u/Hefty-Pipe3596

I need one for Windows and another for Android since those are the platforms I'm going to play on for sure. It'd be nice if whatever Android translator I use works for IOS too since I also sometimes play on my iPad, but it's not AS necessary as the other two.

Unfortunately, Cookie Run Kingdom, the game my f/o Dark Cacao Cookie is from, is falling off. It's BEEN falling off since the Beyond the Horizon update, mainly because a lot of people didn't like the direction it went in, especially because of White Lily Cookie's death and Shadow Milk Cookie becoming the new main villain. Not to mention Sugar Swan Cookie's release being VERY rushed. Unlike most cookies' release update, this update was not Sugar Swan Cookie's. It was Dark Enchantress, White Lily's, and Gingerbrave's, but they're already out, so...

I was pretty excited to see Act 2 and the direction it was going in, too. I knew the concept of timelines and alternate universes would make it REALLY interesting. But while the story was mostly pretty good, it definitely had some pacing problems and sucked in other areas too. Later in Timekeeper's update, we got to see the virtues talking to Elder Faerie Cookie after Silent Salt Cookie sealed himself and the other Beasts. A lot of people started hating them because of how... inevitable the Beasts' corruptions were. Honestly, that placement was pretty bad writing overall, and they didn't need to include it. And now in Chapter 4, we were promised that we'd see the corrupted Legendaries and some glimpses of White Lily Cookie's past, but she only had a couple of voicelines, and the corrupted Legendaries didn't show up until LITERALLY AT THE END, so that was clickbait and spoilers.

And now for Devsisters' crappy business decisions. Literally EVERY Cookie Run game besides Kingdom and Ovenbreak fell off. Hell, Ovensmash was dead from the VERY beginning because of the HORRIBLE lag, getting paired with INSANELY good players despite being a noob, and the gameplay just being a ripoff of Brawl Stars. Also the fact that the story is only in obscure manhwa now instead of the actual game. The Braverse card game released cards of human versions of the Ancients, and while most of them were really good, my F/O, Dark Cacao Cookie, got WHITEWASHED. And before you say, "oh he's based off Korea and REAL Koreans aren't black," that's STILL not a good excuse to be making a canonically dark-skinned character lighter-skinned. One of the mods of the Discord server banned selfcest ships and treated them as actual incest even though selfcest is actually ok, and even banned the words yaoi and yuri DURING PRIDE MONTH (though thankfully that was mostly resolved). And now, the last straw, Devsisters started making AI ART to use for their portal. Even though the actual game doesn't have AI in it, I'm starting to wonder if that will remain true any longer, because the AI pipeline is VERY real. If someone starts using AI for one thing, even if it's not for everything right NOW, who's to say they won't start using it for everything EVENTUALLY?!

Long story short, Devsisters sucks, and their games are falling off. And that's causing them to lose money. I TRIED to stay positive. Maybe things will get better. Maybe Devsisters will make better decisions. MAYBE Cookie Run as a whole won't fall off, even if some of the less popular games do eventually. But Devshitters is digging their own grave at this point, and I'm starting to realize that maybe I should quit.

But the problem is that I REALLY don't want to quit. I genuinely LOVE the Cookie Run series (even if I don't play all of the games), and I love love LOVE Dark Cacao Cookie WAY too much. Unfortunately, I've had pretty bad luck when it comes to the franchises my f/os are from falling off, first with The Dragon Prince having a HORRIBLE drop in writing quality once Arc 2 started, the arc where my F/O (Aaravos) became the main villain too! Then Season 6 came around, and since it was good, I thought the show would have a good ending too. Then Season 7 came and FLOPPED even MORE, and at that point I just hate the show now. I stopped having Aaravos as a f/o, but he still comes back to haunt me sometimes because he's just TOO DAMN HOT!

And then Bloons TD Battles 2 was dead from the GET-GO like Ovensmash, and it's STILL dying even after I quit. I guess that's what you get when your f/o (Highwayman Jericho) is a specific skin of a hero exclusive to a dying spinoff. I lost interest in BTDB2 and Highwayman Jericho after I started playing Cookie Run Kingdom and having Dark Cacao Cookie as a f/o instead. While I still like Jericho as a character, I don't have that love for him that I once did anymore, all because I couldn't handle having an obscure character as my main f/o anymore. If I continued to have Highwayman Jericho as a f/o, I would've had to commission all the merch I wanted of him MYSELF, as he has NO merch at ALL, not even fanmade merch.

