightened of her new surroundings and having to deal with a group of strangers and Caine.
• Nice Girl: It's not too apparent in the Pilot due to Pomni being scared out of her wits' end, but as the series goes on it becomes clear that Pomni is a genuinely kind person when all is said and done. In episode 2, when Gummigoo has a mental breakdown upon realizing that he's just an NPC, Pomni sits down with him and talks through his issues, before offering him a place at the Circus. She has nothing to gain from this, but she doesn't want the guy to feel like he's nothing.
• Non-Dubbed Grunts: Well, it wasn't making grunts or other noises, but in the Japanese, Ukrainian, Korean, and the Indonesian dubs, Pomni's censored profanity is left undubbed.
• Older Than They Look: Pomni is an adult (25 according to the director), but her small stature (all the other players are one head taller than her at least), child-like face, and wimpy demeanor have given some fans the impression she's a teenager, or even a child. Jax may have thought the same, given he refers to her as "kid" shortly after meeting her despite being younger, though Pomni speaks as if everyone would know her age by the second episode.
  Pomni: (annoyed) I'm not a child. You don't have to hype me up.
• Primary-Color Champion: As the main heroine(?) of the show, Pomni wears a red and blue striped jester outfit with yellow highlights. Her pupils are also colored red and blue.
• Prone to Vomiting: Pomni suffers from severe motion sickness, and has visibly vomited after rough rides Once per Episode. In the pilot, she vomits after Caine tours her around the Circus Grounds at mach speeds, and in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", she vomits after the truck she's on gets aggressively launched miles into the air.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Pomni has medium black hair with white skin, and while not exactly gorgeous, she is indeed a very cute looking jester.
• Rubber Woman: Pomni's white skin parts seem to have the ability to stretch and distort when pulled at, as demonstrated in the second episode and "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE". In the former's case, she almost winds up a single-person Body Bridge for Jax to try and cross over when she gets pulled between two trucks, though her legs shrinking as she's stretched further before losing her grip implies there's a limit to how far she can stretch before getting snapped back into place like a rubber band. Pomni doesn't seem to be able to do this voluntarily herself, only when under external pressure from outside forces. Stretching also causes her physical strain.
• Sanity Slippage: The other players warn her about losing her mind due to an obsession with leaving the Circus. After seeing the "exit door" doesn't lead anywhere, then stopping to stare at a computer (implied to be the one that got her into the Circus), she starts laughing maniacally and her facial expressions at the end of the pilot imply she's already on her way to going crazy.
• Scary Teeth: If Pomni is sufficiently stressed or angry enough, her teeth turn into sharp triangles, not unlike a cartoon shark.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Pomni's avatar has (asymmetrical) eyelashes and bangs that frame her face but is otherwise androgynous.
• Tooth Strip: Sometimes her upper and lower teeth connect into a single white strip.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Pomni has rather large eyes but her multicolored pupils are typically quite small, reflecting her constant terror and emotional/mental instability over her new situation.

The optimist of the group, who takes the form of a rag doll.

• Author Appeal: Ragatha is a reference to Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, a movie Gooseworx has stated she has an affinity for many times on Twitter.
• Big Sister Instinct: Quickly develops this towards Pomni. When Pomni glitches out of the map in "Candy Carrier Chaos", Ragatha immediately worries about her safety, and the first thing she does upon reuniting with her is run up to her and ask her if she's okay.
• Black Dot Pupil: Her left eye has a pupil that is a simple dark circle.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her dress is blue, and she's the nicest and most noble of the players in the Circus.
• Cool Big Sis: She's five years older than Pomni and takes this role toward her almost immediately, being her guide in the Circus and compassionately trying to help her fit in.
• Expy: She has a similar look and name to Raggedy Ann due to Gooseworx's fondness of Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure As with the version of Raggedy Ann she is based on, Ragatha is portrayed as cheery and kind, but still with a limit to her patience for others.
• Extreme Doormat: While not to Gangle's extent, she has some difficulties with setting boundaries and is forgiving to a fault. Not helping things is that even though she can show that she doesn't approve of something, she still says or does things she doesn't mean if it means someone else's comfort.
• Fiery Redhead: She's usually pretty cheerful and friendly, but Jax manages to get moody reactions out of her more than once.
• Glurge Addict: Her verse in "A Very Special Digital Circus Song" has her enthusiastically list off stereotypically cutesy things without a shred of sarcasm.
  Sunny days and rainbows, getting hugs, and petting kitty cats
  When you feel down and in the mud, instead of frowning, do a silly dance!
