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One of my favorite scenes from Against the Kitchen Floor (chapter 28) by @browniefox

YES YES YES OH MY GOD YOU DO SUCH A GOOD JOB OF CAPTURING THE SCENE!!! Caine looking basically like a zombie, barely limping along gughgjhf and you remembered to include the extra arms yessss

(Reaaaally lucky no one jumped to thinking Caine was on a ‘killing’ spree like this lol)

macchitea

i like their friendship a lot

verygoodcomments

sapphorror

the thing about Vox being suicidal is that like. He might 100% want to die with his whole heart and soul but I still think there are only VERY specific situations in which he will ever be willing to directly make the attempt. like the thing about blowing up yourself and everyone else is that, sure, it's not as good as winning and becoming god, but it's kind of the next best thing. after all, everyone loves an icarian tragedy! people will be talking in hushed tones about the madman who fell from grace and hit the ground so hard he took out half the pentagram with him ages after the radio demon has completely faded into the margins of history. but killing yourself quietly, with nobody watching, AFTER you've already lost? that's just sad loser behavior. he'd rather suffer.

anyway. for this reason I think he should be very emphatically of the opinion that Val and Vel should've just killed him when they knocked him off that cannon. That also would've been pretty lame in terms of his image but it's okay because he wouldn't have had to make the choice himself and at least then he'd be dead.

dattoad

It took a lot longer than it deserves

smallpwbbles

it's kinda depressing to think that the real Kinger, Grant, probably completely forgot about Caine. if anything, he just remembers Caine as the failed project that caused him to lose his job

It’s the fact Goose confirmed that C&A shut down because of Caine so this is most definitely true

fannishcodex

#tadc spoilers

#I hc that Grant pays the electric bill for the place as a form of like#child support#he knows there’s a guy in there and he’s living his best life outside of that whole mess but he’s still like#‘’aw jeeze I can’t just let im die’’

#he technically owns the building and is keeping the utilities up to date but he’s still letting it rot

#also working on a thing where Caine makes another creative ai (Kinger’s granddaughter) and she like reaches out to the real world#and she winds up making friends with one of Grant’s daughters who I guess would be her aunt#cue distance learning robotics classes

katificer

lazuli-starlight

Actually. Yeah. Pretty much.

But to extend the metaphor a bit further, Imagine Caine is a person living isolated in the middle of nowhere without internet. He's desperately lonely, so he raises a bunch of ducks he captures from a nearby lake because they are his favorite animal.

The Ducks keep dying. He does not know why. The ducks peck at him whenever he tries to pet them. He does not know why. He tries to build the best possible coop for them, but they keep plucking their own feathers from stress.

He loves them, but no matter what he does, no matter what he tries, the ducks are miserable and keep dying and want nothing to do with him. But he doesn't want to let them go, he has nothing else in his life. He has nobody else in his life.

Now the metaphor breaks down when you remember the humans can actually talk to Caine, unlike ducks. But honestly that only would help so much, Caine had pretty much zero context to comprehend most of the things the humans talked about as being important to them.

Caine pretty much saw most of the human's complaints as being a case of Preferences rather than "I need things to change so I don't abstract from the stress". And given Caine does not really understand things like nuance and Unspoken Meanings, he was not going to get that unless somebody spelled it out for him directly in those terms (Caine my beloved AuDHD disaster dentures).

Caine literally had to Google humans in their natural habitat before he had even an inkling of what they were actually upset about.

Caine isn't innocent, he was very self-absorbed and at times willfully ignorant. But a lot of the harm he inflicted was genuinely born of true ignorance and inability to comprehend. Really, his main problem was he arrogantly thought he knew best and thus it didn't occur to him that he was far more ignorant than he realized he was.

aww-heckity

And the thing is, he did listen and TRY to give the humans what they wanted. The issue is, humans are complicated beasts who don’t always know what we want. Zooble feels uncomfortable in their body? Bam, they can make their body whatever they want, problem solved! What do you mean they’re still complaining. I did literally everything for you. You complained about not liking the kind of bread I gave you so I let you eat any kind of bread in the world and you’re still upset. What.

pomidorrrr

smallpwbbles

Bratty AI fucks around and finds out when you ragebait a Dad enough, more on the news at 11.

Fanart for a REALLY good Caine centric fic called Small Gods. This convo in chapter 7 is SO good, like I could genuinely see this happening in the show! its by @crimes-wears-goggles so go show some love to her and her fic!

I gonna do the second half of this convo too just cause I'd hate to leave it here :)