you cannot just do this to me. goodbye.
i was originally going to explain everything in Depth here but i honestly don't feel like doing it right now (and i'm also tired) because i'm still reeling from all this and i need more Time to wrangle with it. so take this however you will for now - and apologies if this makes literally no sense at all because rn i'm like that one meme of the guy writing on the whiteboard LMAO
the point of this is not even ship-focused, but moreso my inherent crippling Whim of digging for the VERY SUBTLE subtext that inexplicably Connects two things together and this is the end result because i INSTANTLY fucking remembered white lily's dialogue in the might of the ancients about cookie creation the moment i saw Fount's thoughts about the Same Thing. same with salt of solidarity parallels (WHICH WAS ALSO IN THE MIGHT OF THE ANCIENTS), it's not even funny. because wtf is with devsis and making quotes so eerily similar to each other even when it's something as lowkey as this but they NEVER say anything about it?
because clearly the way of the sequence worded:
"Why were Cookies created?" "Why do we exist in this world?" (<<< differs a bit from Lily's perspective vs Fount, who emphasizes moreso on the aspect of the world ITSELF rather than the purpose of Cookies being in the world)
i'd actually be so surprised if it was a coincidence - because as mentioned above, it's WAY too eerily similar to not be one.
but anyway. the confirmation.
Aside from that, i'm not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet, but Lily has this VERY ODD connection to the six-pointed star that Fount has.
from the beginning there was obviously a connection with Lily and the six-pointed star because of the Academy in general, but it wasn't until recently just how much the six-pointed star is associated with Fount. It also does carry a bit into Shadow Milk's themes as well, but moreso Fount.
lily's report card has the six-pointed star, and the ultimate cookie recipes book has it on there as well. (not to mention the fleur-de-lis, but i'll get into that later)
also. her arena statue:
lily's reaching up towards the six-pointed star.
from what we know, the six-pointed star is heavily associated with Knowledge in general, but you could interpret as part of the Witches' magic as well, because it's at the VERY TOP of the paper DEC shows shadow milk.
so you could symbolize this as lily's ongoing pursuit of knowledge of some kind, considering how it appeared in the academy.
also not to mention fount literally has the six-pointed star in his sprite so there's that too:
personally, i think it's important to mention that the positioning of the star is prevalent, because the one on Fount's collar is more subtle. still a six-pointed star, but it's not exactly the one formatted all the other times before, including like the one in his halo.
now, i'm not going to explain this because i think the parallel of these screenshots are pretty self explanatory.... i'm just throwing these at the wall at this point (prolly gonna ramble about it in the tags) but i felt the Need to bring them up 😀👍
^^^ weird how similar the upside down fleur-de-lis on awakened lily's tiara is to fount's head marking 🤔
one last thing for now, but.