#i also 100% think caine isn't a real person either

[mellorocket]

I do have to say that, after seeing Jax's car with the license plate "JAX_001" I am now onboard the "Jax is a NPC" theory/AU bandwagon

[bunny-j3st3r]

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Also kinger talking about "7 years of computer science" while y'all glossing over that huh? Like he's the oldest person there to I know he got his ass trapped there.

Hearing it's his wife who got him into bugs is more fucked up because like he's forgetting shit when he's not in the dark due to prolly so many things happening at once he switches his brain off but like he KNOWS he likes bugs.

The abstractions also acting calmer in the dark, even possibly more human like, if kinger was the coder for the game, maybe he told Caine to put abstractions down in the dark until he's able to get out of there and maybe try and fix it, maybe keeping them down there keeps them human just that little bit longer he can save them.

But then he's in the light, he forgets he can give Caine orders, he forgets he's Caine's programmer. He forgets he could just tell Caine to end it.

Or maybe he knows he can but either his bosses or Caine won't exactly allow it, maybe Caine can't because he's aware there's technically no safe way to abort them from the game.

The players have a lot more control over Caine then they realize. Caine isn't an NPC, he's an ai but they keep seeing him to be like them, to human, so they forget this guy isn't like them and don't treat him like an ai, they treat him like he's an actual person with real emotions and it's conflicting for him because he needs DIRECT orders. Not just "just forget it" because he's only doing what you ask.

Jax still seems somewhat in different to things. I don't think he's an NPC but I think he's very well more aware then others. I think he's seen things pomni has seen, I think he's seen even more then what pomni has seen. We don't exactly know what levels of poking around he was doing before pomni got there.

The 4th wall break could maybe have just been him being weird but maybe he knows there being watched but not by us, by the company of whoever is running this whole thing.

I also like Zooble saying they don't want to be what they are but can't really explain it to Caine, he can only respond by offering them a box of different parts and they don't grow frustrated they just reply with a "I don't know who I want to be."

As a non binary person I really felt this, I feel like I have to constantly present myself in specific ways so ppl don't see me as to masc or as to femme and I have a struggle of finding my identity, of who I want to be.

I think Zooble before joining the circus may have already been questioning there identity, maybe they thought they were one thing but then thought they were something else. I think the confusion of that projected onto there avatar and they became a jumbled mishmash.

I think the further we get into episodes were gonna notice there avatars expressed there needs of what they wanted to be before joining.

I did like the pacing of this episode, I didn't feel like a 100 different things were being thrown at me at once it gives new ideas and new theories and I truly am looking forward to more episodes.

I bet goose also fucking loved being able to do an actual fucked up episode. It would be nice if it got the content farms of there back for a bit espically if future Eos continue in this direction.

I have a feeling that really isn't the "angels" final apperence