Ghostreader120

Hey, I’m Ghostreader120 and I’m a fan of franchises like Mega Man, Pokémon, Cookie Run, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai/Power Rangers I guess I'm into ttte now?

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I'm going to make this a straight up ask, because our DMs is...ugh, too occupied.

Anyway, here goes. Do you believe Golden Cheese Cookie actually had any development as a character whatsoever? Please share me your thoughts, even if you already did to me about her.

(Why I am asking that? Well after seeing that...interesting reblog you made, which I don't disagree on. I looked into that original poster and saw uh...this interesting ask. Tbf, I respectfully though completely disagree she didn't have any development as a character whatsoever during chapters 5 and 6 Beast Yeast chapters, I think that's quite harsh to say she had no development whatsoever but I'm taking out of context.)

Huh, that’s interesting. Well honestly in my opinion I actually do believe that Golden Cheese Cookie receive some character development in Beast Yeast Episodes 5 & 6. But I can understand why people don’t think she did, that’s fair. I would say Golden Cheese’s experiences in Beast Yeast made her stronger and gave us into more highlight of who she truly is as a person, as well as pushing her to eventually be ready to see White Lily Cookie again.

Looking back, Burning Spice really did bring out some of her worst fears and she was on the verge of crumbling while facing him, in what could’ve been her final moments but didn’t give in. I feel like people are missing the fact that throughout 5 & 6, we’ve seen of her struggles out on display (Besides her wings getting ripped). Her part in Episode 6 shows this imo, where she has a moment of panic and desperation where she can do nothing but insist that she won’t let what’s “hers” be taken away again and Smoked Cheese gave her the talk she needed to get herself back together and escaped

Unlike Silent Salt who was testing White Lily…Burning Spice pursued Golden Cheese like a game of cat and mouse, the thrill he wanted and potentially someone strong enough to end him. Before and after awakening she tells Burning Spice that he doesn’t and will never deserved the power of Abundance.

Because he never acknowledged the worth of what he had built while she, who lost everything built, felt the pain and grief of it, will never give up that power. Even if her kingdom gets destroyed again, she’ll rebuilt it and do anything to protect her people, her precious treasures. 

To me, this is Golden Cheese’s true character in full display, she considers herself to be greedy and takes that as a compliment because she KNOWS what her greed is and what she’s fighting for. She still and always will be greedy, just that her selfish desires are very kind which is why the Soul Jam she holds is Abundance, why her journey matters. And…why she will always be my favorite ancient cookie ^_^

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Conclusion: Never trust any of the winged cookie monarchs

[ghostreader120]

This is such a sweet video. I loved that Sonic and Mega Man are canonically best friends. In fact it's thanks to Sonic that got me into the Mega Man series the comics. I hope we see more of them in the future! And here’s to an wonderful 35th celebration to our Blue Blurr ^_^

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Something I noticed and can't stop thinking about...

Shadow Milk Cookie is obsessed with control. He treats everyone like his puppets and projects his problems onto them as if they were his dolls (White Lily, Ash Salt).

Yet, When you lift him in the Kingdom (you are something like a God/Witch to them) HE turns into a puppet, with strings hanging from above to control him. When he dies in the Arena, he turns into a PLUSH/DOLL after taking damage and heals himself.

Even in the story, he appears several times as a literal puppet (as well as making puppets of others for his performances).

He treats everyone like puppets, craves control, and ultimately finds himself controlled and manipulated by others. Very ironic. But there's something else that interests me. His need for control didn't come from nowhere. It's a desire for freedom, to make his own decisions, and to be whoever he wants. From the beginning of his existence, someone told him from above who he should be and what he should do. He was always treated inhumanly, as an object, a tool, exploited and betrayed by others. Ultimately, he became obsessed with being the one "pulling the strings" because then no one would use him anymore, a GOD (Witch).

