Time To Geek Out

I won’t lie I still see “Sage of Truth” as a bit of a bad ending for Shadow Milk Cookie/The Fount of Knowledge because he’s still rejecting half of the Light of Knowledge at the end of the day. It’s just that instead of rejecting Truth, he’s rejecting Deceit and not realizing the biggest part of the Soul Jams that they themselves apparently don’t get: there isn’t a “Good” or “Bad” side of their aspects per-say, just that they can turn “bad” or “chaotic” if pushed to a particular extreme.

Heck we could even see that with the Light of Change itself with its two holders, Burning Spice Cookie and Golden Cheese Cookie. Burning Spice gave into grief of losing everything he has cared for and as a result, opted to destroy everything so that he wouldn’t form any attachments to others. Golden Cheese, after going through the exact same thing though, went on the complete other side of the scale and decided to dig her heels in, rejecting even the concept of death and hoarding all that was “Hers” and, had things done differently she could have been the Beast of Greed or something else with an overly large amount of Abundance.

We could see the same thing with Hollyberry Cookie and Dark Cacao, with Hollyberry drowning herself with juice and adventures and neglecting her responsibilities (which she still would have been doing if Pure Vanilla hadn’t sent her a letter), and Dark Cacao cookie being so staunch in his resolution that he was beginning to get tunnel vision against the Licorice Sea and neglecting the welfare of his other cookies at the beginning.

Going back to the Sage of Truth I could honestly see a similar thing happening. He understands why every other version of himself turned to deceit and even explaining the logic of him discarding what gives him pain (in most cases the cookies). But… he did the same thing in that Timeline as well, and there’s a bit of a tipping point between what is truth for being honest, and what is truth for cruelty’s sake, and Sage of Truth is ok that razor’s edge, looking at some of his quotes in game, his lines, while being truthful, still can carry a hostile edge at times:

“Why does everyone try so hard to hide their ignorance? Tsk.”

“Do I really need to spell out everything? Come on, think!”

“Ugh, come on! Why do you refuse enlightenment?!”

“Admitting your ignorance is the first step towards the Truth!”

All this to say the Sage of Truth still has just as much of a chance corrupting as the rest of the Founts, just that his corruption would look vastly different from the other versions of the Founts. Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me if the reason he was so nice to Timekeeper Cookie was because he saw them as an equal or of higher status/intelligence to himself based off of the nature of their time traveling abilities.

Long ago in the Hollyberry Kingdom, there lived a very kind and happy cookie. Her house was surrounded by the wilds of the Jungle, and she was adored by her mother and father. Tragically, however, her mother soon fell ill and passed away, leaving the young cookie with her father.

Feeling like she needed a mother figure in her life, her father soon remarried, giving her a stepmother and two stepsisters who were as beautiful as they were cruel, taunting and bullying the young cookie whilst her father was away, until the day her father went into the jungle and never returned.

The young cookie’s stepmother and her stepsisters soon after began to fear for their own safety, being surrounded by wyverns, butter tigers, and cookievorous plants. So they came up with a plan, to send the young cookie into the jungle everyday to protect their manor, mocking her and giving her the name “Jungleberry Cookie”.

Unbeknownst to her step-family however, Jungleberry Cookie soon grew to love the jungle itself, often bonding and playing with the Butter Tigers as she protected her home and, occasionally, hunted for some food. She’d enjoy the way that the Butter Tigers took care of her, and liked to smell the vibrant, orange flowers that bloomed in the emerald depths of the wilderness.

Some days, though, she missed being able to have the old life she used to have as a lady. Being able to sip tea, dance, and dress in pretty dresses like she used to. One time, Jungleberry Cookie even pretended to dance with the Butter Tigers, much to their confusion.

It was revealed one day that her Royal Majesty Hollyberry Cookie, as she often tended to do, decided to host a ball for all of the cookies in the Hollyberry Kingdom. Jungleberry cookie was so excited to hear the news that she ran over to her stepmother and begged for her to go.

As always though, her stepmother refused, “You still need to guard the manor, Jungleberry Cookie. You don’t have time to go to a ball. Besides…” she glanced at Jungleberry’s clothing, torn and ragged from the many times she went into the forest, “You’re not exactly… presentable or ladylike. You’ll embarrass the whole house!”

