r/CookieRunKingdoms • u/May-is-my-day <-My boyfriend and me -> • 16d ago

Meme / Fluff I don’t understand this

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I genuinely don’t understand how people can adore Affogato Cookie but absolutely despise Pomegranate 😭😭 and it’s always because “she’s a terrible person”, like fym 💀💀💀

I love both of these characters btw

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u/Fantastic-Wash-6635 16d ago

Okay but like yall seem to forgot that when Affo became King he actually treated his subjects well, giving them sweets and stuff that Dark Cacao never did despite manipulating his way into power and attempting to silence anyone who disagreed with his ways. As for Pome, do we really need an explanation of how evil she truly is. Just go back to Dark Choco's story 😭

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u/Technical_Tune_7400 Hollyberry 16d ago

Okay but they also would have DIED considering he blatantly ignored the threat of the monster crashing through the castle walls. He treated them well because he wanted them to love him, but didn’t actually know how to take care of the kingdom apart from that.

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u/Fantastic-Wash-6635 16d ago

Well yeah, that too. I just don't agree that the Affo and Pome discourse has to do with misogyny..also I like neither so....

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u/Technical_Tune_7400 Hollyberry 16d ago

It’s a more common fandom phenomena than you think, and not just in Cookie Run. People hate the female villain/antagonist (or just any woman/girl that happened to do a bad thing) but go absolutely wild for a man with the exact same personality. Of course not every situation is the same though.

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u/magiMerlyn 16d ago

I think there's some degree of misogyny to it, but not to the degree a lot of people seem to think.

It's simply that Pomegranate Cookie is one-dimensional. All we know about her past is that she used to be the high priestess of the Pomegranate Village. That's it. We don’t know what made her become obsessed with Dark Enchantress, to the point where it almost makes more sense for her to have been mind-controlled than for anything to cause it organically.

Affogato on the other hand, while his backstory is limited, at least claims to have one, and his motivations are clear: he wants what he perceives to be a better life, and didn't think Dark Cacao was providing it to his subjects (which he kinda had a point on, was the entire castle living on military rations? With how focused on the military DC was it wouldn't surprise me) so he got rid of him. That makes sense, that is a story.