Gryph's Art Blog

She/Her, 27, multifandom

[gryphon-arts]

My Lackadaisy OC, Evelyn! I have a lot of stuff I want to do with her, so many ideas running around in my brainnn

[sanchensky]

White lies 🐝

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.

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 the fact that I've messed up while writing my own name in the first couple of frames hah, am tireddd)

[lovehaleylo]

King of the Circus 🦋👑🎪

[gryphon-arts]

Comforting Thought

[lady173]

ok so guys. I watched tadc ep 7. If ur seeing this u prolly have too.

I’ve been thinking.

ok so we know by this point that kinger’s awareness/intelligence/general memory is tied to the light levels of the space he’s in. this has been shown time and time again.

and in the admin console room.

Even when the screen is on, It’s still dark. Easily as dark as in kingers fort, maybe even darker.

So why does everyone else(besides seemingly pomni) think that he wouldn’t be aware?

Especially Ragatha, who literally said “I think I get it now.” I know she’s probably not as sure about it as Pomni, but still.

Also

Why does it seem like kinger isn’t aware? It’s dark. Given what we know about him and his intelligence. He should be just as aware as the rest of them.

but he isn’t.

And then.

When Jax presses the button to stay. The computer shines bright. Like kinda unnecessarily bright.

So it would make sense that kinger’s awareness/intelligence/general memory would be absolute dogshit right now. Possibly even worse than we have ever seen it. If the level of darkness=awareness works in reverse.

But he remembers someone from what is most likely anywhere from months to YEARS ago. And a specific event. From something that Caine didn’t even say outright, and only implied.

So either, kinger’s awareness/intelligence/general memory modifier isn’t working, or whatever happened to Scratch was so incredibly bad and scarring that it BYPASSED THE MODIFIERS.

and kinger bringing up scratch very visibly upset Caine. He was tripping over his words and left incredibly quickly.

Hell, I wouldn’t even be that surprised if Caine put extra modifiers over that specific memory of kinger, given his reaction.

So that raises the question of what the fuck happened to scratch that kinger would be able to remember it in a incredibly bright room

Thank you for coming to my ted talk! Tell me what you think happened.

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I was thinking about this too! To me, Kinger not being lucid in the dark when pomni asked him to pick the button, but becoming lucid when the bright screen appears is incredibly suspect. It was completely reversed.

So here’s what I think happened: Caine WAS altering their minds. Not just Jax, but Kinger too. It wasn’t that scratch’s abstraction was impactful enough that kinger remembered it even in the light, but that kinger simply was actually lucid.

The entire episode, it was strongly implied Caine was watching them the entire time, from the moment Abel was introduced. When Abel talks about making sure Caine doesn’t catch on, the shots during that focus on the photos on the walls with eyes on them. Caine is already watching.

Back in episode 6, during Kinger and Ragatha’s heart to heart, Bubble catches their moment with a camera. The way this was presented was… somewhat ominous. I don’t think Caine knew how Kinger’s mental state worked before this moment, and kinger probably wanted it that way.

Then, in episode 7, Pomni and Ragatha spell it out completely right in front of one of Caine’s NPCs without realizing. If Caine was suspecting what was going on by episode 6, this probably fully confirmed it for him. If he wasn’t listening in directly, Abel likely delivered this information to him after everyone was sent to the office.

Kinger regaining lucidity before the reveal would have spoiled the adventure, and Caine couldn’t let that happen. And now that he knows Kinger is lucid in the dark, he had to put a stop to that before kinger pointed out what was actually going on. And if Caine can’t fully suppress Kinger’s memories and awareness, then surely the simplest solution would be to just reverse the circumstances in which kinger would regain lucidity! Which meant he’d be lucid in the light instead. It wouldn’t matter at the end, because the surprise is already revealed, right? There’s nothing for Kinger to spoil.

But of course, Caine didn’t expect that to come back and bite him when Jax and the others called him out on what he was doing. He’d inadvertently made sure Kinger would be fully capable of making important connections at a key moment.

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Old sketch with Jax and my OC Verna I cleaned up a little! I wanted something soft after that trailer…

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Is now a bad time to post these near/mid abstraction Jax sketches?

[puddingandp1]

those i have failed

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Doodle from a magma session with a friend

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Bonus lol

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Doodle from a magma session with a friend

[absolutedream-art]

"I do not care about you, or anyone else in this circus in the slightest!"

Jax has built some serious walls around him.

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What’s this guy so mad about smh

[pip0x33]

pepper

[littlevioletart]

You shouldn’t have given him back to me

[chuchichao]

Diable

[megasocky]

Mordecai when he Mords across the room

[gryphon-arts]

Subjected Mordecai to a pose study today heehee. Just wanted to do something simple to decompress! It was very difficult to put it down instead of fussing with it endlessly. Reference image under the read more!