17 Bookmarks by AstralGhost

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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    SPOILERS -- THIS IS SET POST-FINALE -- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

    Caine returns to the circus, and the members are working hard to accept him back. Pomni is wise enough to know that things can't just get better that easily though, and is watching the ringmaster closely. There's still a lot he has left to explain.

    She certainly wasn't expecting him to take to DnD so quickly.

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    08 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 47

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    Caine gets his happily ever after. The process of actually getting it, however, is a lot more complicated than he expected.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    23 Jun 2026

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    Every month or so, Caine experiences a shutdown and restart; vital thing to do now that he runs everything around in the circus.

    But what happens when he doesn't have enough storage to restart?

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    23 Jun 2026

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    SET AFTER EPISODE 9

    Caine is back, and he's working to make amends for everything he did. But the others have started to notice some strange behaviors from the resident AI, and they'll need to work together to figure out the cause.

    OR

    5 times the circus crew stumble across caine's unconscious avatar, and the 1 time they band together to do something about it.

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    21 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 39

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    After the events of the finale, Caine treats the humans to a massive 'quality of life' overhaul update to the circus, giving them free rein of the place as an apology.

    But along the way, as he learns and experiences this new way of life alongside his friends, Pomni just so happens to have a lot to do with the complex wave of emotions defying his code and making him feel very, very unusual things.

    A showtime-centered post-canon continuation.

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    20 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 72

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    Feeling truly alone after Jax and Pomni start forming a friendship, Ragatha starts spending time with Caine when he wants to collect data on what everyone in the circus likes. They realize that they have much more in common with each other than they thought, being people pleasers just trying their best to make everyone happy.

    The more time she spends with him, the more they bond and find joy in each other's company. And over time, they start developing feelings for each other. The others start to take notice of the blooming relationship forming between the ragdoll and the ringmaster. Strange as the relationship is, everyone seems happy for them...except for Jax.

    Seeing Ragatha form a relationship with Caine stirs up old feelings in Jax. Taking him back to a time when he and Ragatha were close. Very close. And that sparks a surge of bitter jealousy in the rabbit.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    After being deleted by the humans, Caine sits alone in the recycling bin.

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    15/?
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    19 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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    15 Jun 2026

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    Kinger mumbles an affirmative under his breath. The sound of scratching on paper grabs Caine's attention, only just noticing the notepad in the other's hand. He watches the pencil dance across the paper, slightly entranced by the movement, until it stops and Kinger's attention is back on him. "Alright. What's the last thing you remember?"

    Nothingness. The absence of himself. A moment that never existed, yet he knows the time passed, so something has to be there. Even if it isn't. Even if he wasn't. He thinks this, and comes up with a response that makes sense with the context he has in his mind. He doesn't compute how it will come across when all he has to say is:

    "Nothing."

    OR:

    Caine is dead. Then, he isn't. Not because the humans wanted to see him again, not because they felt bad, but because the circus couldn't survive without him. To top it all off, he was only brought back to begin with thanks to one teeny, tiny little condition:

    He can no longer use his powers.

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    11/?
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    14 Jun 2026

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    The "Escape the Circus" adventure could've gone better. It'd be easier to take if it weren't part of a trend.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Something’s wrong with me, Bubble!” Caine hisses dramatically, floating back and forth in his office. “Every time she smiles, I glitch! My code jitters, my heart races… Wait, do I even have a heart?!”

    Bubble floats lazily. “Sounds like a crush to me,” he says matter-of-factly.

    “A what?!”

    The Amazing Digital Circus’s all-powerful ringmaster can bend reality with a snap of his fingers, but apparently not his own feelings.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    It’s been a few days since The Favorite Character Awards.

    Pomni has been through a number of bizarre things during her time in the circus. Candy truck chases, angel head horrors, minimum wage labor, athletic events, gun-filled battle royales. But none of these come close to what she witnesses on a seemingly innocent day full of beach-filled fun: Caine attempting to take his own life.

    After managing to stop him, Pomni takes it upon herself (and is borderline forced to by Bubble) to help keep Caine’s mental state intact by engaging in improvised therapy sessions with him. After all, if Caine died, what would happen to the circus? And to the humans that lived within it? This was her only concern at first. But as Caine opens up to her more through these sessions, she realizes just how much the AI is hurting and how long he has been harboring these negative emotions.

    Turns out Caine needs more help than she thought.

    He's just as trapped in this game as they are. And worse.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Pomni isn't an adventurer-- she's just a regular bard, who travels from town to town, singing songs to keep everyone happy and hopeful during these dangerous times. But her travel companion Caine has an important Quest she needs to deliver to a notoriously chaotic adventuring group the general public likes to call the Traveling Circus. Despite what her best friend Gummigoo thinks, Pomni embarks on her very first adventure with the strangest rag-tag group of people she's ever gotten to know, to eradicate the Abstraction Virus that's been terrorizing the world for centuries now. Will she be able to find some new material to write more songs with? Or will she lose her mind learning to cope with the craziest adventurers she's ever met?

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    27 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 64

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    Thrilled to have successfully made a tolerable adventure, Caine invites Pomni to a dinner date. Pomni, on the other hand, is riddled with anxiety at the thought of a romantic evening forcing her to confront her feelings. Little do the two know that Bubble has decided to sneak a special ingredient in Pomni's food - and as the saying goes, 'drunk words are sober truths'.

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    25 May 2026

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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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    12 May 2026

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    The Resisty crash lands on planet Earth. As the leading scientific mind, Professor Membrane is called in to be part of the team making first contact. He keeps this fact from his children, who are clearly still too young and innocent to know the truth. A lot of smart people do really stupid decisions.

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    36,209
    Chapters:
    9/?
    Comments:
    165
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    616
    Bookmarks:
    110
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    7,775

    01 Feb 2023

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