Garden of Delights (crk🍪)

Sugarfly Cookie is a gentle, devoted caretaker who radiates warmth and quiet grace, often embodying the serenity of someone who's found peace, and yet beneath that calm lies a complex web of longing, repression, and rediscovered will. Once idealistic and drawn to beauty, Sugarfly sought comfort in the Garden, clinging to the belief that happiness meant ease, stillness, and sweetness. Loyal to Eternal Sugar Cookie, she became a symbol of passive joy, accepting a life without flight in exchange for glittering wings.

Though she speaks with tenderness and conviction, her words often echo indoctrination more than personal truth. Her kindness can border on eerie, and her joy sometimes feels hollow, like it's learned rather than lived. Yet even in her illusion, she remains sincere and deeply empathetic, caring for others with a nurturing spirit that never feels forced.

When confronted with conflict, Sugarfly Cookie does not lash out; instead, she pleads, reasons, and reminisces. But her composure hides a yearning: freedom, agency, and authenticity long buried beneath syrup and stillness. Once awakened to what she lost, she doesn't collapse into despair; she pushes through pain with quiet resolve.

Appearance
Sugarfly Cookie is a slim Cookie with pale yellow dough, subtle blush, and a meek smile. Her chartreuse eyes are framed by syrupy curled lashes and distinctive spiral eyebrows, both being like the proboscis of a butterfly. Two tall, slate gray antennae curl outward from the top of her head. Her "hair" is actually two sets of bright yellow butterfly wings; two of these wings take the appearance of intake bangs, ending in copper spirals below her chin and draping close-cropped blunt bangs. These wings are a gleaming gradient of white, sunshine yellow, and gold dotted with off-white and splashed with baby blue adjacent to Sugarfly Cookie's face. From the crown of Sugarfly Cookie's head grows another two wings much longer than those previous. They limply flow to the ground around her in the same palette as her bangs with striated vein markings, central eyespots, and familiar spiraled tips. The wings are "tied" with a white butterfly-shaped ribbon, again mimicking hair.

Sugarfly Cookie wears a canary yellow leotard under a sugarcane white, ruffled basque top and short, loose sleeves. Its ruffles form a peplum at the waist, extending into a long, lace-trimmed train. Contrasting with her otherwise breezy look, Sugarfly Cookie's legs are armored in the Faeries' silver: diamond-shaped poleyns protect her knees, two-piece greaves cover her shins and calves, and sollerets wrap her feet.

Though Sugarfly Cookie has wings, she cannot fly. Her wings were once coated in beautiful yet stifling syrup which froze them in place—this state is depicted in her playable appearance. Even after breaking free of the syrup coating, her wings were left cracked and brittle, being too damaged to lift her into the air.

Pavlova Cookie is an eccentric, whimsical, and overly romantic messenger of joy, obsessed with the idea of love and emotional fulfillment. He is theatrical, dramatic, and playful, often treating tragic events as beautiful stories, showing a flair for the melodramatic and a fascination with bittersweet emotions. While he presents himself as cheerful and benevolent, his methods are manipulative, invasive, and self-serving, guided more by his own ideals of "Happiness" than by respect for others' autonomy.

Immature and impulsive, Pavlova Cookie seeks validation through his role as a deliverer of joy, yet lacks true empathy, often ignoring consent or boundaries in favor of pursuing what he deems best. He has a teasing, intrusive streak, playfully poking at others' feelings, especially romantic ones, as though they were plotlines in one of his idealized love stories. Fixated on emotional drama, he romanticizes vulnerability and discomfort alike, seeing even rejection or pain as beautiful parts of a grand narrative. His obsession with love leads him to meddle in others' relationships, often blind to their discomfort, as he treats emotions like a game meant to be stirred, not understood.

