Okay, so there was a new update, and I just wanted to talk a bit about Lylac because she's slowly becoming one of my new favorites. First off, Lylac strikes to me as a character who goes against this very strange and gloomy Squiddle culture from the jump. She uses incredibly outdated and broken-down technology, even though all of her friends keep telling her to just upgrade. She loves cartoons and views them as art, but she has a particular fondness for older cartoons. Her wallpaper is Rocky and Bullwinkle, lol, which is a cartoon from the 1950s about a moose and a squirrel going on adventures.
She likes actual bombs that will explode and detonate in her room. One could say Lylac is also a character who causes her own misfortune, as just her room alone is full of a bunch of things that just contradict one another. Like, of course, her computer is run down if she's always hitting it, and also keeps bombs next to it T_T She lives near water and yet cannot keep any of her plants alive.
All of this, and it's very clear she's a pretty apocalyptic character who's being set up as someone who will usher in something cataclysmic. The bomb motifs aside, even her name that she has chosen for herself is very "apocalypse" coded. I think Lylac will help break this never-ending cycle for once. I know a lot of people believe that this is the session that will create the Trolls universe and whatnot, but I also believe it is kind of the literal "end" of the cycle.
Because we've been following her perspective and there are 3 other characters we have yet to see, it has me thinking that this session will not go totally as planned and that something catastrophic will happen that will result in them not being able to play the game in the way it's intended.
