#general rococoa rocks

[operationslipperypuppet]

oh my god it's my other best friend. can't believe nothing bad will ever happen to her and especially not at the battle of pangranos

[mayapapaya33]

(2:05:13) Is it bad that I'm actively rooting for General Rococoa and Prince Amethar to find out that Deli killed their Mom and Sister and for them to absolutely annihilate him? I don't think that's what's going to happen; (Because Amethar can't die right now so Matt prooooobably won't use him for a PC confrontation to avoid to either an egregious railroad-esque OP-Amethar OR accidentally fucking up the timeline by going OOPS Amethar is dead, I guess resurrection magic has to exist in this world now lol).

But if Deli gets killed by Amethar and or Rococoa that will be the funniest thing I've ever seen and it's 100% deserved. Lou on Lou violence! Fingers crossed!

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If it doesn't happen in the campaign, it should ABSOLUTELY happen in Fanfiction. I haven't looked yet because I don't like spoilers so I'm waiting until I'm done to look for Ravening War stuff. But if there isn't anything about Delissandro and the House of Rocks on Ao3 I will be both Shocked AND Appalled at the state of fandom lmfao. The drama and angst potentials are off the charts! Sure, shipping is great fun, but this level of murder, manipulation, and vengeance is so juicy! (And it's not like you can't throw a ship or two in there if you're so inclined, though personally I'm equally as interested in Gen).

Imagine Deli and Rococoa or Deli and Amethar or all three of them, fighting side by side during the war. They're becoming friendly acquaintances or becoming actual friends even, except deep down, Deli knows. He hides a dark secret, he killed his friend's mother, and their sister. And for what exactly? To unite the Meatlands! Yes... right, of course! Maybe Rococoa saves Deli's life and smiles at him or laughs at a joke of his and his much-shriveled conscience twinges. Amethar pats him on the back and jokes that he caught Deli with his pants down, which means they're finally true allies and Deli feels like shit, literally and metaphorically.

There are so many ways you could play it. You could go from Deli's pov and have him slowly devolve into a sort of Lady Macbeth-esque figure as the guilt eats away at him more and more with every act of kindness and friendship. Once he finally realizes the true extent of what he has done. Not just to the House of Rocks, but to the world. The Death of the Queen of Candia is what finally kicked off the continent-wide war, she is the Franz Ferdinand of Candia and I'm not sure he's fully internalized that. I think it's too big.

Or he could be unrepentant to the last, as Rococoa and Amethar find out and turn on him, he could villain monologue about the greater good and being a tool of destiny as they cave his skull in and weep at the betrayal of a friend who was never truly their friend (or was he?)

Or it could be from Amethar's pov (or Rococoa's pov, but I assume most people will pick Amethar because he's a PC played by Lou up against another PC played by Lou so that's more intriguing than an NPC who was mostly just a ghost and a memory in ACOC). And you could follow the story as Amethar and Rococoa meet Deli before a battle. They all end up fighting in the same area and fight well together.

Through various circumstances they keep being brought together. Or forced together in Deli's case. Meanwhile Deli is SUPER uncomfortable lol, but Amethar isn't the most observant guy in the world, he doesn't notice. It's from his pov after all. And we can watch the relationship unfold. Somewhat like what happened with ---SPOILERS FOR ACOC--- Calroy, but different. I do think once you have Amethar's trust, you have it, he's a pretty simple man. Rococoa is more of an unknown to me, but I do know she's smarter than Amethar (not that that's a particularly high bar, sorry Amethar). So maybe Deli saves Rococoa or Amethar because there are a lot of witnesses around and he can't conveniently let them die because that would look really really bad, and he ends up earning their trust.

However you want to do it, it is the perfect set up for a Shakespearian tragedy. The audience already knows that confrontation and doom are inevitable, yet if you play it right, like all good writers you can give the audience temporary amnesia and delusion and make them hope that everything will be ok as you show them having fun and joy and comradery together. It's like walking into the movie theater to see Titanic, even if you know what's going to happen, you still have a good time when they start dancing, and you're still screaming at them to steer the ship in a different direction or not get on the boat in the first place and you're still sad when they drown. (Or for the CR fans out there, it's like walking into EXU Calamity knowing Exandria's history and still getting attached to those characters and rooting for them because you can't help it lol).

[supernaturalcharlie11]

Do you know how many things would have to have gone wrong for this to matter?

- Sapphria Rocks

[honeyhauntart]

six fanarts: dimension 20 edition! 💕 who’s ur favorite?

