#I do also want to learn the actual skylanders’ lore too
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p-s-yokubo · 6 months ago
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I just bought like all the skylanders lore books. My wallet may be empty, but my mind will be full of the skylanders knowledge
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bearpillowmonster · 4 years ago
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Transformers: War for Cybertron (Siege)
It takes guts to make something like this, a hard reset into Transformers, going deep into the lore and doing what the original fans would want, I'm not sure if they asked for it, but I can tell that this was made for them. It really is the toys come to life, all the designs are in their original state, no modernism, no hybrids, no new designs or characters. Maybe you're a fan of that new stuff, I know I was but I have to respect exactly how this series came to be and how loyal it is to the originals while also being a little bit of a darker take while still being child friendly. Ladies and Gentlemen, this...is Gen 1.
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I heard that it's the start, that things are just now kicking off such as Megatron just building up to his bad self. They're taking their time with this but I know that this is a "trilogy" of seasons and there will be payoff, making those mainstays feel earned, that it's doing all this for a reason, a definitive experience if you will, in order to reignite and re-interest fans of Transformers. You'll understand what I mean if you try it. That first episode tells you everything you need to know, just how dark it is, what it's going to cover, and who it's being targeted at.
When I heard that this was the vision, I knew I wanted to check it out. Then learning that it was being handled by Rooster Teeth as a Netflix series, I knew it was going to be something good especially after seeing a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to review it when plenty of other series have come out over the years and not a peep.
Now what KIND of fan am I? Am I even a fan? I wouldn't consider myself under that title, considering how much people adored this series before a lot of it got screwed with and bland. I hear people talking about their first entry into the series (surprisingly enough a bunch have said Beast Wars) but I actually don't remember where I started, I remember the toys, I remember some of the cartoons, but not where I started. I was there watching the first Bay film in theaters as a kid, I enjoyed it, I still do. I can't say I enjoyed any of the other movies though. Transformers Animated came out and I'm saving my opinion on that for a later review but I'll sweeten it up and say I loved it. I played one of the online games with my friends before it got shut down as well as the Revenge of the Fallen video game and while those weren't the best games, I still had fun.
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I saw Dark of the Moon in theaters because I was still hyped and I was underwhelmed, confused and bored with it. I stopped going to theaters and saw Age of Extinction on dvd, I was excited (transforming robot dinosaurs for crying out loud!) but after that I decided that I liked the movies for the effects but everything else was pretty dumb. I didn't even watch the Last Knight (Nazis and the Round-table? Seriously? That's what you came up with?) I heard it got even worse beyond that too. Bumblebee came out, this time it was a different director, a new vision, but a bit of mix of styles. I was very much down for the idea and when I saw the opening on Cybertron, I was in awe, heck I'm still in awe when I watch the clip on Youtube but I can't help but feel that the rest of the movie was cheesy and a little bit unnecessary, I suppose if it 'was' the first film, then it definitely works, it is one of the better films, just not 'great' per say. (Hailee Steinfeld is great though, just saying) So now here we are, I left Transformers in the dust, I didn't really care for its cultural influence anymore (toys are cool though). I actually have an Optimus Prime shirt that came in a Loot Crate from years ago, it didn't react well with the medicine I was using on my back so it became discolored so I put it away. I was worn out on Transformers.
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(It’s this one but mine looks a bit purplish with splotches now)
I had a dream one night about Transformers the movie so I checked it out and it's as cheesy 80's as you can get...but at the same time, this series came out, so I gave that a shot. This was my last huzzah, my last reflection on Transformers, and I think this series knew that was for a good amount of fans. So, once again, I got hyped. I brought that shirt back out for this series. I watched the first episode and I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't impressed, yeah it was slow but I respected it and decided to try something else. A little while went by and I kept hearing about it which caused me to think about it more and more, so I gave it another shot, not to binge but maybe one episode a night, just to see what happens.
