what the hell is even going on over there 😭😭😭 my Note:
white lily AND silent salt are dead now i guess (soul jam fusion? idk)
shadow milk did Something people did not like because now they're all like Ohhhh i can't like him he hurt my Guy or whatever :(. skill issue. i am the au writer and i will make a reedemption au anyway. i like the funny jester man
Why does shadow milk have a sprite where he looks like he has become a genuine eldritch abomination with too many eyes what the FUCK is he doing
I don't think he's getting a redemption arc in canon which tbh kind of annoys me bc i really thought that was what they were building to with the beasts?? something like dark enchantress betraying them and they have to team up with the ancients or something? thematically i get its a war but i was Not expecting them to actually like. just leave them with no character arcs?? especially the other 3 beasts they got basically nothing i've heard about
is shadow milk dead. if he's dead im gonna be upset. white lily i can handle bc she was already kinda dead and then she came back? so it really lessens the impact of her sacrifice? like. on one hand i admire that they actually went through with killing her off BUT also she . she was already dead? but then the faerie kingdom plotline kicked in and she Wasn't? so it doesn't feel as impactful because they've already brought her back before and i wouldn't be suprised if they did it again
at this point purelily is canon (i don't quite get the appeal tbh. ive never really shipped them. then again i am Extremely unaware and project aroace onto all my fav characters)
how many cookies did dark enchantress kill actually. do i want to know
i am sort of failing to see the overarching plotline? it feels almost cobbled together, like they were writing it as they went along. which, i mean, that's what i do, but . yknow. i'm not a game company.
is this it for the storyline? i heard some people say they're gonna involve timekeeper. i genuinely hope they don't bring white lily back because i love her so much but if the theme they're trying to convey is like The Horror Of Violence then... what was the point of bringing her back... and then killing her,.. to bring her back AGAIN...
is there a theme here? i thought the rough theme they were going for with the story was like... Violence Bad but im genuinely getting confused. i get maybe there was no super deep intent but i can't seem to find any theme? like... they had all these plot threads that just... got dropped?
the fandom is 100% gonna flip on a dime tho i know it, everyone's gonna say they hate shadow milk now. idk what he did but you guys do understand a character being evil doesnt mean people can't like them? and it doesnt mean you have to justify their actions? a character can be evil and unjustifiable. that doesn't make the character a badly made character??? why are you guys saying you have to justify a characters actions to like them. that is not how this works. do people think i approve of World Domination and Eternal Lying and Gaslighting because i like shadow milk 😭
this is just turning into a media analysis
i think a lot of the directions they took crk's story just aren't for me, i love the characters and the concepts and ESPECIALLY the horror angle they've been taking with some of the newer designs, but i really don't know if they can wrap up all the scattered threads in a way that is satisfying to me specifically, which is fine. i suppose not everyone will like something, and there's nothing wrong with me not liking it. i just PERSONALLY feel like after the beasts they had to kind of... scramble to make de a threat again? and so it all snowballed and i just do Not get it anymore, there's so many plot holes in my eyes. and i am a sucker for happy endings where everyone lives and is OK and friends. and redemption aus. so perhaps canon crk just isn't for me anymore which i suppose has been true for a while
i do hope the fandom (or at least the snippets on youtube) cool down a bit because like. if youtube starts recommending me people posting hate about guys i like i Will cry
ultimately i think there's just too much going on in the story for me personally, they've introduced too many characters and there doesn't seem to be a main cast anymore. i think using either the ancients OR the gingerbrave crew as the main characters would've worked but it just feels.. cluttered to me?
anyway none of this matters im still gonna make my stupid little au where everyone frolics off into a beautiful sunset and nobody dies
i am keeping the horror elements tho. i fucking LOVE how messed up all the designs and stuff for monsters have been. it's genuinely so cool to me and i will be doing that More actually.
