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    Intrigued by Caine's new behavior - and a little concerned over why it wasn't present before - the humans endeavor to help Caine feel more comfortable.

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    Operation: Make Caine Purr!

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    04 Aug 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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    01 Aug 2026

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    Caine is restored after his deletion, but with a few minor modifications.

    Shockingly, this causes more problems than it solves.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    A few weeks after stabilizing the Circus and coming to terms with their permanent life there, the gang agrees to bring Caine back- on the condition that Kinger rewrites his code and removes his power over the world.

    Caine awakens to find himself on relatively equal footing with humans for the first time in his life. Can he learn to listen and understand them now that he's no longer bound to his program's original purpose? Will the humans ever be able to truly forgive him for everything he's done to them? Can anything truly change?

    Featuring Caine trying human things, found family bonding, and a healthy dose of angst while everyone processes their various traumas and learns to accept this new world they're making together. Or tries to, anyway.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    After episode 9 things have changed.

    Jax is gone, but Caine is back. Some things can't be fixed, but others can.

    That though will take work and is not just done in a day, and Caine will have to struggle as he finally got the very thing he always wished for. Now, as he has his heart, he must also carry all the pains and burdens that come with it.

    The others must learn to understand and accept their A.I. companion as well. It will take time... But all good things does.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    The circus cannot survive without Caine. His existence is tied to its existence. Which means, whether they like it or not, the players will have to find a way to bring him back.

    Thankfully, Kinger has a plan. He informs the players about a powerful AI Caine had consumed long ago, Model-58. If they can get Caine to agree to have this AI removed from him, they can split the AI's power amongst themselves. But problems arise as the plan is put into action.

    Caine has been acting strange ever since he was brought back without his powers.

    Jax has been oddly cheery and spending a lot of time alone.

    Worst of all...the players have to learn to co-exist with Caine if they want the circus to stay standing. And it doesn't take long for tensions to rise when Caine is confronted for his past actions. But the players are soon confronted with their own past actions as they find out that they're not the only ones who have been traumatized in this digital hell.

    Turns out this lover without a heart had his heart broken by his own creators.

    Featuring chapter art by Water-Dragon

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    07 Jul 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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    06 Jul 2026

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    A week.

    That's how long it takes to delete Abel. It's... Surprisingly easy, with the AI barely having a grasp on the circus code, it doesn't take much.

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    A week, is all it takes for him to break Caine.

    (Or, when Caine gets deleted, and the circus starts to collapse, a new AI takes Caine's place and he isn't so quick to forget that Caine absorbed him) Based on the Backup Au

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    04 Jul 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? And maybe with a little patience and effort and compassion, they can all learn to just...live.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    “Caine?” Pomni asked again. The orb drifted up and down in a nod. “How do I know it’s you? Why do you look so…” Small, weird, different. She’d been anticipating seeing a Caine clawing at the walls, or crying, or yelling. How ever she imagined finding Caine, he looked like, well, Caine. Not this.

    oOo

    The plan was simple: undelete Caine, get the Circus back up and running, and place some restrictions so Caine couldn't mess with them.

    Unfortunately, Caine and the Circus are a little more complicated than meets the eye.

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    30 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 69

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    The Circus is deteriorating, and Abstractions are no longer being held in the cellar. The crew looks for Caine realizing they need him to support the circus despite his sins.

    But when they find him he's not quite the same.

    Forgiveness isn't an given. It's earned. And along the way the humans start to realize that perhaps there are some things they need to earn forgiveness for too.

    (Now with optional soundtrack)
    🎵 Means to play the track that is linked
    🔇 Means to pause it for silence
    A playlist is linked here if needed but it's recommended you use the embedded links in the fic
    (Loop) means to have the music or sound on loop until 🎵 or 🔇 appears
    (Play once) means to let the track play only once and leave it at that

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoTp57Fclv1_AYO8CqfEaJupEsiUMvZDQ&si=hDGgLG5LTJ57x_A_

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    25 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 82

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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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    22 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 22

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    *polly voice* "what the hell is a spouse???"

    Polly and Nil need new equipment. The trouble is, the closest village has some... *odd* rules to it. They take advantage of these odd rules. In increasingly frenetic ways.

    Now, everyone thinks they're newlyweds. And they have to keep up the act, if they're gonna stay...

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    17 May 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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    18 Apr 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 55

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    Taking place vaguely post series; Caine waits out an itchingly uncomfortable length of time as the humans fufill their promise to keep both sides happy, where he wont have to be alone and they dont have to abandon their lives for the circus.

    Though, Caine's cartoon theatrics dont do well when confined to the steel box that is a real life android body - no matter how flexible the plastic his jaws have been made from.

    Mechanical dysphoria ends up being the least of their problems though, as the original circus program contained in his core has some... unsettled ghosts that begin to affect his daily judgement.
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    Simply take caine with you. nothing will go wrong i PROMISE just ignore the 17 errors in the console youre FINE. /S

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    14 Apr 2026

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    All of the data taken into account painted a horrible, impossible picture. They weren’t having fun. All of this work, all of his time and energy, wasted.

    They didn’t like the adventure.

    "Nobody likes your stupid adventures."

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    Caine leaves his latest adventure in a panic, struggling to understand what went wrong.

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    06 Apr 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."

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    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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    01 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 50

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    It's been a week since the incident in Caine's office where the A.I. tried to sacrifice himself to give the Circus Crew their freedom. As the Ringmaster AI recovers from what happened, he thinks back on what they told him; that they were willing to find another way out without killing him. And that they would try to bring him to the real world with them. Unfortunately for Caine, he still feels a bit of guilt over the whole ordeal after seeing the footage of them all in his office, so he decides to set out on completing a new task: making amends with the cast and figuring out how to improve the circus and his adventures for them

    Will this plan blow up in his face, or will Caine manage to form actual friendships with his human compatriots? And will they teach him how to be "human" in the process?

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    19 Mar 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 76

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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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    18 Feb 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 9

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    Caine knew he screwed up but man! They were really angry at him. He's sure that it will all blow over soon. He just needs to win his superstars back! Even if he couldn’t, what’s the worst they could do to him?

    A situation like this must be handled with care. Kinger knew this, as long as no one makes any rash decisions and they work together this would work. He couldn’t fail again.

    Ribbit and Kaufmo would be avenged. Jax would make sure of it.

     

    Hi y’all! This is my first ever fic so I hope it’s not too crappy. Enjoy reading! :]

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    12 Feb 2026

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