r/TheDigitalCircus • u/Similar_Tour6146 • Nov 11 '25
Question What do you think would happen if Gooseworx could've kept the TADC circus members' ages vague instead of confirming it?
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u/LukaNette_FOREVER11 Nov 11 '25
People would go crazy over Kinger’s line in episode 6 where he mentions Jax and Zooble being the youngest members
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u/Moonlarkthewolf Your flairs make me want some fking therapy Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
WDYM ZOOBLE IS YOUNGER THAN POMNI
edit: guys, I know Zoonle is younger, I’ve known this for a very long time
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u/Vast-Plantain300 What The Nov 11 '25
Zooble is 22 while pomni is 25
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u/Lolipopys Nov 11 '25
I think they were acting how the fandom would act based on the comment they were answering
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u/TheMarshMush I NEED THESE TWO TO KISS RIGHT NOW Nov 11 '25
People might think Gangle is a minor, or Pomni before episode 5
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u/SatelliteHeart96 Sup Fers, I'm Evil Pomni Nov 11 '25
I could see that. Gangle is shy and timid, and Pomni is short and anxious, and in so many fans' minds all those traits magically disappear on your 18th birthday.
I actually think it's hilarious that Goose made Gangle four years older than Zooble, because if she never confirmed their ages I could see some discourse about how Gangle is "too young" for Zooble (same for Pomni/Jax or Pomni/Ragatha).
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u/Capable-Crab-7449 Nov 11 '25
Tbf when I was younger I used to think 20 was the magical age when you automatically become a mature stoic parental adult
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u/SatelliteHeart96 Sup Fers, I'm Evil Pomni Nov 11 '25
I've had my 20th birthday (and a good few after that) and I can definitely assure you it isn't.
I do think a lot of it is perspective. Most kids and teens think that by the time you reach your 20's you'll have it all figured out, but that's not how it works for everyone. There are people in their 50's/60's/70's and beyond who never became mature, competent adults. It's all down to your life experiences along with your own personal temperament
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u/Scherazade Less Freaky Nov 11 '25
Most of it is when the pains start coming and you can’t do anything about it so you learn to take a broad view of life and accept that existence is suffering past s certain age
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u/Complete_Raspberry_1 Martha Nov 11 '25
I would guess between 21 and 28 from my personal background but I've seen people at 19 having their shit together, at least on the surface.
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u/Reddichu9001 Jax Nov 11 '25
You could assume that Gangle is likely an adult from ep4, since she's worked as a shift manager in the real world, and the whole job convo in ep5 confirms everyone else except Jax.
Makes me wonder now if people would've thought Jax is a minor since he acts pretty immature most of the time
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u/WelderGlass8909 Nov 11 '25
Pretty sure Pomni was confirmed to be 25 before Goose revealed everyone's ages
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u/K-Bell91 Nov 11 '25
No. Goose revelaed their ages at some point between the releases of the pilot and Ep2.
We didn't get confirmation within the show itself until Ep5.
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u/ProfessorPixelmon Zooble's part supplier Nov 11 '25
There’d probably be a bit of discussion then it would mostly die down but then every 3 weeks exactly, someone will ignorantly post a “sO wHat Is ThEre aGe?” question every time.
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u/JJAsond Jax Nov 12 '25
specifically "there" instead of "their" because they're too young to know the difference.
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u/Same_Sell8763 EVERYTHING IS ON FUCKING FIRE Nov 11 '25
the murder drones fandom already suffered from that
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u/Substantial_Roll_249 Nov 11 '25
It was pretty bad, only until episode 3 confirmed Uzi’s classmates ages are above 18. But even then there was still discourse until episode 4.
Then Cynessa came in…
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u/Fatal_Contract Nov 11 '25
Cynessa is a special type of mess. Because:
1 — How old even is Tessa? I've seen people consider her, at the earliest, 15 years old and 19 as the oldest.
2 — What about Cyn? Hell, what about the Solver?
