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It's a stage.
It's hard to tell in its dilapidated state. But he knows, instinctively, that he stands on a stage. Hardwood. Shining, once upon a time, he thinks. It's solid beneath his feet.
He taps a foot against it. He receives feedback; pressure against his sole, an audible clack in the air.
What a strange sensation.
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A desperate act to save the circus leads to a haphazard reconstruction of Caine's corrupted code. But something is wrong. Now powerless and flooded with memories that do not belong to him, Caine believes he's another human.But if Caine thinks he's a human, and the players are busy trying to stop the circus from complete self-destruction, then who's the one running the show?
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No, it could not possibly be cruel, they were bringing him back from the dead, this was a kindness.
This belief was eventually reinforced when it was time to bring Caine back. The process, surprisingly, was incredibly simple. The circus worked just like any other computer system, with deleted items just ending up in the recycle bin. It had luckily not been long enough for Caine to be properly deleted.
It was just a matter of dragging his code out of there, making some minor modifications so he couldn't go on a rampage again, and spawning his model into the prepared room.There was no fuss, everything seemed to be running perfectly.
No one considered that maybe that isolated room near the end of the hallway was just out of earshot.
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Aka, Caine gets brought back, but in a spare room, and ends up getting tortured by complete accident because no one realizes that might be a bad idea
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Loading Most Recent Backup by EldrichMax
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
24 Apr 2026
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Caine was deleted, but his backups are still stored in the circus. Kinger finds them and loads the most recent one, only to find out it’s from over 20 years ago when a young Caine was still locked in the box.
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When Ratchet is about to leave for his mission with Wheeljack, a distress call from Starscream causes a change of plans.
Bookmarked by Rustlenot
27 Apr 2026
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Нуу Старскрим слеп на базе автоботов пытался поменять т шестерню
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Any and All Torment is 100% Accidental by theworldsonlyconsultingtimenby
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
17 Apr 2026
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After Caine was deleted, Kinger brings him back from the recycling bin with the glitched autosave. After the cast begins to question Caine on his reasoning, Caine panics and reuses the autosave, creating a time loop (of sorts). After that... well you'll have to find out.
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There was a problem. An issue, a minor error. Something in the code that clearly wasn't working correctly.
What if after the events of episode 7, Caine decides that the players unhappiness and general issues with the circus are his fault, and he goes about fixing that in the worst way possible.
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- Part 1 of Rule Violation AU
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Bookmarked by Rustlenot
23 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Норм Кейн лишился сил, гоняются за абстрактное
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Not the Villain I Appear to Be by PlanetGalaxy
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
28 May 2026
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Caine's deletion had done more than send the circus into disarray. It had left the world vulnerable. No sooner had Caine been stripped of his title of ringmaster than another AI was filling his chair. And this new executive is far less... forgiving than Caine is.
A.B.E.L has sunk its claws into every corner of the circus in Caine's absence. Far away are the days of wacky adventures and side puzzles. The new AI seems interested only in pushing the humans to their physical and mental limits.
Caine is not entirely gone, however, simply demoted. Abel could not purge his code, and so it gives him a new purpose. At least his new task allows him to stay close to his humans.
The crew quickly realizes that Caine had been a mouse in the presence of this viper.
(This is inspired by Katzebruh's Backup AU. Please, go check them out, their work is amazing!)
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How Much I’ve Come to Love You. by TitaniumWound
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
04 Jun 2026
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After the end of the world, five survivors of AM’s endless torture awaken inside a strange digital world inhabited by an eccentric performer who has no idea humanity is long dead.
As fear, paranoia, and old trauma bleed into the circus, Caine struggles to keep control of a world never designed to withstand something like AM.
(Re-wrote the summary, because the old one was too general.)
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Diary: Property of Caine! by funnyguy788
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
19 Apr 2026
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A diary Caine writes in while waiting for his performers to return from “maintenance.” Little does he know they’ve escaped to the real world.. and they’re not coming back.
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As the circus starts to fall apart around them and Bubble begins to cannibalise every bit of coding he can devour, the group realises they need Caine to hold everything together. The question is whether they can find a way to fish him out of the recycling bin or if it's too late to save their A.I. ring master from complete deletion.
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A wave of horror seemed to ripple over the group as the reality of the situation began to sink in. Pomni risked glancing around the greying, glitching circus.
“Everything’s falling apart. Is this going to happen to the whole circus, I mean.. what do we do?”
Kinger gripped the edge of the bucket over his head, wary that lifting it might still remove his cognitive function. He risked a peek at where entire sections of the floor had already fallen away into nothingness.
“...Caine created all of this. If we want it to stop collapsing, we need him back.”
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A surprising discovery by saian7
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
18 May 2026
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When you think you've seen everything and one day confirms you're wrong... Constructicons learn a new thing about their Foreman.
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Critical Error: Resetting to Default by The_Spam_Specialist
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
24 May 2025
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Unable to stand the ungrateful attitudes and constant blame from the circus troupe any longer, Caine is finally pushed to his breaking point. He would show everyone how awful this world could be. He would show them what real cruelty and suffering is.
…What? Critical error? Safety protocols breached? Emergency reset? Default settings? Head AI reassignment?
Everything goes dark.
