Moonfire

I got the audio down (just took a minute to mess around with one my lines) I just got do some finishing touches.

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1 / 2 / Part 3 / 4

Everything up to White Lily coming out of the rift with the AoD remains the same other than some rewrites to some aspects

Dark Enchantress’s soul goes back to White Lily, making her whole again and preventing her death

The other beasts survive once the castle was destroyed, the power taken from the soul jams are returned to them, and the ancients.

That part of the Ultimate Cookie gets absorbed into Silent Salt…

Speaking of him, he’s currently trapped in another timeline! Specifically far in the past! That definitely won’t cause some problems nooo…!

I might look more into this concept! Really like the idea of having a different beast end up messing with time instead of shadow milk (even though he’s also pretty cool)!

I can see Silent Salt’s motive to mess with the timelines is to “fix” them. Especially if he’s mostly in one timeline. He’s still angry at the other beasts, he still believes they, including himself, should not walk free. And being sent to the past in a different timeline may give him the idea to try and prevent it, no matter what. His attempts at fixing the past only breaks the timelines more, slowly causing more and more dangerous splits that could eventually destroy the original timeline, if he’s not stopped.

Everything up to White Lily coming out of the rift with the AoD remains the same other than some rewrites to some aspects

Dark Enchantress’s soul goes back to White Lily, making her whole again and preventing her death

The other beasts survive once the castle was destroyed, the power taken from the soul jams are returned to them, and the ancients.

That part of the Ultimate Cookie gets absorbed into Silent Salt…

Speaking of him, he’s currently trapped in another timeline! Specifically far in the past! That definitely won’t cause some problems nooo…!

I might look more into this concept! Really like the idea of having a different beast end up messing with time instead of shadow milk (even though he’s also pretty cool)!

I can see Silent Salt’s motive to mess with the timelines is to “fix” them. Especially if he’s mostly in one timeline. He’s still angry at the other beasts, he still believes they, including himself, should not walk free. And being sent to the past in a different timeline may give him the idea to try and prevent it, no matter what. His attempts at fixing the past only breaks the timelines more, slowly causing more and more dangerous splits that could eventually destroy the original timeline, if he’s not stopped.

I like that guy as much as the next person, but the amount of promo/videos/etc he’s getting is like eating the same food over and over again. You might love the food starting out, but you’re gonna get sick and/or want something else eventually.

the problem is that he's a little too attached to shadow milk's hip at the moment. their dynamic is fun, but Pure Vanilla has characterization outside of being Shmilk's adversary (let alone his plight with White Lily, but i digress). And the more you keep mashing these two together over and over and over, the more tired it gets. Pure Vanilla is associated with Shadow Milk and vice versa, and when people are already tired of one character, the other, by association, risks that too. Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla get butts in seats, pencils on paper, and tags in the algorithm. But at what cost to either of them, and to the people (us) constantly seeing them?

Pertaining to Shadow Milk’s role in the narrative: You can have an elaborate plan for a story years and years in advance and still fumble the execution

Even if Shadow Milk has been built up for a long time, which I don’t doubt to a degree, the way Devsis have been presenting him in-game and out is not appealing to everyone. Which, of course it isn’t, as nothing can appeal to everyone—but the issue is that they seem very excited, a little too excited to push their character out into the world.

It’s like if during Gravity Falls’s run, Bill Cipher got tons of official promos and episodes where he spent half the runtime monologuing. Then Disney put his face on all their marketing material. Surely Alex Hirsch had a very detailed plan for Bill walking in, but with him being literally inescapable, people grow tired of seeing him. The mystique of Bill Cipher came from how little of him we saw despite his importance to the lore. Shadow Milk had that potential but it was pretty much squandered after chapters 7 and 8. (imo, Shadow Milk was at his most engaging and mystical when we had less of him. The time between his introduction in BY 1 and 2 up to BY 7 and 8, when his presence was strong but not too overbearing)

Shadow Milk’s staying power is undermined by how Devsis chose to write him and promote him. In game, he is extremely dependent on long dialogues and/or lots of screentime, to the detriment of most other characters in the same scene as him. In promotional material, Devsis are getting dependent on him to make money. We’re seeing him everywhere, and while some people will eat it up, a lot of others won’t—and therein lies the diminishing impact of the years of planning the writers had done for this character. No matter how detailed your story is, a reader can still drop the book at any time

👉 it is OK to like shadow milk

👉 it is OK to like where the story is headed

👉 it is NOT OK to bully the people who like those two things

👉 it is just a game. no matter how much investment you have in cookie run kingdom, no matter how valid, at the end of the day it is just a game. it is not life or death and it should not be life or death

I’m not extremely tired of seeing him, yet, but I just want to see more of my favorites to you know, I want to see more of the other beasts (spice especially he’s probably the most intresting beast to me). We do have a new PM now though I’m unsure if that will cause any changes to the general problems for the story. I think with all the foreshadowing shadow milk could have been better if he was done just a bit doggedly! It’s possible for there to be good villains and lead ups, looking at Longan Dragon as probably the best example, they just need to take more time to develop the story.