So, I gotta mention the visuals. I wanna lick 'em. Look at that shine and scuff on Megatron. Then the way Wheeljack's ears light up when he talks, the models look so gorgeous, as I said, toys come to life (and no not Skylanders). What I am sad about though, is the cinematography. It could be a bit better towards the start but it does get better as it goes on, it does get more interesting too and I think that's going to be the whole series, which is pretty noble. I'd say it can only get better from here, giving us a preview of its potential. Seeing these characters like this is crazy for me because I don't know a lot of these characters so I have to hold on to who I already know and when I do see somebody, it's cool, like "Hey, I know you. Haven't seen you in a while." in a completely different design than what I'm used to, but it's the original, it's kind of refreshing. The two things I will complain about is Sideswipe, he was one of my favorites, and while I didn't see all the versions of him (not even gen 1) I don't like this version of his character. The other thing is that I would've liked more of a fight between Starscream and Jetfire. I think it actually would’ve been a really good cliffhanger if Megatron got the Allspark then fled through the portal himself, destroying Cybertron after everything the series built up to...but that’s just me.
I'm up for the next two seasons and I'm happy to see a fanbase along with it. I recommend it, it’s only 6 episodes so try it out!
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shadowdragonlost-blog · 7 years ago
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Spyro Reignited Wishes; then Skylanders Academy Predictions (Then More Game Stuff)
I decided to do something really stupid, and try and post about three different things in one post because I guess a really long read is something that nobody has complained about yet. I am sorry in advance for the nightmarish amount of text you will see, and tell me not to do this in the future if you’d prefer one thing at a time. I will probably avoid doing this again in the future. I am sorry in advance, and I tried to mark the transitions from one topic to another heavily so you could just skip to what you want.
1. ———-With the Reignited Trilogy coming closer to being just around the corner; everyone who isn’t an original series Nazi — an original series fan that believes that just porting the original series to the PS4 is the only thing that can be done with this series that isn’t punishable by murder — is really exited to get their hands on the Spyro that predates all other Spyros. With that exitement however, many people have come to hope for and even beg Toys for Bob for any reveals on any of the new features they could’ve added, and hope that the Reignited Trilogy is getting all of the love that the N’Sane, and from what we’ve seen so far; from being in development for over two years longer than the N’Sane Trilogy because it was actually being developed at the same time if not early than the N’Sane Trilogy started to having revamped cutscenes and a reactive development team that gives what the fans ask for through hard work, the Reignited Trilogy seems to be receiving more love than the N’Sane Trilogy.
This love that is being given to the Original Spyro has given many of us a list of things that we may have come to hope for or expect (or hate the idea of if you are an Original Spyro Nazi). My list of wishes are as follows:
•Playable Cynder and/or Ember: First thing, because Crash had an extra playable character added for after the game was beaten, this is then followed by the Original Series having had done this before in later installments, and is made more likely through being probably THE MOST REQUESTED THING OF THE REIGNITED TRILOGY BY FANS OF THE LEGEND SERIES. So yeah, may actually be a thing.
•The addition of deleted content: Crash obtained his stormy ascent, and Spyro likely had many worlds that were removed due to either difficulty or time constraints, and as much as all files on the original series were lost by Insomniac, it’s original developers could definitely tell them about deleted content and abandoned ideas.
•A Crash Easter Egg?: Spyro and Crash were best friends after all, so having him show up in an Easter Egg or level could be pretty fun.
•Keeping the Adaptive Difficulty Algorithms: This one is more so one of my hopes for this Trilogy. The Original Spyro Trilogy was technologically ahead of its time in way more ways than one (outside of being two years late to the 3D Platforminng Genre), one of these wonders of technology that this game boasted was how its enemy AI would actually adapt to how good you were at the game, making it absolutely brutal for the pros of the series, and extremely easy for those who struggled with it more often, so every player would actually witness different levels of difficulty for each boss and enemy.
Even though Crash Bandicoot is difficult to start with and understand the full extent of its physics, all of its characters and bosses followed set paths, and for someone who is experienced at playig Crash Bandicoot, and has memorized the boss-paths; it is actually really easy to do a zero-deaths run of any level, boss, or even the entire game after having had played it before. Each of the Original Trilogy Spyro games would actually become more difficult the better you bacame at the game; requiring a more in-depth knowledge of characters and levels by a long-shot if you plan on beating the game without a single death, each of the enemies starting to react within periods of time that aren’t possible for some random player to just pick up and play against. So as much as people talk about how hard Crash is for them, they’re forgetting that the original Spyro trilogy was only easy for them because they sadly (and bluntly) weren’t probably that exceptional at playing it, and also probably because it does begin at an average difficulty level that was designed for anyone to just be able to play; so a lot of people probably didn’t have the difficulty raise too much for them. But yeah; I want the Reignited trilogy to show off one of its technological marvels that people today probably wouldn’t even try to develop or implement in the greatest of AAA games.
