Random Lore Trivia for Dual-Wielded Deceit because WHY NOT-
Was kinda in a yapping mood wheeee
White Lily only survived the Witches Banquet (and by proxy the Castle) for thousands of years solely due to consuming life powder in stashes. Is this cookie cannibalism??? Not really they aren't actual cookies. It's comparable to eating bloody meat for humans.
Eternal Sugar only extended the life of some cookies who she grew curious over. 90% of the population is completely mortal. One of the cookies she gave this immortality to was Hollyberry.
There's actually a huge age gap between Pure Vanilla + White Lily and Hollyberry + Dark Cacao + Golden Cheese. Due to their circumstances, Pure Vanilla and White Lily are at least 3 thousand years older than the other future ancients.
(The universe had basically decided that they needed to bring in Truth and Freedom for the sake of the timeline WAY too early. This backfired when White Lily ran off and got stuck outside of Earthbread, and Pure Vanilla was kidnapped.)
Even with the soul jams taken away from Flour and Spice and locked up in the Paradise Timeline, the lights of those soul jams passively extended the lifespans of whoever was their future holder. They did pick pretty quickly, they just couldn't reach the two cookies until much, MUCH later.
The only Guardian of Nature Shadow Milk refuses to talk to is Wind Archer, leaving Eternal Sugar to talk to him only. Adding onto this, Eternal Sugar actively flinches towards sudden fires due to the events of the Second Flour War. Fire Spirit did notice this detail but chose not to bring it up.
Shadow Milk does shapeshift into Lady in Azure on occasion, but due to the Mystic Flour shard she's appeared much more similar to Flour with more paler colors.
The soul jam eye can show up either during heightened emotions or on their own. Sometimes Flour or Spice just wish to observe what's happening on the outside. Flour is pretty quiet, Spice is very loud.
Destruction inadvertently counters Sloth enough to a degree where Eternal Sugar is much more active than normal. However she does prioritize her own well-being on most occasions.
Gingerbrave, Strawberry, and Wizard escaped the oven pretty recently. They're very young cookies, and they had managed to reach Earthbread 12 years before the original Pure Vanilla Cookie and Hollyberry Cookie showed up.
If anyone asked, Gingerbrave is the youngest at age 12, with Strawberry at 14, and Wizard at 13. Strawberry had to deal with the Witches for an entire year on her own before Wizard came along.
Wizard Cookie is immensely fascinated by the Headmaster of the Academy. He's one of their top students in his field, and matching with the Headmaster no less!
The Headmaster is never seen outside his office but those who have seen him recall glittery deep blue hair, cyan dough, and heterochromic eyes.
Gingerbrave and Strawberry like sparring while Wizard takes notes. Though if he refuses to get up and have fun with them, Gingerbrave outright steals Wizard's books, forcing him to chase after him.
The three children live completely alone in their small cottage. Sometimes they do sleep together.
Gingerbrave has a reckless streak. And probably ADHD. Shockingly acts calm when he's very curious + anxious towards new things but otherwise he's very bouncy. Will crash into things on occasion and immediately apologize after.
Strawberry is the most sensible one of the trio, meanwhile Wizard is the most logical. Gingerbrave is the heart of the three, the main motivator for them to keep going.
Strawberry is pretty socially awkward but means well. She does enjoy listening to soft music and gardening.
You cannot lie to the brave trio. At all. They'll just immediately think of it as the truth and go along with it.
Fount and Truthless barely had anything to do in the Spire. The two eventually started by trying to tell stories about each other, no matter how small. Or make up stories, or having small debates.
Truthless/Blossom is very attached to milkcrowns. Besides them being grown from tears, he often ties them to cookies he cares about with the mindset of "I get that it hurts, but you're not alone... I'm right here with you." type of mentality.
Truthless likes giving Milkcrowns to Fount, decorating his hair with them. Blossom still does this even after the Spire.
Blossom is bizzarely good at flirting, but he lacks so much confidence in himself he thinks he's terrible. He also inadvertently flusters those he's trying to talk to by saying something that caught them off guard... This happens a lot, admittedly.
Blossom genuinely can't wear heavily covering clothing anymore. Makes him feel suffocated and reminds him of his time as Truthless Recluse. Keep it open and flowy and he should be fine.
A lot of Soul Jam users bad habits end up transferring between holders. Obvious example is Truthless/Blossom and Fount which you have probably seen on multiple occasions.
Fount does eventually adopt the title Sage of Truth... But before that he chose to go under Blueberry Milk Cookie instead to feel normal.
Pure Vanilla Cookie's title name is "The Blossoming Bringer of Truth" which is an unintentional nod to Eternal Sugar's costume "The Blooming Bringer of Sloth". Pure Vanilla Cookie does go by Blossom post awakening, though. Mostly because he lost touch with his old name.
White Lily and Pure Vanilla were completely shocked and stunned to see each other alive all these years. Both thought the other was dead until they finally reunited. Suffice to say they cried over this... A lot.
