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I'm always like "yeah this is the last redesign" and then you'd just never believe what happens after that

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I think I missed something important!! Funnel Cake uses she/her pronouns now?? (← asked in an excited, intrigued tone!)

Funnel does go by she/her pronouns, alongside they/them as well, yes! It was a decision I was thinking over for a while and gave my indecisiveness to Funnel as a plot point about it and we both came to the conclusion that she is a trans woman! Funnel is someone that feels like she needs permission to be whoever she wants to be and it takes just as long as it did for her to use they/them pronouns as it did for her to feel like she was allowed to call herself a trans woman and explore that part of herself.

She changes almost nothing about herself besides how she wears their hair and how frequently she wears makeup (Funnel already loves themself exactly the way she is and finds herself deeply attractive, but being referred to in a masculine sense or even a non-gendered way at times is what felt wrong) and often jokes about not wanting to reprint all her merchandise when asked about any form of a name change. It took her a long time to feel like "Funnel Cake" to begin with!

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Making everyone look at her and this inkling of her updated design! I drew her on my new iPad to get a feel for it :]

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Workshopping the world's most minor changes for Funnels design

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I know that aren't Cookie Run anymore, but do you think Funnel wouldn't like Shadow Milk because of how similar they are

Absolutely not I do not think that, I think that Funnel and Shadow Milk would trade heads to be silly and horrific and that they'd grab a bite to eat together while the general public screams and holds their heads in agony due to their combined Sinister Auras. I think Shadow Milk would love the Phony Fearhouse just as much as Funnel would love his fucked up theater of deceit and lies. I think they would be best friends and that that would be the worst thing that could possibly fucking happen. I think they are this image

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What did Poppy do to Roasted that needs forgiving??

Poppy got Roasted arrested.

You see, all Poppy wanted was to hang out with someone he thought was cool and hadn't talked to much, but the thing about hanging out with Poppy is that Poppy is a fucking menace to society. For some people, this is great! It's fun, it's thrilling! There are plenty of people that love breaking windows and causing issues for the local population. Roasted is not one of those people but Poppy was so insistent that it would be fun that Roasted eventually started to believe him and tagged along, with some part of him also thinking that maybe making genuine friends with Poppy would help with the issues between him and Funnel. They set off for their night of crimes and various debaucheries and just when Roasted starts having a bit of fun with all this, lights are on them and they're both being put in handcuffs. Poppy plays this off lightheartedly as they get booked, but Roasted isn't having as much of a laugh as he is.

No, Roasted is crying in the back of the squad car. The man is crying and brokenly whispering about how upset Funnel is going to be with him. He looks absolutely miserable and Poppy doesn't really know what to do with that. He's never been around someone who doesn't love this stuff.

...Fuck. God, he fucked up.

Roasted doesn't say another word to him no matter how much he tries to get him to and the next time he hears Roasted voice is when Roasted is using his phone call to contact Funnel to come pick him up tomorrow. The only thing funny about this entire ordeal is the way the entire department flinches when Funnel lets out an absolutely ear-splitting "WHAT?!" over the line when Roasted explains what happened.

Prior to that night, Poppy and Roasted hadn't interacted much outside of work and, after that night, they hardly interacted during work, with both Roasted starting to avoid Poppy and Funnel deliberately working to keep the two of them off the same shift unless necessary. Roasted kiiiiind of forgives Poppy? But the sincerity of that is debatable. Roasted isn't very argumentative in most situations where he's uncomfortable, while Poppy pushes what he wants onto others because he thinks he always knows what'll work and what won't.

Poppy wants to be forgiven.

Roasted doesn't argue. ...Verbally.

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Tried my hand at making relationship charts for the entire main seven cast between themselves! There's some things we already knew, but also a very large host of new information! I hope you like them!

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If you had assign sins to the main seven (one sin for one of the seven!) who would be with what?

Uuuuuuhh... Here's my verdicts including the brain storming from discord with my friend @allseeingportrait

Funnel would be Lust.

Poppy would be Greed.

Pirouline would be Pride.

Song Bird would be Wrath.

Fireball would be Sloth.

Dog Biscuit would be Envy.

Roasted would be Gluttony.

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Funnel isn't not a Cookie Run OC (read: when it's convenient for me) but seeing them tagged as such makes me glitch out of my lineart a little

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Funnel: Listen, I'm probably trans feminine, but I have like six AJR songs that I need to memorize for my little brothers performances, so I really don't have time for that right now

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Commissioned my friend @sylviesparks for a piece of Funnel in drag! We both agreed that her name is Lionessence ❤️🧡💜

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Fireball and Roasted, we never hear about them

We never hear about these two because they rarely interact in canon asdfghjkl even with Fireball being his father-in-law later on

One thing I will never let go of, however, is Roasted being enchanted with the vigilante "Detective Fireball" and doing everything short of passing out point blank in front of the man whenever they meet. Their first interaction was Fireball showing up at the circus and Roasted not sticking around long enough to hear the reason why, getting overwhelmed by embarrassment and taking off running after he flubbed a greeting like four times and getting insult added to injury when steam blew from his shirt collar about it. He can't even blame it on his speech impediment. That was all him right there. Oh my god.

