The Caine Muzzler

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My current AUs:

The Amazing Digital Circus:

General TADC tag

Forced Maid AU: Caine takes a suggestion for an adventure to do a maid cafe and joins the humans in experiencing it. Bubble, the remnant of the second AI, takes this as an opportunity to take over and put Caine through a hell *specifically* designed for him

Muzzled Caine: Any content I do that has Caine muzzled or somehow has his mouth sealed shut

'Planted one day by a glancing dart': *Heavily* inspired by the Hijacked AU, it's kinda become its own thing-- it's kinda like a branch off I guess? It's not canon to the main Hijacked AU but it's set in that universe with my own twist on it. A fanfiction of a fanfiction, if you will. It's basically just me working through some stuff and coping with stress by torturing Caine lol

Woe. Brothers upon thee.

Since Caine and Bubble are spending so much time together, are there any quirks or characteristics that one pick from the other? Do others eventually notice?

How would Bubble's reputation change after Caine is reveal and people see how he acts towards Caine?

By the way, how comfortable are you with people writing their own long what-if scenarios or possible non-canon scenes from your au? Your au is such an interesting premise that I want to write about it. However, it is your au and you are still working on it so I don't want to make you feel like I'm trying to take over it or trying to force you to write it a certain way. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but I love your au and I want to be respectful.

UM OF COURSE YOU CAN WRITE STUFF INSPIRED BY MY AU!!! I’D BE SO HONORED???? PLEASE SEND IT TO ME WHEN YOURE DONE???? MY DMS ARE OPEN IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WANT A BETA READER OR ANYTBING I’D BE REALLY RRALLY HAPPY TO HAVE THAT!!!!!

*ahem*

Your questions:

>Do Caine and Bubble pick up habits from each other?

Bubble from Caine; You know that tippy tap Caine sometimes does with his fingers when he’s thinking? (I’m thinking especially in the pilot that scene when Pomni first appears and it’s like looking up at Caine) Bubble starts doing that and also fiddling with his coattails (twisting it around his fingers and such). When announcing adventures/interacting with players in the Circus/Carnival Tent, Bubble mimics Caine’s ringmaster voice that Caine had developed before being boxed. Caine is left handed and Bubble is right handed, but Bubble uses a lot of the animations and little mannerisms Caine had developed for his performance as Ringmaster and as such is doing a lot of things left handed. It doesn’t matter as much for an AI as it does for a human, but it’s one of those things that just kinda feels fundamentally *wrong* for him and makes Bubble dislike performing as ringmaster but if you were to suggest Bubble switch them to right handed Bubble would get mad at you.

Caine doesn’t pick up as many habits from Bubble. He sometimes uses his name in place of personal pronouns but that’s not a very often thing, just when he’s really *really* tired does it slip. Caine sometimes mimics bird calls like Bubble does. Enjoyment of bird watching definitely was picked up from Bubble “secretly” pulling up those YouTube videos/livestreams of birdwatching (Bubble wasn’t *hiding* it from Caine but Bubble would pull it up after he thought Caine has fallen asleep bc he didn’t think Caine would enjoy just staring at the same image of nature waiting a long time for any birds to show up. Caine’s only seen Bubble do this a few times but sometimes Caine’s mind will settle enough he’ll go out into the forest while Bubble is at work and birdwatch)

>Do others eventually notice?

The developer trio (Kinger Queenie Scratch) do early on but they’re in such grief about Caine “dying” that they kinda just. Don’t think about it/push it down.

I haven’t really thought about the others yet but Zooble/Riley definitely will

>How would Bubble’s reputation change after Caine is revealed and people see how he acts towards him?

>Find someone who has been stuck here for 20 years since he's been FOUR

>Immediately offer weed gummies????

>???????

>Profit??????

Where did they even get those???? Is Bubble running a dispenserary on the side??

Genuinely, it was dangerous of you to release that tidbit bc now I am filled with impatience to see how everyone reacts to Caine.

Does Bubbles run the circus similar to how Caine did at the start of the show? No swearing and rated PG adventures? That could probably be very easily rationalized by the cast now as the AI being incredibly heavily influenced by it's very first user: a literal kindergartner. Which in itself is a whole can of worms.

Fdhshshshsh- I meant to answer this right away when I got it a few days ago— sorryyyyyyy

So New Eden is meant to replicate real life, which means in most places they’re allowed to swear/smoke/drink etc like real life. Like there’s decency laws but it’s like real life laws.

There are some areas that are censored like canon tho— Bubble’s Circus Tent being one of them, the adventures being another. You can also toggle on family friendly mode which is like Roblox’s censors.

For some reason, I'm really looking forward to seeing how Caine will react the first few times Bubble has to leave.

I also came to tell you that I love your AU 🙃🫪❤️

Bye

Hewwo Hewwo :3

Im looking forward to sharing it with yall too— Caine is a *messsssss* of anxiety, it’s going to be so much fun :3

Some pen and crayon art I did of Caine at work today.

Queenie: Abel! You’re killing these people, destroying their homes!

Bubble: YOU KILLED BUBBLE’S HOME!

Cough cough I may like seeing angry Bubble and the pain/angst.

Another one sorry for it being so long of a ask

Caine: if something happened to me what do we do?

Bubble: murder

Caine: no

Bubble: more murder

Don’t apologize— I love long asks!!

If Caine was deleted and Bubble wasn’t boxed quick enough, everyone would be dead except for the developer trio. Bubble wouldn’t let them die. Bubble would put them in their own personalized torment nexuses.

Forced log off wouldn’t necessarily *lobotomize* the visitors as there would be safeguards in place to try and prevent that (and so that the developers/admins could force log out people for whatever reason needed like a person being too rowdy and such). However, Bubble would make it *hurt*. He’d disrupt the log off process and give them brain damage.

That last bit is totally canon.

Plus bonus crashout Bubble

Super small avatar? Weirdly attached to the ai controlling the place, calling it his brother? Super traumatized from his mom locking him in a cellar for years???

That is definitely a small child. Oh God. There's a small traumatized child trapped here with them.

Which. They're not wrong. But, like, also not right. He's definitely traumatized, but at the same time Caine isn't exactly a child.

Actually, tangent time here.

Would you say Caine ever really had a baby/kid phase? There's not really a clear path to "adulthood" or whatever like there is with humans. Is there a threshold to be passed where an AI is suddenly considered grown?

Kinda wild to think about like, a full adult suddenly popping up but who also like, is missing key information/experience because they haven't actually experienced anything first-hand yet.

lol how’s it feel to be right

(here’s some WIPs from stuff that will happen after the ✨incident✨. Riley==Zooble, Abby==Pomni)

Caine’s childhood/baby phase would be when he was first being trained, when he wasn’t so good at creating and was receiving constant updates, constantly fed large amount of data to build up his databanks