I feel like the Adopted Strawberry household would have a Short-stack Saturday tradition. You make pancakes and watch old Saturday cartoons. Strawberry always makes her pancakes at first since she likes them a certain way (with the white chocolate inside the pancake) but eventually learns to delegate things like that since they finally have a chance to sleep in.
Also, under the SilentElderLily bed, there's a sort of nest and fairy (I keep typing faerie lmao) lights and books and a switch under there. Sometimes Strawberry can't get to sleep so having entertainment is nice.
Silent Salt usually cooks all the pancakes because the last time they let White Lily cook the batter it brought back memories. Also, as much as she tries, she cannot get herself to enjoy cooking. She focuses too much on the science part of things that she forgets about everything else. It just stresses her out, kinda reminding her of the academy experiments or less savory events (B A N Q U E T).
Either way, Silent Salt's the one with the most cooking experience. Turns out, going out to help other cookies ranges from protection in battle to cooking a simple meal for them. He liked to bond with all the orphans under his care and Strawberry reminds him of them. Granted, he was in a tree for a couple eons so he was a bit out of practice.
Elder Faerie usually gets everything else done. He has a knack for making everything look good. He's the one who folded all the swan shaped napkins on the table. He lines up a little toppings bar with chocolate and stuff. He didn't really get to cook back in the Faerie Kingdom because he was kinda busy y'know running it, so he had no idea what was going on.
Silent Salt ended up teaching him how to cook and sometimes they swap jobs.
Strawberry either sleeps in or gets up first to help. The latter was more common when she first moved in because she was up earlier anyways since she had trouble sleeping. (Her parents always make sure to serve her first).
I like to think the tradition started as a way to get Strawberry warmed up to mornings and to ease her into the family dynamic. But it kinda had the exact opposite effect where she felt she owed them for it. And then they had to have a talk.
They also had to have a talk about Strawberry's attachment issues. She kept sleeping under their bed because she was that scared she was gonna wake up and they'd be gone. Plus (running with Family Roots, Trees, and Vines), all three of them already died and were revived. And while Strawberry was only close to White Lily at that point, both White Lily and Elder Faerie died in front of her while Silent Salt also died during the war. The only cookies who had ever stayed with her long term were Gingerbrave and Wizard, but even they had close calls. SilentElderLily took one look at all that and went "...We'll just get a bigger bed for now and ease her out of it later."
(I'm thinking of giving Brave and Wiz parents in Family Roots, Trees, and Vines but I only have a solid dynamic ready for Wiz. I've decided that I'm making the Dark Enchantress and Wild Strawberry mother-daughter dynamic canon to the fic and giving Wild a bajillion adoptive siblings. I might run with a Beast redemption for all of them, but they'd be mostly background.)
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