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some cookie subspecies classifications with visuals to accompany. if you want to see unfiltered rambling about what these mean copied straight from discord then feel free 2 look below the cut. lotta thoughts on it

firstly heres the initial chart we drew about this to kind of explain the way things flow down. the elements are the nine elements in kingdom and the beasts are NOT the beast cookies btw.

the BASIS for a lot of this that i'll clarify first; in our lore, cookies are usually made with a traditional gingerbread recipe, with the addition of (at least) two primary ingredients- one Edible component for flavor, and one Magical component for. well. magic. the magical ingredients can often be inedible, but baking them into a cookie can help soften it up (so to speak), as well as hone and amplify its properties.

the ingredients used will determine what a cookie will be classified as on this chart, as well as how heavily a cookie hones their magic during early developmental stages.

[id also like to tag @promniight whos pastry dash au was a big inspiration for me 2 start brainstorming on this kind of stuff. i tried very hard not to make any elements a direct ripoff but the system of "different ingredients bringing out different characteristics" was so good it made me start hyperfixating on this goddamn game again OUHDNKDLLJNDS]

anyways. because i dont have the energy right now to make everything pretty, from here on you will be subjected to my raw 1am discord concept ranting about the different classifications, what they mean, and how to identify them. i'll also put examples of cookies under each blurb!

starting at the basic cookies and ill just rattle off from there. first is the STANDARD build. most basic of basics you can possibly get and the template for all the rest of these. its so bog standard that its entire palette is ripped straight off our gingerbrave design we just made it more sexually ambiguous. this one is essentially what you;d get if you baked a living gingerbread cookie with No extra special ingredients. in its most natural state, its a plain body with a natural dough color, hair and eyelashes matching its frosting (white is the most common and traditional, esp for eyelashes), with its eyes, mouth, and jam all having a monochromatic palette (ex in the example theyre all shades of the same blue).

a bog-standard magician is the exact same deal, with a few differences to reflect the further prominence of their magical ingredient. if the first example is an unspecial gingerbread cookie, this is a gingerbread cookie with extra glitter. their eyes, mouth, teeth, and innards can have a secondary color that reflects their magic, rather than the monochromatic palette of the first. these cookie's hair also grows faster because of the higher amount of magic active within them causing their bodies to develop in that way, so unless a magician is very good at maintenance, they'll likely have longer hair and more prominent eyelashes. this is how i have justified my awesome big fantasy eyelash swag

these traits will run pretty standard across the board (ie the natural cookies have monochromatic eyes with shorter lashes while the magical ones tend towards crazier colors with frilly lashes. this isnt actually all that reflected. maybe multicolored eyes are a rare trait for all i know. lets not overthink that yauy)

OKAY SO the natural cookie builds. with how many possible animals there are on gods green earth its impossible to account for every possible variant there could be so i went extremely generic. broadly speaking its a case-by-case basis- i think these four show pretty well the degrees of prominence those Living Thing traits can have across them (this includes plant). at minimum, the ingredient will reflect through their like. hair and patches of their dough, and the "fleshy" bits like the eyes and mouth, as seen on the plant example. from there traits will most often show up at the cookies back and "edges", or where edges laid during the flat period of their life (something about edges being crispy and cooked more, idk), as seen on the terrestrial cat cookie example. then it'll bleed further "in," as seen on the avian, leaving really only the face and torsos dough visible. then with the aquatic cookie, its just all in, dough fully covered in those colorful scales and fins. on each of these i drew them with the most common builds seen throughout our designs but any of them can go in any way- a fish could be as subtle as a few gills on the neck, and a plant could be practically a walking flower. in fact an example of a "fully plant plant cookie" would be our imagining of millennial tree, as his body is built up out of wood, his dough covered in a layer of bark. swag. also avians get an extra appendange instead of their arms being wings because cookies are baked in an inherently humanoid shape and that mold is hard to break without further asension. its easier to tack new limbs on than to completely reshape whats already been hard-baked in. and also the wings look cool like that smiles

ill cover fae next because i grew the spirits last so im following my mental order

a fae/daemon is often classified in the eye of the beholder. theyre that amorphous middle ground between the fairies and demons that cant quite be pinned for what they more closely abide by.. theyre fluid and usually revel in that fact. of course, theyre extremely magical, but with those natural ingredients still prominent. theyre double dipping, those sons of bitches. the most typical form is that it's nigh indistinguishable from a standard member of any other class, only able to be identified by that slight offness to them, and their low-contrast eyes that have no pupils. theyre often shapeshifters of some kind so its usually likely that this cookie form isnt even their real one anymore, especially if theyre magically inclined enough to have ascended.

