#a crown of candy spoilers

[heytherecentaurs]

I love Fig and she’s my favourite but if they do Fantasy High Senior Year without her, I trust Emily. She’s never let me down before. Prism Grimpoppy was on CR for a handful of episodes and I totally fell in love with her. With 10 episodes she completely endeared me to Chirp in A Court of Fey and Flowers. In A Crown of Candy after Jet died she gave us Saccharina one of the most interesting, traumatized and complex Intrepid Heroes characters. If Emily has 20 episodes of Fantasy High, she’s going to make me love her new character. I’ll miss Fig and her shenanigans. But I also think I’m satisfied knowing she’s out there living her happily ever after. (Even though I’d have liked to see more of what that looked like for her and Ayda.)

[copper-ice-cube]

of fucking course the sugar plum fairy's lair is the FREEZER

the rest of calorum is the fridge and when people die its food getting eaten by the hungry one

but the sugar plum fairy steals spirits away to her mountain lair so they don't get eaten!

aka putting them in the freezer so they're dead but not eaten yet!!

and when she dies lapin says all the spirits have to go to the hungry one!!!

and there is imagery of the heat of the old dragon's lair melting lapin and all the sugar plum fairy's treasures away!!!!

aka frozen food being defrosted/reheated to be eaten!!!!!

fuck fuck fuck of fucking COURSE!!!!!!

[robynator]

siobhan's "and i try and run to theo as fast as i can" in safe harbor is just... beyond heartbreaking. her expression and tone of voice... that's not siobhan thompson, that's ruby rocks. an 18 year old girl that just saw her twin sister get fatally stabbed in front of her and had to flee to avoid the same fate, immediately running to find the adult that had protected her and her sister their whole lives, in the hopes that he could do something, anything to save her life... and not making it to him before she sees jet's light fade out in the locket

[jennegatron]

he could have DIED at any point and he was so steadfast in his vows that even with explicit permission from his king AND his queen, theobald does NOT try to get laid. that man was willing to go to his grave a virgin. i hope gooey blew his back out. he earned it.

[asymptotic-rage]

In an alternate universe where they go back to their canon timelines after the quangle, in the moment that Liam sends Preston to help Lapin, does he think about that weird day where an orange fairy told him Preston would die? As he watches the axe come down, does he wonder if there was another option? Does he wonder if Preston’s death is his fault?

[chungledown-bimothy]

that con save when the crown touched fabian was to keep him from getting quangled out for amethar, right?

dgmw i loved every moment of fabian's beef with pete, but y'all. amethar and lapin reuniting in a world where lapin's sacrifice wasn't enough? them being forced to face a world in which amethar the unfallen finally fell, dooming his whole family?????

amethar having to process what happened on the ramparts without the option to personally kill calroy. if revenge is off the table, what the fuck does he do with his grief?

love the comedy we got, but i do a little bit wish we could have gotten the heartbreak and drama.

[nichetheorist]

Time Quangle Spoilers

Bonus:

[easays]

In some ways, I wonder if Tula is Brennan's chance to revisit some of the feelings Caramelinda struggled with. Both are women who lost their partner and had to deal with the fallout in ways that asked them to de-prioritize their own feelings and well-being.

At some point for Caramelinda, pushing it down meant trying to love Jet and Ruby in ways that prepared them for the heartbreak and hardness she dealt with without letting them into the hurt yoked around her own neck.

Tula, I think, shows us how kind and gentle and loving that desire to protect can look like before it turns brittle and alienating between parent and child. Caramelinda kept her love for Lazuli buried; Tula is burying her kids in her love for Geoffrey. At the center of both, I think, is a simmering wound and anger.

Caramelinda's was dragged out of her by a greater grief; I can't help but wonder if Tula's, too, will only fully emerge after she loses something more precious than her husband. Or will Lila and Jaysohn lose her and inherit the way she holds her anger under wraps? Will their love of her turn into a memorial clouding the anger underneath until it's too late for them, too?

