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Guys I am such a Fionna and Cake Season 2 truther right now like it cannot be over!!! They never resolve the weird glitching things to normal that F&C did across the multiverse and we END on seeing PRISMO glitching too, like it just cannot be over, season 2 is totally coming. And the OST not only being titled “Season 1” in Spotify but having the COVER ART ITSELF having “Season One” at the top just is breaking my brain a little bit

THE FUN WILL NEVER END

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Hot take: I was more satisfied with Simon and Betty's ending in the finale than I was with Fionna and Cake's.

For me personally, I had always thought of Simon's journey to get Betty back as him grieving for a loved one. She is gone, at least as he knew her, and we meet him at the beginning of the series stuck in the depression stage of his grief. Their story was about sacrifice for one another, and unfortunately, Simon didn't realize how much more she had sacrificed until it was too late and she had given her own life for him. He can't change that, but in the end, he reconciles with his choices and gets the closure of apologizing to Betty and hearing her say she didn't regret a thing even if things didn't go as well as they might have liked.

Simon is left at the end of his journey through the grieving process having accepted what has happened and being unable to change it, but that doesn't fix everything. Life goes on and he still has things to work through, and it seems like he is taking the steps he needs to, and that makes me happy for him.

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Fionna & Cake Ending Theory

Alright so since this is the last night before Fionna and Cake comes to an end, I thought I would try my hand at some honest to god Media Analysis™ on the themes of F&C and what that could mean for its ending in 3 hours

My thesis statement is that the theme of F&C is that you must make happiness with what you have, and not cling to the happiness of the past. This is supported by the protagonists' motivations/stories as I'll explain below.

Fionna's wish and surface-level motivation over the course of the series is to bring back the magic to her universe, it is established very early on that her reason for wanting this is because she is depressed with her boring normal life and she wants adventure and excitement, and just to get away from mundanity in general.

Simon's wish and surface level motivation is a bit more complicated. Obviously he wants Betty back, but if I were to guess where the series is going and the overall message, I would say that this is only his surface level motivation. Not to say that his love for her is surface level or anything, but if I were to wager what his true motivation is, I think that he wants companionship and a sense of normalcy contrasting Fionna's desire for the abnormal. Especially considering the fact that the show is clearly going for the angle that Simon and Betty's relationship wasn't all that healthy, and that Betty is basically dead and Simon needs to grieve and move on.

So with Fionna, as she's starting to learn, magical adventures may not be as simple as she thought, and she will probably discover that she doesn't need to live in a magical world to find adventure and excitement, she can make both in the world she lives in. As for Simon, looking back at the original series, and even within this series, Simon is always happiest when he has someone to take care of, even as the Ice King the earliest moment we see happiness from him is the episode where he "fathers" NEPTR and sheds a tear thinking about having a son even if it's a short-lived moment. Then of course there's Simon and little Marcy. But even in F&C itself, he seems calmest when he's being a father figure to Fionna, talking to the Farmworld kids, or cradling baby Finn calmly even when Bubblegum has a knife to his throat. So much so that people have picked up on it and pointed it out. I think he will find his companionship by having a child to care for. I don't know if it'll be baby Finn or maybe Astrid, but if I were to put money on it I would guess that's the end of his arc.

Some odds and ends that I couldn't really fit into this theory includes what's up with Cake? Because like, I feel the direction the show is going is leading to F&C's universe staying normal, but that doesn't seem fair to turn Cake back into a housecat. And the other thing is Winter King. When Winter King is reminded of Betty by Simon, he recalls her as not that important. Which itself seems to be an important detail for the writers to have included. My guess is that WK, like Simon, has a need for companionship. Still, instead of obsessing over Betty and getting her back, he focused that energy on Marceline, and that led him to create ice Marcy out of his inability to move on from Marcy not being in his life, similar to how our Simon can't move on from Betty being in his life.

I could be completely wrong though, thats the fun part, I just thought I'd take a crack at some media/character analysis. I was thinking about making this into a video, but it spiraled into a whole character analysis of Simon/Ice King. If anyone is interested in watching that, maybe I'll finish making that and post it here.

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the fact that fionna and cake is ending next week is so sick and twisted i am NOT ready for it to be over, i am NOT prepared. i need at least another month of this. i will literally become simon doing some incantion shit to bring this show back because it cannot be overrrr

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nah i understand betty now bc if some nerdy ass twink that *I* had a massive crush on looked at me like that, grabbed my chin and brushed my hair behind my ear while that song was playing i would also fight god to get him back

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No bc imagine ur Betty and you literally lose your sanity for a few years and end up turning yourself into a fucking chaos god so that he can keep HIS sanity and you see him about to throw it all away, Id summon his ass to ask him what the fuck he thought he was doing too

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they are straight t4t I fear

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Damn, Martin really leaves Finn in every universe.

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i need more 2000s coded asaden amv

Asaden amv if you care :333 XD

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Fuck i REALLY REALLY hope that the success of Fionna & Cake proving the viability of adult animation oh Max will make WB execs re-examine their choice to cancel Infinity Train for being “too adult”

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I often imagine that Marceline looks strikingly like her mom with short hair.

(please pretend that the mirror is modified so that Marceline can see her reflection ῠvῠ)

Characters:

Marceline - Adventure time Princess Bubblegum - Adventure time

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Some asaden doodles i forgot to post in here