['And now for something completely different'... probably encapsulates my entire writing style... ...
I almost feel some shame, as his place in the main plot is so far ahead, but I am taking advantage of the time dilation I'm working with here. For all you know, all this is happening at the same time, or so far ahead that it only matters in periphery. Who knows~
… Did you know there's a limit on the tags? Makes me think twice about how I tag things. My goal USED to be to have a gigantic wall of tags like that one legendary post, but I guess I have to settle for the bottom fer pertaining to the most recent chapter, and the past tags representing overarching themes. >.>;
Good thing I had zip for tags this time~ See you on Wednesday, my erratic erratas!! <3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- Direct Link to Chapter)
(19161 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 20/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni Thoughts (The Amazing Digital Circus), The politics of three toybox towns in the middle of a magical disaster, Leadership Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Make your mark on the world you say…?, Mid-Ep8 Canon Split (The Amazing Digital Circus), Mind Break, Mind Manipulation, Mindfuck, Torture, Psychological Torture, Body Horror, Body Modification, Sharing a Meal, Food, Watching Someone Eat, Just because the eldritch abomination is shiny doesn't mean you touch it Kinger…
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
6-22-26: Aaaaaand here we are. (E9 is the fook AMAZEBALLS, btw…) And, as such… … Three days again, bby! Whooooo! (That's, uh, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) Need that extra day, or else finishing this is going to take… well, two whole ass years like the original TADC. XD
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[I hardly ever do things that are pure filler. This kinda is, and kinda isn't. I just wanted to confirm some emotional states going forward.
Oh, fates, save my blorbos from their weird issues... that I gave them... Hmm... >.>;;;
Also, you ever get a strange idea, with no actual planned payoff, but threw it in anyways? ... ... ... Naw, me neither. >.>;;;
These updates keep getting later and later. And, honestly, I haven't been feeling well, so that's probably why.
Anyway, see you on Monday, my Dynamite Headdys!! <3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- Direct Link)
(18598 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 19/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni Thoughts (The Amazing Digital Circus), The politics of three toybox towns in the middle of a magical disaster, Leadership Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Make your mark on the world you say…?, Mid-Ep8 Canon Split (The Amazing Digital Circus), Mind Break, Mind Manipulation, Mindfuck, Torture, Psychological Torture, Body Horror, Body Modification, Sharing a Meal, Food, Watching Someone Eat, While not the focus of the chapter I kinda want to acknowledge what I just accidentally did here, You're welcome…
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
6-22-26: Aaaaaand here we are. (E9 is the fook AMAZEBALLS, btw…) And, as such… … Three days again, bby! Whooooo! (That's, uh, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) Need that extra day, or else finishing this is going to take… well, two whole ass years like the original TADC. XD
[Gotta admit; we a little horror today. We a little horrifying. Dare I say, something scary lies at the end of that link below. And I am not ashamed of it. Like, at all. :B
The original onus to this was… 'What would fast-forward the work of Jax liking themselves enough to open up to others?' The answer was; 'Literally talking to themself…' … And my brain did THIS. :v
Also, super-late upload, I know. Thank you for your patience. Enjoy… this(?)
And see you on Friday, my cute little kumquat-quinces~]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- Direct Link...)
(17477 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 18/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni Thoughts (The Amazing Digital Circus), The politics of three toybox towns in the middle of a magical disaster, Leadership Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Make your mark on the world you say…?, Mid-Ep8 Canon Split (The Amazing Digital Circus), Mind Break, Mind Manipulation, Mindfuck, Torture, Psychological Torture, Body Horror, Body Modification, You ever split a rabbit in half?
