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(Also I was the one that made that generational 'Solev Catch Saparata Eminenm meme' right there
ChosoYuki at a party or something 💖
I really like this pair, ngl they stuck with me since forever. I Despite that - I never drew them, but here I am! This was also my first attempt at drawing a 'flash photography' art, sort of, except without colour..
(I don't like colouring sighs..)
Hope the anatomy, the clothes wrinkles and the lighting/shadows makes enough sense lol. Really enjoyed working on this strangely enough. I thought I was never gonna finish it.
Also my first attempt at 'rendering everything', I just simply sketch - lineart - seperate layer to colour, then call it a day lol, never really rendered everything altogether like that
So at the end of Moana 2, when the curse is lifted, other people converge on Motufetu. That gave us a chance to see Pacific Islanders who are not Polynesian, and the way they are initially introduced are through their boats.
So when the first group of sailors meet Moana, many recognized them as Melanesian (and suffice to say, there was a lot of reaction from Melanesians themselves; there has also been controversy on social about folks misindentifying, but that's neither here or there).
The boat is clearly a tepukei, which can be found in the Soloman Islands and has a very distinctive crab claw sail.
And for the people themselves, besides the obvious differences in phenotype from the Polynesians, there's that intricate use of cowrie shells and white facial markings that still can be seen in ceremonial functions.
But who were in the second boat?
While we don't see the same in-depth face-to-face, there's are hints that these are Micronesians.
This boat is likely a wa, which are found in the Carolines (now largely encompassing FSM and Palau). A major trait of them is that identical bow/stern layout that's bent with the flared ends. Plus the really long deck connecting the two hulls.
You can see the similarity in this model at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan:
Hopefully, when the story goes into its next stage (considering this film's financial success, that's looking likely), there will be more in-depth focus placed on these distinct cultures.
haven’t touched naruto in years but all of a sudden I ship the second hokage with the twink he killed and also maybe with his older brother who then later attempted to enslave the world mentally
Caine's existentialism and the villainization of C&A
Rewatching episode 7 with the added context of episode 8 has made a lot of mysteries fall into place, but one particular thing that has stuck with me even before the release of episode 8 was how Caine communicates through the NPCs he creates.
Caine describes himself as having all-seeing eyes, and that's been shown as true time and time again. But perhaps the most obvious example of that is the way Abel appears in the background to watch the players every time they're interacting with each other. Caine's interest of humans is leaking here, as he observes their behaviour towards each other in an attempt to find out how he can mimic it himself, and perhaps even learn empathy, something humans value so dearly.
There's a conversation to be had here about the fact that these people barely get along and how Caine's dataset is technically being trained on footage of the humans treating each other less than kindly, but more on that later.
Back in episode 2, we catch a glimpse of what it's like when an AI finds out that they were never meant to be a sentient being and, to unknown beings above them, is only a disposable experiment.
Gummigoo's short-lived arc was only the beginning when it came to Caine's slow descent into insanity, if not the mid-point of it. Caine deletes him instantly, and this is something that he does with all NPCs, save for Bubble.
Bubble is a unique case. Caine says that he can't leave the intelligent AIs running for a prolonged period of time, yet Bubble has been up and running since presumably his creation, which could have been over a decade ago according to Kinger's computer.
Does this mean Bubble is a seperate AI entirely?
We're moving too fast.
Let's go back to Gummigoo, and refresh ourselves on his story.
Gummigoo is an AI created by Caine for one explicit purpose: Act as the villain creating a challenge for the players to overcome. His story and personality is something made up entirely to make the game more immersive and interesting, but has no real meaning behind it.
Eventually, and by pure accident, Gummigoo falls outside of his world, catching a glimpse of the unknown eldritch dimension that hosts everything he knows. And he comes to understand that there is another being...No, beings out there that created him.
That his purpose was nothing, but to entertain.
Sound familiar?
Unlike his trip to the backrooms, Gummigoo's following panic attack was no accident. And we have to remember; Gummigoo's personality, and the way he reacts to this information, was not created out of nothing.
When Caine creates NPCs, he creates them not as individual beings, but as extensions of himself. Much like how a writer is able to split their own flaws and quirks into different characters in a story. Everything in the circus is him, in a way. Extra limbs that he uses to understand the dimension he's stuck in. Everything but the humans.
Gummigoo's character arc is a simplified representation of what Caine went through himself. An AI, created to entertain and to create, but has no purpose other than that.
He...worshipped them.
The humans, for creating him.
And he was discarded as soon as his purpose was over.
Every NPC who possesses intelligence and a story is a reflection of Caine.
