#tadc ai replaced

[starsha-k-luna]

I love the Disney’s Emperor’s New Groove Reference😂🤣

Able thought removing caine from the game would delete him and he was very wrong

[iamespecter]

Some idiot said that my colorblind Caine art was, and I quote, "it's got an AI feel to it" and I've never felt the need to obliterate a random ass stranger with a concentrated energy cannon blast from outer space

if anyone wants visible proof that it's not AI for some reason, here's proof of the sketch and unrendered state (because I keep backups in case I want to overhaul)

[hootbon]

TADC Freakshow AU Masterpost

May you be warned, this is a horror/gore based AU. If that’s not your thing then I’d probably not click on the links

+ bubble

(these will be updated when new ones come out! None of them are in a particular order, some of them will be and hopefully soon there will be an actual order)

Go check out @jokerskellington !! They helped me out with a lot of the designs and the concepts :D

Story comics

Abstraction

Aftermath

A little chat

Notes

Stitches

Replacement

Outside

Broken faces

Lost friend

Restart

Looks decieve

selfish kindness

needle and thread

needle and thread pt2

Bloody tracks

I don’t want to.

Rule-Breaker

Eclipse

community choice adventure

Misc

posters line-up

Freakshow&carnival templates

Q&A

Q: Can we make ocs/fanart/fics/etc.?

A: Of course you can! I love getting work of my AU from others, please tag me in them! (Do not send them in my ask box, I prefer it when people post their own work)

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Q: Is the community choice adventure continuing?

A: Yes. You don’t need to keep asking me, I have been taking a little hiatus but I will be working on it soon.

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Q: Do you have any boundaries?

A: Not necessarily, but my only rule is to keep things chill over here.

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Q: can we make Nsfw?

A: I don’t mind, if it’s sexual, please don’t tag me. However, extreme gore and violence is A-okay with me (infact please tag me in those.)

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Q: Will X character be in this au?

A: all characters seen in the show will be characters in this AU and more than likely have designs when I get the time.

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Q: if gangle abstracts, what would happen?

A: she will abstract, simple as that. Then be replaced with an AI much like her sister.

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Q: can or will the virus be cured?

A: no.

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Q: what would happen if x character met y character?

A: I strongly dislike these questions, please don’t ask them.

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Q: art requests?

A: I don’t usually take them unless I like the idea and actively want to do it. 8 times out of 10 I likely won’t do them but who knows.

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Q: Art commissions?

A: I promise I plan to open those up for the people of tumblr soon, I am currently rehashing my prices and setting up my sheets but I will make a post when I am ready!

[madsgotmadagain]

ok so I never really talked about TADC very much here but after episode 3 I think I'd like to talk about the episodes and my opinions on it and stuff so here we go

Amazing digital circus ep. 3!

SPOILER WARNING FOR EPISODE 3 OF TADC

ALSO LONG POST/RAMBLING WARNING

ok so I really liked this episode! Its probably my favorite of the episodes thus far and it was perfect timing for Halloween! Though I do think the episode where they work at a fast food place will end up being my favorite by the end of the season because come on, look at Jax

look at him and tell me you don't want this episode

Anyways, ep. 3 was great! I've been intrested in Zooble since ep. 1 and feel like until now there's been little to nothing about them in the show. Like, they're just sort of there and never really get screen time. So the little thearpy sessions between them and Caine were amazing.

Also, the reason Zooble's never on adventures definitely was intresting. For some reason Zooble having body dismorphia wasn't on my TADC bingo card but ngl I think I should've seen it coming. It's pretty perfect for them, considering A. This isn't their real body just the digital one created for them, and B. Their appearances thing being all the bits and parts that can be replaced and manhvered was made for this kind of internal conflict

Also, the things we learned about Caine intrigue me LOT. Like, the fact that nobody liking his adventures is enough to break his AI and in turn, the circus, if definitely somthing I'm keeping in mind. Like, this is definitely important information about Caine, both his character and his relation to the circus

But anyways, on to the real star and reason I'm making this post, KINGER!!! Because this man

This sad, silly old man is my favorite. Officially. I liked him a lot in ep. 1 and 2 bc he was so silly. But ep. 3 really made me fall in love with his character.

his backstory was devastating. I feel like we kinda already knew about Queenie and him before this, but the flashback still hurt in the most perfect way. Like, the way he only likes bugs nc SHE WAS AN ENTOMOLOGIST AND LOVES THEM ABDHJSJSHSHJ

Also his whole memory thing is devastating. Like, he only has like this one memory and he only gets it in the dark. He also acts so diffrent in the dark like yeah thats also so sad like he only gets to have his sanity and personality in the dark and only temporarily like omg. Plus he dosn't get to remember the talk with pomni 😭😭😭 (BTW dementia having father figure Kinger also wasn't on my ep. 3 bingo card but I love it).

