#ammonart

This idea was sparked when I first saw the Heartful AU - I was like. ooooooo a Caine redemption/reconciliation AU? what if. what if I did one of those :0

Veeery soon post-ep 8, all the abstracted get loose without Caine’s power keeping the cellar in place, creating kinda. a soft zombie-apocalypse-type scenario

During the first day, within the breathing room they get inbetween dodging the abstracted and trying to navigate this whole situation + the crumbling circus, Kinger reminisces and reveals more about Caine, expanding on factors (that started with Zooble sharing the Strange Experience they’d had with Caine in ep 3; I’ll get more into the mild fix-it elements of this AU in a future post) that cause the others (Pomni esp) to reflect on what happened before, how little they actually knew/understood him, and what truly caused him to snap as he did.

Some were already considering bringing back Caine - partly because they didn’t want to kill him, partly because of the hope that his presence will keep the circus from falling apart any further, and partly due to the conclusion that in this nightmare sitch, they’ll need all the help they can get. This course of action only becomes more favorable in their minds as they reflect and wonder about the guy, though there’s still some hesitation.

The tipping point that overrides the last of this hesitation and makes them go ‘that’s it, we NEED to bring him back’ is when one of them gets badly glitch-mauled by one of the abstracted.

1. Empire State Building (20 West 34th Street)

2. Fuller Building (595 Madison Avenue)

3. Midtown Theater (2626 Broadway)

4. Graybar Building (420 Lexington Avenue)

5. New York Telephone Company Building (140 West Street)

6. Horn & Hardart Automat Cafeteria Building (2702-2704 Broadway)

7. 30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rockefeller Plaza)

8. 275 Madison Avenue Building (275 Madison Avenue)

9. AT&T Long Lines Building (33 Thomas Street)

10. Radio City Music Hall (1260 6th Avenue)