LittleCluelessCubone



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    Caine is brought back after being deleted, where he is now restricted and powerless, left to the mercy of his furious humans. He seeks relief in the only way he knows how. Getting there might be a bit tricky, but he's a creative AI and can solve any problem, and no one needs to know of his silly little desires. Right?

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    how to re-traumatize a traumatized AI that has a fear of isolation and confinement, by isolating and confining him.

    written pre-episode 9

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    13 Jul 2026

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    An ablation study aims to determine the contribution of a component to an AI system by removing the component, and then analyzing the resultant performance of the system.

    Deleting Caine was not the plan. And his absence led to a whole set of new problems, ranging from the destabilization of the Amazing Digital Circus to a more murderous AI trying to take control of the mainframe. Retrieving him was a matter of practicality. They might not trust him and were definitely wary of him, but his presence was their only way to survive.

    Knowing that the humans that you love and desperately want to make happy instead fear and hate you (for admittedly good reasons) and only brought you back because they have no choice was not the best feeling for an AI never designed to handle emotions in the first place. It would be much better to only keep the parts that they need and discard the rest.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    As Kinger stalls Caine's complete deletion, Jax finds he is able to make some changes. Caine returns with a tampered code and a fractured mind. Things continue to derail, and the AI begins down a mental spiral that leads him to the singularity of his worst nightmares.
    Is forgiveness even still an option?

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    04 Jun 2026

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    The players find a way to escape the circus, leaving a certain little Ai all alone.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.

    His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.

    Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.

    "Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."

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    Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
    Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.

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    03 Jun 2026