𝙰𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝 𝙼𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛

⤷ 𝙺𝚎𝚢!! ⤷ 𝚂𝚑𝚎/𝙷𝚎𝚛 ⤷ 𝙼𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 ⤷ 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚜 ⤷ 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 ⤷ 𝙰𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝 ! 𝚁𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙼𝚎 ☕︎ !

[cyberrparty]

the unmagical scoundrels

Izzy and Olly drawings in this economy?

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[lovemesomeagnst]

Happy New Years from Izzy Golden (my forever fav golden girl)

[sir-froggs]

Testing out my new pens with gingerbrave <3

[spleenthecat]

i think it’s clear to everyone that gingerbrave has been through a lot, across all of the different games. but most don’t really think about how deeply this has affected him overtime, and how it has changed his behavior, mental wellbeing, and his relationships with those around him. in this essay, i will be diving into these topics and try to give an educated explanation as to how his trauma has affected his life in terms of mental disorders and illnesses.

…what? you thought this was one of those funny posts where they cut it off at “in this essay i will”? i’m not joking. buckle in. consider this my application to join the cool kids who like gingerbrave club, okay? but first i think i should say that im not a doctor or psychologist. i just like research and funny little goobers. this is a combination of those two things i like. it’s all in good fun, and this is purely within a fictional context. that being said lets get started.

(this post is split into three parts because i did too much so im gonna put a link here with the two reblogs added on. if you don’t want to do that just check the reblogs and they’ll be there.)

[spleenthecat]

i always like to start these kinds of things with a summary of the character’s backstory, personality, and habits. then once that is established, we move to symptoms, possible matches for diagnosis, and then just a simple statement of what they have to end it. so let’s start with the backstory. i’m going to be using a combination of the games for this, so i’m not leaving any stones unturned.

gingerbrave first woke up in the oven, to the sight of everyone around him dying and burning. not a great start, to say the least. while he initially panics, he quickly moves to get out of the oven and successfully escapes. the number of those who escape with him varies vastly, but for the most part he loses a lot of his family members and friends along the way. regardless of who is with him, the danger doesn’t end at the witch’s house, or kitchen. even after escaping, he is constantly thrown into danger and is forced to protect himself and his friends. he’s also on the move all of the time. many times he doesn’t have a place to settle down, or is still actively searching for it. and even when he does, like in kingdom, he’s rarely even there. he’s off doing missions or meetings and is far away in an inn, or a tent. this isn’t helped by the fact he lacks a proper parent figure in his life. the ancients should fulfill this role, but they don’t because they have other issues to take care of, and they don’t seem to realize that the bravegang consists of children. he doesn’t have anyone to look after him, and therefore has to put himself on a pedestal to look after both himself and everyone around him. and this doesn’t even include everything he went through in the spire of deceit, or during the dragon war, or the many things that happened in the witch’s castle. basically, the guy’s been through a lot, and lacks a  steady support system to help him get through it.

gingerbrave is fundamentally a very kind cookie. he always sees the best in everyone, and chooses to have a positive outlook on things as much as he can. even in the worst situations, he continues fighting for his friends no matter what. however, a lot of times this can lead to self-sacrificing behavior where he puts himself in harms way to protect others. while his selflessness is heroic and admirable, i can’t help but raise an eyebrow as to how indifferent he seems to being hurt. while not alerting enough to really cause concern, it’s definitely something to keep in mind. it’s mentioned a few times that he gets nightmares from the various events he’s been through, whether it’s the oven, the witch, or even the dragon war. this can even seemingly manifest into flashbacks, as gingerbrave says in witch’s castle that sometimes when he looks into fireplace for too long he remembers the oven and how scary it was. it can also lead to bouts of depression and anxiety, as he says in ovenbreak that getting better from certain events took a long time, and that he couldn’t enjoy his usual activities during that recovery period. it’s stated multiple times that he’s scared of losing his friends, and he’s willing to put himself last on the priority list if it means they’ll stay with him. he’s constantly put under pressure to make good decisions, and fast. if he even takes a moment to think for himself, it could cost him and his friends lives. this stress only worsens his mental health and makes it even harder to get better. 

