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Brek | 24 | she/her | I write things and draw (slightly worse) things | fnaf and dispatch enjoyer

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Hi! I'm Brek (she/her), I'm 24, and I mostly write stuff. I do occasionally draw, but I make no promises about the quality of my art lmao

If you're a minor and want to follow my tumblr, you can! I try to keep things sfw here, and anything that slips through the cracks (mostly asks about my writing) will be tagged as nsfw for filtering. My ao3 does have nsfw content (all tagged and rated tho)!

Here’s the stuff I like and have made content for:

FNAF

TSAMS

Dispatch

Amazing Digital Circus

And here’s some of my other interests:

Portal

Spyro

Outer Wilds

Dead by Daylight

Cult of the Lamb

Cats: The Musical (but like the stage recording, not the movie)

Borderlands

Pacific Rim

My ao3 is here!

This is generally how my blog is organized, when I manage to remember to tag things:

#reblog - Anything I've reblogged

#meblog - Any of my own original content. Some stuff has its own tag, but shorter fics and the like will probably end up here.

#brekwrites - stuff I write (tag in progress)

#brekdraws - stuff I draw (tag in progress)

#brekanimates - animatics (tag in progress)

#answeredask - Take a guess. (It's my answered asks.)

#fnanf - Five Nights at Not Freddy's: It's Sun and Moon's Show Now - Big long fnaf dca fanfic I'm writing. My take on the "new handler meets Sun and Moon and maybe they kiss eventually" trope, set after Security Breach and outlined before Ruin came out, so not canon compliant anymore.

#chance4redemption - A Chance for Redemption - Big-ish long-ish Sun and Moon Show fanfic I'm writing. Canon divergent, dragging Eclipse V3/4 kicking and screaming, through his redemption arc.

#fnaf - fnaf stuff (in progress)

#dispatch - dispatch stuff (in progress)

#tadc - amazing digital circus stuff (in progress)

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Little doodle comic of Abyss’s arrival at the circus. Her extra eyes are a bit too similar to the abstractions for Caine’s comfort. And she doesn’t remember any of her past! Most of her code looks fine, but her memories are corrupted. Suspicious.

Bear with me while I figure out how 2 Caine, he’s looking a little wonky here lmao

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Sure!

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Been doodling some TADC-esque characters. Meet Aby (short for Abyss), and Brekbot (just my Sona tbh). Caine for scale!

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Fight! Fight! Fight!

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They’re flirting w you. (Sonar chose their outfits.)

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Mal dressed them both for clubbing. She’s not getting the shirt back.

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They the sam

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Ep 8 spoilers

Do you guys think Caine deletes NPCs that start gaining too much awareness because he’s worried they might eat him eventually?

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TADC EP 8 Spoilers below!

Some screenshots of Kinger’s screen and everything I could piece together happening in the code!

I’m not a programmer, but I did my best here! Anything in quotes is directly quoted from my research. Apologies if I got anything wrong!

Before even opening Caine’s AI, there’s another AI file beside it that’s been corrupted. Maybe the remnants of the other AI Caine consumed?

Kinger’s password is Queenie123 🥺 Also the date here is October 30, 1996, which is a bit confusing given later screenshots.

He uses the whoami command to confirm who he is and, i think, that he has administrator privileges

The next thing Kinger does is use the grep command, which “is used to search for specific words, phrases, or patterns inside text files.” So, he looks for AI location, and the results return Caine, and another AI agent called experimental (possibly the alpha AI?), as well as modules for consciousness research and brain scans.

“An artificial intelligence (AI) agent refers to a system or program that is capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another system.”

I think the next line is kinger searching within a secured directory and returning results

drwxr-xr-x means “a directory where the owner has full permissions, while the group and others have read/execute permissions but cannot make edits or delete things”

The numbers 3 and 45 indicate the number of hard links to the directory. Typically, one link is the directory itself, one is the parent directory, and the rest are subdirectories. So the first result likely has one subdirectory, while the second has 43.

The term “root” refers to the owner of the directory, and means the system administrator owns this file and “wheel” is the group.

The next number is the file size. Apparently 512 bytes is the standard size for an empty directory.

Finally, the date is when they were last edited.

So, the first directory is empty, the program moves on to the second. Within that directory, it finds several files

The Caine-core file is the biggest. It’s a .lisp file, which is “plain text source code used to automate tasks and add custom commands in CAD software.” A bit of research reveals that this might be an older way of doing things, with newer methods available now.

Beneath it is paraphernalia-engine. An engine is “specialized software that provides core functionality, processing, or services for a larger application, usually operating in the background to handle complex tasks like rendering graphics, managing databases, or executing code.” So maybe this is the engine Caine uses to render graphics? OR it could be related to Caine’s line “I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files…”

The search also retrieves data files for ragatha and scratch, presumably brain scans.

Interestingly, Scratch’s was last edited on Oct 15, 1999, while Ragatha’s was last edited on Oct 15, 2008. I’m not sure if the 1996 date on Caine’s file is when he was created, finished, OR if him consuming the other AI counted as an edit and that’s the date it happened.

Additionally, I’m not sure if the dates on the brain scans are dates of upload or dates when Caine edited them (if that’s the case, other abstracted names should be mentioned, and it would imply Caine has made permanent edits to Ragatha). Or if the scratch and ragatha files are significant and thats why they were pulled up first in the search. It’s interesting to me that they’re the same size, and the same size as the engine. Maybe all human brain scan files are the same size?

