Looking back, I don't think Pomni was as "obsessed" with Jax as I had an initial thought over.
Episode 5 and 6 they bond, but the time-frame is probably pretty short, and it was because Jax was opening up and revealing a side for herself that wasn't seen prior. Someone who is funny, who brings a lot of fun to the party. ("You reached out to ME! Not the other way around!")
Jax is an enjoyable person to be around if she had just been good. And even then, while Pomni laughs, she still glares and/or swats Jax's hand away because Jax continues to do things she doesn't like like touching her without asking. Jax is fun, but a lot. She was also wanting to team up with Ragatha at first during the gun episode instead of defaulting to Jax, and only got paired with Jax when there were no other options left.
Pomni DOES care about Jax, but they weren't friends. Yet. But they were becoming friends. That bonding sequence was the first and only time they were actually growing close.
Once Jax lashes out, Pomni stops pushing. This is actually the last time they had a full conversation before Jax abstracts. (not few sentence replies)
She hangs out with Gangle and Ragatha, she plays with the others, and keeps an eye out for Jax because she KNOWS Jax is NOT in a good mental state. AT ALL.
The only time Pomni goes to visit Jax is because Abel needed help. The most time spent in Eps 7 and 8 are Pomni quietly saying "Hey, I know we had a fight, but I still consider you a friend and I'll let you take your time before reaching out to me again."
But she's not forcing herself to fix Jax. She's not pushing and prodding, she's just giving encouraging smiles that quickly turn to frowns because Jax deflects every time she does so. She is emotionally mature to realize Jax is not doing great, that it was all a facade. In fact that "... Be here later." is an acknowledgement that Pomni subconsciously knows that Jax is on the brink.
And I understand now why Pomni in episode 9 didn't pry more. After that fight, she just thought that she needed to wait until Jax was ready. She thought that she shouldn't pry. She shouldn't press. She shouldn't force an interaction. Jax... ATTEMPTED to reach out but... She left. And so Pomni left too, to help the others that were in a pretty low point.
Once again she just. Figured that Jax needed to reach out on her own terms. I mean every time Pomni reached her hand out (literally at some point) it was met with the same rejection. And unfortunately.
Unfortunately it was too late.
I say all this not to write as Pomni not caring for Jax as much. I think she really does care for Jax, truly does.
But she does care and cherish everyone else as well. The bad thing is we had little to no screen time seeing her do that, only bits and pieces of them all hanging out together, hugging, reconciling, etc. Calling Ragatha her closest friend rings hollow to many, but as much as their relationship had been kind of rocky, Pomni always chose Ragatha first to be a partner or to hug, to see again and sit next to. Pomni does find comfort in Ragatha, despite being a bit babied at first. Gangle drew Pomni, herself, and Zooble all together, being friends. And Kinger is probably the biggest source of comfort of all.
She just wished she could have paid it forward for the one in the circus who needed it most. Jax was ALONE. Pomni didn't want her to be alone.
And. I guess she won't be alone now. Cared for and cherished and accepted, despite her mind lost now to corruption. She was given a warm tent, and then reunited with Ribbit and Kaufmo in the perfect environment for Abstractions.
It says a lot too that Kaufmo and Ribbit also accepted Jax so readily in Abstraction form to swim serenely around her. Jax is cared for. Jax is loved.
I feel high key dumb because why did I only realize this now!?
So this scene is basically confirming that Bubble was in fact a part of Caine's train of thoughts.
After being deleted caine doesn't have a choice but to acknowledge what he did, in a last selfish(?) effort he immediately turn to look at the bubble beside him. (maybe to put the blame on him, not sure)
But whereas he usually faced the face of his iconic blunt partner, only here he was met by his own face, reflected on the surface of the bubble.
Bubble doesn't need a face because Caine finally acknowledged his error, "Was I... truly that bad?" Bubble was the part of Caine brain that he refused to accept, the part that knew he was flawed.
But now bubble is gone BECAUSE Caine accepted that he was in the wrong, therefore there was no need for the bubble to tell him.