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Ragatha immediately attempts to endear herself to Pomni, is consistently thinking about her well-being, and sadly wonders if the newcomer doesn't like her, implying she has deep-rooted self-worth issues.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: While her button eye is blue, it may not be an actual eye. She is still one of the more innocent characters though.
• In Place of an Eye: Only one of her eyes is an actual eye, the other is a blue sewing button.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She mentions petting kitty cats as one of the things that make her happy in "A Very Special Digital Circus Song".
• Major Injury Underreaction: As demonstrated in her introductory teaser, Ragatha reacts to otherwise mortal injuries with laughter or mild alarm.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is the combination of "rag", referring to her being a rag doll, and Agatha, an Ancient Greek name meaning "good", alluding to her kind nature.
• Never Bareheaded: Has a blue bow in her hair, and is never seen without it.
• Nice Girl: Out-and-out the kindest of the players, Ragatha does her best to welcome Pomni into the fold and help her acclimate to the Circus, and apologizes when things start falling apart on her first day.
• Only Sane Woman: Well, she's clearly not playing with a full bag of marbles herself, but she still comes off as far more well-adjusted and friendly than the rest of the Circus players, all of whom run the gamut from neurotic to cynical to downright mean.
• The Pollyanna: Her introductory tweet describes her as the "sweetest little optimist" in the Digital Circus, which she shows by reacting to the cleaver launched into her head as if it were nothing. That said, the Death Glare she gives Jax after he trips her in his introductory short implies that she has her limits, and the synopsis all but states she has her own trauma like the others. It's heavily implied this is a coping mechanism and a survival tactic.
• Primary-Color Champion: She has red hair, wears a blue dress, and is by far one of the nicest members of the main six.
• Punny Name: She's a rag doll named "Ragatha", a pun on the name "Agatha".
• Rule of Symbolism: Ragdolls are objects meant to comfort and provide emotional security to children. Ragatha does her best to help everyone in the circus keep their head above water and stay optimistic.
• Say My Name: Shouts Jax's name whenever he's being mean or does something bad (which is often).
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She is one of Jax's biggest prank victims alongside Gangle. Unlike Gangle however, she's not shy at all in voicing her displeasure at his antics.
• Stepford Smiler: The pilot heavily implies that her optimistic demeanor is a desperate coping mechanism for the nightmare she's found herself in as well as a way to prevent herself from "Abstracting" like what happened to Kaufmo. It's also confirmed by invoked Gooseworx that Ragatha has a tendency to pretend things don't upset her if she thinks it'll make things easier for other people or defuse situations.
• Team Mom: At 30 years old, Ragatha is not only the second-oldest of the human players (with the oldest being Kinger; she's also the oldest female), she's also the nicest and tries to keep things together between them.
• True Blue Femininity: She wears a light blue dress with a bow, and her button eye is also blue, and she's a very optimistic person, on the outside.
• Visual Pun: When an abstracted Kaufmo throws her around like a... well, you know.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ragatha states that centipedes are her only fear, which is exactly why Jax implies he hid some in her room when she wasn't looking.

A mischievous prankster who takes the form of a purple rabbit.

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Jax possesses purple skin.
• Animal Motifs: He is a human in the form of a talking rabbit.
• Anti-Role Model: With his general lack of empathy, self-centeredness, pettiness and being quite a bully, he is definitely NOT someone you should look up to.
• Attention Whore: He is very happy to have a marketable vinyl figurine made of himself.
  Jax: What can I say? People paying money to just admire me all day sounded like a sweet gig.
• Author Appeal: Gooseworx has admitted more than once that she designed Jax to appeal specifically to her.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: He wears gloves, but not shoes.
• Black Dot Pupils: Well, black square pupils actually, but it still counts.
• Blood Knight: "Candy Carrier Chaos!" shows that Jax gets very excited about violence, ending up annoyed when none of it happened during the episode's adventure. So he arranges for the adventure to have his desired violent climax regardless by covertly leaving the gates to the kingdom unlocked, allowing the Fudge to enter and wreak havoc to his utter glee.
• The Bully: He's cruel for his own enjoyment and focuses on whoever's the least willing and able to fight back.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: Jax wears selfishness and casual cruelty like a badge of honor, deliberately goes out of his way to hurt other characters physically and emotionally, and shows no intention of being anything other than the single biggest asshole in the digital world.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Perpetually sports a wide, toothy grin to tie into his trouble-making personality.
