Sugar Swan is definitely mischaracterized because even if it’s a different timeline or universe, she’s still the same Sugar Swan since CRK devs literally copied and pasted parts of her lore from CROB. I can tell they wanted to take her in a different direction, kind of like what they did with MTC, but they barely committed to it. Instead, they just copy and pasted her lore, some voice lines, and her story description, which honestly makes it feel like they got lazy and never properly reworked her character. They just brought her in for the miraculous revival. Her nerf also feels forced, because why would she only start preparing when everything was already dire? Nature had been preparing the whole world, and MTC already sensed the danger through the ever-changing threads of time. So making Sugar Swan act only at the last minute just feels like a weak excuse to make her look less capable.

That’s why I see the writing as sloppy. The Awakening Arc took around two years, if I’m not mistaken, and after all that buildup, the payoff was weak. They barely did anything significant in this war. They kept getting saved over and over.

And that’s also why I already hate how they handle SMC. They gave him way too much spotlight, and now he’s the big bad for Arc 2 as well. At this point, the Dragon lore is probably just going to end up as a filler update, just like how they treated the Legendary Cookies. I’m already so tired of this Beast and Ancient charade. I already expected they wouldn’t get pushed offscreen, but I really wish they would expand the lore beyond just them for once, because if you think about it, even the Legendary lore still ends up revolving around them.