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So I'm just gonna say that this story might take a predictable route, that the cookies Sage is mentioned might end up being Gingerbrave, that light of Solidarity thing, and not-so-surprising or entertaining Pure Vanilla Cookie.

I wouldn't be surprised if they used the souljam resonance for Pure Vanilla (which would be the only he would reach Shadow Milk), the connection Gingerbrave got from Ultimate Cookie, and the light thing cookie being a personification of the souljams would probably pulled a Sailor Moon like thing and have the souljams respond to it.

The sad thing I realize is that Shadow Milk is not genderfluid, just because he can shapeshift his form. That's just a surface reason.

They are called that because no one gave a damn about their identity at all. He's not called "it" because of pronouns but because he was an object, a tool, someTHING to answer cookiekind's questions.

Even Sage of Truth, the "good" path, mentions that even he still isn't acknowledged as a cookie to cookiekind. Just a means to get knowledge and have their questions answered.

So why bother remembering a name or pronoun if nobody really cares?

No one cares about his identity; that's why it was so easy to change his form, and no one really noticed it was him.

It was simple to "play a role" that everyone wanted. They wanted a godly being to grant all knowledge? Fount of Knowledge.

They wanted the truth even when it can be cruel? Sage of Truth. They wanted to hear sweet lies cuz the truth hurts or is inconvenient? Shadow Milk Cookie.

See, what he says here? It's easy to become something, deceiving the naked eye, and seeing what's true?

It's an interesting concept but since kinda rushed the ending of Beast Yeast with tropes and all that, I don't expect such a cool plot twist.

So I'm gonna get this off my chest.

The Ancients aren't stronger than the Beasts, not by a long shot. We can’t deny it and no amount of bias can change it because even Devsis showed throughout Beast Yeast and even in Act 2. 

Each episode of Beast Yeast from the first to the last of Episode 15 showed that the Ancients, even after awakening still pale in comparison to the power of the Beast Cookies. Literally the first half of each Beast’s episode is the Ancients getting mollywhopped by said Beasts. Who I must remind y’all are weakened and are in false bodies. 

Literally Burning Spice ripped Golden Cheese’s wings and threw her into a gosh darn cell.

Even in the last three episodes of Beast Yeast (13,14, and 15), the Ancients were at an disadvantage with each encounter with the Beasts. Pure Vanilla was about to get another despresso cup with decaf (mind you even the other Ancients went down when Shadow Milk pulled up with his Kaledoscope of the Void), Dark Cacao was trapped and about to get Thanos slapped, Hollyberry Cookie was about enter the sequel of Doki Doki Literature Club- HELL, Burning Spice Cookie was dominating the battlefield when they reached him and Golden Cheese had an army AND Hollyberry Cookie with her. 

In Act 2, Future Timekeeper had to come tell her other self that nobody was beated Corrupted Shadow Milk in every timeline he destroyed that wasn’t “perfect”. She had to go find Sage of Truth to understand how Shadow Milk Cookie works cuz she wasn’t gonna get that cheat sheet from the Ancients (sorry Pure Vanilla fans but he really needs a cheat book everytime).  

The Ancients only had one saving grace. The element of surprise, them getting caught off guard. “Cheap tricks” and probably (pfft probably) plot armor. 

Shadow Milk was busting their doughs as a SPIRIT when they were in the Faerie Kingdom and if he didn’t play with his prey they would have been crumbs. White Lily caught him off guard when she resealed the tree instead the two choices (what good that girl? “You” aka Dark Enchantress still busted them out in the end). 

Mystic Flour was caught by surprise when Dark Cacao awakened with the dragons and called out her view of the world. Mystic Flour saw him being a stubborn rebellious pupil. 

Burning Spice was caught off guard with Golden Cheese’s awakening but let’s be honestly brother did not care about her fancy upgrade. He wanted a challenge and she caved his temple on him which he laughed about. 

Pure Vanilla had to tap into deceit himself and lie to Shadow Milk to get his souljam back. Brother literally took a peek of Shadow Milk’s therapy files and said it out loud. He caught Shadow Milk by surprise. Plus dude really hit Shadow Milk with a whole damn ship and still said he wants to understand him. Yeah, no, spend the beginning of your existence being worth how much you provide cookiekind for eons first with no sense of self and freedom of choice THEN maybe you can talk.

Eternal Sugar was caught off because she thought Hollyberry would submit to sloth and run from everything after biting the fruit from her tree that made witness and feel pain from other cookies. Instead Hollyberry awakened and still wanted to leave. Honestly, I would book Eternal Sugar a ticket to the nearest psych ward but that’s probably Hollyberry’s saving grace at the same time. ANYWAYS- 

I’m not gonna go deep into White Lily and Silent Salt cuz everyone and their mama knew Silent Salt could have easily dusted White Lily if he didn’t put her trial. She caught him off guard too but honestly ain’t that deep. A lot of people were theorizing either he was gonna put her on a t-shirt or he wasn’t fully corrupted like the other Beasts were. Still think he should have smack her at least once with his sword. 

Now let’s go back to episodes 13, 14, and 15. Now I know y’all saw put cheap tricks in quotations. That’s because the Ancients didn’t really have a hand in the cheap tricks but it was still coming from their side of battlefield. Like I said, the Ancients and co were getting their doughs handed back to them on a silver platter. The ONLY, and I mean only, reason they made to Dark Entrantress’s castle was due to the Guardians of Nature joining the fray. 

When the Beast Cookies’ guards were focused on the Ancients. Which the Guardians probably shouldn’t have joined because their powers were one of the MAIN (weakened btw) foundation for the cookie world. Weakened because other foundation being the Souljams but then it was someone’s (*cough* screw those rocks *coughs*) bright idea to split the souljams and weaken said foundation already. 

Ya know, the irony that ambushing was from the heroes side when the Beasts were fighting head on with their own powers instead of trickery.

Pure Vanilla was gonna lose if Wind Archer Cookie didn’t step in and brought out the lawnblower. Literally had to put distance so Pure Vanilla can escape.

Dark Cacao was gonna lose if Stormbringer Cookie didn’t serve the electric chair to Mystic Flour Thor style. Really shocked her from that ambush.

Burning Spice was BUSTING their doughs on that battlefield! They were not getting past him at all. Golden Cheese was getting humbled and Hollyberry was being put in a crater from him bashing her shield with just sheer strength. Moonlight Cookie literally had to snipe Burning Spice with gas bomb of Bernadryl mixed Vics Nyquil just so they book it out of there, not win, and even that didn’t hold him for long. 

Fire Spirit Cookie roasted Eternal Sugar like a sugared smore so Hollyberry and co could escape from being swallowed by literal giant mouths. 

Hell, they couldn’t even get to the darn island without Millennial Tree Cookie breaking the dang barrier surrounding Dark Enchantress Cookie’s stronghold. With Sea Fairy Cookie speeding up their travel with a watery speed boost. 

They weren’t winning with Silent Salt Cookie. The dude with the most experience of combat under his belt ain’t losing to the Ancients, with his loyal, disciplined knights too. That’s like ChiChi from Dragon Ball beating Storm from Marvel.

The Beasts were certainly caught off guard when Silent Salt was revealed to have betrayed them and was the real culprit behind their sealing in the Sacred Seal Tree. I guess that was also their saving grace cuz they weren’t getting past Silent Salt at all if he was actually on the Beasts’ side. 

So yes, the Ancients are powerful, make no mistake, especially together, but even Devsis showed the power scale difference in the end.