~That Fandom Witch~

Absolutely love the idea that post taking the blue AI out, when Caine hits his limit he goes back to being the lil red orb (Y'all go read this fic Against the kitchen floor, it does this do well). Bonus drawing just cause I was feeling hella soft:

[Galaxy Girl AU]

Collab with my homie @insomniacrori c:

Some Aladdin quotes just suit caine a bit too well xD

Also me:

Queenie leaving Caine alone with Kinger and Uncle Scratch for just two hours and.. Don't tell mom- PLEASE DON'T TELL MOM-

Like what if for whatever reason he just becomes a total dick, sorta like coach dictatorer and he just he's always yelling he's always berating

Maybe he does so because he's falling into Scratch's shoes. I like writing Scratch as like yk a Bitch and someone who doesn't see Caine as his own being, so what if after Queenie goes Kinger just falls into the same habits the same mannerisms but a lot angrier bc he's tainted by grief and loss

Maybe before he was nice. Comforting to Caine. But now, he doesn't even see Caine as a person, as a sentient being, much less a son. So he yells at Caine. Kinger takes allllll his anger out for days, weeks, months, hell who knows how long it had just been him and Caine, maybe even years

And then after all that anger is done, all Kinger has to spare for Caine is an icy silence. He only talks when there's a bug to be fixed, a problem to be solved. Caine truly becomes a tool

Ragatha joins, Caine is shy and anxious and unbearably worried that this new lovely human might go through the same treatment, maybe he shouldn't have implemented the brain scan saver after all, maybe he was dooming others to this same anger and -

Wait. He's calling her daughter. He's calling her lovely. He's nice, he's like he was before she left

That's right, this au not only stars Kinger being a highly unexpected and ooc ass, but also the ever common "parenting everyone but his own son thing"

I also think that he would've kept his sanity for the most part, not letting himself be lost at all in his rage

Caine in this au is a lot more worried, and a lot more distant. He tentatively implements adventures again a few days after Ragatha arrives, and is relieved when she wants to check it out and Kinger agreed for her sake

Everytime Kinger even looks his way, he drops everything, immediately making sure he's not done wrong bc he's just. Desperate now. He doesn't want that silence to return, he doesn't want that disapproval and disappointment and that just eugh that Kinger was giving him to come back