Oh boi

Echo, 21+yo, autistic, xe/xem, this is where i put my special interests and hyperfixations https://en.pronouns.page/@Echkko

[burbankblood]

Wanted to see more papa kinger!

I also wanted Caine to have a better life.

[partlydigested]

The fact that you're forced to have a set physical form is so fucked up.

Like yeah this is Your Vessel. You can kinda change it, but not a ton. At least not without spending large amounts of money or having undesirable side effects. And no you can't choose how your Vessel looks, that's based on your parents sorry. Also as you age Your Vessel will change, sometimes in ways you don't want. Can't really do much about that either.

And all interactions have to be through Your Vessel. You can never escape Your Vessel. If you want to have irl friends they'll have to see Your Vessel. And if you don't show someone Your Vessel, they're going to have an image in their head about what Your Vessel looks like, and its almost certainly not what it actually looks like.

Escaping Your Vessel is impossible.

[marshmallow-dust]

looking at the texts I sent 2 seconds ago like I would NOT say that

[wejustworkhere]

voice of someone who has something(s) to unpack: yeah i just love characters who have to pretend to be someone else for an extended period of time. yeah especially if they didn't want it

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[mousidy]

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

[heuheu-art]

:)

the first panel was inspired by fanart made by n0vanix

[sanchensky]

White lies 🐝 (please read more under the cut <3)

So happy I finished this thing before ep 8 oof

Anyway, the comic was born out of

my thoughts about Caine's model lacking many essential facial features (as if he was never intended to show any emotions) and yet him being literally the most expressive character in the circus despite everything.

me being low-key obsessed with the implications episode 7 left us with. Players questioning everything they've been told and Caine being in the center of it all.

Just to be clear, I do believe Caine is written as a sentient AI who is just struggling to understand humanity and everything that comes with it. And I think these thoughts about him faking his emotions are inherently wrong within a story. He's oblivious and desperate but not malicious. But couple it with the fact that he's been lying about many other things (so far I'm inclined to think it was for players' sake in his own eyes) and that humans have been suffering for a while dealing with a literal god that doesn't understand them... Well, I have a feeling that they will doubt his motives and literally everything they know, rightfully so.

The amount of attention this little comic received is a bit terrifying and overwhelming and seeing all the different interesting interpretations people come up with I just wanted to explain mine own a little better <3

I want them all to be healed and happy, little guy absolutely included, but man the situation is rough, and the odds are against us

(Also please ignore typos, I'm hyperaware of them and even messed up writing my on name, i was really, really tired :') )

Update after ep 8: oh boy :')

[riceballart]

“Have you… ever done something that you regret?”

Yeah, Ribbit, I watch this show. We’re all gonna die in two fucking months.

[the-irreverend]

Y'all do realize these two statements aren't mutually exclusive right?

[inkzee]

@moonbeam-dragon I did it

[greenpxelzz]

CLAIM YOUR LAST TADC BADGES

[shezls]

Based off the teaser for ep 9

[doodlespatulas]

The sillies <3

[vanilkaray]

Raph, Raph, Raph, Watermikon, Raph, and Block

[artsyrean]

Caines musical number except scratch forgot to put in any music data

[demilypyro]

"if Jax is a trans woman she's still an abuser so she's bad representation so the show is transphobic" you're an idiot. you want your blorbos to be perfect ideal angels, I want my blorbos to be realistic, nuanced, flawed human beings, we are not the same. I LIKE that she's messy and fucked up and problematic, I think it's a realistic depiction of how a lot of repressed and traumatized trans women are. I think the show goes to great lengths to explore how and why she is the way she is, and to evoke sympathy for this kind of person. it doesn't excuse her actions but it does make them understandable. and I think the fact women like that deserve sympathy is an idea worth stating and worth shouting. yes she's a bully and she hurt everyone around her and that may never change. she still deserves sympathy.

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