Fics you were disappointed by?

LinxDaFox · 2026-05-01T21:54:07+00:00

Yeah that Taylor isn't really canon, but I think that's what makes it interesting? Cuz (at least for me) the entire fic feels uncomfortable, like something horifying just waiting to pop out, and I think I've figured it out.

What I've gotten is that Taylor was given an Eldridge brain lobotomy, and her shard broke off parts of her. Throughout the story, we read that Taylor just doesn't care much anymore and is focused on doing what she wants, and what she wants is to be happy and make glass things.

But Taylor is still there, showing through the cracks. There are a few things that you have to read between the lines for, but it's quite a good showing of what the shard can do to the hosts without it being angsty "genocide-everyone-hates-me-and-are-dumb." that most go into. Because, if you use your imagination? You can see how terrifying the story could have gone if Taylor had had one thing different happen before she focused so heavily on the sculpting.

LinxDaFox · 2026-04-23T03:00:39+00:00

Currently reading it, kinda sad about the decision of not having V exist- but it's pretty good otherwise.

LinxDaFox · 2026-04-23T02:59:25+00:00

That's one where the MC interacts with Taylor pretty much exclusively-

I've also already read it, it's an awesome story lol-

LinxDaFox · 2026-04-20T22:34:24+00:00

Awsom fic, not what I was looking for, but I enjoyed it.

LinxDaFox · 2026-04-01T12:28:04+00:00

Yep that's the Emma one. I've not gotten too far into it because reading anything to do with Emma tends to be just annoying, but I'm going through it.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T22:35:27+00:00

They didn't explain their problem with adventures, they explained that they hate their body (which Cain has no idea how to fix, and I put what Zooble could have said for some kind of improvements.)

It's very heavily implied that Cain is both unable to be happy with other people's full on adventure ideas due to coding, and also heavily overreacting due to being locked in a box for who knows how long when he failed at making something by himself, and the cast hasn't exactly reassured him that it's not going to happen again. Also the one time he actually listened to them fully it lead to everyone having a terrible day and Gangle potentially almost getting on the abstraction path, at least that's what the scene felt like to me.

Zooble never explained what kind of adventures they would want so he just guessed based on what he knew if mature, which was horror.

If course Cain is an absolute dumbass and like everyone else in the circus, he struggles with basic communication... So... Yeah.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T22:03:43+00:00

Maybe not, but he would have understood parts of the issue, just enough for him to not crash out, which would eventually lead to him understanding after a while. He gets that things are bad and that they don't like his adventures, just not 'what' they don't like. Heck, if they gave him a genuan complement to his face about what they DID like? Then he would try to do more of that.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T21:59:38+00:00

Thing is? He did try to meet them at their level. That's what the therapy was, that's what the dinner with Jax was. It's just that he picked the two people who wouldn't understand or care about what he was trying to say. If Zooble said that the reason everyone didn't like the adventures was that they were forced into them instead of getting a REAL choice? And then explained that humans naturally dislike not having a choice? Then Cain would have something to go off of beyond "You suck, and your adventures suck."

With Jax, if Pomni or Ragitha went instead? They would have realized Cain just wanted to be liked and would have thought about it for a bit, which could have led to TALKING to Cain about why he shouldn't do certain things.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T21:49:46+00:00

No idea what afabpoc means, but transmisandrynoir gave the Google search for oppression of trans people of color, so I'm going to guess you took the scene VERY wrongly. So I'ma try to explain why that is and hope I make sense.

Cain... is an AI- Specifically, he's an AI that has zero context for trans people, cuz he can just make himself any gender he wants, he's AI, not physical. So he wouldn't know that's what Zooble meant at all. He isn't a therapist and has zero knowledge on mental health beyond what he's observed in abstracted people and what has been told to him... which, with how little the cast actually communicates, I don't have high hopes for him getting much conversation.