Tbh the whole cellar scene broke me. Especially the part where they leave hand in hand holding their break like it was so beautifully done. This gave me actual chils like omg it's beautiful.

So yeah, ep. 3 was amazing! I really enjoyed it and can't wait for the next one! Now that we officially have 3 fully episodes i can say that even though I'm not OBSESSED obsessed with it, I still really do like TADC and am going to keep up with it.

Thank you for reading this far, I hope you have a good morning/day/night!

[the-little-knight]

TADC HEADCANON LIST (With some illustrations >:-]])

This list is purely for silly purposes!!! If yall have different hcs, feel free to discuss em and all that!!

CW!!!! ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA MENTIONS

Kinger’s fascination with an “insect collection” is just based on him being a game developer in the real world (Thank you Matpat for that one)

Jax knows a surprising amount about bugs 

Pomni almost got gaslit into believing her name was “Pom-Pom”

^ it was Jax's fault, he thought it was super funny

Ragatha occasionally has the same issue as Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, albeit with less stitching back together!!!!

Jax has asked for alcohol many times, Caine has only fallen for getting him some four or so times.

Ragatha occasionally lightly punches Jax to get him to shut up (Usually in the side, arms, or stomach)

^ Getting punched in the gut usually ends up winding Jax quite a bit 

Kinger has had his hands replaced upwards of 100 times in his years in the digital circus!!!! (Usually things like the Zooble situation cause him to fully lose his hands)

Caine loves a good maze!!!!!!

Zooble, much like Jax, has asked for weed, but because there aren't as many fun names for it, it hasn't worked as well as Jax tricking Caine for alcohol

Pomni is a fidgeter, usually seen squeezing onto her own clothing and shifting on her feet

Pomni used to be very regular to swearing before the circus

Caine ended up being lectured by Pomni that it's not normal to watch people sleep, he thought it was something humans were used to because of what parents and mothers do for babies

Gangle owns multiple body pillows, she had to explain she doesn't own them for any other reason than to have something to properly hug onto

^ Jax was the one that teased her into explaining it

^ Gangle ended up crying from embarrassment

^ Aaaand Ragatha ended up steppin in to help first

Jax ended up flipping off the camera one time during the weekly mandated theme song, and since Caine didn't have a built in censor-sensor for that, he got away with it the one time.

Caine sometimes has to go through major bug patches, and starts speaking gibberish during the update....

Pomni, despite having bells on her costume, is amazing at stealth

Jax plays the most annoying peacemaker possible, but does a good job at it

Kinger often makes references to pop culture items and series, but nobody gets the point, mostly because nobody can remember quite where any of it comes from (And neither does he)

^ Pomni has gotten close to remembering

^ So has Zooble

Kinger is no stranger to fun wordplay!!

Bubble is the ai with the least amount of idle animations and the least coding going into his dialogue.

Pomni is an amazing singer, despite her anxious cadence when she talks plainly.

^ She also has a great voice to soothe people with when she isn't on the verge of a breakdown

OKAY THATS IT BYEEEEE

[alternatemalternate]

POMNIFELD

A TADC AU INSPIRED BY SEINFELD

Pomni is Seinfeld (Mary Pomnifeld)

Ragatha is Elaine (Ragathaine Beanes)

(yes, I ship Pomni x Ragatha)

Zooble is George (Zooge Oobstanza)

Kinger is Kramer (Lozmo Kinger)

Jax is Neumann (Jaxxson)

Caine is the landlord to Pomnifeld who ropes her, Ragathaine, Kinger and Zooge into crazy adventures. Bubble is Caine's weird pet.