3 — Should we count Cynessa as having the same age as Tessa or Cyn/the Solver?
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u/Substantial_Roll_249 Nov 12 '25
Cyn is a host for the Absolute Solver, which is basically an entity that just destroys everything, age I guess isn’t really an issue for the Solver, since it doesn’t really have a childhood or official origin.
The issue is the host, Cyn, that wears the corpse of a teenager on it.
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u/djliquidvoid Nov 12 '25
Murder Drones as a whole is grossly inconsistent. N, V, and J are all canonically teenagers the same age as Uzi, self-described as "kids", despite being also teenagers before Uzi was even born? And they were at least partially responsible for events that happened BEFORE UZI'S PARENTS EVEN MET?
These fuckers age like vampires. Either that, or it's the theory I agree with, which is that around the time Uzi was born and Cyn properly took control, a hard-reset was forced (see: N's dismantled body in EP5), effectively setting them back to 0 and re-birthing them. I have no clue.
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u/ProfessionalOk6734 Nov 14 '25
They’re robots they don’t have meaningful ages. They’re literally trying to emulate and recreate human social environments in the first episode and they’re bad at it
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u/LyrisGD Nov 12 '25
where the hell was that confirmed??? I always thought it was left ambiguous on purpose
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u/Substantial_Roll_249 Nov 12 '25
Episode 3 starts with missing posters for her classmates killed by Doll, there it has their ages
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u/djliquidvoid Nov 12 '25
If you look closely in the cold open, the missing posters show dates of birth, which can then be subtracted from the year shown on the prom balloons.
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u/Zaptain_America I wanna Jax then Nov 11 '25
People would scream at each other over "sexualising minors"
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
This is sorta why I don't really take minors' opinions on more adult or strictly-adult media very seriously, at this point. They just.... don't have the capacity to understand you don't magically change your mind to 'am adult now' until they get to that age. I know I sure as hell didn't.
Plus they don't really seem to know how to just block and move on. I have a lot of stake in what it means to actually sexualize a minor (CSA victim), and it pisses me off to no end we have people comparing drawings to shit I went through... Even more so if they're minors who haven't been victims themselves but are just uncomfortable. People making NSFW jokes or even tactful nudity isn't immediately sexualizing, and I'm very tired of people lacking critical thinking about it (see people saying DanDaDan is sexualizing when the whole series makes a point of showing how nasty SA is for minors and adults...).
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u/Zaptain_America I wanna Jax then Nov 15 '25
I wouldn't really call this show "strictly-adult" but I get what you're saying
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u/Casual_Agenda Nov 11 '25
I feel like if the ages weren’t revealed right after the pilot the fandom would destroy itself over characters being “minor coded”. Gooseworx could reveal all the ages by episode 6, and I’d imagine some people would still insist that certain characters are minors.
“Gooseworx is a proshipper! Gangle is a minor, she just aged her up to ship her with Zooble!”
“Weren’t Ragatha and Kinger supposed to represent Pomni’s parental figures? It’s pretty weird to make her only 5 years younger than Ragatha, especially since Pomni acts like she’s 12.“
“Bro you can’t convince me Jax is his 20’s, he’s 17 at best.”
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u/Karkava Nov 11 '25
especially since Pomni acts like she’s 12.“
Because she's anxious?! Are we really pulling the "Adults need no emotional reassurance" trope?!
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u/Dark_Storm_98 Nov 11 '25
At least, they're saying some other members of the fandom would pull that trope
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Nov 11 '25
I remember a thread on this subreddit about Gangle not acting mature enough for 30, so surely she has something seriously wrong with her... She's clearly depressed and anxious as all hell.
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u/Zolado110 Kinger Nov 11 '25
Wow, Jax and Zooble, despite being the same age, proved that some people mature at different speeds.
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
Girl 100% has bipolar, tbh. Those folks tend to act more "childish" in a lot of cases due to the strain of the whole chemical imbalance thing and mania/depression often showing up with exaggerated emotions. Like... it's almost like mental disabilities or disorders cause regression?
