When your AI son has nyctophobia AND claustrophobia
(Ramblings ⬇️)
Basically, this headcanon came to me while I was thinking about how heavily Caine self-sabotages himself and thought “Hmm, how else could I expand on this?”
Like, it’s so interesting that the Circus tent is both spacious and bright 24/7 in contrast to the dark little box he was caged in. Add the fact that Caine’s idea of “hell” in Mildenhall Manor was a dark closed hallway.
Idk, I can see the theory that Caine having messed up Kinger’s head being true. I do believe in it. Kinger did regain his memory of Scratch despite being in the light coincidentally while Caine was panicking after all.
Maybe to keep him from abstracting? Was it to prevent his code from getting altered? To keep Kinger from spilling secrets about his origins?
But the bigger question is though:
Why is this memory issue conditional? Why not make Kinger carefree and stupid all the time?
If Caine only wanted humans to participate in his adventures, keeping Kinger in this state shouldn’t be a problem. Yet, not only can Kinger regain his sanity in the dark BUT Caine LETS HIM keep his pillow fort in the middle of the damn circus. He doesn’t snap it away.
Caine even created a dark space under the table with a baby lamp that emits just enough light where Kinger can see but still be lucid. This is special only to Kinger, so Caine is aware of this quirk.
It’s just weird to me.
If there’s a risk to Kinger being sane even for a minute, why allow him these dark spaces? Caine doesn’t remove them. Sometimes, he even provides them when needed in adventures.
So Headcanon!
Caine is torn. Torn between wanting genuine validation from one of his creators but also with his fear of what Kinger could do to him.
He wipes his memory in the light so he won’t attempt anything funny. But some part of him also can’t stand the idea that Kinger would just completely forget everything and be clueless around him. Caine wants the real Kinger to be proud of what he creates. His own creation.
But it’s not like he can have both, can he?
The closest way Caine could ever have a sane Kinger near him is keeping the conjured pillow fort in the middle of the tent. But he can’t talk to him.
izzy806
discoholicmusic
2087
theartofmadeline
andulkaphoto
titsay
