Season 4 Mega-Recap Sundae

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Season 4 Mega-Recap Sundae

The **Season 4 Mega-Recap Sundae** is the special 141st episode of Cursed Princess Club. It is a recap of the first half of Season 4, and was posted one week before the second half of Season 4 began.

## Characters

*Characters are linked in order of appearance.*

* Prince Jamie
* LambCat
* Princess Gwendolyn
* Princess Maria
* Princess Lorena
* King Jack
* Queen Lilyth
* Beckett
* Prince Blaine
* King Leland
* Prince Lance
* Suzanna
* Frederick
* Cursed Princess Club
	+ Prez (Calpernia)
	+ Syrah
	+ Abbi
	+ Aurelia
	+ Thermidora
	+ Saffron
	+ Jolie
	+ Whitney
	+ Nell
* The Princels
	+ Orson
* Tori
* The Polygon King and Queen
* Asa
* Queen Helena
* Frederick's bullies
* King Greyden
* Princess Blacquelyn
* Queen Isolde

## Music

* CPC OST vol. 4
	+ Track 24 "Still Early"
	+ Track 12 "The End of the Party"
* CPC OST vol. 9
	+ Track 04 "Whitney's Realization"
* CPC OST vol. 6
	+ Track 15 "Immersion"

## Locations

* Pastel Kingdom
* Plaid Kingdom
* Polygon Kingdom where the Bippity Bop Gala been held
* Argyle Kingdom where the Jamie's Art Show been held
* Gilded Kingdom where Aurelia reads The Diary of Lilyth that telling story of Gwen's mother origin place, the Braided Island

## Story

The episode's framing device is that Jamie doesn't remember much of what has happened in CPC due to LambCat's hiatus; so, since he can taste the thoughts and emotions of anyone who makes a dish he eats, LambCat decides to make a sundae to catch him up on it, hence the episode name.

