#acoc saccharina

[sugarplumdone]

[emiuli]

My babies!!!

[heytherecentaurs]

I love Fig and she’s my favourite but if they do Fantasy High Senior Year without her, I trust Emily. She’s never let me down before. Prism Grimpoppy was on CR for a handful of episodes and I totally fell in love with her. With 10 episodes she completely endeared me to Chirp in A Court of Fey and Flowers. In A Crown of Candy after Jet died she gave us Saccharina one of the most interesting, traumatized and complex Intrepid Heroes characters. If Emily has 20 episodes of Fantasy High, she’s going to make me love her new character. I’ll miss Fig and her shenanigans. But I also think I’m satisfied knowing she’s out there living her happily ever after. (Even though I’d have liked to see more of what that looked like for her and Ayda.)

[doreensladle]

The Distance Between Two Bodies

[emiko-matsui]

good morning to fathers who shouldn't be fathers, girls sexting with ugly men, the most boring gay man alive, your uncle who's a power bottom, people with pink hair going through unimaginable grief, autistics who cry when they get to talk about their special interests, eldest daughters forgotten by their family, and the friend invited on the family vacation who's really regretting coming with by now

[isawiitch]

ok I did crown of candy too

[chalkbird]

crown of candy moments that deeply changed me as a person:

you know what i've always hated about you, amethar?

"if you thought the adventure was gonna end, it's not." — "well, if you thought the adventurer was gonna die, she definitely fucking wasn't."

i wonder if they'll still call you the unfallen after this

where is your bulb now?

i can't help but wonder if you died thinking that i did not love you

et tu, frute?

i cast knock on the door

they're gonna eat you alive, annabelle!

i'm gonna be as casual about this as i can *proceeds to take out a scroll and loudly announce all of amethar's titles*

my third wish is for you to come home

i am a strong woman, i don't need a man

what's the last part of my title?

it was good. what you took away from me, it was good.

every single time swifty opens his mouth

do you know how many things would have to have gone wrong in order for this to matter?

i hate having my shit fucked

[unhauntng]

emily and siobhan simply can’t resist making their pc’s either best friends or sisters as can be seen in literally every season. like not just a crown of candy which obviously has the sister relationship between them but adaine and fig being best friends and fig declaring that to everyone as they’re trying to save adaine from fallinel as well as the fact that emily literally said she didn’t care what happened in the combat as long as they didn’t let adaine get captured by the elves. now in neverafter, rosamund and ylfa are the cutest like older and younger sister vibe and ylfa literally constantly is trying to protect rosamund. also then there’s the hero worship of misty moore by sofia and then when misty is gone siobhan plays the character that sofia ends up going to for emotional help - iga ! like even in subtle ways their pcs always have such a specific bond it is so adorable. a lot of it comes from emily’s role play as well because she can always manage to turn a comedic moment into such a cute bonding or like role play moment to display the bond between characters.

basically emily is siobhan’s biggest fan and i love it

[dimension20stuff]

The tragedy of ACOC is that the characters are people and aren't seeing everything that we the audience sees so ofc they aren't going to sympathize fully and aren't going to understand why X character acts Y way and THE REASON THATS A TRAGEDY IS BECAUSE THATS JUST LIKE REAL LIFE!!!! IM GOING INSANE

[thenerdyindividual]

Rewatching A Crown of Candy had reminded me how much I hate Saccharina. She is such a well done character. Her expectations are completely out of line with reality. The Rocks family lost Jet less than two weeks before meeting Saccharina, and they’ve had no time to process their grief. They’ve been running for their lives for even longer with out any idea that Saccharina existed, and have had no time to come to terms with everything. Calroy, someone they cared about and trusted, was directly responsible for the state of affairs, including Jet’s death. There’s been no time to process a betrayal that profound. Ruby, Jet, and Liam went from being rambunctious teens to war guys, and they haven’t been able to figure out what that means for them.

Despite all that, Saccharina expects them to play happy families immediately because she’s known of them her entire life. Then, because of her background, she takes every instance of tension as a personal slight. There’s no consideration for what the Rocks have been through because she’s experienced pain too. She is so focused on the distance she feels with Ruby and Amethar, she ignores that the rest of the party has been welcoming to her. Theo gave his loyalty to her within minutes of meeting her. Cumulus bonds with her over Lazuli. Liam is… well he’s Liam. He’s an awkward guy with everyone, but he is welcoming to her too. Amethar is doing his best but Saccharina doesn’t consider that his struggles to bond with her have nothing to do with her. He lost a daughter and now is being asked to accept another daughter he didn’t know about on the heels of that loss. Ruby didn’t just lose her twin, she lost her best friend, but Saccharina expects Ruby to put aside her grief to welcome a new sister with open arms. Just a couple episodes before, Ruby is “warging into Yak so I don’t have to be in my fucking body” and saying she felt like she died the day Jet did. Yet when she tries to explain all of the grief and trauma to Saccharina, Saccharina’s response was “I was born with nothing”.

What makes all this so brilliant (besides Emily Axford’s rp and character choices) is how if the tables were turned, we’d hate the Rocks family. As @anarchycox pointed out, if this was a YA novel where we had been following Saccharina’s point of view, we’d hate Amethar and Ruby for not accepting Saccharina. We’d be raging and saying things like “She’s your daughter! You’re meant to love her, you asshole!” After everything Saccharina has been through, we’d be pissed that she couldn’t get a happy reunion. There would be no question that we were on Saccharina’s side.

It is the only time I’ve experienced feeling guilty about hating a character. Normally, when I hate a character it feels good to hate them. They’re a bad guy and it’s fun to tell them to go fuck themselves. Saccharina isn’t a bad guy, or even an antagonist. She’s is an ally, and a deeply flawed and wounded character.

I still hate her.

It’s brilliant. Emily Axford you’ve done it again.

[aq2003]

ok so basically

[beeorios]

I got really delusional over a crown of candy. Check it out… heh

[kindlespark]

not your hero is a saccharina song

[greatpistachiopie]

i like to think that as time continued on and when they have both healed enough, the tales of the royal half-sisters of candia are much loved across the realm

[thesecondplace]

the new time quangle got me thinking so here's Every Emily Axford d20 character ranked by how I think they'd react to Sexy Rat

Fig Faeth: she birthed that thing. it's literally her baby she is 100% sexy rats biggest defender

Sofia Lee: pre TUC Sofie might be a bit grossed out by it but as soon as she meets Kug that'd stop being the case she would absolutely fw a sexy rat

Ylfa Snorgellson: I think Ylfa would relate to Sexy Rat a lot actually, truly a symbol of unconventional beauty for her to idealise

Sundry Sidney: I feel like Sid would like the sexy rat, but she would definitely kill it with fire if asked to

Jet Rocks: Jet's nepo baby self would not be able to appreciate the beauty of sexy rat. At most her and Ruby find it amusing/funny

Sacchirina Frowstwhip: Saccharina does not have the time or the energy to deal with a strangely sexy rat she would dispose of that thing on sight

BONUS

7. Lady Chirp Featherfowl: Not only would she dispose of sexy rat on sight she would have to have a very dramatic show of the trauma from the encounter involving a feinting couch

[silverspadesss]

there’s something about how a huge theme in acoc is the role of a daughter - jet and ruby, saccharina, amethar’s sisters, annabelle cheddar, plumbeline uvano, probably more that i’m forgetting

and now we have a theme within the ravening war of the role of a son - deli, colin, the son of amangeaux, even prince amethar

idk what it is but it is something.