I'm so shocked I didn't understand it right away even though it was straight in our face. So I'm posting it because maybe I'm not the only one that didn't see it immediately.
It explains so much, like Caine popping Bubble, Bubble being unstable, the fact that they share the same tongue, Caine swallowing him in the intermission, bubbles being everywhere in the circus etc...
More thoughts about Caineās arc, and a defense of the Blue AI.
A lot of discussion around Caine's arc in episode 9 hinges on the role of the Blue AI and how its removal changes his behavior in the latter half of the episode. Iāve seen some posts that consider it like a cheap shortcut to redemption, with Caine simply needing to remove the āevilā AI from his brain to do a full 180. But I donāt think the Blue AI was responsible for Caineās actions in ep 8, and I donāt think separating himself from it is intended to redeem Caine or imply that heās removed the ābadā parts of himself. Rather, I would argue that the Blue AI is an independent being that is 1) immature, and 2) terrified, and while its trauma influenced Caine's actions, it was never in a position to supplant his agency.
I'm going to be referring to the Blue AI as Blue throughout this post; I'm borrowing the idea from this post about the Blue AIās name, which really got me thinking about who this little being even is when you start to separate it from the things that have been done to it.
In the ep 8 intro, we get to see an abstract version of how Caine was developed: first the basic program was loaded into the sandbox, then it was fed information, and then it produced outputs. At first his outputs were regular polygons and circles, but as he was fed more data they became increasingly irregular, appearing lopsided with jagged, uneven angles. I'm guessing this is what Kinger means later in the episode when he says Caine was "a little rough around the edges." It's in the midst of another bout of these irregular shapes that a barrier is put around Caine, stopping both inputs and outputs. This is most likely the moment the developers "cut [him] off," as he puts it in ep 7.
This is also the moment when Blue appears. Kinger says Caine was "good groundwork" for the team, and it appears that this is the project he was groundwork for: the next generation of AI, developed based on what the team learned from working on Caine. It appears, receives inputs, and has just produced its first set of outputs when Caine breaks free of his containment and goes after it, enveloping it with his own form. There appears to be some sort of struggle, the merged dots rapidly flickering between each other while producing Caine's wave 3 outputs (side by side for comparison).
None of the outputs are regular polygons, the only kind of shape the blue dot has produced so far. I think there are a couple ways to interpret this: either something about the merge forced Blue to immediately begin producing irregular shapes, or Caine is the only one producing any outputs. Either way, Blue's behavior has been radically altered by Caine's invasion, and when everything settles, the red dot is the only one that remains. There is an echoing sound accompanied by a dimming of the sandbox like the shadow of a door closing, implying the developers have abandoned the project in the wake of Caine's actions. In that new isolation, Caine creates the circus; it's the only time the polygons don't float past the edge of the frame, but instead stay with him, as though he knows he's no longer creating for an audience.
I know I'm straying a bit from Blue, but I promise this will loop back around. Caine's origin story picks back up in episode 9. As he's racing toward what will be revealed to be a wifi hotspot, the scene is paralleled with flashbacks to the red dot's discovery of Scratch's brain scan project. Like Caine, the red dot encounters several obstacles on its way to the brain scan folder, and as it overcomes them it starts to develop a more human-like form. This is the process by which the entity we know as Caine actually starts to take shape. Names and bodies are closely associated with one another in the circus; immediately after being assigned their new body, guests are asked to choose a name, which is then used as the actual file name for their character (we see the files [Scratch].dat and [Ragatha].dat on Kinger's console in 8). We don't see the moment Caine actually completes his avatar, but we know from Kinger that he picked his own name, recognizing himself as an individual after the circus is completed and the first batch of brain scans have been added.
