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Ragatha is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Amanda Hufford. She is a ragdoll who is trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other victims.
Appearance[]
Ragatha's appearance resembles that of a living ragdoll with red, shoulder length yarn-like hair, black eyebrows, a flat, reddish-orange triangular nose, and a blue button as her left eye. She wears a long blue dress (which often appears purple due to lighting)[2] with darker blue patches sewn on.
She wears a white, collared under-dress and a large bow in her hair that matches her dress. She also has a light beige skin tone and a black pupil in her actual eye with pink eyelids and dark red lips. Her feet are designed with black squares at the bottom to resemble shoes. When she holds her breath, her hair goes up in the air.
Personality[]
Ragatha is described as "the sweetest little optimist."[3] However, this optimism isn't as simple as it looks, as she appears to be forcing a constant happy attitude to keep herself sane, brushing off grievous injuries and other serious incidents as nothing. Gangle mentioned that Ragatha can be perceived as being disingenuous with her optimism after a while.
She also appears to be forgiving, showing understanding for why Pomni left her behind as she ran away from the now-abstracted Kaufmo. She does have a breaking point but hides it to avoid conflict.
Ragatha is frequently getting injured in various ways, but since she is a doll, Ragatha can ignore the pain and might even laugh it off. She does still want to avoid getting hurt and is annoyed when other characters (such as Jax) try to hurt her, like in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", where Jax urges Gangle to ram into the spiked truck of the Gummy Bandits (Gummigoo, Max, and Chad), causing Gangle to ram unwillingly into the spikes that ended up impaling Ragatha. However, she wasn't hurt, and later, the hole appeared healed.
Ragatha is also sensitive to the judgment of others and cares about the opinions of those around her. This is shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", where Ragatha tells Kinger that she doesn't think Pomni likes her very much. Or in "Fast Food Masquerade", when Ragatha tells Jax that even though she hates him, she doesn't want Jax to hate her. Ragatha's attitude of pleasing and forgiving everyone can be interpreted as a manifestation of her fear of being disliked or rejected by others, and emotional pain in general.
In "Candy Carrier Chaos!", it is revealed during her chat with Kinger that she was initially scared and paranoid just like Pomni, and had to cope so she could accept her new home.
Biography[]
"PILOT" (Episode 1)[]
Ragatha is first seen at the beginning of the episode, in the introduction song. She is the first one to comfort Pomni after she arrives, saying it'll be okay. She gets paired with Jax and Pomni to go check on Kaufmo. She questions Jax's decision to pair Kinger and Gangle together, to which he brushes off her concerns.
Ragatha then shows Pomni The Tent, where Pomni questions why they even go on Caine's adventures, rather than finding an exit. Ragatha explains that there is no way to leave and that chasing an unattainable goal can make you go crazy, "[Causing] something terrible [to] happen to you." They then reach Kaufmo's room, and she rings the doorbell. After not being answered, Jax tells her to move aside, unlocking the door with his key. When they realize Kaufmo is abstracted, Ragatha tells Pomni that abstraction is the terrible thing that can happen. Afterward, Kaufmo starts to attack Ragatha, which causes her to receive a glitchy effect. She asks Pomni to help her, but when Pomni tries to, her hand sparks with glitches. She apologizes to Ragatha and runs off to get Caine.
Ragatha is seen again when Pomni runs back to her, apologizing to her again for leaving her there. Ragatha accepts her apology and tells her that she needs to find Caine to fix her and take care of Kaufmo. Then, Pomni runs off to find Caine yet again.
Ragatha then reappears at the end, crawling towards Caine, stating that she is in a lot of pain. Caine snaps his fingers, fixing Ragatha. She quietly walks towards Pomni, standing beside her but not saying anything. She can be seen at the end scene eating the digital feast with the other performers and chatting.
"Candy Carrier Chaos!" (Episode 2)[]
In Episode 2, in Pomni's nightmare, Ragatha was calling for Pomni along with Caine and Jax, appearing as a silhouette while standing next to Caine and Jax, commenting on her said 'abstraction', after Pomni woke up, Ragatha then knocks on her door, asking how she slept. When Pomni doesn't respond, Ragatha assumes she's still asleep, but right as she is about to leave, Pomni opens the door. Ragatha happily greets her and tells her about a new fun adventure that Caine has planned for this episode.
