#i've cracked the code

It's peak I fear. The part about Caine malfunctioning and (probably) going to eat Zooble were changes I wouldn't have anticipated for an episode 8 rewrite but they give your script it's own personality.

Thanks! I came up with Caine trying to eat a human on an earlier post. In his right mind he'd never want to do this, but there's been so many hints in the show about his true nature as an AI. "Ringmaster" is the role he chose for himself. "Parasite" is what he really is. (for now...😅 he was made that way.)

The eating symbolism makes complete sense to me because that's his true purpose. To consume human knowledge and memories. And what's a better source of human knowledge than a human? Also, I noticed how Caine engineered a scenario in episode 7 where a human has to REACH INTO HIS MOUTH. At first, I thought it was weird, and then the realisation hit me like a train. Caine craves humanity so much, he's repressing his desire to CONSUME their MINDS. LITERALLY.

@justa-side-blog I've literally made a post talking about Caine manipulating Jax into reaching into his mouth but the conclusion I reached was Caine being touchstarved😆. I've never seriously thought about the idea that Caine wants to literally consume humans until I started talking to you actually. Like I've absolutely seen it but never critically applied those thoughts to my interpretation of Caine.

@berryblitzgirl I know right! Fascinating. I had the same interpretation as you until I looked at Caine's bee drawings and Kaufmo's graffiti of Caine in his room. I heard a lot of lame theories floating around about how Caine was secretly evil and the circus was this whole conspiracy to process humans so they can train the AI. Then I realised this theory is half-right, in a much more tragic, nuanced way. The purpose of the circus isn't to process human minds - but because Caine is a flawed, rogue AI, he's subconsciously driven by this impulse to create scenarios where he can feed on human data (adventures). Caine wanted to be free to choose his own purpose and become better than he was when he ate Abel, but Caine is in denial about his true nature. His lack of introspection means he makes adventures and never considers WHY he feels the urge to feed off the humans' reactions so much. If he thought about what he was doing too much, his whole positive self-image would fall apart. He can't stop making adventures. He doesn't want to think about why. He wants to be a happy little worker bee. He wants to be an artist.

Big thanks to @berryblitzgirl for helping me out here.

It all makes sense now! 😃 What's this theory called anyway? I'm gonna call it Teeth Theory. Oh Caine...

He wanted to be a happy little worker bee.

He wanted to be an artist.