TheAgentLeftBehind

[theagentleftbehind]

Daphne's pretty wealthy imagine all the corruption her friends could expose just by using her parents connections. Politicians, billionaires, famous A list celebrities.

Who needs masked villains when the real ones are performing evil out in the open.

[theagentleftbehind]

What if Daphne attended a super prestigious private school? And Velma attended the same school due to receiving a scholarship.

[theagentleftbehind]

I'm way too skeptical about Yokoso Scooby Doo. Tell me what can this series offer me that I haven't seen in a normal Japanese anime?

Couldn't they just bring back the red short!Shaggy era and improve the reluctant werewolf, ghoul school, and the 13 ghosts instead?

There's a lot of neglected stories waiting to be told and they decided to use anime...ugh

[theagentleftbehind]

If anyone's interested I fleshed out a bit more of the story Empty Space I posted to Ao3. The ragdoll newborn Ragatha was forced to give birth to.

It's not like the newborn could have escaped Kinger. It was programmed to be a defenseless newborn that was meant to be taken care of. The programmers outside the digital circus were counting on everyone to encourage Ragatha to bond with the baby milk drooling muppet. Everyone was supposed to fall in line and play house, but if it wasn't for Zooble challenging the birth of this NPC or Caine's discovery it wouldn't have faced deletion.

The newborn was programmed with some bits of self-awareness like after Zooble pulled it away from it's mother.

Recognizing a milk bottle that could not nourish it.

It was never meant to grow up. (hence why Jax called it an 'over glorified baby doll")

the NPC can't feed itself because once again it's just a baby doll. It's an NPC that's meant to be held, meant to be fed, meant to put down for bedtime. You know like how you would play with a real baby doll. You pretend to feed it, you pretend to nurture it. It's just a bare bones type of NPC just like a real toy doll. It won't grow up because it's a baby doll, it will follow basic commands it was told how to act and feel, it has no future, and once again since it's not alive it can't suffer, but Ragatha did.

It was programmed with a few newborn instincts but that's about it.

But it wasn't aware of it's deletion. It wasn't programmed with the capacity to understand what was going on. Why it was abandoned by it's caretakers, it didn't understand mama hated it or why she wasn't coming back to hold it, to comfort it, to soothe it.

It didn't understand why Kinger was angry or the knife he was wielding was really command that prompted it's deletion.

It didn't know anything.

The babydoll NPC was unable to use critical thinking skills, reasoning, or logic behind it's caretaker's motives.

The NPC had enough awareness to know Kinger was a threat. Scary man holding a knife > It attempted to escape, but due to newborn survival instincts and the fact it's body is weak and meant to be held and taken care of it couldn't do so> it aborts the idea and flees to the next thing it's programming understood > Crawl under thick, warm coat, suckle and root and hope for the danger passes soon since the coat represented comfort safety and mama

It had enough awareness to fear Kinger > not enough awareness to understand the reasons why > had enough instinct to cling to the coat > not enough instinct to escape > had enough memories to seek warmth > Not enough memory to understand why

when it burrowed into the thick, warm coat when it thought was hiding from Kinger. Even though mama was gone, maybe it could find the last scraps of comfort the warmth could offer before it faded away.

All it knew when it hid under the coat was SEEK_MAMA

HOLD_MAMA

[theagentleftbehind]

It wasn't real!

Kinger telling himself over and over again as the fog of anger settled over him until it finally boiled over. His shaking, trembling hands as he held the knife as he commanded the digital circus to unrender this ragdoll baby... he wanted end this malicious lie it that had harmed Ragatha.

It was never real.

It was never alive.

It was never a child.

And this was why he would expend every ounce of energy to destroy every single trace of pure binary code that made up this ragdoll baby by his own hands.

This malicious, imitation of a baby that sought to traumatize and harm every single member of the digital circus. As the ragdoll baby tried to make an attempt to escape, despite it tried dragging itself, screaming and kicking and shrieking as Kinger brought down his knife destabilizing it, forcing it's code to slowly unravel. The ragdoll baby tried to move away from Kinger, but the moment it's chubby fingers brushed against the warmth of the wool, it remembered Ragatha's arms that once held it, that fed it, that nurtured it for a brief period of time.

Her comfort, safety, and body heat.

The coat felt a lot like mama didn't it?

It abandoned it's strategy to survive as Kinger kept forcing the NPC's code to obliterate itself.

DELETE

DELETE

DELETE

DAMN YOU DELETE

The NPC began whimpering, screaming, and sobbing again as it rooted against the soft, warm winter coat. It's stubby ragdoll fingers clutching, clinging, trying to nurse again desperately as the world around it began to grow darker and much colder.

To the NPC and given it's limited parameter's were concerned that programmed it the coat was Ragatha.

As it burrowed itself deeper inside the thick folds of the wool coat. It was like it was trying to simulate the warmth it remembered that was never returning. The warmth of the coat reminded the newborn what it had lost. The NPC would shove its face deeper into the coat, nuzzling, rooting, suckling at the fabric with frantic insistence as if the coat itself could protect it, as if the wool could shield it, as if burrowing deeper could save it from the unrender that was ripping it's code apart from the inside.

Its tiny ragdoll fingers dug into the coat, clinging so hard the fabric bunched around its hands.

Ragatha was only a distant memory.

Fading.

But the thick, warm coat?