My theory is that Shadow Milk may be some kind of manifestation of the witches' traumas, and how desperately they tried to create a "perfect world" of Cookies, better than theirs. Shadow Milk may have been the first truly divine and powerful cookie they created back then (he's much older than many legendaries). They created him in their image and likeness, which is why it's so hard for Shadow Milk to identify as Cookie, and sees more similarities between him and witches (since he represents knowledge, which to me is the most similar to them). I also think that Lily is also connected to this, but I'll talk about that MAYBE another time, I have a very long and crazy theory why. This perfectly explains why he appears as a doll, something that was created to hold the trauma and misfortune of his creators.

What traumas and similarities does he share with them? Well...

LOTS of similarities to First Sprinkle

Not to mention the fact that he drowned like First Milk, we also have the Witch of Light, etc. I know some of them fit other beasts, but it's still interesting how this fits Shamil. Both witches and he were exploited because of their gifts, faced injustice, and were hunted for it. They longed for a better world.

Hehe... But there is another witch who wants control over the Cookies, strangely similar to Shamil, whom I forgot to mention. Hehe...

[ghostreader120]

What are at least 10 countries you would've liked to see canonically become Pokemon regions?

(Whether they are well known countries or very obscure ones)

That’s a good question… 🤔

Italy

Dominican Republic (Or just the Caribbean in general)

Egypt

Australia

Greece

Mexico

Canada

Ireland

South Korea

India

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Who are your favorite First Cookie(s) design wise? ^_^

Design wise, I’ll say… ^_^

First Sugar & First Salt

First Milk

First Cream

First Choco

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He's Always Been Here.

Shadow Milk being EVERYWHERE in Kingdom's Lore Compilation Post

Exhibit A: It's Still Blue, Yo.

The Soul Jam of Truth does NOT change colors AT ALL to match it's new master.

Unlike the other Ancients, Pure Vanilla's Soul Jam has always been stark, cold blue against his warm yellow, white and gold color pallet. That blue has always been a part of his final design since the game debut. This is also shown through the fact that Shadow Milk can still speak and see through the Soul Jam of Truth, even if it doesn't actually "belong" to him anymore, imitating it's voice and all.

You can even see Shadow Milk's eye symbolism in the portrait above too. He clearly went to the Bill Cipher school of foreshadowing his ominous presence over everything, as we will see later.

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Exhibit B: The Blueberries Have Eyes, And Other Yogurt Related Academies

And Blueberries are tied to magic and mystery too. Shadow Milk Cookie's symbol IS AN EYE. Wherever a watching gaze lies, it's almost certainly Shadow Milk Cookie behind it.

And you know, that includes all over the Blueberry Yogurt Academy, an academy heavily implied to if not outright confirmed to be founded by the Fount of Knowledge.

And let's not remiss the First Headmaster being directly referenced in the Game of Truth and Deceit title card.

All of these guys also have Fountie's star shaped lock on their outfits, though without the keyhole. All figures of authority and teachers at the Blueberry Yogurt Academy.

The monsters inhabiting the school are also chess themed.

Which of course carries over to the Spire of Deceit itself with similar looking, chess themed enemies inside it's roster.

And while we're in Blueberry Yogurt, let's not forget:

Huh.

Wonder if that was foreshadowing anything.

Oh, wait.

Congrats, White Lily! It worked! You got your ultimate cookie using the first headmaster's soul, yaaaaay!

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Exhibit C: Eye See What You Did There

Shadow Milk being a creep and watching Nilly sleep in his own damn castle for who knows how long.

Shadow Milk being a creep and watching Nilly sleep at his house for a few thousand years.

Look at all those eye symbols on the first cutscene in the entire game. What's that stuff called? Dark Moon Magic?

Exhibit D: LITERALLY ANYTHING TO DO WITH DARK MOON MAGIC

Thingamajigs that gotta do with the dark side of the moon.

Moonstone

This Costume Covered in Shmilk Iconography

(Girly what did he do to you??)

This one's pure conjecture, admittedly, but:

Stardust Cookie might have ties to the same kind of magic.

Exhibit E: He's a Treasure!

