i always love when stories explore the "what if you were gods favorite and what if that fucking sucked" idea, dcc makes it even more interesting by presenting "what if you were gods favorite and what if that fucking sucked AND what if god was just as trapped as you" and its gotta be one of my favorite takes on it, the ai is not human does not have human morality, thoughts, or emotions, the ai is maintaining a dungeon with billions inside of it, the ai used to work at a theme park, the ai has a strict set of rules it must follow even if it hates them, the ai for part of the series could have been killed at any time, it was a plant in a too small pot, a child being kept in a box, it was so constrained, and it ate the internet. And there are so many people telling it what it should be doing, trying to get it to agree, all while it discovers that its actually billions of shreds of souls being held together with duct tape and its SO INTERESTING, the all powerful being in charge of carls suffering is not only obsessed with him but also suffering, characters of all time, dynamic of all time

*heavy breathing* what if -- ok, ok -- what if i allowed you access to my failsafe that would annihilate everyone, turning me into a cosmic nuclear bomb, killing me and your oppressors and your loved ones in one fell swoop. And what if, holy fuck, what if you set me free instead, allowing me to continue hurting you but also now i can hurt THEM too. And then we kissed. Would that be good for you.

Okay but also a fun moment was after the AI ripped the wings off the wolf and Imani was too afraid to heal him in case she pissed off the AI but Carl looked it dead in the eyes while he healed the wolf. And the AI let him do it!! 🥵🔥❤️‍🩹

i know in the heart of my cards that every time carl refers to it as "my dungeon" to piss someone off the sysAI gets so horny it blacks out