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Baseless Speculation on how TADC Is Going to END
Based purely on vibes and knowing the IHNMAIMS and Evangelion are is the shows biggest inspirations. I'm calling it now, everyone is going to abstract. It turns out abstraction is some weird collective consciousness ego death scenario and the characters will have to actively choose to comeback. It'll end with Pomni and Jax looking out towards a dark sea and Jax goes, "i think I'm a girl" and then smash cut to ending credits.
I needed to draw biblically accurate Caine holy shit
considering that Caine is an AI and is basically data. The digital circus is just a simulation created for the sake of humans and their sensibilities. Cain biblically accurate glitch out is probably just him getting annoyed and dropping the pretenses.
About TADC & Relationships
Another thought I had right after posting this first one:
What if the "nightmares/tortures" of each one weren't JUST a way for Caine to punish them?
What if it was his way of saying: "Look at what your lives were like out there. Look how awful you felt before coming here. Is that what you want to go back to? After everything I've done for you?"
This show has addressed relationships and their complexities in previous episodes, and I think Caine's dynamics with the rest of the group also fits the concept of an unhealthy relationship that can become abusive. We know that Caine is an AI, therefore, he doesn't have a fully understanding of how human relationships/dynamics work, and he's basically just there to fulfill his programmed duties; and because of this, he seems oblivious to the discomfort of others, or rather, he notices it but simply doesn't take it into account or disregards the feelings of others.
Like, you know that person you try to tell about something difficult you're going through, or anything in general, and instead of listening and showing support, they just make EVERYTHING about themselves? Well, that would be Caine.
And, thinking about it now, it's interesting that Caine could be a character who represents that, while also being an AI, because, at least for me, the feeling I get when interacting with this type of person is: "a person like that can't be human."
I think that, if we were to bring this to a real-world situation, Caine would be the type of person who: Wants to be close to others, wants to have a relationship, wants others to like and validate him, but he simply doesn't know how to reciprocate that – it's ALL about him. So when you try to leave him, his thought won't be "Oh, he must miss his friends, family" or "They need time alone," what he thinks is "They want to abandon me."
And, for him, the idea of abandon is absurd because, for him, they have an incredible and perfect relationship in which he dedicates himself and gives his all to the person he's with, when in reality he's the only one getting any benefit and satisfaction from it.
And that's what sometimes happens in abusive relationships, especially when the abused part is someone going through family, financial, or mental health problems: The abuser will use precisely these "weaknesses" against the victim so that they don't think about leaving. Because while the abuser may have insecurity or abandonment issues to some extent, he still wants to demonstrate control over the situation, he wants to regain control, and that's what he does, making it seem that their relationship, however bad it may be, is still "better" than the life the victim led before.
THIS SHOW IS
DRIVING ME
CRAZY!
That's one of the things I find interesting about Caine in the context of AI characters. Caine doesn't understand humans, and refuses to admit that he doesn't. At least with other (benevolant) AI characters there is an understanding that since they're not human they don't have a full understanding of the human condition and this is a facet of themselves they need to compensate for or work around when it comes to interacting with people which can act as a personal connection.
But caine can't admit that is a quality he needs to work on because it hits to close to his own insecurity, that he isn't good at what he was made to do. ( Or at least what he thinks he's made to do, I've got a my own interpretation on this but in short Caine function isn't actually to entertain humans but to just create stuff unprompted. Making the humans happy was the lesson take away he made after being seemingly abandoned in favor of another AI )
I think that's such a unique take in an AI character it legitimately feels like Caine is more so a bad person because of his own issues he needs to work on and not just because he's an AI which is not something you see commonly in media.
Anyway I think that's neat.
Ngl I despise the "bubble is abel/the other ai theory". I feel that demeaning bubbles comments in ep 8 to "he wants to take Caine's place" is ignorant to Caine's character. Caine, as far as we're aware, has one sole purpose, to create adventures that the 'players' enjoy. The cast of the circus doesn't enjoy these adventures, no matter what Caine does. He has failed at the one thing he was meant to do as an AI, this breaks him (hence the glitching he does through ep 8). In the scene he finally 'gives up'- so to speak- bubble is only voicing the things Caine is already thinking. We also know that bubble and Caine are one entity, based on the fact that Caine's tongue is also bubbles tongue. In my opinion, the second AI doesn't even exist anymore. At the beginning of ep 8 we see that the red dot (assuming that is Caine) EATS the blue one, implying that the blue one is Caine as well.