• Deadpan Snarker: He can have a very dry wit, and he doesn't care about mincing his words:
  Jax: [to the Gloink Queen] You know, you could've asked for my consent before forcing me to see something so completely and utterly disgusting.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: The only times he ever helps someone is out of necessity.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils are squared in shape.
• Fatal Flaw: Jax's unfiltered self-centeredness only earns him hatred from his fellow players even if he himself doesn't seem to realize it, and he doesn't care to change this trait no matter how many times he's criticized for it.
• Faux Affably Evil: Downplayed; "Faux Affably Jerkass" is more accurate. Jax is capable of putting on a charming tone around the others even as he's abusing them or ignoring their needs and concerns and thinking about how he can amuse himself instead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Considering the awful way he treats everyone, the only reason the others tolerate him is simply because they're stuck with him. Even Pomni doesn't like him as of Episode 2; he is the only one who Pomni insults and in her Imagine Spot of the other players reaching out for her, he is absent from it.
• The Gadfly: As he himself admits, he doesn't really care what happens as long as he gets to see funny things happen to people.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears overalls and gloves, but no shirt or shoes.
• Hammerspace: Somehow stores the key to Kaufmo's room behind his back. He also ends up shoving a bowling ball in the same place and magically pulls it out to push Kinger and Gangle into the Gloink pit.
• Hair-Raising Hare: A toony purple rabbit and a Jerkass that enjoys tormenting others with a craving for violence.
• The Hedonist: Jax's lifestyle is all about self-satisfaction. This isn't a terrible idea given the risks of going insane from boredom, but most of his enjoyment comes from other's suffering, often at his hands. He's also the one who seems to enjoy eating food the most, despite not needing to.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Jax is already a Jerkass from the outset, but whereas he mainly liked pushing others' buttons and getting them involved in wonton slapstick in the pilot, he's become even worse by "Candy Carrier Chaos!". He verbally abuses and blackmails Gangle, constantly complains that there's no bloodshed happening, and deliberately leaves the gates to the Candy Canyon Kingdom open to unleash the Fudge upon them once more.
• Hidden Depths: In the second episode, he momentarily seems sad before looking annoyed and walking away prior to Kaufmo's funeral. What this means is up for interpretation, but it hints there could be a little more to him than just being a snarky Jerkass all the time.
• Hypocrite: His excuse for refusing to help Zooble when they get taken by the Gloinks? She called everyone idiots, and doesn't want to help because he finds it rude. As if he wasn't always belittling everyone else himself.
• Inexplicably Tailless: While being a rabbit, he lacks a cotton tail (likely to give him more human attributes). Justified as he is not really a rabbit, rather a digital rabbit-shaped avatar.
• It Amused Me: His reason for doing everything he does is that it's for his own amusement, as he himself admits.
• It's All About Me: To say the least, Jax seems to only care about his own pleasure in the grand scheme of things, even if it comes at others' expense.
• Jerkass: Jax is characterized by his sheer disregard for others and willingness to target people who can't fight back against him for the pettiest of reasons. He is also quite uncaring towards the fact that other people besides himself are trapped in the Digital Circus and constantly pursues his life as an avatar joking at other people's expense.
• Jerkass to One: Jax is defined by his general antagonism and is snarky and rude to everyone, but he's most actively malicious towards Gangle, seeing her as an easy target since she never stands up to him.
• Lack of Empathy: In case it wasn't apparent from his Jerkass personality, Jax is very apathetic for the other players' safety. As of the pilot, it's left ambiguous if he was always like this, or if being trapped in the Digital Circus for so long caused him to develop his current persona. In "Candy Carrier Chaos," he very briefly looks visibly sad when the topic of funerals is brought up, but then storms off.
• Laughably Evil: He is a Villain Protagonist who has zero empathy for others, is a huge jackass, seems to care only for himself, and outwardly finds others' suffering to be enjoyable. Though, this is all Played for Laughs of course.
• The Leader: Jax is an interesting case. While he's far from heroic, the only reason why he's able to take charge of the other players is because they're either too mentally unstable (Kinger and Pomni), too passive (Gangle and Ragatha), or too apathetic (Zooble) to take command.
• Lean and Mean: Jax is the troublesome prankster of the cast and is very thin and lanky.
• Master of Unlocking: Jax has the ability to collect keys even when they're not within his reach. In doing so, he's managed to collect keys to everybody's rooms in the circus, with Ragatha pointing out that he shouldn't be able to do so, and the key to the Candy Canyon Kingdom's gates, even though it was given to Ragatha. The Fudge lampshades this, calling Jax a, "master of unlocking things".
