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some notes I took about Caine while watching ep7

[note: these are very rough, I just needed to get these thoughts out of my system hough]

Able's insistence upon Caine being unsave-able and how he'd be left behind bc he's an AI is a very interesting reflection on how Caine is trying to maybe invoke empathy and validation for himself? Something something he's banking on them having so much pity on him that they will surely stop trying to find an exit from the circus

Caine is obsessed with human validation and "the macroverse" as he calls it and says how he wishes he had more information to recreate it in as much detail as possible, then (clearly agitatedly) comments "TOO BAD THEY CUT ME OFF" <- wonder what he means by that, did he once have access to C&A's extended systems and got locked out by a dev and/or admin?

I think one reason he's so obsessed with it is bc the humans in his care are obsessed with "the outside" so he's convinced that if he can recreate it well enough, it will make them happy and fix them long-term, not understand that it's not the outside as a location they crave but returning to the life (that he cannot comprehend) they had outside of the circus

he really wants to seem cool and relatable in his dinner talk with Jax after setting up Jax to ask to hang out with him 1:1 through Able "what do you take away from all this? Is it that I'm actually a cool guy with cool hobbies and am not that much different from you beautiful humans?" -> trying to invoke a bonding moment

I think this proves that the circus members are actually lowkey wrong about Caine not listening to what they want; he really does, he picks up everything they say they want and what they criticize about past adventures and makes changes accordingly, but does so in a superficial AI-understanding way where he's trying to treat the symptoms while blind to the root cause? Like he's clearly applying what they're saying to him, just… not "correctly".

the implied sentiment that his adventures are "too childish" so he pivoted hard into a horror direction

the expressed want for "chill" adventures leading to beach party situation (tho this is also intentional setup for the extended trick adventure reveal)

non-sentient AIs at the beach after Pomni complained about them

the ever-present "I wish I could leave" sentiment making him set up a plot that's meant to make them realize they love him and the circus bcat least one person abstracted obsessing over the idea of leaving (Kaufmo) so he's now kind of gunning for a "LOOK IT'S NOT SO BAD HERE" angle maybe