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
6-22-26: Aaaaaand here we are. (E9 is the fook AMAZEBALLS, btw…) And, as such… … Three days again, bby! Whooooo! (That's, uh, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) Need that extra day, or else finishing this is going to take… well, two whole ass years like the original TADC. XD
[Caine wakes up, eager to take up the pursuit. Perhaps too eager…
-=-
Haven't you ever wanted giant, fire-breathing, chaos-dragon boyfriend? You can't deny the valiance of the offer... Giant... warm... friendly... to you, anyways. Excellent bodyguard. A little flighty, tho... >.>;
Also, I SWEAR that I wrote this BEFORE watching the last episode. I FOOKIN' SWEAR… … … In fact, please remember this for about… the next TEN parts or so… because… Me and Apollo got beef. And he need to keep his stupid dodgeball outta my face… XD
Oh, the posting change… Three days again, bby! Whooooo! (That's, uh, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) Need that extra day, or else finishing this is going to take… well, two whole @$$ years like the original TADC. XD
See you on Wednesday, my portable plotholes~]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- Direct link...)
(16526 words)
by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 17/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni Thoughts (The Amazing Digital Circus), The politics of three toybox towns in the middle of a magical disaster, Leadership Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Make your mark on the world you say…?, Mid-Ep8 Canon Split (The Amazing Digital Circus), here have some calm before the coming storm…
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
6-22-26: Aaaaaand here we are. (E9 is the fook AMAZEBALLS, btw…) And, as such… … Three days again, bby! Whooooo! (That's, uh, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) Need that extra day, or else finishing this is going to take… well, two whole ass years like the original TADC. XD
[More lore dump and setup. Also, I really thought this one was longer... I am not a numbers person, but this is truly an odd, odd, reoccurence of mine. Time truly is a circle which is also flat.
Also, since E9 is... TOMORROW(?!?)... I'm posting an extra day next week and moving forward. Because I can finally breathe on the internet again and get rid of all these blocked tags. >:V
I mean, uh... See you on Monday, my Gallant Goofuses~ :v ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- direct link)
(15484 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 16/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni Thoughts (The Amazing Digital Circus), The politics of three toybox towns in the middle of a magical disaster, Leadership Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Make your mark on the world you say…?
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
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[Another thing I've been ruminating on as of late is Pomni's internal logic. Like... yes, being stuck doesn't mean acting like it immediately, but-too-also how do you not just instantly loose your marbles to all this mess? What is Pomni's mind made of, steel? I... I don't think I would have made it past Mildenhall... :S
Also-also, we're out. Now, see, most fics would have called it here. I... I do not write like most fics. No, there will be more BS until morale improves... in my brain. :v
Flame on, fair friends~ Link after the cut, and see you on Thursday! >:3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- direct link...)
(14704 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 15/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), … No I didn't kill her, that would be silly, There's like… infinity more parts left… :v
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
[... I don't think this counts as Bunnydoll, yet, does it?
Anywho, about to do terrible things to a ragdoll and a rabbit in this and several chapters, give or take. Wanna watch? :P
If so, you're in the right place~
Also, how many ways can you describe exhaustion? :P
Elsewise and sideways, link is under the cut, and see you chaps, chapettes, and non-specified chads on Monday~]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- direct link)
(13720 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 14/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies), Monster Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Body Puppeting, Clueless Victim, Jax Missing the Point (The Amazing Digital Circus), honestly, I think they bothe need a Medal, I'm about to drag the both of them through all kinds of terrible things… :B
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
[Another shortie this time, but a goodie, I think. Just a little bit of drama, as a treat. :P
Slightly unrelated, I cant wait for the 19th. This whole thing has been so weird. And stupid... Like... why are people? ... ... That's the whole question, btw. >.>;
Also, you get any visual warnings or flashing lights... well, see a doctor, but also, take care of yourself. No one likes a workaholic. :S
Burn bright, fireflies~ Link under the cut, and see you on Thursday. :3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<- direct link)
(12820 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 13/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, Exhaustion, Self-Induced Malfunction, Transformation, Caine is a bright boy and would never endanger himself or others out of pure rage (lies)
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
[I am so good at pacing, what are you talking about, uneven chapters, HAHAHA... Short chapter today...
