#cookie run analysis

The look of anger, betrayal, and pain all in one.

He really didn't just want the souljam. He just wanted to have someone who was able to understand him :(

Because he knows just how fake everything is, he can see behind to curtain; to take this vague theater allegory further, he can see the stage hands behind that curtain, see the audience, and read their playbills. He knows he’s ultimately entertainment, alongside everyone else he lives with. He feels no guilt for his actions because what would be the point? None of it’s actually real, just fake problems for characters in a fictional world. He can do whatever he wants with this knowledge, like using other cookies for his own entertainment, because it’s at least something. He’s taking power back in a way. Shadow Milk’s ideology enables that.

We see even this trend with golden cheese cookie, her kingdom once being one of the richest kingdoms out there.

And we see this trend continue on within oven smash, specifically the lactose tribe. All of them having cheese in their name and once being related to wealthy.

Back when we only had his concept art/sprite teaser, while many speculated him to transform from a white knight to a black knight (they got that part right), in fanart he was always depicted with purple as his main color scheme that tied both designs together.

But we don't actually get that in his official sprites. Instead, we get a transformation from white and mint to black and pale blue/purple.

Hell, if we go back even further. In his concept art, he was grey.

Even in the concept art, the other beasts still retained their main colors, that being blue, pink, white, and red.

i was kind of predicting that this was what they were going to do before the last episodes came out and randomly remembered this

Burning Spice’s ‘boredom’ isn’t exactly boredom. This is idea is actually inspired by achromaticEgoist on twitter and their timejammed au (check them out it’s really cool)

He is an artist at heart.

He loves his creations and wants to see them grow and change other time. Sadly, as an immortal, he has seen people destroy his work with greed time and time again. Spice understands this as part of interacting with cookies, but it still aches.

Imagine yourself as an artist putting your work out there for people to enjoy but then some people decide to destroy it out of greed or a bit of fame or any other petty reason. However you can’t stop because it is your job to make more art and give it to the masses. Eventually, you grow numb to it, but no one likes feeling numb. Thus, you decide to see why they like destroying your work. You feel the thrill of releasing your anger after so many years holding back and being the perfect artist you were supposed to be. Eventually you want to do it again and start making art just to destroy it and watch others destroy.

That is Burning Spice. He had been forced to deal with trolls destroying his kingdoms and eventually decided it’s better to join them than keep trying to make them destruction proof (impossible)

Also, unlike other immortal/god-like cookies in CRK, he is meant to work closely with mortals. He was made to guide them towards a better future. Sugar Swan and Millennial Tree don’t have to directly involve themselves with the world. Most elementals have limited contact with mortals and don’t have to if they don’t want to.

Even comparing him to the ancients, he was forced into the role by birth while they chose to.

I would like to preface that this whole idea popped up completely out of nowhere while me and a mutual were having a convo about the new Kingdom story. We were NOT expecting it to get THIS deep and instead of copypasting the whole thing here, I thought of expanding upon it because it's such a good idea!! (trust me bro) Oh, and while this DOES go in-depth on certain points of history and literature, please do keep in mind that I am in no means an expert on these sort of things, just a nerd who happens to really like reading wiki articles on different Cycles and Mythos. (There's also gonna be some leaks shown later on, so keep that in mind!)

But yeah I'm sure you get the gist of it so let's go ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I may get some hate for this but I don’t care anymore this has been driving me insane ever since burning spice was released

I’m sure if you look up cookie run content on any media talking about the beast & ancients you’ve seen these collection of comments

“Calling it now lily going to lose”

“Fun fact; salt kills lily flowers”

“Lily going to die in silent salt’s update”

Or comments following a similar pattern

Here the thing tho

Cookie run as a game follows a very basic pattern in every update

‘Good triumphs evil’

No matter the update rather it’s;

Fire spirit vs agar agar

Ginger brave vs pomegranate

Pure vanilla vs shadow milk

The hero, no matter how out numbers or out ranked will always win

And the beast update follow a very loose pattern as well that you can see in every update (minus the first beast yeast update where elder faerie died)