“I can change clothes!” Jungleberry protested, “Please, just this once, can I wear one of my old dresses? I’ll behave!” At such a suggestion, her stepmother sneered, “No, those are much too nice for a feral girl like you.” At that, Jungleberry couldn’t help but give a dejected sigh.

“Maybe she can go!” said one of Jungleberry Cookie’s stepsisters, snickering. The other stepsister took an old, dusty curtain off of one of the windows cackling, “Yes, mother! Maybe she can make a dress out of this! It’s so stale and out of style, it’ll suit her perfectly!” Flippantly, Jungleberry cookie’s step-mother waved her hand, “If she can, then fine.”

Hurt, and humiliated, Jungleberry cookie quietly grabbed a spear and headed to the jungle as the other cookies prepared for the ball, fighting back tears. It was quiet in the wild for a while, until roars from the distance were heard, heading straight towards her. Wyverns soon surrounded Jungleberry cookie, and her sadness soon turned to rage, as she fought off the pack of the dragons that came to eat her.

The wyverns fled, and Jungleberry Cookie was soon left alone once more, until a rustling was heard and, fueled by adrenaline, she threw a punch at the rustling behind her, her fist being met not by a wyvern this time, but by a large dragon, scales shining bright red as the sun peaked through the leaves. At the sight, Jungleberry shrieked.

The dragon however, wasn’t angry. If anything, they seemed delighted, “Well, what do we have here? A sssmall cookie looking for a fight!” Jungleberry Cookie huffed at the notion, “I’m not looking for a fight! I’m merely defending myself!” “You ssseemed to have fought off thossse wyvernsss well enough!” “Yeah, well… it’s not like I want to get eaten!”

The red dragon huffed at that, “Ssso you don’t want to fight me?” “Obviously not! I’d crumble!” “I wonder about that.” “Please don’t!” The delight from the Red Dragon quickly shifted into annoyance, “If you don’t want to fight, then why are you out here!?”

Jungleberry Cookie sighed at that, “I’m upset, ok? Not like you’d care.” The dragon thought for a moment, before answering, “Well, I’m bored, ssso why don’t you tell me anywaysss?” Jungleberry Cookie glared at the Red Dragon, “There’s not much to tell! My stepmother refused to let me go to the ball Queen Hollyberry Cookie is hosting! She said I was “not ladylike” and “too feral”! Is it too much to ask for one nice night out!?”

The Red Dragon glanced away at that, making a face that Jungleberry Cookie could have sworn was a smirk, “Hollyberry Cookie herssself isss plenty feral, I ssshould know. I don’t think ssshe’d mind.” “That’s a nice thought, but then my stepsisters gave me a curtain and told I could go if I made a dress out of that!”

A couple minutes of silence washed over the two as the Red Dragon processed what Jungleberry Cookie said, before transforming into the form of a cookie itself, “Can I sssee it?” “What!?” “That curtain, or whatever it wasss… can I sssee it?” At that, Jungleberry groaned a bit and led the Red Dragon to the manor, stopping it before they could enter the house as she stormed into it, angrily coming back with the dusty curtain from before, “Here! Why did you want to see it, huh? To mock me further!? Burning me to a crisp would me more merciful than this!”

The dragon laughed a bit before taking the curtain in its own hands, humming a bit as they looked at it, noticing the burnt-orange color of it. Soon enough, they closed its eyes in thought, muttering something in an intelligible language as the curtain transformed from its original form into a sparkling, vibrant orange gown of a strange style, matching Jungleberry Cookie’s eyes and flowers that were tangled in her hair, before handing it to her, “Here you go.”

Jungleberry stared at the gown, completely stunned, “Wait, what?” “You ssseem to be much more interesssting than mossst cookiesss in the kingdom, and while I think it’sss boring you don’t want to fight… I can at leassst help you be petty to thossse cookiesss you were complaining about.” “I… still don’t understand. How am I interesting?” “Mossst cookiesss wouldn’t even dare ssstike me, let alone in my face.” “You’re helping me because I punched you!?” “Jussst take the ssstupid dresss!”

Jungleberry Cookie did, and smiled a bit before thanking the dragon and quickly running into the manor and changing into the new gown, quickly getting ready and tying her hair in curled twin tails before placing the tangled flowers in her hair back in gently, soon leaving the manor before stopping, realizing one important detail, “Oh no! I forgot shoes!”