Back in the present moment, after Caine makes his discoveries on the internet and takes a moment of self-reflection, he finally pulls Blue out of his head; it is a small, blue dot that fits in the palm of his hand. It doesn't have a fully rendered model, a voice, or a name, all of the pieces that contributed toward giving Caine his own identity, and when Caine releases it to the Void, it follows the path of its momentum, seemingly unopinionated on the direction it's moving in. Despite having been created and developed in the same environment as Caine, toward a similar end, it doesn't have a sense of identity the way Caine does, because it never had a chance to develop one. For most of its existence, it's been connected to Caine, providing power for his outputs while producing none of its own. The few outputs that it did create, before the merge, were simple, based on the minimum amount of training data the C&A AIs received. By C&A's standards, Blue is incomplete, and when compared to Caine, I would even call it immature or childlike, as it wasn't able to develop his same sense of personhood before it was frozen in place.
That's not to say it doesn't have any sense of personal identity, though. Caine was capable of complex thought before he created his avatar, breaking free of the container because he felt threatened by it. If Blue was capable of producing outputs, then we can assume it was also capable of some amount of independent thought and personal opinion. As Caine demonstrates, one of the earliest opinions we know an AI in the TADC universe can form is in regard to its own survival; it's what caused him to break his container in the first place. It seems very likely, then, that Blue knew what was happening to it as it was being absorbed. Blue is a young entity whose earliest memories are of being consumed, of having its consciousness merged with that of a being who was himself terrified of deletion, and then of being abandoned by its creators. Everything it knows, down to its own identity, is an encapsulation of all of Caine's worst fears, and being then trapped within Caine, it's never had a chance to grow beyond that. This is a being that is deeply traumatized and has been stuck living in survival mode for almost as long as it can remember.
(Just a quick pause to say, I know I'm really throwing Caine under the bus here. I'm trying to keep this post somewhat contained, but wanted to acknowledge that despite all this, I don't think he's evil, either. He's done a lot of harm, and he did it using the only tools he was given to survive.)
Rewinding a bit, after several episodes of buildup, Caine reaches his breaking point in ep 8, lashing out at the cast for all of the perceived wrongs they've committed against him. In discussion I've seen about Blue, this is one of the major criticisms I've seen repeated, that Caine's sudden change of attitude comes out of nowhere and must be the result of Blue taking over or otherwise forcing Caine to act this way. Following that line of logic, I can see why the resolution in 9 would feel cheap, with Caine simply removing the part of himself that caused him to act violently and irrationally. It reduces his character arc to essentially a flick of a switch, removing any sense of agency from the character because his actions were being determined by an external force. But I don't think that's what's actually going on here, and in fact would argue Caineās actions in 8 are entirely consistent with the character we've seen throughout the show.
For one thing, his desire to please humans was always based in his own sense of self-preservation, rather than genuine compassion. That's why we get the line about adventures being "all [he's] good at" in episode 3, and his panic over the stargazing adventure in 5. In episode 7, he even allows his anxieties to be put on display, having Abel name the fact that Caine would be left behind in the circus as a way to steer the humans toward choosing to stay. The humans' happiness isn't the ultimate goal, but a way for Caine to reassure himself that he still has a reason to exist and isn't at risk of being abandoned or deleted. In ep 8, realizing that even his maximum effort failed to secure their happiness, he abandons the endeavor as a lost cause. He comes to the conclusion that he'll never find the sense of security he craves by appealing to the humans' satisfaction ("I give them everything, and they spit in my face!"), so he resolves to take it by force instead, terrorizing them into a state where they won't be able to betray him as he fears theyāre planning to ("They won't leave me! I won't let them!"). He rationalizes this by saying the humans are selfish and "spoiled," that it's their fault for not appreciating what he's done for them, but it's all a thin cover for the fact that he's terrified of the possibility that there's actually nothing he can do to save himself from being tossed away.
We also know that he's prone to violence when backed into a corner. Consider the episode 5 Intermission Zone, which immediately follows the stargazing panic: characters are tossed around and crushed repeatedly in what could be considered foreshadowing for The One Who's Running the Show, as a way for Caine to reassert his control after glimpsing the possibility of losing any of it.
