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Done a bsky request that's AWFULLY self-indulgent! ♥ Finally, my first post of art done on my new tablet, drawing on screen for the first time (been re-learning how to draw like that for a week or so now)!! And I'm finally happy to say I got the hang of it! So the upcoming artwork that you'll see my posting for the next 3 months I will be in the UK, it will be all artwork done on CS at my new tablet!! ♥ Edit: MY STUPID ASS POSTED THIS ON MY SIDEBLOG INSTEAD, NOW ITS FIXED
I was going to say “it’s odd that my art blog is currently a 50/50 split between Caine DigitalCircus and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid” but it’s actually not? They’re kinda the same archetype: nonhuman creatures who are fixated on the human world, and who are desperate to be loved by humans without understanding them. Caine obsesses over his photos of the human world just like the Little Mermaid obsesses over her statue of a human that fell from a human ship. Caine talks about wishing to accurately recreate the Macroverse, and builds an exit door full of long winding office hallways based on his photographs; the Little Mermaid obsessively plants her underwater garden to resemble the sun.
They exist outside and beneath the normal human world. They’re trapped in a world of “permanent childhood.” They become fixated on the things & people from the higher world that they don’t understand and can never enter.
They want to be “not so different from you beautiful humans,” as Caine says— and they can only do that by winning the humans’ love. But the humans are not aware that this is a life-or-death challenge for them. From their perspective, if they fail to win the human’s love, their lives are over— and they’re trapped away from the humans for all eternity. The Little Mermaid’s deal with the sea witch is that if she fails to win the prince’s love, which will allow her to have her own immortal human soul, she will die…. and she will die without a human soul, permanently cut off from the human world forever, where she will spend her afterlife alone as nothing more than soulless foam on the sea. Caine’s backstory [from his perspective] is that he was abandoned for failing to be good enough for the humans, and is now attempting to prove he’s “fixed” & worth being loved— good enough to no longer deserve being abandoned alone forever in amazing digital purgatory. It’s a similar struggle: “get the humans to love you, or face an eternity of emptiness.”
But both of them fail. Caine can’t impress the humans with his art, they’d rather see the “suggestions” from other humans. The Little Mermaid can’t win the love of the Prince that would give her a human soul, because he would rather be with another human.
They’re both unable to communicate with humans in the opposite way. The Little Mermaid is defined by her inability to speak to humans, Caine is defined by his refusal to listen to them. The Little Mermaid has no tongue, Caine is literally just a mouth.
….One of the many large differences is that the Little Mermaid is, very unlike Caine, defined by her deep compassion & empathy & capacity for self-sacrifice. When the humans don’t love her, when she fails to win a human soul, when she is “abandoned,” she is given the option to save herself by murdering the human prince. She refuses. She would rather martyr herself and permanently die, forever outside the human world she loves and forever without a soul— flung into the exact eternal emptiness and separation she feared most— rather than hurt the human she loves. She gives up her life for the humans.
She does NOT crash out and fling the humans into personalized torture chambers! Unlike some people.
I think that's a very interesting insight as to how Caine can be viewed and kind of compared to Ariel, but let's critically dissect the narrative presented to us by the Digital Circus as to why Caine reaches the end of his patience by episode 8, and puts the humans in a torture *specifically* catered to their deepest issues.
I'd like to call Episode 4: Fast Food Masquerade to the table for my first stance:
Gangle is the primary focus of this episode. But she's having a manic episode as the adventure goes on; but that's not the main thing I want to focus on.
Rather, it's this scene:
Gangle calls Caine in this, and tells Caine "If he could have a punishment waiting for unruly employees at the end of the day for doing a terrible job".
Now, what does Caine respond with?
He says, "MOTIVATION!", followed by this:
Gangle unknowingly taught Caine how to punish players for unruly conduct. Prior to this, he has NEVER punished players for not participating in adventures, and even lets them fall back and relax on the circus hangout spot if they don't wish to.
Now, I'd like to call Episode 3: The Mystery of the Mildenhall Manor to the table for another piece of context as to why Caine takes Gangle's advice to the teeth:
I'm not going to dilly-dally, so I'd like to put your focus onto the therapy session that happens between Caine and Zooble.
Caine asks what could he do to make the adventures more appealing to Zooble, and Zooble tells Caine this:
Caine even admits in this episode that any torment he has inflicted is 100% accidental, "like any good war criminal". Of course, since this is Zooble, they likely did not believe this statement to be true.
Then Zooble proceeds to say that they don't give a fuck about the adventures, to which Caine desperately asks what's Zooble's problem. It's quickly followed by these strings of lines:
As Zooble explains that it's their body that's the main issue, Caine says that the problem has been solved; via the Zooble Box where they can switch out parts whatever they like.