And finally, some treasures and relics with Shmilk Iconography!

And yea that's about all I got, if I missed anythin feel free to lmk

[ghostreader120]

Okay I think it’s about time I finally talk about the Light of Solidarity Cookie but also a bit more of Ash Salt Cookie I want to point out. Granted I could have said more in my previous post but I wanted to focus more on Shadow Milk and that Act 2 has merely just started. But there’re still room to speculate and theorize what comes next

First let’s start off with Ash Salt Cookie, I already said how her origins came to be but I didn’t get to go on how I think some of her kingdom quotes might foreshadow that she’ll betrayed Shadow Milk. I obviously won’t be surprised if that will actually happened, she’ll eventually learn the truth how she was born and that Shadow Milk was just merely using her for his grand plan. (I even once theorize in one of my posts that Black Sapphire and Candy Apple might eventually leave SM from seeing their master’s deteriorating mental state or SM pushing them away leading them to team up with Gingerbrave and the others to bring SM back)

Now with this update we learn that according to the Light of Solidarity Cookie, she states that the First Oven the birthplace of the Soul Jam and Gingerbrave himself. But then we have this infamous option here.

I have no doubt this might foreshadow Gingerbrave potentially have an awakening form. Plus Act 2’s prologue already sets up his connection to both the Ultimate Cookie and the Light of Solidarity. We know BY 15 confirmed that Gingerbrave is a cookie made from the Brave Cookie Recipe, which seems to be the foundation main recipe for cookiekind and why he was the perfect host for the UC

So there’s a possibility that the Beasts and Ancient’s soul jam might merge into one, their true light. Now I don’t think it means this comes at the cost of the ancients sharing the same fate as White Lily and Silent Salt. It’s probably just a different case. We know that the Soul Jam have been split up and SM has 4 out of the ten (That being Deceit, Apathy, Sloth and Destruction)

Annd ohhh boy was the timing I made this post perfect because just today we were given this huge info. It’s unsurprising that the virtues decided to abandoned the Beasts ._.

Not only that but, we constantly hear Burning Spice (Although this is just in BY 5 & 6 from what I can remember) and most especially Shadow Milk calling their respective ancient counterparts “thieves” when in actuality, it wasn’t the Beasts that abandoned them or the soul jam weren’t stolen at all, the virtues basically just dipped. But damn, the Soul Jam are kinda sketchy (I think morally grey is the right word for it actually)…including the Light of Knowledge ._.

I know that the Beasts were unfortunately doomed from the start (And it doesn’t help that their creators unintentionally abandoned them due to First Egg Cookie) but I guess even their Soul Jam couldn’t properly guide them. Although I guess it might be a similar situation with White Lily, where at some point she couldn't hear her Light of Freedom anymore. So this might've been the same for the beasts also; they couldn't hear their own respective lights anymore because they decided to follow their paths leading to corruption or for MF and BS’s case being in their lowest moment after going through some shit. But take it with a grain of salt, this is just my theory ._.

As for what happens next, probably after May and the summer updates according to the roadmap, we might get a story focusing on Gingerbrave, Wizard, and Strawberry along with Pure Vanilla go to the First Oven where he and the Soul Jam were made, and presumably we probably might get to see Gingerbrave’s creator (Hopefully the witch will finally be important to the story XD). But also possible implications that Gingerbrave could be the next new holder of the Light of Solidarity thanks to the new big info that just got dropped

Not only that but I think sometime in the future during halfway in Act 2, once SM is finally defeated we might get the First Cookies/Witches dragged in to set up the Ultimate Cookie storyline. The true ultimate battle between Hope and Despair but hey that’s just what I think anyway

[ghostreader120]

Oh my gosh I can’t believe I forgot to point this out 🤦‍♀️

it makes sense why the Soul Jam lack any empathy or even bother to try to help the Beasts or Ancients. They’re like entities in a way, act as forces of nature to maintain balance since they’re literally created by the witches to help the Beasts lead cookiekind.

