Your favorite favorite favorite fanfic writer finally has his own tumblr! Isn’t that so great? Yeah I know you three people knowing me have been DYING for this!
And for the minority of you half-baked gnats who don’t know me… sigh… here’s an introduction.
I’m familiar-stranger on Wattpad and originally an alt account because I shall NOT taint my reputation for the sake of writing “x reader” fanfics.
As of right now, I’m super obsessed with Shadow Milk Cookie. I’m a basic bitch, I will admit, but can ya blame me? He’s lowkey my evil other me.
And, as to be expected from someone ADORING shadow milk cookie, I also am writing an x reader of him. Will I ever post it on here on tumblr? No idea! You’re gonna have to beg… or crawl over to my Wattpad or AO3.
With that being said, enjoy the madness you’re about to witness!
“Shadow Milk Cookie now has DID.” No, he does not. Assuming such harms real life systems.
— Opinion of someone who has an INTENSE interest in Disassociate Identity Disorder.
I am in no way a professional, however I have done years of research on DID with different sources ranging from online websites to physical books and talking to systems.
Diagnosed systems are allowed to correct me or disagree.
What happened in the CRK storyline? — After absorbing the Ultimate Cookie and the SoulJams of the other Beasts, we see a scene where Shadow Milk Cookie “switches” between mindsets of said Beasts and presumably Ultimate Cookie.
Which characteristics could apply to DID? — The before-mentioned switches could be something that made people think that this may be DID, especially the part where SMC argues with the other ‘personality.’ Whether the souls of the beasts still live on inside Shadow Milk’s mind or if part of their energies simply have an impact on his mentality is yet unclear.
Why is it not DID? — Devsis absolutely did not have the intention of writing a character with such a misunderstood disorder. Aside from this obvious fact;
1) the switches occur very quickly, something that is only a thing in fictional media written by singlets that do not comprehend that switches involve disassociation. While this was a stress situation for Shadow Milk Cookie that might have lead to switches, this is very extreme and fast. It is a possibility that they may be talking in their minds, which is possible in co-fronting, however I am uncertain about that actually happening, as he is speaking out loud.
2) DID does not get developed in such a way. While it may be a fun headcanon to you, labeling him as a system may make people forget about the roots of the true development of DID: It gets formed during childhood if the person grows up in a traumatic environment where they can only cope by disassociating during stress, usually due to abuse. Labeling SMC’s identity crisis as DID disregards the traumatic experiences of real systems—in my opinion. Systems are allowed to disagree.
Why is this assumption harmful? — This assumption only fuels the bad reputation that DID and OSDD already have. That they are crazy!!! And that, oh, all alters are evil personalities!!! “Oh get out of my head get out of my head!!!” type shit.
I apologize if I’m being too woke, but fuck, let’s not make DID another fandom trope the same way that people are labeling Yanderes as characters with BPD.
Yapping / Ranting about my Shadow Milk x reader fanfic
In my fanfic, Fount writes a play that accidentally gets discovered by reader cookie.
Specifically on Wattpad, people commented that Pierrot was from Freak Circus and Colombina/Arlecchino from Genshin impact.
While I understand that not everyone knows Commedia Dell’arte—I probably also have pretty much surface knowledge—you don’t actually think that Shadow Milk would SERIOUSLY write a play about characters from one Gacha game and a freaky ass game/show/whatever the HELL the freak circus is? Right?
I should remind myself to maybe do an info chapter only on Wattpad since the ones reading on Wattpad are probably younger and the background info might help.
The way I’m trying to relate Pierrot and Arlecchino and Colombina into the story is that Fount has a certain idea of Reader Cookie, and since she is fun-loving and all that, and while she does have an interest in Fount (represented by Pierrot although inaccurate), she (Colombina) would enjoy a more entertaining Shadow Milk (Arlecchino).
There are more things occurring in the play that are relevant for this, but fact is that Shadow Milk/Fount sort of mischaracterizes Reader Cookie and gets upset at that.
I’m getting back to writing in a second, I was just being irrationally angry and needed to let it out for a second. And, again, not because of not having heard of Commedia Dell’arte, but rather because I don’t like genshin impact and DESPISE freak circus!!! PATOOEY!!!
