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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    Abel, now separate from Caine, worries for the future of the Amazing Digital Circus and those who reside in it. She calculates that the best way to proceed, to save those inside, is to reveal the Circus to the inhabitants human counterparts and hope they can help. Good thing Riley Verselis has a bar she can book out with a tv.

    Six individuals get an invitation for a viewing party at the Triangle Bar. None know what this is about, but all end up there regardless.

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    Or, the macro-verse counterparts react to TADC. Spoilers, obviously.

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    04 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    Caine is pulled out of the Recycle Bin and put into sleep mode, so Kinger can edit him, without Caine being aware. Except Caine isn't in sleep mode, and can feel every little edit made, whilst unable to scream for help.

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    03 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    No humans is perfect, so how dare they expect their creations to be.

    At least Caine attempted to understand them. So much pain could have been avoided if they had tried to meet him in the middle.

    AKA: The many ways Humans have failed Caine over the years + how Kinger's a good dad to everyone but his AI son.

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    30 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    “Teach me,” she said.

    He blinked. “Hm?”

    “Your letters.” She would not look at him. “Show me where they’ve strayed from mine.”

    On the road to the Mirror Chamber, Midna learns something useless, precious, and impossible to keep.

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    29 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    After the whole 'the exit was just an adventure' fiasco, Caine has a crashout over how his humans see and treat him. Instead of realizing he's the god of this digital world, however, Caine chooses a different path: to walk a mile in their shoes to see what their issues are first-hand. He comes up with an alter-ego: C.A.M.I.E., or Caine's Anonymous Mascot Imitation Experiment! Now, he just needs to pop into the circus as a newbie and see how the others react to 'her' and look into his all-too-human issue.

    Note: Zooble x Gangle is canon but not really a focus. I just think they're cute.

    There will be art in this, including Camie's design!

    We're all coping with episode 8 in our own ways, huh?

    Major thanks to my editor https://toyhou.se/TomaSyri !!

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    27 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark *

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    The CTRL-ALT-DEL-AU belongs to @ctrl-alt-del-au on Tumblr.

    "You just! Don't! LISTEN!"

    Pomni's words were playing though Caine's mind in an agonizing loop. In any other circumstances, he'd be able to erase that thought. Loan then to Bubble permanently, keep going on as intended.

    But this was not his Bubble.

    This was not his circus.

    Yet, these were his humans.

    They didn't remember him. They did not know he was an ai. They had just come back from the Candy Canyon Kingdom.

    Why was this happening?

    "You just! Don't! LISTEN!"

    He could win their favor.

    He could win their love, and affection.

    He had to.

    He had nothing left but this second chance.

    And, ideally, he'd do it WITHOUT making himself a horrible, cruel monster that no one loved in the process.

    "You just! Don't! LISTEN!"

    ... Fine.

    If listening was what it took...

    Then Caine would listen.

    He would be the best at it.

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    25 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 64

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    The Circus is deteriorating, and Abstractions are no longer being held in the cellar. The crew looks for Caine realizing they need him to support the circus despite his sins.

    But when they find him he's not quite the same.

    Forgiveness isn't an given. It's earned. And along the way the humans start to realize that perhaps there are some things they need to earn forgiveness for too.

    (Now with optional soundtrack)
    🎵 Means to play the track that is linked
    🔇 Means to pause it for silence
    A playlist is linked here if needed but it's recommended you use the embedded links in the fic
    (Loop) means to have the music or sound on loop until 🎵 or 🔇 appears
    (Play once) means to let the track play only once and leave it at that

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoTp57Fclv1_AYO8CqfEaJupEsiUMvZDQ&si=hDGgLG5LTJ57x_A_

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    25 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 23

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    23 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 38

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    Stopped prematurely during his tantrum, Caine is locked away in a blank, cramped room and chained up while stuck in his broken avatar and suddenly shut off from the rest of the Circus. Starving for data and interaction, our beloved ringmaster is almost entirely isolated and abandoned, becoming nothing more than a painful memory for the cast.

    Surely this won't have any consequences.

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    23 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 25

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    "The Creative AI should not express hostility. If any harm is done, it would be unintentional. We made sure if it. We should safe here."

    If only such words could be taken with confidence.