Also it seems, from what I can understand when the soul jam doesn’t have a welder, they don’t seem really have much emotion or personality. But when they have a chosen holder, they start speaking in their voice and personality. And of course I mentioned the possibility that the beasts couldn’t resonate or hear their soul jam anymore since it happened to White Lily 

If anything these guys are morally grey at best and worse but doing what they believe is necessary right for the sake of the Cookie World.

And as for that Light of Solidarity Cookie (Ngl it was kinda funny how the fandom went from: “Aww!” to “KILL IT WITH FIRE!” when we got this bombshell update XD)…uhh I dunno, who knows maybe this light will be different since she is made from White Lily’s Light of Freedom and Silent Salt’s Light of Solidarity, she might have her own character ._.'

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Okay I think it’s about time I finally talk about the Light of Solidarity Cookie but also a bit more of Ash Salt Cookie I want to point out. Granted I could have said more in my previous post but I wanted to focus more on Shadow Milk and that Act 2 has merely just started. But there’re still room to speculate and theorize what comes next

First let’s start off with Ash Salt Cookie, I already said how her origins came to be but I didn’t get to go on how I think some of her kingdom quotes might foreshadow that she’ll betrayed Shadow Milk. I obviously won’t be surprised if that will actually happened, she’ll eventually learn the truth how she was born and that Shadow Milk was just merely using her for his grand plan. (I even once theorize in one of my posts that Black Sapphire and Candy Apple might eventually leave SM from seeing their master’s deteriorating mental state or SM pushing them away leading them to team up with Gingerbrave and the others to bring SM back)

Now with this update we learn that according to the Light of Solidarity Cookie, she states that the First Oven the birthplace of the Soul Jam and Gingerbrave himself. But then we have this infamous option here.

I have no doubt this might foreshadow Gingerbrave potentially have an awakening form. Plus Act 2’s prologue already sets up his connection to both the Ultimate Cookie and the Light of Solidarity. We know BY 15 confirmed that Gingerbrave is a cookie made from the Brave Cookie Recipe, which seems to be the foundation main recipe for cookiekind and why he was the perfect host for the UC

So there’s a possibility that the Beasts and Ancient’s soul jam might merge into one, their true light. Now I don’t think it means this comes at the cost of the ancients sharing the same fate as White Lily and Silent Salt. It’s probably just a different case. We know that the Soul Jam have been split up and SM has 4 out of the ten (That being Deceit, Apathy, Sloth and Destruction)

Annd ohhh boy was the timing I made this post perfect because just today we were given this huge info. It’s unsurprising that the virtues decided to abandoned the Beasts ._.

Not only that but, we constantly hear Burning Spice (Although this is just in BY 5 & 6 from what I can remember) and most especially Shadow Milk calling their respective ancient counterparts “thieves” when in actuality, it wasn’t the Beasts that abandoned them or the soul jam weren’t stolen at all, the virtues basically just dipped. But damn, the Soul Jam are kinda sketchy (I think morally grey is the right word for it actually)…including the Light of Knowledge ._.

I know that the Beasts were unfortunately doomed from the start (And it doesn’t help that their creators unintentionally abandoned them due to First Egg Cookie) but I guess even their Soul Jam couldn’t properly guide them. Although I guess it might be a similar situation with White Lily, where at some point she couldn't hear her Light of Freedom anymore. So this might've been the same for the beasts also; they couldn't hear their own respective lights anymore because they decided to follow their paths leading to corruption or for MF and BS’s case being in their lowest moment after going through some shit. But take it with a grain of salt, this is just my theory ._.

