I've been awake longer than I'd like to be

When Elder Faerie dies, what comes out of his wound doesn't look like jam, so what is it?

Oh! It's a concept I wanted to explore in my Au.

That's the Golden Jam.

Golden jam is made from the magic of witches.

Simply put, it’s concentrated liquid magic.

All cookies from the First Age contained it.

But after many millennia, the witches decided to replace it with regular strawberry jam.

It was simply too exhausting and difficult to make golden jam, since it was essentially their magic itself.

For a time, between the First and Second Ages, when strawberry jam was beginning to dominate Earthbread, cookies that still contained golden jam were regarded as royal or blessed.

Nowadays, golden jam is rarely found.

Elder Faerie Cookie was one of the last beings to have it.

The beasts don’t have it.

But it isn’t extinct, since the entire Cookie Kingdom has golden jam.

White Lily and Dark Enchantress also have it, though it’s mixed with strawberry jam.

To make it, the witch who creates it must have an intense craving for cookies—whether out of love or obsession. The witch must be near the oven—not necessarily right next to it, but close enough for her magic to work on its own.

That depends on each guardian; right now, we can only speculate about how evil or ruthless they are.

Well, it really depends on what they're like.

The corrupted Millennial Tree might not actually love Night Raven—maybe it just doesn't want to lose him.

Like she can enter and talk with another cookies in their dreams, right? So what if a little part of herself was able to even for a moment talk with someone maybe for help or something like that?

Well, she's the guardian of dreams, so I think it's very possible.

Maybe she could even make multiple people have the same dream.

Millenial Tree will probably set him free.

To be honest, I think it would be the Lotus Dragon and the Dread Trident of the Abyss—both are aquatic beings, so it would be interesting to see them.

I think the order would go like this:

Lotus Dragon - Dread Trident of the Abyss (Sea Fairy)

Lychee Dragon - Moonlight and Fire Spirit (I forgot their corrupted names)

Longan Dragon - Millennial Tree.

Although, before Longan, they might decide to go with Pitaya and Fire Spirit, since the two are related.

The voice actor did a great job.

It took me almost three months, but I'm finally done!!

And it's crap!

I was too lazy to do the backgrounds, but—maybe it's crap, but it's my crap, and I'm happy!

That's what fanfic is for

Now for my question, I was wondering how basically everyone felt about the brave trio in your lost Hope AU.

Or mostly Lily‘s group.

(I have a feeling that gingerbrave is the reason most of them are still going or at least give them hope.)

Everyone sees them as a ray of hope.

Everyone had already accepted that the witch would kill them, but thanks to Gingerbrave, their fate changed; now they’re all in Earthbread because of him.

It may not be a completely peaceful world, but it’s better than the castle.

White Lily is glad to have met them; they’re good kids, and their mere presence helped her when she was on the verge of getting lost in her grief.

In the kingdom.

Almost everyone keeps an eye on the little ones.

Since they’re a close-knit community, all the adults are responsible for making sure the children don’t do anything dangerous.

And not just with Gingerbrave, Strawberry, or Wizard.

But also the others, like Cherry Cookie, Pancake Cookie, Gumball Cookie (even though he’s a preteen, he counts because he’s irresponsible), Devil Cookie, Angel Cookie, and so on.

But outside the kingdom, White Lily is the one who looks after them.

I mistake the au's

Oh, don't worry, it happens sometimes.

The thing is, she's dying.

That's it—she's dying. I'm literally writing about it right now.

Maybe thats why he didn't look mad to went to the the last chapters of Eartbread and all beast yeast withoud Chilly Pepper and Custard Natilla, like he don't want to take the risk to lost both of them like with Bright and Dozer (he was fine with Wizard and Strawberry because he survived the same thing and know they abilitys, also he can prptect them)

Obviously, Gingerbrave is always seen as the leader—even in the witch’s castle, he was seen as the leader.

For him, it was his responsibility to make sure everyone got through it safe and sound, and he failed.

He failed his friends, his family, and his community.

His little brother died, his friend died, and many cookies died without him being able to do anything about it.

There are nights when Gingerbrave wishes he were the one who had died.

So when he met his new friends, he manipulated them so they would end up in the kingdom on purpose.

First, he told Custard that he could go to his kingdom and practice being a king; Gingerbrave knew that Custard would accept and that Chilli Pepper would accompany him.

