#ramblee

[spicyr]

Elder Custard's my favorite NPC, why?

Elder Custard has to be the most hated villain, and in my opinion he's honestly SO tame.

I'm looking to open up discussion and help people understand odyssey!!

COOKIE RACISM?

During the beginning of the story he mentions that clotted cream only recently brought peace to the republic, uniting the two sides.

Custard seemingly is proud of this feat so I'd imagine he doesn’t see union with sea cookies as a bad thing. Even if you were to argue it’s to increase his reputation

He calls caviar a “sea dog” and many people call it a slur. I don’t see it as a slur, sea dog is an actual term for weathered sailor, and caviar even uses it to describe himself. I think what custard meant by this is that Caviar isolates himself as a sailor.

Custard was under the misconception that the pearl legion was his power(his obsession), got denied his power and called Oyster course as in cold hearted.

I think that this is just his untrust shining through, yes it may be offensive to salty cookies but I think he would've said the same level of insult to anyone. IE Clotted before

This supports why Custard insults Clotted's dough, which I cannot defend. But shows that hating on salty cookie's dough is not an exclusive thing.

This is his ONLY time of being racist. Compared to sable, who is just blatantly classicist. I think if vanilla sugar can apologize he can too. Especially because he cares very deeply about his image and likes working with them. 

WHATS HIS DEAL WITH HIS FAMILY?

There's many loose ends with Light Creams lore. I agree, that there is manipulation on Custards side. I'd argue he is very polite to Light cream, at most passive aggressive. He is a villain, he is obsessed with power. Light wanting to talk to Clotted would stress him out. Especially in the events of odyssey and is the reason he wishes to shoo her away.

With his constant dismissal of scone I can assume since House Scone isn’t in power he wants to isolate clotted. To make him forget about his lineage that has fallen and focus on his work.

CLOTTED MISCHARAZATION

Other than that, he’s really just strict as hell, which is reasonable. Clotted has the MOST powerful house’s reputation on the line. He is nagging and manipulative. Though characters like Dark Cacao can be just as strict and insulting.

Custards ENTIRE livelihood and obsession is his work.. Clotted is also a grown ass man, yes, his son. But he has stood his ground before with Custard. All Custard acts like, is pathetic when this happens because Clotted calls the shots when dealing with others. If he didn't wish to have the pressure of House Custard, I'm sure it would have been mentioned.

During the end, I can't defend him for being an ass here. This is the only time he really insults clotted, and calls him a pitiful dimwitted fool.

Which yes u can stone him for.

He literally does nothing about though, and is so pathetic. Compared to cacao, who threatens to hurt people and make changes when offended. This is very tame, villain-wise at least.

Although a common misconception,  he wouldn't harm anyone with the soul jam's power he just wanted it to keep the power for the house. Everyone in the republic SEVERILY underestimates the ancients. 

Leaving the republic was an ass move, yes. He did not expect the ancient's to join the forces and does not want conflict between them, Clotted usually has everything in control anyways. Which is some basic villain stuff I mean let a man plot, he's oldass hell too if he gets jumped it's over.

WARMER TOGETHER

Baby custard's entire personality is being insanely naive. (I love him stilllll though) which is like an entire culture shock to the elder custard. He expected him to be more educated on the family. Clotted has mentioned that manners are essential in a republic.

And the worst line, the “half baked disgrace” one is only THOUGHT by custard. Worst he says is he’ll never be king, well bc LITERALLY THE VANILLA KINGDOM IS GONE. </3

Baby Custard also didn't hear shit he's in his own world, or Custard was whispering it. Either way he wasn't affected, and Custard wasn't pushing to make him upset.

CONCLUSION

I'm open to discussion!! You can hate him, but most things he's hated for is just mischaracterization in my opinion. There's also more elders to make fun who are much eviler.

I'm honestly confused why Custards the butt of a joke, I think he is a pretty fun villain and I love his design. I really like the concept of the custard military and his relationship with Clotted.

I also think people just cannot handle villain's sometimes in crk, which disappoints me because complex characters can be analyzed properly and do exist.

[an1muuarts]

why is klavier's name just "piano" in german

he doesnt even play the piano

he plays the guitar

[leesolbeesol]

Hiii its me again

I heard ur going on hiatus due to health issues

I hope you recover from whatever you are going through soon (and i DONT mean it cuz I want u to end ur hiatus too quickly i genuinely want you to feel better)

I see alot of writers who fall out of love with writing because people have stopped giving a few kind words to their fics and i don't want that to happen to u since you have a writing talent which is why i am writing this now. I will be ur NO.1 supporter even though ur a stranger online.

Dont worry I will be waiting here when you return from hiatus<3 take as long time as u need

(Ive been loving the soobin series so far btw just to let yk ur writing is always amazing<3)

HI NO.1 SUPPORTER!! I'm back and up in the writing game <3333

im working on...... a mark fic thats veryyy fall themed so hopefully its done before then but it seems pretty long tbh im already thinking abt sequels oops......

ill check on soobin series when i can <3

[hermesserpent-stuff]

In which I ramble about where billy fights

So! Thanks @lirabuswavi for asking” Also, in Thundersnow, why does Billy work out of Fawcett City even though he doesn't live there anymore?” 

First things first. Fawcett is sitting right on top of the portal to the Rock of Eternity. Yes, if you have the right key/password you can get there from anywhere, but magic is strongest there. Marvel is strongest at the rock, and just slightly less powerful in Fawcett. gotta go back for recharging and stuff

Second thing second! Its his hometown. He is very attached to all the places he spent his time growing up, living with his parents, and even the time he spent surviving. My mom always loves going back to her home town and Billy is exactly the same. James says that Billy glows whenever he’s in Fawcett. He loves living with the Rogues, but nothing beats seeing your home. 

Third. Fawcett does not have a hero. Central does. Billy doesn’t want to step on any toes and wants to form his own identity.

Fourth: he can get there really fast. First with help from Sam, then using portals. (he can also sprint and fly fast) 

Fifth: Has nothing to do with the story. I just really really like that Billy has his own city. It opens the opportunity for him to learn sigils to put in hidden places around town to keep out danger and to send him warnings that something is up. I get weirdly sad when in adoption fics he doesn’t always get to continue being a hero to his home. So through magic, mirrors, and a bit of smoke, my little dude gets to keep fighting crime a city away and return to Central in time for dinner.

There’s something my mom once told me when I went to college, which is that once you call two places home, you’ll always miss the other one a little bit. More specifically “You’ll never be happy again.” Which is harsh, but a bit true. At least pretty true for me. The heart longs for what has gone. 

[mightbebianca]

me doodle but then also me and me but in a meme

[scribble-games]

I was thinking about what kind of perfume/scents characters might wear, and... so Hex is doing a lot of intense exercise before work, right? So they would want a fairly heavy-duty antiperspirant, right? And I feel like Hex would find it amusing to go for the stuff marketed as FOR MEN, so like... I'm not saying they use Axe body spray, but I'm not NOT saying that 😁

[mitchodium]

there is no uquiz telling me what football team i should support help 😟😟😟

[thelittlespanielthatcould]

I think an interesting thing I have learned from myself is that I actually don't think that an off switch is as an important as I used to think. Kovu was so much more well behaved with the help of other dogs and a yard to hunt lizards in (I guess he needs more exercise/stimulation... we will be working on that) and I realized I kinda missed him fucking shitup. . I realized I like when we are happy and tired together because it's something we earned, you know? Through adventuring and fun and interesting training and really putting effort into it. I was expecting him to be extremely chill like the dogs I grew up with and in a lot of ways he is but he also needs to be Entertained and actually I like it. It is grounding for me to have another being that requires my care a lot throughout the day and I'd like more of that.

My energy levels have increased in a really good way since getting a dog and I think that's because I'm not like. inherently low energy. I'm depressed. I've been depressed for all of the stages of my life where I learned to make choices and cultivate interests. so I went with the inertia and didn't fill my day with things to do. But im neurotic and understimulated because of it, I do much better when I am keeping busy all day long, like when working a lot of hours and on my feet all day. I think that's why taking care of animals as a hobby farmer or with pets that need a lot of work would be really good for me. Because I KNOW myself. I know I will not only do the work but I will enjoy it and I will be better off for it. And it's frustrating talking to people about high energy dogs and feeling like a fraud because yes I will lie in bed all day long sometimes but that is not because it is an inherent part of who I am that cannot be changed it is because organisms don't repeat behavior that doesn't bring them reinforcement and the chemicals that tell me when I'm happy do not work right so there is this absence of behavior stemming from nor feeling happiness ever when I learned to be a person. that is not the same thing as naturally being happy doing less things.