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Ya'll F with Hololive on here? Here's a bunch of Hololive (mostly Calli) stuff regardless.

First 2 are from charity Zines I've participated in this and last year, the 2nd of which you can purchase here more below or whatever...

I'm starting to think that maybe "the headset" isn't actually a headset, but maybe some kind of brain scanner technology developed by Scratch. Or perhaps it was a repurposed headset of some kind, but based on the creation of Caine and the other programs likely taking place during the 90's and Kinger stating that C&A didn't develop games, I think that this is what might have caused the characters to, in a way, "enter" the circus. I'm also curious about the sticker on the front of the headset, since we have a better view of it now, it looks like maybe a sun?

Caine even says this, I'm starting to think these 2 projects were originally separate, and Caine somehow combined the two? Like Scratch was looking for a way to preserve his brain before he died of his brain tumour in order to continue his work or something. That's what the neural scans are for; he was trying to circumvent his cancer. Like he wanted to create an AI version of himself that could replace him after his death.

The circus was invented by Caine, so he probably put those files somewhere close to his own or wherever the files are supposed to go in testing, and his files are right next to the neural scans, so Caine had unintended access to them, or maybe it was just an oversight via the employees since Caine is supposed to pull data from the files they gave him anyway.

Caine probably took those neural scan files and put them into a personalised character model based off of the data; he's supposed to use what he's been given as a reference after all, and perhaps "abstraction" is just those files corrupting in some kind of way. I'm sure there's more to it though, at least I would like there to be. Especially since abstraction has been used as a metaphor for su*cide and/or giving up on life. [EDIT] Also, that Caine might have been reusing or consuming the data of abstracted characters, i.e., Elain Gets Adopted.