After watching the show I feel like this is what tadc is trying to tell us about her backstory

\[tldr ragatha wanted to be a farmer but got abused because of it\]

So to start off when you think about ragatha and her origins all we know as the show do in the show as people who are mistreated and abused especially those forced to supress themselves usually have difficulty expressing themselves to others like Jax for example

But the reason her expressive is diffrent from Jax is because Jax was emotionally abused into not expressing any emotions

While people in upper classes that are subjected to emotional abuse are usually done by said families to making people who act away from the standard they try to set get them to instead try and act like high achieving and luxurious people  aka being forced to act happy and content with your life even if your not

Furthermore this would also explain why she’s a ragdoll in a show a doll who is puppeteered by others and force to play the part of whatever the user wants them to beesn’t give us much to work with… or does it?

Ragatha throughout the circus never mentioned any other luxury of being wealthy beside two key details

Horses and chickens.

Now these are very common animals but the place their most notably known for farmers

To further add to my theory the design rAgatha takes after is closest to that of the early P.F. Volland Raggedy Ann doll throughout the 1920-1925s

Whitch were especially popular to those of the middle class as it wasn’t as popular with the lower or upper class and didn’t match the design of upper class dolls as it did the middle class

Ragatha although being wealthy had a emotional attachment to simple farm animals rather than that of the luxury in her life

This caused conflict with her mother who I belive mistreated and abused her because she wouldn’t “act her class”

This would explain her unwillingness to express herself why she tries to be picture perfect when she’s not  and explains why her mother was abusive

Ragathas backstory? My interpretation