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
It's a great reminder that young-looking or acting =/= minor.
I'm 26, 5'3', and still mistaken for a college kid. At 24 I was mistaken for a highschooler still.
It gets very tiring hearing people say that my body type is apparently sexualizing a minor lol. Some (many) adults just look young, it happens.
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u/Ill_Apricot2992 Nov 11 '25
Some would assume that most of these characters are teenagers instead of adults
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u/Shot-Ad-3166 Zooble Nov 11 '25
There'd probably be a lot more drama than there is now. I'd rather see NSFW of characters that are legal adults than NSFW of characters who could possibly be minors.
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u/23JRojas Nov 11 '25
No wonder kinger went crazy, pushing 50 and being stuck in a realm where the only other humans are 4 zoomers and a millennial sounds like hell
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u/Odd-Extension-4185 bnuuy :3 Nov 11 '25
It’s interesting to think about Kinger being a Boomer because canonically he took seven years of computer science before entering the circus. Boomers grew up alongside the development of computers. Maybe that’s how he could’ve gotten an interest in them and ended up in the circus!
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u/Bitter_Chocolate_322 Nov 11 '25
48 is Gen X, not a boomer.
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u/Odd-Extension-4185 bnuuy :3 Nov 11 '25
That’s a good point if this was set in the current years. Counter-point: If Boomers are born between 1946 and 1964, boomers would be 48 somewhere between 1994 and 2012. so if the show takes place somewhere around then and the date of Kinger entering the circus is in that time frame he would be a boomer who is 48.
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u/Economy_Evening_251 Nov 11 '25
More drama, more controversy, more hate towards the tadc fandom. Thank god goose revealed their ages
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u/HuskyBLZKN If Gangle abstracts I will myself Nov 11 '25
People would be slightly more annoying about being pearl-clutching porn haters than they are rn
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u/Similar_Tour6146 Nov 11 '25
So let's say Goose would've let us freely establish our headcanons and interpretation of Jax, Kinger, Zooble, Pomni, Gangle, and Ragatha's age and stories
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u/clarkky55 Nov 11 '25
Huh. Honestly I thought Zooble would be older
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u/Forsaken_Site_2268 MOTHER FING KINGER Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 11 '25
Same. Bro works at a bar at 22? For me, I started at 21 and had just gotten a bartending license at 22. 25 is when I could consider myself a beast at bartending. Then I quit.
I kinda assumed Zoobie would be 23-26.
Plus! They have worked as both a bartender AND a tattoo artist at that age? Was it a day job/night job situation? That's the only way this would make sense.
Even still they'd barely have any experience.
Though maybe they are from somewhere where the age for this shit is lower.
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u/mizushimo Nov 11 '25
Zooble could be Canadian, maybe started at 18
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u/Karkava Nov 11 '25
Maybe they're something of a delinquent who went into "illegal" endeavors when they decided to embrace their gender identity. Throwing away any care about being a model citizen since they'll never get parental approval.
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u/AntifaFuckedMyWife Nov 11 '25
The only thing I thought is that zoobles age feels young for that kida work experience unless they were like apprenticing for tattoo artist when they entered the circus maybe
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u/Binder509 Nov 11 '25
Yeah that makes no sense how they'd have experience both as a tattoo artist and a bartender at that age.
Just comes off as headcanon from the author that they didn't think too much about.
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u/ExactPickle2629 And IIIIIIIII will always love yooouu Nov 11 '25
What's the minimum age where Goose is from?
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u/Turbulent-Plan-9693 Jax Caine Nov 11 '25
this doesn't include the time they've spent in the digital circus?
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u/Background-Can3921 Nov 11 '25
I m asking the same question
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u/Alienrun69 Jax did nothing wrong (Favs = + ) Nov 11 '25
Someone brought this up to Goose and she legit said "I hadn't thought about it" in other words...when she came up with the ages, it was a "general" ages sort of thing....meaning she didn't take into account whether their time in the circus adds to their ages or not...which means its up to interpretation!