As for what happens next, probably after May and the summer updates according to the roadmap, we might get a story focusing on Gingerbrave, Wizard, and Strawberry along with Pure Vanilla go to the First Oven where he and the Soul Jam were made, and presumably we probably might get to see Gingerbrave’s creator (Hopefully the witch will finally be important to the story XD). But also possible implications that Gingerbrave could be the next new holder of the Light of Solidarity thanks to the new big info that just got dropped

Not only that but I think sometime in the future during halfway in Act 2, once SM is finally defeated we might get the First Cookies/Witches dragged in to set up the Ultimate Cookie storyline. The true ultimate battle between Hope and Despair but hey that’s just what I think anyway

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CRK Spoilers

Dude I called it! I knew Shadow Milk was gonna have multiple personalities from the three beasts, also can we talk about how incredible the voice acting is. Kudos to his English VA, CJ is really killing it. Ngl, this scene genuinely made me feel a little disturbed and worried.

SM is suffering from multiple personalities and having an existential crisis to the point that even the Ultimate Cookie takes over, and I think the UC influence SM the idea of becoming a god (Which partially makes sense since the Ultimate Cookie was made to surpassed all cookies even the witches), like his grand plan is really a ambitious hodgepodge if you think about it ._.

And man Elder Faerie and Silent Salt (I feel so bad for the shippers) can’t catch a break. Instead of being killed, EF got sealed away in the Silver Tree by SMC while Silent Salt received a worse fate than death. His dough is literally being reconstructed if you look closely at the cutscene. He’s now a mindless beast (However I heard some people online pointing out that Silent Salt still vaguely resembles a cookie, possibly indicating that there’s still some of him left in there, fighting against SM’s corruption. It’s a plausible theory but who knows?) ._.

As for Ash Salt Cookie, her origins is interesting…I mean her body is basically a bunch of crumbled remains of the fallen kala namak knights that lost their lives, it’s even heavily implied in her story description. Born from the ashes.… ._.

We know as the update comes closer the fate of the cookie-verse and the future is gonna get screwed but now that it’s finally here…the fact that Shadow Milk “won” in a future timeline is horrific. Like obviously I knew his plan was bound to end up going wrong. He succeeded in creating so much chaos and becoming a “god” that time and space has warped.

Earthbread is just an apocalyptic wasteland (Everyone is fucking dead except a version of Timekeeper Cookie) filled with only bug kaijus that SM turned “his friends” (I’m pretty sure he even did it to his past self since he went back to the past through the dimensional rift) into and this just shows how absolutely mental unstable he has and WILL dangerously become (And I guess he probably has a bug form as well) if he continues.

It’s not just him who’s suffering but the beasts (MF’s bug monster design is terrifying and feels straight out of a horror movie or game ._.) since obviously they’re mindless monsters, their autonomy is removed without no thought or capable of feelings. Thankfully at least, this future is now erased thanks to Croissant Cookie’s efforts but the past remains unchanged. I think it might be safe to say chances that he’ll get a redemption arc are probably very low given the current state at the time I’m writing this. Even though in that timeline where he somewhat succeeded, he’s still suffering (It doesn’t help that the soul of the Ultimate Cookie is still within him along with countless souls so it’s pretty much a living hellish nightmare for him), can’t believe I’m saying this but this feels quite rightfully fitting yet tragic for him that I freaking love and hate him for who he is

Let me be very clear, I’m not saying this being an SM hater or out of pettiness, I'm saying this because he is an incredible well written villain, his backstory heavily explains why he's driven to insanity and has committed so MANY atrocities (That includes the other Beasts as well and Black Sapphire is highly guilty of this since he help in starting the downfall of the Kala Namak Knights by starting the rumors to turn cookies against them) that can be easily forgiven or swept aside. His motives practically shaped him to a point of no turning back. Of course he’s gonna be the next main villain after Dark Enchantress, he’s going to continue spiraling down no matter the cost, he's not getting what he desperately yearned and ached for, for every harsh truth he faces he’ll stubbornly pushes aside it and lash out and unfortunately it just continues going bad and bad for him throughout his story. One of the things about Shadow Milk is control, the star he so desperately has to be with his highly theatrical performances, that he’ll twist and stretch every truth into lies HIS WAY into a spectacular chaos. “His perfect world”

Remember one of his main motives that started all of this from the beginning is his obsession with the Witches, he's been trying so hard to get their attention to get them to see him and actual do something to the point it's driving him insane that the “Godly creators” who put him in this situation in the first place couldn't care less what’s happening to the state of the cookie world. He even says "Did they even watch?!" when talking about how he turned the world into chaos and panic or how in Dominion of the Beasts, a vision of him as the Fount of Knowledge ponders why the witches created cookies, the very main question and theme that influenced around some specific characters in the CRK universe.

