#tadc lifeline au

[iamespecter]

Ugh the urge to wanna make "Able's wish" comic for the Lifeline AU is at an all-time high but in order to make that comic make sense I'd have to make "In Loving Memory" first but even before that I have to make "New Doctor" part 2 which would consist of at the minimum 7-pages to get through just to give some slight context and proper introductions to every major characters' motivations

Maybe I can do it in sketches instead of full-fledged because I don't feel like painting I need to save that kinda flow for comms

[iamespecter]

LIFELINE AU - "NEW DOCTOR" COMIC!

No, I still don't have internet I'm posting this from phone 💀 (also, this thing crashed on me three times and lost a ton of progress. Don't talk to me /lh

I made this comic a few days ago during the time I couldn't access anything because my phone was dead, but now that it's fixed and I can transfer files from PC to phone, at least I'm able to show this in slightly better detail, rather than just being a straight up picture 😭

Not sure if this'll be a comic series either, or only the prologue/introductory gets these kinda treatment but time will tell. I'm def leaning on just the latter because I think I'm sentencing myself to death if this became a webcomic LMFAO

I'm still very sick, in pain, and can't do anything, so maybe expect a couple of old art posting in order to make up for the lack of proper ones the past few weeks.

Till' then, see ya! ✌️

[iamespecter]

I am not giving you all context

[iamespecter]

Ah! I have some ideas for Lifeline 🖐!

(just a few ideas, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to ^^")

If abstraction can be caught by touch, maybe one of the first disabling symptoms is muscle loss. Infected people lose strength over time, until they can't walk, move, or breathe on their own.

Also, in more advanced stages of the disease, they may gradually lose their sight until they are totally blind.

One sign that the disease has reached the brain is when they start to mix their memories or get very confused throughout the day (not exactly dementia, but a bit like it).

Maybe, small pustules appear on the body. When they heal, the scar would be in the shape of an eye.

Now some small Hcs

Pomni at some point asked to be euthanized, since there is no cure, why continue? Kinger rejected the request (my sheilas :,[)

Caine started researching a cure VERY seriously over time (not because he was in love). He ignored various protocols, but he didn't start crazy experiments because Kinger stopped him

Pomni might have known how to play an instrument (VIOLIN), but when she started to lose her movements, she stopped playing completely (Hc time: She used to play a lot for Queenie before she left. When Queenie was gone, Pomni would play to remember her mother, but unfortunately she lost the ability to do that, so she would just hum a few songs when she was alone.) (MY BABY😭)

Caine and Pomni would have long talks. They discussed the impossible nature of the cure and that Pomni should have hope and not give up

Kinger put Pomni in intensive care and therapy, he also keeps someone always keeping an eye on Pomni, he was afraid she would hurt herself. Kinger had already lost his wife, his daughter was out of the question.

Queenie's condition began to worsen when she learned that Abstraction can be passed on generically. The fear and sadness of knowing that Pomni could have that evil in some part of her life broke Queenie´s heart.

Kinger is probably making illegal deals to keep the research going and also to speed it up.

Caine spent a long time in fear, thinking he was "infected" when he started "feeling things", he was an IA, he wasn't supposed to feel! But after a lot of research (quizzes on the internet) he finally understood what was going on.

Pomni may deny it a lot, but she likes Caine's presence a bit, at least the clinic didn't seem so empty, and she didn't have many options to talk to anyone other than her father

Mmmm yes. I like this. I really, really, REALLY like these. 🥰

small comments:

1. I did say Physical degradation is one of the symptoms, so you're dead on with that

2. EUTHANIZED??? OMG POMNI CHILL I KNOW THINGS SEEM SHITTY BUT I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MUCH /nm

3. ueueuueueueueuueueuewue,,,,,,,,, Pomni playing violin for Queenie......... I SCREAM AND CRY AND RIP THE CURTAINS ON THE WINDOWS LIKE AN OVERDRAMATIC CAT

this would go so well with a comic scenario I have in mind omg

4. BAHAHHAHAHAHAHA CAINE FINDING OUT HE'S IN LOVE FROM QUIZZES ON THE INTERNET IS SO FRRRRR!!!!

LIKE. This is the same guy who got pushed off a building, almost got thrown into a wood shredder, got hit by a bus, attempted to have his circuits fried in the lake, almost got sawn in half by the same girl at their first day of meeting.