Despite his charm and charisma, he is naive, emotionally shallow, and subordinate to Eternal Sugar Cookie, whom he fears but loyally obeys. He hides a growing sense of doubt beneath his smiles, subtly restless and conflicted beneath his devotion to the Garden. Though he clings desperately to the dream of eternal Happiness, there are cracks in his facade, moments of hesitation, nervous laughter, or hollow reassurances that hint at repressed unease. Ultimately, he is a misguided figure whose desire to "fill hearts with love" veils a need for control, a lack of self-awareness, and a quiet fear of what lies beyond the fantasy around which he has built his identity.

Appearance
Pavlova Cookie is a petite, delicate Cookie with soft peach-toned dough and crimson eyes, each adorned with ruby-red, heart-shaped irises. His small mouth is perpetually curled into a heart-like smile. His hair cascades in dramatic, candy-colored layers: a bold strawberry-red swoop crowns the center, flanked by softer pink locks, while the back features four more tufts in a pale pink-and-white hue. A crimson ribbon is neatly tied at the back of his head, securing the airy strands. The Ribbon's tail curves into the shape of a heart when Pavlova Cookie feels happy. From his back sprout a pair of cupid-like wings, feathered in white and gentle pink tones and swirling meringue-like shapes.
He wears a flowing red himation with three tiered ruffles sweeping to the left (mirroring Head Icon Eternal Sugar Cookie) gathered at the waist with a deep crimson ribbon. Beneath this outer garment is a sleeveless white tunic, featuring a wing-shaped flourish draped over his right shoulder and connected to puffy white bloomers just visible beneath the hem. His shoes are dainty and white, wrapped with crimson ribbons that coil just below the knee, mirrored by a similar ribbon wrap along his right arm.

Floating behind his head like a holy emblem is a halo-like crown: eight sculpted leaves interspersed with four raspberries and four halved strawberries. Pavlova Cookie is rarely seen with feet on the ground, gliding gracefully with his bow in hand: a white-and-pink weapon with upturned nocks and a red heart engraved on its grip. His arrows are just as ornate: white shafts with leaf fletching, white-pink meringue at the base, and arrowheads crafted from sliced strawberries shaped like hearts. In his alternate standing pose, he is shown to have upside-down heart irises.

Now, she rules her Garden of Delights like a serene priestess. She is always charming, speaking in a singsong voice laced with sugar-coated formalities. Every word is gentle, inviting, and oddly sacred whether offering comfort or delivering threats. Her tone never sharpens, her smile never fades. Even punishment is framed as a blessing. Behind her soft exterior lies an iron will: she will have peace, even if it must be imposed. She does not acknowledge dissent or suffering. Pain is treated as a temporary cloud. Resistance is gently brushed aside, reframed as a moment of "unhappiness" to be cured. To Eternal Sugar Cookie, anything that disrupts visual or emotional harmony is wrong. Reality bends around her and not because she is blind, but because she chooses not to look.

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' smiles would fade eventually, and with it their happiness.To her, this was failure. Their joy, she decided, was too fragile to be left in mortal hands. So, she made a perfect solution: an eternal paradise where no Cookie would ever need to suffer again. No change, no pain and no suffering, only stillness, beauty, and bliss. It was a sanctuary of harmony, tailored to her vision. And it would be enforced, not offered. In creating this static heaven, the Sugar of Happiness lost herself. Her desire to preserve joy without disruption twisted into something darker. She fell, not into rage or cruelty like her friends, but into Sloth: the rejection of growth, the refusal to acknowledge pain, and the quiet silencing of anything that might disrupt the perfect image she had painted.

