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OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Junebug
Pronoun Preferences: she/her
Contact: ogerpon or shinyogerpon on discord
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IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Shadow Milk Cookie
Species: Beast Cookie (yes, like a gingerbread cookie. icing, and everything)
Canon: Cookie Run: Kingdom
Canon Point: post Beast-Yeast 10-5—Uninvited Guest—after the Lady in Azure speaks to Eternal Sugar Cookie
Character Age: immortal adult (no numbered age given). he's been around for a long time.
CRAU: No
Character Appearance: in his own world, Shadow Milk Cookie is literally a Cookie. he is a flat, dough-based creature with blue and black icing decorating him. he will be fully humanized once he arrives in the Enchanted Garden.
Powers and Abilities: Shadow Milk Cookie is a powerful foe. I have made a list of his canon abilities here. I don't plan on him trying to regain everything, but these powers most certainly need to be nerfed.

Possible Nerfs/Considerations: for flight, he would not be able to go higher than ten feet. for shapeshifting, he would not be able to take on the forms of existing humans/characters, only animals. he would not be able to regain his immortality, nor would he be able to manipulate the world/other characters around him. but, perhaps, he could heal faster than a normal human. these conditions will only be met if SMC eventually decides he wants to regain his powers.

What Did Your Character Wish For? Shadow Milk wished to not feel loneliness any longer
What Potion Did They Receive? Cerulean Potion
Did They Drink It? he drank it a few days after his arrival

Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Unfortunately for Shadow Milk Cookie, the Cookie that he is bonded most with is Pure Vanilla Cookie. While they are complete opposites, they have at least one thing in common, and that's that they shared the same Soul Jam. PVC's Soul Jam, the Light of Truth, once belonged to SMC, before he became corrupt. SMC has been able to see into PVC's soul and speak to him via the Soul Jam link. As such, he feels a kinship with PVC, all while hating everything about him. I wouldn't say that SMC misses PVC, but he does think about him, for sure. He misses when they were connected, though SMC ran away from Awakened Pure Vanilla Cookie after PVC offered to be his friend. Since then, he's been avoiding him like the plague. There is definitely an ache that Shadow Milk Cookie doesn't care to admit to regarding his other half. Pure Vanilla Cookie was the only Cookie that understood him completely.

2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Definitely Pure Vanilla Cookie. PVC is the antithesis of Shadow Milk Cookie, he's a good heroic cookie with a lot of friends, and someone who has control over his own emotions. Perhaps, Pure Vanilla Cookie reminds Shadow Milk Cookie of himself when he was younger, so full of good ideals and hope. He does tell Pure Vanilla Cookie that he will eventually become like Shadow Milk Cookie. The fact that Pure Vanilla Cookie reached out to be Shadow Milk Cookie's friend, even after SMC mentally tortured him, both enraged and terrified him. Also, Pure Vanilla Cookie was able to trick Shadow Milk Cookie over a period of time, which is not an easy feat.

3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
Shadow Milk Cookie has few physical weaknesses. He is immortal, so I don't think normal Cookie weaknesses such as water or any sort of liquid would crumble him. I am unsure if even a Witch or Wizard would be able to end his life at this point. He's extremely powerful and was able to keep on living after being locked inside the Silver Tree for thousands of years. I do think he can feel physical pain, but that doesn't bother him as much as emotional pain.

Mentally, Shadow Milk Cookie's weaknesses revolve around him not having control, or around Cookies that are able to best him at his own games. So far, it appears that Pure Vanilla Cookie is one of the only Cookies who was able to do this, causing SMC to break down angrily in front of him. I think any being smarter than SMC would cause him to fret. He likes to believe that no Cookie is more cunning than he is, and he hates to lose.

Emotionally, SMC dislikes that he is still lonely after all these years. He hates, even more, that PVC picked up on that, when he was doing such a fantastic job of hiding his true feelings! He hates appearing inadequate, or looking like he needs anyone else. He would feel much better if he did not have sad and wimpy emotions.

4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
SMC presents himself as a sadistic entertainer who only wants his Soul Jam returned to him, and to sow chaos throughout the land. The self-proclaimed Master of Deceit is arrogant and cruel, seen as an antagonistic villain who sides with Dark Enchantress Cookie by all of Earthbread. While he seemingly enjoys toying with other Cookies' emotions, there is a loneliness inside of him that only Pure Vanilla Cookie was able to pick up on, and that was only when they were connected through the Soul Jam. Shadow Milk Cookie was once the Fount of Knowledge, so he is incredibly wise. But in his desire to seek out the truth, he became corrupt and disenchanted, leading him down the path of villainy. Even when he is with his lackeys, it's been said that he never smiles genuinely. SMC wants to portray himself as strong and that he doesn't need others. Deep down, he is a sad, tragic cookie that desires friendship. Does he truly want to hurt other Cookies? Maybe not.

5. What would make them happiest and why?
While he may think true happiness will come from discarding his loneliness, I believe he would truly be happy to be surrounded by other Cookies that want to be his friends. Pure Vanilla Cookie saw that Shadow Milk Cookie was lonely, and even reached out to befriend him, and Shadow Milk Cookie full on refused because of his pride and because Pure Vanilla Cookie had deceived him in order to gain his trust. But there was a point where SMC seemed to truly be thinking about PVC's offer. He smiled and laughed happily when PVC said he would stay with him forever, and would continue to play games with him. While we don't know a lot about Shadow Milk Cookie's past, we can glean that he was once wise and had followers, and he was happy for a while because of this.

6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
Shadow Milk Cookie would scoff at the idea of looking for a significant other! Though, he is not afraid of using phrases like "you and I are bound," or "my most treasured marionette" around Pure Vanilla Cookie. Seemingly his opposite, Shadow Milk Cookie appears to relate most to Pure Vanilla Cookie. Still, I do not think that SMC would outright say that PVC is his type. His type would be someone who is just as cunning as he is, able to keep up with his tricks, while still being able to understand his deepest desires... And all of these traits just happened to line up with Pure Vanilla Cookie.

7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
At this time, absolutely not. Shadow Milk Cookie only thinks of himself, even though he is now working with Dark Enchantress Cookie and the other Beasts. I don't believe he'd sacrifice himself for her, or for any Cookie. He has his own agenda, which means he would more than likely throw others under the bus to reach his goals. He doesn't truly care about most of the other Cookies. Shadow Milk Cookie explained that Dark Enchantress Cookie made the Beasts' new bodies, and I still don't think he feels indebted to her for this.

8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
SMC would probably tell his younger self something along the lines of, "Cookies would rather embrace Deceit than listen to the Truth." Not knowing this fact when he was the Fount of Knowledge forced him to go through a lot of pain and become corrupted in the end.

9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
Shadow Milk Cookie flees! While he is strong enough to fight off and win against most threats, he does not enjoy violence. He has a difficult time when he is not in control of the situation. So, he would hide and devise a plan where he would come out on top, or he would simply flee to save his own dough.

10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
As I've mentioned before, SMC likes to be in control. He doesn't want to seem weak in front of anyone, so throwing away a silly and lame emotion like loneliness will obviously make him stronger, right? He would never outright wish for friends. That would portray weakness. It's much simpler to ask for someone to take away that emotional piece of him so that he can become untouchable! That'll teach PVC.


Samples:
Log sample on the TDM
Network sample on the TDM