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Okay dumb thought process here but this won’t leave my mind-
So in the bootleg for Ride the Cyclone I’ve found I can’t help but notice that in his opening dialogue while talking about Virgil the Base Playing Rat(TM) Karnak mentions that he’s been alone for what seems like quite some time. So the creepy novelty machine is lonely, take note of that
Now in comes the “Karnak and his six feral children” post I saw somewhere on this site but can’t find. Consider, just consider, that maybe after so long in the afterlife together this lonely fortune telling machine (because he’s oddly human for a machine let him have an afterlife of some sort) starts to subconsciously think of the remaining five members of the choir as his responsibility. Kinda like feral adopted kids.
Then of course there’s the possibility that one of the idiots jokingly/accidentally calls him dad but that’s for another time-
TL:DR - “Karnak and his six feral children” but it’s literal and I’m a sucker for the found family trope