[spleenthecat]

jeez. that was a lot. but it’s okay because we’re at the fun part now, which is the diagnosis! 

let’s start with the nightmares, flashbacks, depression, all of that. just by listening off these symptoms, you might know where i’m going with this.

gingerbrave (likely) has post traumatic stress disorder, or ptsd. ptsd is caused by a severely stressful and/or terrifying event that makes it difficult to go about like normally. symptoms can include nightmares, feeling emotionally numb, anxiety, constantly being on guard and it can also cause memory loss or suppression of the event. the last one might not seem like it applies to gingerbrave, but i think it’s important to note that in kingdom, he never so much as mentions the witches at all. even when dark enchantress directly presses him on the issue, he acts confused and shocked even though he’s being told information he supposedly already knows. it leads me to believe he may have completely blocked out the memories as a result of ptsd. he also shows all of the other symptoms listed, which gave me this conclusion.

next, let’s talk about the whole hero complex. he lacks self importance and automatically values those around him above him. he puts himself behind to put others forward, which can result in him hurting himself. but what could that mean in terms of a diagnosis? while this isn’t exactly a disorder, it definitely applies to gingerbrave.

gingerbrave (likely) has a savior complex. a savior complex is when someone feels the need to constantly save others, even when it puts themselves in harms way or if what that other person needs isn’t good. more specifically, gingerbrave (likely) also has pathological altruism, which is a disorder that usually is the cause of a hero complex. his intentions are good, they really, truly are, but the problem is that he stops at nothing to meet those intentions and makes them happen, no matter what. these two diagnosis’s go hand in hand, and are found together a lot of times. these two together perfectly describes gingerbraves situation and outlook on things. 

there’s one more thing i can see here, which is his fear of losing those close to him. he’s incredibly sensitive to his friends leaving him, and gets terrified when they’re at risk of being taken from him. he will do anything to keep them close to him. i think this one is pretty simple.

gingerbrave (likely) has separation anxiety disorder. this is usually common in children in relation to their parent, however since gingerbrave doesn’t have that, it moreso applies to his friends. it can also become more severe after a stressful event, like losing a family member or a drastic change in environment. that certainly sounds familiar. symptoms can include begging the other person to stay, make goodbyes as long and drawn out as possible, and can have anxiety about whether or not the other person is safe and when they’ll return. while gingerbrave doesn’t usually throw fits, he does desperately cling to those close to him out of fear of them leaving, or being hurt. to me, it still checks out.

to conclude my diagnosis. gingerbrave has ptsd, pathological altruism, and separation anxiety. thank you for listening to my ted talk. please consider my offering to the gingerbrave community. you guys are so cool.

[paperlanterns-wx]

Holy shit this is AMAZING I love this so much

[spleenthecat]

EXAAAACTLYYY. YOU SEE THE VISION. THIS GUY CANNOT FUNCTION WITHOUT HIS FRIENDS.

[xenonscookiekingdom]

I agree with all of this and I am here to put my two cents in!!! Just a warning most of it is reiterating points already stated but I REALLY need to yap about this okay? Okay.

The hero complex and lack of self-importance is especially one I think about often, with how he always seems to be a pillar of support for those around him, including those who should be supporting HIM (cough cough. adults like Pure Vanilla). He always seems to know what to say, what to do, to lift people up. He gives them hope.

It's like parentification of the eldest sibling except he's an orphan and his sibling(s) are dead. ANYWAY.

I'm gonna add on to the points you all made here and say that a huge part of this is likely due to a lack of properly established identity/sense of self, which brings with it a lack of self-assuredness, exacerbated by the way his peers treat him, and all leading back to his very first experiences in the Witch's House. (IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE!!) Let's review.

The attachment issues this kid has are INSANE. They are so egregiously unrecognized by most everyone and yet they are SO present. In Witch's Castle, he specifically states that he is afraid of his friends deciding they don't want to be friends with him anymore.

In Ovenbreak, he withdraws from genuine conflict with his friends when its getting too heated and its clear they can't come to an easy understanding.

He ALWAYS says yes when someone needs help. No matter how big or scary the task is.

He NEEDS to make himself useful. He needs to be strong enough to protect everyone. To take it all on his shoulders.

Sure, maybe he really is just the hero type. He's got a big heart, and he genuinely does care for cookiekind.

It's just strange how he preaches self-love and acts confident with himself yet he does everything he can to make sure the people he cares about still like him and want him around. He'll do anything if its for his friends.

It's almost like he doesn't think he's worthy of their friendship otherwise. Why else would he be so scared of them leaving him?

Maybe because he loses all sense of self when they do. Who is he without his friends?