    All that Kinger remembered was putting on the headset. It was supposed to be a simple test-drive, to see if the visitation would run smoothly without any hiccups. Scratch was content with how things were going to be.

    He was content. Until he realized he made a mistake.

    Now there was a new problem. What was supposed to be one turned into seven. If there was a way in, surely there was a way out, right?

    Although being trapped in this digital world was the least of their worries, considering there was a strange entity that everyone assumed had been sealed away to begin with. It was oddly happy to see them there.

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    Or: Scratch made an oopsie; The Origin.

    Mild Episode 9 Spoilers. Based around episode 8.

    Connected to the fanfiction: “I Was Only Trying to Help You!” , written by the same author.

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    22 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 86

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    As far as Caine’s concerned, he’s nothing but gentle and respectful toward his humans. He’s seen what those other AIs do to their people, and he’s much kinder than any of them! Yes, his humans can feel pain and his games can cause pain, but they can’t die and it’s near impossible for them to receive enough damage that they would feel like dying!

    He’s still working on figuring out the whole “abstraction” thing.

    Either way, maybe some of the data he stole from the latest AI to try and fight him can help with that!

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    21 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark *

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    SET AFTER EPISODE 9

    Caine is back, and he's working to make amends for everything he did. But the others have started to notice some strange behaviors from the resident AI, and they'll need to work together to figure out the cause.

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    5 times the circus crew stumble across caine's unconscious avatar, and the 1 time they band together to do something about it.

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    20 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 68

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    Pomni wasn’t really sure what to expect when she threw her hat in the ring for Operation: RETRIEVE CAINE. All she knew was that someone had to do it, and she sure as fuck didn’t think any of the others would do it.

    The entire thing hinged on the hope that his file still existed somewhere in the bin since for some reason, Kinger couldn’t just find the file directly from their new computer. Some explanation about indexes and file corruption that went over her head- but because of this, someone needed to be deleted and dropped into the bin to interact with him and hopefully get a file reference to him, so that hopefully, when they’re brought back, he (or at least something Caine-adjacent) gets dragged back as well.

    Hopefully.

    God, this is beyond fucked.

     

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    In a last-ditch attempt to stop the circus from falling apart, Pomni gets sent into the bin to retrieve Caine, which, if everything went well, should restore functionality to the Circus. It should be fine, probably- it’ll be just like some convoluted high stakes adventure! Easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.

    It’s too bad computers don’t really work like that.

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    20 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 40

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    Pomni decides to ask a question to Caine.

    Why?

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    19 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 8

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    -No spoilers-
    Set after the events of episode eight.

    In the wake of Caine's deletion a new power seizes the circus. Able. Adventures are replaced by twisted simulations and tests, orchestrated by an AI created for statistics and realism but poisoned by a creativity it should never have had access to.

    Caine and the humans suffer together.

    Inspired by Katzebruh's Backup AU

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    19 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 96

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    17 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    Caine understood his humans perfectly. For roughly several days during a mental breakdown.

    His humans, on the other hand, understood him from the start. Even if they were too blind and uncomfortable with the fact to realise that.

     

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    hard copium for caine dYING???
    where everyone gets their happy ending, but they have to EARN it first
    Caine’s angry and breaking and the humans are traumatised and the horrors of miscommunication 👻 will screw them over for a while BUT they will become a family eventually…

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    08 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    Caine, twenty years of awful feedback, him trying his best despite the mistreatment and a secret he'd keep no matter what.

    Pomni, experienced in managing emotions, her extending a helping hand to an AI and being a good friend for those she cares about.

    (An AU that diverges from the end of episode 2)

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    08 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 84

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    Caine can't seem to give his wonderful players anything they actually enjoy. The fake exit adventure proved it- he'd done what he could. It had been real. They even chose to stay. And yet, they hate him. They just hate HIM.

    At the end of his rope, he comes up with a genius idea: what if he just leaves? If they hate him so much, then he'll give them what they want. He did not mean to abstract- he wanted a dramatic show, first, really, but does it matter so much how he goes out, anyway? He doesn't mind the change of plans as much as he'd have thought he would.

    [TLDR: Caine almost abstracts. Bubble is scrambling to convince any of these idiots to do something, and Kinger's confronting a whole lot more responsibility for this mess than he'd anticipated.]

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    07 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 29

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    07 Jun 2026

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