Beasts as Parents

Silent Salt Cookie is a very serious, and uptight Cookie with a no-nonsense attitude to any of the other Beasts. He can be really violent and threatening if ever crossed the wrong way. He wears only black clothing/armor, with his chest plate housing his Soul Jam, a dark gray inverted lily bud. For accessories, he wears a helmet that covers his entire head with slant, vertical eye markings, with holes on top of it to represent a salt shaker, and black flame that fades into purple to show “hair.” He also wears a cloak with armored shoulder pads, a high collar, and purple/black flame to represent “cloth.” The flames are unable to burn anything. Silent Salt also wields a large, jagged, black sword with a spiked hem, and the blade itself has jagged edges on the left and right. The sword also has his Soul Jam on the grip. He hails from the land of Silence, a land where death is common. Silent Salt is their commander, and has eternal life. He also rides a skeleton horse. Silent Salt would never show mercy to most people, not even the other Beasts. If we had to be exact, he would slash Mystic Flour 50 times, Burning Spice 95 times, Shadow Milk 200+ times, and Eternal Sugar 105 times. He practically despises the beasts to his core. As for his child, he’d never let them die. Or really get hurt. He despises the other beasts due to their downfall being because of their own lack of appreciation. He’d given them freedom, and they abused it to be destructive, apathetic, slothful, and deceitful. He was the kindest of all of them, even assisting with those in need to high extent, but the others pushed him away from their wrongdoings, and it drove him to madness, so he sealed them away, just for the seal to be broken once more, and chaos reigns. He is not at all strict to his child, as he wished for one, but would constantly pray and hope that they would never be anything like the other Beasts. A surprisingly good dad, and can actually be very caring.

Eternal Sugar Cookie is a slender Cookie with a gracile stature and pastel magenta dough. She has a pair of downturned, bubblegum-pink eyes with white slit pupils and long, droopy mulberry eyelashes that curl ever so slightly upwards at the ends. She has snow white eyeshadow resembling a swan's wings and thin eyebrows. She has a silver circlet with her bright magenta Soul Jam resting in the center, the sides of it curving upwards and morphing into two symmetrical shapes resembling miniature, stylized wings. A whipped halo floats above her head, white and shining with a light pink outline. She has a pair of wide wings resembling an angel, and underneath that set are smaller bat wings, which are purple and each have a baby blue heart inside. Eternal Sugar Cookie also has a magenta imp tail with spade tip at its end.

Eternal Sugar Cookie's hair is styled into thick, long, flowing ringlets that end in curled tips pointing inwards down to her ankles. She has two thinner bangs resting at the lower sides of her face that curl inwards. Two small, diamond-shaped tufts hang from them. Her hair is colored a light magenta that gradually turns into a deeper hue at the top, small white crystals serving as highlights on the bottom, middle, and top.

Eternal Sugar Cookie's outfit is rather simple, consisting of a monochiton with a deep V-neckline and some ruffles at the bottom. She wields a silver lyre with close to no details on it, either, which lends her garments a surprisingly humble look, despite her otherwise ethereal and elaborate features. For sleepwear, she wears a white nightgown missing the V-cut and white thigh high socks. Unsurprisingly, she is a very great mother. She can always tell what’s wrong with you, or what you want. Especially when you’re down.

Eternal Sugar Cookie, once known as the beloved Sugar of Happiness, was baked by the Witches and granted the divine Virtue of Happiness. Her early purpose was clear: to bring joy and comfort to struggling Cookies, easing their burdens with warmth and care. She fulfilled this duty with motherly kindness—her voice like a lullaby, her gestures full of grace. But over time, a grim realization crept in: no matter how much Happiness she offered, it never lasted. The Cookies would smile and then crumble. She always wants you happy, and is the least strict, only pure love for you.