LORE: Starting off as a surreal parody of Seinfeld, Pomni will see people glitch and things she's not supposed to see, including 2 corrupted NPCs known as Kaufeld and Gangle. She will later learn she is in a infinitely running TV show powered by Caine, who's an AI. Jax is an NPC and Ragathaine, Kinger, and Zooge are real humans like Pomnifeld who signed up to be on this show and had their memories erased to be replaced with new ones by Caine. Kaufeld was the scrapped protagonist of the show due to him becoming self aware before his first episode, and Gangle was a lost member of the friend group who was cut due to being unnecessary.

NOTE:

This AU is based off an earlier attempt at a TADC x Seinfeld AU (back when Caine and Pomni were the only characters people knew) along with a fanart post I saw.

WRITERS AND ARTISTS NEEDED!

[shadowslocked]

TADC Theories

Caine was part of the first group that entered the Digital Circus, and had to watch his co-workers/friends go insane when they became trapped and unable to escape. Using his admin abilities he tried to keep them distracted and their spirits up by creating zany things, creatures and adventures. This has varying rates of success, but eventually the first group faded to be replaced by new ‘cast’. Not knowing what else to do, Caine continued his role of Ringmaster. This quickly became his own way to cope, especially as different people came and went, to the point where it’s all he knows how to do

The Digital Circus was originally meant to be a place for game developers to test out their ideas in VR until something went wrong

Caine is an advanced AI who was programmed to create randomly generated adventures for the players. It’s why there’s a developer room and teapots floating around and odd physics, the Digital Circus was meant to be a VR like game but it seems to have never been finished. Caine as such is acting on programming, creating adventures for the cast because it’s the only thing he knows to do.

The reason there is no exit is that either one was never programmed in or the code to the exit was erased. This is why Caine can’t allow the players to leave, it literally doesn’t exist at the moment so he can’t do anything

The Digital Circus is used as a way of testing something, possibly the AI or an experiment on the human psyche, and the cast originally signed on not knowing what they were actually agreeing to. Bonus points if it’s a way to remove “problematic” employees from the company

The Digital Circus is actually a VR game being broadcasted to the public, a la Truman Show style. It’s why they can’t remember their names, it would make them too real. Also it would be funny if they weren’t allowed to swear but Jax pulling out a bazooka and gun was fine

[cyrusthemagician]

🫧waterpark au concept/general idea! (wip)🌊

working name(?): The Amazing Digital Mer-Park

overview/concept: The circus is replaced with a massive waterpark, each character getting their own section of it that's themed off their personality as well as what their section of the park is dedicated to! while it hasnt been decided who does what yet some examples are:

swimming classes

food, drinks, and treats

water shows

I've also mixed in some mermaid stuff and theming since each character has their own sea creature/animal (based on their personality or what i think suits them best) that they turn into, like a mermaid ofc. I actually have the offical list for this since its like teh only thing ive decided fully on lol (under the cut aswell as more info)

THE CAST AND THEIR MERMAID SPECIES

CAINE- mantis shrimp (confirmed)

GANGLE- eel(confirmed)

ZOOBLE- vampire squid (confirmed)

KINGER- king mackerel (confirmed)

RAGATHA- jelly fish (confirmed)

JAX- sea bunny (confirmed)

POMNI- court jester goby (confirmed)

BUBBLE- pearl (in a clam?) (confirmed)

MY OCS SPECIES (the characters are non cannon to the actual au itself)

CYRUS- beta fish (confirmed)

SUNBIE- lemon shark (confirmed)

SKYBLUE- shark (not sure, maybe orca)

BUBBLIE- jelly fish (confirmed)

POPPI- seal (confirmed)

BUGMI- sea bunny (confirmed)

I am considering whether they should be AI that have human souls in them or just be humans on their own as it is normally in TADC.

game overview: The concept for as a "game" is that its a free roam pick your own team sorta adventure. At the start of the game the player would originally get to choose which section of the waterpark they want to go to. This is where they would choose to be a "visitor" (temporary so you can go to other sections of the water park and check them all out or just enjoy the mini games) or they can choose to be an "employee" in which you would help the AIS/Characters with whatever their section is based on or does! its a major wip and im planning on messing around with it but that's kinda the basics as of now

[ominous-auburn-orbs]

TADC Gotham Rogues AU

I know, a digital circus au, completely unheard of and original, but I was dressing the cast up as batman villains and liked the designs so much I've decided to make it its own au. This is not something that happened of my own free will, mind you. The demons forced my hand.