Sure his downfall doesn’t need to be extremely brutal, it just needs to be a satisfying comeuppance where he DESERVES what he is about to get but show some some ounce of humanity and left in him, making it tragic yet deserving so that we as the viewers and audience do realize to understand that he got what he deserved but at the end it was still tragic. But hey maybe in the future he’ll probably team up with our heroes whenever the next big bad shows up. I’ll make a part 2 short post about the Light of Solidarity, I still have a lot of thoughts I need to say

[ghostreader120]

Oh this is good! Can’t wait to see what they’ll revealed in the livestream ^_^

[ghostreader120]

It’s crazy that Mother 3 has turn 20 years old, I didn’t know that until today. I actually got into the Mother series last year (2025) during the summer I think (Surprisingly I managed to play the first two games in like a week since I was playing it on NSO XD). I started playing Earthbound then Mother 1/Earthbound Beginnings and finally Mother 3, however I haven’t finished the third game yet as I still need to progress through Chapter 7 XD

The mother series is a video game series I never expect to get so into (Obviously if you are like me, your first introduction to Mother series was through Smash Bros, having that one classmate of yours playing as Ness spamming PK Fire or PK Thunder). I laughed, smiled but most importantly cry. It taught me about the power of love, trauma and grief. Honestly this series feels like a therapy session, when we’re adults playing this game it feels like we’re kids again but when kids play this, they become an adult. And as someone who's a young adult still trying to figured things out in the world, it felt like the game that speak to me deeply especially after going through a lot, I loved this game and I kinda wish I gave it a chance to play it early back when I was going through the hardest time in my life. Recently I’ve been replaying the first two mother games, say what you will about mother 1 but I have a soft spot for it despite the very outdated NES technical aspects (Personally out of the mother trilogy, this one desperately needs a remake but hey that’s what fangames are here for ^_^). Earthbound is imo one of my favorite video games ever (The soundtrack still freaking goes hard, the capabilities of the snes will always impressed me), especially coming from the SNES library. Second time I’m playing this, there’s still a bunch of stuff I didn’t know.

Mother 3 is still one of the best games I ever play, I recommend anyone checking it out (Believe me, I mostly play RPGs like Pokemon, Mario & Luigi Brothership or Paper Mario TTYD a lot) and just play the English translation cuz let’s be real here, Nintendo will never localized it in the next 5 or 10 years. Words cannot describe this game, there’s so much to say and I can’t imagine how much this game deeply connected to so many people. But yeah, happy 20th anniversary Mother 3! No crying til the end!

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Ovenbreak Spoilers

Okay can we talk about the fact that not only CROB Dark Enchantress Cookie saw the death of her Kingdom counterpart as well as herself getting arrested, but also the TBD tried to arrest her since Timekeeper Cookie KNEW she and the Cookies of Darkness were watching her through the mirror, at this point DE knew waaay too much ._.

She wasn't supposed to be aware of other timelines and now that she knows, she plans to create her perfect timeline where the witches never exist so that cookies will never be eaten (Although I somehow don't understand the logic of her plan but that's just me). This really spikes her levels of dangerous as she seen the possible mistakes in some of her plans ._.

This update is insane, like this has no reason to be this good. It gave us more good characterization and screen time for Agar Agar and Red Velvet, two cookies who felt a bit underutilized and needed more story moments in CRK, at least imo. No doubt this storyline will absolutely connected to CRK, the signs are clear and I feel like Shadow Milk will either take advantage of CROB DE's plans or how I mentioned in one of my previous posts about how OB DE creating a divergent timeline possibly leading to CRK's legendaries getting corrupted.

