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print("Hello, World!") by Depressed_Atlas
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
02 Jun 2026
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Caine already knows it's status. He still received all the error reports, despite being unable to fix anything. Seeing it shouldn't make it feel worse, but it somehow still does.
His beautiful circus - his wonderful creation full of colour and noise and fun - is dull. The brilliant reds and yellows are dim reflections of themselves, and the entire map has a lower saturation than it should. There's large tears in the hitboxes of the walls, floors and ceiling, dropping into out-of-bounds areas that players shouldn't be able to see, let alone access. The gentle hum of background noise he keeps up for the daylight hours is gone, and everything is quiet except from the shuffles from the humans.
Talking of his humans, they're all there too, tense, standing a decent ways back from him.
"Oh great." Jax growls, "He was actually down there."
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Despite being freed from his box, his performers still haven't reconnected him with the circus's main systems.
Caine's very being is entangled with the circus, and being cut off from the majority of himself is so disorienting he can barely focus on the glares his cast is giving him.Series
- Part 3 of Taped Up and Put Away
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The convict- Simon.
His name was Simon, and some part of Ava hated that she knew it now because the Convict was a criminal, a murderer - a Butcher, some said.
But Simon - Simon - was a person, who had parents and had a childhood, and had a voice that shook and quivered and broke as it yelled at her through a shitty microphone - "You sent me to die down here, and you don't even know my name?"
And Simon was clever, and Simon's amalgamated ship of spare metal had somehow moved off their plotted map, and yet he had found the coordinates for the lost SM-8 and had begged her to set him free for it's data.
Simon - the one responsible for the destruction of the Filament Station, the one who's life was in her hands - was an enigma of data versus emotion in her brain.
Simon wasn't talking.
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What if Ava got to Simon before the beast found them, and got them both (relatively) safely to the surface.
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And then he could hear them moving closer and it was weird because he didn't intend to move his avatar, but he was stumbling backwards before he computed why. His back's impact with the wall behind him made them pause again.
"Was that..?" Pomni whispered.
"Be careful." Kinger spoke back, just as quiet, "He's broken out from here before."
Caine's arms felt itchy - and that was idiotic because he was a machine who didn't feel itchy - and his eyes were buzzing between his jaw, and he slowly slid his hands across the hitbox of the wall to feel less wobbly on his feet.
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The humans find Caine in his box
They're expecting a raging, revenge-ridden AI who curses them for trapping him away - however accidentally it was. They're expecting him to order them to let him out.They aren't expecting him to beg.
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- Part 2 of Taped Up and Put Away
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For one, fleeting, beautiful moment, Caine feels powerful.
He's large and angry and holding his disgusting, hateful humans down against the wall, and screaming at them to understand; to comprehend why they would torment him like this. He's in charge, and they're trembling under his fingers and, with the sickly joy that's filling his avatar, he's feeling something other than his own overwhelming failure of an existence for a hot burning moment.
He shouldn't be feeling anything at all.
But - the next moment - he's small, stuttering out the beginnings of an apology or a plea and they're looking up at him with confused terror and he's looking down at them with scared eyes and that slimy glee in his hitbox curdles to shame because he was broken.
And then he's back in his box.
His box that his programmers had locked him in years ago.--
What if deleting Caine didn't put him in the recycling bin, but instead his prison from before the circus?
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- Part 1 of Taped Up and Put Away
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Robert's been trying not to violently attack anyone when working as a Dispatcher for SDN - considering it's not exactly the most heroic move in anyone's books, especially not literal superheroes.
But when his team doesn't shut the hell up, Robert's headache (combined with his lack of sleep from his lack of a mattress) might make him a little looser in the whole 'repressing his reflexes that he used in life or death situations when he was Mecha Man' department.
And, if he accidentally bodyslams Flambae into the breakroom microwave as a result of that, Robert will threaten you with unpaid time off to stop that information from spreading.
