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The fastest sketch I've ever made of an idea,

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Okay so- as i said in the other prompt i imagine sugar rose to have a similar personality to pre-corruption white lily, cautious and fragile but adventurous and ready to help when needed!! i imagine she’d be a healer that travels around beast-yeast to offer help to those who need it from the monsters, and she’d use her lyre (from the intro post) to heal people

For cranberry i’m actually super indecisive between two options,

option 1) stay in the hollyberry kingdom and help the royals with official affairs

option 2) Stay in beast-yeast with her sister and invite those who are lost and scared into the garden of happiness

After reading the book I went crazy so here's my little analysis of what parallels Shadow Milk Cookie has with the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland book.

Shadow Milk

To me, he's absolutely Cheshire Cat coded. His crazy big grin was the first thing, but there's more to it.

In his decor set, "Domain of Deceit", there is an item referencing Chapter 8: The Queen’s Croquet-Ground specifically.

Rose Bush Entangled with Lies

The english description says:

... Perhaps the day someone painted these roses red, they lost their very roots.

This is a very obvious reference to the event, where the card gardeners were painting white roses to red ones because they've messed up the seeds. Solely, this reference holds nothing but an easter egg purpose. Although I think it liners to the fact, that in this chapter the Cheshire Cat plays a major role.

The story goes as the Queen of Hearts organized a game of croquet and unexpectingly, the Cheshire Cat appears out of thin air. The Queen as per usual wanted to off the cat's head, alas nobody knew how, since he had nothing except for head.

With that idea in mind, it reminded me of one of Shadow Milk's animations where his head getting detached. Perhaps it's a reference to him being doing with his body whatever he wants. Still, I understand it may be illogical connection, so if any of have your own opinion I'd gladly read them!

The next interesting similarity I've noticed is how they're appearing. The first thing that appears and goes of Cheshire Cat is his big smile. Similarly to that, in several videos the first thing that would appear (or even the ONLY thing that we'd see) is Shadow Milk's eyes.

Honorable mention to the enemies that are probably references to the both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

The White Rabbit was Queen of Hearts' servant, so perhaps the insane amount of rabbits in Shadow Milk's items could be a metaphor to a loyalty (a causeless one maybe?).

But here comes the mirror and chess figures enemies, both of them are excluded in the first book, but play a major role in the second one!

Shadow Milk also has a whole theme of chess, and it could be a reference to the Through the Looking Glass book, but I haven't finished it, so I can't be so sure (and the moment where Gingerbrave, Wizard and Strawberry cookies became chess figures reminds me of the premise to this book, where Alice had to play a game of chess as a figurine herself too).

Sage of Truth

Honestly except his tea drinking animation and that he's the only(?) costume with a hat, I don't have anything else to prove that he's the Mad Hatter. I just feel it okay. There's actually one phrase that I like to interpret as a (Mad) Hatter reference, although in Korean this phrase has completely different meaning.

This one reminds me of the whole Hatter's “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” riddle.

As Luis Carroll stated himself that the riddle was intended to have no answer, thus making it into one.

Ad Lib Ending

He's so, SO Queen of Hearts. Just look at him, this reddish color and hearts??? Your Honor, they did it on purpose.

Also, his look and color pallet reminds me of the real King of Hearts card. Not sure if THIS was intentional, just I thought I need to share with you with this idea.

Story-wise he has zero similarities to the Queen of Heart, which is completely different talking about his idle animation. BOTH of them are Alice references!

In the first animation the rabbit is SO White Rabbit. A white rabbit with a clock? AND in a red suit? That's literally white rabbit as a Queen of Hearts servant! Not to mention the rabbit in the book is described with pink eyes and with this pinkly-reddish color it looks a bit like one.

I honestly think the hate for him is so annoying atp. "The devs are milking him" uh no??? They had this all planned out all this lore pre written YEARS in advance. They had all the villains and everything ready to go. He was always meant to be the next villain. If you genuinely hate him for his popularity and his role in the story respectfully gtfo.

(!!!TW MENTION OF SUICIDE!!!!!)

Also i personally dont agree with the statement/argument of "white lily cookies death sends a bad message to suicidal people!" Uhm...no? As a hard-core wlc fan who has been very upset over her death as well, I disagree so so so much with this. She sadly was always going to die. Looking back on her and DEC, it was always going to be the outcome. I was gonna make an analogy to another piece of media im in as an example but I cant remember it. But her and DEC were one in the same as they both shared a soul. That was explicit enough.

silly lightfaerie (and kinda light of planet mercury) doodle cause I missed them sm. this is how they met trust me i am definitely not delulu to have stardust in the comic

Every time high-ticket items drop on the online shop, most notably the CRK plushies, they sell out within minutes. Each time they never restock them for international fans, but we constantly see them restocked at the limited in person events in South Korea. So is it limited merch? Or just limited to us and not in person fans.

We have to wait for the in person events to end to even hear if we’re able to buy the merch, and we’re told we will only have access to the leftovers from the event. Not only this, but we have to fight other fans, bots, scalpers, and a laggy constantly-crashing website at inconvenient times for a small amount of stock, if they even stock the website at all. It’s literal thousands of fans fighting over scraps.

As you can imagine, this creates a lot of stress, anxiety, and upset among us fans.