Chapter 1;

-ancient goes looking for the beast, typically with a few companions by their side at the beginning

- ancient finds beast

-some sort of dilemma/battle/mental torture

-ancient is at the brink of losing/dying/failing

Chapter 2;

-some way or some how the ancient remembers why it is they became an ancient, and remembers what they fight for

-ancient awakens

-beast is defeated for the time being

Many things can happen in between these check points and they can reach these check points in many different ways but one way or another you will always get to that story checkpoint

White lily ISN’T going to fail

One way or another she is going to come out victorious with an awakened form

(And for the love of god can we please stop saying her awaken form is going to be dark enchantress, that would quite literally be the OPPOSITE of an awakened form)

Why her souljam is upside down in the ‘coming soon’ of her and silent salt’s gacha pull I don’t know yet

But she isn’t going to turn evil. And she isn’t going to die

(At least not permanently if she does, girlies like a cockroach in the best way possible, she will not stay dead)

Moving on

People treat white lily as if she is a meek and weak character, or as if she weaker than the other ancients

Which is just not correct

Because 1, if white lily was weak than dark enchantress would in no way be as strong as she is as most of her strength and knowledge on magic comes from white lily’s own memories being used against her

2, white lily has shown time and time again that she isn’t weak, she a quiet and shy character, yes but she still an ancient hero, she fought just as many battles as the other ancients and survived

Let’s not forget that, even if he wasn’t at full strength, she still single handedly defeated shadow milk

‘Oh but she didn’t actually defeat him, she just sealed the tree’

Yea, that COUNTS as defeating him. Let’s not forget how so many of the more toxic shadow milk fans got pissy at white lily because she defeated him.

(This also goes back into my previous comment of; no matter what, good will triumph evil)

White lily is also one of the stronger ancient cookies just in game. I don’t know about the rest of you but Lily has my dark cacao and Holly beat by a landslide and she not even awakened yet.

Lily as a character isn’t weak. She morally gray, she complex, and a bit of a wall flower but she is not weak

You are allowed to not like white Lily’s character, but I feel so many of the fans treat has as if she is satan incarnated, as if she willingly threw her ass into the ultimate dough and did a backflip on the way down.

Lily never intended to fall, she never wanted dark enchantress to exist, and she doesn’t support dark enchantress. She horrified by dark enchantress’ actions and actively despises what she’s done to cookie kind. She sought out the witches to HELP cookie kind, no matter what that has always been her goal, to make cookies stronger and less likely to crumble, actively throwing herself in dangerous or sketchy situations just to find answers, to find a way to help others, because she is the keeper of the souljam of freedom, and she seeks freedom for all.

And I’m going to say something that I’ve not seen anyone else say.

Dark enchantress would’ve existed with or without white lily going to the banquet.

The ultimate dough had already been prepared. The witches were always going to bake it. The only thing lily added was half of her soul this including half of her memories and likely some of her strength. Dark enchantress clearly doesn’t share white Lily’s opinions or feelings for others. And only ever seems to refer to herself as ‘formerly white Lily’ when it aids her in harming her enemies

Dark enchantress would’ve existed with her same personality and desire to destroy with or without Lily.

Likely Lily’s soul only made her a bigger threat sooner than she would’ve been had she not had that half of Lily’s soul.

Lily and dark enchantress are essentially two separate entities. They share half of a soul yes, but their memories (after the banquet), opinions, goals, morals, and relationships are all different. They also cannot control each others actions.

White lily had no control over the war dark enchantress caused just as dark enchantress has no control over the actions lily has done since her revival

They are more akin to twins now than to being the same person.

More over, if you wouldn’t thank dark enchantress for the good white lily does, don’t blame white lily for the evil dark enchantress does

I don’t really know how to end this now so I’ll just do a small retake on all I said

White lily, by the very laws of the story won’t lose to silent salt

White lily isn’t weak and these white lily hate comments are getting out of hand