I have been doodling on Reddit. YouTube has been shoving videos about creature sketching so I guess I might as well sketch too.
The fighting poses just ended up being legally distinct Amazing Caine Fighters (not Super Smash Bros. or Amazing Digital Fight Club). Look at all the fun moves Caine (+Bubble) could have in a fighting game...And there's a bit of a story of Jax punching Caine, so Caine upped the adventure by making it more wacky and countered his next punch with a snap, Caine ended up landing some nice hits and KOs Jax at the end.
And then its been awhile since I drew from the show, but I also threw in REPO Caine, Caine hugging Bubbles and some kind of bee Caine and Bubble monster thingy..
And doodles of Caine hugging his notepad, and Evil Caine and Evil Bubble. Evil Caine makes misadventures to torture his guests but his guests ends up liking them so it makes him sad. Evil Bubble doesn't help anybody and tells people to help themselves.
Since the release of ep. 8, I've seen a LOT of fanart of Caine's deletion/death, his actions and anger over being questioned and resisted, and theories surrounding the second AI that Caine absorbed. However, I think there is credit going ungiven, specifically to one character: Bubble. Bubble seems to actively want to distress Caine and undermine him, maybe aiming for a potential goal of getting rid of Caine altogether, and could be a villain in his own right.
Throughout the series, Bubble has needled, questioned, and made comments about Caine, to Caine. In ep. 8, this is especially prevalent when Bubble starts to poke at Caine's insecurities. He even goes so far to call Caine broken and defective, among other insults, wrapping up with "Maybe you deserved to be abandoned...you really were the lesser of the two" as Caine is popping clones Bubble made of himself.
This isn't something a creation would do, especially to its creator, and it shows in Caine's reactions. Caine isn't stupid, but he is deeply insecure and appears to be at least partially sentient. As such, he can likely process emotions to some degree, leading to feelings of inferiority and displeasure in his work, and anger at the other characters for not enjoying his efforts. Bubble seems to know this, and use it to his advantage. His words in ep. 8, as well as his near-indifference in previous episodes, hint at a malevolent thought process aimed at Caine, that Caine would never allow or tolerate from something he created.
Bubble is clearly lesser in power to Caine, but he isn't controlled by Caine in the same way Pomni & Co., any NPCs like Gummigoo, or the circus itself are. He seems to exist on his own terms, unlike the rest of the cast. However, he is inextricably linked to Caine, as evidenced by the tongue bit in ep. 4, Bubble's first appearance in the pilot out of Caine's hat, and how Bubble is almost always seen in conjunction with Caine.
This also aligns with the theory of Bubble being the still-somewhat-autonomous second AI. If Caine is a first-generation AI and already at his level of power, the second AI would likely have even more power. If the second AI is Bubble, it would explain why Bubble is undermining Caine's self-control for his revenge, and why Bubble is able to insult Caine without Caine being able to completely stop him, as seen in the Bubble-popping in ep. 8. In addition, Caine knows better than to create something like Bubble: rude, insulting, and ultimately unhelpful in the final goal. Caine would not have made Bubble if he knew what Bubble would do, which contributes to the autonomous Bubble theory.
Caine is unstable, and part of that is likely due to the restrictions placed on him by C&A. Being powerful, becoming somewhat sentient, and being restricted because of a dangerous malfunction all within a short timeframe likely caused some of this instability. However, it doesn't make sense for Caine to become so violent on his own, if he can control everything in the circus and seems to want to make Pomni & Co. satisfied, even if they are not happy. Bubble disrupts this, and his actions pushes Caine farther off of the edge. I believe that, without interference from Bubble, Caine likely would not have had such a reaction to the anger from the rest of the cast. The first time we see Caine break so much and in such a manner isin response to Bubble's taunting, and he takes it out on the others because he views them as the issue, rather than Bubble.
Even without being a second AI, Bubble knows what he's doing. Building on an already broken foundation is a sure way to create an unstable house, and Bubble takes advantage of this to screw with Caine's head. Using Caine's own insecurities against him, Bubble sets the stage for Caine to go completely off the rails, resulting in his demise. Thus, Bubble achieves what appears to be his goal: causing Caine immense distress and pain to whatever end he can.
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)
(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.
