Rooks

"I don't understand super-dude, why have you not killed this clearly irredeemably evil villain?""I have.""What?""I've killed him multiple times, but every time I do, some sort of massive cosmic retcon thing occurs shortly after, bringing him back, and I don't know why."

IT'S CALLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COMPASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT EMPATHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WORD YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS COMPASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"You fooled the god of tricks. You outsmarted the god of knowledge. You even brought life where Nature itself dared not tread. Yet, you are just a man. Who are you?!"

Guys... You all realize that when we talk about racism and whitewashing and orientalism and whatnot in the Cookie Run fandom, we do not mean to say that these characters are LITERALLY poc, right? I'm noticing too many of you trying to dismiss conversations like this by saying that "they're just cookies" and they don't have human races... well, DUH. The point is that the worldbuilding is still very obviously based off of real human cultures, so the racism of the real world often bleeds into the way people talk about these characters. This is such a simple concept, how are people not grasping this. Even if the characters are fictional, racism is a real thing. Yes, there are better ways to help poc, but I yeah I actually do think people have a right to be frustrated with the way non white characters are treated by creators and fandoms because it's just one instance of a bigger issue. Even Devsis manages to feel racist about these characters sometimes

I like to think that he was involved at first, but slowly distanced himself to the point we see in Dominion of the Beasts after losing so many loved ones and seeing so many places he called home fall to ruin. He probably thought that being distant, more of a king on a throne than a leader on the ground, would spare him the pain of seeing life wither into death, but it didn't. It only made the cycle worse, as now he had no positive connections to cope with his growing hopelessness. By the time he corrupts, he's been distant for so long he can no longer find it in him to care about the lives he ends.

I'm crying you managed to give him more depth and do him more justice just with this post than Devsis ever has 😭