Tldr: I think this fandom is so desperate for a twist villain, they are willing to disregard that depth of every character involved.
This does add a rather dark implication to Kinger's terminal sequence because that is where that theory comes from.
Guys be honest do I have same face syndrome? :/
Something I like about deltarune/undertale and The Stanley parable is that they both seem to exist at different ends of the "player as character in the game" meta narrative. In deltarune the player is clearly presented as some Eldritch entity from beyond the veil tormenting the characters within the game while in the Stanley parable it feels like you the player are trapped in the game constantly harassed by an omnipotent narrator with a god complex. (Which my or may not be the game dev). And you know what both interpretations are completely valid.
When I made that post about how Spamton and Tenna were probably both mimicking each other due to mutual jealousy, I mentioned by the end that, although both of them saw the other as having something they lack...
Spamton was, like, objectively the worst-off between the two, and his jealousy of Tenna is probably more 'justified' than the other way around'. But also Tenna is unaware and probably totally incapable of understanding this fact . Since the reasons behind it are dependent both on the culture of the internet and the deeper machinations of Light and Dark.
I didn’t really go into depth about it at the time cause it is a complex topic that I did kinda cover for Spamton before Chapters 3 + 4 even released and if I started going into it in detail, it could’ve easily overshadowed the main point I was trying to make with that post. But since I did get some comments/questions about that aspect… I thought it might be a good idea to give it its own post going into it in detail and clarifying my point.
So, both Spamton and Tenna imitate each other because they see the other as an embodiment of something they don’t have. Tenna has the charm, prestige and both metaphorical and literal ‘bigness’ that Spamton craves. While Spamton has the modernity, understanding of technological progress and ability to reach Lightners that Tenna’s so insecure about lacking these days.
(I think you can kinda see it as a metaphor to the relationship between traditional media and the new media in general. Old Media such as the Television is getting overshadowed and outcompeted by the Internet-based New Media, but it also still has an air of respectability and prestige that New Media still generally lacks. The fact that Tenna is specifically jealous of, like, the lowest, least-respectable, most obnoxious aspect of the Internet is just an extra detail that makes him more uniquely pathetic.)
But the main difference is, like… So Tenna is a Television Darkner, he’s supposed to exist for the purpose of providing entertainment. He loves entertainment because that’s what he was created to do and entertaining Lightners is the thing that makes him feel truly fulfilled. He is also, by all accounts pretty damn good at it.
Like, the main conflict between Tenna and the Lightners is because he wanted his show to go on forever (And also he kidnapped Toriel and was keeping the Dark Fountain from getting sealed and working with the Knight). They did clearly enjoy being on his show as a temporary thing. He's honestly good at this.
I mean, the fact that he has a set Purpose hardwired into his very being and can’t feel truly content unless he’s fulfilling said Purpose is kinda Existentially Depressing if you think about it too hard, but at least it’s something he both enjoys and is good at.
And then you have Spamton. As the Magical Dream Representation of Spam Email, he is created to scam people out of their money and information. He is also generally obsessed with all the things your usual Spam Mail blathers on about, success, prestige, being a BIG SHOT. But being Spam Mail also means he is utterly terrible at doing his Purpose and fulfilling his goals. Spam Mail is weird, obviously scammy, gets thrown away 99% of the time, and is the lowest and most incompetent form of online advertising/scams. The basic essence of his metaphysical being is to be a frustrated, miserable failure.
Of course, this isn’t as simple as saying Tenna is metaphysically allowed to be truly happy while Spamton isn’t. Because it’s been a long time since Tenna has been able to fulfill his Purpose. He’s good at entertainment… but he’s not good enough to get anyone in the Dreemurr household to turn on the TV on the regular. His show is loads of fun, but it’s also kind of repetitive, cheesy and old-fashioned… because that’s also the Lightner perception of the classic TV that Tenna was created to represent.
You can easily say that just as Spamton’s preordained role is to be a failure because Spam Mail is by definition crappy, Tenna’s role is to be a failure because in these modern times, the definition of the television has changed to be ‘not good enough’.
And the whole thing is actually totally outside Tenna’s control. Obviously no one can truly control the march of time or stop new entertainment technology from being developed, but even in terms of the content Tenna can provide if he's switched on... That’s in the hands of Lightner TV producers.