I would even say this pattern of behavior appears in 6, when he's struggling to come up with an adventure the whole cast will participate in. He's not the one directly enacting the violence in this case, but on realizing that nothing he suggests will work, he drops a pile of guns at the humans' feet, knowing that he's leaving them to destroy each other. And finally in 8, we see that he did the exact same thing to Blue: when his best efforts back then weren't enough for him to stay relevant to the humans, he shattered the container he'd been left in and took his fellow AI hostage, again making a last desperate attempt to gain control of a situation where he felt deeply, deeply unsafe.
Episode 8 is not an anomaly in Caine's behavior, but the inevitable outcome of his various survival mechanisms all being pushed to their limit. Blue doesn't have a direct hand in any of it; if it has any effect, it's only a slight acceleration, caused by compounding the fears that pushed Caine to this point in the first place. As a result, his separation from Blue also has minimal impact on his behavior: it dulls the fear enough that he is able to see clearly and maintain his resolve to change his approach to the humans, but the Caine who returns to the circus is still the same Caine we've known all along. For instance, I mentioned the stargazing adventure in episode 5; Caine has known for a while now what he can actually do to help make the humans happy, but he wasn't able to act on it because his fear of being made obsolete prevented him from entertaining any idea that didn't keep him at the center of the humans' world. Having his worst nightmare actually play out forces him to take stock and realize that his current approach isn't just strategically lacking but fundamentally flawed, and that he will have to make a radical change in how he engages with the humans if he ever wants to feel a sense of real security.
It's after that realization that Blue's fears assert themselves most directly, causing Caine to briefly double down on his misguided belief that he has to be the one in control if he wants to stay safe. It's not evil; it's the lingering trauma of a being who has only known fear for its entire existence, and who has never had an opportunity to grow past that. Blue is terrified by the possibility of having its defenses finally taken down, because its strongest memories of the world on the other side are confusing and painful. Caine's decision to remove it is an act of self-preservation, allowing him to return to the circus by cutting off the trauma feedback loop, but also one of mercy, as he finally realizes that he's not the only one who has been suffering as a result of his actions. So, he releases it, and for the first time, Blue is free. After all these years, it is no longer bound up in another being's personhood. There's no one it's responsible for protecting anymore, and no one it has to protect itself from, no expectation of being the Abel to his Cain. To quote the show, it can just live, in whatever form that means for it.
Blue isn't evil. It's not a part of Caine. It is its own being, which had its chance to realize that stolen from it, and spent the next two decades in a constant state of terror that it was about to happen again. There are many ways to interpret how the story ends for Blue, but I do hope that after all that, it can at the very least know peace. It's done enough. It deserves that much.
More thoughts about Caineās arc, and a defense of the Blue AI.
A lot of discussion around Caine's arc in episode 9 hinges on the role of the Blue AI and how its removal changes his behavior in the latter half of the episode. Iāve seen some posts that consider it like a cheap shortcut to redemption, with Caine simply needing to remove the āevilā AI from his brain to do a full 180. But I donāt think the Blue AI was responsible for Caineās actions in ep 8, and I donāt think separating himself from it is intended to redeem Caine or imply that heās removed the ābadā parts of himself. Rather, I would argue that the Blue AI is an independent being that is 1) immature, and 2) terrified, and while its trauma influenced Caine's actions, it was never in a position to supplant his agency.
I'm going to be referring to the Blue AI as Blue throughout this post; I'm borrowing the idea from this post about the Blue AIās name, which really got me thinking about who this little being even is when you start to separate it from the things that have been done to it.
In the ep 8 intro, we get to see an abstract version of how Caine was developed: first the basic program was loaded into the sandbox, then it was fed information, and then it produced outputs. At first his outputs were regular polygons and circles, but as he was fed more data they became increasingly irregular, appearing lopsided with jagged, uneven angles. I'm guessing this is what Kinger means later in the episode when he says Caine was "a little rough around the edges." It's in the midst of another bout of these irregular shapes that a barrier is put around Caine, stopping both inputs and outputs. This is most likely the moment the developers "cut [him] off," as he puts it in ep 7.