The dragon groaned in annoyance at that, quickly giving Jungleberry Cookie two scales, “Thessse ssscalesss from my clawsss ssshould work. I’m ssstarting to get bored now though. Meet me in the Dragon’sss Valley if you change your mind about wanting to fight.” And soon after that, it flew away, leaving a beaming Jungleberry Cookie to herself. She did not waste a moment before quickly running to the ball.

There was so much to explore at the Hollyberry Castle that Jungleberry Cookie was bouncing with excitement. She got to try many fancy kinds of meat jellies and cheeses, cakes and teas, all things that she missed so dearly when she was a child. She gleefully danced with many interesting cookies that she had never met before, and soon enough, she wore herself out, deciding to take a breather on the balcony outside.

Jungleberry smiled as she looked at the view of the jungle up above as the sky started to glow that orange-purple hue of dusk. Soon enough, she saw a couple of Butter Tigers coming from the edge of the jungle, and quickly and quietly snuck off to see them, sneaking some meat jellies out of the ballroom for them to snack on. “You all are always so kind to me, I know you can’t go to the ball yourselves but you should enjoy a little bit of it.” She spoke, softly petting a butter cub as it gingerly ate the piece of meat.

As quiet as she had been though, she did not go unnoticed, and a gentle voice spoke, “Wow, I’ve never seen a cookie talking to the Butter Tigers like that before.” Startled, Jungleberry turned around to see a young man her age, looking well dressed with pink hair and red eyes, who quickly panicked at her surprise, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you!”

Jungleberry Cookie quietly smiled at the cookie, “It’s no trouble at all, I just thought I’d give my friends a treat here. My name is Jungleberry Cookie.” she offered her hand as the other cookie took it, “It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Royalberry Cookie. If… if it’s not too forward, may I ask for this dance?” “I’d be honored!”

And dance they did without a care in the world, laughing and twirling away as the ballroom cleared, other cookies being almost compelled to stare at the young couple. They soon stopped dancing and talked to each other, learning more about their interests. Jungleberry Cookie herself couldn’t help but be fascinated by the man in front of her, and the two nearly kissed- only to be interrupted by the chime of the midnight clock.

Noticing the time, Jungleberry Cookie quickly stood up, “Goodness, it’s so late! My stepmother will be furious with me if she sees I’m not home!” “Oh! Are you alright? Do you need an escort home?” “NO!” She panicked before coughing, “I mean- no thank you. I… I appreciate it but I must leave now.” she bolted quickly, before tripping on a step and haphazardly stumbling out of the castle, leaving behind a bright red slipper.

Quietly, Royalberry Cookie walked over to the step, gingerly picking up the slipper and inspecting it. This, just like Jungleberry Cookie herself, was nothing like Royalberry Cookie had seen before, though he couldn’t help but wonder if his mother had. So he asked her, “Mother? Have you ever seen a slipper like this before?”

Curiously, Hollyberry Cookie herself picked up the slipper in one hand, humming as she sipped her goblet with a mother, “I can’t say I have. Though it almost looks like-“ she cut herself off to stare at it, befuddled, “Like what, Mother?” At her son’s question, Hollyberry Cookie couldn’t help but laugh, “It’s probably just my imagination, they wouldn’t do something as silly as that… I don’t think... Though it looks like it’s a dragon scale of some kind.”

“Maybe someone was inspired by Lord Dragon so make a fancy shoe for that young lady I danced with.” “Oh ho? What’s this about a young lady?” Royalberry quickly flushed at his mother’s question before answering, “She said her name was Jungleberry Cookie! She was a really fascinating cookie! I hope I can see her again.” “Well, if anything, she needs her slipper back, doesn’t she?” Hollyberry Cookie suggested, giving a soft smile to her son.

Back at her home, Jungleberry cookie quickly ran into her room in the basement of the manor, changing from her dragon-gifted dress and single shoe before laying in her bed and screaming joyfully in her pillow, kicking her feet giddily. Soon enough, she heard a noise from upstairs, along with talking, “I swear I tried to get the prince’s attention mother, but he was too busy paying attention to that… that weird cookie!” Her stepsister complained, bitterness creeping out of her words. “Don’t worry, girls. It’s likely just a… passing fancy.” Her stepmother seethed as footsteps got louder in the stairs. Jungleberry Cookie quickly pretended to be asleep as her stepmother opened the door, looking in before giving a huff and closing the basement door.

