digital hallucinations

Oh yeah, I am drawing canon Caine, it's been awhile since I did that. Not drawing backup Caine or my Caine variants or whatever I decided to call them.

(Also messy sketches for whatever messy relationship they have.)

The aftermath of this

A followup/partner to my first ELIZA comic [read that one for more context.]

I was thinking about Kinger, Caine, and creating life you don’t understand that grows in a way that frightens you-- Kinger creating a sentient AI that gradually broke down over its imprisonment, Caine waking the humans’ brainscans only for them to break down and abstract over their imprisonment. Kinger’s role as the father figure of the circus, and how the circus’s cycles of harm all started [unintentionally] with Caine’s abandonment. I was also thinking about that bit in Ep 7 where Kinger is the only one to chuckle at Caine’s Chinese Room/AI programming history humor.

ELIZA was a 1964 “therapy chatbot.” Unlike modern chatbots, it was a relatively simple text program that gave you basic parrot-like outputs. Despite being rudimentary by today’s standards, ELIZA was very influential. You can talk to an interactive recreation of ELIZA online here.

You ever spend dozens of hours creating a character whose entire vibe is "I could make your day worse?"

Yeah.

Worth it.

Meet Faux Jax. Jaux for short. We can't forget the bow!

🎵 isn't she looovely🎶

✨ Original sculpt by me.

"So what about that thing Gangle does?"

Just watched short with Caine

WHY THE FUCK IS MY BOY SLEEPING AT HIS DESK

Not forcing him into things, but like getting the kinks out his coding, running a cache clear, basic cleanup kinda things.

To Caine its just, like someone playing with their partners hair. He'd be all nuzzled into them, making noises of contentment as someone handles his coding softly and tenderly for once. (Low key, id hc him making all sorts of noises when this happy and content, like vocal stims)

Part 6/???

Little things I was messing around with, blocking in only colors with the lasso tool + doing pretty much the same thing on paper with markers

I MUST PURIFY OFF!AU just for fun

Caine ->Judge, Jax->zacharie, ragatha->Sugar

Part 6/???