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Names I guess:

Custard Cookie III: Royal Custard Flan

Snapdragon Cookie: Snapdragon Hatchling(?)

Madeleine Cookie: Madeleagle

Icicle Yeti Cookie: Icicle Monster

Twizzly Gummy Cookie: Zap Detector (it looks similar to Sting Gummy’s pet since i see her and string gummy as counterparts)

Black Lemonade Cookie: Lemon Speaker

Stormbringer Cookie: Thunderbird (tried so hard to make it look like a legendary pet)

Names I guess:

Custard Cookie III: Royal Custard Flan

Snapdragon Cookie: Snapdragon Hatchling(?)

Madeleine Cookie: Madeleagle

Icicle Yeti Cookie: Icicle Monster

Twizzly Gummy Cookie: Zap Detector (it looks similar to Sting Gummy’s pet since i see her and string gummy as counterparts)

Black Lemonade Cookie: Lemon Speaker

Stormbringer Cookie: Thunderbird (tried so hard to make it look like a legendary pet)

Ok, so personally I like to think of all the mainline cookie run games as taking place within the same universe/timeline. I don't have all the gaps filled, but I think I've at least come up with a good timeline of events.

Important note: I don't have complete knowledge of Witch's Castle lore since I'm still playing through the story. I also have limited knowledge of Tower of Adventures as I just started playing the game.

Alright, starting off chronologically game wise I think it goes like this:

Witch's Castle: GingerBrave is born, escapes the oven and meets his friends. They then go through the events of the game and when all is said and done they would escape the witch's castle coinciding with the events of Tower of Adventures.

Tower of Adventures: Now, this one is tricky, but I think this one would have to take place near the end of Witch's Castle or immediately after it. GingerBrave starts out alone in this game, so I'd imagine he got separated from the main gang somehow (hence the opening of him being chased by hampigs). Eventually however he would meet up back with his friends and would go directly into OvenBreak territory.

Ovenbreak: After Brave and the gang escape the Castle and save the Pancake Tower they journey to find a paradise where all cookie's can live happily and without fear of the witch, meanwhile going through the events of the game. I'm Aware in Ovenbreak the Ancients are only alluded too, aside from Dark Enchantress' and certain other cookie's existences such as Princess/Tiger Lilly and Dark Choco. I believe the Ancients are only perceived to be dead and are simply lost or in hiding as we saw in Kingdom before they regained their virtues. (Example: Hollyberry was in hiding while traveling after the Dark Flour War, and Pure Vanilla had been acting as Healer Cookie in the raison Village while his memory was repressed. ) Dozer isn't with them however, which is odd. I can only think that either he unfortunately he was killed by the witch, or for some reason hadn't gone with the gang when they escaped. If that is the case, the most logical reasoning I could see would be he stayed with First Cream Cookie.

Kingdom: After OvenBreak, the main gang stumble upon the sugar gnomes and help them out. After of which they decide the land they found is the perfect place to build the paradise they dreamed about. They then go through all the episodes and story and that is where things up to the most recent update. Strangely enough GingerBright isn't with them, so I assume she either got separated from them during OvenBreak, or unfortunately died in some way :(. The fact that out main 3 don't acknowledge her absence mean it was already accounted for. Unless my hope of her eventually being added to kingdom comes to fruition, her disappearance shall be put into the "I don't know" void because thinking about her being dead makes me sad. These kids already have so much fucking trauma. It is possible that something similar to the Dozer theory happened, where she just stayed behind someplace. However given how close she is to the others I doubt it.

In Overbreak, they really did just make Gingerbrave’s sprite like that 💀

Fr though the game is somehow overstimulating (anytime I’m not in a run that is). The actual runs themselves aren’t bad! (Except I’m stuck on an early level somehow). But! I have Moonlight cookie already and the dragons look cool so I forgive it.

As for Tower of Adventures, I was a little put off at first by the 3D, but it’s forgivable because they literally make Gingerbrave the cutest little guy ever???? That’s my son right there. Devsis realized Overbreak Gingerbrave was fucked up and have been working him back ever since.

This game finally manages to have a main page that doesn’t stress me out! (Yes, Kingdom stressed me out with all the little banners on top of the screen for a good week.) The gameplay of this one feels like a nice merge of Kingdom and Overbreak. It also doesn’t have a ton of characters, which I think is because it’s newer. Honestly, I’m excited to see where this one goes! Them needing to find the ‘Guardians’ makes me think of the Legendary Cookies, but I may be wrong I haven’t gotten that far yet.

I unironically hate Kingdom for gentrifying Brave and stripping him of his old attitude, that iconic smugness that was born out of the wacky idea of a cookie daring to defy his fate and run out of the flames and stomach of his creator. Now he's as bland and boring as they come. What a shame 😔

And funny enough, my rankings of the games are the complete opposite of yours, so it's interesting to see vastly different perspectives and what works for some players and doesn't for others. Ovenbreak will always be my #1 for I have been a loyal player for over 8 years now, it's gameplay will always be unique and refreshing to me, that iconic endless runner that I've never seen replicated quite the same way anywhere else. The stories are awesome, the updates fun and varied in their themes/designs so nothing is stale, and the quality of life changes consistently unpdated because they listen to player feedback. Character design remains the best in the franchise of course, with heavy hitters like Sugar Swan, Xylitol Nova, and Timekeeper, and yet they NAIL simpler concepts perfectly, like Astronaut, Blue Slushy, and of course Pomegranate. And that's not even getting into how it's costume designs are genuinely unmatched in any other game.