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2. —————As one of the many people who enjoyed Skylanders Academy, and really payed way too much to the lore of it and similarities it showed to the stories of other Spyros, I have a few predictions for season three that I can pretty much guarantee and would maybe even be willing to bet money on with the confidence and evidence that I have for these. With the Third season being released a month after the Reignited Trilogy, the fall of 2018 will be the season of Spyro. But keep in mind that I have avoided leaks, so any of this could’ve been leaked or disproven without my knowledge.
•A Bloodlines Episode: As much as that episode will not be called Bloodlines, their will most-definitely be an episode where Malefor and Cynder will be having some father daughter time (in the middle of Cynder being pissed); while Eon reveals the truth about Spyro and his history to the rest of the Skylanders; all while Kaos tries to have some father-son moments with Strykore. This episode will entail why Malefor hates purple dragons so much, and him telling that story to Cynder (which will 100% reveal that Cynder’s mother was a purple dragon; who probably died protecting the core of light from all of the dark-form purple dragons, or became corrupted as well. I can guarantee this because of Cynder’s color, her retaining her dark purple scales even though Malefor never corrupted her with Aether in this series, he’s just a black dragon who cares deeply for his biological daughter; so with him being black; Cynder’s mother would have to be purple. So that is definitely a reveal to look for). Though this reveal of Cynder’s mother will likely then be followed-up by a Dark Spyro visit (just because individual episodes tend to have themes that they stick to, and Spyro is convinced that Malefor knows how to find his family, and will definitely show back up to find out).
Stealth Elf and the other Skylanders will probably end the episode determined to find a way to either bring the purple dragons back so they could save Spyro (knowing how he’ll be looking for them), or they will either abandon Eon and his cause for having had lied, or forgive him and prepare to fight Strykore and Kaos to the bitter end. This may also include Eon revealing his relations to Kaos, but if so then this episode may be the forst or second one of season three.
Kaos will likely fail in trying to have his father spend time with him, and will hold that deep in his heart to be triggered later; pushing him to turn against his father when it is needed of him most; either making him worse than his father was, or and antagonistically-neutral character at the end of season three (which may be the last season)
•Saving Spyro: This one is the more complicated part of predicting season three, and that is because there are several ways in which it could play-out; each with similar or different saviors.
Cynder saves Spyro: The case behind Cynder being the one who saves Spyro can be seen heavily from all of the similarities that their relationship in Skylanders Academy has compared to the relationship that The Legend Trilogy Spyro and Cynder have with each other. But there is a twist in that, in every similarity in this relationship, the roles have been reversed between them. So Spyro’s because you have left me nothing to fight for scene can become Cynder’s; since he was the only thing that really gave her reason to be a Skylander. There is also the fact that she is likely a half-breed purple dragon, meaning that she would actually have light to give/bring to him in his darkness. Making her the most-ideal character to save him if the stick to their legend series references and self-established lore of how light works in their own series. Their is only one other character who could fit this role as well as Cynder could, and that is before considering how Cynder is the only character who has lived on both the sides of bad and good, and she learned and accepted how she could be a Skylander in spite of being groomed to be evil. She of all characters knows that anyone could be saved, and if they really want to sell the reflections of the Legend Series; they would have her stop at nothing to save him, this may force her to face both the Skylanders and Strykore though. Hell; she may even join with Kaos for a time just to try and get close enough to be able to reach Spyro.
Cynder saves Spyro when he visits Malefor: So dark Spyro will eventually visit Malefor in season three if not the other way around. Cynder will be in Malefor’s custody when that happens; meaning that she will definitely play a large role in the endgame. So how this will go will be; Spyro likely gets violent, one way or another it becomes a duel between him and Cynder in which she either loses or refuses to fight, does either the inversion of the Legend series Dark Cynder Spyro fight from DotD, or she uses her light to purify him knowing that she’s a half purple dragon now, or a mixture of both. This will either leave Cynder in a weakened or ill state forcing Spyro to apologize and find some way to bring her to the core of light, or she’ll be fine and the story will continue.
