✨cherie - 🌈♾🦋

First of all let's list out Delilah's "sins"

Delilah:

Having the holiday toons isolate - yes, that's messed up, but you need to look at it through a buisiness standpoint. What are we gonna do with those extra holiday rooms during the off-season? Especially with how large the new Easter map is, that has got to be expensive as hell. We know they aren't locked away, or starved, or abandoned, they're just programmed to have seasonal depression (again, not good, but a lot better than most other options)

Not Making Gourdy's Parent's real - They aren't important enough characters to bring to life, they probably haven't even shown up in the show, or they have but have no faces. "Oh but they made Dyle and he isn't in the show" yeah well Dyle is meant to be a servant, he has a purpose... Gourdy's Parents probably don't?

Dyle - On the topic of Dyle! Yeah, creating a sentient being with no purpose other than being an unpaid worker is fucked up. I cannot defend that, but what I can say is that it isn't just Delilah's fault.

Bassie - Delilah didn't want her replaced because she hated Bassie, she did it because she was CONCERNED! She was worried about how someone as unstable as her would handle the public pressure of being a main, especially a holiday main because it's implied that holiday mains are the ones who do the majority of the work when it comes to handling their events. Plus, THEY NEVER WENT THROUGH WITH THIS! Delilah didn't make that letter in a "She NEEDS to be replaced and I will not debate you on this" she made that letter in a "I'm concerned about how this role will affect her mental health, can we talk this through?"

Bassie (again) - WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHE INTENDED WITH WHISPERING FLOWER! We cannot assume her intentions were malicious, or even if she intended for it to have an eye, we can't assume anything about it. I personally think it was meant to give her a companion like how Finn has Barnaby while keeping an eye on her while she's busy. I cannot confirm that, but no one can, we don't have enough lore to be able to tell

Okay, now what about Arthur's?

Arthur:

Bobette - This is his main and biggest sin imo, people like to claim he didn't know any better but he is a grown fucking man, not a child, he knew what he was doing. He pressured her into doubling her work, why? For profits, to make things bigger, better, more bedazzling to the viewer, that's why. The only Decision Delilah made that was profit driven was having the holiday toons self-isolate, and that was to save money, not make money.

Dyle - As I said, fucked up to make life to be a servant. But Delilah only brings toons to life. Arthur is the one who designs them, writes their characters, gives them names, he's the one who makes them up. If he didn't, Delilah wouldn't have a toon to bring to life. What I'm saying is that it's likely that he could've been Arthur's idea, and even if he was Delilah's idea, Arthur had to greenlight that, had to go through the process of making the character just right to be the "perfect servant", someone obsessed with trains so he won't complain about working on them.

Bassie - Hey... someone had to greenlight the idea of making Cocoa plushies, even if they were never gonna make Cocoa a main... why manufacture these in the first place???

Vee Version 1 - Hey... someone had to greenlight the idea of Vee Version 2... and last time I checked. Arthur is the final decision maker here, if he wasn't, Delilah wouldn't need to send letters to him on the topic of Bassie's replacement.

Squirm - Arthur refusing to accept his toons may be different than what he originally planned, he's so adamant on Squirm being a bookworm that he won't even hear him out on being a caterpillar. He's so closed minded and set in what he wants that he doesn't even realize that Squirm could be... both???? Bookworm is an umbrella term for many types of insects... one of those being moth larvae or *gasp* caterpillars

So, in summary

Delilah -> Makes decisions based on what's logical. She asks what would benefit the company? Sometimes she even asks what would benefit the well-being of the toons in some cases?

Arthur -> Also makes decisions that could benefit the company. HOWEVER, views the toons as though they are still his fictional OC's who must act according to script instead of recognizing that not only would their sentience mean they deviate from that script, but also that some of their personalities conflict with what they're meant to do.

You see what I'm trying to get at here?