Captain Francis

This was the brainchild of my want to see Caine try so hard to get what he wants, and even SUCCEEDS... but what's after? What did he really want...? And perhaps at this point you can see the similarities between In Stars and Time and this AU. Caine, in his discontentment and paranoia, wishes to the Stars for the humans to love HIM. However, he believes that he really wished for them to love his adventures, so he uses the timeloop to learn about the humans and try different things in order to get the "perfect adventure" he "wished" for. When he eventually achieves that, he changes his goal with the timeloop to keep repeating the same adventure over and over in want of "infinite happiness" for literally everyone except himself. He doesn't know his true wish, after all. He repeats his masterpiece for a long, long, LONG time. So the Stars send him a little nudge: everyone else starts waking up to the timeloop. Maybe then, Caine will find what he's looking for. I call this AU Orbital Velocity Stars! Because those stars would keep orbiting another body until they are disrupted via collision, resulting in damage... or escape! And who knows what would happen in that star's future?

If I write the fic for this, Caine will probably rarely be the POV, and the first chapter will taken place when Pomni realizes she repeated the same day, and she'll spend the first few chapters figuring out what going on, finding out something is actually deeply wrong about Caine! Whoopsies! And the others "wake up" to the timeloop in the order they got into the circus from newest to oldest. Caine's POV will generally be about the time before everyone else started remembering... and will be a rough time. Still figuring out when in the TADC canon this AU would take place, but I'm leaning towards some nebulous time before episode 7 where things are of course tense and escalating, but not yet intense. I... won't make much of an explanation as to why an AI, wishing on STARS, would actually put some magic to motion in a technical sense. But like if you know the inspiration, you'll probably understand that it's not a plothole lol aaaaaandd I KNOW this art for the AU looks rough, but I drew these on MSPaint within the first three days I was learning how to draw Caine so! There!!!! I'll have other, improved art of this AU in the future! I'm soooooo serious, I've made quite a few edits in how I draw Caine since this batch of drawings!

Some new design stuff future posts will contain: - Along with the new loops as his bow and around his hat, his hat will have ribbons that end in red four-point stars, symbolizing a "wish upon a shooting star" - The loops are meant to resemble the infinity symbol. They are also seen as his buttons - His crashout form will likely have a lot of stuff added to it - The reason for the vibrant reds for his design changes from canon will be expanded on particularly that pattern on his lower chest/stomach