Second, he told everyone in the kingdom to treat Custard and Chilli Pepper as friends and to accompany them.

Third, he orchestrated a warm welcome for them, ensuring that they would stay.

Gingerbrave knows his actions might be wrong, but he’d rather do that than lose new friends.

There’s also the fact that he’s extremely vigilant; he, Strawberry, and Wizard have all developed a sort of sixth sense to alert them to danger.

He knows that Strawberry and Wizard can protect themselves, especially in a place like Beast Yeast, since that place isn’t all that different from the witch’s house.

So while they were there, without Pure Vanilla realizing it, they adopted the rules they’d created at the witch’s house.

- Be alert to everything.

- Watch your step.

- Don’t make any noise.

I don't know, I haven't gotten around to developing that part of Prisoner Lily yet.

Since I’ve only planned up to the point where the witches capture her, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

But thats places aren't normal places like the rest of Eartbread scenarios, I mean Dream Express are visited by dreams creatures and I think even spirits, Wizard City has a lot of magic in the environment, (the magic barrier, the guardians, the city itself) and all the cookies in the Golden city are death but they are virtually alive.

So White Lily was affected to the poit she has a normal cookie body again in that places (in the Golden City case, she was a system error like Fetuchini Cookie)? Or like the cookies or things in that places can see and comunicated with her?

First of all, I think you got the AU wrong.

"Prisoner Lily" is where White Lily is in the witch's house, and her story takes place there.

"Hope Found AU" is where White Lily is a ghost and where she accompanies the children.

If you’re talking about Prisoner Lily, then she didn’t return to Earthbread because… well, she was captured.

But if you’re referring to Hope Found AU, let me explain.

White Lily has the ability that, if she stays in one place for a long time, lilies begin to grow—but not ordinary lilies, rather lilies with a black center that looks burnt.

Those lilies help White Lily locate and communicate with the children.

Simply put, they’re little pieces of her very essence that turn into lilies.

She gives them to those she trusts and loves—giving them to Gingerbrave and his friends, Royalberry, Dark Choco, Rich Cheese, Dark Enchantress, and the cookies in the Cookie Kingdom (where many more grow)

But these flowers aren’t eternal; they last about two weeks to a month before they wither and turn to ash. If White Lily happens to be around, she replaces them.

But this is how White Lily manages to take care of the children.

What would be the anciestred, Chilly Pepper and Custard Natilla reaction if they discover about Wizard hurt/lost eye and Strawberry throat wound?

Not bad in the sense of "those poor kids" but more like "How the hell did nobody notice? HOW THE HELL DID I NOT NOTICE???"

Think about it. You're a hero who's lived for thousands of years. You had a child, and you carry the trauma of war. You know what the physical and emotional scars of someone who's been hurt look like. And somehow... you never realized that three children, who were always helping others and always by your side, were carrying trauma even worse than your own.

With wounds so horrific they make you wonder how they're even still alive.

The short one has a blinded eye, with a crack stretching across nearly half his face.

The quietest girl has a terrible crack across her throat that keeps her from speaking normally or eating.

And the leader, the brave one, literally has a scar across his chest and genuinely believes all of this is completely normal.

Just thinking about it gives the Ancients more trauma than the war itself ever did.

They were close to these children, yet they dismissed every warning sign, believing it was just normal—that it was simply how they were. They never thought to look deeper or ask questions.

Now they remember how Strawberry was always in pain, or how she didn't want to eat.

Or how Wizard would always change the subject whenever anyone asked about his face.

Or how GingerBrave refused to talk about their lives before everything happened.

They are heroes, yet they never truly made an effort to find out what had happened to them.

Chili Pepper would feel even worse, because she was the one who spent almost all her time with them. She had noticed that something was off, but she never said anything.

But she also feels an overwhelming fury and frustration.

Why them? Why children? Why didn't they say anything? Why didn't they ask for help?

All those times she literally grabbed them roughly... did it hurt?

Had she ever hurt them without realizing it?

And Custard would be crying.

His subjects. His friends. They had been hurt in a way that could never be undone.

They must have been in terrible danger, and he couldn't help them.

Now he tries. He tries to force his healing magic onto them, desperately trying to mend those cracks and scars.

But he can't.

Why can't he?

He can heal people. He *should* be able to heal them!

But he can't... he can't help them.