A really big theory popped in my mind the other day while I was watching pilot of tadc and the floors are checkered right well in a chess game there are checkers on the floor but kinged is the king and queenie is the queen which means that if the king(kinger) dies then the circus will be no more which explains why he hasn’t abstracted yet and forgets stuff because Caine was controlling him because he didn’t want the circus to be gone so that canines gone the king(kinger) might abstract