• Munchkin: Jax is shown repeatedly to not actually care about engaging with the stories or characters that Caine creates, his only interest being inflicting random violence and suffering on helpless NPCs and the other players for his own twisted sense of amusement. In fact, he gets outright mad in episode 2 when the other performers prevent there from being some sort of climactic final battle with the outlaws or the Fudge (i.e. a "combat encounter").
• Narcissist: He's delighted to have a vinyl figurine in his image, because "people paying money to just admire [him] all day sounded like a sweet gig".
• The Nicknamer: He calls Gangle "Crybaby"^note in the Spanish dub, he calls her "La Llorona" and "Ribbons", Kinger "Hoo-Hah", Ragatha "Dollface", Kaufmo "Kaufy", and either Zoob or Zoobie for Zooble.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Jax is genuinely intrigued by violence and gore to concerning degrees. Actually, he's hardly fazed by anything around him anymore and wants chaos and destruction by any means necessary.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed. He's the only one of the main cast to be perfectly symmetrical.
• Not So Stoic: Downplayed. He usually acts aloof and nonchalant, but in the pilot, he gets mildly irritated when he is hit by a Gloink. Later in the episode, even he looks shocked to find out that Kaufmo abstracted, gets noticeably apprehensive when he hears Kaufmo nearby, and looks around worriedly when he notices a glitching Gloink in the Gloink lair.
• Perpetual Smiler: Jax is rarely seen without a grin on his face. Even when he speaks, his mouth almost never actually opens.
• Phrase Catcher: Ragatha is likely to shout "JAX!" at him when she gets annoyed by his sarcastic remarks.
• Politically Correct Villain: More of a jerk than a villain, but for all of his cruelty, Jax's use of gender-neutral pronouns to refer to Zooble. The fact that a concept art comic shows him putting them in their own category when dividing the cast by gender suggests that he's at least respectful to other people when it comes to their gender identity.
• Pragmatic Villainy: The only reason Jax appears to cooperate with the other cast members is because he wants the entertainment of whatever new adventure Caine has for him, as he otherwise doesn't seem to care for anything beyond personal gratification.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's a Jerkass, but he's nowhere near as mature he thinks he is. As an example, he complains when things don't go the way he wants them to (that being filled with blood and violence) and constantly teases the other Digital Circus players, among other childish things.
• Punny Name: "Jax" is a play on "Jack" (as in a jack rabbit, his avatar within the Digital Circus). Jax could also be a play on jacks, a children's toy, to match the theme of the series. Finally, it may also sound vaguely like "jackass".
• Purple Is the New Black: Downplayed. Jax is a purple rabbit and the resident Token Evil Teammate.
• Rascally Rabbit: He takes the form of an anthropomorphic rabbit and is a crafty prankster.
• Sadist: Jax stands out as the only main character to flat out enjoy seeing others suffer. He admits that his primary motivation is to watch "funny" things happen to people, is disturbingly eager to violently dispatch the sugar bandits when in the Candy Canyon Kingdom, and while his deal with The Fudge to let him back into the kingdom so he can eat the residents was initially so he could give them a ride, once they do manage to get back without the help of the latter, Jax happily allows The Fudge to break into the kingdom and start killing the Candy People anyways.
• A Sinister Clue: Jax, the most unpleasant out of everyone at the circus, is also a lefty.
• Smug Smiler: Jax' smile coupled with his sassy manners and his sneaky eyes are a way to make him all the more insufferable to his comrades.
• Sticky Fingers: He has a habit of stealing and pickpocking keys, mostly so he can explore otherwise off-limit areas and set up pranks.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's one of the tallest members of the Digital Circus (Kinger being slightly taller), has very vivid lavender skin, and is never afraid to speak his mind, even the insensitive things.
• Token Evil Teammate: The other players range from being friendly enough, like Ragatha and Gangle, to mentally disturbed but rather harmless, like Kinger and Pomni, to being a bit grumpy, like Zooble, but Jax is an outright douchebag who pulls mean pranks on the others.
• Tombstone Teeth: His teeth usually appear as a single row of long rectangles, and don't separate even when he's talking (except when Zooble is choking him).
• Toon: Jax uses very dynamic movements, as well as cartoonish visual effects like leaving a smoke silhouette when running away, pulling items out of nowhere and breaking the "Spare" pop-up.
• Troll: His introductory short has him trip Ragatha for no reason other than personal amusement, sporting a cheeky grin on his face the whole time. He also shoves Gangle during her intro just to break her mask.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: One of the show's main cast members, and a highly apathetic jerkass who really only cares for his own ends, of which is Played for Laughs.