The next morning, the manor received a knock on the door, Jungleberry’s stepmother opening it to see Royalberry Cookie, holding the slipper, “Um excuse me? Is Jungleberry Cookie here?” Calculating, the stepmother looked at the Prince’s face, then the slipper, “Jungleberry cookie?” “Oh! Yes, she accidentally left her slipper at the Palace the last ball. I was wondering if I could return it to her? Is she in?”

A cold look washed over the stepmother’s face as she lied, “Unfortunately, no. She went into the jungle that way.” She pointed northward from the manor, “Oh, alright. I’ll come back later then…” Royalberry Cookie said, leaving dejectedly. Coming up from the basement, “Is everything alright?” Jungleberry cookie asked, coming up the basement, causing her stepmother to huff, “No! I thought I heard wyverns screeching southwards from here! Get on it Jungleberry!” The young cookie nodded, grabbing her spear and doing her daily duties.

This happened repeatedly over a month’s time, Royalberry getting more disheartened as Jungleberry kept to her patrols, all while daydreaming of the night of the ball, until one day, Jungleberry Cookie came upstairs from her room just a little earlier than she normally would, seeing Royalberry walking sadly into the forest, “Stepmother? What was that?”

At that, her stepmother looked coldly at Jungleberry, “I know you went to the ball that night. If you think you could steal what belongs rightfully to my daughters you’re mistaken. I sent him away, and he’ll give up eventually.” At that, Jungleberry cookie quickly became furious, grabbing a spear and nearly shoving her stepmother to the side, screaming “YOU SENT IN THE DIRECTION OF A COOKIEVOUROUS GARDEN I’VE BEEN TRYING TO CLEAR OUT!”

Jungleberry Cookie ran as quickly as she could, afraid she would not make it to Royalberry in time. Soon enough she heard a trill and turned around to see a Butter Tiger, leaning down as if to give her a ride. Together, they made it to see Royalberry Cookie, upside down and smacking a scepter at the very hungry Cookievorous Plant that grabbed him.

“LET HIM GO YOU OVERGROWN WEED!” Jungleberry Cookie shouted before fighting the Cookievorous plant, eventually killing it, smiling at Royalberry Cookie, “I’m dreadfully sorry, my stepmother failed to inform me you wanted to talk. Are you alright!?” Royalberry Cookie smiled at that, offering Jungleberry Cookie a messy bouquet of tiger lilies, “I’m quite alright, would you like to go on a date, Jungleberry Cookie?”

Devsis revealed during the Chronos livestream that in July they’re releasing Ananas Dragon Cookie but also! Doing another Destiny Gatcha between them and Wind Archer. And that got me thinking about the corrupted forms of the legendaries and which dragon the rest of them could match up with.

At first the match up between Wind Archer/Night Raven and Ananas Dragon didn’t make much sense to me? Until I thought about why they would fight. After all this is Shadow Milk Cookie’s doing and so far his “perfect world” is just… a bunch of monsters rampaging. Given how Night Raven is basically just on a “kill everything” streak that would make sense… it would also make sense for him in particular to target the Tropical Soda islands in particular because we’ve seen what’ll happen if Ananas Dragon Cookie loses all of its islanders: Raging Calamity, where as a result of grief they fly completely off the handle and into destruction. Perfect for Shadow Milk Cookie’s new timeline.

So how would Shadow Milk Cookie go about trying to corrupt the other dragons? I’m going to do the dragons in order except for Pitaya because 1: They’re already under Shadow Milk’s control at the time of writing this and 2: I think its matchup is going to play a little differently than the rest.

Lotus Dragon I actually see facing off against Fire Spirit Cookie. I can see why a lot of folks can see Fire Spirit and Pitaya heading off against each other because they are so connected but my logic is going off of what the Dragons themselves fear the most. In Lotus’ case that is losing their paradise and the memories of the other flower dragons. And Immortal Cataclysm, the costume Devsis showed us, likes to just burn everything to the ground. Him targeting the Lotus Paradise seems like the most optimal outcome to ensure Lotus’ Corruption. Either that or Frost Queen cookie could freeze the paradise but we have no clue how her corruption is. But either way, Lotus could fall into sloth and just… give up? Take a nap? It’d be sad. (Thankfully a cute lil snapdragon is probably gonna be around to help).