Yet, he is head over heels for her. /lh ✌️ BHAHAHAHAHHAHA

5. Pomni can actually talk to other abstraction patients eventually when she is-- more or less-- forced to join simulation procedures to help with abstraction research, and even gets to befriend a certain simulation AI,,,, but yes. I agree

6. YES!!!! IT IS CANON THAT QUEENIE'S CASE GOT WORSE ONCE SHE FOUND OUT THAT ABSTRACTION CAN BE PASSED ON NOT JUST THROUGH GENES, BUT ALSO VIA TOUCH!!!! God I wish I had time to make the comic I had in mind because it lines up so well with this

7. Funny you say that about Kinger putting Pomni in an ICU.... I may or may not have gone insane in my isolation from the internet and made a 4-page prologue comic that's exactly that plot :3c

Also, a little bonus note... I think it's clear at this point that this AU isn't exactly going to have the happiest of all endings like my other AUs because of what it tackles...

Don't worry though because it won't be super sad either, moreso a bittersweet ending, really....

but if it wasn't obvious, then this is a warning sign for what's to come :') sorry in advance-

[iamespecter]

What would Kinger think of Caine and his daughter getting together?

What if I told you he's too busy being distracted by his sanity and mental stability dwindling

[iamespecter]

My phone's battery keeps dying (I think something's wrong with it) but I cooked a little bit more on this Doctor!Caine and Patient!Pomni idea.... and this may or may not become bigger than The Amazing Digital Roadtrip.....

My mental illness cannot be contained!!!!!!!!!!!! Also these designs are subject to change because yes ✌️

Things I've come up with last afternoon while going crazy from the lack of dopamine are:

- Abstraction is currently determined to be a terminal illness

- It's contagious via skin-on-skin contact, and can be inherited through genes

- it can even bloom late in life, but that doesn't mean everyone that the patient has touched before is immediately affected

- The physical symptoms are inky black "cracks" forming along the skin, physical degradation, loss of saturation and many more

- Depending on a lot of factors, this illness can be aggressive, or at most be dormant.

- Once it reaches the patient's brain, it is too late

- But the progress of abstraction can also be delayed through amputation, depending on where the "source" is

- It only really affects "organic" stuff

- Which means AI robots are immune, and can touch the patient as much as they want without risk of infecting themselves

- Kinger is the CEO/Founder of the AI Association that focuses on the research about Abstraction, and how to cure it

- He is also, strangely enough, kinda immune? idek he seems fine except he's a bit cuckoo

- Because of it's contagiousness, people who suffer from the abstraction illness are GREATLY FEARED by others

- People who have the illness have to wear a lot of protection (such as gloves, face mask, etc.) in order to even interact with the outside world

- They also need to have their AI Doctor/Nurse with them AT ALL TIMES.

About the main pairing:

- Pomni is the only daughter of Kinger and the late Queenie

- She used to be more upbeat early in her life, until Queenie passed. She then became depressed, and it only got worse as her illness began to show and she became cynical as a result, believing she'll die early, and alone

- Caine was named and created based off of the image of Pomni's imaginary friend during her childhood, in order to ease her into accepting Caine as her personal doctor

- This did NOT, in fact, ease her into accepting Caine as her personal doctor because what the fuck.

- Pomni hates AIs for being unable to save Queenie.

- She also thinks that her new doctor won’t be able to save her, and that her dad’s efforts to delay her situation are fruitless.

- Part of her still clings onto hope. However, said part is also dying.