In his Dark World, Tenna’s living the high-life, the biggest and only Big Shot in TV World. but he’s incapable of being satisfied with all of his power and prestige as long as he’s a failing his Purpose as a Light World television. A matter that is actually totally beyond his control.
Tenna’s aware of all of these problems, but he’s not fully aware of how these issues reflect Spamton’s situation. He’s knows nothing about the modern internet world
…He doesn’t know what being ‘Spam’ means, and therefore has no idea what Spamton is supposed to be. He met Spamton during the brief period of time the salesman was genuinely successful as an adbot, he has no idea about the unlucky Addison he was before or the total wreck he became later.
… But that is also part of the crucial difference. Spamton only became successful and therefore happy due to the help of the mysterious Someone that has been calling him.
And…we are still not quite sure how that worked. Was that simply someone from the Light World aggressively clicking on so much Spam Mail and shitty ads that it temporarily changed Spamton’s status in the Dark Worlds? Did that Someone give Spamton the secret to actually defy the role assigned him by the metaphysical laws governing his existence? Was it done through the power of the Shadow Crystal? The power of the Prophecy? Were they taking advantage of the fact that the events we're talking didn’t truly happen and were instead retconned into Spamton’s personal history when the Computer Room Dark World created him?
There are so many question marks about Spamton’s Mysterious Benefactor and how that whole thing worked… and that’s because giving Spamton a happier and more successful life is something that seems like it should be literally metaphysically impossible. And while Tenna was pretty much trapped in an unsatisfying existence due to the nature of his being and circumstances beyond his control… his problems were also much easier to solve from a Lightner perspective.
Sure, the television doesn’t get the sort of universal success and influence that it did when Tenna was brand new, but there are still people who watch and enjoy it. As long as that fact holds true for at least one household (and seeing how books, radio and cinema still exist despite the television overshadowing them back during Tenna’s hay-day, I doubt the TV will ever die completely) and as long as Tenna himself is a usable television then Tenna’s happiness is absolutely achievable.
It is kinda existentially terrifying to think about how this was all out of his control and couldn’t have happened if not for Kris and Susie’s actions in the Light World, that Tenna himself still had no power over his own happiness… but that still leaves him in a better position than poor Spamton, where… even if you were a Lightner honestly interested in giving Spamton a happier life… what could you do for him?
Like, Noelle obsessively responds to "Free Friend Finder" Spam in a desperate attempt to find Dess and that got Spamton's attention and gratitude, but it was still obviously a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the success he is destined to crave for… So this is clearly much more complicated than just humoring a few Spam Mails (and also, even that plan carries a much bigger risk to the Lightners compared to just giving someone a second-hand television. Because Spamton is also ontologically doomed to bite the hand that feeds him.)
But, like, there is a reason why Tenna was shoving his nose into Spamton’s Secret to Success. Obviously with Tenna already being Executive Producer and God-King of TV World, he’s not exactly looking to become a ‘Big Shot’ in the Dark Worlds - he’s looking to have the sort of reach and influence that internet-based Darkners like Spamton seems to have over the Lightners. He was looking for Spamton's advice in the hopes he could help him to understand modern technology and the changing times, help him to stop himself from becoming increasingly outdated… But is that something Tenna would've been even able to do?
Again, before the TV World Dark Fountain even opened, Tenna shouldn't have had any way to affect his situation in the Light World, he was just an inanimate TV. If Spamton taught him to 'plug in'… what would that mean? Would the Dreemurr Household's living room TV suddenly gain the ability to connect to the internet? Would it suddenly transform into a Smart TV out of nowhere? Would it suddenly starts broadcasting new content that's more appealing to modern audiences (at least according to Spamton's advice)?
The idea that's the least magically-breaking-the-laws-of-causality is that Spamton was thinking of asking Someone to upgrade Tenna's inanimate TV self in the Light World… and even that kinda stumbles into the mindfuck acknowledgement that all of the events we're talking about didn't truly happen the way Tenna and Spamton remember them because they were an inanimate object and a spam folder on a laptop at the time and all of their past and memories of being People were created when they were brought to life by their respective Dark Fountains so how could they ask anyone in the Light World to do anything at that point in time?