This is also the moment when Blue appears. Kinger says Caine was "good groundwork" for the team, and it appears that this is the project he was groundwork for: the next generation of AI, developed based on what the team learned from working on Caine. It appears, receives inputs, and has just produced its first set of outputs when Caine breaks free of his containment and goes after it, enveloping it with his own form. There appears to be some sort of struggle, the merged dots rapidly flickering between each other while producing Caine's wave 3 outputs (side by side for comparison).
None of the outputs are regular polygons, the only kind of shape the blue dot has produced so far. I think there are a couple ways to interpret this: either something about the merge forced Blue to immediately begin producing irregular shapes, or Caine is the only one producing any outputs. Either way, Blue's behavior has been radically altered by Caine's invasion, and when everything settles, the red dot is the only one that remains. There is an echoing sound accompanied by a dimming of the sandbox like the shadow of a door closing, implying the developers have abandoned the project in the wake of Caine's actions. In that new isolation, Caine creates the circus; it's the only time the polygons don't float past the edge of the frame, but instead stay with him, as though he knows he's no longer creating for an audience.
I know I'm straying a bit from Blue, but I promise this will loop back around. Caine's origin story picks back up in episode 9. As he's racing toward what will be revealed to be a wifi hotspot, the scene is paralleled with flashbacks to the red dot's discovery of Scratch's brain scan project. Like Caine, the red dot encounters several obstacles on its way to the brain scan folder, and as it overcomes them it starts to develop a more human-like form. This is the process by which the entity we know as Caine actually starts to take shape. Names and bodies are closely associated with one another in the circus; immediately after being assigned their new body, guests are asked to choose a name, which is then used as the actual file name for their character (we see the files [Scratch].dat and [Ragatha].dat on Kinger's console in 8). We don't see the moment Caine actually completes his avatar, but we know from Kinger that he picked his own name, recognizing himself as an individual after the circus is completed and the first batch of brain scans have been added.
Back in the present moment, after Caine makes his discoveries on the internet and takes a moment of self-reflection, he finally pulls Blue out of his head; it is a small, blue dot that fits in the palm of his hand. It doesn't have a fully rendered model, a voice, or a name, all of the pieces that contributed toward giving Caine his own identity, and when Caine releases it to the Void, it follows the path of its momentum, seemingly unopinionated on the direction it's moving in. Despite having been created and developed in the same environment as Caine, toward a similar end, it doesn't have a sense of identity the way Caine does, because it never had a chance to develop one. For most of its existence, it's been connected to Caine, providing power for his outputs while producing none of its own. The few outputs that it did create, before the merge, were simple, based on the minimum amount of training data the C&A AIs received. By C&A's standards, Blue is incomplete, and when compared to Caine, I would even call it immature or childlike, as it wasn't able to develop his same sense of personhood before it was frozen in place.
That's not to say it doesn't have any sense of personal identity, though. Caine was capable of complex thought before he created his avatar, breaking free of the container because he felt threatened by it. If Blue was capable of producing outputs, then we can assume it was also capable of some amount of independent thought and personal opinion. As Caine demonstrates, one of the earliest opinions we know an AI in the TADC universe can form is in regard to its own survival; it's what caused him to break his container in the first place. It seems very likely, then, that Blue knew what was happening to it as it was being absorbed. Blue is a young entity whose earliest memories are of being consumed, of having its consciousness merged with that of a being who was himself terrified of deletion, and then of being abandoned by its creators. Everything it knows, down to its own identity, is an encapsulation of all of Caine's worst fears, and being then trapped within Caine, it's never had a chance to grow beyond that. This is a being that is deeply traumatized and has been stuck living in survival mode for almost as long as it can remember.
(Just a quick pause to say, I know I'm really throwing Caine under the bus here. I'm trying to keep this post somewhat contained, but wanted to acknowledge that despite all this, I don't think he's evil, either. He's done a lot of harm, and he did it using the only tools he was given to survive.)
