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Black sapphire cookie is based on grapes?????

I literally found out about this only recently holy hell. Everything makes so much sense now??? Cause like, what are grapes most often used for???? Fancy shit including winemaking. And this guy literally had a winemaker disguise too. Also, isn't wine the absolute best thing to have on a table around which a bunch of fancy fellas fishing for the freshest gossip are gathered? Or even worse, a negotiation table, where you would absolutely want the other party drinking just enough to spill extra words or become gullible enough to accept your terms? And what does black sapphire do? Gather gossip! Information! Feed it to the viewer and listener a way that will persuade them!

 Also, unrelated to the grape and wine bit but I love the fact he was portrayed as the emperor tarot card which from what I understand represents power, authority, and control. You know what has all these 3 traits? The news industry, something black sapphire is clearly very tied to as we can see from his radio shtick. The mass media is pretty much the general population's main source of information about the world, and being the one controlling what kind of information people are exposed to, what they know and what they don't know, which part of it is exaggerated or downplayed to present it in a specific light, what minor details are intentionally omitted or highlighted clearly means having huge, serious authority. And what does the same tarot card represent reversed? Abuse of said power, literally what black sapphire's job is. Although, if we tie sensationalism into this (which is very much present in his case, just look at the man's demeanor and the way he presents everything), you could say all the alteration of how news are presented and its use for entertainment starts slowly taking your sobriety, in the sense that you become rather desensitized to the very serious things presented, or make a huge scandal out of very small incidents to achieve the same high, and what's more, start wanting more, like an addiction (reminds me of the song sugar by system of a down ngl), so I suppose you could still tie grapes and then wine back into it, as an allegory. Now, another interesting but still not as related aspect of the emperor card is that it also represents a father figure of some sort. This is a nice detail regarding black sapphire's relationship with candy apple, although I see it more as a brother-sister thing. Either way, all this was quite interesting to learn about. Starting to appreciate the deceitlings even more.


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Alien

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Smthn about how people are usually considered to be at their most honest and unfiltered intoxicated, but he’s part of the deceit trio. Idk. Puts him in the freezer affectionately


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s0nd3r

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i like the way cookie run accurately portrays issues/complex characters in their games. especially with the symbolism tied to it


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An0nym0usH0mur4

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+10 in QI
It finally makes sense that he's purple and his jewelry looks like grapes.


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