Cynder saves Spyro when he his fighting at the core of light: Similar to the last one, just theyre all at the core of light and Spyro and Cynder end up alone in the battle one way or another, repeat all thr stuff from the last one and bam, Spyro is himself again.
Cynder and Stealth Elf save Spyro at the core of light battle: Since Stealth Elf is Spyro’s best friend in this series, just pair up her value of Spyro and desperation to likely save him with the stuff from earlier revolvin Cynder and you’ll have a saved Spyro with two of the most important if not the two current most important people to him there by his side for him to apologize to and finish the final battle.
Stealth Elf saves Spyro: Stealth Elf is Spyro’s closest friend, so with that being a main theme; Stealth Elf alone is a candidate to save him, not as ideal as Cynder and Eon, but she can. She might use water from the core of light, but otherwise the power of friendship is all I can really say.
Stealth Elf at the core of light: Just read the one before, and You’ll know why this is the only location that Stealth Elf alone will be able to save Spyro, because the core of light is the only place where she can restore his light, her not being one of the three beings that just has pure light within them.
Spyro’s Skylander team saves him: Because of the themes of family within this show, the team that traveled with Spyro throughout Skylanders Academy is really the most expectable group for the show to use for anyone who doesn’t Overdose on researching and studying the lore of series like I do. They are a great candidate provided Skylanders Academy wants to just plot-armor the word “family” over all of the lore and character forshadowing that the developers did throughout the first and second seasons. It will still fit the themes of Skylanders Academy though.
Spyro’s Skylander team saves him at the core of light: This is the only area where the team detailed earlier could save Spyro in a lore-friendly way without the help of Cynder or Eon.
Eon saves Spyro: A lot like why Cynder will probably save Spyro, Spyro’s internal struggles are 100% Eon’s responsibility, and he is one of the three characters that we have seen who is a being that contains pure light (Spyro, Cynder from her mom, and Eon); so he would be a great light-giving candidate, but there would be a price to that. Master Eon (as we saw in season one) cannot expose himself to darkness on a great scale, and cannot expend his light without falling deathly ill. So if we wanted an Ignitus in Skylanders Academy who wanted to do right by Spyro even if just once, Eon would likely sacrifice himself to restore Spyro.
Eon is killed: This doesn’t need an explanation, Eon either dies from sacrificing himself, or he is killed by Strykore or Spyro.
What I believe will happen: Knowing the themes of family and friendship; while also keeping all of the Legend Series themes and concepts that are apparent and repeating in Skylanders Academy. Spyro’s team will likely try to save him, but will either fail or give up thinking that he may be too far gone. So they will likely start to relentfully view him as an enemy. Then will come the involvement of either Cynder or Eon to save him; I can almost guarantee Cynder will be the one to save him, because Eon likely shouldn’t die, and also because Cynder is the only character in the series outside of Spyro who has walked on both the dark and the light, and possesses a very unique knowledge of how one can choose to be evil, and can be saved from that, so she will likely either give him her light (some or all, either could happen), after having to either face him with the Skylanders, or face the Skylanders to be able to get him to open up to her enough in his dark form. But yeah; she’ll definitely be saving him; I want to go out on a limb and say that she’ll have to abandon her father and the Skylanders in the process; while also facing Kaos. Of course this series may not go that far, but I’m going to say that will happen, because that will enable Spyro and Cynder to save all of Skylands with Stealth Elf and the rest of the team helping as needed if they aren’t incapacitated, but it will also reflect a very specific condition that I will explain right below this.
•A large part of Skylanders Academy was how it had its own twist on the Legend of the Purple Dragon, in the Legend Series, Malefor and Spyro were Eternal (meaning cannot die at all), and in Skylanders Academy spyro had invulnerable scales, and both Spyros are said to have many more powers. But there is one confirmed power of the Legend Series Spyro that is known by fans as Convexity, and by the game files as Aether. It is one of the many powers that Spyro possesses in the Legend series that makes him as rediculously powerful as he was at the age of fourteen in Dawn of the Dragon (that and being unable to die), but his Aether powers had one twist to them; they were able to be accessed through a balance between dark and light; his dark form being a result of losing himself to the darkness of his heart and emotions and being overcome by dark Aether (along with his critically untreated depression that he only had a hold over with Cynder), but there was no real side-effect of being overcome by light and light-related emotions, unless if love overcoming him with light is what roided his heart into repairing the planet. It was also this power that he used to purify Cynder and restore her at the end of A New Beginning. Meaning that Cynder in Skylanders Academy could maybe even unlock this power; if not use it to save Spyro.