* Step 1: Add three big scoops of ice cream - the Pastel Kingdom, the Plaid Kingdom, and the Cursed Princess Club.
	+ In the Pastel Kingdom, everyone seems to be keeping secrets.
		- At the start of Season 4, Gwendolyn still hadn't told her family about the CPC's true identity (they think it's the Cosmopolitan Princess Conservatory), what Frederick originally said about her, or her reflection and the lurching feeling in her stomach.
		- Jamie doesn't want to tell his family about how he tasted someone's thoughts about "crushing the Pastel Princesses" at his art exhibit, but he is determined to find out who they are.
		- Maria doesn't have the heart to tell her family that the Plaid Queen doesn't seem to like her, or approve of any of their engagements.
		- Lorena has some sort of secret as well, but it hasn't yet been revealed.
		- King Jack is still trying to uphold his late wife's last wishes - to protect their daughters' beauty from the outside world, to have all her portraits hidden away so nobody could see them, and to find something that still hasn't been revealed, but is likely the thing that he has been searching for for years.
		- Beckett is growing fond of Maria, despite still not knowing her name and thinking Gwendolyn is the princess with the angelic voice who he loves.
		- The Elderly Foot Guard has quit his job, but his replacement, Horace Fais, has arrived.
	+ In the Plaid Kingdom:
		- Blaine is crumbling under the intense pressure put on him by his father, who is starting to acknowledge Frederick. However, Maria helps him see that permanently being perfect isn't the only way to exist, and even his father tells him that it's okay to lose after his piano duel - though he does offer Blaine something to do to make up for his loss.
		- Lance is fully committed to supporting Lorena's dream of leading her military, until Suzanna, who was recently recruited for the Plaid Kingdom's army, reminds him that it would mean missing out on his own dreams, causing him and Lorena to fight about their future together.
		- Things finally seem to be going well for Frederick - he asked Gwendolyn to the gala, he's made friends in the CPC, and his father is even starting to praise him. However, he keeps having a reoccurring dream about fighting the serpent...
	+ In the CPC:
		- The club's main goal at the start of the season is to win the raffle at the Bippity Bop Gala (which unfortunately happens to be hosted in the Polygon Kingdom, Prez's homeland, this year) and earn a crystal that can purportedly cure curses.
		- The CPCPCP still hasn't figured out if Gwendolyn is actually cursed or not. All they've learned is that Gwen's only memory of her mother is when she held Gwen as a child, making her feel "warm and glowy".
		- Gwendolyn also explained that even the mere mention of her mother's portrait would cause her father to start uncontrollably weeping, which the CPCPCP found out themselves. So, when Aurelia accidentally stole The Diary of Lilyth, and Gwen told the CPC that her father had been looking for something very important that had gone missing (presumably what Lilyth mentioned in her third final wish), they panicked trying to find a way to return it.
		- Meanwhile, the club convinced Whitney to become a full-fledged member, sleep indoors, and finally let loose. However, he started to have mysterious pains, eventually culminating in his tiger stripes becoming red right before the gala.
* Step 2: Next, we'll add some romance.
	+ Prez tries to give Gwendolyn advice to heal her reflection, but Gwen tells her that it "doesn't matter" because he likes her now. Despite Prez's attempt to convince her that this isn't a real solution to her problems, Gwen still wants to have a romantic night with Frederick at the **gala**.
	+ Everyone shows up in costumes with their partners. Monika is too afraid to enter the actual gala, but ends up talking to Orson, one of the Princels, in the lobby about Turtles of the Round Table all night. Their chat is interrupted when someone called Tori, who Monika seemingly knows, shows up and drags her away to meet her family.
	+ Meanwhile, Prez reunites with her family, who inform her that they've found a way to cure her curse. This 'cure' turns out to be pregnancy, and they believe that Asa is her "Prince Charming". Whitney witnesses the two dancing together, and decides to leave the gala, asking Nell to say goodbye to everyone for him.
* Step 3: Drizzle on a little terror.
	+ At the gala, the CPC learns that the object Jack has been so desperately searching for isn't actually the Diary of Lilyth, shocking and confusing them. Meanwhile at her home, Aurelia is reading the diary, despite having promised Prez that she wouldn't.
	+ Lilyth's diary describes the origin and crest of her homeland, the Braided Island, and the story of how she and the then-Prince Jack met, fell in love, and returned to the Pastel Kingdom together. Lilyth's arrival horrified Jack's family, and they eventually told her that she couldn't marry Jack because it would ruin what the Pastel royal family had been working towards for generations. Their treatise titled "The Alchemy of Beauty" stated that if each child married the most beautiful partner they could find and creating the most beautiful offspring, they would eventually reach fairy-tale levels of beauty, and the secret to everlasting beauty could potentially be unlocked. Jack's mother told Lilyth that if she married Jack, she would be cursing their children to be ugly. This caused Lilyth to swear in her diary that she would never marry Jack, a promise that obviously wasn't kept.
	+ Back at the gala, Frederick encounters his old bullies from military academy. His brothers, who have only recently learned of the suffering he went through, decide to take matters into their own hands with the CPC's help.
	+ King Greyden, Whitney's brother, is also attending the gala, and has become horribly hungover. His sister, Princess Blacquelyn offers to make him a cocktail to help him feel better, as the saying "hair of the dog" goes, though it's extremely obvious she has an ulterior motive.
* Step 4: Garnish with some scheming.
	+ Gwendolyn wins the curse-curing crystal, but the CPC quickly discovers that it's a fake. The crystal is then taken by Jack, who finds a note inside, one addressed to him. The note states that its writer has what Jack has been looking for, and that Jack is the only person who can give them what they're looking for - the omniscient clam.
	+ The omniscient clam is a clam that opens on the first night of every month and can answer any question it is asked; however, Jack hid it somewhere far away long ago, as part of his lifelong goal to return stolen artifacts to their rightful lands.
	+ The note tells him to retrieve the clam and come to the Corduroy Canyon at sunset on the last day of the month alone with it. If he follows the instructions, he'll receive what he's been looking for; if not, the note's writer will destroy it. After reading the note, Jack says goodbye to his family, telling them that he has to leave early for an expedition.
	+ The note's writer is revealed to be the Plaid King, who has been planning this trap for Jack ever since they were princes and Jack abandoned him for Lilyth. His plan will turn Jack's daughters against him, allow him to gain control of the Pastel Kingdom, and create an unstoppable empire with the powers of the omniscient clam, which he will have Jack arrested for possessing.
	+ Just as the Plaid Princes are about to propose to the Pastel Princesses, Jamie discovers that the person who plans to "crush the Pastel Princesses" was Queen Isolde. However, she plans to do this only because she wants to stop her husband's plans, and the only plan that can stop him involves ruining the princesses' and princes' engagements.
	+ The Plaid Queen's plan involves the leader (and seemingly the only remaining member) of Blaine’s Fan Club throwing cards down upon the princes and princesses that detail what Frederick initially said about Gwendolyn at Jamie’s Wake.
* Step 5: And then just smash everything to bits
	+ Tori tells Prez that she's just "coddling" people with curses and it's "garbage", causing Prez to rethink everything she's done for the CPC. The Princels insult the CPC as well, and Orson calls Monika a jerk, ruining any kind of bond they had.
	+ To make things worse for the CPC, the Polygon King cheerfully informs them that, as they are speaking, a construction crew is tearing down the Haunted Forest.
	+ Meanwhile, Gwendolyn breaks down, stating that she *is* ugly once again. Maria and Lorena try to drag Frederick away from her, and Frederick is horrified by the realization of what he has done to Gwen.
	+ Maria asks if all their engagements were just political alliances, stating they must think she and Lorena are ugly too. In response, Blaine yells that she and Lorena are *actually* beautiful, infuriating Maria. She announces that their engagements are over, before carrying a sobbing Gwen out of the room together with Lorena.
* And to finish it all off... Just add a little salt.
	+ King Leland tells his sons that they've "messed it all up", and the weddings would've been nice, but that they don't have to do things the nice way anymore.

## Notes and Trivia

* This episode has GIF of LambCat promoting Volume 1 as explaining why she goes on hiatus after part 1 of Season 4