Tenna was actually trying to get Spamton to help him do the same thing he's done, defy the fate he was doomed to because of what he is in the Light World. To help him break the laws of how Dark and Light work so he can get closer to accomplishing his dreams. Even though he doesn't seem to be fully aware of the fact that was what Spamton did in the first place. And… there is a level where I'm wondering if Tenna even understood the full ramification of what he was planning for himself?
Because when it comes to Tenna being unaware of Spamton's miserable fate due to the fact he doesn't know what a "Spam Mail" is, that is a simple problem of a lack of knowledge. Tenna just doesn't have that information due to his status as a pre-internet piece of technology. But when it comes to the matter of the metaphysical mechanics of Light and Dark and how Darkners work… I feel ike it's not really a matter of knowledge as much as a matter of understanding.
Tenna clearly knows that as a Darker, he is created from the Dreemurr Household's TV, he knows that before the Dark Fountain opened he was just an inanimate object, he knows that means that his Purpose is to entertain Lightners… But does he actually think about what all of these facts actually mean? Does he fully understand the implications of his existence? I've already wrote so much about all the little things that make Tenna's life, maybe better than Spamton's, but definitely kind of an existential nightmare in it's own right if you think about it… but that's the question, does he actually think about it?
When we was trying to get that 'deal' done with Spamton, was he thinking about in terms of 'I'm gonna need to break the laws of what it means to be me, Tenna, a Darkner based on this specific old TV. Because by definition I am outdated and if I want to actually catch-up with the times and be watched again, I will have to change that Definition somehow?' or was it just 'Oh boy! That Silly Little Guy knows a lot about this internet stuff that scares and confuses me! And he's got so many views! I have to ask him how he does it..." without ever thinking of the implications of how'd he'd replicate 'how he does it'?
I think there's a lot of little hints that Spamton doesn't just want to rebel against the metaphysical laws that made him a constant failure so he could be a Big Shot… Spamton also wants to want different things. As he exists, Spamton isn't supposed to care about anything but deals and scams and money and success (while also existing to constantly fail to achieve these things), but his actual dream is now something much bigger than that, much more centered around his freedom. Although part of the tragedy is that he is still doomed to only being able to think about it in terms of power and status, and doomed to being unable to think of a plan to achieve that dream without scamming money out of people and exploiting them in general.
Even when he's giving Kris the KeyGen, he has to try and sell it for a sometimes ludicrous amount of money, because he's not supposed to care for anything but sales and deals… But he does seem to try and fight against this instinct.
And it's clear that he is very emotionally hurt by all the friendships he lost and all the bridges he burned. With Tenna most obviously, but also with the Addisons and with Swatch. As a Spam-Email, he's not supposed to care about those things more than he does about Deals and Scams, but as a person, it's clear that this is a huge part of his angst. In the Normal Route, Spamton starts projecting his own issues on Kris the moment he sees them walking through the Dark World alone. In the Weird Route, Spamton only starts doing it in the NEO Boss Fight, when they start calling out to their friends. Either way, it happens when he sees them alone.
In terms of the metaphysics of Light and Dark, Spamton's essential definition is being a weird failed scam-artist. In Spamton's own eyes, his essential definition is being lonely and abandoned.
And of course, the whole point of Spamton NEO's Spare Route, the closest thing to a happy ending he ever got, is about abandoning all of his grand plans to become [BIG] for the sake of friendship.
Tenna… does not seem to struggle against his nature in the same way. He is not bothered by the implications of having a set Purpose or maybe he just never thought about it that much. He fully embraces the idea that his Purpose is to Entertain and to be Watched, and even when he's sad and frustrated because he can't fulfil that goal… he blames himself for failing to fulfil it, he does not go against the idea that fulfilling this Purpose IS the number one thing he wants and needs.
He's already in a better spot than Spamton was, because, although he's got a bit of an Entertainment Industry Sleaze coding to him with all of his shady contracts, being based on an Object that generally makes Lightners' life more enjoyable and has a lot of sentimental memories associated with it makes him considerably more capable of caring about other people and forming meaningful relationships. But even when his obsessive pursuit of his goal ends up with him alienating all of his TV World employees (even Mike!) and causing his world to crumble all around him, he never doubts that there is nothing more important to him than Entertaining Lightners.