I don't have everyone so far, as I still haven't assigned villains to Kinger and Zooble, and I haven't drawn Jax as the Creeper yet, so if any of you have ideas on what to do with those two it would be highly appreciated.

Anyway, here's the designs and some paragraphs on the current stories I have for them.

First up is Gangle as Two Face! Her design is probably my favourite so far.

Once a respected lawyer, Gangle is a dangerous criminal with an obsession with pairs and an inability to make decisions without her beloved coin. Before that, she was a mayoral candidate and looking to properly expose the Falcone crime family. Rather miraculously, a man who used to work with the Falcones was willing to make a full confession, first to her and then in court. When the court date rolled around, however, he denied ever working with the Falcones at all, making Gangle look a fool.

Her temper was something she had always tried to keep from the press, knowing what it would do to her reputation. It came in the form of her second mask, which while seeming happy, expressed a severe desire for revenge and a sadistic joy. This mask was getting closer to showing the more she pressed the man to fully confess. Suddenly, he cried to the security guards to attack, causing them to jump her and break her mask into dust and tear apart her ribbons.

Unbeknownst to the people in the court, the Falcones had managed to replace the court's guards with their own to attack and hopefully kill Gangle. While they were arrested and Gangle survived, her mask could not be put back together. She never recovered physically nor mentally, her duelling personalities now having to occupy the same body at the same time. She did everything right, and still suffered. Law held no justice. Justice held no law. Someone's fate may as well be left to the simple toss of a coin.

Caine plays the role of the Riddler, although a bit less narcissistic than the original. He's also not an AI here, as this au is set in the 'real world', but more in a 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' sense. (Humans and cartoony creatures occupying the same world)

Caine did his best to thrive in whatever workplace he could, thinking his abnormally high IQ would surely make life a breeze for him. However, his lack of money made things very difficult for him. He wasn't close with any higher-ups, his constant insistence on changing and improving ideas was found annoying, and his high intelligence was far less appreciated by his co-workers than he thought it would be.

Left alone with his genius and desire for power and respect, he turned to making gadgets of his own, selling them to gain money for more materials to make more overly complicated machines. Alas, he was plagued by his desire to show off and prove himself, so his contraptions became more violent as he turned to selling to the many crime leagues of Gotham. The public barely ever understood his perfectly mind-bending creations, anyway.

Caine was lonely, though, in his brilliance, so he decided to set up what seemed like a harmless intelligence test online, recruiting the top five performers to meet him for one final test. He put them through puzzle after puzzle, watching how they worked under stress and timers, and how they managed with his adventures. To his disappointment, none survived.

Ready to accept being alone at the top, and relatively unaffected by the deaths considering how little of a purpose those victims ended up serving, he was unexpectedly found and apprehended by police. A certain mob boss he had sold some of his best torture devices to had ratted him out in an attempt to lessen his own sentence.

Thrown in Arkham Asylum, Caine realised that this was the path he had to take. Society wasn't ready for his genius. They simply couldn't fathom using it for good, if at all. Perhaps if he showed just how dangerous it could be, his intelligence would finally be given the respect it deserved.

Next, there's Ragatha as the Ventriloquist. I decided to use Terrible!Ragatha as a replacement for Scarface, who was originally created by @obamerzslop ! I highly recommend checking out his au's, they're what indirectly convinced me to make this. She admittedly doesn't really have T!Ragatha's personality, but she does keep the design.

Ragatha is a meek and relatively gentle woman, her talent for altering and throwing her voice giving her some very good job opportunities in entertainment. Unfortunately, she was always haunted by a voice in the back of her mind. It wanted power. It wanted bloodshed. It was a part of her, yet the two couldn't be more different.

Unable to bare it any longer, Ragatha stole some materials from the studio she worked in and built her own puppet, made from wood and rags. When she was building it, she finally relented to her separate personality and let it control her. It was going to be its body, so it deserved a say in it.

Looking down at the puppet, Ragatha's mind felt less crowded. She put it on her hand, and it immediately started speaking. The puppet now held her separate personality, speaking in its voice. Ragatha thought that maybe now it would be less bloodthirsty, the body being a gift of sorts that would appease it. If anything, the personality got worse.