• Villain Protagonist: He's one of the protagonists, but is a selfish, abusive jerk with a psychopathic streak.
• Visual Pun: Taking both his misleading sarcasm and only his lips moving when he talks into account, he can be said to be "lying through his teeth".
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Jax is merely a jackass to his fellow players, but is outright bloodthirsty when NPCs are involved, happily arranging for their deaths for no actual benefit other than amusement and outright disappointed he didn't get to maul them himself.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: The sclera of his eyes are yellow, and he's very underhanded and manipulative. In addition, his stealth levels are to the point where he somehow has access to the keys to everyone's room as well as being able to steal the key to the Candy Canyon Kingdom's gates from Ragatha without her realizing.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: His primary color is purple and his eyes, gloves, buttons, and teeth are yellow.

A woman with a ribbon body and a comedy/tragedy mask for a face. The mask she wears depends on whether she's happy or sad (or perhaps the other way around), though her "happy" comedy mask tends to break quite a lot...

• Bully Magnet: Her meek, sensitive demeanor and tendency to cry all the time makes her a perfect victim to torment for Jax, since Gangle doesn't have it in her to stand up to him or call him out like Pomni, Ragatha or Zooble.
• Butt-Monkey: Out of all of the players, she's the one most picked on by Jax; He pushes her in her introductory video, causing her mask to break, then intentionally walks over her already broken mask and later on pushes her to the ground so he can get on an escalator first in the pilot. Even ignoring Jax, she's bound to meet some sort of physical misfortune, often causing her mask to break.
• The Cutie: She's a tiny theatre mask with red ribbons for a body, and is shy, sensitive and downright sweet.
• The Eeyore: While she has two main masks, comedy and tragedy, the comedy mask keeps getting broken, forcing her to almost always wear the tragedy mask. It's implied that her tragedy mask is her default one.
• Expressive Mask: Her mask's eyes and mouth move like it's a normal face, but once it comes off, it becomes frozen into whichever mood she was feeling at the time.
• Expy: Her Expressive Mask concept is modeled after Kedamono from Popee the Performer, as confirmed by Gooseworx.
• Extreme Doormat: She struggles to get the others to go help Zooble, and doesn't even try to stand up to Jax's mean pranks. Gooseworx also confirms that Jax picks on her the most because she's the easiest target and won't stand up for herself.
• Fingerless Hands: She lacks proper fingers on her ribbon limbs. This trope is most noticeable in a scene where Kinger beats Gangle in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors because Gangle has no fingers (and Kinger does).
• Floating Limbs: Her arms and legs aren't actually connected to her torso.
• Genki Girl: She's bubbly and cheerful whenever she has her happy mask, but considering it gets broken Once per Episode, she rarely stays that way for long.
• Manchild: She's an adult (26 years old, according to Gooseworx), but acts like an emotional teenager.
• Meaningful Name: She has long, gangly arms and legs, mostly because they are ribbons.
• Misery Trigger: Breaking her comedy mask will force her to revert to her tragedy mask and become very sad.
• Mood-Swinger: Her masks and emotions shift very rapidly.
• Nice Girl: She's right up there with Ragatha as one of the nicer players, even in her tragedy mask. When Zooble is captured by the Gloinks, she tries to get people to help them, to unfortunately little avail. She also feels bad for not laughing at Kaufmo's jokes, and drew a piece of them that she shows the others during her eulogy for his funeral.
• No Face Under the Mask: Her Expressive Masks don't have a face under them.
• Noodle People: Due to her body being made of ribbons, she is easily the thinnest member of the cast.
• Older Than They Look: Her child-like demeanor and way of speaking would give the impression that she's one of the younger humans in the Circus, but she's actually 26, making her a year older than Pomni.
• Perpetual Frowner: Every time her comedy mask breaks, she becomes sad and teary-eyed.
• Prone to Tears: Justified, as her tragedy mask produces tears constantly, so she's actually unable to stop crying.
• Rubber-Hose Limbs: Her whole body is nothing but a thin spiral of red ribbon.
• Sensitive Artist: In the second episode, Gangle is seen sobbing while holding a framed pencil drawing of herself and Kaufmo during her eulogy at Kaufmo's funeral, implying she drew it herself.
• Shrinking Violet: She's very shy, withdrawn, and naturally inclined towards crying, which makes it hard for her to assert herself or stand up to Jax's bullying.