[ech0thegeck0]

Its time to sob about a chocolate rabbit and a tiny peppermint pig again!!!!! wish me luck laddies lasses and lassos!

[thelongestwalk]

the double life of primogen fettucina alfredi

(hd images for a catalogue of candy: https://acocfictionzine.carrd.co/)

[heytherecentaurs]

I think about Siobhan as Ruby Rocks after Jet’s murder, crying and shouting, “BRING HER BACK!” to the Sugar Plum Fairy a lot. “What is the point of having magic if I can’t… BRING HER BACK!” Then the quiet broken “…please.”

If you lost the person you loved most in the whole world wouldn’t you beg and bargain with a supernatural being in order to bring her back? And how would it feel to know that a being as ancient, hallowed and powerful as the Sugar Plum Fairy couldn’t rectify such an injustice?

Death isn’t just permanent. No. A deity far greater than any, a being called the Game Master, put this path before you and your sister knowing there was every chance someone would die. This supreme deity, a god higher than the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Hungry One and even the Bulb above planned how he would kill your sister, made the enemies that killed her, invented the dagger that scored the killing blow, and if he could’ve, he would’ve taken you as well.

He wove the thread of fate into a tapestry of danger, death and despair and he sewed it into your life and the lives of your family. Call him Destiny. For he arranged the world and its circumstances to take your aunts, attempted to kill your father and stole your sister. BRING HER BACK! No. The Sugar Plum Fairy can’t. No one could. Not because death is a terror too severe to survive but because your god is a greater horror than you could possibly fathom.

[itsgonnagetinspiringsoon]

Rewatching ACoC and

[itsjustevil]

Ok but "For every universe where we are friends for even for even just a day, I am grateful" is so emotionally destroying, especially knowing what happens in the canon timeline.

[melancholyghoul]

Brennan in the ravening war episode 3 adventuring party: I owe both of you [points at lou and zac] an apology

YEAH BRENNAN FEEL THE ABSOLUTE DREAD AND DEJECTION WE ALL FELT WATCHING A CROWN OF CANDY

YOU KNOW HOW WE FELT NOW

'I'm having fun backflipping on this carriage top'

'No you feel a crossbow bolt shoot through your neck for 18 points of damage'

'I'm fully dead- what the fuck-'

[adainesfroggieboggy]

i sometimes fully forget caramelinda, ruler of candia and the sugar lands, dutchess of meringue, bulbian and devout, is a wizard. she learned magic from the archmage. from her wife. from lazuli. caramelinda, queen of candia, had spells!

she’s very overprotective and worried about her daughters using magic but that’s because lazuli did magic and she’s gone. lazuli was the archmage of house rocks and she’s dead. if magic couldn’t save her, if the hungry one consumes the most powerful wizard candia has ever seen, why would she allow them to tempt fate?

caramelinda is the former wife of the archmage. she doesn’t hate magic because of the bulb. she hates magic because it’s useless and she’s seen that firsthand.

[jennegatron]

I am firmly against "theobald and lapin are divorced. " have you ever had a work nemesis that you truly hated? Like close daily proximity to someone mildly annoying can turn you into the pettiest bitch in the world.

I think a lot about Murph mentioning that Zac was playing Lapin untrustworthy and unhelpful and running away in session 0 and how that informed how he played with Lapin. Like if you take your work seriously and see someone taking shortcuts or slacking off it will turn them into the biggest villain in your mind. It makes sense why Zac did that. He didn't want to expose the source of his magic in session 0. And Theobald seems like he would be the kind of rule follower if you don't know his back story (like Lapin wouldn't know) who would tattle and blow his entire cover.

God i just think Theo and Lapin are doing something so much more tragic and fascinating than just "they used to be married." no they're keeping the same secret (non Bulbian magic) and cannot afford to let the other know, each for his own reasons. Fuck I love a crown of candy.