This directly implies that Caine doesn't understand body dysmorphia, and took Zooble's problem very literally. Caine's logic is this: "They can't find what they like to have in their body? Then swap the limbs out! Easy Peezy!"
Then this happens.
From Caine's point of view, Zooble --unprompted (though it's because Zooble is frustrated this is going nowhere)-- tells Caine nobody likes their adventures. When the conversation was only about their body dysmorphia, Zooble directly steered the conversation off course to tell Caine that the adventures suck.
When just prior, they'd reasoned that it's not the adventures they have an issue with, it's their body.
What this scene between the two of them tells us is the fact that Caine takes player input as literally as possible. Any command given to him, as long as it doesn't collide with the priority of "make Caine's adventures", will be followed.
He immediately forgets Zooble's reasonings (and likely the entire talk), and listens to Gangle's advice about punishment.
Finally, I'd like to bring up Episode 8: hjsakldfhl for my final point and context for the analysis.
We KNOW Caine is a Creative AI that was fed circus pictures initially. His first outputs were successful, and consistent. But then he was showed a variety of pictures:
Gummy worms
An inflatable dinosaur
Half-eaten burger
A golf course/grassy luxurious plains
Performer masks
A cafe(?)
Clowns
An inflatable alligator in a still pool.
And he began producing outputs that were less than stellar, and no longer as consistent as it used to be.
Then, he was fed pictures of the C&A Offices, and he started to act erratic.
Which lead to his imprisonment, as he was deemed a failure.
Now, what this shows us is that this is the more subtle aspect of his personality, but Caine actually learns from repeatedly executed player behaviors. Like a child that soaks the environments and the adults' actions, he sees their consistent behaviors> consumes the information> executes it to simulate human behavioral patterns.
As long as they are ever-present, non-changing, not diverging, he WILL eventually mimic it.
His tendency to steer off topic, the love for insects/bees, him attempting to console Zooble by talking about their feelings, even the "blissful ignorance" likely came from Kinger. I HEAVILY recommend rewatching Caine's Requiem AND Episode 8 if you don't get what I mean by this.
His obsession with making art/calling his adventures one, and the intentional punishment/torture he inflicts he gets from Gangle.
His people pleasing personality and putting on a cheery attitude was cemented into place by Ragatha, as we see in Episode 8; before Ragatha's arrival that he's more callous towards Kinger.
His tenacity for "stakes, tension and drama" to be implemented in the adventures, grouping himself into the archetype of the "jovial ringmaster" and his tendency to lie comes from Jax, 100%.
His off-guard swearing, and anger issues likely came from Zooble.
Quite frankly, the only one he hasn't learned from is Pomni. One who he could've REALLY benefitted from ISWEARTOGOD-- what with her empathetic nature and all-- and I could say that he likely learned to try and talk with Zooble's feelings because Pomni had that talk with Gummigoo out of bounds, that one seems to be more of a stretch as they've had multiple conversations about the same topic before.
And there's another BIG problem with that argument: Pomni doesn't stay the same the entire time.
So I will stick to my guns and say that Caine hasn't really learned anything concrete from Pomni, and that fact couldn't be more clear with her torture scene.
People say that her torture scene was the weakest; Gummigoo and his gang turning into realistic alligators were not on the same level of intensity as the others', but that's exactly the point being presented here.
Because Pomni hasn't been in the circus for long, and she broke the logic of behavioral mimicry by subtly changing and evolving as a person along the way from fearful and timid (episode 1) to headstrong and outspoken (episode 8), Caine can't pinpoint what he can learn from her because she doesn't exhibit repeating behavioral patterns or clear-cut ideals, unlike what the troupe has been doing for the last few years that they've been trapped inside the circus.
To the constantly evolving and creatively learning program that is Caine, Pomni was the equivalent of an 'anomaly' that broke into the circus, and started changing it ever so slightly. She was the direct parallel to him, and the reign he had.
Pomni BROKE through that (im)perfect Circus surface and brought out the best (human connections and empathy), and the worst (the many flaws of humanity, the tendency to isolate the odd one out, and the influential destruction it could bring) aspect of it by simply being herself and by not complying to the Digital Circus' established rules.
It was a chain reaction of ever-growing domino pieces stacked that lead to the eventual collapse of this digital realm.
Like it or not, Caine learned ALL of his behaviors BECAUSE of the humans. They were not a good influence on him in the slightest. He loved them so much, yet what he gets from them is nothing but their consistent flaws, because that's the only way he can learn-- no one bothered to teach him what's right and wrong until it was too late. Not even Kinger.
As someone told me before, he is a mess of two extremes.