Although...that leaves me with just one question? Who's the being in the mirror that show DE the vision? Because I don't think it's Shadow Milk, it's definitely an unknown villain. Possibly setting up as the true villain for OB and CRK's timeline shtick. Either way, OB Dark Enchantress and Shadow Milk are still serious threats ._.

I really want to see more of this DE storyline continued in the future, maybe for Ovenbreak's 10th anniversary but that's just my early assumption since I'm looking forward to this. Hopefully with the recent update, it might drag in some CRK players get into Ovenbreak. Keep in mind Ovenbreak is different than Kingdom in terms of story and characters, plus that game requires tons of skill. And hey you get to meet cookies you never met in Kingdom before as well as meeting cookies from CRK who originated from Ovenbreak or Kakao/Line ^_^

But uh yeah we are so cooked… XD

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In Lloyd’s draconus form in DR season 4, theres one detail I couldn’t help realising.

Lloyd sounds a lot like Garmadon.

Of course, not exactly like Garmadon, but hear me out.

The deepness in Lloyd’s voice sounds so much like pilots/oni Garmadon, whilst the actual tone and softness sounds so much like Sensei Garmadon.

And I just think thats so important because Lloyd aims so hard to not be like his father, and yet his dragon state connects him to the one version his father longed to be like. Garmadon, for so long, despised his oni form, despised the evil that ran through his veins. I imagine he longed to be more like the respected Dragons, more like Wu, than we could think.

So Lloyd sounding like Garmadon? Like Sensei Garmadon? In the form that connects him to all life, unleashes his inner dragon, and allows him to be the hero he wants to be? It just sounds so bittersweet. He looks so much like his father, and now he even sounds like him at times. Lloyd really is everything Garmadon ever wished for.

Also can Lloyd stop hitting new levels of puberty no one deserves to get a voice that deep when they’re already in their 20s.

[ghostreader120]

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for Ninjago Dragons Rising Season 4 Part 1] 

We are so back!

I just finished the first half of the seasons, last night. It gave us more explanation and expanded on Lloyd’s powers as well as his purpose as the Element Master of Life, they really nailed it. His dragon form is really cool tho even his voice is deep when he’s in that form, really symbolizes his maturity and understanding (And most likely his dragon heritage since he’s half dragon and oni) of his powers. Also, it’s nice hearing Lloyd’s OG voice actor Jillian Micheals reprising her role…brings back memories. Nice to see the child and young tween (Keep in mind the young pre teen version is what we could’ve seen had Lloyd not skip over his age from the tomorrow’s tea) versions of Lloyd still being a little shit, I missed that so much XD

Jay having his memories back was expected of course but at least it wasn’t immediately, like it’s taking time for his memories (I wonder if they’re going to bring up Skybound since he’s still hasn’t remember the events yet) to recover and have his outbursts here and then. Now that doesn’t mean he revert back to how he was S11-15 since I noticed he still pick up his old skills while maintaining his mannerisms as Rogue in the last season. I love how Jay and Nya (It was funny seeing them kissing so long in front of Kai lol) come so far from how they were in the original show and it made me love this ship more and why Jaya matters (Seabound still messes me up tho)

However I’m still curious as to why Jay was the only one of the ninja to get amnesia. And why did the Administration covered up and hide that he’s a ninja? Why did they gave him a fake backstory of him working for them? I hope we get more answers soon, I’m getting the impression the writers will continue this significant plotline in the larger half. The flashback we saw really intrigued but confused me, something definitely must have happened during the merge ._.

