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[kiwifrutii]

One would think Caine is immortal, since he can't abstract and he's an AI, but I think he would show signs of aging as time passes and the computer starts deteriorating. It would take many decades for the components to start having serious issues, but that day would still come eventually. Programs would slow down to keep up with the hardware's reduced capabilities until a key component finally gives out.

To make it less angsty: old man Caine. He changes his avatar to match the age he feels like! Which would be Ancient and Dilapidated,,

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 4 Part 11

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)

Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Voting ended onJun 29

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

[wernon]

Uni student Caine

[macksarts]

Been itching to make Sir Caine happen with my own two hands. Just an idea that desperately needed to escape my head. Colored chain mail and all. What do yall think?

[kiwifrutii]

gulps. scratch, featuring one specific sentence caine said in ep 8.

i accidentally made him a bit mean to his ai creation, but i think caine is like chatgpt to him so he dgaf

[3hkowalski]

First of all, I am OBSESSED with all of your Cain fanarts!!

Secondly, do you have any more thoughts or info on your android Cain or about the au itself? I got super invested the moment I read it lol. :) I'd also love to hear any tadc headcannons/theories in general that you have to! (No pressure ofc, just wanted to lyk how captivating your art is! <3 )

TYSM for your interest💖!! I’ve been having way too much fun building this AU with a friend, so here’s a short little lore dump for DBH AU:

Pomni: a rookie Detroit police officer (kinda Judy Hopps-coded). She’s assigned to investigate why a circus-themed amusement park project suddenly shut down. There’s something shady going on with the company behind it: C&A Corporation.

Caine: RK057, the first prototype android created for The Amazing Digital Circus amusement park project: once Kinger’s proudest and most anticipated creation——only to be suddenly abandoned in a C&A office building.

Pomni later stumbles upon him during an exploration in the old office. She reactivates him by replacing his severely damaged eye with a green one (inspired by Markus' plotline!) Later, he ends up becoming a key witness of uncovering the truth behind the case.

Kinger parallels Elijah Kamski: the scientist who created Caine, was planning a huge, ambitious circus amusement park, then suddenly vanished from public view years ago. The project ended just as abruptly.

Ragatha, the daughter of a local Gang leader, saved Pomni when C&A’s hired pursuers put her in danger and points her toward Kinger: Ragatha's family had dealings with him in the past.

Gangle runs a fast-food restaurant as a cover, but is secretly a well-known underground android mechanic and can fix almost any broken androids

Jax parallels Gavin Reed: he really dislikes AI androids and constantly gives Caine a hard time. Fortunately for him, the DPD Chief Zooble assigns him an android partner anyway: RH570-Bubble, lol

Moon & Sun: they mirror the two Tracis androids who committed the Eden Club murder, this will unfold much like DBH’s original storyline

PART 1 | PART 2

So much to share! I need to come up with more details to design the rest of the crew…

Also.. have a WIP of human Caine! I know people want to grab him by the waist.

me too.

[kiwifrutii]

warm up doodles of cainegpt. i'm still trying to get used to drawing him, i'll do more once i get the hang of it,,

[runawaygecko]

The way he's holding them here makes me feel conflicted. Like, this scene is terrifying and I can't imagine what's it like to be on a receiving end of it but... just look at it.

- he's holding Zooble in a way so that their parts don't fall out

- he's not squeezing Gangle so that her fragile ribbons don't get tangled

- he's not putting too much pressure on Ragatha so that she doesn't get ripped apart

- he's only holding Pomni and Jax firmly because their bodies are solid and rubbery

And this scene is right after the torture too. You would think he would be more violent, but no. He wanted to hurt them, not break them.

Caine wanted them to listen. And because they never did, he made them feel what he felt when they poked at his biggest fears and insecurities.

I guess what I meant to say is - even when at his worst, there was still something considerate in him. Something resembling the real him and not the angry monster he'd become.

[steampoweredwerehog]

Gangle talks about Sonic lore.

Direct reference to @punkitt-is-here’s Roxas comic

[kiwifrutii]

I like to think that everything the Abel NPC said was either Caine speaking or Caine's own thoughts bleeding into the NPC. Especially about Kinger.

"He's not trustworthy."

"Things between us are complicated."

"I would love working alongside him again..."

"[Kinger's trustworthy, he's got wisdom buried in there] Yeah, when he uses it responsibly..."

There's definitely something strained between them. Through my rewatch, I haven't seen Caine interact much with Kinger outside of picking him out personally to shred him in ep 8. Then, his voice when he asked "...where's Kinger?". The fact that he was sealed away and discarded by his programmers, Kinger being one of them.

He never asked to be created. His creators deemed him a failure and abandoned him. His creators then ended up stuck in his program, and now's his purpose to keep them entertained and unabstracted, but he's still constantly failing. They're not putting him away, but no one likes him or his adventures or his efforts to keep them happy at all, and he's still useless no matter what he tries.

Maybe he has a reason to be a little bit conflicted when it comes to the only programmer that's left under his responsibility.

[kiwifrutii]

Related to Abel. Caine chose his own name. Does he think about what his name and what he did after escaping that box implies? Can an AI see itself in a biblical figure and feel remorse for what it has done?

[kiwifrutii]

I like to think that everything the Abel NPC said was either Caine speaking or Caine's own thoughts bleeding into the NPC. Especially about Kinger.

"He's not trustworthy."

"Things between us are complicated."

"I would love working alongside him again..."

"[Kinger's trustworthy, he's got wisdom buried in there] Yeah, when he uses it responsibly..."

There's definitely something strained between them. Through my rewatch, I haven't seen Caine interact much with Kinger outside of picking him out personally to shred him in ep 8. Then, his voice when he asked "...where's Kinger?". The fact that he was sealed away and discarded by his programmers, Kinger being one of them.