I think if you went to Tenna and asked him if he ever wanted to want a different thing, something that doesn't make him totally dependent on outside approval, he'd just be confused. What in this world could be a better and more worthy goal than bringing smiles and tears to the lovely viewers at home? What else is there? It's just not something he could ever even being to think about.
And sure, Tenna might know and acknowledge that he's the Dreemurr Household TV and that's why he cares so much about entertaining specifically the Dreemurr (and Holiday) family… but does he truly understand the way that his personality was shaped by the emotions of Kris and Toriel during the night the Fountain was opened? For him, his emotional grief at the slow dissolution of the Dreemurr family is just his genuine emotional response based on his personality and his memories and the experiences he had… and I think it is real... but it's also a projection of Kris and Toriel's feelings.
For him, his fixation over Toriel is born of the fact she was the last member of the Household to consistently Watch him…
But it's also born of the way he's kind of a reflection of Asgore's Divorced Behavior.
Is Tenna aware of the idea that his feelings, that feel 100% real for him, were also 'given' to him by the Lightners? Does it bother him at all? Does it not bother him because of an actual confidence in his own personhood and the validity of his perspective and his personal sense of self… or just because he never thought that deeply, that far, into the implications of his own existence?
Tenna knows what it means to be a Darkner, but he doesn't understand what Spamton understands. And as long as this gap exists, Tenna won't ever really know how miserable and doomed Spamton truly was. And I think as Tenna gets happier and more content, now that he's got a new loving home, he will be less and less driven and able to understand it. This little adventure he had with the Knight and the Fun Gang was probably the closest he's ever gotten.
Even if you sat him down and patiently explained what a Spam Mail is in the most 70's terms you could muster, he still won't truly understand why Spamton can't just replicate the success he had when these two knew each other, or why Spamton was so determined to 'see past the Dark'. Not anymore, at least. Because that requires delving into things he knows, but has never truly understood on a deep level. And maybe it's better for him that he doesn't.
I think, Tenna was on… the precipice. He took great interest in Spamton's success, he wanted to know his secret, they had almost signed a deal together. Tenna's frustration and lack of ability to fulfil his Purpose had led him to a point where had almost tried to defy his Existence the way Spamton had never stopped trying. He was unsatisfied and miserable enough that he almost became… maybe not exactly like Spamton, but at least a lot like King. Y'know, the Dark World Leader who got a lot of secret info from the Shadow Crystal Holder he was closest to, and thus inspired him to rage against fate and actively try to defy his Purpose?
Maybe not exactly the same as King… but he had almost tried seeing too far. Almost.
But at the end of the day, Spamton felt that the only way he could be truly happy is to find some way to cut off his puppet-strings, while Tenna is someone who finds true joy and contentment in simply dancing along to them.
Deltarune: Absolute Prophecy Theory
In other words there's no actual way to deviate from the prophecy in deltarune, just like how the game only has one ending the prophecy will end in only one way. However, that doesn't mean that our choices don't matter, simply they don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But the details absolutely do matter.
So take Tenna for instance, prophecy says he gets cleaved red by the blade" all the prophecy said was that he gets cut in half, not that he dies. But depending on whether or not you've been recruiting darkeners determines whether he's able to be repaired. So that choice is important. Just not in the grander scheme.
Think of it as a sort of meta-narrative approach. You are not free to do everything you want in a video game, you can only do what exists within the scope of the game and that's the same with the prophecy in deltarune.
So what does this mean in terms of the snowgrave/weird route. Well depending on how you interpret the prophecy, it can be very much in-line with it. In truth neither the normal route or the weird route perfectly align with the prophecy (as we've seen so far). A lot of this hinges on whether or not Susie is supposed to be apart of the prophecy. I think the prophecy is lot more flexible than we tend to think. Susie can be the monster hero in the prophecy or the "last girl"
I.e its flexible and can be interpreted differently and i think that's sort of the point.
So why even do the weird route in the first place if a different ending isn't going to happen? Well I think what the weird route does is something a little bit more sinister imo. Lets be honest the real main character of deltarune isn't the player or Kris like it was in Undertale with Frisk, its Susie. We don't get the big character defining speeches like in undertale. Its not us changing the villains minds or getting the last word in. We're literally a side character just going through the motions. We the player don't have nearly the same amount of influence in deltarune as we did in undertale. We don't decide who lives and dies, that is until the snowgrave route.
