As someone who loves making angst or reading about it, I think CROB does justice in delivering it when it comes down to the story between the dragons.
It must have been HARD to go against the very dragon that had been nothing but kind towards them when they were going forth with destroying cookie kind and reshaping an entire island. Do you know how hard it is to fight against someone you consider kin? I think, since I am still busy catching up with CROB stories, that the story of one dragon able to foresee everything is more than just a simple gift. It is a curse. To foresee your entire species slowly go down due to fights and even cookies must have been terrifying. All they wanted was to live the life that had been promised to them, but taken away with the snap of a finger. The dragon, Longan Dragon Cookie, is suffering some kind of emotional trauma and literal flashbacks from when dragons were once on Earthbread. This can be a factor to play to their personality, why they are emotionally distant and refuse to show affection or any emotion really. This can be the motivation, the trauma can be a motivational factor to play as to why they want to bring the past into the present despite the brawls to fight for survival. It was an era where survival of the fittest and strongest was taken to another level, where you had to be aggressive and fight for survival, they grew up in that environment until their eventual slumber with their kin- I think the others also slumbered? Not too sure about that one but let's say it did happen.- only to wake up in an era where another species began to walk with no other dragons in sight!
Does it justify the actions of Longan for wanting to create mass cookie extinction? Absolutely not!
Can it be seen as reason for their actions to be taken too far? Yes!
The other dragons experience the loss of their kind differently, but I believe Longan took the most of the extinction of their species quite hard. And what if their guardians had been there? Not much is known of their past, hopefully we'll get more lore about it, but we can only theorise that the past was mostly unforgiving to those that tried to be passive.
Now I might be wrong about all of this, this is my opinion and theory with some lore I had to dig up, but maybe we will get to see Longan be convinced by Hollyberry or someone equal to their power to aid in the battle against SMC? The possibility is not high, but it isn't impossible. In the small glimpse of the trailer we got, we saw the Ebony Dragon in the background. I think that THEY will be the final boss of the entire crk timeline as we know that war against the Stone Dragons had been the main cause of the downfall of dragons. The only survivors are mostly Fruit Dragons and a single Flower Dragon, not anymore considering Snapdragon is a Flower Dragon as well from what we got from the new episode of ToF, but CROB says that the Ebony Dragon is trapped and sealed away. Is this suggesting that another war against dragonkind will resurface? Will we get to see Longan battle against the Ebony Dragon? So many questions with so little answers, so many possibilities!
I hope to see Longan fight alongside cookies against SMC, if it is for their own benefit and later betray their allies then I wouldn't mind because we get to see them in action, and then see how they fight against the Ebony Dragon!
But that's just my thoughts for what I expect would happen when Longan arrives and why I think Longan became who they are now. Remember, this is just a theory in the last part of this post! The rest are also theories, but it is all about what I observed from the way Longan acts and what little lore we were given about dragons going extinct! Not 100% accurate, but this is what I believe had played out for Longan to be, well, Longan.
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