The Silver Condor

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>Main Tags:

#Condor's Dupes [<- reblogs from our art blog]

#Condor Caws [<-me saying things]

#Condor's Aviary [<-reblogs of birbs <3]

#Condor's Toolbox [<-reblogs of helpful art and worldbuilding guides]

>Other Blogs:

this shot. this shot of caine stepping up onto the exit doorframe, just before he looks up all his humans.

it gets me, because they animated in the tiniest little hesitation. like for just a moment- caine was going to step through the doorway, instead of stopping in it.

maybe this really is an exit. maybe, if caine had stepped through- he would've been free. he would've been uploaded onto the internet, and gotten to peruse it forever, instead of that brief little window of time.

he adores the macroverse. he's obsessed with it throughout the show; and obsessed with the idea of breaking out of the 'box' he's trapped in. he could abandon all his humans right now, go out there, and be free forever.

but he chooses to stay. even though he's unsure if his humans will ever trust him again. he was made to keep them happy and healthy and alive, and even though he's failed so spectacularly at that, he chooses to try again. he gathers information solely for them, and lets his link to the macroverse slip away from him.

and oh my god the redemption scene

it was so well made? like it starts up with caine curling into a ball (like the sphere he used to be, at the very beginning), and all kind of data goes zooming past (like the very beginning!). and he does actually fully go back to basics! it was shown a few episodes that he started off generating basic shapes, and then went into these weird, abstract ones.

but now, making the stairs? bridging the gap? he's back to those basic shapes. making cubes. then cylinders. making a foundation from the ground up. relearning everything from scratch. relearning how to be a host to his humans.

and then he reaches the barrier! and his first instinct is to whack it with something hard and pointy, to brute force it until it breaks! but it... doesn't work.

just like it didn't work with his humans. he couldn't FORCE them to love him, to love his adventures. there was no perfect algorithm to make them happy.

at the end of the day, what he had to do was reach out, and actually understand them for the first time.

(same with the barrier. when he touches it, you can see the information flowing into his hand. he's actually absorbing everything, for the first time.)

and he reaches the exit door, and he goes and learns everything he can about his humans. because his 'perfect' mind scans, his 'perfect' bodies that he put them all in- they still weren't right.

he actually bothered to learn all of them. of their imperfections. of what's messy, and doesn't show up properly in the mere ones and zeroes of their data. he learned the things, the people, they all loved.

and he's connected to that door, the information about all of them- with red strings (of fate?). because for the first time- he loves them.

he was made as an ai. he was never programmed to be able to love. but for the first time, he's trying. he was made to learn, and he's finally learning.