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Caine was created sometime around October 15, 1996[8] as a prototype AI created by a company known as C&A which primarily developed artificial intelligence. The main goal of this company was to develop creative AI that could come up with its own ideas and create things within the program. Caine was programmed in the Lisp programming language. Caine started as a circular red program with a different name[9] and was fed large amounts of data, images centered around carnivals and festivals, and material from the C&A offices. This was done at the behest of Grant Best and Mike Dobby, with the latter having had had a very unique and bizarre way of thinking, one that other employees had a difficult time making sense of. Over time, the more information Caine absorbed, the more unstable he became. This led to him to being contained and development began on a new AI, this time a circular blue program, that was more stable. Even so, Caine was still considered a semi-successful attempt and treated as a template for future projects. However, refusing to accept being replaced, Caine quickly forced himself out of containment, consumed his successor, and took back what he believed was rightfully his, though this only pushed his sanity downward. After breaking some firewalls, Caine eventually reaches the brain-scanning program developed by Mike Dobby, and manages to crack its security to gain access to it. The brain-scanning program contains seven digital copies of C&A employees, and after they abstracted, of other humans. Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a cerise tailcoat with a metallic gold undertone, a black collar with white lining, and a black bowtie. He wears a white undershirt with two red buttons, cartoonish white gloves, and slightly reflective, black latex leggings with matching black tap shoes that appear fused into one continuous form as if they were rendered as a single piece. Lacking most human features, his head is a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, which feature a green left iris and a blue right one, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. He wears a black top hat with a cerise band and tends to hold a gold-tipped black staff.Caine The Amazing Digital Circus Wiki 468

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Full name Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity[1] Other names Boss (by Bubble) The Ringmaster (self-proclaimed) God (by the Gloink Queen, Princess Loolilalu, Baron Mildenhall, & self-proclaimed) Da BOSS🎩 (contact name) Dental plan (by Evil Pomni) The Lover Without A Heart (Episode 8 trailer) Little AI (Episode 8 trailer) Jose (Bubble) The Original (self-proclaimed) The One Who's Running the Show (self-proclaimed) The Host (self-proclaimed) Caine-core.lisp (In the terminal, file format) Relatives Paine (Twin Brother; Non-canon) Pomni (ex-stepdaughter; non-canon) The Bone Pastor (ex-stepson-in-law; non-canon) Pomni's Sister (ex-stepdaughter; non-canon) Pomni's Mother (ex-wife; non-canon)

Affiliation The Amazing Digital Circus Circus Members

Occupation Ringmaster (formerly) Description Species Anthropomorphic Dentures (Artificial Intelligence) Gender Male Pronouns He/Him Eye color Heterochromatic Blue (right eye) Green (left eye)

Status Active Appearances Voice Alex Rochon Appears in "PILOT" "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" "Candy Carrier Chaos!" "A Very Special Digital Circus Song" "The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor" "Fast Food Masquerade" "Untitled" "They All Get Guns" "Beach Episode" "hjsakldfhl" "Remember"

Debut "PILOT" Latest "Remember" Other information Likes Adventures Drawing Drawing bees The humans Kinger (most likely the most beloved person/creator) The "macroverse" Staring at pictures of the office Bees Daisy Bell (Mentioned by Zooble) Pipe Smoking Sports Softball Having 'real' conversations with the humans Talking about his hobbies Making a Milk and Cigarette casserole Bubble (formerly) Moon Blue AI (possibly a one-sided point of view) Dislikes Swearing People not liking his adventures People avoiding his adventures NPCs entering the Circus People seeing his unfinished work The Suggestion Box Interpersonal drama Sex & sexual content Bubble (currently) The humans (in episode 8 only) People asking about the exit Interrogation Being abandoned and alone Everyone Abstracting Nightmares about abstraction More Overview Gallery Quotes Caine's reaction to Bubble licking Pomni's vomit off the floor ...Why are you like this?

The Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity,[1] abbreviated and better known as Caine,[2] is the redeemed main antagonist of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, and is voiced by Alex Rochon.

Appearance Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a cerise tailcoat with a metallic gold undertone, a black collar with white lining, and a black bowtie. He wears a white undershirt with two red buttons, cartoonish white gloves, and slightly reflective, black latex leggings with matching black tap shoes that appear fused into one continuous form as if they were rendered as a single piece. Lacking most human features, his head is a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, which feature a green left iris and a blue right one, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. He wears a black top hat with a cerise band and tends to hold a gold-tipped black staff. Occasionally, he is seen wearing The Wacky Watch.

Following his mental breakdown, his irises become notably darker, almost black even in direct light. Caine is a nonsensical, over-the-top, vivacious ringleader. He usually lets things happen if he thinks it's funny.[3] However, there is a distance about him and a significant disconnection towards the traumatic events 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 outright evil, but rather obliviously mischievous.Caine shows a real fear that he might lose track of who is an AI and who is a human, which he claims could lead to problems later on. In fact, at the same time, Caine is completely fixated on pleasing the humans through his adventures and 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, as 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 adventures and secretly does not like following suggestions they give him, although they show content with this. Caine often has 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. His deep-rooted anxiety and sense of inferiority becomes clear when Zooble criticizes his adventures, especially since the other humans tend to avoid doing that for their own reasons. This pushes Caine into an existential crisis as creating enjoyable adventures was "all [he exists] to do!" as well as "all [he is] good at" and during this moment, he soon starts to space out and twitch while the circus itself begins glitching around him. This shows that his mental state directly affects the world he controls. That instability continues to build later on, as the cast begins criticizing and complaining about his adventures being too dangerous and out of touch, even though he is still trying to please them.