[based on the Backup AU by @/katzebruh]
Imagining Caine getting free, with the help of the humans. Abel is indisposed of, somehow, and as the cast finally take the muzzle off of Caine's head…
He… he still can't see.
There's panic, the only thing the muzzle was doing was forcing Caine to work through constant pain, but the loss of his voice? the blindness?? not caused by it.
Kinger eventually figures it out, Abel put those restrictions deep into Caine's programming, just— violated Caine's autonomy (more than he already had) and took away those senses basically completely.
They all wish to remove the blocks, wanting to give some sort of control over himself back to Caine, but…
It's… hardly possible, maybe even impossible really. Either way, it would take an unbelievable amount of precision and luck to remove those blocks.
Why?
Caine's digital web of a being relies on structure to hold itself up, having connections across different 'departments', so to speak.
He learns from his surroundings but also from himself, when some part of him not compressed in a model learns, the being the would be considered his whole learns as well.
Abel… seemed to have taken advantage of that.
The block on his voice is something Caine's systems have implement themselves. Abel fed Caine data showing how speaking up would directly go against his function— to keep the humans happy. Showing statics and recording of the time Caine's silence was taken better than him speaking.
Abel twisted Caine's programming enough that it turned against him.
The blindness seemed to be a similar process, probably even easier to implement, since the first command was already in place.
The question was… what can they do to break this sort of conditioning?
Caine's whole being got invaded and rewritten to fit the needs of Abel, how can they possibly help Caine without using the same intrusive tactic that Abel used?