birdzies ★ clotted cream cookie glazer

Im glad you love my blog and my Cookie Odyssey/Créme Republic centric posts im SO NORMAL and NOT AT ALL DERANGED abt them and i promise i wont go bald 🥀 (it's midterms rn for me tho so there wont be many drawings for the time being, which makes me SICK the Cookie Odyssey brainworms are STARVING but ALAS ‼️)

With the Clotted Cream headcanons,,, Idk if i have any new things to add to his character unfortunately, mostly because his character is very front and center on the story to the point that it'd be literally insane if anyone misinterpreted his character completely 🧍‍♂️ everything is very out there, including his relationship w his "parents" (Custard is NOT HIS FATHER FIGURE HE'S JUST SOME GUY!!!! JUSTICE FOR LIGHT CREAM COOKIE..... who is not even present for most of his life, against both of their wills 😭😭😭😭😭)

I already mentioned this before in a previous post (albeit hidden in tags) but Clotted Cream is the youngest character among the entire Republic cast in my head, NPCs included, to further push the narrative that this incredibly young man is carrying the WEIGHT OF THE WORLD on his shoulders, and was probably already groomed from an even younger age in preparation for his current position (and the rest are older than him because ougghhhh... imagine Espresso having to live like That for even longer than he already has to...... working for the Institute while living and being treated like that this whole time 🥀 Im surprised neither Clotted Cream or Espresso had a single burnout-related crashout in canon cause their shoulders must've been cracking at this point 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️)

oh and House Custard being a military oriented family too, and what Custard Cookie is like...... Clotted Cream has no childhood at all fr

honestly if Clotted Cream ever does become relevant again i hope he has the BIGGEST crashout imaginable because my guy deserves one.

He DEFINITELY was not elected fairly LMAO. i think the Elders (if they were the ones electing) did it more in fear of House Custard's power than actually believing they would make good leaders.

I'VE ALWAYS SEEN COOKIE ODYSSEY AS AN ALLEGORY FOR COLONIALISM !!!! Clotted Cream being claimed to have 'bridged the gap between the two sides of the Republic', but the colonized still living in poverty, is very similar to what happens in real life a lot. literally 'offering their technology and culture to the sea cookies in return for land' IS EXACTLY WHAT THE BRITISH DID!!!! And it slowly turns from simple trading to establishing factories to taking control to oppressing the natives !!!!!! (my country was an awful victim of the british' shenanigans and is still in poverty due to it so i suppose my ancestors' anti-colonialism genes are locked in LMAO) (also didn't elder custard LITERALLY call captain caviar the equivalent of slurs towards the sea cookies IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNCIL MEETING??? how is this mf still in charge dawgg... just goes to show that the other Elders are too scared of him to say something. captain caviar is literally holding up the Republic like atlas holding up the world on his shoulders keep pushing man this whole city is counting on you)

Clotted Cream is SUCH a realistic representation of an abuse victim- and i feel like that's why the fandom hates him so much. they see a victim who is complex, who is morally gray, who does NOT fit their stereotype of an 'uwu hurt precious cinnamon roll munchkin' abuse victim in their head, and freak out- only because his abuse did not leave him room to be a good person. they support abuse victims until they turn out to be inherently bad people as a consequence.

there's also this one moment in a livestream with Clotted Cream's VA in it- he was in-character reading a tweet that told clotted cream to get therapy. it's all silly and funny but he does say something akin to 'I'll consider it when my work is over... but it is never over...' which is SAD. devsisters RELEASE THIS MAN. give him a BREAK. therapy break. financier as his therapist. release him.

the Republic literally building OVER the Lower City has GOT to be a metaphor for something. attempting to cover up their dirty actions with a hollow mask of greatness and modernity? yep.

I've always headcanoned Clotted Cream as a brit who just happens to be fluent in french- though i wasn't quite thinking of the whole colonist thing at first, he just gave off those vibes LMAO (he asks oyster cookie for tea in chapter II). I feel like he definitely swears under his breath in french whenever he's pissed off in public.

the whole 'clotted cream doesn't know anything about politics and is just following elder custard' theory is so sad and so dark but it also made me think of elder custard saying 'ok clotted cream cookie now oppress the second working class'/ref.

ahhh andd the dialogue with gingerbrave thing made me remember how Custard III wants to rule a kingdom despite being like 10 years old- I wonder what Clotted Cream thinks of that? I see Custard being jealous of Clotted Cream because he gets to rule at such a young age while everyone tells him he'll need to wait a long time, and Custard complaining that he wants to be in control of a kingdom now, and Clotted Cream going 'oh it is NOT worth it man. don't do it.' I love Clotted and Custard's dynamic. give us more of it please.

one thing that's been on my mind for a WHILE is, if the Republic is an allegory for a fucked up capitalist society, I see Light Cream as a representation of the subtle misogyny that thrives in MOST of these types of high societies. being forced to solely bear the weight of House Scone's collapse ?? not being able to see her son because his father thinks he's the only one he needs to raise him ??? yep. (elder custard is the whole package dawgg racist misogynist colonist abuser can we just go back to the Vanilla Kingdom's collapse and convince premier custard cookie to throw the damn child into the flames 🥀)

his relationship with Espresso interests me SO MUCH because like. they're both victims of the system. they've both suffered a LOT because of it. but they're on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. the system takes advantage of both of them very similarly but still differently enough that they are wired to be at each other's necks (mostly Clotted Cream being at Espresso's neck..) sighhhh doomed capitalists who are achingly similar but achingly different save me doomed capitalists

random ass headcanon but he mentions having a 'green thumb' in cookie odyssey so i DEFINITELY see him having a garden tucked somewhere in the Republic. One little passion Elder Custard and the Convocation hasn't taken away from him. he is definitely the BIGGEST nerd about them LMAO. he's never really had friends before so the moment Financier (who's kind of the first person who's been nice to him without using him) showed interest in it he spent like 3 hours yapping about each of his plants and the history behind them. And giving some to Light Cream once they reunite.

I WILL GIVE THOSE SONGS A LISTEN DEFINITELY !!! My own Clotted Cream coded songs i've thought of are uhm.. like half of every marina and the diamonds song.. canary in a coal mine by the crane wives... disobedient from steven universe... and top of my school by katheryn lynn-rose :D (bonus never love an anchor by the crane wives for light cream. like its literally about a mother giving her son up for adoption release me)

okay my yap is over i love all these theories/headcanons/analysis/whatever you've replied with here !! you HAVE done my pathetic wet cat being hit by tomatoes justice

new detailed 4k ultra HD 1080p 40 minute long cutscene of light cream cookie hitting elder custard in the ribcage with a metal bar while pure vanilla cheers her on when

we ride the wind to a place beyond time / if i'm with you, this is love

bwuhh that one mizisua scene in karma but its silentfaerie... i was just thinking like Hm. That line about rehearsing for your death could fit and it went downhill from there... smth smth silent salt realizing he was doomed like the other emissaries and it was only a matter of time... i wonder how elder faerie felt ab that am i Right

side note but karma is such a good song waauughgh. admittedly im not. a Huge alien stage fan by any means but i love this song.... ueueue....

pretend the frames are 1:1... refs below (cw for the last frame, artistic nudity)

somethinf something.... suffering under the same system in different ways, and resenting one another (AT FIRST!!) for the shortcomings of that system. idk. i think im just delusional at this point