#anyway I also think she like. committed a micro aggression once but I might be reading that scene wrong
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Controversial Opinion
Caramel Arrow is not a proper character and y'all give her way too much credit.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T HATE CARROW OR HER FANS I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKE HER AND I WISH SHE HAD MORE STORY BECAUSE MOST OF HER STORY BEATS ARE THERE TO FURTHER A MAN'S STORY
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME IF YOU DISAGREE BECAUSE I'D LOVVEE TO BE PROVEN WRONG ON THIS
I'm being so serious when I say this. Like she's not a character on the same caliber as most other people in the main story. She doesn't have a character arc, she doesn't even have a set up FOR a character arc. She's mostly there to serve exposition and world-build for the society of the Dark Cacao Kingdom. She has no character traits that don't relate to another character or aren't surface-level. What do we even know about her? She is loyal to the king and she likes boba (which she is made of so that doesn't count.) What else does she have character-wise? Anything even mildly implied in canon?
She cares for the villages outside of the citadel... But that was part of her job before Dark Cacao shut the gates.
She likes the wilderness or something, which was a bullshit excuse Dark Cacao gave for banishing her.
What was her relationship to Dark Choco? They trained together and she looked up to him. What was her relationship to Dark Cacao? She looks up to him as an inspiration because he was her ruler. What was her relationship with Affogato before he banished her? No fucking clue (because it doesn't add to his character).
How did she meet Dark Choco? How did she become a watcher in the first place? Why does she look up to Dark Cacao that much? How did she become first watcher? She was young when she joined the watchers officially, but do they mean young like 20 or young like 15?? And we know that she was training with the watchers for long before that, so exactly how long has she been here? What was her childhood like? Why does she care a lot about helping villagers, because that's her second character trait??
She isn't exactly like a CHARACTER character, and is honestly more of a plot-device than anything.
Let's compare Caramel Arrow to other characters, just for fun.
Black Raisin, another female character who helps our main characters and is an important character in an ancient hero's story.
Black Raisin loves raisins (which doesn't count) she's the leader of her village and cares deeply for the people within. She is quiet because she's the only real warrior in her village and always needs to stay on guard to protect them. In her task animations, she doesn't like doing things with food because her village didn't have much. She has a character arc in worlds 9-10, and further development after that in Cookie Odyssey also. Every one of her character traits has an explanation and every one of her relationships with another character has a justification in story.
Caramel Arrow, as I've just said, doesn't have any of that. She's a static character with a one-note personality.
That's not a fair comparison, you say. They're from whole different stories and that's not a good comparison because Caramel Arrow is fighting for screen time with more characters than Black Raisin, you say.
To that I say, fine, okay, that's fair. There is ANOTHER character in worlds 13-14 besides the main character (Dark Cacao) and guess what? He still gets more character development, screen time, and personality than Caramel Arrow!
Just looking at how much they talk/screen time first (All information taken from the CRK Wiki. The numbers are the cutscenes not the level you unlock them)
Affogato Cookie:
13-1: Ever Closed Gate (7 lines)
13-4: Lost In The Snow (3 lines)
13-7: There's Always A Way (5 Lines)
13-8: Fortifications And Fortifications (4 lines)
13-9: Affogato Cookie's Schemes (9 lines)
13-10: An Interesting Offer (12 lines)
13-11: This Way, My Lord (4 lines)
13-14: The Empty Throne (5 lines)
14-4: All Hail The New Ruler! (17 lines)
14-7: Affogato Cookie Shows His Power (11 lines)
14-8: Affogato Cookie's Defeat (11 lines)
Caramel Arrow Cookie:
13-4: Lost In The Snow (10 lines)
13-5: Snow Lion! Again?! (7 lines)
13-6: To The Black Citadel! (7 lines)
13-7: There's Always A Way (14 lines)
14-5: The King & The Arrow (13 lines)
14-6: Tomb Of Blades (10 lines)
14-8: Affogato Cookie's Defeat (3 lines)
14-9: Raging Storm (2 lines)
14-10: Father And Son (2 lines)
14-11: Belated Realization (3 lines)
14-12: Dawn Of Spring (3 lines)
14-13 Pure Vanilla Cookie's Letter (2 lines)
So, In total,
Affogato Cookie: 88 Lines
Caramel Arrow: 76 lines
and out of that, Carrow gets basically NPC'd after 14-6. She does basically nothing, says basically nothing, and while there's TONS of opportunity for her to do things, she gets totally sidelined. It almost feels as though Devsis wanted to make her chase after Affogato, but for some reason decided not to. She's a total wasted character, and honestly, if the stats haven't convinced you yet, I can go into the differences with how they're treated as characters.
Caramel Arrow and all her stories are put to the side in favor of Men. She's hardly her own character at this point, and if you look at her actual voice lines, she's hardly ever talking about herself or things that important to her. She has no genuine character flaws, no genuine character strengths, she has exactly 2 traits.
Hell, even the bond she's in doesn't give her more characterization. Carrow could have been a genuinely great character but they did nothing with her and it IRKS ME.
Sorry if this was incomprehensible, I didn't revise it. Please, please tell me if I'm wrong because I REALLY would rather me be wrong than Caramel Arrow be wasted like this.
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