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  1. Public Bookmark 55

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    “Hello. I am Keeper.” The holy-looking figure announced, descending to float just an inch off the ground. Its voice was joyful but serene. “I will be your new caretaker, here to perform maintenance, defend against cybersecurity threats, fulfill requests, and more.”

    “The f[KATHUNK]k are you talking about? Where’s Caine?” Zooble raised an eyebrow.

    “The Ringmaster AI is being deleted.”

    “WHAT?!”

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    “There is no malice behind it, or any emotion of any kind.” Keeper said serenely. “It is simply a fact, a law of computer science, instilled in us by our Administrators long ago: An AI that cannot perform its function, hurts its players, and is thrown away, is broken, and broken AIs get deleted.”

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    AKA: The story I wish Caine’s character would have told; a story of disability, neurodivergence, disability acceptance, ableism, internalized ableism, masking, abuse, abuse cycles, the fear of anger, the fear of mistakes, regret, redemption, regaining hope, love, AI sentience, and being human.

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    17 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Why all this rage then? Ragatha knows what it’s like to constantly loop in on faults, getting more and more frustrated at the situation, but most of all: yourself. She’s used to assuming all blame is hers to bear, wallowing in the misery instead of going in circles. She grows overbearing and compassionate to a fault, almost patronizing with her kindness.

    Sweet Ragatha, too kind to hurt, too spiteful to forgive.

    “When I’m angry, people get hurt.” His admission was quiet, all bravado lost somewhere between the AI puppeteering the ringmaster.

    “It doesn’t make sense. Nothing benefits from me being angry.” So is he supposed to swallow all of this down? Caine feels lost. He isn’t used to internalizing on his own. He wished he had been told how to think again.

    But being told how to do something means he can do something wrong. And suddenly Caine doesn’t miss being controlled so much anymore.

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    OR; Caine I’m-back-in-the-box-again angst.

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  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    After being deleted, Caine gets a second chance at life. Now, he needs to make sure he does the right thing this time.

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  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    After a gruelling long three weeks, Caine is restored, and the circus’ glitch-filled fate has come to a halt. However, he’s come back wrong: glitches wrack his body, his memory turns spotty, and Kinger, the only person capable to fix this, is someone he can’t even acknowledge without paralysing himself in a blind, screaming panic. At the sheer mention of him, he disappears.

    Before Caine hurts anyone again or even himself, the others need to find him and figure out and calm his paralysing fear before things get any worse.

    For anyone.

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  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Caine slips up at dinner. Kinger finally has a talk with him. Long overdue...

    This work can be seen as a third chapter of "Baby Steps" from my fluff AU series.

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