Next we see the wacky-watch.c file, which is program source code written in C programming language. Possibly something to alert Caine or allow him to see what Kinger’s doing?

And then, I think, Bubble’s AI (also a .lisp file). I noticed bubble didnt pop when Caine was deleted. Maybe he’ll still be functional. I’ve seen theories he could be the other AI Caine ate, but I’m not sure about that given the ??? File beside Caine’s.

Kinger tries to shut down Caine using the stop command, and the terminal (Caine) starts to fight back, warning him against it.

The next line is Kinger opening a debug program and trying to run it on Caine using the number associated with his file, 1337 (this number specifically is a reference to leet speak)

That action is denied by a security system, possibly set up by Caine.

The chmod 000 command locks a file or directory so no one can access it. This is Kinger trying to lock Caine’s file, possibly to keep Caine out of his own code. Permission is denied.

Kinger than uses the rm (remove) command to try to delete the paraphernalia engine and is denied again. He receives an error stating “Cannot inject torment”

Injection in Linux generally refers to techniques where code, commands, or libraries are inserted into a running process or application to alter its behavior, often leading to security exploits. Interestingly, immediately after this, Caine says:

I couldn’t find anything about torment in Linux. The line about torment being accidental may actually relate to Caine tormenting the humans and the limitations he’s under, but he then proceeds to torture them so idk?

Kinger has tried a command that only root (the administrator) can do. Kinger supposedly is the administrator.

Caine starts speaking directly to Kinger and triggers a lockout sequence, which Kinger tries to abort.

I think the greenGROUNDS daemon line is Kinger trying to run a program he made. A daemon is “a background process that runs independently of user interaction to manage system services.” He’s trying to inject torment again, whatever that means.

Kinger tries to abort a fallback, which would likely be system recovery from a previous save? Maybe Caine trying to reboot to restore his access to his own files again?

He’s trying to guess the admin code to do so while Caine taunts him

He guesses paraphernalia, so maybe Caine DID make the paraphernalia engine and hes banking on his association with the word.

Unable to prevent the system recovery, Kinger tries to at least select which backup it will boot from. He tries C. Caine is fighting him on it again. Trying to trick him into deleting things. “Delete THIS, motherfucker.” Saying he’s confused, etc.

Kinger tries to execute another program, titled switcheroo. I think the programs merge? He is then asked if he wants to delete caine and says yes, possibly not realizing the command has switched. The rollback is aborted, and Caine is deleted.

Whew. My head hurts. Anyway, that’s my best guess!

Finally, I’ve seen people saying they think this is Kinger’s desk, and that the calendar is from March 1995. Interestingly, Kinger has a hard deadline marked on March 29th. I wonder if that date also has relevance?

If anyone that knows more than me wants to take a crack at this, feel free. I’m sure I confused some things!

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TADC Spoilers below!:

I’ve seen people pointing out stuff from ep 8 and just wanted to add my observations and screenshots to the mix!

The beginning sequence was absolutely hinting at Caine being created, being “too abstract” (Kinger’s words regarding Scratch’s way of thinking), and being put aside to make way for the alpha version of the program, the blue one. I think it’s interesting because Caine actually showed Jax the set of office images he was trained on and mentions being “cut off” in ep 7.

I’m not completely sure if the cut off he’s talking about is the original boxing off of his AI or something that’s been done since he went rogue and ate his blue brother, though. Could be either.

When Ragatha arrives at the circus, Caine seems just as surprised as Kinger, saying, “So it is possible,” and “I was hoping new minds could show up.” So, up until Kinger, the brain scans were likely uploaded in one batch (supported by the code we see later). Something must have been done in the real world to allow Caine access to more scans.

Caine responds to Bubble’s remarks about him being bad at his job by saying “I fixed that.” This is him referencing consuming the other AI. I think it’s interesting that he did so in an attempt to fix himself.

Similarly, it’s interesting that Caine seems to be distressed by the idea of being alone. “They won’t abstract. They won’t leave me. I won’t let them.” Zooble later comments that we can’t know if Caine thinks like us because he isn’t human. While this is true, his distress at being left behind and failing at his purpose seems remarkably real and organic.

Additionally, “I am God” seems like a remarkably human line. Not sure if this is just him relating his situation to something the human mind can comprehend, but it struck me as a little odd for an AI to apply the concept of godhood to itself.

Kinger referencing Scratch trying to make something and mentioning his brain tumor is definitely hinting at him trying to preserve his consciousness somehow. Maybe even doing research on his own, which is backed up later in the code we see.

Finally, after seeing Gangle’s recurring “hit by a semi” motif and Jax’s “something happened in that car” motif, I think some of the brain scans were obtained via medical research on patients with TBIs. If you’ve seen or played the game SOMA, that’s the vibe I’m getting. Jax thinking he has nothing to go back to could be due to him hitting someone, or, like in SOMA, the accident could have killed the car’s passenger.

Finally, Jax’s freakout where he seems stunned that everything is real. I think it could be him realizing that this time, it ISN’T an adventure cooked up by Caine. It could also be him realizing that the simulation isn’t a coma-induced dream he’s having after his accident.

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Requested Sonar dancing gifs from here

(He’s doing the “Where’s My Hug” up top)

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Are you satisfied?

(Warning for drug use! Not detailed but it’s Sonar so it’s present.)

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Startled him

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Dumb followup to this to give Sonar a chance to say the line

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PETHIMPETHIMPETHIMPETHIM

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You know their Halloween costumes go hard