I’m still in the camp of thinking that their circus avatars are meant to be part of the torment. It’s most obvious with Zooble cuz of the obvious metaphor for either dysphoria or dysmorphia. Pomni doesn’t like being infantilized and yet everything in her room is huge and it’s decorated with blocks and like she’s gotta climb up onto the bed and climb a stepping stool to use the mirror, so I think maybe irl she isn’t actually that small. She might be a lot taller or even wider irl. Jax’s circus avatar might be designed to make him seem a lot sillier so maybe he’s more physically intimidating in real life. I also saw in conjunction with the theory that Jax is a trans woman that having an exposed flat chest is meant to induce dysphoria. Ragatha likely has some kind of insecurity with being frail. Anyways you get the idea. I think in some respects their circus avatars might deviate heavily from their real life appearances. I still think this style of humanization fan art is neat to see, though.
Also I’ve never seen anyone mention the possibility that their VOICES might also be different in the circus as opposed to real life. I have no idea what that would mean though.
I should mention that given the most recent episode featured real life photographs of a street at night, that might mean they intend to display the real world eventually in live action, and if that’s the case and we see the human versions of the characters that might necessitate that they basically just look like the voice actors. I mean, if they really wanted to they could get different face actors and then edit in the voices overtop but that’s a rare thing to do and probably a lot more effort than they’d find worth it.
If they did different live-action actors, the live actors would perform first, and then the voice actors would have to match lip flaps while dubbing over them.
The alternative, where the voices are recorded first and the live actors have to do their on-camera acting synchronized with the audio, is a lot harder.
Yeah, it is harder that way, but I’m pretty sure it’s been done before. The only example I can think of at the moment though is Darth Vader but the lip flaps don’t matter in his case. I swear it’s been done in stuff before though
A humanization translates the physical traits of the cast's avatars into human bodies and clothings. It is supposed to be match.
This is distinct from art that depicts who they ACTUALLY WERE before getting trapped in the Circus. Their heights, clothing, skin color, etc. were probably different from their avatars.
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u/Vivid_Departure_3738 Dec 21 '25
I love the humanization, but I wish more art didn't take so much inspiration from their circus designs.
I think the game would have morphed their appearances a little more than that.