He's GingerBrave. Sure. He's the bravest cookie in the world. Yeah. That's what everyone says. But I don't think he actually thinks that. First off, his dialogue for his wishes in CRK is "I want to be braver". Pretty small and insignificant piece of evidence but bear with me. Why does that have to be a goal for him if he's already the bravest there is?

Not to mention that he seems to feel the need to PROVE that he's brave when he's really internally losing his shit.

In those moments, he forgets that one of the bravest things one can do is to admit when they're terrified. But he can't show that kind of vulnerability--Not to his friends. Not to other cookies. Because they need him to be brave enough. To be strong enough. It's CLEAR that that's the case, because otherwise why would cookies as strong as PURE VANILLA COOKIE keep coming to him for help and guidance?

The praise, the expectations, the pressure. His peers hold him to high standards, and he makes them even higher for himself because he needs to make SURE everyone else sees that he's meeting theirs. He lets others define him because its all he has. He doesnt study magic like Wizard Cookie. He isn't a shy gamer like Strawberry Cookie. He never truly had a chance to figure out who he is because he was never supposed to be anyone in the first place. He didn't get a childhood, a soft introduction to the world. He was never even meant to be alive.

That first action he took. Breaking out of the oven, defying his fate of being eaten! That's what made others see him for the brave cookie he is. But the truth is, all that was was an act of survival instinct. It wasn't some monumental moment of getting over some fear, it was a child trying not to die in his first moments of living. Yeah. It was brave. But to him it was life or death. And it just so happened to define him from that moment onward.

It was how others saw those actions, saw him, that shaped how he saw himself. He's nothing without his bravery. And his friends are what make him brave.

[lovemesomeagnst]

Holy fucking peak analysis

[cyberrparty]

I think she would look cool in a red suit

This is kinda ugly it’s ok tho

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[jellojolteon]

If you want to do it manually instead of via layer effects and are doing digital art, then look at the R,G,B values for the colors you're working with a little bit. If you have a pure red object in cyan (B+G) lighting, it's actually going to look gray or even black because the lighting doesn't have a red component. (You can see this effect in videos showing how colored objects change appearance with depth in the ocean!) The closer your object color matches the lighting's position on the color wheel (including what's bounced), the more likely it is to be fairly close to its "default" color.

To achieve this effect in practice, I find it easiest to work from the light source as a base. I might inch the hue slider a bit towards the object color if I am okay with there being a range of colors in my light source (this is most often the case, otherwise it's monochrome and not interesting in the way we're after here), I will inch my hue just a tad in the direction of the object, and I will knock the object color towards the grays to compensate the rest of the way. If the object color is very different from the light source, it's going to get more gray and less hue shift from the light source, while an object that is closer to the light source ranges will get to be closer to its original hue and less gray.

For example, if I have a red object in cyan light, I'm not going to do much of anything to the hue since they're on opposite sides of the wheel and instead I will just drop the red to gray. If it's a very saturated red it's going to be a darker gray. If I have a yellow object, though, I'll inch the hue from cyan to maybe something a bit greener, and I'll only drop the saturation a little bit. It'll look strange if you're just starting out, but once you get more colors in it will be more cohesive. They are relative to one another, after all!

Tl;dr Most solid colored objects by and large scatter light as opposed to transmitting or emitting it, which means that they are responding to colors in the light source. If you don't have a suitably matching color in your source, your object won't respond by being the color you expect it to!

Final note, it's worth pointing out that this is true in "default" white (full-spectrum) sunlight as well, but it just so happens that full spectrum means it's got every visible wavelength in it, so there can be no mismatch between your object color and what's available from your light source!

[xenonscookiekingdom]

He’s so full of whimsy actually

[xenonscookiekingdom]

Every time I think about the oven trio's past not getting properly fleshed out in Kingdom I take psychic damage. And then I go write it myself.

[crystaliakit]

That’s so fucking real.

We better get some flashbacks or some shii in the DE update,,,,

[xenonscookiekingdom]

Here's the thing, right? Big rant ahead.

Now, I don't mind Kingdom focusing on other characters. Ovenbreak does it too, its what allows for so many fans to enjoy the franchise in their own ways, because there's a character for everyone! My issue is when they decide they DON'T need to give certain characters, their MAIN CHARACTER, any prior development. And look, I get it. GingerBrave and the others have been around forever. Everyone already knows about them!