Bubble is so fun to write, you have no idea. Maybe it's the years of built-up angst and anger, but if this was the Venture-verse, I'd probably at least be a henchperson. Just to be around that energy, you know. :v
Anywho, I should probably go check on that prisoner that I accidentally left the door key across the room from.
The link is under the cut! See you on Monday~ <3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<-straight to chapter, btw...) (12276 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 12/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, Dramatic Evil Entrance, Evil Gloating, villian monologue, … no new tags, just badguy doing badguy things…
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
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[Okay, so this one is a comparative doozy. Sometimes you start writing and... man, it just goes.
Helps that I just really like writing villains. Card-carrying, intentional, unintentional, smart, stupid... doesn't matter what kind. There's something so silly and freeing about a dedicated antagonistic force that just... does harm. I do enjoy a classic, mustache-twirling asshole, tho. Gotta go back to basics, sometimes.
... Coincidentally, Ep8 is my favorite, can you tell?
Remember: don't monologue if you've already won. Links under the cut. And see you Thursday! <3 ]
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TADC: c://Dele/Corr (<-That goes straight to recent chapter now... because I fricking said so...) (11801 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 11/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Legend as Metaphor, lost in a cave, Call to Adventure (Trope), Possession, gloating, You get the feeling your tags are getting bloated?, oh well…
Summary:
Or "The Amazing Digital Circus: Delete/Corruption"
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TADC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈
5-23-26: Aaaaaaaand we all caught up. On the weirdest 'chapter' to be caught up on. Meh, thus is life~ See you Mondays and Thursdays, then. 👋🏾
5-28-26: (okay, so no one was going to tell me that I was time traveling to August?) ANYwho, finally decided on the name. You, uh, you you say the name of the .hack stuff. And I don't even think I explained why, even. Well, simply put, Caine got deleted, in-canon… but here he didn't. He got almost deleted. Files that are partially deleted… they're just corrupt, are they not? So, yeah. I also kinda wanted to emphasize how that changes not only him, but everyone else. Because no character is coming out unscathed. Like… NO one. Everything changes. Everything corrupts. :P
[Sensing a pattern? I know I am. >.>;
Short chapter this time. Gangle is a strange girl in a strange land. Strange isn't it?
Jokes aside, I think I'm at the point where I need new inspo. I'm still ahead, but I've burned through all of my immediate 'cool moments to write' on my way to 'final cool moment to write'. And we are SO FAR from the 'final cool moment to write' it hurts. T_T
Also, series name change. Only not really, you say it the same. Think the .hack series...
Beware the Grue, link under the cut, and see you on Monday. <3 ]
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
[Okay, so finally caught up on A03, and, honestly? I like posting and editing more than on here. SOooooo, actual text body of story goes there now, I guess. I will put the link under the cut, tho. I'm not sure I like how either site handles the cross-posting. :/
So, um... Caine and Pomni get a little intimate... ... Yes, no, I will not elaborate. Listen, I write fics; and even doing that I have no idea. Just know that all those tags are correct. ALL of them. :P
ANYwho... link (direct to the chapter) and tags under the fold. Cya Thursday... 🫣]
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TDAC: DeleCorr (name pending) (9423 words) by AngelicDirt
Chapters: 9/?
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caine/Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus), Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Bubble (TDAC DeleCorr AU), Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Additional Tags: Long, Short Chapters, Dreams and Nightmares, Comfort, Angst, and a little scolding, Agoraphobia, Panic Attacks, Mood Swings, if you know Caine you'll know why 'mood swings', Action/Adventure, Trauma, Hypnosis, Mind Control, attempted comfort, Memory Share, Churches & Cathedrals, Baptism, AI thinks he doesn't have/need feelings, Sporatic Fluff, Self-Hatred, Near-Spiraling Thoughts, Human thinks he doesn't need/have feelings, Jax is Bad at Feelings (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Angst (The Amazing Digital Circus), Jax Is Not Okay (The Amazing Digital Circus), Trapped, Probably should have had that one before huh?, Serious Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Characters Yelling or Screaming, Arguing, Sane Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus), posession, Journal Entries, Does This Remind You Of Anything? (Trope), Wire Play but Not, code play, Non-Sexual Intimacy, You know you would think that this has a category, no no it doesn't
Summary:
Or "The Delete and Corruption of the AI Caine" (also name pending)
This started off as a personal vent, and some exploration of the the TDAC crew after e8… But Caine did not directly delete. He's in the recycling bin. With Pomni? Huh, how curious. I am also, for some reason, absolutely smitten with the idea of Showtime, so there's that. 😈...
