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AU that if the ancients and their respective beast had children, these characters would be the children.
i know with the new info of first milk cookie being the creator of shadow milk, people are honing in on the similarities between first milk cookie and pure vanilla cookie in order to make fun of smilk's obvious coughfreudiancomplexcough psychological issues, which is hilarious and i support, but also reading the first milk story i am immediately intrigued by the similarities between net cookie and shadow milk cookie
like two pure-hearted healers who had their minds almost broken by two black and teal liars, whose hurt inside and bullshit facade are called out by the healer who then tries to help them. it makes you think. it's really interesting. i don't know what it all means but i soooo want to
like just read what first milk thinks about net cookie:
She was baked and forged for a single purpose. Now that it has failed, she has been cast aside and abandoned. It is only natural for her to feel anger... isolation... grief...
vs what pure vanilla says about shadow milk:
You say that, and yet… I saw your records. I saw how happy you were to see my Soul Jam touched by Deceit. I could feel how lonely you truly are.
GOD. thinking about the FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE.... being baked and forged for a singular purpose. guys. girls... its all connecting. i dont know what dots im connecting but im connecting dots. grrrrhgh
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Honestly First Milk Cookie being confirmed as Shadow Milk's mom is funny af due to the existence of Net Cookie who was made by First Egg Cookie and torments First Milk Cookie. Net Cookie has so much in common with Shadow Milk personality wise and she gives First Milk a mental breakdown within like, five seconds of her being actively evil. She would fit right in at the Spire of Deceit. If First Milk and Shadow Milk met the results would be catastrophic
The witch of light (first cream cookie) could not of make the original virtues/the beasts because she wanted every cookie to live free and happy. She wouldn’t have allowed the original virtues to feel trapped and isolated, especially how important and powerful they were.
Instead I propose a different witch to of made them. First Egg Cookie.
She makes cookies with one soul purpose, as seen with net cookie. It makes much more sense that she would have made the original virtues and made them focus on their “purpose” and “reason of being baked.” She doesn’t care how they feel, she sees them as tools. She is a witch, they are cookies, she matters and they don’t in her eyes.
The witch of light could have thought of the idea, but the beasts are way too isolated and trapped doing their purposes for her to have made them/taken care of them. It makes more sense if first egg cookie was the one to have made them. Her creating them with the idea they would be machines to do one thing and one thing alone is a factor in their corruption.
Which is why the ancients not being baked for the purpose of being a tool/virtue is so important. They were living a regular life before they were heroes. They are much more likely to have been baked by first cream cookie, or really any other witch (as we see the other witch cookies this far treating the cookies as equals in their respective stories). The ancients succeeded where the beasts failed is in part because of the witch that baked them.
I was replaying the story I really like how skim milk knows first milk’s nervous ticks so well and can tell when she’s spiraling due to the pressure and fear of not being able to help someone, especially those who are injured
Net Cookie illustration.