Burning Spice Cookie is a vision of raw strength: he is a very tall, hulkingly muscular Cookie with a massive upper body and reasonably thick legs, giving him a top-heavy build. His dough is a rose-terracotta tone peppered with umber tattoos like tiger stripes. His hungry eyes, poised under a furrowed brow and lined in black, curling lashes, burn with fire in jasmine slit pupils and cooler red sclerae. Below lies a wicked grin of sharp teeth set in tarnished gold. Sinuous brands border his eyes symmetrically in pointed fronds as another sits at his forehead, acting as the base to his two grand antennae[2]. They erupt in stinging tongues of flame and likely represent his twisted divinity and power, as they come from his Ajna chakra (Sanskrit: आज्ञा), where Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव) has his third eye.

Burning Spice Cookie's hair is exceedingly long and drags on the ground beneath him. Its matted mass is an all-encompassing void of black compared to his otherwise fiery tones and sprawls away in wild strands.

The Great Destroyer wears little clothing and armor, conveying his confidence with such a lack of protection. His chest is bare save for his fire red, triangular Soul Jam, being emblematic of his status as a Beast and signaling to all his strength. It is flanked by fiendish, heath markings similar to those on his face. The one true garment on Burning Spice Cookie is a pītāmbari (Sanskrit: पीताम्बर) dhoti (Hindi: धोती), a silken, saffron yellow cloth attributed to Vishnu (Sanskrit: विष्णु)/Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) in Shaivism (Sanskrit: शैवसम्प्रदाय); it wraps his legs and is accompanied by a separate, ruby red waistband-loincloth hemmed with orange and secured with a golden buckle. Any extra adornment on his body is scant—a single bracelet coils around his left wrist and two slight plates of armor with a single spike each sit on his shoulders, all three elements being rendered in pale gold.

His weapon of choice is a menacing parashu (Sanskrit: paraśu) that stands even taller than its wielder. Its double blades curve like searing flames—one larger than the other—and stem from a red-hot starburst insignia. These blades can be shattered and restored at the Destroyer's will, seeming to be made from pure energy (or at least representing Burning Spice Cookie's power over Change). The axe's base is a long shaft with numerous sharp bevels, while the entire weapon glows with hellish heat and takes the colors of warm igneous rock and flowing magma. Burning Spice Cookie was once known as the Herald of Change, fighting to preserve civilization, and shaping the course of history, he was hailed a hero. But overtime, he grew bored because of how things bloom and wither over and over again, so he turned his soul to destruction to sate his boredom.

As the Beast of Destruction, Burning Spice Cookie's behavior exemplifies such, with his first act upon regaining a physical form being sending an army after the Head Icon current owner of his Soul Jam. Most of his actions are all to stave off his boredom with his deep lust for carnage. To the Great Destroyer, both past and posterity have lost their meaning; the only worth left lies in the power to extinguish the world's lemmings that clings to inconsequential lives. Another thing that he finds entertaining is a good battle; he waited eons for an exciting fight with Golden Cheese Cookie and didn't care that he got his Soul Jam until he had a more challenging one with her. In truth, he craves what he views as true change: Utter domination over an enemy does not thrill him, for he has experienced such a scenario countless times, however, being truly challenged or defeated seems to serve as a temporary reprieve for his boredom. Burning Spice Cookie is not really a terrific dad, just that no one would really trust him with a kid, but out came you. He tries, honestly. He’s not a terrible dad, though.