- Caine is a test prototype of a model that’s supposed to handle (and even possibly cure) the symptoms of abstraction, so there’s defo a lotta pressure on his shoulders

- Especially when he gets assigned to SPECIFICALLY THE DAUGHTER OF THE CEO WHO OWNS HIM

- He’s also one of the first AIs to not only be psuedo-sentient, but also self-evolving; in order to be able to adjust to patient needs and wants.

- He can “manifest” anything physical as long as it’s within the size limit of his own physical manifestation. For example, if Pomni is hyperventilating; he can manifest a pair of artificial lungs that pump oxygen in order to give her breathing space. (You know what that means)

- Not only is he able to float, he is also able to carry Pomni like she weighs like a couple of grapes because this is not me being self-indulgent and thinking he should carry her bridal style all the time (lie), this is me saying “it’s for emergencies when Pomni is too weak to even stand or walk”

- Pomni hated Caine A LOT at first because she hated having to be co-dependent on this walking life support so yes this is an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers kinda story (except it was one-sided "enemies")

- As the story progresses, Pomni clings onto the hope of not just surviving, but also living again; as Caine learns what it means to be not just existing, but alive!!! because me and my homies love stories about positivity and hope amongst shitty situations!!!!

- And then they fuck. Oh yes, they fuck eventually. And they fuck a lot after that

I don’t care this is MY story, MY AU, I will do whatever the fuck I want!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have no idea if I want some of the gang to be AI Doctors/Nurses too but erm. we'll see

[iamespecter]

If I made every single idea I had for a tadc au real I think everyone would hate me because so far I got:

- Another sci-fi au where the circus crew are neo-techwear cyberpunk hunters hunting down abstractions (also the rough concept for what is now known as the Lifeline AU)

- A steampunk-ish Wild west au where Pomni is an outlaw and Caine is the local sheriff. They go from enemies to lovers and their ship name is "Showdown" lmao

- A steampunk vampire hunter AU inspired by the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer movie where Caine trains the crew to become expert vampire slayers

- A lowkey crack, not-even-treated-seriously Aladdin AU where Gangle is Princess Jasmine, Zooble is Aladdin, Jax is Jafar, Kinger is the Sultan, Ragatha is the head of the royal guard, Pomni is Gangle's handmaiden and Caine is the Genie (Gangle, Jax and Zooble end up in a poly relationship. Because I ship these three.)

- A Detective story where Caine is a Noir Private Investigator hired to solve Kaufmo's murder and everyone is a suspect; but he spends too much time monologuing and everyone keeps telling him to shut up about his "internal thoughts"

- A human AU separate from Reunion where they're online streamers. Some of them are gamers, some are influencers and etc.

- A post-apocalypse au where Pomni awakens from a cryogenic pod to find her memories missing, and only Caine on a screen to accompany her. Together, they scour the overgrown city, in search for other survivors and hopefully, get some answers.

- A Steampunk AU where the gang is on a blimp, in search of "adventure".

- A crack self-aware AU where the Digital Circus cast knows they're just fictional characters, and as such, when the audience focus is not on them, they do whatever shit they want imaginable

- A Helltaker AU where Pomni ventures into a circus hell to get some demon gals for her dream harem.

- A singular roleswap concept where Caine and Pomni switch positions, making Pomni the new ringmaster, and Caine the new jester. Everyone else stays the same. Both realize their new positions suck hard ass and try to find a way to get things back the way they were because this is not just it girl

- Another roleswap concept, but this time; everyone retains their original personality with no changes.

- A Dark, toxic showtime AU, where Caine stalks an escaped Pomni and makes her irl existence a living hell in every way possible, so she'll have no choice but to go back and be entirely dependent on him

- Digital Artists AU where everyone goes to a digital art school. Caine is the one teacher that eats paint. All the AIs are staff/teachers.

- Archaeologist AU where everyone struggles to prove most myths are real. But then they find Caine, a mysterious, limitless being of unknown origins that was "mummified" and kept locked for unknown reasons. He offers to be their treasure guide, if they let him have fun. Chaos ensues.

