Fission

Excellent question! I have been agonizing over it.

Huntress’s importance means Flute spell is required, but the other 2 Huntress episodes, The Wild Hunt and 17, are probably still only suggested.

Cosmic Owl… I need to look back through the season and the required list to see what background we have on him. Could include The New Frontier since it is the Cosmic Owl introduction episode, but feels more “suggested” then “necessary”. The Cosmic Owl stuff is pretty self explanatory in my opinion.

Now to the hard part. Fern. The problem is that Fern is such complicated character, to include his story you need to like, double the current list. Like, it would require Grass blade, Prismo’s death, creation of Finnsword, destruction of Finnsword, creation of Fern, and then most of the Fern centered episodes from there on. It’s hard to justify doubling the entire list length for a single episode character. I’m leaning toward adding none since Fern’s part in the overall show is minimal. Obviously they would all still be included in suggested. As for Fennel, she is a completely different character from Fern and does not require knowing Fern’s story.

I think her existence might be the worst thing that happened to the murder drones fandom.

Shipping discourse? Cyncest fan at the scene of the crime

Age discourse? Cyn at the scene of the crime

And just Cynessa, in general

All roads lead to Cyn discourse

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

Personally? I love Cyn, and I disagree with a lot of the fan interpretations of her. Am I gonna argue with those people? Hell no! They’re having fun and I want to have fun with them!

First of all, everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want with characters and anyone who decides to be a shit about it can fuck off outta the community.

Second, discourse always happens, if it wasn’t about Cyn it would’ve happened elsewhere. Can’t stop it, just gotta block the shits and move on.

Third, making it about the character instead of the people causing the issues is just gonna create a rift between you and the people who genuinely enjoy that character. And create a worse fandom experience for us all.