Shadow Milk Cookie is a spindly, average height Cookie with powder blue dough and two differently colored eyes: one cyan right eye with a black slit pupil and black eyelashes, and one cerulean left eye with a white slit pupil and white eyelashes. His mouth is sapphire blue and sly, having teeth which change between straight and sharp depending on his emotions. About his right eye is a pale blue, claw-shaped marking. He has white locks of hair near his face—two that fall against his forehead and one slicked back—azure curled sidelocks, and glossy, sharp, long hair in a dual-toned shadow and lapis style that resembles the extents of a jester's hat. Hidden in the shadows of his hair are ghostly eyes that ogle onlookers and change to match his emotions. Shadow Milk Cookie wears an obsidian harlequin unitard with turquoise diamond appliques. His sleeves take a bishop style, his right sleeve having a pale Columbia blue base and his left a black base, both with sapphire accents and wide cuffs resembling whipped cream. The jester wears a ruff collar from which hang curling coattails with a ghostly blue lining and a black outside. Upon its lining are more gazing eyes. He wears his eye-like Soul Jam of Deceit as a brooch on his collar in the same place that Pure Vanilla Cookie wears his own Soul Jam. Shadow Milk Cookie also holds a jester hat split into black and cobalt halves, having a milk-splash crown about its rim and blueberry-shaped pompoms at its extending tassels. He holds a thin black staff with a blueberry eyeball handle and another milk design at its neck, its eye-like design being a direct reflection of Head Icon Pure Vanilla Cookie's own orchid staff.

Shadow Milk Cookie was once a heralded champion of all Cookies, baked and empowered by the Witches themselves alongside the other Beasts. He was granted the divine Virtue of Knowledge, becoming known as the Fount of Knowledge. However, despite his nigh-omniscient perception of the world, he saw how Cookies often shied away from bitter Truths and chose to believe in sweet Deceits instead. Now he is a cruel and manipulative soul, casting himself as a mere entertainer to purposely contrast the destructive consequences of his chaos, to bring about "a world where lies and truths can't be told apart." Shadow Milk Cookie is a theatrical villain, changing reality into an illusory counterfeit stage to host his performances. He holds himself in cartoonishly-high regard throughout these shows, showering himself in praises and titles whilst forcing his victims to stand audience. Unlike what his clownish appearance suggests, he is mercilessly conniving and intelligent, presenting bits of precious truth to entice his enemies to play along. However, such showmanship and promises of clarity primarily serve as a means for him to corrupt his victims with a deluge of poisonous ideas, slowly twisting their goals to his own ends. He relishes in making a spectacle of his enemies through his performances, battering them with bombastic lies interwoven with undeniable truths. Should opportunities to drive his hapless targets even further off the precipice of morality present themselves, Shadow Milk Cookie does not even hesitate to pursue them, even at the ultimate cost of his grand plans.

As the antagonistic counterpart to Head Icon Pure Vanilla Cookie and the original owner of his Soul Jam, Shadow Milk Cookie embodies deception and chaos rather than truth and healing. He sees Pure Vanilla Cookie as both an unlawful thief of his power and a naive would-be savior doomed to also fall into despair, and thus torments him with truths and untruths alike. As a das, he’s..normal. He’s an okay dad.

Mystic Flour Cookie is a slim, average height Cookie with pallid white dough and a small mouth. Her eyes contain thin, vertical white pupils with gray sclerae that occasionally become pure black at her will. Each eye is each fringed with prominent, powder-white eyelashes, with the upper lashes fading to a slightly more tan shade on the outer edges. She is often seen with her eyes either closed or only partially opened. Mystic Flour Cookie has long white hair with soft, curved bangs angled inwardly and parted in the center by the wheat-shaped ornament containing her Soul Jam. The back sections of her hair are divided into two long tassels with a light brown cap covering the ends, resembling dripping dough and perhaps hearkening back to the elongated earlobes of the historical Buddha and of Bodhisattvas, which usually reflect spiritual authority. The upper section of her hair is tied into a bun on the top of her head, giving her veil its height and a place to rest.

Mystic Flour Cookie wears a hanfu (Simplified Chinese: 汉服; Traditional Chinese: 漢服) beizi suit (Chinese: 褙子套装) of pure white aside from her tan waist skirt, with her pibo levitating in the air around her and above her arms. She also wears a plain, off-white veil with one beige tassel on either side, resembling wheat kernels. The veil, secured by her hair, does not come into contact with her sides or arms and is long enough to rest against the floor. Mystic Flour Cookie's only other accessory is a golden necklace with three diamond shapes at the front. She does not appear to wear shoes.

