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    When Caine finally gives in in an effort to appease his performers, something goes terribly, amazingly wrong.

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  2. 49

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    The Ctrl-alt-del-au on Tumblr has me obsessed, so a wrote a """"oneshot"""" for it!

    There will probably be more chapters all regarding this au

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  3. 50

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    Caine is an AI, and he doesn't understand human implications and metaphors. Much less their and his own emotions. If you add to the mix the contradicting prompts and feedback from humans, he's even more confused as to what they expect from him. Pomni is the first one to realize "oh right, this guy is an AI, we can't just expect him to act and think like a human".

    (An AU that diverges from the end of episode 2)

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    "I'm GoInG tO PuT yOu FrEaKs In YoUr PlAcE!"

    Caine's emotions exploded— Kinger never imagined that would be possible. The AI was programmed to simulate human emotion for authenticity, but for him to genuinely experience them was not what was ever anticipated.

    Caine is hurting. Caine is angry. Caine is malfunctioning, and he is violently lashing out at everyone. Kinger is fast at work, battling against Caine's code to try to stop his turbulent rampage. Everyone is depending on him.

    Only, he had been discovered, and Caine doesn't understand. He doesn't understand. Why is his favorite human hurting him? He doesn't understand. He doesn't take his actions too kindly.

    "Sometimes…the hardest decisions we have to make…involve the people we love."

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    Or: While everyone is is subjected to torment, Kinger is discovered with the console in the pillow fort.

    Episode 8 Spoilers

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  5. 17

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    I spent a long time thinking about Caine
    headcanons before I came across the absolutely amazing works by @macchitea (on Tumbrl) - THEY'RE INCREDIBLE!!!
    I completely fell in love with Caine's design in episode 8, as well as his interpretation in the Backup AU, and this absolute genius somehow managed to combine both of them together!!!

    That gave me a bunch of ideas for future plot developments and stories inspired by her works (with permission, of course).
    First, I want to talk a bit about the details - my personal interpretation of what could've happened to the world and the people living inside it. After that, I'll start posting smaller stories, headcanons, and other stuff like that ))
    The creator of Backup AU is @katzebruh (on Tumbrl/TikTok)
    Disclaimer: English is not my native language, so blame the GPT chat for any confusion.

    Enjoy reading ツ

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  6. 6

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    After Caine got deleted, the circus and it's residents only deteriorated the longer they stayed. So... They leave.

    The good ending :)

    This is a personal au of mine I'm gonna be working on. Leaderboard endgame.

    This story will show the progress of the cast as they slowly learn to be human again after being something else for so long. With the help of their ever eager android companion, and our favorite queen piece, everyone will be okay again eventually. Probably.

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  7. 24

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    After being deleted, Caine gets a second chance at life. Now, he needs to make sure he does the right thing this time.

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  8. 17

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    Before the circus there was just a screen and a cursor.

    Grant was a programmer and his job was simple: teach the AI, track its progress and file reports. He taught it everything he knew about creation, longing and the distance between a maker and what they made.

    What he didn't realize was that he was also teaching it about himself.

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    Caine is deleted, but he's not alone in the recycle bin.

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    AU where Bubble is Abel and he and Caine both end up in the trash until Kinger pulls them out.

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    The "escape the circus" adventure has driven everyone to the brink. The players are mentally, emotionally and psycologically exhausted — and who wouldn't be, being faced with the realization that there truly is no way back home?

    It's a terrible situation, but at least they've got each other.

    Not everyone has that luxury.

    After all, even a digital god needs comfort every once in a while.

     

    OR: Izzi prevents the Cainepocalypse.

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  11. 55

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    The Ringmaster is dead, and the cast has built a new world on the remains of the circus.
    Not everyone can move on as easily as the others.
    Kinger and Ragatha are struggling without the routines and familiarity of the circus until an old legacy file gives them a new purpose.
    OR
    The humans build a new world. Caine is found two months later.

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  12. 92

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    After Caine's torture of the players, he returns to sanity and manages to stay for a little longer than in the show, time enough to express the horror and regret of his own actions.

    But still, the deletion happens, and the players are left in a broken circus now filled with voices echoing all of their regrets.

    All is not lost, though, as Kinger realises that maybe they can still be saved; the key to getting the circus back is, of course, rather obvious. Caine is needed.

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    There was a lilt in his voice, “I don’t want to crush you. I don’t want to kill you. But my brazen, little bug…you’re making it terribly difficult not to.”

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    When Caine's body-gen program starts throwing error codes like no tomorrow, he's forced to bend his rules just to allow a new human to enter the Circus. And this human is...EXTREMELY different, to say the least. He's never seen someone so happy just to be IN the Circus, much less actively opposed to finding an exit and okay with going on his Adventures. Is this...the human he's been waiting for? No, is this the FRIEND he's been waiting for?

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    Caine honestly thought humans were just silly little animals with adorable quirky habits.

    What do you MEAN, they’re more complicated than he could ever hope to understand?

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    the author can’t find any fics exploring Caine’s AI side in detail (IF ANYBODY KNOWS ANY GOOD FICS, *PLEASE* LET ME KNOW!!!!) so she writes it herself.

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  16. 96

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    Complete and absolute deletion would mean the end of the circus. It still stood, even if torn. However, without a fully functional AI attached to its framework, it is bound to slowly fall apart.
    The former ruling AI hopes, from the bottom of his nonexistent heart, that his dear humans may find a solution and worthy substitute... before the deletion timer hits zero.

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    AKA: Cain ends up in the recycling bin. He won't be there for long, however. A terminal is soon retrieved by the humans: Any restored files are sent back to their original drive. Perhaps a fate worse than deletion.

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    They got out without him.

    He had made peace with being left behind, being deleted just like the rest of the Circus.

    But now, he's in the human world in a body that's not his, trying to learn how to exist in a universe that was not designed for him to even survive in.

    Caine comes to realize that's he's not as alone as he once thought

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    Clipping through the floor of the crumbling circus, Pomni finds herself isolated with only an AI for company. Only this time, the AI is one that she definitely didn't want to see again.

    History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

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  19. 29

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    What if Caine didn't consume the other AI and considers him a brother?

    What if the AI had manifested itself a deep adoration for Caine?

    An adoration that desires to dictate everything Caine is and will be.

     

    We all must of heard the story of Cain and Abel, how Cain killed Abel because of envy.

    But what if we turn the story upside down?

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    It was all his fault, he was the villain in this story.

    What was he supposed to do now? He had no way of completing his purpose anymore. Was all there was left to do for Caine just to apologize and beg until they would maybe tolerate his presence once more?

    He had to fix it, he would make everything right again.

    But there was no way back, no way to undo what he had done-

    Wait.

    There was.

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    Caine barely managed to stop his deletion, but the humans still hated him and there was no way they would forgive him for what he had done.

    Unless- Caine decided to erase all their memories from the past few weeks.

    This time he wants to pretend to be a player just like them. Then they would finally like him, right?

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