• Stepford Smiler: It's implied by the several broken comedy masks on the walls in the aforementioned promotional image and in some concept arts, as well as her mentioning that her comedy mask is broken again that sadness is her real mood, and has to literally put on a mask for the show. She even lampshades it herself during her verse in "A Very Special Digital Circus Song", where she describes herself as "always happy, never sappy" before her mask breaks.
• Tearful Smile: Any smile she makes when wearing her tragedy mask counts as this.
• Tender Tears: She has tears constantly hanging from her eyes on her tragedy mask, and seems to be very sensitive.

A man who's been trapped in the Digital Circus longer than the other five humans. His virtual form is a white king chess piece in a purple robe.

• Authority in Name Only: He considers himself to be royalty due to his Digital Avatar being a chess king, but has no real authority in the circus, and doesn't lord his supposed status over the others, instead happily engaging with them as equals.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Kinger's intense paranoia and anxiety parallel his basis: the single most vulnerable piece in Chess.
• Chess Motifs: He takes the appearance of a living chess king in the Digital Circus.
• Cloudcuckoolander: When he's not having a startle, a paranoiac fit, or a Moment of Lucidity, Kinger tends to be pretty out there, often forgetting things that just happened and bringing up utterly irrelevant topics and events entirely detached from whatever's currently happening. His attempts at helping are also... not helpful at all, as he tries to save Pomni by sending her a buoy (while she's above a candy equivalent to dirt) and an anchor tied to their truck.
• Cool Old Guy: As he's nearly 50 years old and the longest-surviving member of the Circus, he holds the most seniority among the players. That being said, he is never dictatorial or cruel, merely trying to empathetically bond with the younger members and guide them through living in the digital prison they've all found themselves in.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A vocal variant. His off-screen voice is heard in Bubble's teaser, released days before his own.
• Fish Eyes: Given that his avatar's eyes are mostly out of their "sockets" and are at different heights, not to mention him having a vacant, traumatized stare as a default expression.
• Floating Limbs: His hands are White Gloves that hover in front of his body. When he tries to save Zooble from the Gloinks in the pilot, this only results in the Gloinks stealing his hands too when he grabs Zooble's head.
• Forgetful Jones: He has a very flaky memory, often getting startled by people he's been standing next to for a while, and losing track of conversations while he's having them.
• Friend to Bugs: While his general frayed sanity leaves him a mess most of the time, he noticeably perks up and goes bright eyed when he thinks there's an insect collection nearby, and considers the butterflies of the Candy Canyon Kingdom beautiful.
• Gentle Giant: Kinger is one of the tallest players (alongside Jax and Zooble), and while he's an emotional mess and can be dangerous in his crazy moments, he seems to care for his friends' safety and sanity, both in his insane and sane moments.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his Cloudcuckoolander nature, Kinger is shown to have a surprisingly detailed understanding of how the digital world works, explaining to Jax how the food there "only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits". It's left unclear whether this is just because he's been in the Circus longer than the rest of the players, or if he has a deeper connection to it from his past.
  • In Episode 2, he comforts Ragatha with an even tone in regards to Ragatha's anxiety about her possible friendship with Pomni having instantly been ruined by the disastrous first day, remarking that he remembers how out-of-sorts Ragatha herself was when she first arrived at the Circus, and assuring Ragatha that Pomni just needs adjustment time. He's also rather lucid when the subject of the funerals comes up, enough to perform part of the eulogy himself.
  • Kinger is able to show off his amazing vocal chops during his musical segment in A Very Special Digital Circus Song while also stating his singing is Tony Award winning.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: While he's not right in the head, he gets along well enough with the other players.
• Mad Eye: Neither of his eyes look quite the same... and he's very, very mentally unbalanced.
• Nervous Wreck: He's constantly shaking, has a Thousand-Yard Stare from bloodshot eyes, and cowers in fright when Bubble gets near him. Being the one who's had to put up with Caine's games the longest probably has something to do with it.
• Nice Guy: Despite his nervousness and paranoia, Kinger is a rather friendly and well meaning person, even if he clearly isn't all there.
• No Mouth: His chess piece head only has lopsided, bloodshot eyes.
• The Old Convict: Supposedly, Kinger has been trapped in the game the longest. He sometimes drops hints that he knows more about how the digital world works than the others do.
• Punny Name: His name is Kinger and he takes the form of a king piece wearing a royal robe.
• Sanity Slippage: He was once a completely rational man, but years of being trapped in the Digital Circus have frayed at his sanity, making him paranoid and forgetful.
