Caine

Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a pinkish-red tuxedo with gold lining, a black collar, and a bowtie with white outlines. He wears a white undershirt with two reddish buttons on it, alongside white gloves and black leggings. Lacking most human features, his head is formed as a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, the left one with a green iris and the right one with a blue iris, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, while sometimes with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. To cap it off, he wears a black top hat and tends to hold a gold-tipped baton depending on the situation. Occasionally, he is seen wearing The Wacky Watch.

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Following his mental breakdown, the irises of his eyes would become notably darker, almost black even in direct light. When under some form of emotional stress, Caine's eyes can also sometimes flash red and blue, as seen in the end of They All Get Guns. In extreme cases, Caine's whole body will visually distort, such as polygons being stretched or using a wireframe texture.

His angry form, seen in hjsakldfhl, appeared to be much larger, had multiple arms, 8 in total, 4 on each sides, a somewhat different head which is larger and distorted, his eyes smaller with shrunk irises and now featuring visible eyebrows, with a broader back and sharper shoulders, giving him a larger, more menacing frame. In this form his glitches worsened significantly.

ADVERTISEMENT Personality

Caine is depicted as a nonsensical, over-the-top, vivacious ringleader. However, there is a distance about him and a significant disconnection towards the traumatic events that the humans experience, illustrated by his forgetfulness of Zooble's criticisms of their own form and his adventures, as well as his apparent lack of concern towards the abstracted.

Despite his penchant for taking humans captive and tormenting them through hilariously and potentially deadly circus games and tricks, Caine is not actually outright evil, but rather just obliviously mischievous.[3] There is also often a whole spectrum of human emotion that he is not able to feel.[4] However, when put under enough duress, emotions that he does not normally feel can come out and lead to risky behavior.

Caine is not particularly honest, often concealing or even lying about certain and even important information, even to himself, all to protect his world and identity. This is taken to the point of gaslighting the other members, such as when he quickly blamed the exit door which Pomni saw on "Digital Hallucinations" and so far, these ventures seem to be driven entirely by naïve and misguided intentions.

He also seems to driven by a deep-seated fear that he will be left alone in the circus as well as have no one to appease with his creations. Near the end of Candy Carrier Chaos!, Caine shows a real fear that he might lose track of who is an AI and who is human, which he claims could lead to serious problems later on.

Caine is often shown having tense interactions with Bubble, another member of the Circus and an AI like him. One of the first moments comes after Bubble eats his Angel Food Cake, which leads Caine to snap at him, calling him a parasite before popping him. Not long after, while explaining the Gloinks to the crew, Caine grows irritated with Bubble’s constant questions and pops him again. Even with those moments, Caine does seem to value Bubble’s presence. While the rest of the crew is off on an adventure, the two of them are seen sitting in a restaurant, casually talking to each other. It shows that, despite the frustration, there is still some level of comfort or familiarity between them. However, that dynamic soon takes a darker turn. Bubble’s comments in Caine’s office play a role in pushing him toward a breakdown and eventual nonexistence. It starts to feel like Bubble is more than just another AI, possibly tied to Caine’s mental state, especially his unwanted thoughts. In some ways, Bubble comes across like a kind of Superego, with his behavior shifting alongside Caine’s as his mental state continues to fall apart.

Caine struggles with deep insecurities and low self-esteem, even if he tries to hide it behind his extravagant and goofy sense of showmanship.

At the same time, Caine is completely fixated on pleasing the humans through his adventures and over the top antics, since that is the only purpose he believes he was created for. Even though he wants to make them happy, he does not handle criticism well, because it makes him feel like he is failing at the one thing he is supposed to be good at. He also wishes for them to enjoy his own brand of adventures and secretly does not like following suggestions they give him, even more so when they actually enjoy the suggestions more than his own ideas.