"I did end up figuring out why he has to breathe now. B-basically, when a human enters the circus, their mind is first converted to a "base code," or a form of their brain that is directly converted to code. The base code still forces the person to breathe and eat and sleep, or else the brain code registers the person as dead and deactivates. Once the person enters the circus, their code adapts and loses the code that can let them die, essentially. When Caine was coming back from deletion, his code had to latch onto any template it could, which ended up being the base code.
There's a couple more things, though. His code corrupted a lot during the revival process, of course, but it was still corrupting slowly while he was gone. Which means that whatever happened while he was deleted, he was... likely conscious the entire time.
The other thing that I noticed is that Caine's emotional processor... doesn't have adapting capabilities. Well, it does, but not in the same way that his intelligence does. It's managed to accommodate emotions like joy and anger and sadness, but... nothing past that. We, uh... didn't really expect him to develop any kind of sapience, just sentience. Tomorrow I'm going to transfer those capabilities to his emotional processor, which should help him grow emotionally, kind of like a human can."
Quick Kinger and Pomni break! Caine will be back next update
So... there's a minimum number for how long he's been there. You all know it's been longer, though :) that reveal will be later :))))))
They left the computer outside. It's password locked, anyways - there's no possible way Caine could get in!!!
Also AP exams are done!!! Now I just have finals week and then I can start working on this more!