TADC Fic idea: (WARNINGS: Pre-Episode 8, centered on only OCs, Bubble, and Caine [I didn't really care nor think about the other characters], no ship other than just platonic(?) Bubble x OC, I DO NOT know how coding and game hacking works, I ran out of motivation midway through, sorry if there's a dip in the writing quality)
Inspired by Caine awakes, Bubble breaks him:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76327836/chapters/199762936
(Ringmaster/Takeover AU, Ringmaster Bubble, Assistant OC, Caine , Amnesia AU, because of the update, Bubble being Bubble (and manipulative), Caine (and everyone except Bubble and OC) thinks he’s human, Non-Evil Caine, plan takes place on Episode 7 but before the "Escape the Circus" Adventure, "if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows... what could happen...", OC's avatar is "NPC-like" (something that made an OC look unofficial) "on purpose" (for the plot))
So the story starts out with Kyle being hired as a beta tester for TADC, but they forgot to send the headset along with the game, she tries to contact them about but they don't respond because;
1.) They rarely check, let alone reply to E-mails (they just want people in the game, also company stuff)
2.) A while later, they shut down but it takes a bit for her to realize.
So, she make one from scratch (somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), loads the game, creates her, cutesy pastel rainbow magical girl avatar, and makes her username "Flutter", after that she begins to make a close friendship with Bubble with both of them liking being chaotic, she then models some stuff for fun with Bubble, Bubble then convinces Caine that she was just an NPC. After a bit, Bubble decides that he should be the Ringleader and Flutter his Assistant, so they come up with a plan, there have been some updates that haven't been implemented yet since A&C shutdown, which would cause the system to be reset and vulnerable to modifications. So Kyle on a hack to change the character IDs and role, and setting up an alt personality set for Caine to switch to during the update. Then they execute it.
Everyone wakes up in their rooms, not sure how they got here, nor who they are, they go into the hallway and see a talking Bubble with a suit, a hat, and limbs, as well a "cute-silly" butterfly girl with cat-ears and a magical wand. They seem to be talking about some sort of "update" that has erased every circus-member's memory, so they'll with people they don't know. Oddly enough, the leaders say that there are about 7 living humans in the circus.
The chaos has only just begun.