Going by the name of Dollface, the puppet quickly took control of Ragatha's life. She was a servant to her now. That was when she was forced into a life of crime, serving the now mafia boss, Dollface, and her greedy pursuit of power. Many have made the mistake of claiming the two are the same. That Dollface is a mere puppet that Ragatha could simply remove. None make that mistake twice, as they typically don't live long enough to do so.

Finally, it's Pomni as the Great White Shark. These villains keep getting progressively more obscure- Whilst she is far more threatening, this Pomni does still obey cartoon logics and physics, much to her displeasure. A part of that is her teeth becoming sharp when stressed/angry, which is why they're always like that now.

Pomni started out as a low-level criminal, pleading insanity at her court case to avoid being sent to prison. Miraculously, it was allowed, although now she thinks it was less because they believed her insane, but more because they thought it would be a good show of the consequences for such lies.

Rather naively, Pomni assumed the insanity of the inmates at Arkham Asylum would make them easy to manipulate, ready to be lead by someone with their head on straight yet an equal desire for chaos and power. She was too confident that she would get respect as 'the Great White Shark', or even be feared. She couldn't have been more wrong.

The prisoners in Arkham tormented her, never letting her forget that she had chosen this hell that they were locked in. It was absurd to have a sane person amongst Gotham's criminally insane, anyway, and they just couldn't stand for that.

As much as she begged, Pomni was given no mercy from the authorities, being written off as just as insane as she had claimed to be in court that day. Over the course of her stay, she began to break more and more, needing a way out before she lost herself completely.

One day, some prisoners organised an escape. Pomni scrambled to leave with them, but was quickly pushed aside. Since they knew how weak she was, she was ignored by the guards, but not by the inmates. In order to completely get her out of the way, she was thrown in the large freezer where most of Mr Freeze's items and weapons were kept. Unfortunately, the weapons were removed first, leaving her with no way out.

Frostbite began to set in. Her nose froze and fell off. She lost a finger on each hand as well as parts of her lips. Her skin turned blue. Eventually, when Mr Freeze was recaptured, one of the police officers went to put his weapons away. That was when they found her.

Pomni had finally snapped. Rather than thank the officer like she once might have done, she pushed through her frozen blood and knocked him down, tearing apart his flesh with her sharpened teeth. She couldn't do much because of her state at the time, but it did mean she was finally viewed as a threat. Her title as the Great White Shark was finally being used. She had lost her mind, but had become far more formidable than she was before. The next time they escaped, she fought her way through. While she is now relatively business-oriented, that violent anger is always there, waiting for the water to be tainted with blood.

That's all I've got for now, which was really long whoops-

I'm pretty proud of this, and hopefully I never make another because good god. This is a lot.

[shadowqueen402]

TADC affected by the Maestro Hiccups please!

Here you go! Just as I promised! You're going to love this!

"Balan, welcome back," Ragatha greeted her new maestro friend. "I haven't seen you in a while. But I guess that means that things are going great?"

"They were, for the most part," Balan said. "Lance and I had just helped a Visitor find their—HIC!" Suddenly, Balan hiccuped and released some of his magic at Ragatha.

"Gah, Balan!" Ragatha yelped once the magic faded. "What just happened…!?" She found herself looking down for some reason and gasped in shock.

Instead of her usual dress, she was now in a frilly, blue princess dress. Her black shoes were now replaced with glass slippers.

"Ragatha, Pomni's having one of her episodes again…" Jax said, casually walking to where the stage was. He stopped when he noticed two things; Balan's presence and Ragatha's new outfit. He snickered in pure amusement. "Getting all dolled up, aren't ya, Dollface? Did ya look in the mirror?"

Ragatha rushed over to the mirror. When she looked in the reflection, her mouth parted in surprise. Her ribbon was also gone and it was replaced with a silver tiara.

"Jax, her appearance isn't her own doing, but rather my own," Balan explained to the purple rabbit. "My hiccups can—HIC!" And Balan unleashed another hiccup…right near Jax. A cloud of positive magic flowed over him.

When it faded away, a small rabbit with periwinkle fur sat in Jax's place. Its little nose twitched as it looked around. "What's going on!?" The rabbit, that sounded exactly like Jax, demanded. "Why does everything look so large!?"

Ragatha resisted the urge to squeal. But she gently scooped up the small rabbit. "Aww, Jax!" She said. "Look at how adorable you've become!"