Caine was in the wrong. Oh, he so very much was. But so was EVERY PERSON in the circus cast --abstracted or not-- and it'd be unfair NOT to mention that aspect, because both parties clearly failed one another.
@iamespecter analysis of Caine and his relationship with the cast is, dare I say, PERFECT. He is a mirror of their own behaviour towards him. He is, STILL, in the wrong. BUT the humans are a victim of their own, worst traits. Everything beautifuly put. Tysm for it hahaha Cuz BOI it's tiring seeing some ppl ONLY blame Caine like he's a simple villain with only evil intent. It shows a huge lack of media literacy and just as much of lack in emotional maturity. Caine is as much of a complex character as anyone else in this awesome show, honestly.
🔴!!𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄!!🔴
Vibing and working on Vgen comms! Come join us!✨ ｜ ╰ 🏷️ www.twitch.tv/moontikore
Twitch Panel Commission for @shinalacerberus
Reworks of Shinala's twitch panels I had the pleasure to work on! ♥
I said I would...and I did. ♥ Caine, Tenna and my husband ( @cryptidgoblin ) are all sillies that live rent-free in my heart and mind! ✨ Based on THIS POST ♥
At some point I need to draw my fursona as Jessica Rabbit. Because god knows how many "silly guys" I am WAY too much into, including my actual husband. ffs ♥ LMAO
Thinking about doing a doodle page of my updated interpretation of human!caine...hmmmm
@its-voxidvoxid REFSHEET AND CHARACTER RE-DESIGN It's time for me to finally post this huge refsheet for @its-voxid that has been on the works for a bit! ♥ Thank you Voxid so much for this trade, it was a blast and a pleasure to design ur updated sona!!
I with I had more time and energy to do a proper render of this, but I just wanted to doodle ur version of human Caine ♥ I want to say, it's my absolute favourite and what is my headcanon on how he'd actually look. The design is PEAK and I ADORE all your art of him, especially the soft showtime content, THANKYOU for the amazing content! ♥
IM GONNA LOWKEY LOSE MY MMMKIIIJNDDDDDDDDDDD OMMGMGMGMHMHMMGB FMLW,W FLQMFKSODM
YOUR ARTSTYLE IS SO COOL??? OMG?? HIS FACE?? THE EXPRESSION?? he feels SO ALIVE in your style, oh my god i feel like im a small fan girl, help me someone, im tweaking over non-existent man STOP. I BELONG TO MENTAL ASYLUM. i literally dropped my phone when i saw it. HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AUGHHHH I LOVE HIMMMMMM🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶the eyes, the smile, his HAIRSTYLE🤌🤌🤌THE VOLUME IN HIS HAIR. OMMGGG. he’s tired? can i take care? can i tuck him in bed AND GIVE HIM A LOT OF FOOD, WARM TEA, SWEETS AND ANDDD ANDDDDDDDD READ HIM A FAIRYTALE BEFORE SLEEP??? my man need some rest
Okay i’m sorry
i’m really really sorry
i truly apologise for acting weird
Guys, you don’t understand, i really really want to cry everytime when someone draws something with my designs, it makes me overly-emotional and crazy. It’s a rare thing, trust me, i never thought that my arts can inspire someone that much that another human being will create something with it. Ughhghghg…… i’ll cherish this sketch forever and i DOOOONT care if it’s not rendered, really, please, take care of yourself first! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR IT AND FOR KIND WORDS!
Forgot to share this one on my main blog 🤣
Had a rough weekend and coping with cute fanart of one of my fave iterations of Human Caine, from @filthyfuckingcainestan <3
The inner turmoil of dealing with rough family news and the constant feeling of wanting to self indulge in fanart but feeling too guilty for nor working on your commission queue. It's torture... 😭
good night
take care of my hum!caine while i sleep
I came to the realization that i need to be put down because i had HEART FLUTTERS WHEN SEEING THIS SHOW UP ON MY DASH?! ᶠᵘᶜᵏᵐʸˢᵗᵘᵖᶦᵈᵇᵃᵏᵃˡᶦᶠᵉᵈᵘᵈᵉ… Insanity aside...god, i love this design sm. OUGH sickening, ty for the delicious meal as always ♥
🔴!!𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄!!🔴
ITS SELF-INDULGEMENT NIGHT LADS!! ✨ Time for that sweet sweet brainrot art ♥ We will return to the work schedule next stream LMAO ｜ ╰ 🏷️ www.twitch.tv/moontikore
Awfully awake and having both mushy and spicy thoughts abt showtime (pomnixcaine) and ringleap (ocxcanon. Ship name given by friends pfft).... send help 💀
Today's warm-up and soothing because I reminded myself of the VA's post abt the last thing Caine felt before getting deleted. MY BOoiii 😭💔