Fireball finds Roasted to be awkwardly endearing- a fun contrast to the character Roasted plays at the circus -and takes amusement in his inability to keep his shit together whenever they interact. Even so, he isn't malicious and doesn't belittle him and will fill in the gaps for whatever Roasted is fighting demons trying to stutter through and takes everything with a very lighthearted grace. The kid is a fan! What's he gonna do about that, tell him off? That's no fun!

They have fun together! ...When Roasted can manage to say hello :]

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Song Bird and Dog Biscuit

These two have been friends for years prior to when I would say the "start" of the story is. They met when Dog Biscuit was still a vagabond and bonded over their ability to speak with animals, spending time working together to help the various critters be happy and healthy wherever they were.

These days, their relationship remains the same ...kind of. Dog Biscuit is the only person in this place that Song Bird explicitly respects and will answer to when she calls, talking about their trust and love for her more openly than anybody else- to the point of sounding like having a mild obsession with the puppy dog lady. Dog Biscuit, though warned of how this behavior looks by others, trusts Song Bird and waves off others concerns and instead chalks up their behavior to SB's usual overzealous way of living and loving life. I mean, she knows Song Bird can be a bit testy when it comes to wildlife safety, but she doesn't think they'd actually be crazy about it. That's silly!

Song Bird is the kindest person she knows!

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Pirouline and Funnel!

These two have about the same relationship- Pirouline showing up at the circus to reclaim her fame and Funnel pretending not to be in love with her -but the change here is that Pirouline is the first performer at the circus, ever.

She had seen the flyers for the new circus that had just opened up, heard about the few shows that had already happened there, and had taken a peek from afar here and there while it was being built. She didn't even actually go to a single show before taking up the posted offer for job positions. All she wanted was a spotlight again. That was all she wanted, she didn't even care about what this "Mixter Crackerjack" might have had her doing in front of a crowd. Having been burned by managers and producers many times before, Pirouline still operated with caution within her desperation, but to her surprise, the sweethearted carnie before her was polite and even seemed to be a little adorably shy- speaking without really looking at her and trying to keep a bit of a distance between them while they toured her through the grounds and told her about the job.

To her even greater surprise, after her brain processed what they just said, the sweethearted carnie before her was the FUCKING RINGMASTER.

Every single alarm bell was going off in her head, especially when The Ringmaster Funnel Cake held out their hand to seal the offer, but she... she wanted this so bad. In her eyes, she had no other choice. She put her hand in theirs and shook it once, feeling a chill run down her spine as she did.

Turns out that was an accident, though. Funnel was just really bad at controlling their dark aura back then! Sometimes they let off bursts of it when they get touched, sorry! No wonder they were trying to keep that space between the two of them at first, yikes.

In terms of their current relationship, Funnel considers Pirouline one of their best friends and Pirouline believes Funnel to genuinely be one of the best people she's ever had the blessing to meet. Where Funnel feels that they can confide in Pirouline about almost anything, Pirouline feels the safest around Funnel than she has around anyone else in a very long time. Funnel made a promise to Pirouline when she first joined that they would always catch her whenever she fell and still, after all these years, they've yet to break it.

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walks over like the ant with the bindle Fireball and Songbird save me....................

Again, another relationship that fell prey to my "found family only" disease when I was younger. Fireball is not Song Bird's father figure, hell, Fireball isn't even Song Bird's first thought for an emergency contact. And even if he was, Fireball himself would be confused as to why.

None of this is to say they're not friends, no, these two get along fantastically. Fireball likes anybody that causes trouble for the police and Song Bird enjoys the "gijinka of a brown paper bag" energy that exists about Fireball. He is just reserved enough for Song Bird to be curious of him and insert herself into his life without his say so and Song Bird is just nice (and strangely intimidating...) enough that Fireball doesn't tell them to go away. They play off of each other and are able to snark back and forth without it ever going too far or reaching a point of an legitimate argument, with Fireball being the only person that has ever openly talked back to Song Bird in front of god and everyone else and all Song Bird did was laugh and pick him up in a big spinny hug.

They're an odd pair to see when they're out together. Open and reserved. Bright and dark. Black coffee and a blueberry slushie. Two things that do not mix, but have found themselves right next to each other regardless. Opposites attract!

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Song Bird and Poppy

These two are still friends! They didn't interact very often and still probably don't, but when they do, it's always a blast. Song Bird thinks Poppy is a riot at a party and Poppy knows that Song Bird finds the best parties for him to be a riot at! Song Bird is already the loudest mother fucker he knows, but Poppy brings out the louder and noisier in Song Bird and makes it all deafening and wonderfully destructive, so these two are a nuisance and a half for the police when they go out together. Poppy loves to grab Song Birds hand and drag them from club to club, from bar to bar, and from party to party, blowing the roof off each place one by one until there isn't a pub left that they aren't allowed in for a week. They probably do panty raids together.

A change here is that Song Bird, who is now a lot more powerful and uncomfortably wise than previously written, looks at Poppy and sees right through the persona he's set up for himself. She can see right through his whole suave and sexy playboy act and view what's underneath- a punk rock orphan boy who is fighting not to lose what he has even when there's no chance it could be taken from him. He feels sorry for Poppy and does not express this pity because they know he would hate her for it, so instead they party with him and buy him drinks, hoping he'll come to his own senses in due time.

She is the protector of the rainforest, not the emotionally unavailable moshpit opossum boy.