#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.

[adainesfroggieboggy]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Caramelinda Rocks is a fucking amazing character. Her screen time is limited, and as an NPC, her story isn't the focus of the campaign, but I would read a whole novel about her alone.

She's introduced as an exasperated mother and wife who is struggling to maintain composure and control in a kingdom where every decision falls upon her - not her oldest sister-in-law like it was meant to, not her wide, and not her husband whose title and bloodline make him king. Not only is she the queen, she is the sole ruler of a country she was never meant to lead.

She was married to the love of her life and had become a princess. Her wife was a wizard, and she taught Caramelinda magic, then sacrificed herself and was killed in a hail of arrows. Of course Caramelinda hates the world outside of Candia! Of course she hates the Concord! The very foundation of the Concordant Empire is the war in which every country in Comida fought, and the war in which her wife was killed!

And because all of the Rocks sisters died in the war, she married her wife's younger brother to uphold the political agreements that her marriage created because even as a love match, a marriage between nobility is an intricate contract. She married her wife's younger brother. She is married to the only member of the House of Rocks who didn't die in The Ravening War. Her husband is a constant reminder of the people she has lost.

After the war is over, after producing two heirs, after ruling Candia for twenty years, her husband is revealed to be an adulterer and her homeland is at war once again. Her daughters, who she has tried her best to protect from this very thing, are on the front lines. Her daughters, who she has told over and over and over to be careful with magic, have embraced it. Her daughters, who she loves more than anything, are following in their aunts' footsteps, and she has to watch as they do so, and she loses one of them because of it.

She finds out her husband had a child with the woman from the Dairy Isles, and she finds out that this child suffered through a horrible upbringing while hers were raised comfortably in a castle. As if having her second marriage shattered and her first daughter killed isn't enough to deal with.*

Even though they win the war, even though she survives and the future of Candia is bright, she's suffered through so much in the span of the campaign. If you just consider the things that happened onscreen, she has a lot to process. Add her backstory to the pile?

There's very little I wouldn't do to see just her epilogue. The cast has said returning to Comida would be difficult because of how difficult the campaign was, but I want a season of Brennan playing one-person DnD where he is Caramelinda for the entire thing. I'm so aware it's impossible because of the timeline fuckery, but I want a Rocks Sisters campaign, and I want Caramelinda PCed because she's a queer candy lady and I want her to have her wife.

*I love Saccharina so much and her entire plotline is one of my favorite parts of the campaign, but speaking to Caramelinda's experience, this is another tragedy added to the damn pile.

[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?

[embraceyourdestiny]

It’s so interesting that Zac and ally are the only ones to have deaths related to their characters (besides the tpk). Gorgug, Kristen. Lapin, Preston. Why are they intertwined by death.

[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.

[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/)

[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-'