In the next scene Ragatha is seen Standing with Pomni and Gangle, she was talking to Pomni and when Pomni asked her if their existence is just "LARPing" and before Ragatha could finish Caine cut her off, pushing all three of them into the portal to Candy Canyon Kingdom.
Teleported to the Candy Canyon Kingdom, the members are being taken by a carriage by a Gummy Elephant to the castle, Ragatha waves to the mannequins. Ragatha was admiring the kingdom. When Princess Loolilalu came out, Ragatha was complimenting her on her kingdom, after Princess Loolilalu stated she liked her already, Ragatha attempts to hype up Pomni, which results in Pomni just dismissing it as she states she's not a child that needs to be hyped up. Princess Loolilalu came down and then after recapping the mission and showing them the wartruck they'll be using to chase the bandits, Princess Loolilalu gave Ragatha the key to the kingdom.
In the next scene Ragatha was talking about what Pomni could do in the adventure when she was cut off by Jax who grabbed Pomni by the throat and tossed her out of the truck, which very much annoyed her. After Jax forced Gangle to be closer towards the bandits, it caused everyone except Jax's head to go flying around. After Ragatha and Kinger got a chance to stand up Ragatha had a knife impaled into her head, Kinger on the other hand had several, Ragatha later asked if everyone was okay. After Jax suggest ramming their truck into the bandit's truck Ragatha disagrees, stating that Pomni's still on the the roof of the enemy's truck. Jax simply pushes her away. Jax also mentions that if Gangle wont ram into them, he'll tell Ragatha about the 'figurine thing', implying that there is some figurine that Gangle doesn't want Ragatha to know about.
Following Gummigoo activating the spikes and Kinger threw the ship anchor over the bandit gang's truck, Ragatha gets impaled by one of the spikes. After the gang's truck gets thrown off a cliff, Ragatha asks if everybody's okay to which Gangle responds 'no'. After the disaster, Ragatha still thinks of Pomni, prioritizing her while being in quite the trouble as well. After The Fudge appears, Ragatha exclaims that they're not food when he attempts to eat them and their truck.
After The Fudge tells why he's banished from the Candy Kingdom, Ragatha calls it murder which then the Fudge tries to defend his actions by asking if its really murder if its delicious, to which Jax says it's a good point, but Ragatha disagrees. Ragatha gets very annoyed when Jax says her hair looks like licorice, then even more annoyed when Kinger says it actually does look like licorice, then to no one's surprise it turns out Jax stole the key from Ragatha, which makes her even angrier with him, then after Jax calls her "licorice hair" and Kinger puts a bucket on her head to cover the hair up, after said bandit truck lands off the cliff and Ragatha takes off the bucket off her head and is confused.
Back on the map, The Fudge carries the tanker and circus crew back to the kingdom, Max and Chad, who are both tied up, explain to Ragatha that Pomni and Gummigoo just disappeared. Kinger says if they don't find Pomni in time, Caine will have to find her. Ragatha expresses her worries that Pomni is having another horrible experience like the last adventure and that she doesn't like her. Kinger says it's a lot for everyone to go through, like when Ragatha first joined the circus, Ragatha is quite surprised that Kinger actually remembers that. After Pomni and Gummigoo come back, Ragatha asks Pomni if she's okay, after Pomni says she's fine.
While Jax is being disappointed about the lack of violence, Ragatha tries to cheer him up, yet he's still annoyed. When Pomni says that Gummigoo is coming with them to the circus and Ragatha doubts if NPCs are even allowed to go into the circus grounds. Pomni states it's the least she could do for him after his reality was shattered, back in the kingdom Princess Loolilalu congratulates the circus gang on the adventure being a success, also wishes them good luck with executing Gummigoo, since she assumed they were planning on doing so, Ragatha is shocked and worried when Jax says that he left the kingdom gates open.
After Gummigoo gets poofed out of existence and Caine leaves, Ragatha comforts Pomni, Ragatha offers Pomni to join Kaufmo's funeral. On Kaufmo's funeral she stated that the picture of Kaufmo was already making her cry, and she mourned afterwards.
"The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor" (Episode 3)[]
Ragatha and the others were testing Pomni's special power when she holds her breath, after which Jax revealed that everyone’s bodies does something different with Ragatha's hair noodles sticking up in her case. When the crew (minus Zooble) enters the Mildenhall Manor, Pomni and Kinger are separated from the others. Sometime later she tied up Jax and met the ghost of Martha Mildenhall and have tea with her along with Gangle. Ragatha thanks Martha for a lovely time before leaving the dining room.