Silent Salt and White Lily did eventually meet after the beast duo escaped the timeline. It took a long while before Salt deemed Lily worthy to carry half of his soul jam and pass on the message of Solidarity.
The original light of Volition and Change clung to Dark Cacao and Golden Cheese immediately once they were let out of the vault.
The Sugar of Happiness was released from her statue eventually, but she quickly went into hiding over her failures as the light of Happiness. Hollyberry had been the only one to find and comfort her, leading Sugar to offer her soul jam to the cookie, believing she would be a better giver of happiness than her... Hollyberry chose to split it instead.
After the plant infestation on Timekeeper, Crossiant Cookie started having problems being around flowers and plants in general. She would start feeling itchy without even touching them. Something about a time paradox and being a past version before Timekeeper...
Timekeeper eventually switched names to "The Springtime of Arcadia". She has met "The Last Supernova" and "Ruler of Ephemeral Flow" though. Trio of broken Timekeeper's near the End of Time itself.
Spring CAN shapeshift to appear like her former self, although it's more akin to a glamour spell.
Shadow Milk is always on the edge of insanity due to the Apathy fragment of his soul jam. The monotony of Paradise drives him nuts, he wants something more interesting and exciting than this (Ironically, he's mirroring Timekeeper in experience).
The human side of the universe is left ambiguous but considering how the world is structured now, I wouldn't put it past the two beast cookies to accidentally instill mass extinction via magic veils and plant infestations. This would leave only a few scarce witches and humans left.
Eternal Sugar Cookie has her own plant spell to replicate the same plants from the Garden of Delights. The reason they spread so fast is because they're inheritly parasites. They eat up the terrain they're thrown into and convert it into the one kind they can survive in; soft and sugary.
The air always smells lightly of sugar and honey dew on plants.
Grape Juice is usually the only form of liquid around, so much so that too much color deviation from pink makes cookies freak out (like blue or black, for instance).
Sweet and bland foods are the main dishes allowed, with light allowances for spice, bitterness, and tart flavors. You need special clearance from Eternal Sugar to try more intense flavors. The only flavor outright banned is sour.
There's plenty of fruit juices and sodas available, however they're usually colored either pink or purple. Rarely anything else.
Cookie's dough in paradise is generally soft and sweet scented, like the gentle kiss of sugar on the dough. Because they're so soft, the dough can actually flex a lot more without crumbling under the strain. Normal cookies from the original timeline can't exactly do that. Which seems... Weird, without proper understanding of this phenomenon. Because you'd think the soft dough let's it crumble more, it's actually due to a stretchy doughy build-up that let's joints and movement become more stretchy.
There's absolutely no poverty in Paradise, alongside universal Healthcare. Everyone gets a house, food, clothes, medicine etc. All a Cookie has to do is just go along with whatever their god says, which is barely anything besides enjoy your existence! What's not to love? :D
Cookies know two gods exist, but the second one is so rarely seen many consider it a myth. Eternal Sugar has, time and time again, disproven this by getting Shadow Milk outside for a few minutes.
Kingdoms don't exist... At least, not exactly. They're called "Communities" which are clusters of villages and one central "Leader" to keep things in order. If there is a community in place, the leader usually has to talk to Eternal Sugar about status updates and expansion asks.
Sugar Faeries are more common than Metal/Flower Faeries in Paradise. For obvious reasons, as you can probably guess.
The hierarchy goes by the two gods, guardians of nature, Community leaders, average cookies, minions/prisoners. The only exception to this is family members tied to those in higher ranks (ex Black Sapphire and Sugar Apple).
The TBD is not chill about this timeline. In fact, they've been freaking out ever since the beast duo ESCAPED their original timeline, far before the plant parasite incident with Timekeeper. That incident is just what forced them to go under a more severe quarantine.
Eternal Sugar has tried to use her plant spell on the TBD, however this never worked due to a lack of exposed ground and workable material. There was also a level of protection spells over the place that was tricky to breach.
The more timelines the two beasts conquer, the more power they get to feed off of to fuel their soul jams, which let's them become more powerful. More power let's them go after more timelines. In hindsight, Spring freaking out whenever those two show up in a timeline is VERY warranted.
Paradise, ignoring the cult aspects, is genuinely a very liveable place. There's no threats, there's nothing to cause conflict, and everything you'd need to live is free and given freely.
The jam jars are considered normal and very therapeutic for cookies (they're not).
The dragons were actually put into a deep sleep to prevent potential threats. Once the two beasts fled, they began to wake up. Is this how Ovenbreak ties in a little narratively? Perhaps...
The world does hold both Kingdom and Ovenbreak characters, however the kingdom characters are generally more focused on since I'm more familiar with them. I'll add Ovenbreak cookies once I get more familiar with that game.
The witches are aware of the Paradise on Earthbread and are actually pretty confused about it. Same with the humans, they don't understand how this happened or what is going on.
