cherryfall

You can call us Cherry, they/them. We're a system in a variety of fandoms, currently Danganronpa and Cookie Run. We're open to doodle requests, though we might not get to them since we have chronic pain!

you'll find out... soon :)

This leads to healer quickly trying to heal himself after he falls down the stairs so she doesn’t have a panic attack about it

she doesn't like it when those pathetic excuses for cookies hurt what's hers. can't she have anything for herself? she's been abandoned and used for so long and she finally has something to desperately latch onto. how dare anyone take that away from her when they've already taken so much!

she's not really out to anyone except for healer cookie—despite wanting to break away from her fate, she's not going to show her hand too early. not when the role still grants her a certain amount of control that she desperately craves.

as for the Witches... well, she hasn't heard from them in a very long time. have they abandoned their creations? did they create the Virtues to serve a people that they don't even care for? she still remembers her creator—was all that love just a lie?

see, I think it's more complicated than that.

we see the depths of it when Shadow Milk puts PV in Fount's place. why do bad things happen? why can't you cure me? how do I stop the hurting?

cookies ask questions that can't be answered, at least not kindly. bad things happen because the world is cruel. your condition is terminal. nothing will ever stop hurting. are those the answers cookies want to hear? isn't it nicer to tell them sweet lies, to make them feel better?

and then he grows bitter. how is it Fount's fault when things go wrong? how dare they blame him for the cruelty of the world? isn't it the Witches' fault for creating them in the first place? did they create cookiekind just to watch them suffer?

cookies don't want the truth. they want what sounds nice. they get mad when you tell the truth, but they also get mad when you lie to make them feel better. Fount was made to give cookies answers, but no answer will ever satisfy them.

physical touch, mostly. it makes her feel more real to have someone hold her, to feel the warmth of another and exist through them. the body heat grounds her, and it reassures her that he won't leave her side.

playing dress-up with your most prized possession

bonus:

thank you! here are some miscellaneous facts about them

echo keeps healer at the spire most of the time. this is to keep an eye on him primarily, but also because she wants to see the public as little as possible. this means healer doesn't go out much, so he's taken to tending the gardens. whenever she can't bring him with her to something, she casts a spell in the garden so she can watch him with her secondary eyes while pretending to pay attention to meetings.

speaking of meetings, healer is often dragged along to them when she can get away with it. his presence makes things much less frustrating and though he doesn't really understand much of what's going on, he's surprisingly good at diplomacy for some reason... odd!

echo likes to dress him up in little outfits! even though healer insists his robes are just fine, she wants him to look more like he belongs to her like he fits in! thus why their sleepwear matches

a mysterious flower keeps appearing when healer is away from the gardens... echo says it's just a weed though, so it's probably nothing?

healer is really warm and echo doesn't have much of a body temperature, so sometimes she uses him like a heated blanket. especially when she gets stressed, which is a lot of the time

I wonder where healer came from? he says he got lost, but the village he recalls doesn't sound like any echo has ever heard of... maybe he's just mistaken.

being mostly blind, healer relies on echo to guide him places. echo herself is half-blind, but she makes up for the depth perception with her extra eyes. she stopped wearing her glasses when they appeared, no longer needing them. healer has never seen her with them on, nor does he know that she's blind in one eye.

his sight is good enough to read, but echo insists on reading out loud to him instead.