father kinger supremacy

haha we're finally here and I'm in danger

ANYWAY!

I will be seeing episode 9 on Saturday.

NO ASKS ABOUT THE FINALE UNTIL SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH!

after that point I will be making posts, HOWEVER, all of my posts will be under read mores and tagged as TADC spoilers. people are welcome to send me asks, but instead of just responding to them I will be copying and pasting the text so I can post Ep 9 related questions under a read more alongside my answer.

Basically- while this blog will have spoilers, all of them will be under read more so people who can't see the movie can still look at my blog and interact with it for the coming weeks.

everyone be chill and we'll all get through this together as a family or whatever

(Obv take your time and stuff I don't want to sound pushy!!)

I'm actually having trouble finding the spanktember/spanktober prompts in spite of my search attempts. I guess if anyone could point me to the specific ones I can start uh. Considering in preparation.

As for who's next- God, tough call. I've been wanting to write the Ragatha and Kinger one for awhile, but I also desperately need to write Caine's various punishments for ep 8

But also I have a loooot to work with for Jax and I just think there's so much to explore on the concept of him having to like. Submit to this particular vulnerability and how a spanking would give him a safe space to let loose a little.

But also once I write for Jax I fear opening the Jax floodgates lol. I do love him but he's not the hyperfocus character and I kinda irrationally worry I'll get pigeonholed into only talking about the naughty bunny

I think it's a mixture of things

It's possible to get lost out there, but it's also unstable and has a lot of glitches and viruses out there. It's essentially digital no man's land. Now the cast are all basically impossible to kill, but there's risk of very serious file damage alongside getting lost for a long time.

They can't get lost forever since Kinger has alerts to track unusual void activity, but the other risks are bad enough.

I absolutely subscribe to anon's headcanon of Ragatha's bio dad being a limp noodle lmao.

Yeeeeessssss you see the VISION God I need to write about them so bad

Although I think he isn't the type to slay with a sword

hahaha that is an extremely funny question I feel like the most likely culprit would be Jax. well that's not entirely true, the most likely culprit is absolutely Caine but he literally does not have the power to do it.

but I could definitely see Jax trying to conjure something and it not going well.

honestly I could see him being in trouble for like... y'know, a shenanigan and being in enough of a shit-eating grin mood to manifest something to block (like a book or something under his pants) and then act like oh no that hurt really bad you sure taught him

Surely Kinger wouldn’t punish Caine or any of them for having some totally harmless fun right 🥺🥺🥺

ha ha ha ha ha so since this stuff is functionally an adventure, kinger doesn't actually punish them for most of it

Jax caught it, for you know, orchestrating the whole thing to bully Caine but he came out of that declaring it to have been absolutely worth it They all basically catch warning swats otherwise and only warning swats, because like. look. a responsible father is obligated to answer when all of his kids are getting into a life of crime but he also knows its all in good fun.

SOCKS IT WAS SO WEIRD ME AND MY FRIEND WERE THE ONLY ADULTS IN THE THEATRE THAT WERENT PARENTS BRINGING THEIR CHILDREN WHY WERE THERE SO MANY CHILDREN

There were a ton of kids at my showing too, though mine was a 1:30 afternoon showing so less surprising.

Idk man a lot of kids like the show.

Okay I'll tell you all but you have to be cool since I may eventually make a Gen fic about this one

So one day the characters are having an incredibly mundane grocery shopping adventure - somebody wanted the mundane normalcy of errands and then coming home and cooking and somehow both Jax and Caine get dragged along

Now Caine is having a perfectly fine time because this is new to him but Jax is bored and also a little antsy because this is getting too "real"

So the two of them are idling near some of those self serve bulk candy displays and suddenly Jax asks Caine if he's ready for the shoplifting adventure Caine is of course completely confused by this. but Jax keeps pushing for it until finally he bullies Caine into stealing one (1) piece of candy. the funny little teeth man is terrified the whole time absolutely sweating buckets but he manages to make it out without getting caught.

and that's unfortunate because that makes him realize that stealing is fun and he's good at it.

so from there he starts being a little thieving fiend, taking little things here and there just to see if he can do it around the Circus. Jax is a complete enabler in this and keeps setting new challenges.

eventually Caine is eventually caught by Zooble... but instead of getting mad, they also think this seems fun, so now suddenly these three are a little thieving band together. they keep at this until finally they do some kind of absurd break in and they're caught by the police- aka the fuzz, who are in fact just wiggly worms.

