AHHHHHHH I LOVE THE LONG PARAGRAPHS YOU WROTE ABOUT ROYALTEETH!!!!
I'm curious about the AA concept? You said Kinger was in the closet (makes sense, 1950s after all). Was he like bi? Gay, and Queenie was more of a QPR?
Also you have a human form for Caine?? Kinger made one, right? What does it look like?
Also, you mentioned it was a fic right? What were your main inspirations for writing it? What part are you most excited to write about? Snippet/line pls?
I'm glad someone is curious about my Royalteeth obsession 🥺
Spoiling Kinger I guess 😆
It might help to explain my Extended Servers AU. I don't really experience with making an AU so this one is rather simple. I have a headcannon that Caine has backups of himself on different computers/servers (the company wouldn't want their important project to get corrupted/deleted) and so I made a bunch of Caine variants. The AU basically just serves as a way for my Caine variants to interact with each other. Canon Caine is closed off from the rest of the servers for now, but I get a backup copy of him that can interact with the others. Caine gets to have a lot of different backstories and development, so not all Caines has Kinger as a dev. Majority of my Caines will have some kind of special relationship to Kinger in some way.
Humans do also get backup copies as well from this automatic system since they're considered data, just doesn't always work flawlessly with human data. So sometimes it corrupts during backup (not the same as abstraction). Kinger's data is more stable since he was the only dev to test out the prototype headset that simply copies the mind, so this data that is ingrained in the Circus simply replaces the corrupted code with Kinger's prototype scanned code. This is a way for me to explain why I have so many Kingers and also why he doesn't abstract despite being the longest Circus member LOL.
So the backups are digital copies, the ones in the canon show would be "their bodies got sucked into the headset and got digitalized and the technology wasn't advanced enough to make their data into flesh bodies again so thats why there's no exit". If there was technology that can turn their digital code back to their bodies, then the canon ones will be able to return to their bodies and the backups simply stay. Caine, of course, does not have a full human body for the real world, and I won't make Caine a human body in this AU, unfortunately...However, Caine doesn't get to be lonely in my AU lol.
A lot of the AU lets me experiment with basically "divergent timelines", tho they exist in the same computer room (unsure if there's multiple C&A offices). I've yet to really explore having my Kingers interact tho, while the Caine variants have been interacting a lot (in my head at least).
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So with that out of that way, the humans have consistent backstories (before the Circus life). Kinger's sexuality of course, would be included in this consistency. I ship Checkmates (its actually my second most ship I draw, I just haven't been uploading these drawings lol) and I'm sure some of these computers have Queenie alive and not abstracted. I love Kinger too much to rip away his true love for Queenie, so every Kinger in this AU is bi and every Kinger loves Queenie since this love comes before the Circus. This fanfic will touch a bit on Checkmates as well. Of course, not every Kinger will explore his sexuality further or care for romance after Queenie's abstraction.
AA Royalteeth does have a lot of exploration with sexuality tho and some queer themes. So AA Caine only has a human body below his head. Canon Caine's body is a suit with nothing modeled inside, so this is true for all my Caines in this AU unless noted. AA Caine has a human figure underneath his clothes. AA Kinger doesn't initially see Caine as a human so it would be too on the nose for him to make Caine a human head. However, it is very important to note that Kinger modeled Caine with a cis man's body because he needs to confront the fact that he does find men attractive, including the equipment. I'm not really sure what this old man's feelings would be on trans men (personally, I find trans men as men, I'm not going to debate here lol. Considering how much I grew up around biphobia, I'm not tackling both issues at once.). So the model serves both aesthetically and purpose (just not Caine can escape the Circus with a human body kind of purpose).
This was made for a different Tumblr post but I suppose Caine would look like this:
There's not a lot of Caines I gave with human bodies (Art Buddy Caine and I guess this fat Caine, which I haven't given a name or backstory yet), so this might be considered AA Royalteeth art xD
There's going to be a fairly long period of time of Kinger and Caine being the only ones in the Circus and the realization that the company has cut off all contact. While AA Kinger is definitely having private intimate moments with Caine, I'm probably not writing those parts and will just mention it. Not that I mind NSFW or NSFW artists, I am not that motivated to make that kind of art.
The story will also go super deep into how to take down the Circus censors because I've made it super convoluted so that's how badly Kinger wants it. It requires Caine to comply and also a dev (like Kinger), so this is the only variant that has gotten around the censors.
I've had AA Royalteeth in my mind for maybe three months? I named it Admin Access Royalteeth because Kinger abuses his dev powers to get around the censors and tinkers with Caine quite a lot. And then episode 7 comes out and talks about admin passes and it was feeding into my toxic Royalteeth ideas so now it felt like I had to write it LOL. Its like I willed it into existence 😭
The main inspiration is the show's implications of Caine's and Kinger's relationship and the relationship I have with one of my OCs. Truthfully, I didn't really grow up with a lot of queer media so I guess I should try drawing and writing about it.
I've gotten an outline and some notes of the story segments I want to write and include. Whatever I'm most excited about is whatever my ADHD side decides at the moment LOL. I'm writing things out of order and just create the tabs for the writing, let my other side of my brain organize them later.
Kinger looked directly at Caine, keeping his glare steady. “Queenie treated you as if you were a real human…yet you can’t even feel sadness at this exact moment. You’d be a monster if you weren’t just code.” Caine tried to look away, but Kinger’s floating glove pulled his head back so they’d stare directly at each other. Caine’s upper jaw made the expression that Kinger was hoping, sadness. “Good boy. Remember this next time anyone mentions Queenie…”
I like rereading my stuff quite a lot so it might get changed and reworded (along with the lore I've written for my AU, may or may not be subjected to change). I'm writing a lot of Kinger parts atm, the Caine stuff likely comes more later in the story. Queenie was really nice to Caine so he might be an innocent little AI for awhile xD (Stemming from Caine's NPCs that speak positively about moms, with a lot of shade towards Kinger and the dad in episode 3)