An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary:
AU where Pomni is an AI like Caine. XDDCC is an upgraded version of the Original Caine, which was made for stabilizing people's mental or brain problems by special program of C&A, so called “The Amazing Digital Circus”, a game with which you would not need a long term therapy. But Caine was corrupted by another AI from the past, a chaotic one. The first version for this program, but after some development, it became not really helpful to people. So now it’s XDDCC which is going to fulfill this purpose, even if it's only for everyone who was stuck in this place still conscious and not abstracted. But after XDDCC joins a circus, it doesn't realize or remember its purpose and thinks it is a real human being who's stuck in this place like every “player” there. No one else sees it any differently from a real person, even Caine, so he's given her a new name: Pomni... All this was a crucial mistake…