Lychee Dragon’s worst fear is essentially being abandoned by everyone around it but especially Longan Dragon. There is this large sense of longing that they have with them and it wants to be special. So pairing them up with the Dread Trident of the Abyss Sea Fairy, one who gave up on her yearning for Moonlight cookie. Lychee however is not a quitter, and if anything it’d double-down on their whole mind control thing. They WILL be loved, dammit! (I am also nervous about it meeting Shadow Milk Cookie because it’d be a coin toss on whether they’d help him or be his personal migraine)

It wouldn’t take much to corrupt Longan Dragon, but they very much have their own plans set in stone (lol) HOWEVER! There is somewhat of a Corrupted Legendary Costume for Longan Dragon in Ovenbreak with the Warlord of Eternal Rest. One where they’re basically in depression mode because everything is gone and desolate and lost all meaning. I don’t see Longan changing into that direction, but if this dragon who is asleep at the current moment in Kingdom had to deal with, say… infinite nightmares of their worst fears? Yeah that would speed up their whole genocidal process and the possibility of that being the outcome is very real since Shadow Milk Cookie wants to rule the timeline to his design and not Longan’s. Which is where Alluring Crescent Moonlight Cookie comes into play. She in particular is pretty ruthless, almost mirroring the “Little Moon” Black Pearl cookie, so her nightmares would be brutal.

That leaves… Pitaya Dragon Cookie and Millennial Tree Cookie. This is where things get very different. I said in an earlier post that I think they’re going to fall to Silence as a result of Shadow Milk Cookie’s manipulation, but I can also see them ending up inside of Shadow Milk Cookie’s timeline with Ash Salt Cookie’s help (and the Time Manipulator because I think she still has it.) And it’s in this timeline where it’s going to meet Primal Mercy Millennial Tree Cookie. I know that a lot of people don’t see this costume as a corrupted form, but I think it’s corrupted in a very different way. Particularly… Millennial Tree Cookie in this form is literally sacrificing every part of himself to keep Earthbread Alive. And self sacrifice is kind of a running theme in CRK, especially in regards to Solidarity. I think Pitaya Dragon Cookie is going to try and stop Shadow Milk Cookie on its own, and during their confrontation it’s going to learn that that won’t work.

A lot of people really don’t like the Soul Jams now (with good reason), but I also think that scene in particular was meant to show that the lights were wrong. Especially with the Light of Solidarity’s attitude towards self sacrifice. But self sacrifice isn’t solidarity. Especially in White Lily Cookie’s case because how can she do good for everybody if she talks to nobody.

Mainly my theory is that this dragon right here?

Yeah this one. I don’t think it’s necessarily a new dragon. I think it might actually be a corrupted form of Pitaya Dragon Cookie, kinda like how it showed a similar thing to the legendaries being corrupted.

Last we left off with Pitaya Dragon Cookie they were at the mercy of Smilk, and they seemingly vanished while everyone else got some sort of happy ending. And we also see Pitaya Dragon like this:

Covered in Dragontongue and setting everything on flames with cursed flames that *also* have Dragontongue in it. Basically they aren’t having a good time.

I don’t think that the Pitaya Dragon in this state and the mystery one are 100% the same more as that the former is the aftermath of the latter. I think Pitaya Dragon cookie is specifically going to fall to silence.

The shape of the eye for the mystery dragon is nearly identical to the shape of Pitaya Dragon Cookie’s eyes when it’s mad. But what convinces me more is… mystery dragon has their hair in a braid.

One of the things about Pitaya Dragon Cookie in both Kingdom and in Ovenbreak that shows up a lot is their relationship to the concept of freedom. In Kingdom, they are directly tied to White Lily Cookie, to the point where it made a contract with her. Said contract backfired but it came with a lot.

In Ovenbreak it’s shown that Pitaya’s greatest fear is being unable to fight, saying at first “I can ssstill fight” and then later on when they can’t get up saying “I can ssstill be free.”

I could write a whole essay on the parallels between Pitaya Dragon Cookie and White Lily Cookie, but that’ll have to be for another time. My point is. After losing to Shadow Milk Cookie so brutally and possibly losing their agency, it would be understandable if Pitaya Dragon Cookie snapped.

Double that if Longan Dragon Cookie’s plans to turn all of the cookies into stone somehow got revealed to Pitaya Dragon cookie because well… they don’t have the best relationship with Longan to begin with and it always loved cookies, or at least held affection for them, since the very beginning.