[Due to mitigating spoiler circumstances, I'm shifting to a Mon. + Thur. upload. This whole thing started as a writing-flavored meditation in habit-forming, anyways... BUT I also will not be scared off the internet. If the intent was to ward us off our favorite thing, the f*ckos have failed; we still here, dood. If the point was standing against the idea of the movie release, they have not only failed, but justified it, at this juncture. And, just like the MD fandom, we, too, are gonna be here for a good long while after. So they better get used to it. :P
ANYwho, another short-short one today. Lab notes. From Kinger. Yeah, surprised me, too. :B
Nothing like apocalypse/disaster letters to break up all the hot, steamy fanfic action. xP
And so... cya Monday. ;3 ]
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Oh. Oh, there is NO going back, is there? In any direction… I'm telling you, my buttercup, you wouldn't even believe what was happening now…
Of course, this would be better if I started from the start, huh?
Firstly, the first ten of these entries are just pseudocode and notes, because I was experimenting. You do work, you keep notes. I know that, you know that. Heck, even wizards do it, what do you think spellbooks are? So, there's that.
But… how did I even get here? Simple answer is dumb luck, really. I had escaped… somehow, but stuck around the facility. Felt familiar, I guess. Especially the computer labs. Lots of dark places to hide. Kinda fun being some kind of… ratman in the walls. I had even found these strange glasses. They clear my head up REAL good. I… I almost feel like me again.
My memories had been so… thin, up until then. I blink… and its the Circus. I blink again, it's the facility. I blink once more and I'm at home, in my chair, reading a science journal and listening to you chat with the kids about college or life… It's all been… so confusing. But some… streak of sheer, organic luck has landed me… here. With all the clarity in the world. And I will not waste a second of it.
… And then there was the other thing I found. Strange blueprints. Detailing a… helmet? A set of goggles, good quality micro-monitors, integrated stereo sound, electrode sensors AND emitters, and high density data lines running all through the danged thing. Wiring… In formations and configurations that I've only spied at electronics conference lectures and experimental demonstrations…
… Caine's little… 'escape' escapade was pure fiction (from what I… remember?), yes, but this… this was tech that all actually existed. In excruciating detail. Whatever this world and this facility is, it's not Caine's work. His style can reach these levels of stimulation, but that isn't his focus… Everything here is too… detailed. Too realistic. Down to a T. The errors are far fewer and farther in-between. There are working, LOGICAL plumbing and electrical systems, weather patterns, day-and-night that don't feel like a forced contrivance, NPC routines that videogame companies would fall all over each other for.
But then there's the other schematics... One for some... thing called an End-to-End Energy Transducer...? For 'Micro-to-Macroworld' energy transfer...? And a... Fragmented Item Materializer? They couldn't be serious, right?... Some of the schematics could pass as real, but those last few... lack... any base in reality. Data, energy, and matter DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT.
I mean, the protos I watched them test work HERE, in the virtual world, just fine, but it feels like their intent is to... make it real? To somehow jump from here... to the real world... ... ... This... This is not Caine. It can't be. His goals are a little lop-sided, but not full on demented.
One of the other AIs? Perhaps… Some… residual wave from the collapse of The Circus, causing the data to knit together to form all of this… just by coincidence? Sightly more unlikely…
Absolutely no idea. Not important. Not right now, anyway. Especially since they had planned to test and use that tech on, what appeared to be, innocent NPCs.