• Team Dad: In rare moments where he's not being a hysterical screwball, he takes on a fatherly and reassuring role for the group, and is the oldest member of the group at 48 years old.

A moody grouch with a slew of mix-and-match parts for a body.

• Ambiguous Gender: It's unlikely any of the players' digital bodies have physical sexes, but Zooble's is notably lacking in almost any gendered features and even their voice is androgynous.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: When asked if Zooble is non-binary due to being described as a gender-neutral "they", Gooseworx responded that "Zooble doesn't know what they are." In response to the captions for the pilot formerly referring to them with a "he" at one point, Gooseworx later said that, while the script read "they", she believes they'd be fine with any pronouns.
• Cartoon Creature: Their design heavily evokes this, with antennae and wings, mainly due to being an abstract assembly toy.
• Creator Thumbprint: Design-wise, they're essentially a mix of Gooseworx's shape-head characters and mix-and-match toys like Mr. Potato Head and ZoLO play sculptures.
• The Cynic: Always in a sour mood, have given up escaping a long time ago and reacts to Caine's adventures and their companions' antics with annoyance and contempt.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Their right eye has a hypnotic swirl for a pupil.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Each of their body parts are asymmetrical (being inspired by abstract art) and they possess a bottomless chest in their bedroom containing many body parts of different colors and patterns that they can change whenever they feel like it.
• Good Is Not Nice: They're not afraid of chiding someone screwing up, calling Kinger a "motherf—*CENSORED*" for being too incompetent to rescue them from the Gloinks.
• Good Is Not Soft: Zooble is so far the only one who doesn't take Jax's crap. The moment he messes around, plucking their arm to scratch his back, Zooble strangles Jax in retaliation.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to make them mad... which makes Jax the worst person for them to be around.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being grumpy and exasperated towards the chaos of living at the circus, Zooble is fairly civil and never treats the others cruelly. They're also sincerely mournful when others abstract, and is the one to personally organize Kaufmo's funeral in "Candy Carrier Chaos!".
• Mad Eye: While Zooble's left eye is fairly normal looking, their right eye is larger, sticks further out of their head and has a spiral pupil.
• No Mouth: Their head is a triangular prism with eyes but no mouth.
• Once per Episode: As confirmed by Gooseworx, and shown between the pilot and "Candy Carrier Chaos!", Zooble changes their appearance in each episode. Their bedroom door icon in particular shows a version of their design we have yet to see in-person. That said, their bean body and triangular head always remain the same.
• Perpetual Frowner: They are almost never seen without constant Angry Eyebrows.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Their main gimmick is their ability to detach and swap any of their limbs. Jax easily rips off one of their arms (which prompts them to strangle him with the torn off arm), the Gloinks tear them to pieces and make off with them, and after the quest is over, they rebuild themselves offscreen while Kinger is holding their head.
• Refusal of the Call: Zooble does this any time Caine sends the gang on an adventure. Caine sometimes respects Zooble's decision depending on the episode, not that this is guaranteed to keep Zooble from getting caught up in it.
• Second Law of Gender-Bending: In a very unconventional version, Zooble being put in a genderless body in the Circus has led them to not identify as any gender, whether from abandoning a previous one or just not remembering it.
• She's a Man in Japan: In the original, Zooble has an Ambiguous Gender Identity, but in the Russian dub is referred to with words that explicitly label them as female.
• The Snark Knight: Zooble goes beyond being a mere Deadpan Snarker, with pretty much every line they deliver being loaded with bitter sarcasm.
• Stealth Pun: Zooble is made of detachable parts and would rather not be involved in any of Caine's shenanigans. They have quite the detached atittude.
• Stepford Snarker: It's heavily implied that their cynical and sarcastic behavior to their predicament in the Circus is their way of refraining to go insane and abstract.
• The Stoic: Most of the time, they have an emotionless, deadpan demeanor to the absurdities happening around them, even if they show themselves to be Not So Stoic by moments.
• Stumbling in the New Form: They have a bit of trouble with walking, due to the perpetually mismatched nature of their legs.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: A variant; according to Gooseworx, Zooble has a bottomless box of parts in their room that allows them to customize their appearance however they want. As such, they look different in every episode, with only their pink, triangular head and yellow polka-dotted bean body remaining consistent.

^{Click here to see him after he abstracted.}

A man with a simplistic clown avatar and (supposedly) jovial demeanor who abstracted right before Pomni appeared.