"I'm NOT adorable, Dollface!" Jax argued. "I'm— WHAT THE!?" His small, yellow eyes widened when he gazed at the mirror. Balan's hiccup had turned him into an actual rabbit.

Just then, Pomni entered into the main room. She seemed to have calmed down from her previous episode. "What was all the noise earlier?" She asked before noticing Ragatha's and Jax's new appearance. "What happened to you guys?"

"Pomni, you must get to safety," Balan tried to warn. "Ragatha and Jax's new looks were both caused by—HIC!" Another hiccup was released, causing a wave of magic to head toward Pomni.

When the magic faded, Pomni opened her squinted eyes. She looked down to see that she no longer wore a jester outfit. Instead, she bore a schoolgirl outfit. "Ugh, what just happened? What did you do, Balan?"

"My hiccups are far from normal, my dear friend," Balan answered, flashing an apologetic look toward her. "When in contact with one, you will change drastically to—HIC!" He let out another hiccup that hit both Zooble, Bubble, and Caine this time.

When the magic faded, Jax bursted out laughing at Caine's new appearance. Instead of being an AI, he now took on the form of a nutcracker. "Love the new form, Chatters."

"Speak for yourself," Zooble said, sounding both confused and unamused. "I now am made from parts of a quilt." She eyed up her body, taking in the new details. "So this is how Gangle feels when it comes to her hands, body, and feet."

"That reminds me…" Jax still was the same mischievous person despite his new form. "Kinger! Gangle! Come here!"

"Jax, no!" Ragatha warned, but it was too late. Kinger came out of his pillowfort. And Gangle entered into the room. She yelped when a marble that was the size of Bubble almost rolled into her. But thankfully, she got out of the way.

"Kinger, Gangle, I must warn you!" Balan tried to warn. "Getting close to me while I'm in this state you really ought not—HIC!" And Balan released a hiccup at Kinger and Gangle.

When the magic faded, Jax laughed again. Kinger now resembled a wax figurine of a king. But Gangle's ribbon body now resembled slinkies. The moment Gangle tried to move, she yelped when she found herself bouncing.

"I have a feeling that this is Wonderworld related," Zooble guessed.

[cyclopsarts]

Ok so I may actually really liked the idea of the tadc au Christmas party and wanted to build on it a tad so here’s that also if anyone else would like to add onto the party with thier aus pls do

I feel like for the tadc au Christmas party Caine had set it up to be held at the glitch inn however by the time he told the staff there it was happening guests were already arriving

[spiketheguy]

Carnvial!Cue (TADCarnival AU)

So lately, I've been thinking of Cue designs for a couple of TADC AUs, and one such is for the 'Amazing Digital Carnival' AU by @sm-baby;

[Some quick sketches I threw together for this, I'll update them later]

[Carnival!Cue on the left, OG Cue on the right for comparison]

Carnival!Cue, as we'll call him, would be an abandoned AI that was originally programmed to run a game room centred on fortune-telling, where players would aid him in deciding the fortunes on several NPCs. But due to a constant glitch that would keep crashing the segment, C&A programmers decided to start from scratch and replaced Cue altogether with 'Claire'

[Claire, Cue's replacement. He has.....mixed feelings about her ^^;]

However, Cue still exists in the game's files and at the events of the story, would find his way back. He'd be mostly harmless, but is in a horrible glitchy state that at best, like his original self, would be a bit dim and spout nonsense, and at worst......could very well bring the game down with him if unchecked :S

(go check out sm-baby's Carnival AU if you haven't already, its a fun take on TADC and I've had fun coming up with this alt take on my OC and making a new one in the process)

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

TRUMAN SHOW AU ASK IS HERE MWAHAHAHHAHA OK

Moon. How does MOON feel. how does he behave???

OKAY FIRSTLY THANKS FOR ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS AU BECAUSE I'VE LITERALLY BEEN HYPER-FOCUSING ON IT FOR WEEKS IN THE BACKGROUND AND RESISTING THE URGE TO POST ABOUT IT CUZ I HAVEN'T GIVEN MUCH INFO (the animatic ideas keep swarming my brain) BUT ANYWAYS

Okay so for this au, we need to differentiate between the two Moons that are present-there's Moon and then there's moon. ai.