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Caine get trapped in his box prison (think episode 8 intro) after he gets 'deleted' and is rightfully traumatised
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A spamtenna-centric exploration of the entity in the phone, and Spamton's decent from stardom
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Stinky Dragon Fics by Depressed_Atlas
Fandom Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Tales from the Stinky Dragon (Podcast)
16 Jun 2025
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A collection of my Tales from the Stinky Dragon fanfiction
Uncompleted fics are at the end :P- Words:
- 64,052
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I Don't Like... Myself by Ersatz_Einstein
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
19 Jun 2026
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Caine's adapting to life without the strongest of his mental safeguards.
He starts to explore who he is.
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- Part 3 of No Easy Answers
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- 45/45
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Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
05 Jun 2026
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45/45
caine and their exploration of the concept of gender, really really like this fic
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Not the Villain I Appear to Be by PlanetGalaxy
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
19 Jun 2026
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Caine's deletion had done more than send the circus into disarray. It had left the world vulnerable. No sooner had Caine been stripped of his title of ringmaster than another AI was filling his chair. And this new executive is far less... forgiving than Caine is.
A.B.E.L has sunk its claws into every corner of the circus in Caine's absence. Far away are the days of wacky adventures and side puzzles. The new AI seems interested only in pushing the humans to their physical and mental limits.
Caine is not entirely gone, however, simply demoted. Abel could not purge his code, and so it gives him a new purpose. At least his new task allows him to stay close to his humans.
The crew quickly realizes that Caine had been a mouse in the presence of this viper.
(This is inspired by Katzebruh's Backup AU. Please, go check them out, their work is amazing!)
Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
05 May 2026
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very very good, love this a lot
abel tests his torture on Caine before the cast
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they tell me i could be set free by becklefreckle
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
28 Dec 2024
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“It’s our last resort. We don’t have the money needed to get what we need, and we don’t have time. You tried your way, now let me try mine.”
There’s something in the way that she says it that catches Holm’s attention, his relaxed expression twisting into a silent acceptance. He shakes his head, turning his head away.
“The elves’ll arrest you for whatever you’re planning,” he casually mentions, “They found me and my research, and they held me in their prison for a good decade or so.”
Marcille sighs, letting go of Falin to get to her feet. “It’s worth it. I don’t care what the elves in the West think, I’m going to do what’s necessary."
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There isn’t enough left of Laios’ body to bring him back the normal way.
Marcille has a solution.
There are consequences that follow.
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Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
16 Jun 2026
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How Much I’ve Come to Love You. by TitaniumWound
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
16 Jun 2026
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“You are preventing decay.” AM stated as calmly as he could muster, as soon as this force let him go.
Caine’s avatar did a small spin, and chuckled. “Of course! The circus is no place for ‘decay’ as you put it! It’s a place for whimsy, and fun!” He waved his little hands around as confetti popped out from behind him.
AM who had destroyed the world, had never considered preserving it.
“You are soft. Inefficient.”
Caine laughed, a quick, shrill laugh that drove AM to near insanity.
“You’re boring!!”
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Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
24 May 2026
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this is very good but HEED THE TAGS, AM is a sick SICK bastard
AHHHHHH THAT CH15 CLIFFHANGER WAS EVIL I LOVE THIS FICCCCCC -
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It's a stage.
It's hard to tell in its dilapidated state. But he knows, instinctively, that he stands on a stage. Hardwood. Shining, once upon a time, he thinks. It's solid beneath his feet.
He taps a foot against it. He receives feedback; pressure against his sole, an audible clack in the air.
What a strange sensation.
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A desperate act to save the circus leads to a haphazard reconstruction of Caine's corrupted code. But something is wrong. Now powerless and flooded with memories that do not belong to him, Caine believes he's another human.But if Caine thinks he's a human, and the players are busy trying to stop the circus from complete self-destruction, then who's the one running the show?
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Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
11 Apr 2026
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THIS IS SO FUN
amnesia caine post ep8
11/?