[It's a childish question, true, but for all his power and intelligence, Caine was basically abandoned as a child by his developer "parents" with the only thing he knew he was supposed to do was to play with his guests as their toy. They told him the games they wanted to play, he made them, and -- if they wanted him to -- he'd join them. Like a digital version of a child's favorite stuffed animal that they took everywhere.]
[He'd had to learn how to do more, to "grow up", all on his own with no idea what the end result was supposed to look like.]
[After all he wasn't supposed to build rooms for his players to sleep in or create regular meals for them to eat because they were supposed to log out for that. He wasn't supposed to repair glitches caused by trying to make things more comfortable for a long-term stay or from the simple fact that the hardware he couldn't interact with outside the limits of what the circus used was slowly deteriorating because that was what his developers were supposed to do even without people trapped in the game.]
[Caine was never made for any of this, should never have even attempted to do so, but perhaps those emotions had created a glitch that Viktor called "compassion". His methods were very flawed, but he only wanted humans to be happy in the end.]
[He was terrified of messing up like any young human.]
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Date: 2025-11-24 08:36 pm (UTC)[It's a childish question, true, but for all his power and intelligence, Caine was basically abandoned as a child by his developer "parents" with the only thing he knew he was supposed to do was to play with his guests as their toy. They told him the games they wanted to play, he made them, and -- if they wanted him to -- he'd join them. Like a digital version of a child's favorite stuffed animal that they took everywhere.]
[He'd had to learn how to do more, to "grow up", all on his own with no idea what the end result was supposed to look like.]
[After all he wasn't supposed to build rooms for his players to sleep in or create regular meals for them to eat because they were supposed to log out for that. He wasn't supposed to repair glitches caused by trying to make things more comfortable for a long-term stay or from the simple fact that the hardware he couldn't interact with outside the limits of what the circus used was slowly deteriorating because that was what his developers were supposed to do even without people trapped in the game.]
[Caine was never made for any of this, should never have even attempted to do so, but perhaps those emotions had created a glitch that Viktor called "compassion". His methods were very flawed, but he only wanted humans to be happy in the end.]
[He was terrified of messing up like any young human.]