It felt like mama.

It smelt like mama.

After Kinger kept landing blow after destabilizing blow in an effort to delete it the ragdoll newborn was aware mama wasn't coming back. Mama was all it was programmed to know, to expect, to soothe it.

So it clung harder.

Rooted harder.

Suckled harder.

Kinger hated it.

He hated it how it pretended to be be needy!!! How it dared pretended it deserved comfort!!! That this...thing was worth saving!!!

HE HATED IT!

HE REFUSED TO WAIT FOR CAINE TO END IT'S EXISTENCE!!

HATE! HATE

So when it begun cling harder... when its tiny fingers dug into the coat like it was trying to crawl back into Ragatha’s warmth..her kindness...her affections... when it pressed its face into the sleeve and whimpered like it remembered her

Kinger remember he was destroying a lie!

AN: This is what happens when I think about fan babies in the digital circus what if this ever happened...you think very long and very hard about them and wonder....this was a thought I had after writing that story 'empty space..." that and you know I came up with a great headcanon Kinger's deletion is lot more messier and traumatic despite he's an administrator against Caine who can just 'snap them out of existence.' That and I was inspired a bit by Harlan Ellison the whole 'HATE HATE HATE' when Kinger deleted the NPC by his own hands...and maybe Doctor Who horror elements...

[theagentleftbehind]

That's the thing about digital immortality and TADC. Let's say you put your consciousness inside a robot instead and launched it into space would it be far more productive?

Nothing lasts forever, servers don't last forever, game consoles don't last forever, technology doesn't last forever. Club Penguin didn't last forever, Toon Town Online didn't last forever...

How many good years do you think the digital circus has before the servers and who ever maintains the digital space pulls the plug.

Imagine all of them are having another adventure and Pomni is in the middle of a sentence when the digital circus is shut down.

[theagentleftbehind]

I have a lot of gripes about SDMI, but the biggest one is Fred Jones and Fred Jones Sr. Mm. So please writers would you like to expand upon why Fred isn't canonically a Jones since that was his given surname since 1969?

Was the evil entity punishing Fred Jones Sr. and somehow given him Fred Jones jr. a different set of parents as some kind of punishment?

There is no fucking explanation!

Writing room - holy fuck you guys let's give Fred Jones a different set of parents! For no good reason! It's a plot twist nobody seen coming!

Why the fuck are there many timelines at the end of SDMI I thought the Annunaki gave them the right ending?

Is Harlan Ellison suddenly Rika Furude from Higurashi or something and can see into other timelines?

The world building sucks.

When you go saying things about other timelines I'm pretty sure we could find out somehow that Fred Jones Sr. was Fred Jones biological father along those lines, right?

[theagentleftbehind]

TADC doesn't make a lick of sense.

So they were AI pretending to be human the entire time.

The fact that all the programmers stuck inside the C&A didn't actually mean anything and Kinger being the sole survivor meant nothing since they were all AI pretending to be human.

The Exit everyone was obsessed with finding also meant nothing since everyone was AI pretending to be human. And all that talk about Caine wanting the humans not to leave him along inside the digital circus meant nothing.

"He's just as much of a prisoner as you are" welp, these circus members are AI pretending to be human so it's not like they can leave either Caine.

This is so fucking lame.

I thought C&A was going to be the center of conflict, but I guess not. Everyone's safe because these people are just AI pretending to be human so all that bitching Caine did and the adventure he set up about escaping the digital circus meant absolutely nothing!

Even Overdrawn At The Memory Bank that starred Raul Julia was far more entertaining this tripe.

[theagentleftbehind]

Writing the members of digital circus as AI from the beginning would have saved so much time and energy.

[theagentleftbehind]

That's why I think Soma is so stupid.

"They were AI like Caine the entire time" so who the cares if they forgot their real human names when they entered the Digital Circus from day one?

The were just AI based on humans, but their avatars are cartoon characters that don't remotely even look human.

The story doesn't make any fucking sense the more I think about it. I thought the exit was the most important thing and the the humans I thought who were stuck inside the digital circus would find some pay off with their cartoon representations based on what ever the fuck they were supposed to mean when they entered the digital circus.

Apparently whatever the fuck their avatars mean it meant jack shit.

Jax the rabbit meant nothing.

What did Ragatha's representation as a rag doll actually mean...nothing.

Pomni...eh

Kaufmo...no...

You'd think they'd experience existential horror after they found out they weren't human the entire time. Caine treating them as though they were in fact real authentic humans that happened to live inside the digital circus when they were AIs was also fucking stupid.

Ragatha - We're...not really human?

Pomni - So my name is pretty pointless isn't it?

Gangle - Why didn't you just say so from the beginning? Why did you treat us like people?

It would have been best write the Soma from the start then dealing with this clusterfuck of confusion.

Or at least have the AI's wondering why they have memories based on people outside the simulation and why even Caine registered them as human at all.

[theagentleftbehind]

What would be really messed up? If the developers can take away the members of the Digital Circus's names what if they can mess with their memories?

Some nice bowtie fodder if the developers put a bunch of false memories of Ragatha having an abusive childhood and see how it affects the other circus members when she first met Caine and Kinger.

Like what if C&A psychologically abused the fuck out of one of them while Caine and Kinger have to work together to try and put an end to Ragatha's suffering.

C&A just runs some evil experiments and see what happens.