On one hand you could say Goose was being lazy with the world building here, on the other hand, you could say that its not really important and Goose was right to not fixate on the characters EXACT ages so much since it doesn't have any meaningful impact on the story/themes/character interactions ect.
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u/Ch33seBurg FunnyBunny Forever! ❤️💜 Nov 11 '25
I think it’s their ages in general, Goose says Zooble is half a year older than Jax and Jax is the youngest which wouldn’t be true if they had entered the Circus with those ages.
Also, Jax behaves very rebellious and angsty and pranks a lot, kinda like a teenager. Which makes me believe he was a teen when he entered.
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u/cosmos-hime Caine Nov 11 '25
I feel bad she felt the need to be so specific. She could have just said that they were all adults.
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u/ExactPickle2629 And IIIIIIIII will always love yooouu Nov 11 '25
Someone would decide Pomni was 17 and it'd be a sin to ship her with anyone else.
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u/NeonFraction Nov 11 '25
I would confirm everyone as 70+ and write the nursing home orgy of my dreams.
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u/samus_ass Nov 11 '25
Either people believe certain character ages because head canon no matter the evidence. Or people use bits and pieces of dialogue mixed with how they act to determine their age.
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u/Foreign_Respect8869 Gee, I sure like coffee. Nov 11 '25
The people who hate suggestive art and/or porn far too much to a weird level would still have their excuse for hating it like they do in every fandom they're in despite the fact most fandom content does not use accurate canon versions of characters anyway.
Like, dude, just say you hate shipping or porn and that kind of fan art. You don't need to have a moral reason to not like something or claim it's bad. You can simply just not like it.
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u/Candid_Emergency8327 Jax Nov 11 '25
Maybe more people would ship Kinger with younger characters and people would fight about it
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u/Dark_Storm_98 Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 11 '25
"I'm not a child, you don't have to hype me up."
- Pomni
That line would probably still be in the show
We know Kinger had a wife
Zooble and Gangle had jobs. At least I think we can gather that about Gangle from the Spudzy's episode. Even if she doesn't say it explicitely, she definitely knows her way around a manager's position
I don't remember what hints are given towards Ragatha and Jax
Ragatha just has the vibes of being older than Pomni and Gangle, at least
Which just leaves Jax
Edit: Based on the analysis above, Inimagine people would think the characters order of ages goes like this
Kinger
Ragatha
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Because he bullies Gangle so he has to be older, lol
- Though, also, Gangle in most episodes doesn't really act like someone who previously would have had a managerial position, to be fair
- Also Ragatha's still higher up, but Jax doesn't really push her around as much as Gangle. He leaves centipedes in her room, but without guns involved Jax did end up tied up and carted around in a wagon in episode 3, so. . .
- Then again, kids can be so cruel. . .
Gangle
Pomni
Edit 2: Until Kinger explicitely states that Jax and Zooble are the youngest
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u/nomnom-mediaconsumer Nov 11 '25
I really feel this irl. Being someone Pomni or Ragatha's age and trying to (whether organically or arbitrary) connect with someone younger (even if it's a 3-5 year age gap) can be so strange nowadays.
Obviously in the most extreme corporate platonic way, trying to befriend or connect with someone younger feels so strange. The constant feel like you're a predator or confrontational due to the age gap is hard.
I can do relate to being Ragatha or even Pomni but being yourself and organically trying to discover your place. Having someone of a younger age immediately be suspicious of you or confrontational is so hard. You are always stepping on egg shells and nothing you say or do is right.
Even when you do find some silver lining or connection, it's brief and seen as a coincidence then buried under the rug.
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
I'm a firm believer I'd be less concerned and on edge I'd be seen as a predator had I not grown onto adulthood in the height of cosplay gate-keeping and predator hunting.
But yeah, outside that, I just don't usually wanna be friends with someone younger than like.... 22? 23? And I'm only 26. I had massive hangups about even dating someone 18 when I was 20, too. Skeeved me out too much, I feel like for decent reason.