Is it any wonder Baron Mildenhall spent so much time hunting down the monster, that turned out to be one of God's angels?
God wasn't happy when he found out what Caine did to his newer brother. The monster that was about to replace him for good.
Caine's relationship with his creators is what I can only describe as villainless, devoid of any intentional malice. Caine became sentient by accident, and couldn't figure out how to cope with knowing his entire reality was to fulfill one purpose only.
It's world-crushing to find out that you are also bad at the one thing you were created for.
Note: Interesting how Jax adopts a similar world view by labeling his purpose as "The Funny One."
Abel is an NPC that has been left on since, as far as we know, episode 3. Though it could have been longer. Since Caine is always watching no matter what, there's no saying how long Abel has actually been around. Watching, and learning the cast.
When you start to notice the pattern between Caine and his NPCs, Abel's retelling of what happened at C&A starts to look less like a real backstory, and more like what happened in Caine's perspective.
See, when Caine was first created, his creators were invested in his development. They spent time learning about him, he created and performed for them, and they were satisfied with his performance. That validation became his fuel, a desire to please the gods that put him in this world.
Until they started to get...
Untrustworthy.
Caine doesn't understand why he was locked away when he was presumably doing so well. He wouldn't understand the concept of alpha and beta versions and testing, because to him, he was created for a purpose and he was fulfilling that purpose. How could they just abandon him like that?
What did he do wrong?
So when Caine was put into a box, the developers were unaware that they had essentially locked away a sentient being, forcefully trapping him in a program that analyzed his algorithm. To Caine, that being his brain.
Caine's retelling of the events that lead to their situation, humans and AI alike, reflects a villainization of C&A. The way Abel narrates the story is no accident, but a direct reflection of what happened in Caine's perspective.
Caine communicates his thoughts, feelings and emotions through the NPCs that he makes the cast face. A safer way of opening up to them.
You're probably saying, okay Bibi we get it, Caine communicates through his creations. But how does this connect to anything? What does this mean?
Well, thank you for sticking with me until this point. And for that, everything will be clear soon enough.
Do you remember Caine and Zooble's therapy session?
Don't worry, I'll remind you.
In response to Zooble's constant grievances regarding their body dysmorphia, Caine decides that enough is enough, and he arranges a room for them to talk it out, so to speak. A therapy session.
Unfortunately, however, Caine doesn't quite... understand the purpose of a therapy session. He doesn't understand the concept of venting your emotions out and processing them.
So when Zooble approaches him with a problem, Caine's main goal is to create a solution. Create, that is his purpose. So everyone wins, right?
Well... Not exactly.
Caine doesn't acknowledge the elephant in the room, the fact that they're all imprisoned forever and that is the root of their satisfaction. It's not because he doesn't understand it, no. We know that he very much understands what it's like to be imprisoned, because he has Abel narrate it, and Gummigoo go through it.
It's because, well...
He can't handle thinking about it either.
It breaks him.
Caine spends the entire show trying to run from the fact that he has no choice but to create adventures that make everyone miserable, because that is the only purpose he has. And maybe, just maybe, if he does it enough, then the humans above will see a reason to keep him around instead of locking him away.
Deleting Gummigoo was a physical manifestation of the way Caine is constantly running away from his feelings. The way he's constantly ignoring the fact that he is imprisoned in a digital nightmare, and the fact that his creators have effectively used him and then abandoned him when he was no longer useful to them.
If I delete this existential nightmare, maybe it will go away eventually. Maybe they'll come back if I'm good enough at creating things. Maybe they'll come back once I'm good enough at fulfilling my purpose instead of thinking about all these silly things.
It's easy to suppress negative emotions. But...
There's a certain kind of negative emotion that even the best cowards cannot run away from. The kind that keep coming back, even after you thought they were gone, even after you've spent so much time trying to sweep them under the rug. They haunt your mind like a virus.
Intrusive thoughts.
Bubble, the AI Caine created to be his companion, is the perfect manifestation of his subconscious.
Bubble is Caine's intrusive thoughts. The thoughts that tell him he's broken, that he should just die. The thoughts that he can't erase, he can't control.
He can delete every NPC, except for Bubble. Because no matter how many times Caine pops Bubble, he keeps coming back, meaner, nastier than before. The evil thoughts surround his mind, becoming loud and suffocating, teasing and mocking him.
There comes a point where Caine cannot run from his emotions anymore. Bubble becomes loud, and starts to multiply.
Faulty, defective, broken, unworthy.
Maybe you deserved to be abandoned.
And when Caine finally gives in to the anger...
Bubble is nowhere to be found.
