Bug smilk

Full disclosure: I actually REALLY hate fics where Shadow Milk gets 100% redeemed, like back to Fount/Sage kind of levels. Even stuff where he just becomes really tame and only keeps a smidgen of his previous mischief gets a side eye from me. Because, like. The game literally takes EVERY chance possible to DRIVE INTO YOUR SKULL the fact that SM and PV are OPPOSITES, and that TRUTH CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT EQUAL DECEIT. It acknowledges that Shadow Milk is not a good person but also that he needs PV to balance him, NOT to defect to Truth himself, because that would mess up the balance. Both PV and SM are CONSTANTLY saying that truth and deceit are two sides of one coin. That extra scene with EF and the Soul Jams literally says that the Virtues must embody both parts of them, good and evil. One of PV’s eyes is blue and one of the Fount’s eyes was yellow. In the one universe where Shadow Milk didn’t corrupt, Pure Vanilla did, and they have a balanced relationship of their own. The Yin-Yang symbol, one of the most common symbols of balance (that has been referenced in CRK already), shows that good must have a bit of evil inside, and that evil must have a bit of good inside.