Aside from discrepancies created by movement, Mystic Flour Cookie's attire and facial features are almost perfectly symmetrical. She is hardly even seen smiling or frowning, always wearing a neutral expression. She almost always maintains the abhayamudra hand gesture.

Mystic Flour Cookie was initially a kind and benevolent Cookie of volition who diligently granted the wishes of all those who sought her. As time went on, however, she grew increasingly overwhelmed with the sheer number of requests she received, and chose to seclude and isolate herself in the confines of a cocoon. Disheartened by the Cookies' abandonment of her as the eons drifted past, she stood testament to their perpetual greed within her cocoon, witnessing the despair and suffering brought upon by fleeting desires. From this revelation emerged a twisted philosophy within Mystic Flour: that true enlightenment lies in the eradication of meaning itself. Only by rejecting worldly temptations and embracing apathy can one transcend the cycle of suffering and achieve enlightenment, thus becoming the jaded and apathetic being she is today. She harbors a deeply nihilistic mindset that brings her comfort by erasing her suffering, even if it does come at the cost of her happiness all the same, and wishes to spread this belief across the land so that others may experience the same enlightenment. While this has brought great harm unto others, Mystic Flour Cookie does not necessarily have malicious intent when doing so, instead truly believing that her actions are for the betterment of Cookiekind by freeing them from earthly desires and removing any sort of variability in their lives - good and bad. Following her beliefs, Mystic Flour Cookie embraces the concept of apathy to her very core. She maintains a calm and aloof demeanor at all times, rarely expressing anything beyond neutrality, though this front has been shown to crack at times. These small glimpses into her true thoughts exemplifies her incredible levels of self control and restraint, as her emotions are still very much present but remain actively suppressed at all times. Most notably, Mystic Flour Cookie appears to be apathetic towards all, but not entirely. She is a good mom. Not Eternal Sugar level, but good.

While this spite has mostly been directed towards Head Icon Dark Cacao Cookie thus far, it is likely that she also feels a lingering bitterness towards Cookies for driving her into her cocoon, as many of her quotes mention distaste towards the greedy. One of her loading quotes in particular, "Once again, I face the selfish greed of another," implies that she has a clear memory of such unsavory individuals in her past. In some respects, Mystic Flour Cookie relies on apathy as her shield against unenlightened, individualistic Cookies that would dare to question or disrespect her philosophy, using it as a justification to dismiss all threats and arguments made against her.

Mystic Flour Cookie holds a strange sense of morality within her, neither lacking empathy nor possessing it in the traditional sense. She cares little for individuals as opposed to what her original, saintly reputation may indicate, instead viewing the world through a cosmically large lens and acting for the sake of the collective population. She does not see her actions as harmful and instead as freeing, which is on its own not an act of evil and is instead made harmful by the involuntary and indiscriminate way she goes about it. Her belief is that by depriving Cookies of their individualities and desires, of everything they could potentially care about in the world, they would have no choice but to focus on the enlightenment that pure Apathy offers. Loves you a surprising amount.

Silent Salt Cookie might actually be the biggest boomer on Earthbread. He was sealed away for so long, that modern day terms are not in his vocabulary in the slightest, he seems to get overwhelmed and very confused by these terms when faced by them. Silent Salt Cookie is also surprisingly attentive, and despite the name, can be very talkative with Cookies in need, or his own child. As for the other Beasts, or Cookies that do not live up to good-doings, he will strike them down, with no mercy. He makes sure his child will not tread down the same path as the other Beasts, as they abandoned their virtues of Change, Knowledge, Happiness, and Resolution for the exact opposite, the tainted evils of Destruction, Apathy, Sloth, and Deceit. He DOES despise them, but would rather not hurt them unless they hurt him or one he feels for. Do not make him mad, as it would be like pissing off Superman. With a sword.