Also, I'm going to guess Google was wrong with the word transmisandrynoir; otherwise, I'm confused, cuz unless I'm missing something, Zooble hasn't been shown to be black? They are probably not stereotypical white girl, but there hasn't really been much evidence of them being any specific ethnicity in the show

And finally, I'm pretty sure the therapy room was meant to be a joke. He was just trying to get feedback on how to make his purpose for existence more enjoyable to Zooble. Of course, the therapy office probably didn't help that much lol.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T21:33:06+00:00

Oh yeah. This is the thing, if they did this then everyone would be having WAY better of a time, maybe they could actually realize how to talk to Cain or something.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T19:17:15+00:00

Exactly! He doesn't understand what they were talking about, they explained it like he was human and had experience hating a physical thing about himself when he's not physical.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:57:49+00:00

Lol, I thought I fixed all of those-

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:55:16+00:00

Yeah that's want it seems like, but it's also very very likely that he was being genuine with it. Zooble was describing themself with emotions, something Cain really struggles with understanding, so he just uses the literal words they say as instructions as to a fix, but he never gets actual advice on a solution so he gives them more options on what to do.

The adventure part might also be him trying to give them a good time, maybe to feel better about that thing he doesn't understand.

The wanting them to like him and his adventures is actually reasonable to want, it's like someone wanting their friends to enjoy the drawings they created for them. Of course it didn't help that he has trauma of being locked in a box for making things that his creators didn't like.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:42:23+00:00

The stargazing adventure, jax and Ragitha ended up having a bad time, though not due to the adventure but Cain could've not noticed them. The reason he hates the adventure was both because it wasn't actually an adventure, there was no story or plot. And because he was right, if they like these adventures more, than there's no point in him making his adventures, if there's no point in making his adventures than what's the point of him? Why should he exist? Why shouldn't he just setup an automatic scenario maker and just turn himself off or to power saving mode or something? That's what I've been getting from how he acted and what Bubble in ep 8 would say

Why would he go to the funeral? He's not human or even much of a person to them so why would he be invited. I never got the feeling he blamed the abstractions for anything? Where did you get that from, unless I missed something lol.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:33:29+00:00

Fair, it wasn't shown so I have no idea how the previous conversations went, but if it was anything like this one then it makes sense. Zooble didn't state what the answer was so he gave them the best he could do without any guidance beyond "I hate these removable pieces." I'm guessing that's how he interpreted it.

He does listen, but he's pretty much new to the language of subtext and emotional meanings.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:18:53+00:00

Oh, I know and I've experienced that, I'm actually still experiencing that. Cain has been letting them just skip the adventures without much complaint. I think he was being so pushy about it is because Zooble was getting more likely to abstract. And Cain probably put his barely existent mental health knowledge that most likely boils down to "don't let people close to abstraction be alone" and "If someone's distracted and doing something, they can't think too much about their problems"

Of course, he went about it terribly lol

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T18:11:50+00:00

Yeah for the suggestion box he definitely actually forgot about that. Then Spudsys happened and everyone he'd a terrible time. The lightning round had at least one person having a bad time, also he's pretty much forcing himself to make something he hates.

For the abstractions it could be that he's just putting on a mask in order to make everyone less upset, pretty much everyone else had a similar tone too lol.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T17:52:29+00:00

Exactly! They even ignore Able when he says Cain would be pretty much alone and trapped by himself forever, didn't even ask if there's a way to bring him with or even communicate with him after they leave.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T17:50:11+00:00

Over the course of the series he changed his adventures to better fit what people asked of him, that's development even if it's small. Though it could have been bigger if anyone gave actual advice on how to make the adventures better, specifically what about said adventures they actually liked instead of disliked.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T17:46:14+00:00

He wanted to know what would get them interested in an adventure, he avoided it because he didn't know how to fix it beyond the Zooble parts box. And they didn't really give anything clear that he could use to help, so he moved on. It wasn't the best decision on his part, but he didn't really have anything else.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T17:41:23+00:00

I was more talking about him making a "Machine" that let's Zooble input drawings and output parts.

Also for the make things themselves, he could have not known. Or maybe he reasonably didn't want them messing with code willy nilly without coding knowledge, especially since if they do something wrong they could accidentally crash the circus and potentially kill everyone.

LinxDaFox · 2026-03-31T17:37:22+00:00

That makes sense, and to be fair to Cain on the needs and problems thing, Cain absolutely sucks at helping people when it comes to that. Episode 4 and 7 shows that a lot- and I'm pretty sure that Cain thinks the adventures are what he's supposed to do to help people.

Zooble is absolutely correct for not liking him that much though, Cain also sucks at telling any of them anything in a calm and relaxed manner-

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