The Digital Circus Carnival Au @Sm-baby

–As AIs and Humans were swapped, so Caine (and Able, the author's OC and Caine's sibling) are humans, and the humans are AIs. –C&A created a virtual reality game with these AIs (non-sentient at first — no emotions and only dialogue), but over time they became sentient and started to turn malicious due to misunderstanding emotions. –The AIs have specific roles and games: Kinger is the Final Boss and (of course) the King; Ragatha is the Host; Pomni is the Court Jester; Gangle is the Dramatist; Zooble is the Puzzle Master (and upon becoming sentient, also becomes Kinger's royal guard); and Jax was an Animator/Art Teacher. –Jax was the first to start committing violence and killing a human, leading the AIs to imprison him. –Jax's level also changed, and instead of being an art level where you have to doodle, now there's a timer and you need to escape and survive from it.–Everyone (except Pomni) has killed a human and deals with their own sentience in different ways. –Kaumfo and Queener are still abstracted, so to prevent this from continuing to happen, C&A created “Collars” that can “reset” them and give them a shock if they try to abstract. They also probably created Pomni for this, since Non-Sentient Pomni is