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[priintiisor]

art tag is #printis collection of silly goobers

tag for my unhinged ramblings is #printi screams into the void, and tag for answering asks is #the void screams at me

also please feel free to ask me stuff, i love yapping

also also drawing requests always open. i may or may not do them but i never have ideas of what to draw. if you want to see me draw something you may ask and you might receive

if i ever misspell anything that s not my fault

[priintiisor]

did i ever tell the internet about how i want to write down my entire interpretation of rain world and make it into one of those overly pretentious youtube essays?

well anyway i started writing it

this is much funnier now considering the watcher exists and i know nothing about it so every time i say rain world's story i have to say rain world (base game and downpour)

i have like a page of notes and i got to the Second Line so i am doing Very Well

[possuminnit]

dsmp is still deep in my bones and she will never leave me

[whimsy-beetle]

whatever. Go my spores

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The Mould Room

Dim light scattered across the uneven paint on the corridor walls as the sound of footsteps echoed throughout. The dingy hallway stretched for an uncomfortably long time, a wait made even more sinister by the constant hum of the neon lights above. On a second thought, above may paint the wrong picture here. Yes, the lights were in fact above my head but given how low the ceiling was they didn’t feel so much above, as they did on top of my head.

Nevertheless, I soon made it to the door at the end of the corridor and hastily opened it with the rusty key I had been given. The task was simple, take a last look around the factory and make sure everything is turned off, locked and put away for the night. Uneventful, easy, lest one consider how many bathrooms, closets, offices and unnecessary rooms this company has. As I have gained the reputation of having errands thrust upon me, it came with no surprise that this is how I’d be spending my evening today. I like to believe my current predicament is due to me being new here at the company and not something to do with my personality. Unfortunately, there’s no viable way to attest or deny this hypothesis given how I seem to be the only new employee (I suppose a job at the marketing department of a cardboard manufacturing company in a small and fading town isn’t as desirable as one might expect)

 I was nearing the end of my task checking a couple of doors in the warehouse. The lights were already off, thank God, for if that weren’t the case I would have had to operate the ever so confusing array of switches and buttons on the wall. A small flashlight was sufficient to make my way between shelves and shipment boxes. For a brief moment the flashlight’s ellipse of light revealed a streak of darkness peeking through two storage units. Stepping closer I found myself in the presence of yet another door…utterly wonderful.

As I stepped inside the smell hit me first. It wasn’t exactly unpleasant, no, just very wet, damp walls, to be exact. My flashlight followed suit, casting shadows off the myriad pipes weaved all around the cramped space (that is, of course, an exaggeration and nothing more, all with the purpose of entertaining myself during this stale errand). No bigger than, let’s say, three bathroom stalls? Maybe not the best choice of measurement unit, now that I think of it, but it gets the message across.

It is not hard to imagine my frustration when I realized I had been standing in a puddle of water stretched across the tiled floor of the room, with my nice shoes on, no less. The culprit was an unassumingly thin, yet leaky, pipe. I closed its valve, made sure the dripping sound was no more and moved on to lock the door. The actual flood was not in the ‘turn off, lock and put away’ task description and, therefore, was not my problem, though a report detailing the issue to the higher ups was due. Once I turned to face the exit I couldn’t help but notice a speckled dark pattern staining the wall before me. This was, undoubtedly, mould. A concerning amount of it too, here in the warehouse where all the company’s precious, far from water and moisture resistant, inventory was kept. That ought to also make it in the report.

*

I found myself yet again in that dingy corridor with the low ceiling. The notice on my desk had been clear; I was to be temporarily relocated in the warehouse for inventory management until the actual warehouse manager returned from medical leave. As much as my coworkers from marketing tried to paint it as a promotion of sorts, it was just like all those other odd jobs they had made me do. Was I to complain? No, maybe they were on to something, perhaps counting boxes and filling in charts was my true calling.

The lights turned on with an unnecessarily loud sound, as they always do in warehouses for some reason. Alas, I began the inventory check.

A warehouse is labyrinthian in nature, aisles arranged in incomprehensible ways, the same shelves everywhere, barely distinguishable goods stacked neatly on top of them; This is a hinderance to any attempt of cataloguing anything in an orderly manner, one only needs to turn around slightly to render their spatial awareness useless.