[my-unsolicited-thoughts]

another year another chance for me to scream from the hill tops to the powers that be at d20 to give us a crown of candy prequel focused on the rocks siblings and everything around them. laz and caramelinda. sapphria and amethar dynamics. rococoa and citrina. ugh i'll give you all my money please

[wyfrn]

the princesses of house rocks

[sapphicfog]

[sweetsmalldog]

So who’s gonna write the Rococoa lives au where Rococoa marries Caramelinda and they have an understanding but non romantic relationship and Amethar puts everything into being a good dad to Saccharina because he’s lost so much family and the tiny baby girl in his arms is so fragile and he’s her father and it’s his job to defend her and she’s alive. And when little Saccharina talks about seeing Lazuli in her reflection she’s believed and her gifts are nurtured to the best of their ability because they’re in Candia and magic is real and good and she’s a princess even if she’s fourth in line for the throne.

[fanwarrior321]

a spin off in the crown of candy world about the Rocks sisters is something I now desperately need. like with the Seven in fantasy high world. those women are one of my favorite parts about this world and it's something I CRAVE WITH MY WHOLE BEING

[princessprotectorhornet]

Yeah boss sorry I’ve got to call in. Yeah I thought too hard about “do you know how many things would have to go wrong for this to matter?” again. Probably will be out for a couple weeks

[operationslipperypuppet]

obviously there are many ways the pcs’ involvement in the battle of pangranos could play out, but here’s my thought.

as we know, rococoa will be riddled with arrows behind her own lines, due to the actions, both direct and indirect, of one calroy cruller.

deli will see. see that a candian killed the crown princess in cold blood, and see that he used ceresian weaponry. he has no love lost for candians, he maybe would say nothing, but who could truly know that?

calroy catches him. makes a move. takes the shot. kills deli.

later, whether it’s hours, days, or weeks, he addresses it with amethar. mentions he saw a carnish warlord behind their lines who had ceresian heritage as well. that the man was fleeing as they could hear amethars anguished cries at the loss of his last remaining sister. that calroy was able to connect the dots and take him out then and there.

“it’s okay, your majesty. we don’t need to continue fighting this. the war truly is over. and the man who killed your sister has suffered for it.” securing his place at the right hand of a future king he cannot wait to betray.

he never finds out that he was telling the truth, just a different version of it.

[smokinghotpastorswife]

ok so one of the PCs is definitely killing rococoa on that final battlefield I’m calling it rn

[rainedroptalks]

When I watched acoc, I didn’t look that close at Rococoa’s art, so until I got to ep 4 of trw I fully thought the chocolate was armor

[supernaturalcharlie11]

Gone but never forgotten - the Rock sisters

[wethairmessyface]

like imagine this cast

gm - aabriya

rococoa - siobhan

lazuli - erika

citrine - brennan

sapphira - surena

amethar - lou

i would love a prequel to a crown of candy/ravening war focused on the rocks siblings growing up (like teen age), like focused on their sibling dynamic and life in pre war candia

[thepringlesofblood]

Relevant Dates for The Ravening War

in the trailer, it says “Two decades before the events of A Crown of Candy” and shows a banner counting back from 1210. This is because the war was from 1190-1195, though the conflict that led to it started in 1188

ACOC takes place in 1215, beginning on the 20th of Highbright, the Rocks twins’ 18th “Saint’s Day” (birthday).

I saw a post about a potential discrepancy here bc of the whole “2 decades” bit

I think they did this bc it sounds more impressive to say “two decades before” than “25 years before”

we can extrapolate the twins to have been born in 1197, one year into Amethar and Caramelinda’s marriage. (17th of Harvestdusk, 1196)

the war ended 20 years before ACOC started (1195), but it seems like The Ravening War [campaign] will start at the beginning of the war, in 1190, if the spinning back from 1210 is to be believed.

Archmage Lazuli Rocks died in 1190, at age 32-33, sacrificing herself in battle.

she had recently married, and was deeply in love with, Duchess Caramelinda of House Meringue, a match made before the war. Caramelinda was 28 when her wife died.

the wiki might be wrong - in episode 7 of ACOC amethar remembers a conversation b/w all of his sisters, including Lazuli, where Rococa mentions “Our one ally, the Dairy Islands, half of them wanna kill us for entering the war this late”

but she does die first of the sisters.

Princess Sapphria died in 1195, at age 31-32, killed by Carnish assassins

Saint Citrina died in 1195, at age 34-35, killed by Vegetanian knights ordered by a young, not-yet-Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica.

General Rococoa died in 1195, at age 39-40, shot by Ceresians (on the orders of a certain fancy-pants cakeboy) during the final battle against Imperator Focaccia.

King Jadain [the king of Candia at the time, Amethar’s dad] died a few months post-war, but Queen Pamelia died during the war, before all of her daughters. She was from Fructera (House Pomegrana) and had very different political opinions from her daughters and Amethar.

Amethar (currently a Prince) was born in 1167, and thus is 23 at the beginning of the Ravening War.

the exact dates of the deaths of the Rocks sisters aren’t super set in stone, except for the order of the last three - it wouldn’t surprise me if one or more of them die during the campaign.

lmk if you can think of any other important dates!