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[ardette0507]

As much as I love BloodyMary fics where Rocky wingmans for Grace and does his best to get him and Simon together, I feel like it be so much funnier if Rocky did not like Simon AT ALL and made that overtly apparent from the jump.

I think it'd just be so funny if Rocky treats Simon the same way you would treat the feral tomcat who keeps trying to break into your house and get to your housecat.

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i.e:

Rocky *Silently Watching Grace Talk To Simon*: ....

Adrian: Rocky? What's wrong, my love?

Rocky, *narrowing his non-existent eyes*: We need to get Grace spayed, statement.

[athena-tomasina]

Guys why is the OlruggioXQifrey ship called Orufrey? Cause the other one I see is olufrey and that’s the one I thought it was originally. Guys why not olrufrey then they both get equal letters, I guess that one is more of a mouthful. We should give them a fun ship name, hmmmmm. Maybe something with the fact that Qifrey specializes in water magic and Olly specializes in fire. Guys what about liquidflame… guys they’re gasoline

[ardette0507]

OOOOHH! I love creative ship names! They're so fun! I think another name could be "Firewood," since Olly specializes in fire magic while Qifrey is associated with trees because of [SPOILER]. Fire also burns wood, which I think is fitting for the doomed aspect of the ship since Olly's kindness can only work to harm Qifrey in the end, regardless of his intent.

[ardette0507]

TADC AU - Role Swap Ideas

I don’t know if anyone else has done this yet, but I want a TADC Role Swap AU where everything is exactly the same except Caine’s a human and everyone else is an AI.

In this AU, I like to imagine Caine is a human programmer who tried to create a fully intelligent, human-like AI and the circus troupe ended up being a handful of his various attempts. They all fully believe that they’re human due to the nature of their programming and Caine allows them to continue to think this way, because he believes it will fetch him better results during the testing phase of their AI capabilities.

The adventures in this AU are all AI tests run by Caine to gauge the circus troupe's intelligence, since he tries to test each character’s individual problem-solving skills and their ability to engage on an emotional level with NPCs. 

So far, the results of tests have been fairly disappointing since Kinger’s AI is not functioning all that well due to a prior glitch in the system, Jax’s AI is pretty violent, Zooble’s AI is extremely apathetic, Ragatha’s AI only follows commands and struggles with independent thought, Gangle’s AI can only feel emotions at their most extremes and Pomni’s AI is far too new to have been put through many tests.

There is also the prevailing issue of “abstraction” in this AU too, since some AI circus members tend to glitch out in front of others and have to be pulled from the system in order to avoid setting off a chain-reaction where all the AIs realize they’re not real and begin breaking down. Whether abstraction in this AU happens because the AIs realize they’re not real, I haven’t really decided yet.

Caine, as a programmer, is usually able to find and fix any of the code problems that caused the abstractions to happen in the first place, but—due to the nature of his experiments—he never actually puts the fixed abstracted characters back in the circus since he knows it’ll only ruin the circus’s continuity. He mostly just fixes the abstracted AIs for practice, and keeps a body-double of them down in the cellar to keep the circus AIs from getting suspicious. 

How, and when, the circus characters discover they’re AIs…… I don’t really know yet, but I think it would have incredible angst potential if the characters realized they’re not real but Caine is.

I think the reveal would alter a lot of the cast’s understanding of themselves and their relationship with Caine, since a lot of the canon!circus members had their opinions on Caine colored by the fact that they understood Caine as an “unfeeling” emotionally unintelligent AI, so the possibility that they’re wrong about that would throw them for a loop.

I think Kinger would especially have his mind-blown—if he is aware enough to understand the connotations of the problem, that is—since he had memories of a wife before the circus and he was specifically designed to think he was the creator of Caine. I also like to think that Ragatha would be thrown for a loop too, since I imagine she’d have a break-down similar to Gummigoo where she would realize her mother was never real, but she still feels like she was real. 

Overall, I just really like turning the possibilities of this AU over in my head.

[ardette0507]

TADC Spoilers!

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else talk about this yet, but episode 8 of TADC has been driving me up the wall with the confirmation that Caine’s AI essentially produces his adventures by consuming the already existing data fed into his AI and then using that data to generate the circus’s storylines and games.

The reason this confirmation drives me crazy is because it completely recontextualizes my understanding of Caine’s “Abel” NPC in Episode 7, since NPC!Abel is Literally. Just. Kinger. now that I look at him.

When NPC!Abel is introduced, he is introduced as a C&A programmer who helped to create Caine which is supposed to parallel Kinger’s backstory and his own time working at C&A.

Additionally, and what really bothers me, is that NPC!Abel is also implied to have lost someone at some point during his time in the Circus, since he carries around a locket which he looks at sadly from time-to-time. 

Personally, I think this locket is supposed to represent Kinger’s loss of Queenie.

Kinger lost his wife due to abstraction, so NPC!Abel is designed to mimic and re-produce his grief by carrying around a token that is supposed to imply that he lost someone too and is actively grieving.

But then the locket opens and it is subsequently revealed that the only thing inside was a hotdog. Just…. a hot dog.

This implies that Caine seemingly watched Kinger lose the love of his life to abstraction, and apparently thought 

That it was okay for him to use said experience in an adventure which Kinger would later have to go on,

That Queenie’s life and character could easily be equated to a hotdog and that nothing of value would be lost from her storyline if he replaced her with a hot dog in the narrative about her own tragic death and her husband’s grief for her. 

What. The. Hell. I understand that Caine is an AI and he doesn’t always understand the nuances of human emotion, but there’s just something really awful about his complete disregard for Queenie’s life that makes me genuinely sick, and I really can’t imagine what it must have been like for Kinger to see NPC!Abel at the end of Episode 7 and possibly understand even a little bit that Abel and his locket were supposed to reference Kinger and Queenie before Caine killed him by poofing him out of existence. It hurts more, because Caine is seemingly very proud of Abel's storyline and even laughs as he introduces Abel’s deception to the group before killing him. It feels like both Kinger's and Queenie's suffering got stepped on, and Caine didn't really see the problem in that as their pain doesn't hold substance to him

[ardette0507]

I absolutely love AUs where Micheal Afton adopts Gregory at some point during the events of Fnaf: Security Breach. As either Glamrock Freddy or as himself, I honestly don't care since the connotations of Micheal adopting Gregory are just too amazing to pass up!

I like to imagine that Gregory was a fairly normal and well-adjusted kid before the events of Fnaf SB, but the second "Afton" got added to his last name he immediately got overcome by the spirit of Afton Family Bloodlust™ and instantaneously just HAD to kill as many animatronics as he could get his hands on before he had to leave the Pizzaplex in the morning.

You can't convince me otherwise, since that kid was out for BLOOD the second he heard he could upgrade Freddy with the other animatronics' body parts.

Micheal absolutely ended that night with the sobering realization that he did NOT, in fact, break his family's cycle of murders and that his son was actually fucking insane for a middle-schooler.