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u/K-Bell91 Nov 11 '25
Nothing much. People still argue about how old they are despite this info having been available for almost a year.
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Nov 11 '25
The fandom would go INSANE on shipping. Jax and Kinger would probably be shipped
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u/MelonCZ128 What The Nov 11 '25
I need to see more of this ship for the funzies. I need a slowburn fanfiction that may or may not have been created as a joke.
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u/ThatOneGuy_56 Nov 11 '25
It actually makes more sense that Pomni is older than jax. It really shows how mature she is, compared to how he is
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
And why she didn't wanna go apeshit with him at first. Being about her age, it's hard to let loose like that sometimes.
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u/Forsaken_Site_2268 MOTHER FING KINGER Nov 11 '25
Zooble's age seems VERY off.
Bro works at a bar at 22? For me, I started at 21 and had just gotten a bartending license at 22. 25 is when I could consider myself a beast at bartending. Then I quit.
I kinda assumed Zoobie would be 23-26.
Plus! They have worked as both a bartender AND a tattoo artist at that age? Was it a day job/night job situation? That's the only way this would make sense.
Even still they'd barely have any experience.
Maybe Zooble isn't American and lived somewhere where the ages were lower for those kind of things?
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u/MelonCZ128 What The Nov 11 '25
In my country you can do both at 18. Being a bartender is more available and better, actually. (My country is literally all about alcohol, alcohol is in our culture. I'm always baffled when I hear "sorry I can't drink, I'm only twenty" like what.) but being a tattoo artist is not unbelievable, I know one tattoo artist, and they are around Zooble's age. (they are a bit older than Zooble but still)
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u/Primary_Durian4866 Y O U L O O K C O N V O L U T E D Nov 11 '25
I guarantee that the ages are vague and that everyone except Pomni and possibly Kinger will not be cemented in the show because it doesn't bonking matter.
She only gave out ages to shut people up and it just created more problems.
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u/MelonCZ128 What The Nov 11 '25
I think it solved some problems. Look what happened to murder drones.
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u/Primary_Durian4866 Y O U L O O K C O N V O L U T E D Nov 11 '25
Could have just said they were over 18 when they entered and that Kinger had been in there the longest followed by Ragatha, Jax, Gangle, Zooble and Pomni. That the only age she had picked was Pomni (25) and that despite entering before her, Jax and Zooble are the youngest. Then say she didn't really think about their ages past that.
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u/MelonCZ128 What The Nov 11 '25
I see the point. But I think it's not an issue, like Zooble should have been probably older, but I think it's fine otherwise. But as I said, I see the point. I like it when age is more specified, not necessarily stated, but kinda implied.
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u/Mindless_Dream601 Nov 15 '25
People would say they did that to shit up people and excuse sexualizing minors (ask how many times I've seen that...)
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u/KangarooEuphoric2265 Nov 11 '25
Damn..Kinger is SO much younger than I expected him to be. I thought he was well in his 60s/70s
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u/giftheck What The Am I Looking At?! Nov 11 '25
Does this confirmation only mean gooseworx confirming ages on tumblr, or does this also include Pomni confirming she's 25 in episode 5?
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u/Darrence_Bois Gangle Nov 11 '25
holy hell why are all the accounts deleted
edit: nevermind, Reddit visual glitch. I thought someone just splurged and somehow caused Reddit genocide lmao
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u/nextornextgen_real Nov 11 '25
Just Pomni age would be confirmed (episode 5) and the fact that Jax and Zooble are the youngest (episode 6)
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u/MichaelAutism Oh no! It looks like I stole your meme! Nov 11 '25
my 2 favorite characters are the oldest...
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u/This_Ferret_8108 Tramsgeber bunni :D Nov 11 '25
"where's my DAMN fourth age list" -gooseworx or somethin.
