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Who's this person? They look weird.



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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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    07 Jul 2026

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    pre-finale chapters: yeah I don't know how canon this is gonna be-
    me, slorping the story like a cup of noodles: gamer your characterizations are fucking fantastic, you're doing amazing

    (08/17)

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    Pomni has never been a fan of Caine. He's loud, overbearing, oblivious to the pain his torturous adventures caused, and the overall cause of Pomni's pain and suffering in the virtual world. Only four adventures in, and she has enough trauma to last a lifetime.

    Caine is an AI, after all. Pomni doesn't think he even cares about anything other than his adventures.

    And that made it all the more shocking that when an escaped Abstraction attempts to attack Pomni, she finds herself being pushed out of the way by the dreaded ringmaster himself, taking the hit for her as he tells her to run.

    She soon realizes that there's more to Caine than she thought.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    I read all of this in one day, I gotta bookmark it.

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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.

    (Updates every three-four days (hopefully))

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Look, when a story gets me to binge read it in one night, I gotta bookmark it. It's due diligence.

    Anyways, I will be watching this story with casual enthusiasm. I have a guess what the [ OOO ] symbol means but. Actual meaning TBD, given that it's
    Caine's
    definitions and not human-expected ones. (I also woulda expected 🌲 to be "Environment", but again- Caine's focus is not what I would expect!)

    (HOLY CRAP THAT WORKED- ok click that triangle for my thoughts, but it's spoilers for the outside reader.)

    ("...Ok but if you had to guess?")

    Probably something like "connection", "access", or "input", though who knows what Caine would actually call it? It looks suspiciously close to the input dots from the flashback sequences to Caine's training days, and while most early use-cases are associated with computers, ALL of them have something to do with other people. I really need to note the context for each use-case...

  4. Public Bookmark 87

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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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    06 Jul 2026

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    OOF.

    (03/??)

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    You're getting a failing grade in being Human.
    There's more to it than you remembered. Having a mouth to speak, lungs to breathe, a stomach to fill.
    But mouths are complex structures of meat, and the rules to breathing are contradictory, and food? Don't get you started!
    And worst yet, playing the role of Siffrin is an impossible one. Your coactors are onto you.
    How long until your mask slips and they discover the corpse hiding beneath?

    You've won the fight, but you'll always be the true loser.
    Living within the body you've stolen, you'll claim your victory for as long as you can.
    Get up, Loop. You've got a future to behold.
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    (Novel length Slowburn. Loop wins the 2hats fight. Now human and with a future, they'll need to learn to become a person again.)
    (Contains illustrations!)

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    17 Nov 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Oops, good soup!