[fae / fae / daemon]

a fairy has a more concrete form than a fae, traits typically including translucent wings of some sort (doesnt necessarily have to be insectoid, its just common), emotive pointy ears, a pale discoloring at their extremities, and eyes that are (similar to fae), low-contrast, but usually more vividly colored and having pupils that match the color of the whites. though other traits arent absurd to see- antlers and flowers (a la plant cookies) and rarer but not too uncommon examples that come to mind, and in the current fae society on beast-yeast (god i need to rename that), ashier dough colors are often seen due to the use of metals like silver, iron, tin, or fucking. mercury apparently. as the magic ingredients in their dough, due to being one of the most readily accessible materials that could offer such properties- materials scavenged from the remains of the witch's banquet hall. (dark enchantress left no magic or ingredients behind... but the silverware probably wasn't worth the effort. tgey were forced to eat forks when they were two years old)

angels are like fairies to the next step. being adjacent to elemental spirits, i think they can come in varied colors and shapes, but can be generally identified by multiple pairs of pale, near-white wings and eyes, with their extremities fading into that color as well (talk about a . magic touch . booyah). theyre can powerful, but tend to be less chaotic than raw elementals or neutral fae. i dont have a lot on angels yet but i think wind archer classifies as an angel.

[fairy / angel / angel]

demonsss . guys that tend to embrace the mischeif of the neutral fae/daemons but usually in a more physical manner. like fairies and angels, they tend to have wings, but far more tangible ones- albeit less useful for actually flying. maybe that excess of magic just loves making cookies sprout extra appendages. yk what jot that down. for all i know those could be more arms on all of em. THE MORE IMPORTANT PART IS unlike the fairy wings and even angel wings to an extent, these ones are Solid. Tangible. fairy wings you go right through like mist. angel wings probably work like oobleck. these are tangible Doing Shit appendages. i realize now i forgot to draw the tail but they also tend to get those. long, slender, prehensile is the typical way. they also have long expressive ears and can be pretty quickly identified by their eye trait of white slit pupils on sclera. OH and the darker discoloration on their extremities. you can tell example demon isnt just a Bat avian because of the lack of fur, the white pupils, and the discoloration. okay ? swag

dragons. wgat if demons were really really big and more of a creature. dragons can come in many many many shapes and sizes. especially dragon cookies. the most broad explanation is … a bit chimera with it. traits of an avian, a terrestrial, and an aquatic creature mixes into one greater beast cooked up on the demon cookie frying pan. aside from being broadly recognized by being the "Monster" of the cookie classifications, you can more accurately pinpoint one by, you guessed it, the eyes. wings, tails, scales and horns are common but they cant be your ONLY judgement- after all, you can find those things on any other cookie. cmon now. dragon eyes will, very consistently, be multicolored- a trait that is shared among all fae that i FORGOT TO MENTION UNTIL NOW FUCKK AAAH is that, unlike other cookies, they lack a white outline around their sclera. fucked up ey? for dragons, their eyes are all pitch black, aside from that outline- that's the primary color- and their pupils- thats the secondary. it also makes them look rad as hell. otherwise dragon traits to body ratio follows the same logic that it does for the other Beasts Y Plant cookies- given a lot of dragon cookies are just natural born dragons reincarnating themselves into a cookie form bc theyre all fucking insane i guess, this ratio is usually All Dragon so you wont usually see a shitton of dough.