Tower of Adventures is a suprising #2 for me as well. I sadly ignored this game on launch. I was in heavy CR fatigue where I stopped playing anything related to it, thus never gave it a fair chance 'til it turned 6 months old. Then I fell fast and I feel hard. Holy crap this game is amazing. The levels are beautifully designed, the bosses and fights insane, the animation and 3D genuinely INCREDIBLE. I never expected cookies to translate so wonderfully to 3D and yet oven games team knocked it entirely out of the park, complete with bouncy, stretchy, squishy animation. Compare it to the likes of the unreleashed Ovensmash, where the cookies are stiff, rigid, and look like they're made of plastic 😒. While the game is not perfect, like the rainbow cubes being a glaring issue and the gacha rates are BRUTAL, it's still a great time that'll only get better when the 1st anniversary drops, and we get introduced to the 4 calamities and 6 guardian cookies.

She was born in post-apocalyptic earth, with her only form of companionship being her father. Nerville was her everything, where she got her morals, her fighting skills, any education, her will and reason to even fight, and most definitely her only sense of what the "norm" of humans was, a man who already infused himself with gear cells in secret. All of her fast-acting healing and abnormal abilities she would've seen in him as well, and taken it with complete stride as he was her only frame of reference.

It's blatantly obvious via her first meeting with Bridget that her socialization with others is seldom to none, she has no idea what genuine differences between herself and humans is, this is most evident with how she took Sin revealing he was a gear in complete shock, so much so that she freaked the fuck out. Dizzy has wings and a tail, meanwhile Sin is deprived of even the smallest features that give away his race. You can put 2 and 2 together here and realize the only way she was taught to identify gears was through their inhuman physical features, obviously of which Nerville would teach so in order to hide the truth of her and his own nature.

Take that with the fact that gears age insanely fast, she is heavily likely no older than 3 years, the same age her brother and mom were fully grown at. With 0 life experience, socialization, and chances to spend any time away from her father, I'm honestly shocked she isn't more of an unquestioning brainwashed soldier. Nerville could tell her the sky is yellow and she'd have no real reason not to take it at complete face value.

Mystic Flour being utterly repulsed by such naïve, meaningless sentimentality, still clinging to the remains of the apathy she so cherishes and champions even as it slips through her fingers like flour through a sieve; hating herself to her very core because somewhere within it, she KNOWS her heart beats and aches for that ridiculous man, but she would end her own suffering before she allowed the truth to poke its head out from the shadows of her subconscious for even a single second

Burning Spice knowing how he feels for Golden Cheese, reveling in it, LIVING for the way his heart thunders in his chest and his breath hitches at the mere thought of his little bird. Never being afraid to tell her so, to pour out the contents of his dark heart without any filter (and Witches know he needs one at times...), either through his mouth or through the blade of his axe. But... still knowing that it isn't quite enough. Not for her. Because there's still something missing from his confessions. That soft, sugary sweetness that took away enough of the edge to his overwhelming spice that even he himself noticed it. That raw honesty - a different kind than he's used to, not quite what he employs. The kind that well and truly leaves him vulnerable and open to judgment; things he hates himself for fearing, even if it's only in relation to her and no one else. The kind he simply cannot have, that he cannot carry out. He tells Golden Cheese how he feels for her the way he WANTS to, not the way he NEEDS to. For that, he must change. And damn it, he can't handle any more change. It'll kill him, and he doesn't want to die anymore. Not while she's there to make his life fun again

Eternal Sugar sighing, rolling her eyes before letting them flutter shut again, because she knows this song and dance. She once helped countless others perform it; such was her lot as Happiness. And she chooses to ignore it, tuck herself back into bed and retreat into the world of dreams once more. Letting laziness govern her actions, like always. Running away from everything again - including her feelings for Hollyberry, and the fears and doubts that shroud them. Choosing to do nothing with the fact that Hollyberry is a runner and a quitter just like her, instead of taking initiative with her life and emotions for the first time in ages and telling Hollyberry point-blank that they could run away from the world together if she truly wanted

Silent Salt secretly lamenting his condition more than ever before, for now more than ever can he truly say that it is a hindrance, a curse, a stain on the tapestry of his life. Because no matter how well he's trained himself to express his thoughts and feelings through his actions, he knows that there are times where words really DO speak louder - and he can't speak them at all. He can never look White Lily in the eye and open his mouth and allow his praise and adoration to leap freely from his tongue. She will never feel the warmth of his tone as his words embraced her. She will never shiver and swoon at the joy and passion that dripped from every single letter - and there would've been many, there would've been more than could ever have been recorded, for he would've sung his feelings from every rooftop on earth until his lungs gave out. But he can't. He never will. Does he try to pretend it's better this way? Does he try and fail to cope with his lovesickness like his comrades do with theirs? Or does he accept the bitter reality for what it is, no ifs, ands, or buts, only hiding the gloom and doom he knows is written all over his face behind his helm just so he doesn't have to see it for himself?

And, above all of these things, bundling up the other 4 Beasts' feelings and tucking them away... Above all else, they are angry. They are angry at Shadow Milk. Because he achieved what none of them could. He got everything he wanted. His Ancient admitted his love for him, with all of the raw sincerity one could possibly afford another. The other Beasts would do ANYTHING to hear their Ancients speak to them in such a way. To acknowledge and embrace their connection, to confess to loving and longing for them; for their countenance, for their voice, for their touch, for their very souls. Shadow Milk got to reunite with his other half - who chose him willingly, wholeheartedly.

And Shadow Milk chose to throw it all away in the end. Let it all go to waste.

Golden Cheese wasn't a woman of frivolous words. She took what was hers and rightfully cherished it so, every speck of sand down to the very last. Who needed a heart-to-heart when gifts could convey the same thing? Of COURSE her friends knew how much they meant to her. Of course they all knew they were her real treasures. It didn't matter how much she grasped at their crumbled remains, tears and heavy heaves clouding her vision as regret lit her nervous system like fire, you didn't tell them enough, didn't live up to your cheap actions, all that bravado amounted to nothing. She faced horrific loss to a scale she knew she'd never fully recover from, even with powers as wonderous as her soul jam. So was it any wonder why she'd never take such a risk for as long as she lived? How could she trust that she wouldn't lose it all over again, by the very person who lived to strike her down, claw her wings off, and grind her like dirt from under his heel? Her small, fluttering bird heart that she graciously gifts in earnest, that he'd happily smash in his palm because her agonized screaming was worth a thousand times more to him than any pointless feelings she harbored. He'd burn her whole, and there'd be no one to blame for the ashes left over but the golden sovereign who was stupid enough to have hoped.

Hollyberry swung her head back as she downed another mug, and didn't let go until its contents were gulped in one swig. She satisfyingly slams it down against the counter and heartily demands another. She can hear Wildberry's nagging already in her brain, yet rushes to ignore it. It wasn't proper, it was becoming of her majesty to have fun, oh boo-hoo. She wasn't a real queen anyway anymore, so what was the fuss? Her husband and daughter-in-law proved to be far more capable than she ever was, and Princess grew up beautifully without an alchoholic hag in her life. If anything her decades long absence was nothing but a positive in people's lives. Why should she pursue a family, a kingdom, a home, a lover, when they're all better off without her? Eternal Sugar was twisted in ways she wasn't capable of fixing, and they'd only hurt each other far more by trying anything. It wasn't worth it. Hollyberry was certain most of the time she'd never be worth it. She forces herself to down another swig before her thoughts get too self-aware.

White Lily knew she was tainted, long before the witches ever rebaked her. Rejected by others and an outcast since birth, fate loved reminding her she was doomed to be alone. And it demonstrated so every chance it had, for any cookie foolish enough to matter to her suffered the price. Pure Vanilla, her best friend, was forced to pay the greatest cost at the hands of Dark Enchantress. His kingdom, his descendants, his sanity, all ruined by her. Elder Faerie, who believed and trusted her like no other, dying for a fool who ignored his warnings and made him pay the price. And- Golden Cheese... That dark purple knight would be no different from all the others. For they had already suffered, imprisoned in a foul dark place as she fiddled away in ignorant bliss with their power like a naive child. She'd ruin them without even trying, without ever meaning to. They were only good to each other as enemies, for at least when Silent Salt hated her, she could, for once in her life, cause harm where it was intended.

Pure Vanilla was always brave to lengths the other four envied. In the face of certain doom, in cases of no hope, in moments where you'd certainly only ever get hurt for putting your heart out on the line. Yet he did, again and again without flinching. He forgave, and was willing to even forget. Even when that kindness would surely punish him. But even Shadow Milk's complete rejection of his feelings, of his proposal, didn't destroy him. For even that would be forgiven and healed from, in time. They'll all be there to comfort him as needed. And maybe, just maybe, some unknown far far away day in a foggy uncertain future, they could be as honest with themselves and their Beasts as he always was.

I know I have been bad about this in the past and am reflecting, but in this case it’s hurting what is often personal reasons for why people can’t sympathize with Lore Oyster.

I feel like Axl would shred on a bass (no bias here as a bass player). He's passable but not the BEST, but who's gonna tell him he's getting the riff wrong in Smoke on the Water?

It's not listed on their hobbies but you just KNOW Testament has a few

Also let us not forget ...Haeyun is on another level of instrument playing

All offially licensed Strive figures are as follows:

Bridget does indeed, have a whooping nine whole figures, and more on the way, including nendos! There's also a posable Sol Badguy action figure!

All offially licensed Strive figures are as follows:

Bridget does indeed, have a whooping nine whole figures, and more on the way, including nendos! There's also a posable Sol Badguy action figure!