actually unhinged shadowvanilla headcanons bc the children yearn for more shadowvanilla content (part 2!!)
(if you want more pls lmk what y'all want me to write goofy ahh headcanons for next i love making y'all get giggly with it)
-when pure vanilla enters, he tries to look nonchalant despite having literally every single beast in front of him
-he told the other ancients "yeah this is definitely going to be safe!!" and now he's thinking about how hollyberry's going to give him a big fat "I TOLD YOU SO!!"
-at first everyone is too busy fighting, arguing, and giving the death glare to mystic flour who still doesn't give two shits
-eternal sugar has started pulling at her hair bc pavlova has started to get to the...um... INTERESTING scenes in his fanfiction
-burning spice has gone from shocked to pissed that this is STILL going on and he shouts at the top of his lungs "IF Y'ALL DON'T STOP THIS SHITSHOW IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES I'M GOING TO BURN THIS FUCKING BUILDING DOWN SO I CAN FINALLY GO HOME."
-there's not much left to destroy so shadow milk has resorted to wailing like a banshee which makes candy apple start wailing too
-black sapphire is still, in fact, having a mental breakdown.
-as soon as pure vanilla shyly blurts out "um... hi everyone? :D" they all stop DEAD in their tracks (except for silent salt they're too absorbed in munching their snacks to care)
-the SECOND shadow milk turns around and sees that pure vanilla is holding the diary, he LUNGES at him
-even mystic flour is surprised, because she thought pure vanilla's presence would get shadow milk to finally shut the fuck up
-shadow milk yells at him to give it back only to have pure vanilla refuse like "if you don't mind, i'd actually prefer to keep this"
-everyone's jaw DROPS, not only at pure vanilla's defiance, but at the implication that he could actually READ what was written in there
-see, i also headcanon that shadow milk's handwriting is the most ATROCIOUS of any beast, or any other cookie for that matter
-even miss apathy aka mystic flour had a crashout that turned all the surrounding cookies to flour just by trying to read shadow milk's handwriting
-however, since pure vanilla actually KNEW the details of shadow milk's feelings, everyone expected that shadow milk would get EVEN ANGRIER
-they all back up, preparing for a crashout that could probably destroy the entire earthbread when...
-shadow milk... bursts into tears?
-he starts sobbing, muttering quiet pleas for pure vanilla to just leave and forget anything he had read
-pure vanilla seems genuinely confused and questions "why should i forget?"
-cue a long dramatic angsty speech from shadow milk about how no amount of love he has for pure vanilla will ever matter, because at the end of the day he's still the beast of deceit so that makes him unloveable, and the only way that someone would ever love him is by him manipulating them—and even he knows that isn't true love
-now pure vanilla is even more confused and smiles at shadow milk, and proceeds to give his own speech about how he cherishes shadow milk for who he is, and he would never judge him for showing the feelings he was trying to hide—especially if those feelings are as beautiful as those he read in the diary—because even the most deceitful of lies can have truth in them
-hearing this, shadow milk's eyes change into something no one has ever seen before—lovestruck
-for a while, they just stare at each other like that, taking in the gravity of these realisations
-the other beasts are like "yeah no this is probably our cue to skedaddle away"
-eternal sugar has to drag away pavlova by his icing while he whines about "aww i was just about to get to the GOOD part :(("
-for the first time in eons, mystic flour has an accomplished smile on her face, muttering to herself "maybe some things aren't so futile after all..."
-burning spice is pouting and sniffling like a kid, "does this mean i can't burn the building down?"
-silent salt is just relieved to go back, not for shadow milk's sake, but because they ran out of snacks
-after they leave, black sapphire finally peeks out, having some hope that the chaos is finally over when...
-shadow milk scoops up pure vanilla in his arms and starts flying all over the place dancing with him in pure joy while exclaiming "YEESSS!!! SILLY VANILLY IS FINALLY MINEE!!," and pure vanilla smiles with just as much happiness
-now, the happiness is causing just as much mess as the chaos, so black sapphire crawls back into his corner and resumes his mental breakdown
-(1 like=1 prayer for black sapphire cookie 😔)