Listen… Before you even say it, Honey; this world, whatever it is, is still A world. I couldn't just… skulk around and watch it happen. Not this time. Not again. Never again…
… Remember that one book on making bombs that your cousin joke-gifted you? It, uh, kinda came in handy, dear. Thanks for that one. You're an inspiration, always. Even if by accident. ;P
[Something scribbled out. about three lines of gibberish, then heavily, HEAVILY scribbled into a small pool of black. Vaguely, the words 'mind', 'body', and 'soul' could still be made out underneath bits of it. The rest; inscrutable. The pen had almost ripped the paper towards the end of it…]
… That… was strange…
Nevermind, I can fix that later, too. Sweetie… say hi to the others for me. Especially Scratch.
[Greetings my billowing blowhards, more of Showtime today~
There is... a certain sector of Caine fans that might get a lift out of this part. I assure you... it's intentional. Also... you're welcome. :P
I am also torn on whether my self-indulgent, action-y bend to this show is gonna BE anything. Plenty of fan artists and writers have done it, but I often feel like I'm going... off script with things like this. Then I reevaluate my understanding of the characters and realize that I'm not changing them, I'm changing the genre. Which is different.
Anywho, enough rambly. Shoo-shoo... go read~ <3
And, cya Thursday~ ]
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Thunk. Ker-thunk, thunk. Thunk. Thunk…
Her hands hurt. Her arms hurt. And worst of all, her mind was turning a strange, raw kind of numb as though she had tried to cram before a Calculus final the night before it.
By her estimation, Pomni had been… mind-battering(?) at the wall of the bin (with 'conjure' and sheer force-of-will) for about a solid 20-to-30 minutes. Because, at the last break she took, the clock over a lightly-dozing Caine's head read something like 50 days, 15 hours, 03 minutes, 04 seconds. And they had started this endeavor, in shifts, around 12 hours before that, and she had counted about 5-6 switches between them… More-or-less…
It was ridiculous. It was like something out of an anime. But this was a weird, digital world. Physics are a suggestion here. And Pomni was done taking suggestions.
"… It's been. A DAY, POMNI!! … I don't think it's gonna happen."
She stopped. The daggers in her eyes drew an instant, hissing gasp out of Caine. And then… she realized…
Pomni took… a long… deep breath. And walked over to sit by the exhausted AI again. "Let's just… go over what we figured out, then."
Caine seemed to be getting used to her moods. He 'refrained' from rolling his eyes (almost… a little hard to do when your eyes are the size of softballs, at smallest…), and leaned forward.
"… 'Postulated'. 'Hypothesized'. What we 'supposed'. Because NONE OF THIS …" He started waggling his hands in the air, to indicate her theories… "… has any tangible PROOF, or-"
"-Yeah, but do you have any better ideas?"
Caine's hands went from over his big, toothy head back to his lap in one quick, defeated motion. "-… No," he pouted.
As tired as he was, he didn't really seem up to arguing again. He was just the kind to make a protest clear.
"So here we are; okay… you and I were falling into nothing, right as everything broke. I saw a little blue… something leave you, and then you started breaking apart. I reached out, and…"
"AAAND, according to you, we… swapped… data?"
"Yes. THAT is how we know stuff about each other and can pull up… all kinds of information neither of us actually, technically, 'know'."
"… I still can't believe that you can recite pi up to 54 places… my record is 47, without error…"
"CAINE!!!" yelled Pomni. The silence after it was deafening. "… Please, FOCUS."
He nodded. Quickly. Then she continued…
… It had been like this for the entirety of the day, when neither of them were mashing away at the walls of the Bin. Pomni would start positing different a way to break the wall faster. Caine would have a genuine thought. Pomni would suggest something similar, but actionable. Caine would either say how impossible it is… or tangent. And HARD. Then Pomni would steer him back. Wash, rinse, repeat. And all because…
"Pomni? Do you really think they're out there?"