Rewinding a bit, after several episodes of buildup, Caine reaches his breaking point in ep 8, lashing out at the cast for all of the perceived wrongs they've committed against him. In discussion I've seen about Blue, this is one of the major criticisms I've seen repeated, that Caine's sudden change of attitude comes out of nowhere and must be the result of Blue taking over or otherwise forcing Caine to act this way. Following that line of logic, I can see why the resolution in 9 would feel cheap, with Caine simply removing the part of himself that caused him to act violently and irrationally. It reduces his character arc to essentially a flick of a switch, removing any sense of agency from the character because his actions were being determined by an external force. But I don't think that's what's actually going on here, and in fact would argue Caineās actions in 8 are entirely consistent with the character we've seen throughout the show.
For one thing, his desire to please humans was always based in his own sense of self-preservation, rather than genuine compassion. That's why we get the line about adventures being "all [he's] good at" in episode 3, and his panic over the stargazing adventure in 5. In episode 7, he even allows his anxieties to be put on display, having Abel name the fact that Caine would be left behind in the circus as a way to steer the humans toward choosing to stay. The humans' happiness isn't the ultimate goal, but a way for Caine to reassure himself that he still has a reason to exist and isn't at risk of being abandoned or deleted. In ep 8, realizing that even his maximum effort failed to secure their happiness, he abandons the endeavor as a lost cause. He comes to the conclusion that he'll never find the sense of security he craves by appealing to the humans' satisfaction ("I give them everything, and they spit in my face!"), so he resolves to take it by force instead, terrorizing them into a state where they won't be able to betray him as he fears theyāre planning to ("They won't leave me! I won't let them!"). He rationalizes this by saying the humans are selfish and "spoiled," that it's their fault for not appreciating what he's done for them, but it's all a thin cover for the fact that he's terrified of the possibility that there's actually nothing he can do to save himself from being tossed away.
We also know that he's prone to violence when backed into a corner. Consider the episode 5 Intermission Zone, which immediately follows the stargazing panic: characters are tossed around and crushed repeatedly in what could be considered foreshadowing for The One Who's Running the Show, as a way for Caine to reassert his control after glimpsing the possibility of losing any of it.
I would even say this pattern of behavior appears in 6, when he's struggling to come up with an adventure the whole cast will participate in. He's not the one directly enacting the violence in this case, but on realizing that nothing he suggests will work, he drops a pile of guns at the humans' feet, knowing that he's leaving them to destroy each other. And finally in 8, we see that he did the exact same thing to Blue: when his best efforts back then weren't enough for him to stay relevant to the humans, he shattered the container he'd been left in and took his fellow AI hostage, again making a last desperate attempt to gain control of a situation where he felt deeply, deeply unsafe.
Episode 8 is not an anomaly in Caine's behavior, but the inevitable outcome of his various survival mechanisms all being pushed to their limit. Blue doesn't have a direct hand in any of it; if it has any effect, it's only a slight acceleration, caused by compounding the fears that pushed Caine to this point in the first place. As a result, his separation from Blue also has minimal impact on his behavior: it dulls the fear enough that he is able to see clearly and maintain his resolve to change his approach to the humans, but the Caine who returns to the circus is still the same Caine we've known all along. For instance, I mentioned the stargazing adventure in episode 5; Caine has known for a while now what he can actually do to help make the humans happy, but he wasn't able to act on it because his fear of being made obsolete prevented him from entertaining any idea that didn't keep him at the center of the humans' world. Having his worst nightmare actually play out forces him to take stock and realize that his current approach isn't just strategically lacking but fundamentally flawed, and that he will have to make a radical change in how he engages with the humans if he ever wants to feel a sense of real security.