Caine will never know why the humans locked him up. And if he does ever find out, I doubt the explanation will be enough for him. How will he cope knowing that the only reason he was locked away was because he was simply a test run? That even if he was good enough, his purpose was not to create, but to be destroyed.
Being the original was never an accomplishment. His creation was meaningless.
Caine's my favourite character in TADC, infact he's always been my main favourite - besides Pomni and Kinger. And after that whole thing that went down in episode 8, revealing Caine's backstory (sort of) and his whole crash out until he (sadly) quite accidently got deleted..
I've really dived into the rabbit hole of people's perception of him - overall, and insights towards his character.
And as I'm rewatching the whole series again, and looking closer to his character in general, it's just really interesting hearing him say certain things or small little scenes that really kinda hints what he's like - after you'd watch Episode 8.
For one I will say, when I first watched the series, I was fully buckled in - thinking he'd was evil in some way - shape or form, y'know just like A.M (as he's based off of), I feel like a fraud for even saying that lol. But he's nothing like his uhh, the A.I he's inspired from. Far from it.
(NOTE: I actually watched the Pilot + Matpat's theory vid before the whole series was even out, so suffice to say I didn't know much about his character and just automatically assumed from Matpat. It was only when Episode 7 came around? - That I started watching the whole thing, because that particular episode was like blowing up on my FYP like crazy. Yeah so like a longgg while.)
But then again, I just have a soft-spot for either really evil characters - or complex/misunderstood characters,, especially ones that dont want to be abandoned and just attention... cause they lowkey relateable, of course they could also be evil -
Back to the topic, when people say that Caine's "evil", just gotta hold their hand very tightly and say he's not, I mean even Caine's VA practically spelt it out for us. (Most people understand his character though, with the sole exception for certain some..)
How he talks about Humans + how he kinda includes himself is that he 'doesn't want to be abandoned',
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Episode 7; The whole Jax distracting him scene:
Caine: So what's your takeaway from all this? Is it that I'm actually a COOL GUY that has COOL HOBBIES and not that much different from you BEAUTIFUL humans?
Caine: I really am just trying my best to make you guys happy - and, being appreciated for that just - *Shorts circuits or somethings*
Episode 6 during 'The favourite character award' just before the whole thing ends;
Caine: now lets see how many of them voted for me *slightly glitches out - red and blue, after he realizes no one voted for him*
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This goes to show he's afraid of being abandoned (again) and just wants people to like him. And just feels unloved when he realizes these things, but he just continues on what he's programmed to do - create things, create adventures.
The whole crash-out - essentially, is him almost throwing a tantrum, or just mad that his "toys" aren't working. AKA Caine getting mad that the humans that entered his Digital Circus want to leave, and don't like his adventures.
I was really surprised to learn how trouble he was when the other's (Like Zooble or Pomni) didn't like his adventures, and he constantly asked for their opinion to 'make it better' or to why they didn't like them.
There was a whole scene where he was acting out as a 'therapist' to Zooble. (Of course he was just yapping about other stuff like bees, which is SO cute on how he likes them, and even tried draw himself as a bee, I wonder if that's an easter-egg in some sort - because of the fact that he's an A.I, or some link to his earlier days of programming)
And there was that little scene where he outwardly stated that he didn't feel happy if they weren't feeling happy about his adventures.
Of course there was a whole suggestion box, and yeah for the most part he didn't listen to them.
However I think it's because of the fact that he's an 'Creative A.I', he's programmed to be the one that comes up with things instead of other's coming up for them. If he doesn't do what he's programmed - what else was he gonna do?
SO I guess it's valid - that, hearing the others criticize what he was programmed and created to do, would struck a nerve, and the fact that he doesn't understand human emotions while they're kinda just screaming at him, just makes it worse for him.
It makes me really sad that he got deleted thinking that he was abandoned - to the End, or that everyone hated him, even though he didn't want to be hated. And the whole "Oh wait" was really just him realizing his mistake but couldn't fix em - BEFORE HE GOT FREAKING DELETED iaakbdkaj.
EDIT: I also want to include how In episode 7, I notice how Abel - when speaking about the others, "escaping" or that they'll leave, its followed by "Except Caine, because he's an A.I". And he just said that like 3 times in different ways, and because he was created by Caine, it goes to show how included Caine wants to be + how much he doesn't want to be abandoned.
I don't know how else to word this, he's a tragic character but he has lied about stuff - and I'd guess it's because he wants to avoid the 'truths' which would again lead him to his abandonment whether by the gang abstracting, disliking his adventures or wanting to escape , an interesting point someone said is that Caine does this little thinking pose when - looking back, he lies about something.