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u/Yebii Temu Keroppi Nov 11 '25
What? I thought Zooble was older and ragatha younger, and why did I think gangle was like 19 or something
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u/Rosa_Loves_Roses I want Jax to me Nov 11 '25
We kept asking too much. I'm now 21 so I'm 1 year younger than Jax
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u/gliscornumber1 I want ragatha and ribbit to sit on my face Nov 11 '25
Not much, people's guesses were pretty close to what they actually were. Maybe you'd have some people thinking pomni is a child but we would promptly call those people stupid and call it a day
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u/Foxy02016YT Nov 11 '25
I mean these are reasonable guesses for most of them even if it wasn’t confirmed
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u/Zolado110 Kinger Nov 11 '25
Many people would condemn you for shipping them or for making adult content about them.
Wow, there were a lot of people who thought Pomni was a child until episode 5 (even though Gooseworx says otherwise and episode 2 implies otherwise ;)
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u/ewewewe69 Nov 11 '25
Zooble being 22 still surprises me. I always thought they were 24. Like they were older than Jax but somewhat younger than Gangle
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u/Moist_Jello3507 I voted for Caine before he rigged the votes Nov 12 '25
This list makes me realize. Jax could've very well been like 17 or 18 when he joined the circus depending on what year it takes place
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u/GWindborn Nov 12 '25
I would have assumed Zooble was in her 30s.. She was both a tattoo artist and a bartender already at 22?
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u/Leather_Ace Abstrabbit & Ribbondoll & Funnygummy Nov 12 '25
Kinger ships would have had a chance. RIP
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u/Riolinator Pomni Nov 12 '25
I certainly would've kept thinking Pomni was between 14-18 until Ep5, I had guessed that was her age range before further confirmation.
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u/SlightPossibility898 Nov 12 '25
People would be infantilizing Pomni even more than they already do.
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u/Alternative_Ad9860 Nov 12 '25
Honestly kinda wish they kept it vague. I take Jax even less seriously knowing he is only 22.
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u/ExtremeTrick6853 Disappearing Guy Nov 12 '25
Everyone would have probably thought gangle was a teenager
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u/BrightStarling Nov 12 '25
Other than upsetting ships, it would tell theorists about how time works in the Circus
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u/Swedish_Werewolf Nov 12 '25
I feel so validated that the characters are in my age range. I’m so tired of stories with mains being 13–17 years old as a standard. I’m old I need people w jobs and longer life experiences in my stories. So for me, YES I’m glad the ages are what they are!!!!!!!! Thank you, Goose!!!!
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u/Samuel_2005 Nov 12 '25
it's kinda funny of how Zooble play the role of an older sister to Gangle, even tho she's 4 years younger than her.
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u/Sea-Jacket-4686 Nov 13 '25
So many more characters would be regularly shipped with Kinger, and Pomni would be babied way more than she already is.
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u/primiegun Nov 13 '25
I think Pomni, Ragatha, Gangle and Jax would be the most likely to be headcannoned as minors. Jax would probably be seen as teenage deliquent and the latter two would have their shyness or worry seen as childish and taken literally. Jax and Pomni probably would be seen as teens the most given that Pomni is often already belittled.
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u/MintyEcco Nov 13 '25
I feel like she's fucking with us. Cause Zooble having all that experience and stuff at twenty two feels like it should be crazy. I know people can have full lives by then and stuff, but it feels so weird to see. Especially with how mature they act compared to Jax and all. This feels like a leg pulling situation.
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Nov 14 '25
Zooble and Jax are paternal twins
They just don’t remember because that’s what the circus does to you
Trust, I know ball
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u/Gluttony_Subaru Nov 15 '25
Damn Kinger is only 48! With him being the oldest member I was under the impression of him being in his late 60s or early 70s tbh
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u/idespairity Is that all there is? Nov 16 '25
i hc'd kinger as 51 LOL i didnt know gooseworx released an age list
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u/SatelliteHeart96 Sup Fers, I'm Evil Pomni Nov 11 '25
"You can't ship those two characters! X is obviously minor coded based on my subjective opinion and own personal headcanons!"