If Skylanders Academy was to use a twist on that power to defeat Strykore, then they would be bringing a lot of their lore full-circle, most of Spyro’s lore in Skylanders Academy being a modified version of the Legend Series Spyro’s lore after all, but the only question is; what would they change about Spyro’s Convexity/Aether powers before revealing them in Skylanders Academy? Cause if they kept them how they are now; then Spyro himself would never be able to use them outside of a few set circumstances; with Aether powers requiring a balance between darkness and light where Spyro is always either a being of 100% pure light or 100% darkness he would never be able to use them unless if he was able to becoming a being of both dark and light. Though with Aether being the one superpower that by its own nature should be able to accomplish anything; it will likely be required to save the Skylands. But there is one gem of a character who fits the requirements for Aether as they were in the Legend Series, and that gem is Cynder; with her mom being a Purple Dragon and her father being the ruler of the underworld; she would be a being of perfect balance between darkness and light by birth and nature. That would make her the perfect candidate to save the Skylands or even Spyro with her Aether powers. She could even try to restore Spyro with her light, which would then place either both of them at 75% dark 25% light, or she will abandon all of her light to save him; leaving Spyro at the perfect balance needed to save the Skylands, but then he would have to clutch a Cynder as she either falls to darkness, or fights desperately to remain herself; then Eon could show up and sacrifice his light to both restore Cynder to her perfect balance and bring Spyro back to 100% percent, or he could leave spyro and cynder at perfect balances and stay at a 50% light 50% neutral state, and then the series will likely end with Spyro either rejoining the Skylanders with Cynder, bringing Cynder with him to save the purple dragons if not going alone, or leave the Skylanders and become a guardian figure of perfect balance between darkness and light either along or with Cynder who shares the same description. Who knows; I’m just babbling on about what’s possible with the lore of the series.
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3. ——————GAME STUFF: I said I would like input on game names and stuff, so here I am asking. The game that you’ve all been seeing some random map sketches from is the second game on my development list, but it hasn’t been named yet. The inspiration for the games initial idea was actually my frustration with the pokemon series... I was frustrated with all of the limits that the game series placed on everything, from levels to training to even relationship development; so I started to create a Bestiary that had creature stats and growths plotted out heavily, and I have been trying to design personality types and creature interaction concepts. With creatures ranging from single-stage to five-stage creatures with each one being able to train their stats infinitely in their final stage. I wanted all of the evolutions to be locked-out be relationship level requirements at certain stages, and I wanted there to be main character creatures that would be with you throughout the entire game. So I started designing a creature game that will do all of that. I’ve gotten most of the story concepts down and rough story guidelines for individual characters and main-character creatures, but the back-of-game-case-summary will be a little like this: “Join Xavier on his journey through an alternate world with his otherworldy dragonling Fry as he befriends creatures, slays fiends, and tries to discover his purpose in discovering Fry and traveling to Alterium” or something like that. But yeah, it will feature befriending characters and creatures (no capturing); Xavier and all of the player-characters will actually participate in combat with their creatures; even though they will be significantly weaker than their creatures, and you all should expect concept art for this once I’m confident enough to start posting it. So please send me any name ideas that you come up with for this game, and I will ask for approval on any that I may come up with.
All of you have a wonderful night, and tell me what you think about any or everything I may have said here. You should even feel free to comment as you see fit.
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weirdlanders · 7 years ago
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*SPOILER ALERT* Do you know in Skylanders Academy, Malefor is Cynder's father, and Master Eon is Kaos' father? Don't worry, this is NOT in the games.
Lol oh trust me, I’m fully aware this isn’t in the games x,D it was stated by Eric like, season one that Skylanders Academy was it’s own take on the Skylanders lore and wasn’t connected to the games, the comics, nada (except of course for nods and injokes). It’s like it’s own alternate universe and that’s how I treat it totally, as WL is the same; it’s own AU take on Skylanders. 
