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Every Little Day is a Bad One by Red205
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
22 Apr 2026
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This is inspired by an TADC au known as the 'Backup AU' created by Katze at https://katzebruh.tumblr.com/
Basically it's where episode 8 didn't happen but Caine still goes through deletion(I think 😓) and Abel, who had been lurking in the background this whole time uses Kinger's console to put himself in power.
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24 Apr 2026
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An alternate route of episode 8 where Caine never gets mad and snaps, and the cast actually manage to remove his admin permissions instead of deleting him.
The Circus can’t function without a ringmaster however, so someone else steps up to fill that role.
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My Hijacked AU is a spinoff of the BackUp AU by Katzebruh. Check out their stuff here: https://katzebruh.tumblr.com/
Want (somewhat) frequent updates on the Hijacked AU? Check out my Tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/fadinglight3443
I post art and I yap a lot. This AU has art to go with it that you’ll see posted there!
Also enjoy the story if you haven’t read it already, I had requests to put it on AO3 and I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m glad to be here,,,
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24 Apr 2026
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The Road Less Travelled by Mr_Chaos
Fandoms: Transformers One (2024), Transformers - All Media Types
24 Apr 2026
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On the night after Orion Pax became Optimus Prime he slips into a recharge... and witnesses visions of alternate lives. A thousand Optimuses, a thousand wars, a thousand broken Cybertrons. Knowing he can't let this happen, Orion seeks to do what his counterparts never could: stop the war and unite his people. And its starts... with his best friend.
A deep dive into the world of Transformers: One and the Transformers Multiverse as Orion seeks to learn from the mistakes of his alternate selves and bring about a new golden age of Cybertron.
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24 Apr 2026
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Tired of his children fighting Primus decides that only way to get them to remember that they are all just Cybertronians is to give them all access to the same Discord.
What follows is them just dealing with their lives.
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24 Apr 2026
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I'm a Fool for Love (Character POVs) by ThatDude20
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
20 Apr 2026
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This is merely a series of oneshots following the main story using the humans perspectives.
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- Part 2 of Fool for Love Series :)
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24 Apr 2026
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Caine actually talks about his feelings to Zooble.
Note: This is NOT Cannon to TbijZIC (<- most insane acronym ever) This is technically cut content, but it's too good to leave in the WIP doc.
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- Part 2 of Putting the Digital in TADC
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24 Apr 2026
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Therapy but it's just Zooble interrogating Caine by Sparkhearts2
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
10 Apr 2026
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Remember that funny bit at the end of episode 3? Where Caine and Zooble switched who was on the therapy couch? What if Caine went into a little more detail than just his thoughts on the wild west.
And by detail I mean Zooble gets answers and its- well, like pulling teeth.
Edit: No longer Zooble interrogating Caine, as I am writing more for this. Now everyone gets to interrogate him. Yay!
Includes: hardware facts! Software jokes! Inaccurate portrayal of AI! Everyone treating the circus like it’s real life while Caine is like HeHe HoHo, I’m a funny silly video game! Don’t worry about the darkness that grows within me, let me tell you about RAM.
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- Part 1 of Putting the Digital in TADC
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24 Apr 2026
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Choose Your Last Words, This is the Last Time (Because You and I Were Born to Die) by LOPPIEEL for DistantManiacalLaughter
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
25 Jun 2024
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The Amazing Digital Circus had one fluke. At the very edge of the void (that Caine claimed didn’t exist) there was a crack. It continued to crack, and crack, and crack until Kinger found a hole where the cracks once were. Of course, when he brought the others and Caine over to see the hole, Jax pushed Gangle in, causing Gangle to flicker human before falling out of the other side of the hole. Kinger had never seen a group of people move so fast in his life, so he followed the others in, dragging Caine and Bubble along with him.
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23 Apr 2026
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Caine, while trying to dispose of a virus that had snuck into the digital circus, for some reason turns into a child after touching it. With barely any memory of who the others people are and what's happening, and only his abilities, it is up to the other members of the circus to take care of him! While they also try and find a way to bring him back to normal. Will it ever happen? And how will caring for this little ringmaster go? Read to find out!
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Or, the author hasn't seen many new fics about Caine recently and decided to fix that by making more.
