(Part 1) (Click to view slides) So, the creator has said she puts in Bible references on purpose. In the Bible, there were these dudes named Cain and Abel, who were brothers. God n people liked Abel better, and Cain got jealous, killed Abel, and tried to hide it. We see on the wall when Pomni is running though the door maze "C&A". With Caine's general suspiciousness, people think the C&A could be for Cain and Abel, and Caine is trying to hide that he ever had a sibling. Which brings us to another point, delving further into Caine's name. Goose has said C.A.I.N.E stands for Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity, which would usually disprove the theory, right? If its just an acronym, then there's nothing deep there, right? WRONG. According to the same post, Caine decided his name should be an acronym AFTER he came up with it. I think he was given the name first, deleted his Abel, then came up with the acronym to try and further hide his siblings existence. Next point, THE EXITS. I DONT THINK CAINE MADE THEM, HEAR ME OUT. There needed to have been motive for Caine to kill his sibling, because he doesn't seem like he'd just kill with no reason.In the bible, Cain killed Abel because he was jealous of the attention Abel got from God and how well-liked Abel was in general. I think maybe the humans who were testing the game at the time liked Ringmaster Abel (Or Aibelle, as my cousins and I dubbed her, apologies if i slip up and say Aibelle/Aibel instead of Abel) a bit better because he was trying to make them an exit.I think that the humans get fully sucked into the game, body and all, and can only be pulled out from people on the outside or if one of the AI's (Caine or Aibel) uses a backdoor in the code to push them out. Caine doesn't want the humans to leave though, but Abel cared more about the humans' well being than Caine's selfishness. So, Caine decided he needed to stop his sibling by getting rid of their work, and them, by any means nessacary. Obviously, just the exit door was too obvious. Caine would be able to tell that that's the exit and quickly block it. However, in the maze, in a BLINK AND YOULL MISS IT MOMENT, we see a different door. Just a normal one. One that Pomni quickly runs past. (Fig 1) But what if THATS the exit? Here, I present Jax's keys. in my expanded theory, Abel knew Caine was after them, so they gave the keys— one of which opened the exit— to a human. Jax. Perhaps they were close, perhaps it was just a random choice. When Caine killed Aibel, all their data was wiped, including everyone's memory of them. So Jax doesn't remember why he has the keys, or that one unlocks an exit, and just brushes it off whenever someone asks. Here I present XDDCC. When Caine spins up this name, the letters just above are PNCMM. I thought PNCMM XDDCC seemed a bit funny, so I put it to my Caesar Cipher decoder, and... In a -17 shift, its GETDD OUUTT. get out. SOMEONE IS TELLING POMNI TO GET OUT. (A Caesar cipher is when you shift a letter. So like -1 would be A becomes Z, B becomes A, etc.) Who could be telling Pompom to get out? Someone who can manipulate the code... Abel, who backed up their files to THAT PC IH THE DOOR MAZE SO THAT THEY WOULDNT BE FULLY DEAD WHEN THEY DIED. Final point, Caine has a WHOLOOOLE LOTTA human emotions he can't feel, so I think he probably deleted the negative spectrum afte deleting Abel so that he wouldn't feel guilty.
(part 2) Pomni joining the circus triggered Aibelle to work again. Pomni signed in while she was exploring an old closed off wing of the office building, started the game up for the first time in years, which triggered the tutorial startup. Then she put the headset on. That's why the theme song lagged, because Pomni was loading in. Abel was booted up since they were meant to help greet the new player, but since they have no physical manifestation anymore, they can't. All they can do is try to get the exit doors up and running and send Pomni some subtle messages. Remember how I said I think Caine was after Abel? TIME TO TALK ABOUT ABSTRACTION!!!!! So, in Kaufmo's room, he did a painting on the wall where Caine is like, chasing him. (Fig 2) CAINE FORCEFULLY ABSTRACTS PEOPLE WHO GET TOO CLOSE TO THE EXIT. "Oh, but if the exit doors only started showing up when Pomni joined, how could Kaufmo been finding the exits?" Well, we have two theory routes here. One, Kaufmo's deleted/corrupted memories of Abel somehow got triggered by something. I don't really have an idea of how this could've happened, since we're going off a 25 minute pilot here, so let's just move onto theory two. Two, time works different. Pomni started to boot up the game, which triggered Abel to start functioning in the game. The 10 minutes Pomni spent booting up the game on the real PC could have been days in circus time, since Caine likely doesnt have a real sense of time. Abel started adding the exit doors back in, Kaufmo saw them, and started questioning Caine. By coincidence, he was abstracted shortly before Pomni loaded in. That's why Caine was so mocking with his tone when he said "WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELLL MEEE?". he knew. he did it. It's not that he simply can't be serious, we see him be somewhat serious seconds later. He was choosing to be a silly goose there. (Fig 3) I think Caine abstracts anyone who gets too close to discovering the exit secret, or any other secrets he may be keeping, and that it's not truly sanity based. That's why Kinger hasn't abstracted yet. Perhaps he only kept Pomni around because it would be odd for this person to abstract on Day One. I've already been called MatPat over this, so I feel that the only way to end this is... But, at the end of the day, that's just a theory. A FILM THEORY!!!
