What's a trope you think is unexplored/underappreciated in showtime fics?
Hmmm. Let's see... Underappreciated you say?
THE FUCKING "GOING OUT OF BOUNDS" TROPE.
I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I MISS IT. WHY CAN'T WE HAVE IT AGAIN. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS NATION HAVE WE FORGOTTEN OUR ROOTS /SILLY
I CERTAINLY HAVE NOT, I'M PLANNING ON REVIVING HTMAAIMH WITH THE NEW INFO WE HAVE, BUT STILL KEEPING THE OUT OF BOUNDS ADVENTURE BECAUSE OUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
LET POMNI SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF HOW WORLDS ARE CREATED IN THIS DIGITAL LANDSCAPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. LET HER CHANNEL HER INNER "HORRORSCOPED" AS SHE SEES THE FULL EXTENT OF HOW ADVENTURES ARE MADE AND IT REMINDS HER OF URBAN EXPLORATION
Anyways. The really "unexplored" aspect of Showtime, I can't really think of a very, very VERY specific one off of the top of my head right now (I do NOT trust my own brain at this hour), but I think I haven't really seen anyone explore the idea of Pomni and Caine being "roleswapped".
And I know what you're gonna say: "We've got loads of that!" *INCORRECT LOUD BUZZER!!!!!!* WRONG. I'M TALKING "YOUR NAME" KIND OF ROLESWAPPED. Or I guess you could say, it's more of like, "bodyswapped", than roleswapped.
Where Pomni has to adjust to the role of the all-powerful leader but failing badly at it, and Caine not-so-fortunately getting the graces of "experiencing what it's like to be human" and he's so excited at first-- only for it to be SOOOO exhausting because WHO KNEW BEING HUMAN MEANS A BUTTLOAD OF PROBLEMS NOT JUST ON YOUR BODY, BUT ALSO YOUR PSYCHE. AND THERE'S A (HORRIBLE) ADVENTURE AFOOT.
And in the end, both end up admitting that WOW, they did NOT see what the other was experiencing, and end up promising to be better and even cover for what the other may be missing in picture. Maybe even Pomni realizing that while Caine is horrible at executing adventures, he has a point on the concept of it on paper: without anything to do, humans tends to lose their minds. Caine realizing that maybe, traumatizing people isn't exactly very good.
I guess that wouldn't really be possible nowadays with the reveal of the humans being able to conjure up shit this entire time, and Caine being 'technically-human-in-spirit-but-at-the-same-time-not-really', but it would've been nice during the ye olden times when we were still filling in the blanks, you know. The closest we have to this concept being a thing is like, The Replacement Code AU; but even then, it's not nearly close enough.
Another unexplored idea would be the fact that Caine and Pomni live worlds apart. In the sense of "Caine was created back in 1999(?) and was cutoff access probably around the same time, and Pomni entered the circus in 2017", they would have very WILDLY differing taste in terms of media.
Maybe even a clash of outdated information. Even if Caine has access to the player mind files and are able to get data in there to expand his database, I can't really imagine that he knows the most recent happenings from when Pomni had been integrated. The lack of internet makes it hard.
Giving Caine that "sheltered kid" kind of vibes while Pomni was the more "out there" person who can tell Caine these kinds of stuff (even though they have the opposite personalities for that lol), while he just... marvels at the stories she tells. Again, he can access the mind files-- but it's nothing like being told the story by the very person who experienced it.
That's like, a WHOLE 'nother level of trust and companionship that I think would just make Caine feel so... happy, and feel like he's achieved some kind of milestone, while Pomni is just happy to revisit the memory. There's also potential there for some mild bits of angst, as Pomni feels melancholic after telling the story, while Caine WISHES he had a chance to be in her shoes. Both finding solidarity at their now current situation, and promising to make the best of what they have now to create new memories.
I'm also going to be self-indulgent and bring my headcanon to the table, where Caine CAN eat what humans conjured up, and he can process that data. And he's a hungry, HUNGRY boye. There's a lot of potential with the idea me thinks, ranging from "Pomni conjures shit for Caine to eat and just experience new things", to "The same thing BUT the adventures improve, though she does have to reprimand him if he eats too much", to "Caine keeps eating everyone's (and Pomni's) hardwork and it causes a bit of rift/disarray", to even "Caine becomes sorta like a virus that ends up WANTING to eat the humans. Especially Pomni because of just how much data he could get IF he did. He doesn't want to hurt her--much less lose any of them, but man is he starving and he could only keep his urges down for so long."
But a crack idea: Pomni and Caine go on a date inside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (it's an adventure in disguise)
My brain is dying help me I am crawling through dry patches of cracked desert ground, searching for water........ (Showtime)
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