She looked up at the translucent top of their prison. "I… I know what I saw…"
She closed her eyes. It was still as clear as crystal; Two days before. As they rested. She looked up and saw… a light. A little blue light. Almost too far up to see. Streaking across The Void, like a shooting star… or a rocket… or… Someone. Movement. People.
"… At first, I thought… maybe someone would find us. Then I thought everyone but us was gone. Now… There HAS to be someone out there. Between the blue light at the start of this mess… and the light that went across the… sky the other night? Caine, I… Please…"
Caine sighed… then laughed, "Then that's final… If I can't change your mind on it, then I've got no choice… I guess."
He slowly rose to his feet. As he did, she tugged on his coat tail.
"Wait. Say that again…"
"'Then that's final'?"
"After that…"
"'If I can't change your mind…'?"
"Bingo!" She cheered, jumping to her feet. "That's it… Caine; modify me!"
"WHAT? NO!!"
"What do you mean? You had no problems zapping our names out of our heads. Or zonking Jax, or…"
Caine doesn't get quiet often, she had been noticing. Not outside of the sad bits. When he, gently and slowly, placed his hands on her shoulders… it was almost as scary when he was angry…
He spoke in a terse, clear, almost whispering staccato. Just loud enough to get the point across, just soft enough to carefully contain the terror of the thoughts racing in his digital mind. "Pomni. That was… different. You… you can kinda… cheat-in modifiers, poke code, nudge variables. There are REASONS I put restrictions… on myself… after what happened to Scratch. And continued to do so, all the way up to… ThatDoesn'tMatterNow… I know what you're asking for. No. I'm not doing it. Too dangerous."
She knew that tremble in his voice, even after such a short time knowing the Caine underneath the veneer. He was about to seek a corner to cool off in…
'No. No, you don't get to just… fuck off and sulk in a corner. Not this time…'
"Restrictions," she pursued, "That are probably all destroyed and shot to pieces because… well, everything else is!"
"Because of WHAT, I WONDER?!?" He boomed, prodding at his own chest. His voice filled the room like thunder. "I'm already what I am because I'm a LIVING MISTAKE! THERE DOESN'T NEED TO BE TWO MONSTERS IN HERE!!!!"
"COWARD! We're gonna DIE if we stay here, ANYWAY! We KNOW there's something out there, SOMEONE out there! We have to find out what-"
"BY RISKING YOU!? NO!!… … I-i refuse…"
His voice trailed into static. They were close enough that the lighting arced from him to her, and back again. A spark popped off of him here and there as he screamed, one flying casually over Pomni's shoulder. Caine looked… dizzy. Faint. The glitching had returned.
She didn't even know if that would work; just recalling a thought that had crossed her mind earlier…
His form started glitching again, harsher this time, electric pulsing across his form. But at the word 'vent', his expression winced. A few openings at the top of… where a neck should have been on him spliced open, as though on hinges. A second after… steam, shooting up and past his teeth and floating eyes. She couldn't tell if he was screaming in agony or relief, but it did paint the entire sight as a little… thrilling… alluring. Like watching a lion roar, up close…
Pomni waited a bit, swallowing her pounding heart, and that last thought, down as deep as she could… The rush of hot air and errant power, slowly, dissipated. He coughed a few times… breathing steam like smoke and dragon-fire… Then she kneeled by his side, placing her hand on his head.
"Huh… can't believe it worked."
He gently, slowly, moved her hand off of him and onto her chest. She knew this wasn't a rejection of the touch; just a mild 'no, thank you'.
His tired eyes narrowed at her. "… I'm st-still mad at you…"
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[Aw, yus... two days in a row. Consistency, bois. Consistency.
Now, while Jax is not an outright likable person, he does, indeed, have to be included. I'm not leavin' my bunny boi behind. I know, some of you are upset about this. But some of you are happy, and if that's the case, I'm okay with this. :P
... He is going to have to (eventually) pay the angst toll, tho... >.>;
Next drop Tuesday. Hopefully...]
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The purple bunny had never been so annoyed in his entire life. Why? Why was everything so… WEIRD right now?!
