I'm hella born to be like this..

Initial uhhh motion-blocking thing:

Wish I had the Leo portion, but I deleted it after I blocked out the lineart :,))

It's very fast because I did not have the timing blocked out right, which was something I fixed later on

Lineart:

Random Usagi I drew that didn't end up appearing in the animation:

look at his squishable face

Background (I've posted this before, but I changed up the colors to better fit the theme of the animation):

Thanks for coming to my ted talk; I probably won't post another animation for another week or two because I have officially run out of animations/animatics to repost here... and I need to be working on my AU more consistently.

Only time will tell

Anyways, eepy time

So happy I finished this thing before ep 8 oof

Anyway, the comic was born out of

my thoughts about Caine's model lacking many essential facial features (as if he was never intended to show any emotions) and yet him being literally the most expressive character in the circus despite everything.

me being low-key obsessed with the implications episode 7 left us with. Players questioning everything they've been told and Caine being in the center of it all.

Just to be clear, I do believe Caine is written as a sentient AI who is just struggling to understand humanity and everything that comes with it. And I think these thoughts about him faking his emotions are inherently wrong within a story. He's oblivious and desperate but not malicious. But couple it with the fact that he's been lying about many other things (so far I'm inclined to think it was for players' sake in his own eyes) and that humans have been suffering for a while dealing with a literal god that doesn't understand them... Well, I have a feeling that they will doubt his motives and literally everything they know, rightfully so.

The amount of attention this little comic received is a bit terrifying and overwhelming and seeing all the different interesting interpretations people come up with I just wanted to explain mine own a little better <3

I want them all to be healed and happy, little guy absolutely included, but man the situation is rough, and the odds are against us

(Also please ignore typos, I'm hyperaware of them and even messed up writing my on name, i was really, really tired :') )