For a lot of us, it’s easier to buy a $300-$500 plush (that retails for $35) from a scalper or reseller than it is to get an official one. For some fans, that’s the only way to get the merch, due to the limited countries the store ships to.

International fans shouldn’t be forced to buy from scalpers and resellers when there is an official global store. That is entirely unacceptable.

It’s not the fact that in person fans are able to get the merch, but that they’re always prioritized and international fans are not. We’re told we’ll get their leftovers after the events are over. It gives off the message that we as international fans aren’t important, that they don’t care about us.

A franchise as popular as Cookie Run (10s of millions of global downloads across games, hundreds of thousands of monthly returning players) should NOT be ignoring such a large portion of it’s player base like this.

We international fans have so much love and passion for the Cookie Run games, and we’ve proven time and time again that we will show up, we will spend money, and we will sell things out. We deserve the same priority and respect the Korean fans receive.

Do better Devsis.

Please help spread the word about our upset, use the hashtag #CRINTERNATIONALMERCH, post on all socials, email Devsis’s support. Let them know how we feel.

If Devsis added last minute Dark Enchantress merch due to the uproar from Korean fans, they can listen to us too.

Like no bro, sdvn shippers have been liking that costume for a hottt bit ( thank you @/pronouns-d-ace for spreading your propaganda) AND a big reason people didn't like it at first is that PV was forced into loving White Lily.

Like, god forbid people don't like costumes where one character is under a love potion/spell.

"Revived"

WOOOOO BACK TO WHERE IT ALL STARTED LOL

CRK Leaks

I’m 99% certain Fount of Knowledge drowned himself in the Yogurt River of Rebirth.

I’ve started noticing how often water imagery shows up in relation to Shadow Milk. The crowns that are present throughout his spire and around his jester’s hat also resemble the design for milkcrown flowers, which are described to sprout from tears.

We know Fount of Knowledge was depressed, but what exactly tells us he drowned himself?

Well, when Pure Vanilla first finds the statue of the Fount of Knowledge, it’s sitting atop a pond of milk. But it’s not only a pond, but also shows imagery of the spire being flooded all around it.

Whenever there’s imagery of water (or milk in this case) we have Fount following close by, either by literally being shown next or by association, be it on the promotional trailers or in-game.

Much of Shadow Milk’s torment of Pure Vanilla comes from projection. He sees himself in Pure Vanilla, and thus expects what happened to himself to happen to him too as a way to prove there was nothing he, as the Fount of Knowledge, could’ve done not to fall. If we replace Pure Vanilla’s image with Fount, the path he treaded to become Shadow Milk becomes clearer. 

The first trial he has Pure Vanilla go through is throwing himself in the Yogurt River of Rebirth to embrace deceit. Essentially, it works as a metaphor for killing your past self to become someone entirely new, which we know Shadow Milk has also done with himself. It’s the reason he always gets angry whenever someone mentions anything even remotely related to his past. He hates the person he was and, to him, he might as well be dead. He wants him to be dead.

When Pure Vanilla awakens, the animation shows a reverse animation of him falling into the milk pond. Pure Vanilla falling into a milk pond is referenced multiple times in the promotional trailers and actually happens to him in-game, even though we don't see it explicitly. Noticeably, when he falls into the milk pond in the promotional trailer, it transitions right into Fount's statue, establishing a link between the two scenes.

Pure Vanilla was going down the same path as the Fount of Knowledge, but managed to make a turn and change for the better instead thanks to his friends. While the Fount of Knowledge sank and drowned alone, Pure Vanilla ascended and thrived.

(Let it be noted that there’s also suicidal imagery when Pure Vanilla awakens. For him to stop being Truthless Recluse and be reborn, he stabs the Soul Jam in his chest.)

Whenever we see anything Fount of Knowledge related, there’s water imagery following close by, be it the milkcrown flowers (which resemble tears splattering on the ground: it's what makes them sprout in the first place) or the pond of milk that swallows everything around it. One promotional trailer even explicitly shows the Soul Jam falling into water and turning into the Soul Jam of Deceit right after Truthless Recluse looks at the Fount of Knowledge's statue, again establishing another link between Fount and the scene afterwards.

The water drops aren’t just tears and milkcrown flowers. They’re also reminiscent imagery of Fount of Knowledge’s body falling in the yogurt river. It’s a recurring motif throughout both episodes 7 and 8.

Perhaps, at that time, it wasn’t even a yogurt river in the first place, but was cursed by Fount so he wouldn’t be able to give in to his survival instincts and try to swim.

One could also draw parallels between Fount of Knowledge and Ophelia, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Two figures who were denied agency and personhood in favor of satisfying the needs of someone else, who drown themselves after bearing this pain for so long, with no support system and feeling there’s no getting out of the situation they’re in.

Either physically or metaphorically, Fount of Knowledge hated the person (or lack of person) he was so much he decided to drown himself in the river close to his spire so he could be reborn as someone else entirely. Someone so unlike him no one would ever remember he existed at all. 

this isnt like a ' im very depressed post' this is about the fact any and all mint products kill my self control

i got tic tacs twenty ish minutes ago

im 2/3rd done with the thing

THERES ONE HUNDRED TIC TACS IN THERE