As the crew head towards the main entrance of the mansion, Ragatha pulls Jax in a red wagon where they have to wait for the others before leaving. Pomni and Kinger enter the hall though a secret passage, and Ragatha is pleased to see they are both alright.
When Pomni thanked Ragatha for being considerate to her and apologized for not being more appreciative until this point, the living doll was taken back then thanks Pomni for her kind words while reassuring her that the crew genuinely cares about her.
"Fast Food Masquerade" (Episode 4)[]
The episode opens with Ragatha showing Gangle how to throw a baseball, with Jax commenting that she was wasting her time, and Ragatha snaps back at him to wait for a second. After Gangle learns the move, Ragatha encourages her, and Gangle throws the ball. However Jax hit the baseball with the bat and hit Gangle, breaking her comedy mask yet again. Ragatha asks her if she was okay, and Gangle answers, "Oww." Ragatha gets mad at Jax and asks him why he always had to do this, and Jax claims that his shot was inadvertent, to which Ragatha shouts that Jax is "unbelievable."
Later, after Caine set the cast's adventure at Spudsy's Restaurant, Ragatha gets the job of food packing. Before they begin work, Jax grabs Ragatha and throws her into the deep fryer to mock Gangle's manager attitude. However, Gangle contacts Caine and requests him to punish any employees who were not doing their jobs well, to which Caine agrees, and it stops Jax from harassing anyone further.
A blue NPC arrives at breakfast time and orders food from Pomni, who could not understand his distorted voice. Ragatha introduces the NPC as Orbsman, an NPC who was in one of the previous adventures before Pomni came into the circus.
Afterwards, a rude NPC orders a "Stupid Burger" and tells the cast to make sure that the "sauce that make [one] stupid" is added to the burger, as the last time she ordered the burger they forgot to add the sauce. Ragatha prepares to put "stupid sauce" on the burger, only for the sauce to get squirted in her eye. The sauce causes her to have a hallucination of 'Normal' Gangle, and she suddenly goes high.
Later, when Pomni was hanging out so she could meet Gummigoo, Gangle suddenly finds her missing and asks Ragatha where she went. Ragatha drunkenly replies that Pomni's "flirting with the gummy guy," and she guessed Pomni "would rather be with an NPC than with [them]." As Gangle went to find Pomni, Ragatha drunkenly mutters, "I wish somebody flirted with me."
At lunchtime, Gloink Queen arrives with her Gloinks and places her order, and Pomni vanishes for a few moments to say goodbye to Gummigoo, who was leaving. As she disappeared, three Gloinks were brutally attacking an NPC, and Gloink Queen calls them by their names and tells them to leave the NPC alone. Ragatha sneaks in front of the register and drunkenly asks the Gloink Queen if all the Gloinks have names, to which Gloink Queen answers that she loves and cherishes and every Gloinks she gives birth to. Ragatha drunkenly replies, "That's beautiful."
While preparing the burgers for Gloink Queen, Ragatha goes extremely high and becomes unstable, and tries to grab "horseradish sauce." Zooble berates to Ragatha about not helping, and Ragatha drunkenly berates back to Zooble for being "a grouch." Zooble calls Gangle and tells tell her Ragatha maybe "huffed paint, or something." Gangle goes to reason with Ragatha, when she claimed "she was trying to get the "horseradish sauce" and drunkenly laughs, before becoming upset and muttering she "misses her horses."
Gangle tells Ragatha about not keeping up to her employee standard and saying she might "end up hurt later." Ragatha mumbles about "she's hurt enough, packages landing on [her] head, tea parties, dancing lessons." Gangle tries to reason with Ragatha about working together, to which Ragatha drunkenly replies that Gangle "is annoying when [she] has [her] happy mask," causing Gangle to crack further, and leaves the scene upset.
At dinnertime, Jax gets extremely tired of his job, and while walking, he bumps into Ragatha, who was lying drunkenly on the floor, and asks her to move. Ragatha replies that she hates him, but doesn't want him to hate her back, and asks him if that is weird. Jax glared at her for a moment before replying she's "drunk or something" and walks past her.
Later, in the backyard, when Pomni suggests Gangle that she should consult with Ragatha about her issues. Gangle answers that she loves Ragatha, but after a while, it gets hard to tell how genuine Ragatha's actually being.
