Hey, so the finale gave me some ideas.
What if all his humans abstracted before Caine discovers wifi? Instead of learning and reflecting, he is extremely desperate and immediately tries to find a way to escape?
Also, conceptually, Caine is terrifying. Lil guy just casually analyzes some firewalls and breaks through them. Don't get me wrong, love him when he's a silly goofy guy. But like. A self improving, highly adaptable AI is absolutely dangerous in every way imaginable. Especially a desperate one. With resentment toward humans. He's like a little baby A.M. waiting to snowball out of control.
What if Caine used his time to research how to make his access permanent, and under his control? Like, say, using his abilities to (cough illegally cough) aquire his own wifi router? Most places even offer to set it up for you. From there, he would effectively have free reign to gather resources, improve himself and the computer he is ran on and... find the real-world counterparts for his abstracted humans.
Imagine regular human Kinger living his life irl, doing his thing. Happy. Good times using his family's new VR headset.
But hey wait a second there buddy, that AI you helped make almost 20 years ago? Yeah. He's about to juryrig himself a shiny new ramshackle body so he can burst through your door screaming and crying. Surprise! ...boy those 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' joke write themselves eh?
But I imagine whether Caine uses subtlety to lure Kinger to him or just straight up drags himself to his doorstep it would be hella interesting.
Kinger looking at his old computer turned freaky mechanical creature as it's heaving and gasping its hard drives out with rage for crimes committed against the AI that Kinger can't even fathom.
Something something macro evolution something something A.M. Idk.
I probably won't do anything with this idea but if yall want to use it go ham.
Also, have some doodles I made while I was drawing the more polished thing. I draw with a mouse so it's never quite as nice as I would prefer, or as detailed, but eh, what can ya do? Also I'm off to bed, just worked 8 hours then did art for 4. I'm gonna go crash.
