No Name Nerd

SPOILERS FOR AVA 13!!!

At first I thought that maybe Stick City isn't a capitalist structure and perhaps has a bartering system(trading items among others) but I remembered that Hotdog Guy is paid in cash by everyone he sells to, so maybe it's situational?

Like Stick City proper uses currency but the outer villages(that Mango seems to live in) using bartering or some other system to trade goods and services

We see in FWSA that Virgil very easily flips back and forth between purple and black eyeshadow and it's possible that whatever side existed before Roman and Remus had a similar trait.

As c!Thomas grew up, those two attributes became so polarizing and distinct that they naturally split into Remus and Roman, opposed to the much more violent split that is most commonly depicted in the fandom

And I think the reason they made this reference is because Caine's story is sort of the opposite of Truman's. In the movie Truman is being observed while the observers do things to his "experiment" to try and get a specific reaction out of him, while Caine is given limitless ability to create and control whatever he wants in the circus because the observers want to see what he'll do with that freedom.

And I think the specific shot that is referenced also has meaning in the same context. Truman didn't know what he was escaping out of or into he just knew he didn't want to stay. While Caine knows there is something out there that he wants to get to.

For example, Roman has no memory of him being responsible for the American eagle shirts because he's not a side that has anything to do with memories, that's Logan and Patton.

But in "Fitting in" with the Hogwarts houses, LOGAN MAKES A PUN!!

He calls the sorting system a "Doby decimal system" AND ROMAN IS THE ONLY ONE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT.