person who reblogged your master thinking with my deranged ramblings today. hiiiii!!!
um. i have a thought! you say that the guardians WILLINGLY gave up the things they couldn't really handle, but i think that they were most likely pressured into it by divine cream.
from the way wasp responds to having to seal her emeraldine (which it's pretty obvious that it was pressure) to pheonix pepper saying that the guardians may have been "means to an end" (likely speaking to divine cream cookie specifically), divine cream is just. really nasty and controlling, i fear 💔
hi hi hi (: sorry this took a bit to get back to I wanted to collect my thoughts
That's certainly a possibility! Divine Cream hasn't made himself out to be super "good" thus far. He seems like utilitarian sort: what would benefit the most amount of cookies? Sacrificing his own and his friends' memories, no matter how sentimental they are. I wish we got a better timeframe of the events of the game: how long has it been since the guardians received their powers (going off of the assumption that they all indeed received them and weren't born with them, as WA didn't seem to have any powers before her deal with Navis), when was the first tragedy/attacks that drove them to seal the oven, and how long has it been since? When was the Citrus Order established, which is in service of and supposedly hand-picked by Divine Cream despite him not residing there (or at least hasn't for a good while)?
Has DC always been so utilitarian, or was that something that developed as the situation in the tower grew dire? Philosophies like that aren't something that spontaneously manifests. Did all of the other guardians truly feel sealing everything away was their only choice, or did they have their doubts?
I would hesitate to label him as controlling, simply because of the lack of outright + full conversations from him, but he does seem scarily good at dispassionate prioritization and judgment, but still acting as if he cares to everyone else. I would garner a guess that he was already that way when it came down to sealing the oven + the guardians' memories: DC simply didn't have any that could cause him grief. Plus, we don't know much about the other guardians, maybe there were some that were completely ok with giving up their bad memories. I say ground oat bc living with survivor's guilt is an incomprehensible weight. I'm sure some, if given the chance, would choose to discard those memories and lift the burden. Perhaps Ground Oat couldn't take it.
