Uuurghh... I'm so normal about Entremet and Angel Chiffon.
Specially Entremet. Most of my notes are on Angel Chiffon, but Entremet is particularly interesting — specially her creations!
I mean, both her first and last one make me feel like a person that is very sympathetic, however lacking empathy. She knows how to be an incredibly nice woman, but in the way that she's just... Observant enough to know what people like/don't like.
That part of lacking empathy does make particular sense when you consider what probably happens when she directly puts herself into others' places, though. Entremet likes everything to be perfect — if she applied the same standards to others, we'd probably have Dark Fondue all over again.
And obviously, that is because empathy is a lot more complex than Dark Fondue's line of thought.
... But it's a lot easier to just learn what is acceptable/isn't and mold your personality around it. It's what she did with her food, and probably what she did with her social skills.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO BUTTERFLIES. ENTREMET USES BUTTERFLIES IN HER FIRST CAKE, and I have a feeling that, in the context of Madam Pawtissiere's vote (is this truly what made you love baking? + We're molded by the things we outgrow)
Entremet overgrows her true self, becoming a mule to what others want of her. I feel although it's solid to compare her to a coocon, in the butterfly analogy — she made tons of effort to get where she is, however, she is now immobile and blind. She's growing and growing and growing, and that silk coocon is probably hella attractive.
(which, funnily enough, is something VERY reoccurring with her, mentioned to be a technique of hers.)
It's so hard to architect all I want!
Then there's her second creation, a wedding cake! A layer of white chocolate, for purity, a layer of milk chocolate for the "entrancing" of two futures. And a chocolate cake for.. if I remember, longevity?
I just really liked it. It's so ridiculous to think that she'd make a wedding cake in such a short amount of time.
God, I love my cat. How come she's sleeping whil people fight so hard next room? I'm going fucking insane. It's so hard to focus.
..plus, I just think it's really nice that the story of her wedding cake really doesn't have to be about a wedding at all. Purity, longevity and proximity are rather common in friendship.
ultimately, I just think the last part is *very* interesting.
The whole "low empathy high sympathy Entremet" headcanon came from that specific phrase of Bread Fairy when they mention that Entremet barely explained how to make that complicated recipe (I do not remember the name of the recipe, ridiculously enough. It might have been vanilla entremets?).
At the end of it, I do believe what ends Angel Chiffon and Entremet's approbation is the same thing that Angel Chiffon managed to overcome first round; something out of plan happens and time runs out, impeding them from piping the vanilla (piping?).
WHICH IS REALLY FUCKING INTERESTING.
and, I mean, there's a lot to think about angel chiffon, and a lot to think about her in relation to Entremet. In that metaphor, I decided Entremets should be a coocon — I do believe Angel Chiffon would be just leaving hers.
... In a way, the bakery gods would be humans helping her leave.
She's just a lot more rushy than others. Her movements are as uncoordinated as a caterpillar's, and she's simply so PASSIONATE about this world, a passion so incredibly different from the love others feel.
(I have a ridiculous amount written about her passion for baking vs. The love others showcase. It's borderline obsessive, and so ingenuous.)
