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A Therapy Animal (Fanfic)
Kitti is a C&A approved product!

A Therapy Animal is a fanfic based on The Amazing Digital Circus, written by M Ksunmoon 500.

Caine does some research on human psychology, and decides the best way to prevent any more circus members from abstracting is to create a therapy animal... though not the kind one would expect. Instead, he creates the Knowledgeable Interactive Treatment and Therapy Individual, A.K.A. Kitti. Since this is the Amazing Digital Circus, she certainly has her work cut out for her!

A Therapy Animal Provides Examples Of:

  • Back from the Dead: In a sense. After Kitti points out to Caine that his killing of Gummigoo in front of Pomni likely didn't help her mental state, Caine brings him back sans the memory of his death.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of "Objective: Survive", Caine notes, "[T]his fanfic was supposed to be a goofy oneshot collection!"
  • Breather Episode: Kitti invokes this in "Find the Fishys". Instead of one of Caine's usual high-concept adventures, Kitti gives the members an in-house adventure where they catch fish in the flooded Tent. Caine doesn't get the "breather" part of the trope, so he tries to add a giant seagull to make things more exciting before Kitti stops him.
  • Literal-Minded: Caine made Kitti The Shrink due to misunderstanding the term "therapy animal".
  • My Instincts Are Showing:
    • "Yarn" has Jax toss a ball of yarn in front of Kitti, who proceeds to play with it in a typical feline fashion.
    • "Forcefield" plays with this. As Kinger begins to explain, real life cats aren't actually afraid of cucumbers; they just mistake the shape of one for that of a snake. However, Kitti interrupts to explain Caine programed her to be afraid of cucumbers.
  • Punny Name: The aforementioned seagull is named "David Featherman".
    Pomni: Its name is David Featherman?
    Jax: Man, that’s cheesy. Even for you, Caine.
  • Sick Episode: "A Virus +(FREE IPHONE GIVEAWAY!!!1!!!!!111!11!!)" revolves around Kitti getting a virus, while the performers have to treat her. To make matters worse, she keeps making snot-covered popups whenever she sneezes.
  • Wham Episode: "Objective: Survive". Caine briefly has a moment of self-doubt, which causes the server to brick. Not only do several abstractions escape, but the load zones aren't working; nor is the teleportation function to Kitti's office. In the following chaos, Kitti and the performers get stuck in a dead end, and she has to tank a hit from one of the abstractions. While she doesn't die, her code gets corrupted. After Caine fixes the server, he shuts down Kitti to restore a backup of her at Kinger's suggestion. She subsequently does not appear again until a few chapters later.

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