Well if that ain’t a basic b!tch hobby combined with a weird kid interest with a BASIC B!TCH favorite character! Also, peek at my nail. My journal can’t open properly unless I push the fat pages down with this shiny thumb of mine.
Do you guys think Shadow Milk Cookie would be an alcoholic? Drink at night to become unaware of the knowledge that plague his mind for just one moment? Let me know what you think he’d drink. I think he’d LOVE red wine and maybe rosé wine too. But I think the only drink implied to be alcoholic in CRK is mulled juice? Not sure. Lemme know. I’m a newgen. Hehe!!!
I was inspired by a different post that had a pretty long scene about what kind of a helicopter parent he would be if he had kids. I might have a different view of this as I am quite new to this fandom, but I would like to share my thoughts anyway.
Baking/early childhood
I could imagine Shadow Milk Cookie either using his own dough only for the purpose of having his full greatness baked into his offspring, or only using one bit of another cookie’s dough to alter the child’s appearance and not have them immediately be recognized as the Child of Deceit.
His motivation to even have a child would be to have someone continue his legacy in case he ever falls, as he doesn’t trust Candy Apple Cookie and Black Sapphire Cookie to take care of that.
As for the newbaked (newborn) phase, he would either let his partner or his minions do the dirty work. But when it starts speaking, that’s when the fun starts.
Childhood
He would encourage games and toys that require a lot of imagination and creativity, such as roleplay, charades and lego. Shadow Milk’s personal favorite would be Two Truths, One Lie — all with the purpose of development.
Other than that, he’d start educating the child very early to ensure that their intelligence is at least close to his. They would mostly have an education focusing heavily on linguistics, psychology, astrology, history and art. And whenever they wouldn’t understand something right away, Shadow Milk Cookie would get annoyed at the child and talk down on them.
“How come you don’t understand the phrase? Reread it. Slowly. ‘I think therefore I am.’ Of course you would not understand that sentence, considering you never have a thought in this crumbs-for-a-brain of yours.”
When he would calm down afterwards, he’d explain that he’s acting like this because he wants the best for the child and is therefore being this strict to them. (And he would probably offer ice cream as an apology or something.)
The child doesn’t go on many missions yet because Shadow Milk Cookie wants the child’s existence to be a secret up until he’d make a special surprise to his enemies that he had a very powerful child all along and catch them off guard! So yeah. He’s waiting until said child is ACTUALLY powerful.
Also, the child doesn’t go outside at all because Shadow Milk Cookie tells them scary stories about what the world is like and discourages them from running away. That’s how he will keep having control over his own child until it is ready to spread deceit on their own.
Especially during that child/preteen age, Shadow Milk Cookie fails to see that child as his child, but rather as a Cookie he can use to his advantage who just so happens to share his dough and has the potential of becoming as powerful as him. So basically, he views his child as his minion but with more privilege.
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Might post another part on the child’s teenage hood lol.
But anyway you get my point… as much as I LOVE the trope of a villain being a good father, I personally cannot imagine Shadow Milk Cookie raising a child with good methods and intentions only.
However maybe the child will grow on him during teenage hood WHO KNOWS!!!
"Shadow Milk Cookie... Of course he'd pick that for his pen name.”
You, as the Sixth Virtue, carry the title of the so-called 'Caretaker of Life. After trying your hardest to prevent the downfall of the Virtues, your village crumbles. Your hope for the return of the good times does too.
"What is the difference between you and me? You are stuck in the fantasy of how boring our life could have been if nothing changed, if we had decided to continue abiding by the old rules."
There was a time where the Fount of Knowledge was quiet, gentle, and only had this spark of creativity that you saw the potential in.
"And I want to bring the fantasy where we can the past behind us and build a greater world to life! I’ve got just the script for that."
Maybe you'd encouraged his creativity a bit too much.
"Forgot your line? Aren't you such a forgetful little thing. It was your favorite scene, remember?"
I just pulled some philosophical shit out of my ass that only the Fount of Knowledge could think of! And yes, it’s for the Shadow Milk x reader fic.
"After this talk about the past, our current present and the future, I must mention that all that came, happens or will pass, carries both the good and the bad. Focusing on the good brings comfort, focusing on the bad brings movement for a change. Whatever we decide to do is in our hands.”