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22 Apr 2026
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The Not-So Digital Dentures by PinkyPKMNTrainer
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
12 Nov 2024
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An unfortunate discovery of his true origins leaves Caine questioning everything he's ever believed about himself. But at least he doesn't feel so alone with the other humans around...
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22 Apr 2026
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Inspired by the Replacement Theory by @replacementcodeau on Tumbler.
A new Ringmaster of the Amazing Digital Circus has been chosen and the old has been reduced to a member of the cast. How will Pomni, Caine and the cast deal with this switch-up.Bookmarked by ExistentialRootbeer
22 Apr 2026
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"I think it would be funny if everyone manages to escape the Digital Circus in the end and they don't want Caine's AI to trap any more people so they somehow manage to drag him to the human world with them. Now the tables have turned and it's Caine's turn to be absolutely flabbergasted by reality and his new human body." -Me, 2023
In hindsight, bringing an Artificial Intelligence computer program back with them to the real world was probably not the best idea. But hey: they were still alive. Somewhat. That counted as a win in Pomni’s book.
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22 Apr 2026
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Sooooooo Caine gets fed up and breaks down and then abstracts a bit whoopsies
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22 Apr 2026
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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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22 Apr 2026
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SYSTEM GLITCH by Silly_little_writing_creature
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
24 Apr 2026
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Most of the others didn't know it, but Kinger knew a lot about the circus and a lot about its creator, too.
So he could easily handle the creator in question catching a simple computer virus, right?
Right?
(Aka. Caine is fucking DYING of the digital flu and Kinger has to be the dad that stepped up. Current name is a placeholder name until I think of something better.)
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22 Apr 2026
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He is saved from permanently being deleted, but the Caine that returns is no longer the same AI that once offered all the fun in the world in a silver platter. Damaged by the remains of Able and broken down into a shell of himself, Caine barely reacts. Any other genuine reaction to them is fear. Pomni, convinced that despite his wrongdoings he still deserves compassion, makes it her mission to help the AI recover emotionally while Kinger tries to fix his coding and get rid of the effects of Able’s torture.
As the Digital Circus grows quieter and more uncertain, the group is forced to confront a difficult question: can something that was never human truly heal, or is Caine too broken to ever return to who he once was? If so, is forgiveness even an option?
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22 Apr 2026
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Caine has never understood humans, as much as he tries to do so.
But a sudden glitch in his code makes understanding his fellow friends a whole lot easier.Though it may also be a curse in disguise..
( TAKES PLACE BEFORE EPISODE 7-8 )
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21 Apr 2026
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The Ringmaster's Written Reminders by The_Spam_Specialist
Fandom The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
31 May 2025
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A series of stories where Caine attempts to make friends with everyone at the circus. But he worries that he will forget important things about the circus members like he did with Zooble. So Pomni helps him keep a written list of things to note about each circus member as he learns more about them.
Turns out his memory and emotional problems run deeper than anyone could have expected.
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21 Apr 2026
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Fragments of a Ringmaster by DarkEnWing
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
23 Apr 2026
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HEAVY SPOILER WARNING for Episode 8 of TADC!
You had always been a little closer to the cheery ringmaster than anyone else. Even if neither of you ever admitted it, you were his favorite human. The one he shared quiet moments with between adventures.
But when the group’s desperate attempt to fix Caine ends in disaster, you are suddenly left with something you had already started to give up on: a chance to undo what was done.
To take it, you must venture somewhere no one was ever meant to go. The very backbone of the Digital Circus itself.
The backend.
But what waits for you there is not simply lost code or broken data, but something that will challenge your mind, your heart, and your loyalty to the ringmaster you thought you knew.And by the time you realize what you’ve found, it may already be too late to turn back.
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20 Apr 2026
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PRESS RESTART by ThaliaDahlia (Teal_Individual)
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
19 Apr 2026
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The absence of Caine, unfortunately, makes way for something worse. Out of pure desperation, the gang rescues him from deletion in hopes he can save them from being deleted too.
Caine gets another chance to prove himself, though he's not sure he wants to, and he still doesn’t understand how it all went so wrong in the first place.
Nobody really wants to die here. Nobody really has much of a choice on how to make that happen. And certainly, nobody is really happy with their former tormentor(s).
But…any port in a storm, right?
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20 Apr 2026