TheShippingTroll

Swirl of white over a galaxy. Homestuck reference.



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    No, it could not possibly be cruel, they were bringing him back from the dead, this was a kindness.

    This belief was eventually reinforced when it was time to bring Caine back. The process, surprisingly, was incredibly simple. The circus worked just like any other computer system, with deleted items just ending up in the recycle bin. It had luckily not been long enough for Caine to be properly deleted.
    It was just a matter of dragging his code out of there, making some minor modifications so he couldn't go on a rampage again, and spawning his model into the prepared room.

    There was no fuss, everything seemed to be running perfectly.

    No one considered that maybe that isolated room near the end of the hallway was just out of earshot.

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    Aka, Caine gets brought back, but in a spare room, and ends up getting tortured by complete accident because no one realizes that might be a bad idea

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    06 Jun 2026

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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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    06 Jun 2026

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    Caine's in a bit of a pickle. His precious human subjects are... depressed! He didn't even know such a thing was possible, and yet there they are, slumped and hunched and moaning and whining. They don't even want to go on any more adventures! Oh his poor humans... there must be something he can do to cheer them up.

    What was it that Zooble said they had wanted that one time...?

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    13 May 2026

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    Jax mustered up the energy to travel back to his desk, plopped down in his chair, and threw the notebook down in front of him. It fell open to the page labeled CAINE’S KINKS. 

    He grabbed a pen and tapped the tip of it against the page a few times, before making a few edits.

    This is not a love story. This is a revenge story.
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    (This fic was written after the author has seen episode 7, but before the author has seen episode 8. The author is more interested in the idea of Caine and Jax being narrative foils than she is in the idea of them having a genuinely abusive relationship. This story includes some spicy bits that are easily skipped - though you might miss some slapstick and character development if you choose to avoid them. This story is mostly comedy, though that might just be to make the tragedy hit all the harder. The author is gender-fluid, pansexual, polyamorous, demiromantic, ADHD, autistic, and heavily projecting. Please heed the tags, and enjoy the show!)

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    07 May 2026

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  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    Kinger accidentally deletes Caine, but as the Ringmaster welcomes death, he wakes up in a world he forgot he was a part of. A human used by C&A and fed the lie that he was an artificial intelligence living in a world he created, when in fact, none of it was real. As Caine is left to piece together his broken memories and remember his life on earth, his paths cross with the humans used to create the mind files of his past circus members, helping him answer the question, "What is my purpose?"

     

    A/N: Trying to update chapters frequently and finish this before episode 9 comes out! (I couldn’t beat the theater release but maybe the YouTube release is more realistic of a goal lol)

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    12 May 2026

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    Chp: 18
    Ooooooo very interesting. It's definitely different but I like it