I'm new to this tandom and the fantiction here is insanely good so I'm kind of nervous. Also, warning for non-canon names of the Virtues Pre-Corruption and canon-divergent occurrences in general.
Info on Reader Cookie:
You are the sixth Virtue, the Caretaker of Life. (Life is not a virtue but everything I could think of was too close to the other virtues ok.) Being the first one baked in the batch, you had the privilege to witness the Creation of Cookies, specifically the birth of your friends. The way the witches magically breathe life into mere mixtures of ingredients fascinates you.
You reign the village by the River of Rekneading is small and mostly occupied by farmers for its fertile soil and healing river, which is made of fruit tea. It's your culture to celebrate the crumbling of your beloveds the same way they celebrated birthdays. You would sprinkle a handful of their dough into the tea river to help the soul pass on. Then, the next day, a little dough would be baptized in the same tea.
You live in the humble rose-ridden cottage on the hill, where Cookies would visit you for help on how to properly take care of their garden, for advice on how their baby dough would successfully come to life, for questions as to how long their elder would live and so on. Everyday is busy when you have to tend yourself to one case or another.
- Since you have a lot in common with both Sweet Sugar Cookie as the Bringer of Happiness and Warm Spice Cookie as the Herald of Change, you would relate to each others' worries more than anyone else. She understands your struggles of needing to keep people alive and well, while he understands the struggle of witnessing the constant cycle of the Cookie's Creation and Crumbling. However you would never sit in a room with them two together, as she despises his "everything is temporary" mindset, while he finds her desire to cling onto the happiness of every fleeting moment rather childish. Those negative feelings towards each other intensified after corruption. Safe to say, they often fight over who’s TRULY Reader Cookie’s best friend.
- You and Cassava Flour Cookie aren't the closest, but she finds you to be the most pleasant to be around, as you have the sense of reality that isn't filled with doom nor too ignorantly optimistic, but still hold hope for what lies ahead.
- Sea Salt Cookie and you share your love for Cookiekind and therefore complete a lot of your duties together. On one of your missions, his head got injured from a fall, for which you needed to take his helmet off to heal him. However, out of respect for him, you didn't look at his face, which he still appreciates to this day.
- Blueberry Milk Cookie and you were the most distant and never talked, until you once accidentally discovered a page of the script of his play. At first he was embarrassed, denying that the work was ever his, as it was not in his nature to write something that is not reality. But when you praised him and begged him for more, he caved in and gave you the full work. Ever since that day, he's been silently sharing his pieces of fiction with you, but whenever you ask questions regarding his plays, he pretends that those aren't his.
- Whenever the six of you have your yearly “meetings," they're just hangouts to catch up on one another's business, and always consist of these activities that are each a favorite of the Cookies:
1) Discussing plans on how to further connect each other's works (e.g. better transport from one virtue's place to another) OR horse riding OR playful fights
2) Training in combat
3) Meditation and coaching
4) Chess OR card games (Warm Spice Cookie always suggests UNO just to ragebait Baby Blue) OR tarot readings OR-the Beasts' favorite-Truth or Dare.
5) An activity of your choice!
6) Eat dinner together and drink mulled juice.
- Although majority of the virtues agree that you, as the oldest, should carry the title as the "main" virtue, Blueberry Milk Cookie refuses to give up his title given by the witches.
- Very Y/N-ish, I know, but the Virtues would defend you even at the slightest poor mention of you. They don't play about Dada fr
- Once you had to look after Nox when it wasn't trained so well yet, who then ran away from you only five minutes before Sea Salt Cookie arrived. After searching for that damn horse for hours, you found out that Sweet Sugar Cookie had lured the horse into her garden to let her angels play with it. Safe to say, Nox wasn't trusted with the either of you anymore.
- Cassava Flour Cookie, however, trusts you with her Cloud Haetae Cookie more than anyone. It took the Cloud Haetae forever to start getting comfortable to you though, but you knew just the tricks to get them to let their guard down.
- Whenever you get tired of the seasonal cold at your area, you use that as an excuse to visit the Land of Spice. It's been so often that Warm Spice Cookie let an extra room be arranged just for you. So, nowadays, you could just pop into his domain without notice and surprise him at the most random times. Not that he minds though, as his constant everyday routine needs that bit of a surprise.
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TOTALLY not a repost from my other blog before I created this one… Shhh…