Who actually wrecked Treat's and Mochi's garden? The obvious answer of Juju has been more or less debunked, as for all her faults, she seems sincere about still caring enough for Mochi not to do it, and the investigation the two conduct afterwards doesn't really give us any hints. It is someone we haven't met yet?
Well, Treat has been living near Frosting for over five months at that point, and nothing like that has ever happened to her before, suggesting that the culprit is someone who moved into Frosting very recently. The culprit is most likely staying in the Warren, seeing as how that's the only building Mochi doesn't investigate.
Why did Trick's master leave them after they joined a wolf pack? Did he do it out of a necessity not known to us? Or did he simply decide he needed to move on with his life now that Trick did the same thing?
Presumably, he didn't want to leave before Trick had joined a wolf pack, because he didn't want Trick to be left all alone.
Why is Dango reluctant to tell Juju about their gender identity issues? I was theorizing that maybe because they talked it out with a fox (Chai) and Juju would've been livid to hear that another rabbit is getting close to a predator, but then I thought, why didn't they just go to Juju first and it would've okay? For all her faults, Juju doesn't seem like someone to have a problem with it, and Dango was willing (albeit nervously) to discuss this with Treat, someone he's only known for a short time and half of it was less than stellar interaction. So why? Could their past relationship have something to do with it?
Danny and Juju have only had two on-screen interactions so far (not counting the bad ending), both of them ending with Juju getting upset at Danny and storming out, so it's possible the two just have a really rocky relationship. Besides, we don't actually know anything about Juju's stance on transgender identities, so maybe Danny was genuinely afraid that Juju might get angry at them. After all, considering what happened with Mochi, Danny knows Juju is not above attacking her own loved ones if she so sees fit. note (Also, I don't think Chai could be the reason for Danny's reluctance, because the two didn't even know each other before they met at the beach.)
Nami confirms in this post that rabbit culture is more strict about the gender binary than other animal folks.
If Drop has been the one always helping travelers escape from Wormwood, how come the cultists don't suspect her at all? From what we've seen, it looks like it's her duty specifically to lead the guest in order to start the feast (which is what helps her do it in the first place) so wouldn't that make her the primary and only suspect?
My best guess is that nobody can tell it is Drop specifically who is saving the travelers, because everyone in Wormwood looks exactly the same.
Who on earth could've been living in that cabin before Treat came along? It's almost never addressed after the first game so honestly, I don't have much to go on, and there seems to be no concrete evidence in the cabin itself pointing to the previous owner.
Another thing just occurred to me: if Treat is the only employee at Annie May Hot Springs, does this mean the place never had other ones beforehand? There is the possibility that there were previous employees and they were laid off/fired/resigned...etc, but let's assume that didn't happen. Could Annie and May handle everything by themselves? It's true that their establishment isn't as lavish as, say, Moxie's mom's hotels might've been, but winter especially could get the place crowded.
According to delicacy, the hot springs didn't have a second floor until it was renovated, so it was likely small enough for two people to manage. Frosting has a very small population at the start of the series (around 9 or 10 rabbits, plus any visiting travelers), so getting crowded would not be an issue unless literally everyone showed up at the same time.
In chapter 7, Mochi and Moxie discuss how hypocritical it is that rabbits are okay with eating meat. The thing is, the reason Juju hates predators is because they supposedly kill rabbits, and not because they eat meat. Where is the hypocrisy in that?
You know, that part did kinda bug me as well before, but I'll put in my two cents anyway: Moxie made that statement in surprise at Mochi being Ascended to Carnivorism, so in her eyes, rabbits are going against what they are by the natural order: herbivores, and then turning around and criticizing predators who are carnivores by nature. Although I will admit, her assertion still ring rather shallow because rabbits, as nasty as most of them, don't hunt and kill other species to feed (something that Juju actually does hate about predators, as it's the first accusation she hauls at Treat in the first game), and while we see predators in the present buying from stores like normal, some are still hunters like Treat's old pack.
Regarding Mochi and being unemployed, I was wondering if that had something to do with her schooling, cuz if you look at this strip from the comic again, it looks like she's about to explain something despite doing well before being interrupted by Moxie. Could it be the motivator for her wanting to prove herself to her parents?
I got the impression that the reason Mochi wants to prove herself is because her parents coddle her too much and might not trust her to live on her own as an adult. Regarding her unemployment, I'm guessing hanging out with Treat and the foxes and later becoming a depressed shut-in took up most of her time. As for the comic, there's not enough evidence, but I would guess that she was going to talk about her bullying problem.
