Raptor’s Chaotic Dump

The Citadel of the Defiant and its Fearsome Protector.

Created by the Sugar Gnomes as thanks for Gingerbrave's """heroics""", this castle sits alone in a desolate land of thorns and ruins. It is the perfect secret hiding place for the Batch to plot, scheme, or just hang out.

To name a few of the amenities:

There's a training room, Gingerbrave's part freezer, Strawberry's game room, Wizard's lab, a library, a dedicated collection room for various things they feel like stealing and putting on display, the dungeon, a weapon room, LOTS of room to run around, lots of things for them to jump on, a nice kitchen and dining hall, a courtyard, a really cool bell in the tallest tower that they could ring if they want, and all SORTS of secret passages that the gnomes haven't told them about because they thought it would be like a fun easter egg hunt!

The Kids knew they'd be making enemies, and while the terrain is difficult to navigate, and the large number of monsters in the forest usually deter any visitors, they wanted to make sure their home was secure when they went out on their adventures. So when they stumbled across Jelly Wormy, well! How could they overlook someone with such strong ambition?

Jelly Wormy acts as the gatekeeper for the Citadel, determined to ward off any unwanted intruders! Though there is one kid who keeps slipping passed.... (He's weirdly good at stealth...)

No matter! Jelly Wormy is this castle's fearsome and powerful dragon! He won't let any Stuck-up Kingdom Folks or Cookies of Darkness slip past him!

Hey look at that it’s my tired timeloop grandpa!! What, Timekeeper can’t reach him and therefore can’t get him out of this precarious situation? Oops! He’ll be fine in Shadow Milk’s custody, right?

Timekeeper is not currently hitting this pose as we speak

Hey look at that it’s my tired timeloop grandpa!! What, Timekeeper can’t reach him and therefore can’t get him out of this precarious situation? Oops! He’ll be fine in Shadow Milk’s custody, right?

Timekeeper is not currently hitting this pose as we speak

Hey look at that it’s my tired timeloop grandpa!! What, Timekeeper can’t reach him and therefore can’t get him out of this precarious situation? Oops! He’ll be fine in Shadow Milk’s custody, right?

Timekeeper is not currently hitting this pose as we speak

OK CRK just dropped an entire extra cutscene into the act 2 prologue with important lore and MAN let me talk about it quickly...

It still feels genuinely insane to me that the Soul Jams basically split the Soul Jams apart and left the Beasts with the corrupted halves?? It was their own idea. They were left with the worst, most destructive parts of the Soul Jams, and then expected to become anything other than monsters. So of course they keep repeating the same harmful patterns. They were never really given the tools, balance, or chance to become better. They only know how to act through the qualities that were left inside them.

That is what makes it so unfair. The Beasts were not handed a real opportunity to be good. They were left with the “evil scraps” of something much bigger, and those scraps kept pushing them further into their worst delusions.

We already saw this with Shadow Milk in the Dominion of the Beasts episode. The Light of Deceit did not help him see clearly; it kept feeding his delusions and making him spiral even more. It did not guide him toward truth or self-awareness. It reinforced the exact lies that were destroying him.

But I did wonder "hey so if the soul jams were split.. and it looks like that he ancients only have the 'pure' half.. what if the beasts can't be good? Not for a lack of WANTING or TRYING, just.. the very essence that they are left with is corrupt?"