You know another thing I noticed with the Beasts and our Ancients? The Beasts were baked and dropped into their positions and the Ancients were baked to grow up (whether you believe they were baked as babies or as children or teens already) and choose/get led into their positions.
Unless I’m wrong but nothing really shows that the Beasts had a life like our Ancients did before they got their SoulJams or became kings/queens (White Lily only technically recently got her kingdom)
Pure Vanilla and White Lily went to an Academy (whether as children, teen, young adult is up to you to decide headcanon wise) and at some point met Hollyberry, Dark Cacao and Golden Cheese. I remember somewhere, I could be wrong, that they were just a group of adventurers (One of PV’s lines in the Cookie list if you have him is “I haven’t been on an adventure for a long time!” Or something like that) and eventually split off when they found their SoulJams. I don’t mean split off as in their friend circle because they all came together after PV’s kingdom/castle was founded/made and made a promise in the Solarium of Unity. White Lily was there (WITH HER OWN SOULJAM BTW) for PV’s coronation(which kinda questions where the others were? Y’all weren’t there for your best friend’s coronation? Unless they were there just off screen ig or they were in the process of receiving their own SoulJam or founding their kingdoms while this was happening. After all we don’t know the order of the Ancients founding their kingdoms). So you can kinda see the passage of time with the Ancients with their sprites, if they have or don’t have SoulJams, and what they or others say.
The Beasts were just said to have been baked and then given the SoulJams. Hell maybe we have a situation where the Beasts were teens as well when they were baked but thrown into their positions to wield the SoulJams because the Witch(es) only thought about whether or not these 5 could wield them. So the Beasts are just misguided children (not saying they are children currently. if they were baked as teens they obviously grew into adults and if not, they are already adults). Because also the Witch(es) did nothing to help them really with their powers. Kinda just let them figure it out for themselves and when they went batshit with said powers, just opted to seal them away.
Maybe our Ancients were planned from the start to be the new holders of the SoulJams (i'm basing this off their descriptions on how they were made/born except Golden Cheese mysteriously doesn't have a line or anything in her paragraph saying how she was made) and the Witch(es) hope they can redeem the Beasts.
If the Beasts do get redeemed, I'm hoping they're like the Diamonds in SU where they're silly little aunts/uncles and use their powers for helping Cookies or develop new powers as well to do that.