• Black Bead Eyes: His is the only avatar seen thus far to have them.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: Implied: Gangle feels terribly guilty for not laughing at his jokes and Ragatha admits she couldn't fake a convincing laugh at them herself. Not even the two kindest (and two of the sanest) characters of the lot could find humor in whatever he was telling.
• Death of Personality: Kaufmo, like all victims of abstraction, is transformed into a mindless rampaging monster and has to be locked in the Cellar with the rest of the abstracted.
• Digital Abomination: After he abstracted, Kaufmo doesn't look like a clown anymore, but rather like a giant, amorphous blob of glitching and spasming darkness covered in eyes, who makes anyone he touches glitchy.
• Doomed Predecessor: Kaufmo was looking for the exit door before Pomni, abstracting because he couldn't find it. In a cruel twist, Pomni "successfully" finds the door but discovers it doesn't actually lead to anything.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: In his abstracted form, as is the case with all abstracted players.
• The Ghost: Already abstracted by the start of the series, so what he was like as a person can only be inferred by what the other players say about him.
• Killed Off for Real: Played With. Physically speaking, Kaufmo is still alive, but abstraction is permanent and he can't stay in the Circus anymore without attacking anyone he sees. The remaining Circus members see Kaufmo's abstraction as a form of death and hold a funeral for him in the second episode.
• Mad Artist: His room, along with tons of deranged writings on the wall and drawings of Caine, is covered in creepy or sad paintings he made for himself, such as a black and white picture of himself walking alone on a road with the caption 'NO WAY OUT', a couple of more realistic self portraits of him with pitch black and bleeding eyes, multiple drawings of dark and empty hallways, and two drawings depicting Abstractions, one of which mirrors the exact scene playing out between him and Jax, a figure in the light of a doorway confronting an Abstraction huddled in the darkness.
• Morphic Resonance: Downplayed, as while he is mostly unrecognizable in his abstracted form, he does retain his proportions with an elongated head, stout body, and noodly limbs.
• Non-Ironic Clown: His avatar design looks like the usual friendly cartoon clown, and Ragatha mentioned he told plenty of (bad) jokes.
• Posthumous Character: In the Pilot, as the other circus members are introduced, his introduction has a cutout of him with subtitles saying that he didn't show up. When Jax and Ragatha take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, they mention what type of person he was, saying he wasn't that good at making jokes, and was rather anti-social. When they reach his room, they discover Kaufmo has abstracted, which is explained to be what happens when a person's mind is so broken that they become some bizarre monstrosity that isn't recognizably human anymore, and are essentially seen as if they had died. The end of "Candy Carrier Chaos!" shows that the other players had been planning a funeral for Kaufmo, but were so busy helping Pomni acclimate that they hadn't got around to it. Even though music plays over the players' eulogies, it's clear that Kaufmo meant a lot to them and they miss him dearly.
• Primary-Color Champion: Much like Pomni, his clown outfit is composed of primary colors. With most of it being yellow with some red and blue accents.
• Room Full of Crazy: His room is shown to be wrecked with the word "exit" scrawled again and again over every inch of space, along with a drawing of him being relentlessly chased by Caine.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Already gone right before Pomni shows up, establishing to both her and the audience that abstraction is a very real threat for the Circus players.
• Sad Clown: A very literal example, considering his noted tendency to tell jokes before abstracting.
• Sanity Slippage: He ends up being an example of not just it, but also what it leads to in the Digital Circus, abstraction. It was brought on by his obsession with finding an exit.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Unlike the other current inhabitants of the circus who either appeared in the trailers or in their own character short before the pilot's release, Kaufmo had almost next to no hints at his existence except for an image of his regular form released on Glitch Productions Twitter page two days before release. This was likely done to hide the fact that he had already "Abstracted" by the time of the pilot.
• Starter Villain: As Pomni didn't follow the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, Kaufmo is the first danger she faces in the Digital Circus. He's also a more concrete threat than the Gloink Queen, as he can really hurt the players with his corruption, and his mere existence is a dark reminder of the fate that awaits those who don't adapt quickly to the Circus.
• Vague Age: Has various toys such as blocks and a rocking horse in his room. This is not an indicator of his age, as this post image shows that Pomni's room also contains children's toys despite her being an adult.
• Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him and his conspicuous absence from the intro without revealing that he abstracted, bringing up abstraction and its greater implications in the process.
• Was Once a Man: This technically applies to all brought into the Circus, but Kaufmo particularly abstracts and turns into a multi-eyed monstrosity of black ooze.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's already snapped and become abstracted before even being properly introduced.
• White Gloves: Being a simplified cartoony clown, he sports a pair.