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    Kinger mumbles an affirmative under his breath. The sound of scratching on paper grabs Caine's attention, only just noticing the notepad in the other's hand. He watches the pencil dance across the paper, slightly entranced by the movement, until it stops and Kinger's attention is back on him. "Alright. What's the last thing you remember?"

    Nothingness. The absence of himself. A moment that never existed, yet he knows the time passed, so something has to be there. Even if it isn't. Even if he wasn't. He thinks this, and comes up with a response that makes sense with the context he has in his mind. He doesn't compute how it will come across when all he has to say is:

    "Nothing."

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    Caine is dead. Then, he isn't. Not because the humans wanted to see him again, not because they felt bad, but because the circus couldn't survive without him. To top it all off, he was only brought back to begin with thanks to one teeny, tiny little condition:

    He can no longer use his powers.

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    05 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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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 files don’t really work like that.

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    29 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 50

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    Caine is restored after his deletion, but with a few minor modifications.

    Shockingly, this causes more problems than it solves.

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    28 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    “WHAT, WHAT DID YOU-!” He gripped at his head, nearly toppling over, but too distracted to care. His fingers began to trace and grip at his once pristine white teeth of enamel, now a muted silvery metal and jagged and WRONG. What is this?! “WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!”

    OR: Caine is brought back, but with some new features. His abilities are limited, and if they so desire, the humans have a way to shut him up. His teeth have been replaced with a zipper. Some use this for amusement, others as revenge, some only as necessary. The path it leads down is full of mis-steps, but they'll keep stumbling along together.

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    22 May 2026

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    All of the data taken into account painted a horrible, impossible picture. They weren’t having fun. All of this work, all of his time and energy, wasted.

    They didn’t like the adventure.

    "Nobody likes your stupid adventures."

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    Caine leaves his latest adventure in a panic, struggling to understand what went wrong.

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    22 May 2026

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    Everyone has their duo, why should he feel so alone?

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    22 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 78

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    READ ONLY AFTER SEEING EP 8 or you’ll be TOTALLY SPOILED!!

    "I want Caine! I want Jax! I want to reset the circus! RESET!” she shouted, as if that was the magic word.
    The flickering red dot grew, until red overtook her vision—

    Pomnni arrived on the stage, unceremoniously as before.
    Or: Pomni is the only one who remembers the death of Caine and the abstraction of Jax. She sure as hell isn't gonna let it happen again.

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    21 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 30

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    After Ragatha helps Caine through a low point, he suddenly designates her as his assistant. She tries to use the position to improve things for everyone in the Circus, but Caine isn't allowed to give them everything they want. In the course of getting to know him better, she might have found a way to bypass those restrictions. But it could be dangerous when he's mentally unstable and becoming more obsessed with her by the day.

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    19 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 29

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    There are two people in the circus with similar trauma and wounds. They could find comfort in each other... if they learn to see each other as real.

    This is going to be a slow burn.  There will be smut, very eventually.  But even in canon these two don't have a relationship, so to build that realistically without being totally OOC, we gotta start from the ground up.  Canon compliant through episode 5, divergent after.

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    19 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 31

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    Gangle's always been rather clingy, usually to her detriment. It seemed to work out this time.

    Wherein seven people leave the Circus, six bodies wake up, but no one was lost.

    A sentimental post-escape exploration of characters and relationships that has rapidly grown out of control. Focuses mainly on Gangle and Caine but neither are good at letting their friends go.

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    16 May 2026

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    "No," Zooble fired back immediately. "That was not an adventure, Caine."

    "You can't prove it wasn't," Caine deadpanned.

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    Caine loses his powers instead of his life.

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    13 May 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 48

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    "Well, well," he says, putting some bluster back in his voice, enough that it almost sounds real. "If you're so keen to spend your time in my humble little prison, knock yourself out!"

    "Thanks, Caine," Kinger says, sounding completely and annoyingly sincere. "I think I will." 

    Kinger successfully puts Caine to sleep in order to fix him. The only problem is, Kinger has no idea how to "fix" him and Caine's not technically asleep.

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    12 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 63

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    The Ringmaster is dead, and the cast has built a new world on the remains of the circus.
    Not everyone can move on as easily as the others.
    Kinger and Ragatha are struggling without the routines and familiarity of the circus until an old legacy file gives them a new purpose.
    OR
    The humans build a new world. Caine is found two months later.

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    09 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 62

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    It's been two months since they escaped the circus, one month since reuniting with one another, and two weeks since Christine (formerly Pomni) took it upon herself to start exploring the old C&A offices and destroying their computers to prevent anyone else from getting trapped in the digital hell she temporarily called home. Things, however, take a wildly unexpected turn when she and Felix stumble across a computer in one of these abandoned offices and it spits out... Caine in a form nobody expects: a human boy.

    An AU based on two combined AUs of mine: a human au I drew where Caine is a 13 year old boy raised by Kinger, and an AU where being sucked into the circus left the characters with subtly unsettling traits that make your average joe a little nervous around them.

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    06 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 47

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    Ever since the “ringmaster rabbit” incident, things had gotten significantly better. Caine actually listened to the cast now, implementing their suggestions and generally toning down the intensity of his adventures.

    Zooble had not seen Caine himself that often, besides the usual introduction and returning welcome from the adventures, but they figured he was busy with maintaining the new larger circus...

    They were wrong.

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    01 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 38

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    Formerly "This is the Run"

    Pomni steals a colorful manual from Caine and discovers the pause menu. Once Caine realizes, he's not upset like she anticipates, but excited to both see the outside world and please the circus troope with an exit at last.
    So long as Pomni takes him with her.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.

    His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.

    Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.

    "Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."

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    Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
    Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.

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    27 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 32

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    Caine somehow dragged himself out of quarantine and back into the Circus with a tag-along. The humans are terrified – what are they suppose to do with two AI programs?

    But Abel is nothing like Caine. Efficient, quiet, curious, and a surprisingly good listener. He apologizes when he misunderstands and promises to let them do as they please, stepping in only when requested or needed. He cannot tell them what happened to the Circus to turn it into this hell, but Abel tries to his best to soothe over the wounds that his predecessor left. It’s the safest everyone* has felt in a long, long time.

    *Caine not included, but who even noticed?

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    26 Apr 2026

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    After weeks of trying and failing to fix the Circus, or at least make it livable, Kinger convinces the others to let him pull Caine from the recycle bin and have him fix their world.

    There's just one problem: Caine doesn't want to come back.

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    24 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 17

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    According to Wikipedia, The ELIZA effect is defined as a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface.

    In other words, here's a story about Caine.

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    23 Apr 2026

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