He never asked to be created. His creators deemed him a failure and abandoned him. His creators then ended up stuck in his program, and now's his purpose to keep them entertained and unabstracted, but he's still constantly failing. They're not putting him away, but no one likes him or his adventures or his efforts to keep them happy at all, and he's still useless no matter what he tries.

Maybe he has a reason to be a little bit conflicted when it comes to the only programmer that's left under his responsibility.

[kiwifrutii]

And now, a post specifically dedicated to my thoughts on Caine, from a massive Caine fan! Of course, SPOILERS ahead!

I......... didn't like his sudden redemption. And his incredibly quick change of mind. It felt a bit out of character, a bit rushed, a bit of everything. My opinion is mostly negative, but I do like that he's still alive and well!

Now that I think about it, I didn't like much about Caine's appearance. (Aside from the cute pics of him integrating himself into the circus, that was really, really darn cute!)

I'll leave a list of stuff I found strange, off the top of my head:

He was in the void for some reason? Wasn't he basically deleted, as shown in the code in ep 8? Why did that just teleport him out of the map? He could've flown back the whole time he was out there?!

Caine is not malicious, but he can be petty and stubborn and way too proud. I don't think he would've came to that conclusion so quickly? To leave the humans be, even if he voiced his fear of probable deletion? Episode 8 shows a deep-seated insecurity that has been stewing in him since the early testing days. That doesn't just go poof.

Apparently Kinger's modifications worked (?), since Caine did say he didn't have as much power as before. We'll never know what that entails.

I'm not sure what his blue orb sibling is doing in the void or why was he thrown into the void. Or like, if he's the evil resentful part of Caine that was saying "kill the humans". Either way, I'm not sure if I liked the concept. Was he always able to detach his sibling from him? They're not permanently fused or something from Caine cannibalizing the other's code? That feels a bit... impermanent?

ALSO, if it's implied that the evil and conflicted side of him isn't him but the other AI/Bubble, I'll simply disregard it. That decision takes away from his complexity as a character and I won't accept that, sorry :(

He was forgiven/accepted WAY too quickly. The cast didn't seem very against him even when he first appeared. I feel like being tortured by him and hearing him be so unstable/power-trippy would warrant more of a negative reaction from them?

But, at the end of the day, I think I am also thinking too "Caine-centric"ly. He's basically a way to give the main cast some closure by accessing free wifi from the cafe next door (that... disappears? anyways,) and looking them up on Google.

If we had time for it (and if Caine was the main character), he would struggle with everything much longer. He finds it hard to understand humans, has mixed feelings when it comes to how they've treated him and his work, reacts poorly and strongly to the thought of being faulty or a failure or obsolete. All that, for almost 20 years. A few days of thinking (where he thought the humans purposefully deleted him, wanted him gone) wouldn't really make him as reasonable as he was depicted. It would take a LONG time for the gang and Caine to seem as friendly and close as they were at the end.

I think I'll stick to reading fanfics when it comes to Caine 😭 there are absolutely amazing writers in the caine-centric AO3 tag that feed us all we could ever want for a throughly executed Caine redeption and character analysis. Man, I love fandom!

[kiwifrutii]

spoilerless post. i just wanted to say, i don't know if i agree with how they handled caine. do any other caine stans agree with me or am i going insane 😭😭

[kiwifrutii]

⚠️ TADC spoilers ahead!!!

Well. Unlike half this fandom, I liked the last episode! It was fun, it was beautiful, it made me emotional. I loved seeing Kinger and Pomni + Pomni and Ragatha have their heart-to-heart. And the hugs that Pomni herself initiated...

I can also definitely see that Jax is the main character, along with Pomni. This is definitely not for people who don't want anything to do with him, even if he's been the main character from the start.... Anyways, I liked seeing his backstory and his history with Ribbit and Kaufmo and Ragatha. It gives (more) insight on why Jax is like that.

Unfortunately, some scenes felt very sudden and out of place, like that one flash of Scratch appearing on the stage. Others felt a little rushed, and I definitely would've wanted to see more. Gangle's thoughts on Jax, Caine's (speedy and timeskip) redemption, the brain scans, Kaufmo, etc etc. But, in the end, they had to fit everything in an hour-long movie, so it's expected.

Besides these minor details, I walked out of the movie theater very happily!

[vimoftheforest]

HEY SO REMEMBER IN EPISODE 3

when kinger and pomni are in "hell" and kinger says

"Not your typical idea of hell"

cold, dark, lonely, a jail.

You know what's also cold, dark, lonely, and locked in?

this is what caine knew hell to be.

[kiwifrutii]

more thoughts that are plaguing my mind

jax's scene. ribbit, someone he was so close to, ripping his "cover" off to show what's inside. something "ugly" compared to his usual appearance, completely different than how he presents himself.

he tries to cover himself up again, but shadows of kaufmo, pomni and ribbit forcefully keep him from hiding again. he's completely exposed to the people who have seen through him, he is expressionless and helpless without his mask, and they're all crowding him, mocking him for what he truly is.

[kiwifrutii]

the cogs in my brain are turning...

gummigoo being the first person pomni got attached to right after landing in a digital hell and learning that she might be stuck there forever. they grew close. gummigoo, despite being an ai, became much more. he could learn and feel like a 'real' person.

pomni was genuinely happy to have someone she could trust after being in constant distress since arriving to the circus. even if he's an npc, he went through a whole existential crisis about what he perceived as real. they both related to feeling like they don't matter, like they're forgettable, and found companionship together.

then caine fucking killed her friend with no remorse, leaving her alone. again. in a hostile place where she felt like she didn't belong.

it's understandable that her fear would be being betrayed by someone she saw herself in, embodied by her first friend in the digital circus.