Bubble is the remnant of the second AI
I thought this was apparent, but I've been convinced otherwise so I'm going to put some evidence on the table.
The intro to episode 8 showed us that there were 2 AIs and the first ate the second and stuff
Now bubble can be easily interpreted as Caine's self doubt, and I don't think this interpretation is wrong. It fits in with the rest of the cast and the theme, it brings a human flavor to caine which kinda didnt land in 7, and the stuff bubble says matches up with someone who is doubting themselves.
I'm saying that bubble intentionally represents multiple things.
My main evidence beyond just what bubble says and the lining up of 2 ai figures is in Kinger's console scenes, specifically near the end.
The scene in the show is a little hard to parse with the distractions and filters, so I'm going to use a clean transcript courtesy of u/ColourBlinde on Reddit.
Near the top, you can see Caine blocking off Kinger from doing anything, which was the norm for most of this scene. The main focus is in the last third, where a new entry labelled "......" starts talking.
6 placeholder characters. gangle, zooble, kinger, and bubble are the only main cast names with 6 characters, and I think I can confidently cross out three of them from being the culprit without worry.
So bubble entered the scene and told kinger to "kill this motherfucker hahahaha"
Then when kinger said no, bubble told kinger that he was confused before taking over and killing caine himself. Kinger even tried to abort the deletion, but his inputs were ignored.
Now unless bubble is suicidal, which hasn't been communicated at all, there's some sort of vendetta against Caine.
K im gonna play deadlock now fill in the blanks k thx bye
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