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missing persons anonymous; or, There Is Always Somewhere To Be Trapped

Summary:

ragatha
Oh wow there are so many emojis now!
This is all so fancy!

jax👍
Oldd rofl

pomeranian
ROFL???

jax👍
What.

pomeranian
HAAHAHAHA

kinger
What's an ""emoji""...?

 

(a chatfic about reintegrating into society after spending years and years and years in almost-solitary confinement, and all the bullshit that comes with that)

Notes:

:3
welcome to my corkboard. the gimmick this time is REALISM! emotionally at least. and backstory-wise, so you might actually want to take notes on this one or at least maybe reread it every update. theres gonna be a lot of information

if you think something is out of character dont worry im probably just playing chess. and conveying tone and intent without descriptors is ffucking difficult LOL
also assume all text and grammar mistakes outside of image descriptions and usernames are intentional. also sometimes in usernames, bc i do like to get a little meta with it. formatting is a different story though. 50/50 on whether formatting mistakes are intentional or not loll

Character Info (and lore)
Pomni

Name - Edith
Age - 25/27
Year disappeared - 2023
Years trapped - 2

Ragatha

Name - Andrea
Age - 32/46
Year disappeared - 2011
Years trapped - 14

Jax

Name - ××××
Age - 22/30
Year disappeared - 2016
Years trapped - 9

Zooble

Name - Oleander
Age - 23/28
Year disappeared - 2020
Years trapped - 5

Gangle

Name - Georgia
Age - 26/32
Year disappeared - 2019
Years trapped - 6

Kinger

Name - ××××
Age - 39/57
Year disappeared - 2007
Years trapped - 18
(yeah thats young. smiles)

extra context

Age refers to how old they were when they entered the circus. They have not physically aged, and once you're grown mental age doesn't really mean shit without life experience to go with it. So. They're definitely all older than this but whether it counts the same is up to you.

Begins May 13, 2025. Takes place is real life Pennsylvania USA; real life politics only exist when it's funny. coping :)

CHARACTER DESIGNS! drawn by yours truly :)

(See the end of the work for more notes and other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: "hate. let me tell you how much ive come to hate"

Summary:

Tues. May 13 - Wed. May 14

Notes:

hi. hey. sup

WARNINGS:

> american politics mention
> death of family members mentioned
> necrophilia joke
> drugs and smoking
> mention of addiction

enjoyyy

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Edith added [xxx]-xxx-xxxx , [xxx]-xxx-xxxx , and 3 others to a group

 

Edith

hey its pomni

my phone tried to correct that to porno. wth

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx

Eyebrow wiggle

 

Edith

shut up jax

 

Edith changed [xxx]-xxx-xxxx 's name to jax👎

 

jax👎

Maann

Wait you can give each other nicknames holy shit

I dont even care abkut the thinbs down

 

Edith

abkut

thinbs

 

jax👎

Cut me some fucking slack I havent typed in yeats

 

Edith

yeats

 

jax👎

I will harm you

 

Edith

screenshotted, posted on twitter with your full name and address

 

jax👎

You dont know either of those and im not giving then to you

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx

i can find it

also literally turn on autocorrect dude

 

jax👎 changed Edith 's name to pomeranian

 

jax👎

Autocorrect will make me complacent

 

pomeranian

true

hey

 

jax👎

I look really cute right nos you wouldnt hurt me

 

pomeranian

i would hurt you no matter what but thats not really relevant

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx changed their name to zooble

 

zooble

ignoring me i see how it is

 

jax👎 changed their nickname to jax👍

 

zooble

do you think if i tell people ive been living in the woods for 5 years theyll believe me

like to get away from covid

 

pomeranian

i dunno

 

jax👍

The hell is covid

 

pomeranian

oh my god we forgot to explain covid

 

jax👍

That like a political thing or some shit

 

pomeranian

Oh my god Politics

 

zooble

ohhhhh fuckk

 

jax👍

What.

Is it worse??

 

zooble

worse than 2016? buddy like you would not fucking believe

 

jax👍

What, did he win or something lmao

 

pomeranian

ok so actually do u guys wanna go back

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx changed their name to georgie (gangle)

 

georgie (gangle)

yeah yeah sure yeah

 

zooble

im just glad we're not in a pandemic anymore

 

pomni

oh no i think we still are, people just arent paying attention anymore

 

zooble

GODDAMMIT

FUCKERS

 

jax👍

Pandemic

 

zooble

fuuuckkk meee and my entire liiifeee

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx

Hi guys! It's ragatha! There's... so many settings...

Help me...

 

pomeranian changed [xxx]-xxx-xxxx 's name to ragatha

 

ragatha

Thank you pomni!!!

Oh wow there are so many emojis now!

This is all so fancy!

 

jax👍

Oldd rofl

 

pomeranian

ROFL???

 

jax👍

What.

 

pomeranian

HAAHAHAHA

 

[xxx]-xxx-xxxx

What's an ""emoji""...?

 

pomeranian

.

 

pomeranian changed [xxx]-xxx-xxxx 's name to kinger

 

pomeranian

hi kinger!

its these ->😁😆😊 🔥👍🫂<-

 

kinger

Pictures...

❤️

 

pomeranian

💙

 

jax👍

☄️

 

kinger

Well that's not very nice Jax

 

ragatha

How has everyone settled in so far? I know it's only been a day and a bit, but I'm sure we all have a lot of updates!

 

pomeranian

oh uh

im kind of technically homeless

 

jax👍

What the hell does that mean

 

pomeranian

it means my lease ran out and i havent called my parents yet

 

zooble

im crashing with my old roommate

she transitioned and started a polycule while i was gone. little bit jarring

but hey a little bit jarring is a good distraction from the lot of bit jarring of everything else

 

jax👍

That sounds stupid as hell

 

pomeranian

wise words

shut up jax

 

zooble

shut up jax

 

jax👍

Well since you asked soo nicely

Ive been at my moms house

Apparently Im legally dead

 

ragatha

Me too! Not fun... Lots of legal complications...

Luckily my little sister got my old property and belongings, so I'm living there with her for the time being. It's her house more than it ever was mine at this point, so this will probably be temporary until I can work out legal things and get resettled.

She's taken very good care of my horses. :)

If anyone needs somewhere to stay, we have plenty of rooms!

 

georgie (gangle)

oh, my turn i guess?

my family all live kind of far ... and my old apartment building isnt even an apartment building anymore

so ive been kind of stranded... :')

my parents sent me money for a few nights at a motel and a train ticket, so ill be going to stay with them soon

 

ragatha

Kinger?

 

kinger

I'm not sure how, but the key to my house still works... It's very run down... Half packed up and moved, half exactly the same. I had a daughter, about 10... She would be nearing 30 by now. I'm working on finding her.

She might have gone to live with her aunt... I'm hopeful.

 

ragatha

Oh...

 

jax👍

damn

 

georgie (gangle)

:( <3

hey, pomni?

 

pomeranian

yea

 

georgie (gangle)

didnt you mention once you did urbex? is that why you were at that building?

i was just wondering, since i... dont remember why i was there

or even what that building was

 

pomeranian

oh uh

yeah

i have my camera on me, once im able ill look through the footage

usually i would give a brief history on the place i was exploring, for like, documentation

 

jax👍

Yeah? Whats your channel name

 

pomeranian

wouldnt you like to know



༘⋆



zooble named the group missing persons anonymous

 

jax👍

Thats actually pretty good

 

zooble

youre weird now. youre so weird now

 

jax👍

🖕

 

zooble

🖕



༘⋆



pomeranian

im homee

[image: Selfie of human Pomni in a bedroom full of boxes. She looks tired, and a little like she's been crying.]

turns out my dad paid the rest of my lease and then moved all my stuff back home when it ran out

missed him

i rlly lucked out compared to most of you guys, huh

anyway im gonna get a liveable space set up then check out my camera

 

georgie (gangle)

thats great!

i have most of my stuff too, i think. my parents said they got everything, but idk how much they actually kept X<

 

pomeranian

when do you think youll be home?

 

georgie (gangle)

train ticket ordered for tomorrow :)

 

pomeranian

we love public transportation!

 

georgie (gangle]

oh i should stop at a craft store or something before then..

 

pomeranian

lol, need new art supplies already?

 

georgie (gangle)

haha yeah

im... not used to drawing with normal hands anymore...

my fine motor skills... down the drain....

