Oh, Yeah, Cool. One Of Bill's Regrets Is Ford. I Am Taking This Information Very Normally.

Oh, yeah, cool. One of Bill's regrets is Ford. I am taking this information very normally.

I WATCHED EPISODE 3 OF DIGITAL CIRCUS AND NOW I WANT TO BLAB ABOUT CAINE SOME MORE!

Spoilers below the cut:

Every episode, I am more convinced that Caine has done nothing (intentionally) wrong, ever, in his life.

He has no tact, terrible empathy, and is barely sentient enough to carry out a conversation, let alone understand all his circus members' perspectives, but BY GOLLY he is trying his BEST-

FIRST OFF! He is an AI designed to make fun little games, originally aimed at children, and judged against that purpose? He's doing AMAZING! We all know what it looks like irl when AI is used to make games, but Caine's game dev skills are really good! His worlds are pretty to look at, the game mechanics would be fun if this were a video game, not a virtual prison, his stories are even coherent! He just made two separate routes for Middenhall Manor whose stories are actually tied together in the background! (Bro made Undertale-)

He WASN'T designed to babysit several grown adults stuck in VR round the clock for years. And EVEN SO, he's still trying to make them comfortable and give them a good experience with his limited understanding! He adapts his adventure to be easy and set in the circus for Pomni's first day! He goes out of his way to try to make something for Zooble ALONE! Judging by Kinger's flashback, the theories that Caine puts the abstracted in the cellar partially because the dark calms them is almost certainly true!

He's quite literally doing all he knows how to do.

And the biggest thing that I'm losing my mind over this episode?

Zooble complains at the start when he pulls them aside that he "never listens" or "never remembers" why they don't feel like going on the adventures. Midway through, even he seems frustrated that his brain isn't cooperating.

And then after explaining it again, Zooble is discouraged and dismisses it by saying: "Forget it..."

And Caine blinks.

"What?"

"Just forget it."

"...Forget what?"

He quite literally keeps forgetting because Zooble keeps telling him to by accident.

BECAUSE HE'S AN AI-

Love the Kinger backstory and focus, but Caine is my fav character so much, y'all, it's unreal-

This scene from episode 1, with the context from episode 3, Caine probably wasn't just worried about spoiling one of his creations but how he was incapable of entertaining an "Exit" for his guests, which is something he is lacking of giving to the humans, I do not think he's fully aware of a non digital world and thinks an exit is another "adventure/place" but him being creatively stuck on what an exit should be makes him feel like a failure because he isn't able to do what the humans are asking of him, just like he can't please Zooble. He's anxious about it.

psst maybe I don't mind drawing some requests for this show ،،

Theory time

Kinger was responsible for his wife's abstraction

There is this specific line that stood out to me:

That way he says it feels like he is speaking from experience. The long pause, the sadness in his voice, it all makes me think he is reminiscing of an specific situation. There's also the fact that this comes up after talking about Queenie.

He knows making someone feel unloved and unwanted it's the worst thing you can do because he made that mistake. I'm not saying he meant it, perhaps it was something he said during an argument, perhaps it was something he did without realizing. Either way, it lead to his wife's abstraction.

There's also this small moment were they are listening to one of the tapes. When Mindelhall mentions accidentally killing his wife there is a direct cut to kinger, visibly in distress. I wonder if this was made on propose to crate a correlation between the two.

HI if ur taking requests.. wandering eye? maybe? 🥺

Sorry guys I'm sick