Caine describing Gangle as creative and talented right before ripping into her in the Character Award biosβ¦
I like the idea that at some point Gangle noticed that Caine seems to like bees because he draws them often, and she attempts to reach out to him (read: find anything that will humanize this computer god to her so the circus itself becomes even a little less overwhelmingly alien and scary) by making her own artwork of bees to show him.
Caine has very mixed feelings about what heβs looking at β he is overjoyed (a human noticed something about him and used their own creative skills to make something for him) but also very stressed (He likes her bees more than his own and thatβs Bad. Making drawings of bees specifically was something he was instructed to do something he liked to do, and now sheβs doing it and because sheβs human she does it better than he could) so his code cannot decide how to react to it. He wants to tell her itβs amazing, he wants to rip it up, he wants to thank her, he wants to yell at her, he wants to ask her about ten wildly different questions.
What he ends up actually doing is: freezing up as his model (and the rest of the immediate area about a foot-length distance around him) glitches in front of her, then he drops a flatly enthusiastic non-sequitur about being too busy with adventure-crafting to give her art advice, and then he snap-spins out of sight while still holding the entire notebook Gangle let him have so he could look at her drawing.
From Gangleβs perspective, she is being confronted with the fact that she just failed to get buddy-buddy with a computer program that, evidently, isnβt even programmed to handle use-cases like the one just presented to him, and she feels like an idiot for trying. This isnβt some sci fi cartoon, this is real life and of course in real life she and something like Caine couldnβt ever hope to relate to eachother.
Caine keeps the notebook around to occasionally yet obsessively stare at. The eyes on his own bee drawings get a little bigger and shinier.