After a confusing stroll along an equally confusing isle, I reached one of the walls. As reassuring as that was (I was beginning to believe I had gotten lost in an unending, unceasing to stretch further and further cardboard storage warehouse) I recognized a familiar sight. The odd room from the night before. I was immediately reminded of the report I hadn’t written yet and after not that much consideration I came to the conclusion that I deserved a break from counting cardboard boxes…

The strangeness of the situation plagued me so, the room was not as I remembered?! Had my senses deceived me the prior night, or were they deceiving me now? The air felt thick with dust and spores, now it smelled of mould. Some parts of the floor were sunken in, collecting the water leaking from a…no, multiple pipes. The walls were barely any uniform colour, but instead many shades of stains and residue, though it felt so out of place to imagine the walls as anything but this, as if they had never been anything than a canvas for this microcosm of spores and moisture.

I ultimately brushed off my unease, it was highly likely that I simply misremembered what I had seen last night, or, even more plausible, the darkness and lack of energy at the end of the day had hindered my perception of the world. That, of course, did not matter anymore, I was to describe the problem, as I saw it right then and there.

As I began outlining the room’s sorry state, the sloped and flooded floor, the uncertain number of leaky pipes, the number of which I was unsure of because of how dripping water seemed to echo all around me, quite sinister once you consider the small size of the room, and how densely packed the pipes were. On the topic of pipes, whatever mastermind of optical illusion installed them made it so that whenever I gazed upon them, they’d become blurry, fuzzy even, and gave the impression of a slither like movement up the wall. Moving on, the bigger problem needed to be addressed. Whatever was going on with the walls was…indescribable, to say the least. I, despite what might be considered better judgement, reached out to touch the wall in front of me, just to make sure it was real. And real it was, disgustingly so. The plaster, if it could still be called that, was unnervingly moist and soft. This would have normally triggered a visceral reaction in me but, this time, I had no desire to pull away. Something in the way the mould smell seemed to get ever so slightly stronger upon my touch…Alas no words seem to be adequate to express what I felt.

For a moment I regained my lucidity and realized how I must have looked like a madman to any onlookers, luckily there weren’t any (except for my self-conscience, that counts as an onlooker). The image this revelation painted in my head made me step back in repulsion. The papers I had used to document my findings here in the room were now dissolving in the water below. I picked them up only to find that all I had written was now an incomprehensible mess of ink.

*

            It had been a week since my temporary promotion and the mere sight of the door at the end of the low ceiling hallway almost seemed to tease me now. I knew what lay on the other side, the maze, that monotonous array of shelves and storage units. With dreadful hesitation I turned the rusted key and let the door slowly swing open with a long and mocking creak. Avoiding to even look at the subject of my task, I was instead led to the wall to my right by some volition foreign to me and began to walk alongside it.

            It was not long before my hand brushed against the handle of…I knew where I was. I took a step back to gaze upon it. A speckled darkness framed the now worn-down door.

            It opened with relative difficulty as the spores had crept in and around the hinges. What lay inside enveloped me fully, an intoxicating miasma, warm and damp. I closed the door behind me, it seemed to like that, the darkness. It was as if I was gazing through a thick curtain of fog, lines blurred together. Despite my eyes failing me I could tell the room had changed, its walls had softened, no longer were there straight lines or right angles, only sinuous and elegant curves.

            The tiles were now soft and welcomed every one of my steps so delicately. Whispers of temptation echoed around me, ushering me forward. They spoke of letting them in, of attuning to them, of embracing whatever was there, awaiting me. Gloved hands cupped my face, tattered moth-eaten fabric, velvety of sorts, guiding me deeper inside.

            The Rot, the Mould herself, all-encompassing in her embrace, accepted me. The gruesome adoration and welcoming of the decay permeated everything. In her mildew bound cocoon, this wonder…I let myself perceive it.

[whimsy-beetle]

maybe i should address the mould in the room

[priintiisor]

sooooo are we not gonna talk about how shadow milk being a trans man is basically confirmed now? "confirmed" is a strong word, but it was implied before and it's very heavily implied now

so. so ash salt cookie right. bare with me here. this is about the cutscene of ash salt cookie's backstory ("cookie of ashes"). ash salt cookie is a being magically created from the ashes of the knights, arguably literally formed out of multiple people, that thing does not have a gender. the first time ash salt cookie is refered to with any pronouns at all is by shadow milk (you can check the cutscene and the one before it yourself). he just kinda decided she's a woman. assigned female at being found by shadow milk cookie-

the context in which he says this line though.

we agree this is shadow milk cookie projecting, yes?