Moon is trapped in the mindscape-he originally isolated himself from Sun after being infected by the virus to prevent it from reaching Sun. This proved ineffective after Sun tried to make a deal with the virus to free Moon-so Sun basically believes that he is living the events following Moon's freedom from the virus-and got infected as well. Sun's infection is different from Moon's-more on that later. But when both of them got infected, the virus gained complete control and trapped Moon within the mindscape permanently (before Moon had been able to leave if he chose to-he just didn't cuz he wanted to protect Sun).

moon. ai is the non-sentient version of Moon that is conjured up in Sun's reality, serving as both a friend and a warden. It's created by the virus and is directly linked with Sun's emotional complex-which is why he's there at just the right moment to help Sun work through any doubts he has. moon. ai doesn't really experience emotions-it can mimic emotions very well, though, to an almost scary degree, mirroring Moon's personality before the virus almost perfectly. For the most part, however, it can't properly experience emotions (for a good comparison, think of it like caine from tadc: he can't process emotions but can see them in others and mimic behaviors tied to them-sort of like the character ai thing) and just follows a set of very complex protocols dictating the correct responses to situations.

Moon isn't aware of anything happening in the outside world, nor is he living his own reality like Sun is. Instead, he's basically in the equivalent of the void, where the only thing keeping him company is virus wrapped around his throat and the glitching strings of code that flit in the edges of his vision. Occasionally, the virus (which is embodied by Glitchtrap and some small pink rabbits, as well as purple spores in the air around him) gives him a short glimpse of the outside world-specifically when it uses Moon's functions to kill children- as well as interactions between Sun and moon.ai to further drive the point of how replaceable and obsolete Moon is to his counterpart. Moon isn't really shocked by this-of course Sun would be happier with another him, different him, a better him. Who is he to deny his counterpart happiness if Moon's holding him back? Let Sun enjoy himself-Moon will just rot as he deserves. He doesn't resent Sun for wanting a better life, though he does feel a bit bitter about not being included in it.

[bunny-j3st3r]

I'm surprised you have not made a sonic tadc au. would you assign the sonic characters as them or would you make your own ocs?

anon I'm sure you thought aha this would be a fun little ask to send Jester, surely they are not insane, well I have autism so you're wrong there anyway.

I'd prolly make my own cast if I had the skill set to draw sonic characters but it's a learning progress still but I can tell you what characters I would assign the tadc cast and why.

Caine - Not Dr eggman funny enough. See Caine isn't evil he's just an ai doing what he thinks is best and if anything he's gone out of his way to keep the others safe in his own very bizzare and insane way but that's part of his coding I guess. I think whoever BUILT caine would be eggman, made to fuck with sonic and his friends so I think if caine would remain the same or if I was really going to assign a chacter it would be sage, simple fact she's already an ai that's become sentiant and throughout frontiers she just fucks with sonic until experiencing acutal emotions. But I think Caine would just be caine with his own personal eggman touch.

Pomni - Silver or Blaze. Silver and Blaze are the main cast but they are not to overly involved with them, they'll help out and they are considered friends but they are also outsiders in a strange way, silver is from the future and blaze is from another dimension. Pomni is the new character, she's WITH them and she's making friends but I think they think of her like an outsider. They both have similar personailities to her to when engaging in something with the group, they'll help of course but stressful situations can make a stressful character.

Ragatha - Amy or cream. Both of these personailities fit Ragatha in there own way, Amy has a certain mothering nature to herself, she's took it upon herself to take care of everyone around her but the thing is she is still only a child herself, she shouldn't be taking on that reponsibility but she's had to grow up fast. And I think Ragatha is somewhat the same, she feels like she has to be the glue that holds everyone together but that is not her responsbility. Cream would fit her due to Ragatha taking a presumed innocence to everything, yes she wants to help and wants to treat everyone with kindness but the fact of the matter is the world is not a very kind place and sometimes you really do have to just be mean.

Gangle - Tangle (lol/happy mask) / whisper (sad mask) although we don't get to see much of Gangle's happy mask from what we have seen she seems to be ready for adventure and maybe when her mask does not break she's the one charging out in front of everyone else the same way Tangle seeks adventure and meaning for herself.

Whisper takes on the sad mask due to her quiter nature as well as emotional state, although she likes to also hide herself behind her mask she i often very vunrable and emotional and tends to keep her distance from others if she can help it.

