What if Blueberry Yoghurt Academy and the City of Wizards merged?
Been following this one since the start- they pull off the setting quite well.
Shadow Milk but identity crisis anyone? :DDDD
Original fic by @learion (ilarion)
Link to whole fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68882181
Link to Chapter 22: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68882181/chapters/207060796
i think its safe to say that silent salt is easily one of the most tragic characters in the game, but he's also, crucially, in ways i DESPERATELY hope the greater fandom won't fail to recognize, not blameless in the events of what befell beast yeast
silent salt is not some kind of victim at the hands of the rest of the emissaries any more than all of them have suffered grief and horror and disillusionment and then lashed out in violent, (self-)destructive ways as a form of grieving or catharsis. the fault, fundamentally, still lies with the witches for bestowing immortality and absolute power onto a select group, and then abandoning them afterwards.
silent salt's decision to seal them all away upon hearing of their collective corruption was a decision blinded by rage, wherein he actively pinned the blame for the mass casualties of his order on the rest of the emissaries, in spite of the fact he himself EXPLICITLY stated and well enough knew that their positions of authority on a greater political scale had been usurped and that they had no direct involvement in that raid.
this is not to suggest they weren't complicit in what befell his order (the involvement of their closest minions across the board is VERY much so counterplay to that), but i think it's CRUCIAL to pay mind to just how much that war was driven by THE COLLECTIVE. it was brought about by cruel, high-society cookies who fancied themselves devotees to their chosen emissary likely only as was personally convenient, brandishing the despair and exhaust of a pantheon with far too much responsibility on their shoulders as a tool and excuse to control the continent as they saw fit in their absence -
- which, naturally, included systematically eliminating the singular force that kept these people all in check. the minions merely helped to stoke those flames.
the cookies the knights had sworn to protect remarked themselves that their order was so absolute in their strength that they made a great deal of enemies in the process, so i think their power being undone at the societal level was more or less an inevitability under these pretenses; in a cruel twist, cookies banded together IN solidarity to DEFEAT solidarity.
so true of the other virtues salt, too, was doomed to fail his mission - yet instead of trying to rectify the situation through solidarity, believing himself entirely bereft of it, he decided to take all four of the others emissaries down with him. in the face of his own closest companions lashing out in pain, he punished all of them. i think elder faeries waxing on the matter speaks for itself:
Death is a reprieve.
Shadow Milk will not be granted it again.
[Major spoilers and tears and coping below ]
Haha three brush strokes to the right, amirite guys? WRONG IT'S TWO TO THE LEFT *SOBS AND SCREECHES IN PURE AGONY* Oouhhhh my shaylas,,, my delusional happy ending,,, my sanity deteriorating while making this comic,,,
Saw some really cool fanart on twt and though jamma wrote an Awakened PV and Fount oneshot AU– WHAT DID I JUST READ INSTEAD 😭???? I got lured guys,,, lured I tell you,,, and me thinking I was prepared for the angst after reading the tags but jamma does not play with those things and OUWGH—
Started feeling the sad stuff on Smilks part, chocked on our diva queen Golden Cheese's decision on BSpice and started tearing at Mystics.
"MyStiC flOur cOoKie Had aLwAys enjoYed sunSets"— YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE MYSTIC FLOUR ENJOYS???? Turning cookies into flour. This line turned ME into flour AUOGHSBEJK-
Sugar's part just made it sadder and Silent was blissfully protected from the horrors by not being released yet and therefore not having enough lore to sob about. They may not be spared next time.
By my powerful delusional rays and for the betterment of my sanity, I'm here to tell you guys that none of that actually happened and Smilky just had a not so silly nightmare, forgot about it afterwards and got up with his usual crazy happies and joys and went to the ivory pagoda with Nilla (whom he has a healthy relationship with) where all the ancients and beasts (whom are also friendsies with each other) were having a family picnic, including the minions and where BSpice got some therapy for his destructive depressies and Mystic flour could control the sun so she could enjoy 2717369948720 billion sunsets with Haetae and Sugar is concious and actually happy and also Silent is present and happy and also everyone's happy 🥰🤗🥰.
Okay crashout and delusions aside, I hope you guys liked this little comic thing I made from the tears I felt too greatly ^^ I'll be off to share my sorrows on the dark birdie app now
[And another note!! The gorgeous little poem I used above is by Althea Davis ]
Still working on 2SOP, but focus has shifted a bunch
In the meantime ill mostly be using this account for other stuffs (for fanarts for other fics/fandoms probably)