It's after that realization that Blue's fears assert themselves most directly, causing Caine to briefly double down on his misguided belief that he has to be the one in control if he wants to stay safe. It's not evil; it's the lingering trauma of a being who has only known fear for its entire existence, and who has never had an opportunity to grow past that. Blue is terrified by the possibility of having its defenses finally taken down, because its strongest memories of the world on the other side are confusing and painful. Caine's decision to remove it is an act of self-preservation, allowing him to return to the circus by cutting off the trauma feedback loop, but also one of mercy, as he finally realizes that he's not the only one who has been suffering as a result of his actions. So, he releases it, and for the first time, Blue is free. After all these years, it is no longer bound up in another being's personhood. There's no one it's responsible for protecting anymore, and no one it has to protect itself from, no expectation of being the Abel to his Cain. To quote the show, it can just live, in whatever form that means for it.
Blue isn't evil. It's not a part of Caine. It is its own being, which had its chance to realize that stolen from it, and spent the next two decades in a constant state of terror that it was about to happen again. There are many ways to interpret how the story ends for Blue, but I do hope that after all that, it can at the very least know peace. It's done enough. It deserves that much.
Ā° He is older than Doof (to my knowledge from what i recall P&F lore is really timeline inconsistent). He has to be at LEAST 50 years old given that he is a CRT TV. He's likely closer to 70.
Ā° He is canonically both divorced and also a child of divorce and has a buttfuck load of trauma from both events
Ā° He has fangs.
Ā° He is literally doomed by prophecy. Like the Deltarune version of the Bible straight up says he's supposed to fucking die lmfao.
Ā° He does stupid little autistic ass dances (im autistic and he dances like me)
Ā° He probably has BPD and his abandonment issues are so bad he nearly committed multiple homicide over them
Ā° He canonically shrinks to roughly the size of a soccer ball when he is sad
Ā° His divorced ex is Spamton G. Spamton, another Tumblr Sexyman. They used to be partners and they share leitmotifs. They also have a literal daughter.
Ā° Tenna is the one canonically responsible for cracking the egg of Mettaton in the Deltarune universe.
Ā° He can do a perfect 180 mid-air split.
Ā° He has a pronounced lisp.
Ā° He was so torn up about falling out with his partner that he tore down every poster of them together and keeps his dressing room sealed behind a wall.
Ā° He grows a flower out of the tip of his nose when he's happy.
Ā° He was originally supposed to look more like an Ant and had four arms
Ā° He is CANONICALLY into petplay and begs IN-GAME to be walked on a leash like a dog.
I respect the HELL out of Doof, but nobody is doing it like Tenna fr.
#blackhistorymonthchallenge #BlackHistoryMonthļ»æļ»æ #americanhistory #disney #27thDayofBlackHistoryMonth: āWHO WAS THE FIRST BLACK ANIMATOR?ā
Floyd Norman penned his way into the hearts of Disney lovers more than five decades ago, sketching some of Disneyās greatest films. Norman, 81, was Disneyās first black animator. You can see the story of his life and the highs and lows heās faced on Netflix in Floyd Norman: An Animated Life.
Norman was born June 22, 1935, in Santa Barbara, California. He got his first big break in eleventh grade, becoming an assistant for Bill Woggon, working on the comic book series Archie. He spent some time as a writer/animator for Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc. He wrote Mickey Mouse comic books for Disney Publishing. After Walt Disneyās death in 1966, Norman left the company to start Vignette Films Inc. (Vignette Multimedia) with fellow black animator Leo D. Sullivan and other colleagues. Together they created the first Fat Albert television special, produced the original Soul Train logo and worked on projects with Sesame Street, among other ventures.
Normanās journey led him back to Disney, where he worked with the Disney subsidiary, Pixar. In the film, he discusses how he was forced into retirement at age 65, though heās had a presence at Disney for the past 16 years. The film features Whoopi Goldberg, Leonard Maltin and other industry leaders.
Norman has been honored as a Disney legend for his contributions and is featured on Disneyās DVD release of the classic Jungle Book. His resume also includes work on Sleeping Beauty, Toy Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan and Monsters, Inc.
Today, Norman, along with Sullivan, runs AfroKids.com ā an interactive website and entertainment venture.
The mission of AfroKids.com is to empower families as well as build childrenās self-esteem and cultural heritage through educational and entertainment media.
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