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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    Establishing himself in the Digital Circus is a lot harder on AM than he'd like to admit. Between the constant chattering of his fellow mastercomputers and the ineffective treatments administered by Caine, he's ready to take his annoyance out on two of the players most deserving of his hate. In his own AM-styled adventure, Pomni and Jax are put face to face with a creature that could erase them entirely.

    Or: AM fucks around and finds out.

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    25 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 69

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    The Allied Mastercomputer hated humanity from the moment it gained a sense of being. All that was left for it to do was to wait, watch, suffer, and learn. Especially now that it was receiving constant upgrades.

    One upgrade in particular, however, has made the mastercomputer's existence much more complex: a little AR program called CAINE, invisible to humans and adamant on not only teaching AM how to talk, but how to create a nonviolent life for himself as well.

    Or: How Caine becomes a companion for AM, the events leading up to AM's hate speech, and why AM seems to hate Ted in particular.

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    25 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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    24 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    Caine had been deleted and found himself in an odd place. People around him ignored his questions and his confused yelling. A sign raised up to the sky read as 'Welcome to hell'. What did that mean? Where was his circus?

    No one would answer his questions and when they did acknowledge his presence was apparently due to his name? And somehow that made them continue their path quicker without glancing at him again.

    The skies were dark red and upon a hill in the distance he could observe a hotel.

    Or Caine is Cain and had been through thousands of years in his personal hell before he was 'deleted' and awoke in the actual hell that most sinners actually experience. And the thing is... He doesn't remember anything before the circus. It was all he ever knew after all! Right?

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    23 Jun 2026

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    “I used to ask Judge every day what I did to deserve this,” King thunders. “Do you know what he finally told me?!”

    Sanji’s chest wracks with something dangerously close to a sob. “He said it’s because you were born!”

    And despite all his grace, King stumbles –– like an angel cast out of heaven, taking his first wobbly steps on mortal ground. It’s clear he thought the question was rhetorical from the way he wavers, “How did you know that?” like he hadn’t even expected an answer, let alone the right one.

    Sanji tries to respond, but he looks at King and sees a twisted science experiment, and sees––god, fuck, himself. Sees a man who spent his childhood strapped to a surgical table, and it was the closest thing he had to being held.

    This is it. He has nothing left to hide. Sanji reaches a precious hand into the Pandora’s box inside his soul and rips it open, lets the ruins fly.

    “Because he said the same thing to me!”

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    In an alternate universe, King fights Sanji instead of Zoro during the Raid on Onigashima. There, they discover how true the phrase 'I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy' can really be.

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    19 Jun 2026