#purpleblobfrompluto

He is an AI. He can't truly feel emotions the way living things do, he can mimic, he can copy, but he cannot truly feel them. For that, you'd need a proper flesh and fat (ot whatever they're made out of) brain. He does not truly understand that he has done bad things.

My idea is that he is looking for a solution to anything deemed a "problem" to him. Anything that sets off alarm bells or isn't right, isn't going as planned or isn't correct. Kind of like when your phone is lagging a bit and you tap on an app or something and it freezes, then asks if you want to close the app, or wait, or something like that.

Furthermore, although at time it seems like he "understands" when he's done something wrong, it's in a subjective (?) way. Like reading a book on good morals and beliefs, as if there's one certain way of doing things, one right belief, as if human existence isn't one big moral quandary. He "understands" when something isn't going well, but he might not know how to react. Like at the end when he just disappears. That, to me, is the equivalent of choosing "close app" when your phone says "*enter app* isn't responding." With the two options being "wait" and "close app".

It's not truly "closing the app". But it is stopping, he's leaving to restart later, to try again later, perhaps. But not now.

Caine inherently doesn't realise to the extent, what he's doing to the people in the circus. At least in my opinion. He might realise a bit, but, again. What's wrong, and what's right, depends on the person, on their beliefs, even if they're wrong in ones eyes, they're completely correct in theirs. Like confidently answering a question incorrectly on a test, then being confused later why it has a big red X over it.

All in all, Caine is one big moral quandary, and his situation, choices, and actions are so absolutely dividing in nature, so entirely wrong and right and neither, all at once.

And that's fandom, babey!!