I re-watched the last two episodes specifically to get a better grasp on my own takes on the finale. This is just my own thoughts so feel free to share your own on this post too!
The whole Malefor/Cynder thing surprised me, and I freakn’ LOVED IT. Long, loooooong ago while I was still thinking of ‘what ifs’ for Feuriah’s Dawn, Cynder was going to be Malefor and Feuriah’s daughter before Kurogh was created. I drew a pic even of Cynder asking Ignitus about her father, and Ignitus looking conflicted to tell her as he knew. But, I was very dumb and deleted it when I decided that wasn’t canon anymore :T So, seeing him as her father again feels SO WEIRD that it’s good!
I was at first sad that Malefor wasn’t the one trapped in Kaossandra’s book, and that he was just a regular Dragon King. But, I quickly grew to like it. For one it made me question well okay, then WHO is in the book, and two they still gave him a dark backstory with him helping slaughter a species (or banish, i say slaughter because I’m melodramatic AF) yet he’s also funny and a doting papa. It’s a side of Malefor we never saw in games and it gave him more depth and character he’s ever had. (in canon I mean, not including fan works of course) Heck, I never even gave him that much likeability, which is something I want to re-consider now seeing how much it suddenly made me more interested in Malefor again.
Also played with the idea if like, Feuriah was just sucked into this AU like Crash was and had to meet Malefor again, only to have him loving Cynder as his daughter and asking Feur on a taco date 8,D Also I play with the idea that Skylanders Academy Malefor is a single dad because it’s cute. BEST EVIL TACO KING DAD.
Now, onto the huge reveal on the final episode. When Strykore walked out I was slightly disappointed, only because I thought it was like, Evilon or Evil Eon from the Mirror of Mystery level, but I like him. I think I was falling asleep on my first viewing because I did NOT remember Eon taking off his helmet. Of course, until we get season 3 nothing is set in stone so this is just guessing for funsies.
Kurt mused the idea that maybe Eon split himself into two beings; one of pure light, and another pure evil. The pure evil one could have been Kaossandra’s lover originally until she realized how blindly evil he was (as I headcanon that she’s a lot like Feuriah thinking that there has to be a balance of good and evil, one can’t topple the other but instead maintained). So good Eon wasn’t Kaossandra’s lover, but Strykore was and is Kaos’ true father. Though if this was true, I wonder why they didn’t give Strykore Kaos’ eye markings? His mother doesn’t have them and apparently his father doesn’t either, but I dunno. That could be an interesting question to ask Eric Rogers maybe but I semi-fear that might be a spoiler for season 3 in some way.
Though I’m not 100% convinced Strykore is Kaos’ true father. When Kaossandra flew to the Academy and urged Eon “Let’s save OUR boys!”, for a second I questioned if Strykore is actually Kaos’ older brother and Eon’s firstborn son, but posed as Kaos’ father to trick him into freeing him. But that feels pretty loose as an idea and maybe a little too far fetched. I lean more toward the split from Eon thing. I thought Strykore could maybe even be Eon’s brother and Strykore has the forehead markings too, but thanks to that cliffhanging finale we just don’t know for sure 8,D His personality pretty much lines up with whomever I would have made to be his father in WL (never had plans to give him a father tho, just have him as lore/backstory but long gone). 
Either way, GOOD STUFF!!! Just what I was hoping for with this season, it was better than the first one! My favorite part being the character development Kaos went thru... i was so proud of my boi 8,D Seeing him actually LEARN from things while still being Kaos was so freakn’ good, that’s the kind of Kaos I try to portray with WL. Though of course, WL Kaos is like 30+ years older than the one in the show 8,D not that it really shows visibly but with character development. It was like the ending of Superchargers, I was so excited with that because THAT was the first time Kaos had any semblance of character development (only to have him return to his usual self in Imaginators... yeah hated how Kaos was portrayed in that game story wise :
Holy ramble batman O_O’ I still want to re-watch the entire series again and I will, but I’ll take my time digesting all this delicious new Skylanders content ;u; I don’t know how it’ll effect WL but I’m excited and inspired for sure!~Weird Hyenas
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