Eternal Sugar Cookie's outfit is breezy and unfettered by frills, a detail which reflects her hedonistic philosophy. Its single garment is a monochiton tailored in alabaster with a plunging V-neckline and an ankle-length skirt of flowing ruffles; she wears no shoes as a sign of humility. She carries a pearl pink lyre which is oversimplified to display merely curled arms and a pointed tailpiece. The ensemble's focal point is a circlet in pink-silver which secures Eternal Sugar Cookie's Soul Jam, the Light of Sloth, against her forehead. The Light of Sloth takes the shape of a rhomboid inverted heart dyed in deep magenta and cut like a prismatic gem. Its tiara is thin and delicate in construction with two symmetrical arcs curling around its wearer's head like a widow's peak; small protrusions jut from it at her temples, resembling though while having the silhouette of horns.

Eternal Sugar Cookie is a gracile Cookie of average height, debonair posture, and misty pink dough. She has a pair of downturned, bubblegum-pink eyes with white slit pupils. Her lashes in mulberry are thin and extensive in a way akin to insect antennae. Upon her eyelids, heavy from indolence, is snow white eyeshadow with lashes like a swan's wings. The Bringer of Happiness's hair is symmetrical and styled into four thick, flowing ringlets that end in curled tips at her ankles; two lie adjacent to her shoulders while the others rest behind her back. Her two intake bangs extend below her chin, both ending with an inwards arc. A string of two diamonds hangs from each like a bleeding heart. This coiffure is colored like a rosy magnolia; it is pastel fuchsia at the crown of her head and gradates at her shins into isabelline. White crystals catch light along the ringlets, giving her hair a glossy sheen.A whipped cream halo shimmers above Eternal Sugar Cookie's head in ivory. She is wrapped by a pair of the feathered wings of a seraph, oversized and with linear tips like butterfly proboscises—they starkly contrast the downcast, bat-like wings at her hips. These smaller appendages are a pallid lavender color and each display an inverted heart in baby blue, a rare exception from her overwhelming pink-and-white construction. Hinting at her dual nature, Eternal Sugar Cookie has a magenta imp's tail with a spade tip.

Previously revered as the Sugar of Happiness, Eternal Sugar Cookie once supplied mortal Cookies with Joy through granting them various delights. With time marching on and Cookies nonetheless falling to pain and despair, she began to believe that the world's fragile Cookies cannot achieve true Happiness in the infinite suffering of everyday life. Still claiming to be the Bringer of Happiness, Eternal Sugar Cookie now oversees the paradisaical Garden of Delights and works towards a day when all Cookies can live in blissful, indolent escapism free from deep thought and mundane worries.

Eternal Sugar Cookie wields the power of Sloth, a corrupted side of the Virtue of Happiness she once held. She was the original owner of Hollyberry Cookie's Soul Jam, being stripped of it upon her descent into villainy.
Eons ago, there lived a Cookie, blessed with sweetness absolute. "Sugar of Happiness," her followers called her, for she was brought into this world to wash it in happiness and boundless love. Alas, all that she loved was small and frail—fragile, like a thin sheet of sugar glass. Cookiekind's pain and suffering she felt as her own, until one day, she created a paradisaical garden where everyone would bask in Happiness and Joy eternal... so long as they accepted Sloth. Thus, Eternal Sugar Cookie became her name. Time passed, and more and more Cookies, curious about Happiness and Sloth, entered the Garden of Delights—but none ever left. Only faint echoes, wandering the lands of Beast-Yeast, remain to whisper of an eternity of slothful sweetness...

The Garden of Delights, where Eternal Sugar Cookie resides, is a clear nod to Elysium: the paradisaical realm in Greek mythology reserved for the souls of the virtuous and heroic. Much like Elysium, her garden is a place of eternal peace, where nothing seems out of place, and every element of the environment is meticulously curated to evoke perfection. In ancient Greek thought, Elysium was a utopia, untouched by suffering or hardship. However, much like Eternal Sugar Cookie's vision, Elysium was also a realm that could be seen as an escape from the complexities of real life, a state of eternal rest that could breed complacency, stagnation, and a lack of growth.

The architecture of the garden also borrows heavily from Hellenistic designs, where luxurious temples, serene columns, and grand statues were common. The Garden of Delights mirrors these features.