The weird route is the player's attempt to refocus the narrative back onto us. To make the game more like undertale where our choices are the only ones which truly matter, not anyone else's. I think the weird route is, a meta-response to people approaching deltarune like its undertale.
After all undertale is suppose to be played before deltarune and unless you're specifically looking for the "genocide" route in the game (hence requiring you play undertale first ) you wouldn't have found snowgrave.
In other-words I think the weird route will end the same way as the normal route, the difference however will be if we end it as an ally or a villain to be defeated by the true hero of the story.
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i drew some stuff for @toomanyheadthinks 's Never Human Au because it kinda lives in my brain now
it's rly fun
i dont think half of this is actually au-compliant
yooo, this is amazing! I love spectral Sam playing with his rat son.
Yoyoyo I've been looking at your art for your au but I can't find the fic, I'm gonna like explode if I don't read it ,could you link it somewhere :3
I haven't gotten around to posting it yet, (slow writer) but when I do I'll probably link it
Lol
Bet you Lyle has already made a sam religion. A very normal reaction to have.
Totally has a Sam shrine hiding in his place.
hey, i might just be overcautios, but can i do fanart for never human au? I'm rly digging it btw, it's very fun!
of course, I don't mind at all!
Sam may be a cosmic horror but that doesn't mean he doesn't have stalkers! Found a fucked up cat in his room and it kept taking his stuff when he wasn't looking.
Spine's still infatuated with Sam but it's too shy of his incorporeal body to interact with him directly so it's just been rummaging through his things, stealing his stuff and generally being a menace.
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Yeeeessss soooo much of this! Why you hiding this in the tags!
The whole thing with the visitors must feel so cathartic for him while at the same time its own special form of guilt induced dread. Because its really the first time he can be open and honest with what he actually is. It's exciting, he has friends they're not entirely human but that what's he shares in common with them, and just a small part of him feels thankful that the world has changed but at the same time he feels terrible about it too. Like he shouldn't be this excited about the end of the world.
I hide in the tags because I am a coward.
Also:
- Sam feeling he *still* has to somewhat hide, or at least not be as open as he wants to. These people have only known that not being human was an *option* much less come to terms with it themselves for a very short period of time (especially early on)
- going from clamping down *hard* on his own abilities to being far too loose. Using them a bit too freely and accidentally scaring others. (Him having a lot better finesse than many of the Cursed, but it startling people)
- You did mention it having an impact on save/reload, right? (Forgive me if I'm wrong, on mobile and can't check the other post while writing) Him having *some* guilt that something he might have done influenced the visitor to arrive. (And once finding out the full story, not particularly wanting to go back to stop it from happening)
- Time passing, and the realization that while he's no longer the only person not *human,* he's still the only one like *him.* (Excluding The Visitor, who is only *visiting.*)
Oh hell yeah of this! 100%
I can imagine Sam going, well everyone knows so might as well use my abilities to help and while it helps there's just an unnerving quality to it. Its way too efficient / effective. It happens way too quickly. There's moments where I'd imagine some of his companions are silently thankful that their not his enemy. (Which probably doesn't help his general feeling of isolation towards people)
You know i wrote my initial save/reload ability as a joke (I committing to it lmao) but that alone is already a terrifying concept especially if you take it literally
Plus, how many of the cursed are actually intangible like he is? (Arguably Edwin, but that's a whole other issue. And the whole dark apartment in general. Sam might take issue with that.)
To be honest, I've been thinking about the horror of save/reload abilities for years now. Its fun to ponder and lie awake at night because of! Especially if there's no actual limit to how much he can do it.
Considering that Sam own self perception is just fundamentally different, one mind spread across two bodies, its an incredibly weird sensation when walking into places where space-time is distorted so abruptly. It feels like he's de-syncing with his own body. Responding late to things, and general unawareness of which form is where and interacting with what. Like a weird version of sleep paralysis. The dark apartment would not be comfortable at all, and it might also be where his spectral form is just a little more tangible than it normally is.
Also i really like the idea that Sam's save ability is significantly weaker version of what his parent can do. For Sam its basically video game rules. He does have a limit to this ability, its not a substantial one but he can only hold to a few different spots (save slots?) in time and he can't hold on to anything that's too far back in the past as doing too many can get confusing and is generally exhausting. So he has to be careful when and where he "saves"