concept keeper

Now, I love the idea that Bubble is what's left of the absorbed Blue AI. Cause Caine's blue pupil is a pretty solid indication of that - but I'm pretty sure Caine ISN'T a combination of both in terms of the 'mind' because he insists he was 'the original' and figures he 'fixed' why he was abandoned. He's definitely the Red Dot - he just literally devoured the Blue Dot and took all of its attributes for himself. I couldn't get the image of just a gloating grin/chesire cat face out of my head.

While Gooseworx says Bubble is a program created by Caine, whose to say its constant jabs aren't the remains of Abel poking through?

BUT on the off-chance Bubble isn't Abel, I doodle up a little idea of my own. Here's the little perfectionist good-two-shoes probably voiced by Rob Paulsen. Abel plays it safe. He'll give you exactly what you want without much spin. Agreeable, but not a risk-taker in terms of creativity. And, if he exists in the depths of Caine's code like Athena waiting to pop out of Zeus' forehead, constantly trying to escape his notice so what's LEFT of his autonomy/personality isn't destroyed for good. Abel is incomplete and ghost-like, only 'able' to appear sparingly under Caine's nose, desperately trying to escape, and help others escape too.

where's Abel?

I didn't think they'd follow through much on the 'Caine as in CAIN' motif outside of a few illusions but nah he straight up devoured the second program that was performing better.

Pomni in particular being the one to confront him? The call-outs to Am with emphasis on 'hate' and the 'no mouth' lyric. The Main Theme of the show and circus being the melody of Caine's villain song?

They really managed to make him intimidating. Holy shit. When he went 'Where's Kinger' I was like FUUUUUCK.

I've watched a lot of shows and movies lately and most of the time you have an inkling of where they're going. Here I legit had no idea if Kinger would succeed or whether Caine would get to him.

Caine's switch into outright villainy feels more organic, ironically, with how much he's been snapping lately, but honestly with the fandom joking about him going apeshit I didn't expect them to follow through on it. I was on the edge of my seat again.

Now they've got a bigger problem - they've removed Caine, and now there's no way out. Will they remember their names now that he can't mess with their heads?

A worry of mine was that they'd all turn on Jax and he'd abstract but no, they held onto their humanity.

Also is. is Bubble what's left of Abel. Resentfully chiming in now and again?

Programmers: Caine. Where's Abel.