shadow milk, in this episode, believes he has become god. in this moment, he puts himself in the position of the witches that created him and ash salt in the position of the fount of knowledge. as untrue as that actually is of ash salt's situation, shadow milk makes it into that

and he goes, i know what you are. you are a cookie created for a purpose (in the fount of knowledge's case, to be the embodiment of knowledge). this purpose is so grand and abstract, and the circumstances of your creation and your current situation are so unfit for you to actually fulfill it, that you have no chance of actually understanding what it is (what knowledge actually is)

but don't worry, i, God (the witches), will tell you what to do (the role that is the fount of knowledge itself, the specific way in which he was meant to spread knowledge and, by extension, think about it himself). and by doing what i tell you, you will most definitely come to understand your purpose. that is definitely not a lie (shadow milk could never actually understand what knowledge is until he gave up being the fount of knowledge and thought and went about it in his own way)

and also you are a woman.

also, i, God, (the witches), have decided you are a woman.

like. like the fount of knowledge was a woman. they basically said it. obviously ash salt is meant to parallel the fount of knowledge here. ash salt cookie is a character that the writers made the fuck up, they could have easily chosen to make them a man. they didn't. the fount of knowledge was a woman

that being said i will be they/theming ash salt cookie for the foreseeable future because LITTLE GUY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO SOMEBODY. THAT IS HORRIBLE MY MAN. I LOVE HIM BUT I REALLY CAN'T DEFEND HIM ON THIS ONE

also, i said it was implied before, by which i partially just mean the fact that shadow milk's entire conflict can be broadly said to be about his understanding of his identity, and any conflict about identity can easily be made to be about being trans or queer in general (the conflict can be about another aspect of the character's identity and not necesarrily just their gender, but having their pronouns change on top of that is a very direct and nice way of showing it)

i partially mean another cookie, or, this time a pair of cookies, that i think is meant to parallel him (though this one's a bit less clear and perhaps not as intentional): moonlight cookie and stardust cookie

now i know moonlight cookie's design is much older than shadow milk's on account of being an old as hell ovenbreak character, but you can't deny the visual resemblance to the fount of knowledge (he was probably designed to look like moonlight cookie). stardust cookie, who is a kingdom original character and therefore was probably designed after at least the concept of shadow milk existed, also visually looks like shadow milk's regular design, the jester. i won't go as deeply into it but their whole deal about their relationships with their purpose and their creators also parallel his whole conflict about his god given role and his knowledge, with moonlight cookie clinging on to what the wizards made her for despite them abandoning her and this purpose bringing her pain (like the fount of knowledge would probably have) and stardust cookie having his own understading of why he exists and hating his creators and wanting to destroy their work (like the jester, the state shadow milk currently finds himself in).

now moonlight cookie had to be a woman because again, she was already an existing character. nothing was stopping them from also making stardust cookie a woman though!! then they would have had the same gender and there would have been nothing of note, but, as they are, isn't it a little suspicious that the one that parallels the fount of knowledge is a woman and the one that parallels present day shadow milk is a man

if they do it a THIRD time i will have no doubts. i still barely have any doubts

what a strange way to come out shadow milk cookie

[priintiisor]

so i watched some (not all of it. yet) witch's castle lore and. while i don't think witch's castle is strictly canon to kingdom in that exact form (the first witches in kingdom will probably have the same designs and personalities and general ideas going on but be altered to fit with kingdom's themes, same thing they did with moonlight cookie and are currently doing with timekeeper)

i would also like to point out that first milk's cookie of the first batch is reffered to as they/them. some of the first batch cookies have pronouns but hers doesn't.

like. like either the first batch cookies don't exist in kingdom and that cookie is just a sort of parallel to shadow milk (parallels him in terms of first milk's side of their relationship. like first milk's little speech at the end of her story could totally work adressed to him, "i'm sorry i let my own sadness get in the way of being a good parent to you and i'm sorry my own perfectionism made you believe you have to always be strong/perfect, you don't have to be like that" like hello?? her son who went Fuck You i'm not gonna be your perfect little fount of knowledge, you don't even care about knowledge/me) in which case they're further proof his gender is complicated

or the first batch does exist in kingdom in which case first milk has two children that we know of, and one of them grew up and she realised she got his gender Wrong, and the other one is still a baby (regardless of which one was actually made first, point is they don't really have a concept of self yet) and she decided she's actually not going to pick one for them because that didn't go so well for the other one

[priintiisor]

iterator cookie.

