#Ik I was slandering moonlight in the last rb

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YEAH ITS VERY FRUSTRATING. speaking of ships like that, most of the commons/rares/ovenbreak exclusives were only remembered as existing due to their relations to the “flashier, cooler” epics in kingdom. Like Roquefort being reduced to “mysterious non-binary (tho they erase that part sometimes too) phantom thief that we ship with dilf-y almond” while ignoring the fact that this mf is one of the most complex characters in that game oh my god they have so many layers I love roque

but uh yeah. Also Ty for seconding me on the wizards point I mentioned! We get literally no reason for their departure in either universe, and in both main games, they just straight up abandon all the life they make. Stardust in kingdom is the most extreme/notable example; considered a “failed”/flawed cookie, he was kinda just. Plopped into space as dough and abandoned and the stars had to raise him. Even if the wizards weren’t malevolent or whatever, their negligence hurt countless cookies. Re-Watching the kingdom city of wizards story? Stardust was fucking correct.

He had genuinely justified views of the wizards and their shitty behavior; Moonlight isn’t opposing them because she’s supposed to be the “good one”, she’s denying his points because she was ALSO CULTIVATED TO BE A TOOL AND WAS ONLY ALLOWED TO STAY AND GROW AND LIVE CUZ SHE WAS MADE “PERFECT”. watching the argument between the two, Moonlight strikes me as the “golden/favorite/gifted” kid who was groomed by the wizards into absorbing all the these stories and legends of grandiose and supreme intelligence and magical sainthood. She’s trapped in the city by both her duty (of which she had no say in accepting) and her cultivated devotion to parents who just… left her.

Speaking of trapped, BLUEBERRY PIE COOKIE. I’m not sure if it’s the same in kingdom, but in OvenBreak, one of her main things was that she was magically bound via curse to the archives, essentially dooming her to being trapped within a dead city forever. Why did she get cursed? She was searching for knowledge on her long-gone gods in a book they told her never to read from. Seriously what the fuck actually. She was punished and doomed for trying to understand and process the disappearance and natures of her parents. Those were her parents. And moonlight’s parents and stardust’s parents too. That’s their dads and moms dude what the hell im going insane

but uhhhh yeah. The wizards went to get the milk I have no idea how people can still say they’re the “good versions” of the witches ESPECIALLY in kingdom. Both are twisted, callous gods that toy with the lives of desserts like it’s just another Wednesday. Both figures haunt the narrative of their respective cookies, with both their absence and presence. God I’m going insane

Also PLEASE tell me abt ur magical girl au actually. it sounds like it’s super cool!!!

I saw ur post/ask about epic-legend privilege and common-rare hate and let me tell you the pain is REAL. ESPECIALLY with the ancients specifically getting away with so much bullshit over the years. Some of the kingdom fandom is super dope and some of it is more toxic than Chernobyl

my specific gripe with *that* part of the community around kingdom is just… how much of the nuance of the stories are erased and ignored when you give someone who failed English class an iPad. I don’t like being one of those “I’m smarter than you and ur headcanons are stupid” ppl (from first hand experience they are horrible to deal with good god I’m never logging in to fandom.com again), but the lack of media literacy has produced some dog water takes about the stories of the legends + ancients especially. And I’m emphasizing legends too, cuz OvenBreak community is much less guilty of this in my experience but we gave Sea Fairy’s flaws a pass for YEARS and I’ve only ever seen it called into question when I got back into cookie run late 2023. And the post was from April this year we were tripping for a long time 💀

but yeah anyways! The god cookies have pulled some dodgy shit since launch and I’ve rarely seen it explored within fan works or as part of a character analysis.

Take what you were saying about Pure Vanilla and his involvement of Gingerbrave in the BeastYeast plot line for example. How fucked up is that? Pure vanilla is 1. A grown ass man, 2. Fully recovered from the injuries from whatever story mode shit he was in at this point, and 3. A LITERAL GOD? And guess who he brings to solve his problems. 3 RANDOM ASS KIDS

dude wizard and strawberry didn’t 100% have to go (but let’s be real they’ve been so conditioned to do this quest crap that they’d probably choose to go anyway) but brave? They’re a HEAVILY disordered kid who has endured such fundamental developmental trauma (Almost no one talks about the oven and witch when relating to brave btw and it’s insane but that’s for another day) that it’s morphed into him basing their whole identity on 1. Being brave, and 2. Helping people. Even if pure vanilla didn’t sense anything off with the kid’s debilitating dependency on being brave and Not Being Alone and eagerness to fight and kill and die for people she’s known for barely a minute, you’d think the *adult* man could at LEAST say “hm. This is a dangerous god mission. I shouldn’t bring these kids with me.” There is much more I can say but I think u get the general jist.

PV is not a saint. Him, along with every other ancient, is a cookie with both immense power and important flaws who makes mistakes. While everyone has flaws and everyone makes mistakes, these guys have had more time to grow and power over their lives than almost all other characters in this setting ever will, and the sheer weight of some of these, dare I say, juvenile mistakes have had devastating consequences on families, friends, kingdoms, and even the cookie species as a whole. With great power comes great responsibility, but the ancients have been living life as if no one paid the electric bill, when in reality, they’re running the city’s generators.

YES THANK YOU

Especially the part with Sea Fairy because her obsession with Moonlight literally keeps putting the world at risk

Also if an epic cookie has too simple of a design or a basic story they’re forgotten immediately. Like Lime, Sandwich, Macaron, or Salt.