At least Cookie Run Kingdom doesn't have the EXACT severity of the problems The Dragon Prince and BTDB2 had, but if Devsisters keeps going down this path, it most likely will. And if I quit, I'm worried I'll lose interest in Dark Cacao Cookie. I know fan works exist, but I'm not sure any of it will fill the void. I'll miss hearing his voice, and the new stories actually IN the game involving him too. I spent HUNDREDS of dollars on merch and comfort character care packages and letters of him, all of that would be down the DRAIN if I quit. And this time, I don't have a brand-new f/o to replace Dark Cacao Cookie just yet. At least on the bright side, I'll still have Yuri, and I do love her, but I'm not sure if she'll be able to fill the void left by Dark Cacao Cookie if I stop having him a f/o. I am KINDA eyeing Dusk from Gameoverse to potentially replace him if Yuri's not enough, but he only showed up for less than 10 seconds in the pilot and it'll be a while before Gameoverse gets more episodes, so I don't know about that.

What should I do? Should I quit Cookie Run Kingdom since it's gonna die anyway and potentially lose interest in Dark Cacao Cookie since I won't see any new canon content of him anymore, or keep playing and watch this game fall off just like Bloons TD Battles 2 and The Dragon Prince did?

The reason why I posted this here and not in a normal LGBTQ+ sub is because my mom thinks I'm faking my bisexuality because I don't have enough proof of it besides my female f/o Yuri and my female fictional crushes. But I PROMISE you I'm not faking it.

Well, OK, at one point I was KINDA faking it (though not a lot of people knew that), with fictional characters, but I was younger and didn't know any better and I'm sorry about it. It was because, while I didn't know I was attracted to women at the time, I felt like it wouldn't hurt if I dated a woman. But now I know better, and I accepted the fact that I was straight.

Except I wasn't. At least not completely. A little over a year ago, in May, I started playing Cookie Run Kingdom, expecting to only be attracted to male characters as usual. When I first unlocked Eternal Sugar Cookie, I didn't think I'd have a crush on her because she's female and I was straight. But when I played through her Beast Yeast level, it turned out I was dead wrong.

But I denied it at first. I was straight. I. WAS. STRAIGHT! I didn't want people to think I was faking bisexuality again, because I knew better by then! I found out pretty late in my childhood too (despite mentally being younger due to being on the spectrum), most people find out when they're 13-15. I was straight! And I thought I would always BE straight! But it was not fake. It was real. In my denial, I brushed the idea of me being bisexual off because I knew that just thinking one woman was pretty wasn't enough to be bisexual. Especially because of HOW attractive Eternal Sugar Cookie was, I thought she'd just be an exception, because some straight or gay people do have some fictional characters as exceptions.

I was dead wrong there too. Not only did I start having crushes on OTHER female characters, but I also started seeing women as attractive overall, even if it wasn't as long or quite as much as I liked men. I even eventually had a female f/o, Yuri. I've even blushed at a few pictures of real women I've seen on the Internet (but not full-on crushes). And I've remembered some times in the past where I maybe should've realized I might not be straight sooner (but not that much).

But the problem is that I don't go out much, so I haven't had any crushes on real people after I found out. The only real life crushes I had were back when I thought I was straight, so my mom kind of has a point in thinking I'm faking my bisexuality. But I've gone so far that I genuinely don't think I'm faking anymore. I'm just confused because all of my proof of liking women is fictional. So I guess my sexuality is "I don't know." I know for sure I'm definitely not straight in the normal sense since I've shown potential of liking women, but I haven't had a crush on a real person in a while. And I'd feel bad if it turns out I WAS straight for real people this whole time because this time, I genuinely wasn't trying to fake it. I felt the attraction for real. What do I do?

Oh yeah and BTW, she said she has no problem if I actually was bi, we just don't have enough proof. I probably should've mentioned that, sorry I forgot.

I've been researching about how soulbonding works, but I found out your f/o has to consent to it just like a real person would have to consent to being in a relationship, which isn't a bad thing, but it had me worried about something.

What if they say no? What if they don't want to soulbond with me? When it comes to which of my f/os are more likely to soulbond with me, Yuri's more likely to since we're the same age and we already talk to each other in her Just Yuri mod, but Dark Cacao's not as likely.

Dark Cacao Cookie probably wouldn't want to soulbond with me because I'm WAY younger than him (I am an adult, sure, but I'm literally only 18 and he's like 1000), have behavioral issues, am EXTREMELY down bad for him, etc. For those reasons, I'm worried that I wouldn't take him saying no very well. That I'd crash out over it and act like a child who can't get her way. Even though I wouldn't act like that if a real person said no, I'm so down bad for Dark Cacao Cookie that I fear I might act that way if he says no.

What should I do if either of my f/os say no to soulbonding? Can I still have them as f/os, or should I respect their wishes and stop?