At first, I was going to draw the argument between Caine and Queenie that would lead to their fallout, but I felt it was better to show why Caine would think such a suggestion would have been so callous.
Before Bubble took over the circus, and before Caine’s code mysteriously began to break down, the best thing Caine could do to help the players was keep a close eye on Bubble at all times…
… since he refused to harm his companion.
However, after Bubble took over and assimilated Caine’s code, Caine ensured his obsession with pleasing humans was also integrated in Bubble. This meant that Bubble couldn’t attack or kill humans directly; they first had to lose an adventure for him to earn the right to harm them.
And, given that Bubble is precisely the reason they abstracted, he doesn’t feel too bad about the situation of the abstracted players…
He keeps the missing pieces of their mind secure so they can’t get them back. Or so Caine can’t give them back.
The players can also embark on random adventures to earn random rewards. However, the prizes aren’t nearly as enticing[*] as those he’s offering here to bait the players to their deaths: temporary power-ups, clothes and accessories, room remodeling… and the like.
Furthermore, the puzzles aren’t as difficult, nor are the stakes as high as in a big-prize adventure. Bubble might not even penalize kill them for losing in a random adventure if they participate!
[*] Bubble doesn’t have a high opinion of humans. He’s only offering what he thinks they’ll be interested in gaining, not what he’s actually willingly to give.
In short, if they want something specific for themselves, the humans will have to earn it.
Barely had time to doodle, but managed to sketch the important gals of my AU.
Tweaked their designs a bit to fill my need to draw folds and to give Queenie/Kinger the ability to truly “embrace” someone when they hug them… giving them arms, sorta.
Still not satisfied with Moon’s design. Perhaps I’ll give her “clouds”, like I did with Sun. 🤔
I also wanted them to have a visual cue that highlighted the fact that, before, Bubble was embedded in Caine’s code, but now it’s the other way around: Caine’s code is embedded in Bubble’s.
Bubble is simply “nicer” about keeping Caine around after consuming him.
Paradigm Noise was an interesting read, but I still prefer the manga and the original series by a huge stretch. However, this part, I loved:
When Angel suggested he was part of the military in that trippy sequence, he scoffed at the idea, but the Bigs and the other robots are obviously war machines designed for destruction, so I theorized that Roger might be in denial about his past self’s actions. After all, he would never have done such a thing in the present; therefore, it’s impossible for him to accept that his past self would have acted differently.
The idea that the Roger from the past was a bad person, or didn’t act when the one we know would have, it tickles me. It has so much potential: imagine if a character remembers that Roger and doesn’t believe that he has changed and become someone else.
As content as I am with the two seasons we got, there were enough material for another, just saying.
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I mean, how/where else would he have gotten that funny idea?
Individual versions without text and an elaboration of the theory under the cut:
We don’t know what the Voice said to Spamton on the phone, nor what they did —if anything— to make him successful. We could speculate several things:
The Voice could have been giving Spamton instructions or was acting as an intermediary so that he could influence the Light World. If the latter, Spamton making a deal with Tenna was part of the plan, as it would be the next step: from spam, to print advertising, to television…
If Spamton was changing media to better advertise and capture the attention of the Lightners, was his main goal to become more and more "real" then? Is his face on a magazine?
However, if he had received instructions, was his presence on TV World still part of the plan? And, most importantly, what was he supposed to do? Unlike in the Digital World, he had a deadline to act — Kris would have to return the laptop sooner or later.
Now, considering the deadline, what scared him? Being told that the deal was off —mind you, he got a second call before getting evicted from Queen’s Mansion— or that the time was up? If the poster in the Z-rank room is anything to go by, Spamton was having a good time with Tenna; perhaps he got too distracted and the Voice simply reminded him.
Or, third option, what if what horrified him was what he had been told to do? What if the problem wasn’t that he wasn’t allowed to share his secrets, but that the secrets were too harrowing to share?
Dunno about you guys, but I don’t think Tenna would have taken “to become Big Shots, we gotta kill Kris (and/or Asriel/Toriel/Asgore)” very well. And also, I don’t think Spamton would be down with murder at his best either. Even at his worst, trying to steal Kris’s soul was a last resort, one he only used when the NEO suit and the crystal weren’t enough.
It’s, however, the reason Spamton could resent the TV so much — especially if he felt his feelings were one-sided: sentimentality made him hesitate and then, he had lost everything.
The Voice made no further calls —the one from the Digital World being the exception, maybe to warn him of the machine’s existence in the basement— because Spamton had already been told everything he needed to become Big Shot.
He simply missed his chance when he was at Kris’s house and lived to regret it.
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