#I yapped a whole ton; I apologize ASDFGHJ

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Did you saw the new update of kingdom? What's your thoughts of the story so far?

I DIIID, completed the first part not too long ago! And holy hell, does it just make me excited to see how this all gets wrapped up in the second part. ᵈⁱᵈ ⁱ ˡⁱᵗᵉʳᵃˡˡʸ ʷᵉⁿᵗ ᵗʰʳᵘ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉⁿᵗⁱʳᵉ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵃᵍᵃⁱⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗᵒᵒᵏ ⁿᵒᵗᵉˢ﹖ ʸᵉˢ, ʸᵉˢ ⁱ ᵈⁱᵈ.

First off, I wanna say that the Candy Apple reveal was really funny to me bc when I first played, I was like " Apple Faerie is so cute!! :V". But then, I thought " Wait, a character that was never showed in any of the promotional material leading up to this update AND has an apple motif like the villain cookie they're going to release??...suspicious." Man, it would've been really crazy if they actually hid Candy Apple's identity up until release for maximum impact. I was a little dissatisfied with Shadow Milk's lies in Beast Yeast Ep 2; Beast Yeast EP 7 completely turned that feeling around like omg ┌(。Д。)┐ I wanted Shmilk to really dig into Pure Vanilla this time around and the writing team delivered! It hurts so bad that Pure Vanilla really just wants to save everyone but everything that was shown to him just illustrates that he can't with the way he is now. Shmilk wants him to see that and believe that he's doomed with no way out. PV, likely in the second part, will push through that and persevere, finally accepting truth with a more optimistic outlook. I think the concept of time being mashed together within Shmilk's relm of influence is really cool :P. Because that means we're gonna possibly see Pre-Corrupted Shadow Milk and also that it makes the whole thing about Truthless Recluse even sadder. Looking back on TR's actions and words, he helps bc there's still a part of him that wants Gingerbrave and co. to succeed in saving their PV. And after they fought, TR is even more sure that they could. But they can't save him specifically. He who is part of a doomed future. I want to look over other scenes that Shadow Milk was in before this update later so that I get a better grasp of his character to draw more stuff. But this chunk of story we got gives me plenty to think about. Thinking mostly about what PV said when he was thinking of the Fount of Knowledge and how Shadow Milk responded. I'm not sure if I have it right but I have a feeling that Shmilk's corruption began with his loneliness. Trying to escape from his stress as the pillar of Knowledge, he attempted to be like those who embrace ignorance. And when he couldn't even find understanding there (referring to him being derisive towards the cookies who lived in 'blissfully in oblivion'), he went ballistic. There is no cookie that could truly understand his experiences and he's been sour about it ever since. He sees PV in the role he used to be in except, in his eyes, in a more bastardized way. Like the witches are spitting in his face as he sees PV smiling, full of hope. Also, kind of outlandish theory here: Y'know how all the beasts (so far) are like "that's my soul jam, give it back"? but what if the reason Shadow Milk isn't saying any of that is bc he already has the soul jam? The Beasts torture the Ancients physically and mentally in order to re-obtain the soul jams but if Shadow Milk already has it, then all that's going on in EP 7 is like a victory lap for him. ⚆_⚆

ALSO NEARLY FORGOT!! When is that Black Sapphire guy gonna come into play?? Is he just gonna be another Shmilk lackey or is he actually gonna help us? I'm kinda hoping he's the latter bc he's only got the other half of the update to make his mark and I would love a reversal of expectations-