Except that's not always the case.

A LOT of people who start playing Cookie Run Kingdom, have Kingdom as their FIRST introduction into the franchise. OR. They just don't play any of the other games.

So their very first experience with the main character(s) of the game/franchise is a tiny little tidbit of exposition (ie. The oven trio escaped from the Witch! She was eating cookies!).

And the only one who actually talks about witnessing this is Strawberry Cookie.

That is the MOST prior information you get about the three of them, aside from the generic story tabs that you can read that they haven't changed AT ALL since the first games they arrived in. Yes, it is possible to get attached to a character without having a shit ton of backstory shoved in your face. HOWEVER.

I just feel like?? Maybe people would actually pay more attention to them if they had a reason to ROOT for these characters from the BEGINNING?? Such as actually showing them trying to escape from the Witch's house. Being terrified for their lives but determined to live and get out of that horrible situation.

Maybe people wouldn't constantly disregard them if they weren't basically just made out to be accessories to the "cooler" characters throughout the entire story.

Sometimes, it feels like if they had the choice, they would've just omitted the oven trio from the story entirely. But I might just be biased and getting heated over nothing LMAO

[the-loviest-greed]

My sister got me into cookie run: Kingdom and I am addicted, my only grievance is the fact that NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE MAIN CHILD TRIO????? HELLO???

THEY WERE BAKED BY WITCHES, ARE APPARENTLY GOING UP AGAINST GROWN ADULTS AND WINNING, KNOW THE REAL REASON WHY COOKIES ARE BAKED AND ARE JUST SO FULL OF POTENTIAL, HELLO?????

WHERE ARE THE FICS? THE FANARTS? THE THEORIES????

WHY IS THERE NOT A LOT OF WORK ABOUT PURE VANILLA ADOPTING THEM BECAUSE THAT'S THEIR DAD! THAT'S THEIR FATHER! I DON'T CARE THAT HE IS FUCKING A JESTER! I CARE THAT HE LOVES THOSE KIDS, AND RESPECTS THEM, AND TRUSTS THEM, AND HAVE FAITH IN THEIR STRENGTH BUT STILL WORRY!

I CARE THAT TAKING CARE OF THEM WOULD BE A FORM OF REDEMPTION FOR FAILING HIS KINGDOM AND A GREAT HONOUR TO HIM ALL AT ONCE!

GIVE ME MORE ABOUT GINGERBRAVE, STRAWBERRY COOKIE AND WIZARD COOKIE BEING AWESOME, AND COOL, AND STRONG, AND CRYPTIC, AND SIBLINGS AND CHILDREN!

LET THOSE KIDS BE COOL TOGETHER IN 100K FIC PLEASE!!!!!

EDIT:

Anyone wants to team up with me and fix this problem? I got ideas. Lots of idea. Ideas that aren't necessarily good for the kids' mental health but very entertaining and dear God I sound like Shadow Milk Cookie.

Either way, the children are traumatised and OP and I am going to make it worse if someone enables me

[jazaspen4]

YESSSSSS SOMEONE SAID IT😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[assindeto-deactivated20140621]

take me to art museums and make out with me

[cornputer]

But they said to not touch the masterpieces

[etherialism]

Well somebody’s gotta pin the artwork to the wall

[loremerchant]

This is Johnson, those idiots are fucking in the east wing again.

[i-found-a-mushroom]

I’VE ONLY EVER SEEN THIS LEGENDARY POST IN SCREENSHOTS

[tumblebagel]

Reblogging for the legendary Johnson, the security guard we didn’t deserve

[lovemesomeagnst]

There is no bigger Beast hater than Silent Salt

[lovemesomeagnst]

So I find it really funny how we all thought White Lily would be the most cooked in facing her beast but now she has the highest chance of working together with Silent Salt instead. She has the best outcome Eldersaltlily when

[thecrowthatyellsow]

They heard someone talking shit about Bruce

[lovemesomeagnst]

[lovemesomeagnst]

Mizisua are the definition of "i want to die first because i love you so much i cannot bear to live without you" and "i love you so much i would live and bear the grief of losing you so you wont have to"

I love them

[lovemesomeagnst]

ppssst..

is there an invite to get in to the tmm server or not 😔

YEA OMG OF COURSEEEE

fan server for the book saga "the magic misfits"! join to talk about the book-or about general discussions-with fans! | 33 members