 

pomeranian

ohh i didnt even think abt that

that suucks

 

georgie (gangle)

yeah..

ive already gotten like three paper cuts just from handling the little notepad in my motel room :')

on a better note... im really excited to draw digitally again!

 

zooble

im looking forward to seeing what you make

 

georgie (gangle)

hi zooble!

 

zooble

hey georgie

 

georgie (gangle)

hmgnmvgkgjkdjzbsj

 

zooble

..

hehe

 

jax👍

How do you get flustered over your real name being used

 

georgie (gangle)

shut up

 

jax👍

Youre real bold over text

 

georgie (gangle)

yeah im not made of ribbons and porcelain anymore, i can defend myself at least a little

also i carry a knife

 

jax👍

What

 

georgie (gangle)

too dull to do any good damage right now... but it still hurts

 

pomeranian

self defense, duh

 

jax👍

What the fuck do you need to carry around a knife for

 

zooble

men

 

jax👍

Oh

 

pomeranian

yknow i dont think i ever caught your real name jax

 

jax👍

Eh I like this one better

Didnt catch zoobles either

 

zooble

i also like this one better

for now

i was going by ollie before

 

georgie (gangle)

oh thats cute..

 

zooble

youre cute

 

georgie (gangle)

X(

 

jax👍

GET A ROOMMM

 

zooble

get a life

 

jax👍

You cant say that to someone whos legally dead

 

pomeranian

yeah zooble thats problematic

 

zooble

why are you siding with him

 

pomeranian

for the bit

 

georgie (gangle)

writing a callout post on my twitter dot com...

i have an announcement to make. zooble the uh

um

gestures

is a bitch ass motherfucker

 

jax👍

What the fuck

 

georgie (gangle)

and they pissed on my wife

 

pomeranian

they took their 3 dimensional squiggly dick out and pissed on my fucking wife

 

zooble

🚬

 

jax👍

What the fuck

What

 

pomeranian

jax doesnt know about the eggman monologue

oh my god

 

zooble

welcome to tilted towers. my name is memphis tennessee and im part lizard

 

jax👍

Im feeling left out

 

pomeranian

poor thing. little baby doesnt know anythingg

 

jax👍

Shut up

 

pomeranian

doesnt even know about sonic the hedgehog

 

jax👍

WHAT does this have to do with sonic the hedgehog

 

pomeranian

every self-respecting 12yo boy knows sonic the hedgehog

 

jax👍

Im not fucking 12

And I know who sonic the hedgehog is

 

zooble

🚬

 

jax👍

Stop fucking smoking in here

 

zooble

🐇🚬

 

jax👍

I DONT FUCKING WANT IT

 

zooble

no im

urgh

 

georgie (gangle)

i think theyre putting it out on you. .

 

jax👍

I hate you

 

zooble

💖💞💗

 

jax👍

Stop

You people are so cruel to me

 

georgie (gangle)

hehe

 

zooble

🚬🐇

 

jax👍

I DONT WANT ITTT

Im being tormented

Im going to turn emo. See how you like that

 

zooble

i saw how you dress. youve been emo

 

jax👍

I hate it here I fucking hate it hwre

 

zooble

sounds like a you problem man

dunno what to tell ya

 

jax👍

hggh.



༘⋆



pomeranian

[link]

 

jax👍

Its 2 in the morning

 

pomeranian

pc setup took a while

anyway thats the video. posted it on youtube unlisted bc its too big to send over text

cliff notes are: building has been abandoned since 2016/2017. used to belong to a now defunct video game development company called C/A, est 1992. in 2016 a new hire went missing and the investigation revealed a string of disappearances connected to the company. nothing ever came of this legally but the public backlash caused the studio to go under. interestingly the first disappearance was the cofounder and his wife in 2007

 

jax👍

All in a hard days work

No need to thank me, just doin my job

 

pomeranian

that checks out



༘⋆



ragatha

Good morning!

That would explain why new arrivals were so much less frequent after jax. Do you... have any insight into the disappearances themselves?

 

pomeranian

morning!

if i did i didnt talk abt it in the video, im not a true crime youtuber. buut i might still have my notes somewhere

yep found it

evidence is all pretty circumstantial so some of these might be completely unrelated

charlie 2015, freddy 2014, nora 2012, sadie 2012, andrea 2011, dion 2010, miranda 2009, victoria 2007, francis 2007

 

ragatha

Andrea, that's me!