So the whole reason why Myrrh didn't get to go discuss writing the retraction he wanted with his co-authors earlier is because he had to take care of a young Trick. But I see no issue with him handling this much easier by giving them to a pound (mentioned to exist briefly in the comic, ironically in the same strip that revealing Trick's parents abandoned them), and while most humans seem to be wary of dogs, witches don't mind having them as familiars. The only explanation for this, of course, is that he was too much of a Nice Guy to do that/plot reasons, so my brain might just be nitpicking. But still, why not?
I think you're speculating a bit there. We don't know when exactly he decided he wanted to write a retraction (for all we know, it could have happened years after Trick showed up, when giving them away wasn't an option anymore), or whether or not animal folk pounds actually exist (because Toffee made that story up, and the comic is not necessarily canon anyway). Whatever the case may be, we will likely find out in the second half of chapter 8.
So I might've answered this question by myself when I added the Easily Forgiven entry for Salt and Pepper but it's still bugging me. Why didn't Treat, Mochi or Moxie hold these two accountable for trying to eat Juju? Yes, Juju was a jerk who verbally attacked them basically unprovoked, but I feel like the narrative is downplaying Salt and Pepper commiting what is essentially murder. Keep in mind, while the foxes are generally shown to be Harmless Villains who can't bring themselves to do bad things, they actually came close to it this time, otherwise our trio wouldn't have treated the situation seriously. Even when it's mentioned in Chapter 3, it's Treat who apologizes for it when Salt brings it up and Moxie quickly brushes it off as water under the bridge.
What's the deal with Capillaire's name? Myrrh and Grenadine both follow the Edible Theme Naming of the series, but Capillaire doesn't, and it's not even an English word; it's the French word for "capillary", which is still not food-related. I know I'm probably reading too much into what is supposed to be a mere Odd Name Out but still, this one really stands out.
After a bit of Googling, I found out there is such a thing as "sirop de capillaire", or maidenhair syrup, which is a type of sweetener.
invoked This one is probably the first to genuinely bother me, because it made me go "What an Idiot!". What was Juju thinking in Bad End 1 going after a wolf in the middle of the night? What was she going to do exactly? And what was she even doing outside that time? Even when you take into account her extreme and absolutely illogical hatred and not seeing more than one wolf due to darkness, it's still a dumb move and might even be a little OOC considering she never tried pulling something like this in the proper storyline.
I mean, she did pull something like that with Salt and Pepper (for different reasons, but still)... Anyway, in the main storyline she already makes it clear she wants Treat dead, so it doesn't seem that big a stretch to me that she was waiting for an excuse to kill Treat herself note which would make her accusation at the end of chapter 2 an example of Psychological Projection. Seeing a wolf in their animal form is widely considered bad news among rabbits, so seeing Treat sneaking around in that form was the only excuse she needed.
Arguably, Juju's confrontation with Salt and Pepper is even more stupid than what she does in the bad ending, because she goes and provokes a fight with foxes that A) clearly outnumber her, and B) she thinks want to eat her. So either she was willing to throw her life away just to prove a point to Mochi, she didn't actually think the foxes would kill her (which would contradict everything she claims to believe in), or she is just Too Dumb to Live.
How does Treat joining Glaze in the bad ending affect Boreas and change his fate? As far as I can tell, nothing changed about what he does between the storyline and the bad ending. The sole explanation is probably the need of a rabbit's death for the plot and Boreas is the only rabbit not living in Frosting that we know and thus within Timber's reach without raising suspicions, but it still confuses me a bit.
I'm just guessing here, but I think he just doesn't have any reason to visit Frosting a second time, because A) he doesn't become friends with Treat and Mochi in this timeline, and B) he finds out that Frosting has a problem with fox attacks. So instead, he decides to travel to a different part of the mountain, which is where Timber gets him.
I might be missing some key points or forgetting but here's my question: about Candy's confrontation with Tundra, did that happen exactly after they tried leaving? I think that's the only timing that makes sense. So in that case, where were Cotton, Treat, Fennel and Powder (and Mango, if he was there too), as well as Timber and the other wolves who remained? How come they didn't get involved in the fight?
Settling it with a duel is more practical than with an all-out melee. Wolves are struggling enough as it is, and nobody would be able to forage for food if everyone gets wounded in battle. In any case, Treat, Fennel, Powder, and maybe Timber were all children at the time, Mango is disabled, and Cotton panics very easily (and probably needed to support Mango), so it wouldn't have been any good for any of them to fight anyway.
that rabbit culture is more strict about the gender binary than other animal folks.