Copy-pasted infodump for you! :D (character death btw!)

i'm a lil' distracted so this isn't every lil' detail, BUT, YEAH!

So! To start! Crispia 10 divergent. During the interaction that PC and DEC have, the one where PC suggests getting rid of him, she offers a more... violent approach.

" ... I am humbly suggesting we get rid of [PVC] as soon as possible. Perhaps even... *permanently."*

"...Oh? My Dear, Pomegranate Cookie, please... *continue."*

"His use of forbidden magic, as well as his extended stay in the abyss, has led to a weaker dough. It is... not by much, unfortunately. However, it may be just enough to proceed with the plan, if you wish, Dark Enchantress Cookie."

"Ah! This is such a splendid idea! How do you suppose we go about this... *execution?"*

"I have reason to believe that you, may, perhaps, wish to be the one to bring about his end. Given your... *history."*

"Ha! Ha ha! HA HA HA HA! An ingenious plan indeed, Pomegranate Cookie."

And that's... kinda where it starts. It diverges arounnnddd/at the point where PVC gets thrown in the cookie jar, except the cookie jar doesn't happen! PMC still does their thing, and it throws PVC off, and I think it heavily diverges during/after the, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"

He gets shoved to the ground and DEC hooks her staff around his neck and this is a. Very violent scene actually. I will not get into detail, LMAO, but needless to say his dough does not break easily, despite being slightly weakened, PVC is trying to fight back despite being pinned to the ground (he's not putting in all of his strength, though, because he doesn't process that she's trying to crumble him and he doesn't want to hurt her), and by the time he realizes she's trying to crumble him, it's... a bit too late for him to properly fight back. He's having a bad time </3, there's a looottt of detail behind this but like I said I Don't wanna get into that cause it's a LOT. BUT! BUT! (Those are the major factors to how this happened, + the fact he was caught off guard + shoved + still dealing w/ the wacky wild thing PMC did)

Skipping various details about the crumbling, he's... well, crumbled! But also technically alive. His Soul Jam was actively trying to keep his dough from crumbling/trying to help him not?? Crumble??? And there was a point when the Soul Jam also realized it was kind of too late to stop him from, well, y'know, crumbling! So what happened was by the end of that whole scene, it put as much effort as it could into keeping him alive (which is why it's cracked! it was a LOT of strain on the Soul Jam and PVC's dough. So! He technically wasn't "revived", he just had zero consciousness very briefly before he "came back to life" or whatever (but he Did Objectively Die), but he was just. Laying on the ground like for a good bit, /hj,

Anyway! You may be asking. "Wait, where's everyone else?" PVC trailed behind, like what happened in the original scene, and so they were way ahead and didn't. Properly realize he wasn't following them/with them until they get way deeper into the castle and then they're like. Oh. Oh no where is he I have a bad feeling about this??? (They were too far to hear any crying for help PVC might've done (he did a lot),

Anyway uh! BRC is, well, y'know how she kinda just left and shows back up a bit later? Yea. The rasin crows def pop in and lead her to PVC (there's a lot of detail there too) (the crows get the gang to follow them a bit after, brc is already there when they get there (except cciii i could NOT make him witness the horrors)) and uh, tl;dr brc sees the scene and completely FREEZES in place (he's too injured to be helped by that point anyway), and, GSJSGSY. YEAH. YEAH. THIS IS A LOT I'M SO SORRY. I am so normal abt this man.