 

pomeranian

andrea, 32 years old, playtester. not much evidence to connect to the company, but that doesnt rlly matter to us since we kinda know the deal

 

ragatha

I remember... I just thought it sounded fun. I wanted to get away from things a little bit, even if just for a few hours... I guess I did get what I was looking for, haha!

 

pomeranian

i get that

same reason i do urbex

 

ragatha

Urbex?

 

pomeranian

urban exploration

the whole abandoned buildings thing

 

ragatha

Oh! That's a cool abbreviation! :)

 

pomeranian

isnt it

i just really love the feeling of history

its different from being in an intact old building

historical buildings have a certain amount upkeep involved. like sure it might look the same as it did centuries ago and thats cool but it means theres no like

visual indication of the time thats passed

my favorite urbex spots are the ones full of flora because it really makes it clear that we're still just part of the ecosystem

like

im part of something huge and complex.  individually im so insignificant but for some reason in this context that actually feels... good. its like, reassuring

the important thing isnt making a mark, because no matter what your individual mark will eventually be indistinguishable from all the rest. youre part of a force. youre just another member of the species

and your only job as a member of a species and an ecosystem is to just like

be alive

and live your life

sorry im rambling lol

 

ragatha

No, that's really insightful! You could be a poet!

 

pomeranian

as much as i like to think pretty thoughts, im not very good at turning them into pretty words

 

zooble

this is too philosophical for 8 in the morning

 

pomeranian

its like 10:30

 

zooble

8 in the morning

as an avid notes app poet btw i think that "pretty thoughts" statement is poetry enough already

 

pomeranian

oh

thanks

 

ragatha

I didn't know you wrote poetry, zooble!

 

zooble

eh

usually it turns out more like overly flowery diary entries than anything worth sharing

 

ragatha

Aw, I'm sure it's beautiful!

 

zooble

i didnt say its bad

just unpolished and raw

god im looking through the folder at my old shit and its kind of just hitting me now how long its been

 

ragatha

It hasn't really fully set in for me yet... It sort of feels like I just took a long vacation, haha.

I asked my sister what I missed and she said she got married, got divorced, and our mother died. It's kinda weird to recieve so much information in one short sentence!

 

zooble

understatement of the damn century

sucks about your mom im sorry

 

ragatha

I... don't really care.

 

zooble

cold

but i get it

 

ragatha

Haha, sorry, that was weird of me! And mean!

 

zooble

no im down to say fuck your mom

 

jax👍

If you get rid of the "say" guess what it says

 

ragatha

Do not fuck my dead mother

 

jax👍

I do what I like

And if what I like happens to be your dead mother then I say so be it

 

zooble

you suck

 

jax👍

[Message deleted]

 

zooble

What

i saw that

what the fuck

 

ragatha

JAXXXX

NOOO

 

jax👍

Shes laughing

 

zooble

youre sick

 

jax👍

Im literally funny

Im just a silly guyyyy

 

zooble

just a silly guy with an insanely delayed verbal filter

 

ragatha

Jax you drive me up the damn wall X)

 

jax👍

Everybody loves me

 

pomeranian

"call me a dog the way im sucking on her bone" ????

 

jax👍

I plead the fifth

 

pomeranian

sorry jax they removed that one </3

 

jax👍

What

They cant do that

They cant do that.

Pomni

 

pomeranian

</3

 

zooble

🍿

 

jax👍

Youre fucking with me

 

pomeranian

</3

 

georgie (gangle)

no its true

they invented truth potions and are dosing you with chemtrails

 

jax👍

 

georgie (gangle)

he has no truth to tell...

good morning by the way!

 

pomeranian

morning!

 

zooble

morning

 

ragatha

Good morning!

Sorry, it took me a second to recover. That was... an awful joke.....

 

zooble

all of jaxs jokes are awful

 

jax👍

Not true

 

pomeranian

yeah this guys the Funny One

 

jax👍

Can you leave me alone

 

pomeranian

sad ant with bindle

 

jax👍

What??