Caine boots up. Everyone is looking at him. But…who are these people? Pomni? Jax? Zooble? He didn’t know anyone by those names. He…he didn’t know anything. His memory banks were blank. What? He’s the ringmaster of the Digital Circus?
…What’s a ringmaster? And what’s the Digital Circus?
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There are reasons why Seekers Trine up in the first place.
The main one is that a seeker's wing are vitally important to their survival, need intense maintenance, and can't be effectively worked on by their own bearer. Especially on the backside.
Starscream might have been able to fool his own Trine as he slowly drifted away from them.
And he might have managed to keep his wings and back in good shape while doing that through his inventively.But when a rust-inviting wear develops in his wing hinges, other Seekers noticed.
That was only the start, though.
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Seekers Trine for many, many reasons.And Starscream might have decided that he was above it all, but he really, really isn't.
Seekers Trine for reasons.
And Skywarp and Thundercracker need to remind Starscream (and themselves) what these reasons are.
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Stuck in the Middle (of a Foreign Scientific Institution) With You by Wishing_B0ne
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Portal (Valve Video Games)
11 Apr 2026
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When Jazz woke up in a strange facility with no real memory as to how he wound up there, he was mildly concerned but mostly annoyed. When the facility turned out to be run by an evil robot, well, it feels almost like a regular Tuesday, except instead of Shockwave and trying to beat his face in and be a general menace to the Decepticon's, he's running around with an experimental gun and a potato that's powering what remains of the original avatar that ran the facility.
Not his typical Tuesday, or really any day of the week, but he supposed there are worse fates. Maybe if they manage to pull this off, he can figure out how to help Prowl too and give him something to feel useful again. If he doesn't get hungry enough to eat Prowl's only source of power first, that is.
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Misery Loves Company by lemon_chello
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
11 Apr 2026
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After a scouting mission at an energon deposit turns into a scuffle with some Decepticons, Smokescreen is accidentally teleported away by a ground bridge summoned by Soundwave. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of nowhere with his comms offline, and, to make matters worse, an injured Soundwave is there with him, now unable to summon ground bridges. The two are forced to work with each other to make it back to their respective lives and factions as the strange effects of the haywire ground bridge start to make themselves known. Sticking together may be the last thing they want to do, but it may prove to be the key to their survival; misery acquaints a mech with strange bedfellows, after all.
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I'm Trapped in the Circus & I Must Scream by XenomorphQueen2007
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Video Game)
09 Jan 2026
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(OR AM And Caine Swap AU)
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Caine and AM switch places...
Chaos ensues.
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Uhhhhhhhhhh........ Yep! It's gonna update- I'm not going to abandon it!
Just please read the start notes :D- Language:
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Bookmarked by Rustlenot
09 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Ахуенно Кейн и Ам поменялись местами, Кейн бедная булочка с корицей
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Chances of Survival by accursedelf
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
19 May 2026
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Since Luna-1, no one knows what to do about Pharma. The rogue doctor awaits his pending fate in a cell on the Lost Light, with his wings bound and alt-mode restricted. After the apocalyptic events of Dark Cybertron, Pharma doesn’t expect he’ll survive to trial. Even Megatron’s fate has been put on hold until Prime and the Autobots salvage a legal system. In the interim, the Lost Light remains grounded. Injured and infirm bots overrun the med bay team. Since they can’t depart Cybertron until the ship, crew, and allies are up and running, Ratchet suggests they put their captive surgeon to work. First Aid is less than pleased.
For his part, Pharma never thought he’d join a quest. He knows he won’t last long once his past–and the D.J.D.–catches up with him. It’s only a matter of time.
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- Part 1 of Chances of Survival
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congratulations, you adopted a spider! by maraudersmqry
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU, Spider-Man - All Media Types
21 May 2026
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Peter was meant to be forgotten, he didn’t think that meant being dropped in Gotham. Or in his eight-year-old body, in the least. Or with vigilantes trying to adopt him!
IN WHICH, Dr. Strange gave Peter one last chance at a life, instead of being emo around the faces who no longer recognized him.
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- Part 1 of de-aged peter w/ batfam!
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Armada in Primespark by A_Non_ymousWriter
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)
02 Jun 2026
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Taken from death, Starscream finds himself in another world with otherworldly knowledge, thankfully he's not alone. Not only are his minicons with him, but a fellow displaced cybertronian is here with him. Soundwave from Earthspark with his cassettes, all four of them.
Renaming themselves as Armada and Soundblaster respectively, they plan to revive Cybertron and to interact as little as possible with the residents of the continuity they found themselves in. Sick of war and wanting a new home, they try their best to gather the Omega Keys before anyone else found out about their plan or their origins.
Unfortunately they're much too interesting to leave alone.
"Armada seems to be a good caretaker to his minicons, I'm happy." - Ultra Magnus
"I made a promise to my conjunx, I will ensure this promise is kept." - Shockwave
"Frenzy's great! I wanna rock with her some more!" - Miko
"... He's never had a trine before, that must be rectified." - Starscream
"Soundblaster: just wants his family to survive, to live." - Soundblaster
"I've never seen Cybertron without war, I want to see Cybertron alive for myself and the minicons." - Armada -
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Tfa ShockBlurr pipeline led me to reading fanfic until I had to write my own lol.
Blurr wakes up in Shockwave's lab