[whimsy-beetle]

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[priintiisor]

i don't know if this is common knowledge or not but i've seen no one else mention it and it haunts my nightmares so i'm going to yap about it:

extremely specific cookie game star symbolism

stars in this game, in general, are used to visually show that something is associated with magic. that is a very basic thing to do with the visuals. the interesting part is that the specific shape of the star matters. certain types of stars are associated with different aspects of the world and they are used in the character and environment design to show the connections between certain things

just to be clear, what i'm saying is that the meanings of the stars are used to strenghten or emphasise an aspect of the world or character that is already established in the story by also including it in the visuals. i am not claiming the shapes of stars can be reliably used to gain new information on the story

by the shape or type of a star i mean the number of points it has

4-point stars are the most basic ones and i don't have many examples of them being specifically used. these truly do just denote the general association with magic, they're used a lot as background elements and particle effects. the hall of enlightenment, for example, mostly features its specific 6-point stars, but also has a lot of small 4-point stars in the background

these are more interesting in how they relate to 8-point stars. i will come back to them, these two make more sense together

8-point stars are associated with a higher, more refined form of magic. for example, they're used as decorations in the backgrounds of the vanilla kingdom castle (the old vanilla kingdom being a place known for its advanced understanding and use of magic, as evidenced by its waffle bots and the way the cookies of the creme republic talk about it) and the golden cheese kingdom (also a place heavily associated with intricate magic because of the golden city). specifically, i think it's a form of magic closer to the witches' magic. in the vanilla kingdom, there's very prominent 8-point stars on the church windows. there's a few examples of the shapes of soul jams in the middle of 8-point stars

an 8-point star, if you think about it, is basically two 4-point stars layered on top of eachother (with one slightly rotated)

there are some interesting uses of 4- and 8-point stars to represent aspiration towards either literal better forms of magic or generally towards some higher ideal

the st. pastry order has some of the only actual uses of 4-point stars in designs and not just as background elements, in the background decorations and on their weapons, such as pastry cookie's crossbow. doughael's halo is also decorated with 4-point stars and shaped like a plate with 4 symmetrical decorations. this makes sense as the belief of the cult is that they will ultimately fulfill the witches' will (and they were trying to steal the soul jam in cookie odyseey, still no clue why that was, but still, trying to steal witch magic), while they view themselves as just cookies, lesser beings than the witches

stardust cookie, who is a failed attempt at creating moonlight cookie, the wizards' perfect cookie, has a star on his chest that is a 4-point star with 4 other lines behind it, drawn in a darker color, almost an 8-point star, but not quite there. (this is one of my favourite uses of 4- and 8-point stars and like half the reason i'm writing this post lol)

pure vanilla, in his regular form, has a 4-point star on his forehead. in his awakened design, it changes to an 8-point star also, in pure vanilla's regular splash art, he's drawn reaching out toward an 8-point star. a big point of pure vanilla's character are his hopes and attempts of making the world better. his "truth", as he very nicely explains in his awakening speech, is this ideal of a better world. the star here is not him literally striving for a higher form of magic, but for this higher ideal (thought admittedly, he does seem to think knowing more magic would help him achieve this, which is why he's always helped white lily with her research, but we're getting off track). pure vanilla cookie gets funny metaphors because he is the main character and the writers love him

interestingly, there is also the rare 16-point star! by the same logic, a 16-point star is two 8-point stars layered on top of eachother, so 16-point stars represent even higher forms of magic, perhaps more than the cookies are supposed to ever be capable of- the avatar of destiny's halo is a 16-point star. in the background of dark enchatress' splash art there are 16 witches in a circle (not exactly a star but with this many points we have to get a little creative). the symbol at the top of dark enchantress' baking magic instructions forms half of a 16-point star the glow inside of pure vanilla's staff in his awakened design is also, interestingly, a 16-point star

6-point stars very specifically represent magic associated with knowledge. most obviously, the fount of knowledge himself has a 6-point star with a keyhole on his chest. while the spire of all knowledge barely has any stars, the spire of deceit has quite a few of those as well. the blueberry yogurt academy, as i mentioned previously with the hall of enlightenment, is filled with them. the city of wizards (which i will get to in a second) has all the different stars but the library is specifically decorated with 6-point stars