The Circus was gone. The other characters are… gone. Even Caine and his weird little sidekick seemed to have hightailed it. He knew that whole situation was NOT going to blow over so easily, but that was ridiculous!
'… Well, moron… you did want to be alone. Got your stupid little wish, didn't you…?'
… He hadn't stopped to count, and there was no easy way to keep track, but Jax figured that he'd been floating around in the… stupid Void Place for at least a week(?). Eh, more or less. A few days on the last slab of floor from the Circus, and (when the silence and thinking pressed in on his confused, lonely mind just enough) the rest of the time swimming, then rocketing, in air to move. Anywhere. Somewhere. Just… not here.
Jax hated swimming, anyway. Water was fine. Pools are fine. But after a few rough play fights at the pool, and the weirdness of the showers… Naw. Swimming was for fish. He was human.
He thought he was human. Then he thought he was a character in a show. He… He didn't know what to think, now.
'… Thank goodness I figured out the rocket-feet thing. Forget swimming, yeesh…'
And good thing they had all started to figure out that… 'conjuring' stuff Kinger had been on about. Even if the chess piece had only just mentioned it and even if it was only mentioned to him in passing, Ol' Screwball had opened up some very interesting possibilities. And also, he'd have nothing in the immediate other than waving his arms around like a rowboat and hoping for at least two inches a push.
After that convenient line of thought, he had… he started wondering... What happened to the others? What happened… to Caine? What happened… to… the Abstractions?
No. Nope. Nuh-uh. He couldn't stop to think too deeply on… anything. NOT an option. Thought equals spiral. Spiral equals death. No thoughts. No death. Simple as. Keep moving… But… But what if… what if… …
He shook it off. "If… If I'm fine, then they're fine. I mean, if any of us had died, there wouldn't be… anything left. W-would there?"
'Why… Why do I care? Why… do they care about me? This is stupid. Should have just rotted to nothing on that slab… should have jus-'
Then… it hit him. Or, that is to say, he hit it. In that endless sea of static, bright light, weird cubes, and nothing, he had hit a semi-visible, reflective… something. And, well, the logical response was to kick it, right? Which was answered in the usual style that kicking a solid, heavy object would give; it hurt. It hurt his little bunny foot and pissed him off to no end for about half-a-minute.
Along with being quite solid, it was also quite massive. Jax had tried backing off to find an edge or an entrance and it just stretched… nigh-forever. In every direction.
It was smooth to the touch, this weird wall. Like metal-smooth. Flawless. Machined. And nary a seam, crack, or crevice to lend to his nimble fingers. If there was anything Jax knew how to do, expertly, it was break things. And this tin can was not gonna to crunch easily…
Just as he thought this, a seam of light appeared near the area he was inspecting, with a pop and a click and a mechanical whirl. More bright light and smoke? Steam? Billowed out and around him. He had to tilt his flats of his feet back and 'jet' some to stay even remotely in place from the force.
"Ha HAAAAAA, JACK-… pot?"
Jax had no idea what to expect when he looked inside. He just suspected that he wanted in.
The farthest thing to suspect was a giant castle made out of marble and foam and clouds, floating in an endless, blue sky.
[... Not like that...
ANYwho, yesterday was a bust for me. But... we move on. Good news is, you get a part tomorrow, too... ... I'm shuffling to Sun.-Tues.-Thur.-Sat. Because reasons. :v
... You know, Caine's not broken, persay. He's just... reorganizing... He's cut off from a few functions. He'll be fine.
You'll be happy to know that this is Comfort and fluff. Yw, it gets worse from here... :B
Edit: And I posted it to the wrong account. Fun. This is why I hate trying to manage alts...]
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Caine concentrated. Which surprised even him. Last he remembered hitting this kind of focus was… well, making the 'Exit' Adventure… … And all he had to do… was hold his hands close together and… just… think… REALLY hard… about… a ham sandwich.
… The timers read 55 days, 03 hours, 52 minutes, 36 seconds. She had to be, like, hungry, right?
