#cringey things

Um... where do I start??

So something's up with Kinger

The only thing I can think of is that Caine knows about Kinger's in-the-dark stuff and knew that Kinger wouldn't recognize Abel

But apart from that, why would he not want Kinger to join? Maybe Kinger is his favorite and he didn't want to hurt him? But if that's the case, then Caine knew the "adventure" would hurt everyone.

Also, I'm not entirely convinced everything that happened was just part of an adventure. Caine knows about Abel. He knows about his creators. I think he even admitted to Jax that he was abandoned by them (if I'm not mistaken)

I still think Kinger is one of the people who helped create the circus. I think Caine knows that the creation of the circus was malicious, whether what Abel said was actually true or not. And Caine feels trapped. I think he wants the players to have hope, but his pride and his fear of being abandoned again overpowers that.

He wants to be appreciated, but he doesn't know how to be. He's not human. He's just an AI. And he knows that. He knows (or thinks) that he'll never be good enough for them because he's only an AI. I don't think he was created to have this level of awareness. To have this level of sentience. And he most likely was created to have to take care of humans for this long. I think the game was originally created as just a game, but somewhere along the lines, someone power hungry or whatever made it into what it was.

Also, what about Jax's room? First, it's cool to see what Kaufmo and Ribbit actually looked like in the circus. But anyway, is Jax actually trans? I feel like he could be trans masc or trans fem. That's why he's so defensive and insecure about his masculinity. He either doesn't want to be reminded of before he transitioned, or is insecure about being (ig secretly? Idk how to put it) trans. If he's not though, maybe he's just insecure about liking more traditionally non-masculine things. Also, he was definitely about to abstract before Pomni and Ragatha knocked on his door. (Okay, but why was he naked :l )

Going back to what I said about not thinking the adventure was entirely just an adventure, why would Abel have been stalking them for so long before that? It just doesn't add up. The only thing I can think of is Caine was planning the adventure for a while, but if that's the case, why wait? And why have Abel stalk them? Most of the time, they didn't even notice him.

Well I think that's all I have right now. It was a lot (both the episode and the rambling). I enjoyed the episode, but also had a similar reaction to probably most people watching it.