funnily enough though, they are sometimes also just… shadow milk cookie's stars. the association with knowledge is obviously there but a lot of the time they are used to reference either him personally or just the academy. again, most uses of them i can name are from him and his academy. the only stars that exist at all in the faerie kingdom are in the beast-yeast ep 2 level background and they're a bunch of 6-point stars that he added. in the vanilla kingdom castle there is a decoration on the floor of pure vanilla's soul jam surrounded by two 6-point stars (and one 4-point star that is a little harder to see). on pure vanilla's regular form splash art there's a floating 6-point star (which could be a reference to him or the academy, who's to say). in pure vanilla's awakened form background there's a whole lot of 6-point stars. (i wish i could think of more examples relating to white lily (all the pure vanilla ones, as funny as they are, are not because they're gay but because of narrative parallels with him. which white lily also has a lot of) but i guess her reference to the forbidden magic of the academy are his eyes in her gacha animation, not stars. sigh). 6-point stars are also associated with dream magic in the crunchy dreams story and in the city of wizards in general, which doesn't necesarrily relate to knowledge but it does make sense with shadow milk and his mind control and illusion magic shadow milk cookie gets his own special stars because 1) he's been haunting the narrative since the literal release of the game and we need an easy way to invoke him and 2) the writers have just always really really loved him

a funny little thing, which could mean nothing but i always like bringing it up, is that the first headmaster of the academy (who is shadow milk, it's canon at this point) also has a star on his chest in the same spot as the fount of knowledge, however, it is not the same. first off it doesn't have the keyhole but it is also slightly turned around! the fount of knowledge has it with the axis of symmetry horizontal while the headmaster has it vertical. it might be nothing but, considering that 6-point stars generally represent knowledge and taken together with the soul jam being turned upside down to show that what it represents has changed, i think it's cute that he also changed the rotation of the star to show that his understanding of knowledge has changed. blueberry yogurt my beloved

hey. hey if that paragraph confused you you should go read puf's blueberry yogurt post it's. it's really good. don't look at the length

an interesting use of these, which is kind of my conspiracy theory but i think it's neat, is in the background illustration in beast-yeast ep 11 after white lily breaks the tomb. i may be imagining it but i think the hole in the wall here is shaped like a 6-point star

if i am not just insane, this is interesting because 6-point stars represent knowledge and are associated with the academy, and beast-yeast 11 and 12 are to a large extent about white lily's relationship to her curiosity which goes back to the academy and in a lot of ways parallels shadow milk's knowledge (i'm sorry if that made no sense i am not normal about these two cookies in particular. can you tell by how much i wrote about the academy stars)

by the same logic as 4-, 8- and 16-point stars, shouldn't there also be two 6-point stars stacked on top of eachother? 12-point stars? at the moment of writing this, which is literally one day before the first episode of the timeline of fate comes out, there is exactly one use of a 12-point star that i can name. in shadow milk's splash art background, the thing surrounding his soul jam is a crooked 12-point star (only half of it is ever visible in the actual game). the implications of this are very interesting, if an 8-point star is a higher form of a 4-point star, does this crooked 12-point star indicate some sort of attempt to make a higher form of the magic represented by 6-point stars? this also looks very similar to the symbol at the top of dark enchantress' baking magic paper. what crimes against nature has my man attempted?

i feel the need to mention at the point of writing this, literally one day before timekeeper cookie gets added to crk, because timekeeper may very well change this. they're almost certainly meant to parallel shadow milk in some way as well and their whole aesthetic is clocks, which famously are circles with 12 points on them (and shadow milk has always had some connection with clocks and time magic, it is mentioned a few times that time in the spire of deceit doesn't flow normally). even more interestingly though, the teasers have mostly been depicting them with 24 hour clocks, which, if we count them as stars, would be one step above the 12-point star and equivalent to a 16-point star. but the clocks could also just not fit into this at all and just be clocks, who's to say until tomorrow

5-point stars are pretty much exclusive to the city of wizards. in my personal opinion the reason these are used at all is because moonlight cookie's design had already been made for ovenbreak before they came up with all this star symbolism. wizard cookie has 5-point stars on his hat because, it's in his name he's a wizard too!! and he has read a lot about and admires the wizards

the city of wizards is fun, actually, because, as i said, it has all the different stars. this makes sense, the wizards did study all types of magic. the wizards are also said to be trying to recreate the magic of "the twelve archmages" which probably refers to the first witches, so the 4- and 8-point stars make sense. the knowledge stars being here obviously also make sense. the city of wizards also just has a lot of funny stars that don't really show up anywhere else, like the 3-dimensional ones

another honorable mention is the creme republic, which also has all the different types of stars used at random, but for pretty much the opposite reason. in cookie odyssey, clotted cream wants to take the soul jams because he thinks he knows what should be done with them but, despite his genuine good intentions and the fact that it create something good in the end, he is missing a lot of context. in the same way, the creme republic cookies like to think they're so amazing because they come from the vanilla kingdom when really they're not that great and, to the audience, come across as having no idea what the rest of the world is like. the way they use stars also shows this: they've taken the stars from the vanilla kingdom but don't actually know their meanings

