#wizardcookie

(DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language and I'm going this sleep deprived..)

yeah, with my handmade pictures.

so, first of all, Shadow Milk is not actually his father or parent at all (it doesn't make sense), he is his creator, some sort of. now, the explanation begins.

PART 1: flight of fancy

as we all know, fount of knowledge got tired of stupid cookies asking nonsense to him and blaming him for literally anything they don't like.

the story of creating a W.. no, not a "Wizard cookie", but a little , so called "Fibster cookie" starts from the time, then fount of knowledge was on the edge.

he couldn't believe how could cookies be so foolish, so selfish, so wrong? he was in denial - was this the great cookies he supposed to share knowledge with? does First Milk cookie even know what those idiots are? no, she probably wouldn't put him in this position if she knew.

day by day he questioned cookiekind more and more.

and then.. an idea came into his brilliant mind.

he CAN understand them and what in the life of a cookie goes wrong for them to be so stupid.

but for this, he needs to create a cookie from scratch - as an immortal being, he wanted to examine how cookie mind developes, from scratch to an adult. and see, if cookies are doomed by themselves or he can grow up a decent cookie and it's not really their fault.

my explanation of course is not as good as I want to be, but I hope you understand what he wanted to achieve and why!

PART 2: Schrödinger's dough

fount of knowledge started to create the cookie. he mixed together some basic components, but while doing this, he couldn't focus.

it was his breaking point.

he thought to himself - "why am I even trying to fool myself? why trying to understand? I see it clearly. I'm just making a mess. creating another little liar into this cursed world. a fibster... right, a Fibster. a little liar created with my bare hands."

(technically, Wizard's real name is Fibster cookie, since "Wizard" is something he decided to name himself.)

fount of knowledge had a breakdown, he left the dough in the milk lake and left. forgot about that silly idea after, thought, that this small, pathetic dough will forever rot in this witches forsaken lake without a chance to ever be alive, but..

PART 3: pâte fermentée's abiogenesis

he made it! yaay!

actually, it's not a miracle but a consequence of leaving a dough in a some sort of magical fountain of milk.

Shadow Milk got sealed for a loot of ages, and every second of that time little dough absorbed a little bit amount of magic from the milk.

it took a while for our little Wizard to be "born", but he managed to absorb enough magical essence to replace the lack of other components with it, making him able to open his little adorable eyes for the first time.

the life of a Fibster begins!

PART 4: little peculiar waif

( NOTE: despite being official, crk comics are NOT cannon, I just used an image from it because for some reason he had a black eye outline here, and I thought it fits and is kind of funny)

Wizard cookie was found by some adventurers who took him away, and his early childhood was.. complicated.

he was smaller and weaker than others, had sharper teeth, strange eyes, and the most horrible thing for an other child - he preferred magic and learning instead of being a lil' goofball full of innocence.

since the age of 5-6 he started to cover his other eye, wear scarfs and be invested into magic.

after some time, he meets kids who are out of the group too (a shy strawberry and extra energetic and loud Gingerbrave), they become best friends forever, all that things.

PART 5: Baader–Meinhof phenomenon

yeah, it's after the spire of knowledge, etc.

y'all probably know everything that happened anyways!

but after meeting Wizard cookie, Shadow Milk couldn't shake some strange feeling off.

at first, he thought that he just got amused by some smartass brat, but no. something about this kid, his aura or something bothered him.

so he started to stalk the poor kid, noticing his strange eye, his sharp teeth, his little strange behaviours and small lies.... lightbulb in his head couldn't shine, but then he remembered who is the cookie, that lies small. it's called a fibster! yeah..

so then he checked the fountain and couldn't see the dough, something in his wet head finally clicked - it might be HIS fibster!

PART 6: apocryphal.. or not?

family reunion, yaay?

so, Shadow Milk dashed to claim that is his own, and he bombed poor Wizard with all that info.

of course he didn't believe him, but it all came together.. logical enough?

of course it wasn't a wholesome moment, because Shadow Milk did this purely for his advantage - he lied about the purpose of creation, telling him that "oh my darling, I was soo stupid back then! just like Pure Vanilla - sentimental fool. I was so looonely and saaad, so I decided to create a kid to well.. take care of it or something? and guess what? blueegh.. I became attached to a child whom I didn’t even have time to create!"

there was a deal between them - Shadow Milk spends some time with his creation, teach him some advanced cool magic, brings smart as hell books, and as an exchange Wizard cookie should just keep that a little secret and listen to his teachings, read whatever he brings, sounds nice, right?

actually, Shadow Milk cookie just wanted to manipulate Wizard into his side, because if he does, Wizard would be an excellent spy, that could possibly help him take revenge on Pure vanilla greatly. and he might've missed teaching someone.. a bit.

THE END.

I keep forgetting to post this here. whoops. Anyways.... guess who's been playing Witch's Castle.....

(Individual versions below!!!)

Smiles really really big at you grins even, looking back the way I ended up discovering about it is really funny because I vividly recall seeing either problem sleuth or felt fanart on deviantart before I even knew of mspa and just thinking wow I really like these, but I just kind of moved on without researching to trace the origin of the characters.

Only after about what must have been a year did I actually properly discover the site and everything in it, I read homestuck to the best ability of my 14 y.o.'s attention span which means I skipped all the pesterlogs due to second language fatigue and looked at the pictures, I eventually fell in love with the intermission and stopped interacting with anything beyond its reach, noir mobsters were just infinitely cooler to me than adventurous teenagers on the path of godhood and to some degree... they still are now lol.

Something that's almost synonymous with general discussions about it, at least in my opinion, is people being like "it's basically like it's own story you can enjoy on its own!" and I think that's very limiting and misguided! That as good of a little narrative pastiche the intermission indeed is, especially with setting up characterization in overall very little dialogue and selling on the illusion of a bigger long-run narrative, knowing the bigger picture of the entire story and how these character originated in it and their subsequent placements outside of that little window will do so much in deepening your appreciation of it. Like slick and snowman's whole ordeal hits so much harder when you know about derse, sburb, their roles with that and how this is one especially pivotal iteration of these characters and their relationship, just to name the most straight forward example I could think of, I just feel like it makes me that much more accustomed to the characters and capable in utilizing them more effectively. That's the big baseline message of this brick of text: Read and the entire webcomic it will make you a better intermission fan! shocking but true, studies have proven this.