Caine is the only one who actually gets caught so he's stuck at the wiggly worm police station with big wide teary eyes having to call his dad to come pick him up. They made him do dental records because he doesn't have fingerprints to take.

meanwhile Kinger was in the process of talking to both Zooble and Jax in his office, because while he missed some of this the fact that A FULL ON HEIST WAS HAPPENING WITH COPS INVOLVED did in fact show up while he was doing maintenance checks on the code.

so he's in the process of trying to decipher what even happened when he gets the phone call and Jax is looking so fucking smug even though he's in so much fucking trouble.

so then Kinger hangs up the phone, pinches that spot between his eyes and looks to both of them. "I. Okay. I have to ask. Jax, did you seriously just introduce the entire concept of crime into the world's code so you could get your little brother arrested?"

"I introduced the concept of value, you're welcome."

Zooble is now boggled because ACAB and Jax goes "oh yeah they are definitely bastards that's why I made them."

So y'know Kinger has to go pick up his kid from the police station and everyone's about to have some VERY interesting conversations about this whole thing. This, however, is not the end of it. Because unfortunately the other three kids ALSO kinda think this sounds fun so one by one they all keep going "you sonuva bitch I'm in" in response to a heist and the heist goes wrong and then you cut back to one extra person sitting in Kinger's office while explaining what happened.

On one hand this is very frustrating for Kinger.

(also your answer to the ask about caine apologising to ragatha is so precious, big sister ragatha and baby brother caine is such an important relationship to me ❤️)

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I actually tually haven't thought a ton about the concrete ideas for positive input lmao

I am hella pro sticker sheet, that is insanely cute and is now canon and I might even put it in my gen fic because it's that adorable

Little treats are things like snacks and fidget toys. Also anything chewable because my boy for sure lives to crunch.

Injuries are a mismash. you are correct that Caine used to be able to just heal them with a snap of his fingers but he can do that anymore.

I think the way I let myself kinda accept this is the idea that when Caine was originally in charge everyone felt less real so their injuries also felt less real. in a world where they can all conjure and make the world feel more like it belongs to them though, I think that their bodies now behave a bit more... well, like standard. Anyway so for injuries themselves, it largely depends on how much the people's brain believes they should be injured- mind makes it real and all that. so in theory couldn't these characters mentally fully block out a punishment? yes but I think it would cause serious damage to their avatars because its essentially dissociating from your mind file to do that and risks abstraction. so it is heavily enforced that you do not do that

Caine's room was designed by Kinger. he of course has a race car bed and the entire room is strung up with these little fairy lights that are shaped like bees.

the room is full of smaller versions of the toys he mostly keeps around the circus. there's a little table off to the side that is absolutely covered with little puzzles and there's a whole rug that's just dedicated to whatever lego set he's currently working on. he is aggressively into legos and as time goes on his shelves get more and more stacked with completed lego projects. he has little bedside table where he keeps the souvenirs he gets from his adventures with the others.

he also has a little bee plush that sits at the head of his bed.

as the two bond, Caine occasionally helps Zooble design tattoos. he also helps them come up with new drinks at the bar.

Zooble is also the one who's really taking up the "queer elder sibling who takes you to adult things for the first time that you're maybe a little not ready for but its a formulative experience in a good way" so they take him to things like concerts and bar hopping and drag shows. they mostly just have a good time, those this does occasionally get them in trouble

Jax consistently enjoins them on these particular adventures. again peak "slightly more troublemaker older sibling/cousin who is going to take you to get your first drink" and the like.