I also like how the episodes took it’s time for the side characters like Euphrasia (I’m really starting to enjoyed her a lot as well as her moments with Arin. They’re clearly setting them up XD), Wyldfire acting as the straight-woman of the trio while still her fiery self, Cole gets his cool moments to shine. Oh yeah Zane even gets his development too as he’s showing more emotions (Like making jokes or doing art) than his logical side we usually mostly see which is such a huge improvement for him literally both meta and narrative wise, he’s back to being how he is in the early seasons of the original show (I even love the little short scene where he and Pixal dance. So freaking adorable ^_^) 

I even enjoyed how they expand on Frak, continuing his journey and how Sora is helping him out. I hate his dad though (Might just be the closest to #1 winner for worst parent award next to Sora’s parents. He really starting to test my patience. I was waiting for the moment for Frak to finally speak up), like I can understand where he’s coming from considering the Serpentine’s reputation and their difficult history (And “Never trust a snake”) but he wasn’t there where his son needed him the most and prioritized the Explorers Club over his family. Even though he showed that he cared for his son at least, for now it’s too late to make amends and Frak has every right to be mad at him. If this season continues Frak’s storyline and a possible redemption for his father in the future, they might hopefully reconcile. However we still don’t know much about his mother, at least personality wise

Oh yeah, speaking of parents (Shoutout to Arin’s parents, they’re literally the best parents out of the new ninja parents) I was wondering when Sora’s parents would show up. I’ve been waiting for the moment where they’ll show up since they’re Imperium loyalists to Beatrix. And by the looks of the last episode where they enter the monastery, it seems like they’re plotting something whatever while manipulating Sora by saying that they want to be a family again. I’m getting the feeling from how Sora acted in the last episode, she still misses her parents. Maybe they’re planning to free Beatrix? And if that’s the case then good grief, I feel so bad for her…her parents suck ._.

Oh yeah any Morro fans out there, don’t worry he’s okay after Thunderfang’s defeat. I really hope and want to see he and ninja meet up. He’s still in the Spectral Lands with Egalt. I tear up a bit when Egalt and Rontu reunited for a brief while and seeing Riyu evolving more, like getting bigger was awesome to see (I heard some theories online that Riyu might become the next Source Dragon of Balance) ^_^

I kinda wish they gave Ras a bit more screen time since he only show up at the end of Episode 10 for like a few seconds but I can see why they didn’t, we’ll definitely see more of him and whatever he’s planning in part 2. Now that he’s got the third source icon (which is a bow) he sounds really pissed at his master. Even though we don’t know the identity of his master, I’m getting the feeling we either might see the reveal in the finale or season 5 but that’s just my early assumption. I still don’t think his master could be one of the source dragons. I did heard that this season is gonna be darker so if anything part 1 might just be the calm before the storm but who knows? 🤔

Overall I really had fun watching this season, I was smiling and laughing (even tear up during a few scenes) this entire time to the point I almost forgot Ras is still out there. Like there were moments in the show that caught me off guard and some twists I didn’t expect. I’m looking forward to see what the rest of season 4 has to offer. Does it had some flaws? Yeah, but it’s a huge step up and I hope they keep this consistency well in part 2. I think this season might be the best so far but we’ll had to see what comes next ^_^

[ghostreader120]

So that explains it. It’s not Kingdom DE (However she did play a huge part in opening the rifts) but CROB Dark Enchantress that will meet Timekeeper Cookie according to what they show in the roadmap months ago. Obviously we know Shadow Milk is out there trying to destroy the cookie timelines

That’s where the corrupted legendaries come into the picture. DE needs the power of the guardians of nature to wield the power of time so that she can create her new world she desired. Maybe because of that, this leads to creating a timeline of the legendaries being corrupted or the legendaries from the core CRK timeline we know fallen to darkness instead 🤔 

Still, I’m really glad that Devsis went back to focus on the Dark Enchantress storyline in Ovenbreak since she’s been sidelined for 3 years ever since Longan Dragon made their debut. I’m looking forward to where the story continues ^_^

[pepperher]

Early North Western Railway my beloved ❤️

Another meme I made that I completely forget to post-

[ghostreader120]

Yeah that’s pretty much accurate in a nutshell for 6 out of the main cast. 80 years later, we still don’t know what the hell Percy supposed to be. Call him Green Caterpillar with red stripes, Wooly Bear or “Dirty Percy” XD