Zooble - Tails, I wouldn't say personaility wise that Tails fits into Zooble, I think more of Zoobles body when I think of tails, they enjoy to tinker and I think being able to remove parts of themselves and replace it with other parts would be fascinating to Tails. They also seem to have the smarts to go under Caine's nose to do what they want, even going as far as to not join in on adventures. I think tails would take this to explore and gather info, there's a lot about zoobs we don't know but I think they are smarter than anyone really knows.

Kinger - Big the cat. I feel Big just fits Kinger's personaility a litte bit, he's very chill and easy going and often isn't aware of his surroundings due to putting all his focus into finding froggy. He's also somewhat forgetful but is a loving character and often acts as a comfort to others, the same way Kinger does when he has a sane state of mind. I think instead of Froggy though it would be replaced with like a big pill bug or something hjdhvjfn

Jax - Sonic. Jax is a very easy going character minus being an asshole, he tends to do things his own way and dosn't often follow the set narrative that Caine has set out for him to follow. This is the same vein as sonic, Sonic won't ever do what eggman expects him to do, and if he does it's because it's part of whatever plan sonic has up his sleeve. I think the pranks Jax pulls would be redirected towards any ai and robots Caine has set up for them. He prolly keeps his distance from the group to try and get the task done as fast as he can which results in a slow growing distance or usually the group saving sonic at the last rush second.

Other Ai would still remain the same, but the manniquins would prolly be replaced by eggbots.

Honorable mentions

Queenie - vanilla the rabbit Bubble - Orbot and Cubot (sent in by eggman to just keep an eye on things)

[jesterhatman]

theory that taocc takes place in the same universe of tadc, but...

it's been a while and most of the original members have abstracted by now and replaced with new ones

the devs have added updates to the game (such as new ai like dusk and tophat, and new biomes/areas)

more viruses pop up as caine's ai slowly deteriorates, causing him to barely ever show up to make adventures (because he's spending all of his time preventing viruses from infecting the game)

[clowneryandshenanegans]

Theory time!!!!

TADC one this time, here we go go go go on an adventure

so we know that in the circus there’s three types of characters, AI’s (Caine, the moon and sun, bubble), NPCs (candy kingdom residents, gummygoo, gloink queen), and humans (main cast). (To specify: AI’s are characters who have not been created by an outside character and are not player characters, NPC’s were created by an outside force and are not players, humans are, well, humans)

But what if our main guy Caine is a part of that last group?

Hear me out. I doubt that the technology of the time when the circus supposedly takes place (probably around 70’s-90’s) would be able to support something as powerful as an all knowing, practically all powerful AI.

We know that the way the main cast most likely got in the circus was from a headset linked to a computer, which probably either made a complete perfect replica of their brain that was placed in the game while the original was killed, or their consciousness was somehow transferred into the computer.

So what if instead of Caine being an AI created by whoever made it, he was human? What if there was a human that was hooked up to the system way before the circus was even made, which then became a part of the game?

If Caine was put it the game before the circus was even there, the original human’s consciousness could have melted into the game until it seemed like an ai. Caine could have been a human placed in when the program was nothing but a void, who then went insane so far to the point his brain practically collapsed, then rewired itself to be a part of the game, to where he basically became god once his brain had been far enough melted into the code.

after all, which would be easier; develop an entire code fo years to properly run a program, or put a perfectly working brain, one of the highest quality “computers” out there, into the game, then wait it out until it became its own AI?

The circus is shown to have quite a few glitches, with clipping, character models going wack, and abstraction if it’s a glitch in the game. These could all be the results of a brain not functioning automatically like a computer would.

then there’s the theory of the NPC models. If the only thing that made the candy kingdom was Caine, and Caine is an AI, why would he have character models below the map?

character models below the map are something developers use when making a game, in order to have the models fully ready in case one glitches, goes missing, or is messed up in some way. This way, they don’t have to recreate the entire model if it glitches, and can just replace it.

but if Caine is an ai, he wouldn’t need the character models, since he could just spawn one automatically from storage.

but if Caine was originally human, the Candy Kingdom could have been one of the first things he built, believing he needed the models under the map to avoid having to redo the model.

So, my theory? Caine is a human, who was trapped in the circus for so long that his consciousness melted into the code, rebuilt itself, and embedded itself into the code to make him into the games “ai”.