 

pomeranian

sad ant with bindle

[image: Sad ant with bindle]

 

jax👍

Sad ant with bindle

 

zooble

oh this ones new

 

georgie (gangle)

sad ant with bindle.....

why cant she be happy :(

 

jax👍

Life is cruel

 

pomeranian

life is a neutral force

 

jax👍

Life isnt fair because it hates you

 

zooble

hate. let me tell you how much ive come to hate

 

pomeranian

dont even start with that ill get nightmares

"i have so much mouth and i am screaming"

 

zooble

LMAO

 

jax👍

There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro instant. For you. Hate. Hate

 

zooble

do you have that memorized

 

jax👍

Used to

 

zooble

nerd

 

jax👍

Shut up

 

zooble

nerrdddd

 

jax👍

You referenced it first

 

zooble

im not you

 

georgie (gangle)

why did you have that memorized

 

jax👍

Its funny

 

pomeranian

you said you entered the circus in 2016 right

 

jax👍

..Yes

Why

 

pomeranian

ohh nothing

 

georgie (gangle)

new hire went missing in 2016

you know his name

 

pomeranian

i know his name

 

jax👍

What the fuck

 

pomeranian

and i know his occupation

and college major

and social media

if you get a follow request from "eden under stars" thats me btw

 

jax👍

Im being stalked

 

georgie (gangle)

</3

 

jax👍

I never get taken seriously around here

 

pomeranian

breaking: "Funny One" only ever laughed at

 

jax👍

Fuck offf

 

zooble

oh my god

 

jax👍

What.

 

zooble

no not you

esible just hit

i forgot how good drugs are

 

pomeranian

wait oh my god we have access to drugs again

 

jax👍

I DONT HAVE A NICOTINE ADDICTION ANYMORE

 

pomeranian

LMAO

 

jax👍

9 years clean isnt that impressive

Heh. Im just so resilient

 

zooble

imagining you vaping is cracking me up

 

jax👍

What. Whats so funny about that

 

pomeranian

clocked him..

 

zooble

lmfao

imagine trying to be cool and fucking

being addicted to vapes

little baby cant handle cigarette smoke he needs his sweet bwubewy fwavorr

 

jax👍

Shut up. Shut up

Not true

 

pomeranian

you are soo much easier to tease now

 

zooble

its fucking great

 

jax👍

Im a big boy I love cigarettes.

 

zooble

LMFAO

 

ragatha

I haven't had weed since high school...

Actually, does stupid sauce count?

 

zooble

depends what youre counting it as

definitely a drug, and similar to weed high

 

ragatha

I suppose it doesn't really matter, does it? If I'm anything like I was on that sauce, I'm not really eager to repeat it.

 

zooble

i mean, you had fun, right?

it was just a bad time and place

circumstances yknow

 

ragatha

That's not really my concern... Thank you, though.

I don't want to get mean!

 

zooble

id call it brutal and tactless honesty

 

ragatha

That's not! Better!

 

zooble

if you wanna try it can just be the two of us

i can take it

not ti pressure you or anything im just like

giving you space to explore

experiment

and stuff

 

ragatha

You're sweet.

 

zooble

thanks

 

jax👍

How heartwarming

Zoobs can we do drugs together

 

zooble

no

 

jax👍

Aw why nott

 

zooble

cuz fuck you

 

jax👍

Well fuck you too then



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georgie (gangle)

im home :)

well ive been home a while but i got swept up in the excitement of seeing everyone again... sorry

 

zooble

dont apologize for that

im glad youre happy

 

georgie (gangle)

:)

 

jax👍

Yuck

 

zooble

says you

 

jax👍

Ill fucking hurt you

 

zooble

oh nooo

im so scared

 

georgie (gangle)

hehe

ill protect you..!

 

jax👍

You and what army

 

georgie (gangle)

knife

 

jax👍

Oh

Yeah

 

georgie (gangle)

ü

 

jax👍

Dont look at me like that. Stop

Its freaky

 

georgie (gangle)

Ü

 

jax👍

Oh wow my phones dying I better go charge it bye

 

georgie (gangle)

ehe

 

zooble

good work

 

georgie (gangle)

>//u//<

 

jax👍

Get a room

 

georgie (gangle)

i thought your phone was dying?

 

jax👍

I hate you

 

georgie (gangle)

 

jax👍

God fuck ok

Notes:

hope u enjoyed. mwah