- A Night at the Museum AU where Pomni is the newly hired night guard facing the horrors of museum collections being alive at night

- Crack Spy AU inspired by Johnny English and The Kingsmen. Everyone sucks at being a spy. They should all just quit ngl but the pay is good and they technically still do their jobs in the end, so-

- Steampunk Pirates AU where Caine is the Captain. All hell breaks loose as the crew tries not to go insane.... or get scurvy.

- A robot-fighting human AU inspired by Real Steel. The digital circus designs are the robots that the circus cast has

- Urban Legends AU of Caine documenting and trying to prove the existence of mythological creatures, and tries to find a way to establish communication or even befriending them.

- Dark Hearts AU inspired by my own oc au concept

- Fantasy sci-fi AU similar to Arknights

.... yk, I think the one-shot collection could house some of these stories actually, would be a waste if these were thrown into the deep recesses of my mind to be forgotten because I know I've already forgotten some

[distantmaniacallaugh]

LH MY GOD THIS IS SO COOLSNBB AA AHSGWGSN T FNDSSAANAN AGEGEAA

*cough cough* sorry this is INCREDIBLE and INSANE?! the detail on that fucking rendering Kinger looks so GOOOOOOD ASKSHFGSKK THE DETAILS IN KINGERS EYES WHEN HE LOOKS UP AND THE TWARS AND THE PERSOECTIVE AHSGWBW STHIS IS SOO COOOOL‼️⁉️🔥💥🔥THE HIGHLIGHT SON ABELS TEETH N THRN KIGHTING THE FUCKIGN LIGHTING PH MY GOD I AM GOING INSANE HOLY SHIT THIS IS I N C R E D I B L E

LIFELINE AU - "NEW DOCTOR" COMIC!

No, I still don't have internet I'm posting this from phone 💀 (also, this thing crashed on me three times and lost a ton of progress. Don't talk to me /lh

I made this comic a few days ago during the time I couldn't access anything because my phone was dead, but now that it's fixed and I can transfer files from PC to phone, at least I'm able to show this in slightly better detail, rather than just being a straight up picture 😭

Not sure if this'll be a comic series either, or only the prologue/introductory gets these kinda treatment but time will tell. I'm def leaning on just the latter because I think I'm sentencing myself to death if this became a webcomic LMFAO

I'm still very sick, in pain, and can't do anything, so maybe expect a couple of old art posting in order to make up for the lack of proper ones the past few weeks.

Till' then, see ya! ✌️

[just-mary-ann]

You know what I'm thinking about?

NURSE LILAC!

NURSE LILAC!

NURSE LILAC!

I am not giving you all context

[iamespecter]

For some added context, these are what I had planned (of course, HEAVY SPOILERS!)

"Able's wish" - tackles on the fact that Able isn't as heartless as Pomni thinks he is, and that he only wants one thing in his entire existence; To want to know what it's like to have a brother, like what he's seen on younger Pomni's drawings.

"In Loving Memory" - Pomni has another abstraction episode, in which she snaps at Caine for not really caring about anything, and that he's just nothing but an AI following programming; and that Queenie's gone because of AIs like him. Caine proves her wrong by revealing that his motivation is not his programming (although it reinforces it), but rather a secret set of recordings pre-abstracted Queenie left for Pomni while Caine was under development.

This is the first time Pomni warms up to Caine.

"New Doctor part 2" - finally introducing Caine as Pomni's doctor, to which she responds to this by trying to destroy him in any manner possible; which, she horribly fails at as Caine turns the table against her unknowingly.

All these plans are plot-heavy, maybe I should think of more light-hearted stuff and maybe something that doesn't involve drawing a lot just to tell the story lol

Ugh the urge to wanna make "Able's wish" comic for the Lifeline AU is at an all-time high but in order to make that comic make sense I'd have to make "In Loving Memory" first but even before that I have to make "New Doctor" part 2 which would consist of at the minimum 7-pages to get through just to give some slight context and proper introductions to every major characters' motivations

Maybe I can do it in sketches instead of full-fledged because I don't feel like painting I need to save that kinda flow for comms