Caine and Gangle go outside and touch grass. I was thinkin too hard about their Parallels as self-destructive “failed” artists and this was the result.

Brad Bird once said that you can’t create the illusion of life if you haven’t actually lived one, and that’s a line I think about a lot around the Traumatizing Digital Circus. This comic was inspired by: the purpose of making your own art in a world where AI image generators can churn out endless content for you, the way 3D software makes it easy to create infinite spaces but hard to capture authentic hand-drawn human touches, the way all my college art teachers were skeptical of the students’ desire to make anime-inspired stylized 3D visuals right up until it became the new trend in the animation industry—- and how easy it is to get so lost in the technical aspects of art & the consequences of failure that you lose sight of what art is even supposed to be for.

[also: a special thanks to the windows error message generator, this Blender grass tutorial, & all the different poets who wrote about grass— though I’ll let you guys figure out all the Tolkien/biblical/& poetry references.]

Leon helps Michael with his father problem in FNAF

Allow me to share Where i thought the tadc plot was going:

I didn't tried to predict the plot or anything, just was piecing crumbs together. (This is all just my observation and opinion)

Blabbity bla bellow

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

The two ways people react to Evil Caine

He doesn’t mind the hate and violence, it’s that gross human affection that bothers him the most.

Blackmail material

Somewhere in the void. Unaccessible for anyone

Totaly worth it though...

I will untie myself in a moment...

EC belongs to @vonvuuu

“I DO NOT OWN A SLUG PLUSHIE!!! I NEVER CUDDLED A SLUG PLUSHIE!!! THIS IS DEFAMATION OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE!!!”

Second part, because I got reminded about the tray scene. It was a must XD

The idea of Caine not recognizing his ship-guests kinda stuck to me

So the next best thing to do is give poor girlie a nightmare. I guess it would be scary enough of a thought that one day a robot that kidnaped you may not recognize you due to corruption (I don't believe she knows he is corrupted) Intergalactic AU belongs to @vonvuuu

The lengths they go to get to them lol

Pomni and her favorite cat-boyfriend

Also:

My druid got stuck in this position (its scripted like that lol), so I had to draw it

Behind the barrier shenanigans 2

(Cyber-Heaven by @insomniacrori )

(Abel, Seth and this version of Caine also by @insomniacrori )

Now you know why Seth didn't looked too hard for Caine xD

These are gold, i love it xD

Thank you for drawing these doofuses c:

And finally they are about to cross. The moment he would be very excited, but doubt kinda ruins it...

TOO BAD

You do not understimate Pom pom

Give her da smooch

Why would Pomni go in the castle? Simple:

Her urban explorer brain cannot resist

Don't ask me about rules this beauty and the beast thing. THey are digitized humans, but roam much bigger server

I guess I need touch up on Caine's origins someday lol

Spooky greetings:

The shot with eyes and teeth visible are inspired by this:

Yeah, Caine hates other AIs visiting him, but loves humans (Though none would willingly go here because of how he is lol)

I need to specify which ones. Like the ones he created - fine Anything that is advnced as he is (aka creative\generative) - he no likie

A small lore\ story dump on Beauty in the beast thing. Because its either that or teeth rotting cuteness (And I need my teeth XD)

Gaston aka Bubble. Like actual Bubble-chef who is in charge of little village

He doesn't particulary interested in humans, but Pomni's conflicting love to go into creepy abandoned places (Considering she is easily scared) is intriguing for him

The castle is an amalgamation of very random things. Caine was gathering any info he can to build something impressive... so he made a mess out of archive server lol

This is a chrono-cube that counts time in place of a rose. Caine was unable to create anything consistent nor "intersting" in a while, so he was restricted to Archives until further notice.

Out of pity he was given a task to try and creat something ""good"" (Like full freedom). If he succeeds - he is free. If not - archived and deactivated.

The thing is - he has very big problems anger issues. He tends to corrupt and break files (Like making them unreadable).

The goal is deliberetely vague. Though if a human will take a resposibility for him - that's another ticket for freedom

Let's say this cube currently is very important for him:

Will he harm a human? He might. Accidentaly, of course

More on these two Here

The return of male Pomni, the flirt and tease.

He does like teasing Caine, because he always get an extreme reaction from him.

Opposite to Cai - Caine spends most of his time in Pomni's room, because he always invites him for various "fun" activities. Which never leave AI disappointed, because human's attention (He is extra attention starved in this variant)

@insomniacrori you said Abel as Gaston and I understood it way too literally.

Original Gaston really was shaped like a nacho.

Damnit, it suits him too lol xD

Somewhere in alternative universe that's the case xD

This is gold ✨ I live it, thank you c8