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@caineliker
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Ermmm if this doesn't happen in the finale episode I'm going to I'm going to be so calm about it I promise guys I really will CAINE COMING BACK AS A BEE WOULD BE SO CUTE STOP GETTING MY HOPES UP I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TORMENT ME HAHA GET IT? IT'S A REFERENCE TO CAINE'S CRASH OUT BEFORE HE GOT DELETED AND MY LIFE GOT RUINED it's 4 am I'm so sorry
post-ep8 caine that managed to survive the deletion process but not entirely, so now he's prowling the digital world and vampire-sucking the code from remaining npcs while attempting to avoid the humans. he's in pain haw haw
I hope if jax comes out they dont change her height or voice or something to make her look less trans or anything
Im a "blocky" tall (6'4) girl irl even after 9 years estrogen and I will be forever am I supposed to lose it bc I dont even have to imagine it, id rather be a cartoon rabbit, like I want tall blocky trans girl representation yes as main characters and protagonist
Give her like a skirt or maybe even breasts if you want or something don't make her cis looking thats tone deaf not what the girlies are dying for
Caine is The One Who's Running The Show!
I'm scared
Congratulations Caine for being the first "Boy AI" to have the "Girl AI" trope
Edit: please check out my OTHER TADC art (here & here)
so this is where my brain is at right now
Not good at all.
The One Who's Running The Show!
I love him okay
All right you filthy animals come get your Heartful AU:
A comic in which Pomni and Caine share a drunk conversation about what it means to be human. (My AU subscribes to the theory that these are brain scan copies of people. While some think this means nothing mattered in the story because they're "not human," Zooble/Gangle and even Caine's absolute adoration for humans says otherwise)
Porygon-Z and Dedenne re-inaction of the Heartful AU I guess LOL It's fun to imagine Beta Caine/Red AI as Porygon, the Blue AI as Porygon2, and Final Caine as Porygon-Z. TOO fitting actually. And Pomni's a computer mouse!
We've seen his nightmares, but now he's starting to dream. And it's not something he's exactly happy about. What happens when a robot loves, TRULY loves? What happens when a robot starts to yearn?
EDIT: Forgot to say I was directly inspired by @doncdesole 's art specifically here
Assorted doodles. Caine's first act of genuine kindness is installing a character customization module, all on his own. It's still... Limited to what he knows like he reaaaally doesn't know how to model proper humanoids outside of toys, but still feels more freeing for everyone involved, even himself.
ignore those other two sketches
That caine crashout tho
Started this a while age and fixed it up after the last episode, I had no idea how to decorate the room so i did whatever.
Decided to join the Ivan the terrible trend with Caine and kinger
Tadc but Caine is possessed by an animation student
Hi I’ve been animating homework all spring break so I made this as a break
Enjoy
Ok bye
Why The Original Cast Abstracted So Quickly
So we know Scratch and co arrived in late 1999, and Ragatha in late 2008, with probably around a 1-year period where Kinger was entirely alone (long enough to develop dissociative tendencies, but not so long that he couldn't still pull himself together for Ragatha). This means almost the entire original group didn't last more than 6 years in the circus, while characters like Ragatha have managed to last at-least a decade. I think there's some major reasons as to why that is:
1. They understood the true nature of their prison
Unlike everyone from Ragatha onwards, the original cast were all developers who understood on a deeper level what the circus was, and more importantly what THEY were. As it's been all-but-confirmed that the characters within the circus are digital mind scans with no bodies to return to, they started out understanding there was no escape and nobody was coming for them. The knowledge that they were nothing by artificial copies would have been existentially damaging, and made relinquishing their humanity all the easier.
2. They were real-world colleagues and friends
Now you'd THINK this would have been an enormous boon for their mental longevity, since they all already had bonds even before entering the circus, but I think it was actually a huge detriment. They could actually remember and remind one another of their pre-circus lives, which only reinforced how trapped they felt. Additionally, this shared experience would have made them SO tight-knit that the loss of a single member would have been emotionally devastating to the rest, likely leading to cascading abstractions.
3. Scratch's Abstraction
Despite what I said above, the original cast's bonds PROBABLY would have helped in the long run... had Scratch not abstracted when Caine tried editing his mind files (presumably trying to "cure" the cognitive impairment from his brain tumour). Witnessing someone they all knew and looked up to devolve into a monster would have been awful enough, but I'd argue the true horror would have been their collective realization that there was no cure. Before the cellar protocol was introduced, they probably spent a LOT of time trying to "fix" Scratch, with the repeated failures only compounding their feelings of hopelessness. Had they been able to accept that Scratch was gone in the same way the modern cast holds a funeral for Kaufmo, they could've grieved and moved on. Instead all they could tell was that their friend trapped in a form of perpetual, violent distress, and nothing they did could pull him out of it. The grief, frustration, and hopelessness of that is likely what caused the next abstraction, which only would have made things even worse.
4. They thought they were alone
I think this is probably the largest contributor. Since they didn't know new people could enter the circus, they thought it was going to be the seven of them trapped indefinitely until someone on the outside pulled the plug. With each abstraction, that sensation of isolation would have become more and more crushing. By the time it was down to just Kinger and Queenie, even their love for one another would have struggled to stave off that kind of existential dread. I'm pretty sure Kinger lasted as long as he did on his own entirely due to self-loathing; he found purpose in forcing himself to hold on and remember everything he felt personally responsible for as Caine's primary creator. Abstraction was an escape he didn't deserve.