also, as previously mentioned, the faerie kingdom has no stars (until shadow milk adds his own), which is about as weird and out of place, for a place so magical and so closely associated with the witches, as everything else about the faerie kingdom

these are my funny little observations about the cookie game stars. i will also say that this doesn't quite apply all the time (like, shining glitter cookie has a 6-point star in her hair, that one has no relation to knowledge or the academy, they just happened to draw a sparkle like that. there's a few other examples like this) but it does 90% of the time and for most things actually related to the main story. i hope you will now join me in counting the points of all stars you see in this game. it will drive you insane. my brain has started automatically counting on any star shape i see in any context. send help

[priintiisor]

hehe three 6 point stars for the three mad scientists pictured here hehe that's cute

[bandagedwithnoblood]

știați că! faimosul poet roman lucian blaga a scris in metru modern, nu antic cum scria eminescu. asta pentru ca eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii intra scrisa pe un metru de croitorie

[priintiisor]

no. you don't get it. croissant cookie is one of THESE

look at her goggles. they literally look like the insides of these

timekeeper is a proper french croissant

[pufthebirb]

so we all know how after watching beast yeast 2 and before watching beast yeast 7, i had this silly little au in which the cool blue jester was actually the first headmaster of the academy because hey wouldnt that kinda make sense but also be fun...

...well. allow me to introduce you to my newest silly little au about the second headmaster of the academy.

aka the one responsible for deciding the moonstone is too dangerous to be studied and it is the headmaster's duty to protect it

[pufthebirb]

btw the screenshot is of the costume because the costume is just very academy looking but this au refers to regular timekeeper. like like. like. her and mr blueberry knew each other back in the day because ✨️dimesional rifts and time magic is interesting (haha moonstone)✨️ and now neither of them can recognise the other. like it is 1) really funny and 2) an excuse to ship the true real shmilk with her <3

[priintiisor]

i need them to have been best friends your honor

[priintiisor]

i WILL make the angstiest comic about these two and nothing can stop me except the lore making it absolutely impossible for them to have known eachother at that point in time

[pufthebirb]

hehe creatures

[pufthebirb]

i am so cooked that i see shadowvanilla art and my brain automatically assumes that's timekeeper instead of pure vanilla what the fuck

[priintiisor]

shadow milk cookies type is blonde bitches with pronouns

[pufthebirb]

newly cooked up defense team

listen. the treasures are the backstory. there's a ghost ice cream: meaning that theres a dead cookie who was ice cream flavoured. there's the blueberry treasure. meaning that it's the blueberry flavoured cookie who's dead. and there's the silver fork because that's how blueberry yogurt died

and then there's financier cookie in the lady justice costume because they're in court. and then there's the dead man's son and his girlfriend who are in court over the man's inheritance. because timekeeper wants to get his collection of fancy clocks which blueberry yogurt may have maybe left them in his will and she needs to get them from the guy who has the right to his inheritance cuz he's his son. so uhm. thank you for listening to me yap about the defense team

[priintiisor]

anyway heres the events of timeline of fate prologue and ep 1 in the actual order that they happen according to what caused what ("chronological order" starts to lose meaning but you get what i mean)

please read the explanations in the top right corner, this wont make much sense otherwise (i promise it DOES make sense)

cutscene prologue 15 also known as "the soul jams suck actually" cutscene is not here because it happened. in the past. ok- as i said time starts to lose meaning. listen. the split in the timelines happened at a moment in time, after the ending of ep 15. before this moment there were not two different timelines. the split in the timelines also exists at a specific point on both those timelines, the moment the beasts were about to be sealed. elder faerie talking to the soul jams is something that had already happened in the core timeline long before the split in the timelines existed, before the beginning of timeline of fate. that cutscene is a good old fashioned flashback that has nothing to do with time travel.

[priintiisor]

updated (spoilers, obivously)

not entirely sure what sage of truth's timeline is, for now i'm just going to consider it a different core timeline (stable timeline that has its own life energy, entirely separate from OUR core timeline, differentiated by the witches having made different choices, you've all seen the dark fondue cookie's ppt presentation about how timelines work you know what i'm talking about). as opposed to the blue timekeeper timeline, which as far as i understand is a branch of the shadow milk timeline that, because of croissant cookie's interference in its past, was weak enough for timekeeper to cut off