I kept up with a follower of mine from talking about some of the abilities such as ‘Coffee Magic is basically Black Magic’ or how he hides the fact that he has worked with Black Magic before. We’ve also kept up with more lore about how his line:
“Coffee magic is a magical substance! Any counter arguments?”
Where I find it as a contradiction over the fact that again, coffee magic is camouflage with black magic. While the counter argument between coffee magic being extremely powerful and treacherous, light magic is holy and defensive for self reasonings. But I also came across to my follower’s post again regarding some of the other abilities like witchcraft, telekinesis and such and how he’s able to bend his powers. Which obviously, he’s been called a ‘black mage’ right? So I like to elaborate on that…
In the past, theoretically, we felt that Espresso may had lived a traumatizing childhood, dealing with his ongoing life in the Lower City in the Creme Republic, although, he didn’t have much resources at the time. He felt like a burden, being pushed and adapting the lower city resident’s behaviors and how he may had wanted to discover light magic at the time while he was mastering coffee magic. His coffee magic was very fragile before it got powerful. I felt that he may have had a very big interest in wanting to learn and understand light magic as much as learning it from Madeleine Cookie (who was also one of his childhood friends aside from talking to Seaweed Cookie about his share of science and magic).
While this was difficult for Espresso Cookie, growing up few years later where he still continued schooling in Parfaedia, before ever been granted a Professorship, his coffee magic gradually gotten better. He still had interest in learning light magic as he still did with Madeleine Cookie. Later, everything took a turn from him, from his studies, other cookies really didn’t see enough potential from him. He maybe had faced a huge dilemma of being bullied because he had so much to share and express about his experiments and his knowledge on magic. Majority of the cookies lacked interested from him, but probably because they saw his coffee magic being a potential threat to the cities. Madeleine Cookie and Latte Cookie had never turned their backs on him. He grew depressed overtime, giving up on his research and works. (This is where Dark Enchantress Cookie comes in…)
Dark Enchantress Cookie over saw Espresso Cookie’s achievements with his coffee magic. She wanted to make him inevitable, which was to make coffee magic the most powerful type of magic to ever exist across Earthbread. She was even admired because the cookies who portrayed coffee magic as a threat and how it links to black magic may be the case. She would hire him as her formal evil scientist and black mage to study all different kinds of magic and to take over Earthbread alongside. She also believed that light magic is just good for nothing for old time sake. it was a useless type of magic for any light user to cast. Thus, he was gaslighted the fact that after he took in her word for it, it light magic had gained no potential for him whatsoever and was a firm believer of black magic.
I don’t really see Espresso believing in a godly creator of who exactly created Earthbread or how a ‘divine light’ in reality could grant you spirituality or a blessing. Even though cookies tend to create other cookies using a magical oven to grant them a spell of life, given consent by the witches and how they scientifically made Earthbread with the finest of ingredients or was it magically granted by either the Elemental Cookies (which he would have a scientific explanation for all of this to better understand how their world was made). He would be Agnostic to me for someone who could research on whether a ‘Cookie God’ could create such a world and the different magic types if it’s undefined.
Coming back to the original theory…
I firmly believe that he was a clan member of DE’s until it eventually didn’t work out at the end. Espresso Cookie knew that his works and his knowledge for the betterment of his career or what he was capable of wouldn’t want to go to waste. I felt that as much as being villainous grew power amongst him, visually seeing the concept of how coffee magic can be a sign of black magic with the power of a heaping black hole that wards enemies towards a gravitational pull to eradicate their very existence, he would still continue his production on the line to work diligently hard with it. He didn’t care if others despised his beliefs or his magic— he is capable of it regardless and knows more than any other cookie! Likewise Coffee Magic is a difficult type of magic to master, therefore would take longer to understand.
Eventually, he was granted a Professorship to teach the Theorems of Coffee Magic and also fulfilled in becoming a researcher. As much as he disliked Light Magic now, he would take a careful and cautious procedure to avoid it at all cost as much as Madeleine Cookie liked to brag about it (and himself), which I also think he grew less interest of it and even after Dark Enchantress Cookie was trying to wipe his memory from him ever studying it when he lived poor.
Overtime, he was able to master:
Pyrokinesis - the psychic ability to allow a person/cookie to create and control fire with the mind (Which his Philosophy of believing how fire, a formal believer of Fire Spirit Cookie would sought that fire could create matter and how it can change its form. This is also something I learned in my Philosophy class where a Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus because that matter was created with fire)
Telekinesis - the ability to move objects within a distance by mental power and without physical contact or force (Where in his Gacha animation where he manipulates his mental power to control his coffee bean(s))
Witchcraft - magic, especially black magic which causes to create spells (Coffee Magic = Black Magic; summoning evil spirits and demons, also like coffee magic (beans) can be ‘threatening’ and a ‘dangerous hazard’ to create destruction of summoning black holes, voids, etc.)
Gravity Magic - magic that’s allows them to manipulate gravity or gravitational pull (Much like his ability; he is able to summon a ‘Black Hole’ to bring opponents together in a spiraling gravitational pull to stun them)
shoutout to @/mxgdabewitched for letting me snoop on your discussions and your story posts with your share of Espresso Cookie! ♡
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