What if Pomni was an A.I. that was made for a cancelled virtual math game?? 🧐??
BE PREPARED FOR A WHOLE LOT OF WRITING/RAMBLING ↓↓↓↓
This AU was purely created for my own amusement! It's not too smart, nor extremely polished, but I'm having a lot of fun with the idea so I wanted to share it 🥹
I'm Currently attempting to cook up an TADC AU (that's, for now, coined The Mesmerizing Digital Circus!) The idea, for now lol, is that she was an A.I. made to help kids in school learn their math. She was specifically made to be extremely emotionally intelligent and very attentive in order to keep the kids entertained and willing to learn. Somehow, for reasons she's unaware of, her game was shut down and she was eventually implemented into TADC. Pomni now works with Caine in taking care of the human players. Due to her nature, she feels assigned to help acclimate the humans to the circus and monitor their mental health. (While Caine focuses on making adventures and ignoring taking surveys from everyone, Pomni has a more personal approach and takes her time to make sure the humans are as properly cared for as possible)
HOWEVER, over time, as more and more humans abstract despite her best efforts, Pomni began to continuously glitch out in an attempt to forcibly update and change herself to better suit and understand the needs of the players (believing herself to be inadequate, since she was created to deal with kids and the players had more complex minds being adults). With each glitch, her personality became more and more human-like, becoming slightly more pessimistic and overtly nervous/dissociative, like her original tadc personality.
She doesn't have as many (admin?) powers as Caine since she isn't in the game she was programmed for. She can't fly, can't spawn items that don't already have a preexisting model, can't create NPCs on her own, and can't teleport players. She can, however, teleport to players who call for her, summon small things for players, and temporarily rearrange the circus to fit their needs (but this is a privilege that Caine can take away). She can also change the players' avatars, but only when inside their respective rooms, and she can't change their models too dramatically, only like their clothes or hair- just the cosmetics basically.
I have more ideas but this was all i wanted to share for now🥳 It's admittedly very messy and has some plot holes-- But I think its fun!!