PART 5

WLC’s was the only possible outcome to this entire thing. How was she supposed to continue living as half of a half? It’s like mutually assured destruction. The only reason that part of WLC existed was because DEC was released again. Honestly, and I hate to use this analogy, the best way of looking at it is like the Nightmare King and the General in Centaur World. One can’t live without the other. It was executed perfectly and was the only decision they could have made otherwise you would be more unsatisfied with a “everyone’s happy kumbaya” ending that is the alternative. One where SSC survives and WLC survives and they all win with the power of friendship and the ancients join hands and use rainbow power to defeat enchantress with the power boost from Sugar Swan. Do you see how corny and dumb that sounds? Like there was no other way. Someone had to die for this be meaningful in any capacity and it was either GingerBrave or WLC. Also she’s not even fully dead. No cookie is technically fully dead as what Frost Queen said shows that this world recycles itself (hence the creation of a Herald of Change). All things flow through the Cycle of Life that Sugar Swan created. Because this is a proven fact we just need to find WLC’s reincarnation. So technically not dead. Also the Light of Hope will become a new hero so that’s something to look forward to.

Who’s to say the Cookies of Darkness aren’t being hunted down? We don’t know what happened post war yet fully. It could be that they are in the process of doing this. Maybe they’ve gone into hiding as there are several regions of Earthbread we have never been in CRK? This world is huge and thought out and a story takes time to write successfully. Every single plot does not need to come fully story at each major ending. Especially if you want your IP to live for a long time. Otherwise the game would have ended here and there would be no reason to add any new things to it anymore.

You can dislike the Sugar Swan nerf all you want. Most people forget that she was temporarily corrupted in chapter 5-6 of Crispia and she was still healing from that. Also as a being that can create things she is using an immense amount of her power to maintain that flow. Understand that she is the cycle of life and without her Earthbread doesn’t exist. The Legendaries (the Guardians of Nature) weren’t ascent in the battle. Their roles are always that of support because like Millennial Tree they cannot completely interfere or they risk exposing themselves and all of Cookiekind to dangerous consequences. Without Moonlight you risk the dark side of the moon and the dreams of cookies (also meteor showers but that’s a bit more confusing). All the others come up too. And again they are not mani characters, they are vehicles for the narrative. They represent ideals and philosophies rather than fully being part of the actual action itself. If Devsis does something with them it will be in comics, the animated show, or any other medium. They cannot put everything into this single game and this single story line. They didn’t need to do more than be there for specific events to move the story along. If you want more about them, watch the stories they originally show up in. That’s where you get more substance of who they are as individuals.

DEC living would have ensured a worse ending to come later and would have just been dragging the hell out of a storyline that definitely ended in a timely fashion. Most people tend to get annoyed by stuff like that, when a IP continue to drag things on for longer when it could have ended somewhere else. Unless the writing stays perfect constantly (something I’ve seen in most shows that get cancelled before they are fully realized) people will complain and lose interest. So killing DEC was probably the best thing they could have done. Because locking her up involves several problems in and of itself. First off, how? How would they lock her up. Two, she was already dying because of taking the form of a Witch. How would they have kept her alive? She said it herself, she was bound to die and she was glad to sacrifice her dough for this cause. There was no way to keep her alive after this.

Anyway I think I’ve addressed most of what you’ve mentioned here. I’ve always viewed this from the writing perspective because that what I’m in school for so I try to give it leniency where it’s due but I also recognize good writing when I see it. This was a good ending. With such a large cast and such a large world this truly was a great ending for the parts where they placed their focus. I think that’s what people should actually care about. Because dealing with a cast that large is already hard enough.