His strain caused so much noise, that it woke Pomni from her nap. With a soundless yawn and a stretch she sat up, crossed her arms, and watched from across their odd cage. She might as well had been a mile away. Caine was working…
"Ah-HAH!" … And, indeed, with a small 'fwip' sound and a soft ping!, Caine had conjured the sandwich.
"… HEY! POMNI! I MADE LUNCH… eee, uh, DINNER… um… FOOD!!" He turned and pointed at the thing as though he found his keys, finally, and, geeze, they were in the sofa for the third time this week, how weird…
She nodded, smiling. "Hey~ Told ya' you could still conjure stuff! You just had to figure it out."
He handed her the sandwich. But as she took a bite, she hummed curiously, raising an eyebrow. Caine mentally swore that he had never seen anyone chew so slowly before.
"It… It doesn't taste good, does it?"
"It tastes… okay…"
He whimpered, teeth furrowed.
"It's fine," she chirped, after swallowing. "It's just, um… What kind of sandwich is it supposed to be??"
"Ham and cheese; your… favorite," shrugged Caine.
"… Yeah, um, it tastes like candy. Like… taffy. Vanilla taffy, specifically."
His heart sank a little. 'Not only can I not create properly, it's not even the same… food… group?…' "Wait, what's taffy?"
Pomni kept eating, despite the flavor and texture mismatch, and replied as she went. "Well, it's basically flavored sugar. You heat it carefully, and add some flavors, and then pull it over and over again until it looks like a long rope. And then you dry it some, cut that into little bits, and you eat those."
Caine nodded. "Sounds fantabulous~"
"Caine," she batted back.
"Mmmm??"
"How did you know what my favorite sandwich is?"
"What, why, WHAT? I mean, you ate them, um, all the time back in The Circus. YeahThat'sIt…"
He actually did not know. AT all. He had been questioning his own thoughts processes ever since he landed in the bin with Pomni. Before, he could see the entire breath and depth of his thought processes in his mind. There was nothing hidden from him in his mental view. A hefty-but-efficient flowchart for him to use and modify to navigate a problem. ANY problem. Now… It all felt so empty AND so full, all at the same time. ALL the time, annoyingly. Extra space that was still infinitely crammed with memories he had, memories not his own, thoughts fabricated out of nothing, and feelings… FEELINGS, OF ALL THINGS? What are those even doing in there?! Were they there before? What are they even for? Why? WHY??…
… Something. Something's wrong. Something was changing in him, and he had no idea what it was or how to fix it. Every scan and diagnostic was an error message. Inconclusive data… Mismatched pointers… Unfinished target lists… for what? To do… WHAT?
… And, worse… … He could NOT let Pomni know. Because if Pomni found out that he was changing any further, she… she might- … huh. Pomni…
… Pomni… Pomni? Every time he looked at her, even thought of her. Such a curious, beautiful sensation… Like a match to gasoline. A spark in his heart and his mind that burned and burned and burned and- … heh… Heart.
'… Heart? I'm an AI, I don't have a--'
"That's… REEEEAAALLY strange. You know why?"
Caine snapped out of his thinking. Waiting for her to speak again. Waiting for the next boot to drop…
"… Because I only zapped those sandwiches up out of your food-o-matic thingies… twice. Tops."
There was… and extra tinge of… thought on her voice. '… does she… want me to… do something? Say something? Does she know? Please don't know. Please don't hate me. Please don't. Ple-'
"Buuuut… What's really weird is…" A little laugh, like a puff of air, escaped her lips before she continued… "… How did you know that taffy was my favorite candy?"
"… wat."
"…Yeah, just… plain, vanilla taffy. Like, nooooooo one likes those, so my friends would usually trade me for them. NO one thinks about those… And I don't remember mentioning it recently, so… … How'd you do that?"
He… he shrugged. On the inside and the outside.
The things that pleased humans confused and confounded him. But at least he was kinda good at finding them.