At the almost end of the shift, Zooble tells Gangle that they will drive Ragatha to the circus and when her shift ended. Gangle replies "for one hour," and Zooble tells her that they will stick until then. After Zooble and Ragatha patches up everything after an hour, Zooble takes Ragatha and leaves. At the end of the episode, Ragatha was seen hanging out with her friends in the circus, still presumably drunk.
Trivia[]
- Her name is a portmanteau of "ragdoll" and the feminine name "Agatha."
- When she is happy, her eyebrows sometimes appear.
- Speaking of which, she has mentioned that petting kitty cats was one of the few things that make her happy in "A Very Special Digital Circus Song".
- Ragatha's design is inspired by Raggedy Ann from the 1977 animated film Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure directed by Richard Williams (planned by Abe Levitow), as well as the original stories of the same name by Johnny Gruelle.[4][5]
- According to Twitter, Gooseworx has an unhealthy obsession with the Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure film. Before Ragatha's first reveal, she frequently posted about the film and elements related to it, such as Raggedy Ann's younger brother, Raggedy Andy.[4]
- In the fourth episode, Fast Food Masquerade, Ragatha quotes one of Raggedy Andy's lines in the song No Girl's toy, which is "Hurt nothin'! I've been hurt enough! Packages landing on my head, tea parties, dancing lessons."
- Unlike Pomni, Gooseworx refused to reveal Ragatha's age, claiming she had learned her lesson. However, Gooseworx soon stated that she is older than Pomni,[6] who is 25 years old, and later specified that Ragatha is 30.[1]
- Gooseworx has confirmed that Ragatha has been in the circus the second longest next to Kinger.[7]
- Ragatha's only real fear is a fear of centipedes[8] (chilopodophobia), which Jax loves to mischievously exploit.
- When Gooseworx was asked why Ragatha seemed angry at Pomni by the end of the Pilot for not helping her when she had previously said that she understood if Pomni wouldn't, Gooseworx responded by saying Ragatha would say "things she doesn't necessarily mean if she thinks it'll ease tensions."[9]
- In the next episode, "Candy Carrier Chaos!", Ragatha doesn't seem to hold any form of grudge. In fact, she is concerned for Pomni for what she has been through since entering the circus and thinks doesn't like her due to the entire ordeal.
- While sitting in the halls after the abstracted Kaufmo had attacked her, Ragatha's eyes and nose bounce around for a short moment while speaking to Pomni. The way they do so is very reminiscent to the video game Pong.
- This detail was added in by lead animator, Kevin Temmer. He wasn't sure if Gooseworx would be cool with it initially, since it wasn't present in the storyboards, but said she loved it.
- Gooseworx expressed that out of all the main characters, Ragatha is the least fun for her to draw.[10]
- Ragatha's original name was Emmy, but was later changed to Ragatha.[11]
- Gooseworx confirmed on Tumblr that Ragatha likes horses.[12]
- "Fast Food Masquerade" also confirms that she owned horses before getting trapped.
- Ragatha can play the cello.[13]
- Ragatha can see out of her button eye.[14]
- Ragatha is the only character to have a nose.
- Ragatha deals with stressful situations by internalizing.[15]
- When she holds in her breath, her hair sticks up as confirmed by her in "Fast Food Masquerade".
Other Language VAs[]
| Language | Voice Actor | Localized name |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | غادة القمودي (Ghada Al-Qammoudi) | راغاثا |
| Dutch | Marina Brouwer | Ragatha |
| Filipino | Janeane Santos-Roco | Ragatha |
| French | Mayrig Truchot | Ragatha |
| German | Susanna Cuda | Ragatha |
| Greek | Πηνελόπη Σκαλκώτου (Penelope Skalkotou) | Ραγκάθα |
| Hindi | Saudamini Anjaria | Ragatha |
| Hungarian | Vivienne Ortan | Ragatha |
| Indonesian | Nurul Ulfah | Ragatha |
| Japanese | 本間詩織 (Shiori Honma) | ラガタ |
| Polish | Natalia "Bane" Romańska | Ragatha |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Fernanda Baronne | Ragatha Rágata[16] |
| Russian | Анастасия Сидорова (Anastasiya Sidorova) | Рагата |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Valca Ponzanelli | Ragatha |
| Thai | กีรติ วิมุกตะลพ (Keerati Wimuktalop) | รากาธ่า |
| Turkish | Miray Özdönmez | Ragatha |
| Ukrainian | Ayla | Раґата |
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