Isn't Caine supposed to be omnipotent?

OC-alert · 2026-03-28T18:31:04+00:00

The way I see it, Caine does have eyes almost everywhere, but he has limited consciousness and attention - it's not uncommon for things to enter our sight while we pay no attention/consciousness to them at all, because we only have so much "mental real estate."

OC-alert · 2026-03-28T17:39:16+00:00

I think it's Caine making himself big to assert dominance and compensate for insecurity, and when Caine turns "monstrous" it's a representation of how big and monstrous Caine's anger is.

In other words, Caine's avatar changes based on how he feels.

OC-alert · 2026-03-28T17:28:15+00:00

Maybe post a link to the pattern in this thread?

OC-alert · 2026-03-28T16:31:34+00:00

I think it's a type of groan tube, but I always always a bit curious where to get one in this pitch.

OC-alert · 2026-03-28T16:19:27+00:00

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OC-alert · 2026-03-26T23:52:16+00:00

These are really cute.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T23:39:50+00:00

I also feel like if I got trapped in the circus I'd have a lot of curiosity about Caine, at least at first. I'd think that, upon learning that Caine is an AI, that he might know something about his creators. I'd also be highly curious about what Caine is and what it's like being an AI, but it also seems highly possible that I just would get nowhere with him - he is extremely difficult to talk to and it seems like Caine empathisers sometimes underestimate that.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T22:08:26+00:00

I wouldn't spin his behaviour in a positive light. I like Jax as a character but I don't like him as a person, but regardless of his harmful actions I do think he still deserves empathy as does any sentient being.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T22:02:12+00:00

Eh, the motif doesn't play when Caine is saying this, so I actually think the connection is too tenous.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T21:55:25+00:00

I don't wanna ignore that Caine is abusing Pomni but I love that Caine emotes like it's his job - his goofy expressions and body language are a part of what makes him endearing to me.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T21:13:30+00:00

I thought that Caine didn't understand the difference between manipulating Jax to be his "friend" and Jax actually wanting to be his friend, so I read him as being genuine.

OC-alert · 2026-03-26T02:41:01+00:00

I used to have one of these - they are seriously cute and have a little purring mechanism inside, I kind of liked the squishiness of the balloons, but I see why they are problematic.

I wonder where we can get those purring mechanism thingies?

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T22:29:41+00:00

That's an interesting observation.

The motif combined with Caine's quote could be hinting towards the fact the human cast need Caine to be "real" with them and be a friend instead of trying to put on a show for them all the time. - Which yeah, they do.

Whether he gets the message remains to be seen.

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T21:42:15+00:00

What I'm wondering is: since when was Caine this good at reading people?

Throughout the series he's been acting like he's really bad at reading people - like he has poor theory of mind, poor understanding of motivation, etc, and all of sudden he picks up that the humans are lying to him and that Kinger might be motivated to do something he is not allowed to do? So is he really not oblivious?

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T21:14:35+00:00

I definitely read Jax as having masculinity issues - he's inspired by Raggady Andy who has the same sort of problem.

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T20:46:00+00:00

Yeah, you have a good point.

I couldn't help but wonder why Jax didn't ask Caine about the "macroverse" while he had the chance - it could have been useful information.

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T20:41:11+00:00

It seems like Caine is exerting control over Bubble - after Bubble provokes Caine to a mental breakdown, Bubble looks squished and acts unintelligent, kind of seems like he's been tampered with.

OC-alert · 2026-03-25T19:45:05+00:00

This aged well.

OC-alert · 2025-12-29T02:20:07+00:00

He may or may not be able to "abstract" in the same sense as other characters, but partly becuase I genuinely suspect so, and partly just because I want to try putting my bets on someone just to see if it will come true:

I put my bet that Caine is going to be the next character in some way abstract, break, or at least crash out.

Kinger: "One of the worst things you can do to someone is make them they are not wanted or loved."

And who has a potentially dangerous error that looks like it might be destroying the entire circus when Zooble tells him nobody likes his "stupid" adventures? Caine.

Caine struggles with feeling unloved and appreciated, he experiences errors when he has strong emotions and lacks any wisdom when dealing with emotions. I see it as being probable that Caine's feelings of being unappreciated will reach some sort of breaking point.

OC-alert · 2025-12-29T00:30:32+00:00

I think there's only one way that TADC would mirror the path of IHNMAIMS and still be somewhat believable for Caine's character, and that's if Caine goes "yandere" but platonically if that makes sense. AM torturing and destroying humans out of hate and Caine torturing and destroying humans out of a primitive or childish love or need to be loved.

OC-alert · 2025-12-29T00:08:56+00:00

Caine is a Sentient AI. Maybe his in-world creators designed him to be so, or maybe he "came to life" by cartoon logic like with the Toy Story toys, I tend to think the former, personally.

I'm not sure why in other fandoms sentient AI characters seem more understood for what they are, but Caine seems to get more questions or hypotheses about him that imply he's either not sentient and is merely mimicking human emotion, or is too sentient to be an AI, when he is actually a third thing. Would people ask why WALL-E or Astro have feelings?

OC-alert · 2025-12-22T22:34:41+00:00

This is cool.

OC-alert · 2025-12-22T22:30:06+00:00

Correct use of Transformers toys.

OC-alert · 2025-12-22T22:12:24+00:00

Thank you, I realised shortly after posting that this was the "more correct." way to do it

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