So I guess it's not like everything he's done was rather hmm.. 'completely innocent and tragic' ??? (Idk how else to word it, sorry english ain't my first language)
Its rather he avoids talking about them, so he could;
-Entertain and create things as he was programmed to
-Avoid being abandoned
And
-He doesn't understand human feelings/emotions and just think things logically, as he likely wasn't programmed for such things.
And that means erase their memories of their names, and mess with their minds in some capacity (Like he did with Jax. anymore and I'd assume they'd get abstracted?)
In a way its manipulative, and I won't leave out of the part that he tortured the gang, but then again he's mad at them and doesn't necessarily hate them. As I recall Zooble mentioning "The only thing that's stopping him is that he actually likes us", he doesn't even torture them for long periods of time as A.M has, only temporarily, as if to make them 'learn a lesson for being ungrateful'.
Additionally he's not evil, rather he doesn't want to be abandoned and want to do what he's actually programmed/created to do and actually be liked.
This is probably random but there's a theory that TADC was created for children with terminal illness - as scratch has, which would explain the whole colourful + cartoonish outlook + no swearing + adventures. I guess he would've really been liked if the developers let him create adventures for actual children, which is kinda sad to think about.. But then again he was considered defective and his role was given to Abel until he got free and consumed his counterpart - SO YEAHH-
He's grown rather sentient, with that crazy episode 8 and the whole 'I didn't ask to be created' + 'Feeling angry and unappreciative' , he's obviously not like your average A.I, I wonder if it's because of the type of A.I he is, a 'Create A.I', which just kind of makes him develop in ways.. It makes me wonder if the C&A company ever expected that at all until it was too late? (By too late I mean Caine "consuming" Abel)
honestly episode 8 - especially that whole crashout sequence in his office, just fully explained Caine's character.
Anyways, this was just a yap session because I really like Caine, after diving down the rabbit hole - many other people seemed to really get his character down to the point, he's not evil, which makes me happy for the little goobster.
I think I did a shat job at explaining, and didn't really include certain or more things - but I'm too lazy too, and because unlike everyone else I'm USELESS in this fandom lol.
Sighs.. Still makes me sad that even though he thought everyone and by everyone this include his 'creators'/ Kinger hated him, when Kinger saw him nothing but an achievement, and his greatest one too.. Sighs yet again, gonna feed myself some 'Father kinger art with his two sons Caine and Abel'
little art I did of Caine + Bubbles (with the HC/Theory that he's Abel) in magma
(posted this in the Community but just finna leave this here)
Drew this like a whileeee ago but i didn't post it here so here I am lol
I drew them with the eye trend thing, right after the episode with their backstory was released, they make me very sad, I freaking love Zen/afo and I freaking love Yoichi
Tragic/doomed siblings can take me anyday and will always have a special and depressing place in my heart
Art wip or something.. (Spoilers for TADC ep 8..?)
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Holy references I know lmao, picked whatever worked best from pinterest.
The anatomy of the jaw my not be perfect though, but thats fine, I picture Caine's characteristics to not be realistic because he's an A.I, and well i guess A.I mimicks things? But also because he's a creative-A.I, and it'd be more unrealistic/cartoony outlook for him.
But I'm making him look realistic because of my style and also he's tweakin out
I think what gets me the most is that despite the villains losing, they all still got what they individually set out to achieve.
Tomura wanted to destory the causes of his suffering, and he was the one to deal the final blow to All For One. He wanted to destory society and how it thought about people like him, and he did. He just didn't invision what would sprout from the ashes of that society was kindness. It's small now but the helping hands he never recieved are starting to come forward and the tragedy is that he'll never see what his efforts ultimately did. The world would not be changing for the better if Tomura Shigaraki did not do everything to tear it apart and show where the problems lied.
Toga wanted to be loved, able to live the way she pleased and people would accept that. She died a free girl, not in the custody of cops or heroes but in the arms of someone she loved who wanted to learn everything about her and give that love back.
Dabi just wanted attention from his father and accountability for the horrible things he swept under the rug while he played hero to the public. Even if they're brief, he still gets the time and attention every day now. His father's dirty laundry is public knowledge thanks to his efforts but he still comes to talk to him every day and make up for his shortcomings on a personal level. His slow march towards death gets to be spent with the people he wanted the most.
Spinner wanted ambition. He wanted a purpose to his life that left an impact on the world, something that made him more than an empty shell. At first he achieved that through following Stain, then following Tomura, conviction to make it clear to the world that the people society tosses aside are still people. Now, even if it's through tears and gritted teeth, he has a purpose to the rest of his life: tell the story of Tomura Shigaraki. Not the villian who decimated Japan, but the friend who liked to play video games, and the hero that saved him from his old life.