[demon / demon / dragon]

with elementals the biggest thing that defined them is the fact that their body is, either partially or wholly, composed of the element they embody. in a fashion that folllows the Natural cookies stuff, partial elementals will usually have their edges, extremities, and hair composed of that element. a lot are just entirely That Thing though. this can and does make life difficult for some people (ie imagine being a guy made entirely out of Don't Touch substances like Poison or Fire or Electricity. taht would suck. not to mention the intangible ones like Light and Darkness). aside from the obvious Special Guy made out of Slutch stuff, you can pinpoint them pretty quick by their eyes being entirely one color, with only white pupils to break it up. no sclera, no outline. thats why i specified that on dragons and demons. the difference matters. whee

ghosts are the easiest ones because no cookie is born as a ghost, rather Reborn as a ghost. be it through spiritual willpower or rebaking the body anew (looks around), a more accurate term would. honestly be undead. because they arent really a ghost in the traditional sense given the entire point is they still have and inhabit their body. its just. spiritually unstable. rebaked cookies will naturally be much more stable ghosts than those who just put their own crumbs back together, but all of them, having their souls at least partially seperated from their bodies, can fade in and out of a less tangible form. you can fade through anything if you make your crumbs fine enough. self-revived ghosts are usually the easiest to identify, with large, deep, and visible cracks across their bodies, as well as areas just straight up missing pieces. rebaked ghosts will also have those cracks, but moreso as scars- spots that were missing would be filled in with discolored dough (hard to make the exact recipie twice down to the exact color). all ghosts will have tapered off fingers and toes (funny claw justification. i can imagine it simply being a matter of the dough wearing away over time, faster at the finer points. like a candy cane). they'll also very rarely bleed- most of that jam is either coating their dough to hold together, or condensed in their soulstone so as to protect what's left of it. something like withdrawing itself. their hair and stray crumbs will be naturally floaty (strong emotions can extend that effect to their immediate environment). and the eyes, always the main giveaway- hollow, showing the dark inside of the head, with purely white sclera and pupils being their primary color. a bit haunting innit

uhh ok tldr guide for the road

standard cookies are just some guy. humanoid. monochromatic eye colors. white outline around sclera. cookies follow this guide unless specified otherwise.

magicians are just some guy but with magic. you can tell theyre magic because they get Two Unique Colors in their eyes and their hair grows faster.

natural cookies show their naturalness as the edges. we love extra appendages here. plants grow leaves and animals grow fur/feathers/scales/whatever else. yay

neutral fae/daemons are the silly putty of the equation but usually they look like just some guy but Watch Out. can be easily identified by pale eye color and a complete lack of pupils.

fairies get funny translucent wings and big elf ears. they dont have white sclera outlines, scelera barely sticks out from whites, and whites are the same color as pupils. their extremities are a Little pale

angels favorite color is white and anything near it. theyre practically glowing. multiple wings/extra limbs/whatever. eyes are like entirely blank i think i forgot to say that. extremities are the same near-white-if-not-white color as the wings and eyes.

demons have white slit pupils and pointy ears too. their extremities are Darker. their wings/extra limbs/whatever are fully tangible but arent super functional but its ok bc they look cool. and they have prehensile tails to compensate. also their sclera outlines are black instead of white

dragons follow the same principals as the natural squad and posses traits of at least one of each (terrestrial avian and aquatic beast). their eyes are black except for the places where they arent. pupils are one color and sclera outlines are another and thats it. the rest is black

elementals are when a guy is made of an element. their eyes are one color everywhere aside from white pupils. ez ghosts are crumbled cookies. you can always tell theyve been crumbled bc cracks. they have creepypasta eyes (hollow w white sclera and colored pupils) and dont bleed. theyre floaty!

[discord rant over] if you read this far thank you and i hope this is even remotely comprehensible. a lot of cookie stuff is still in workshopping and even this will def get more fleshed out as we brainstorm for it.

if you made it all the way down here, send in a kingdom cookie (not a beast or ancient) and i'll try and sketch a design for them in our rewrite! this is not me promising anything, i just want to do more designs and. this seems like a fun way to do it perhaps. in general, feel free to shoot any questions about the rewrite our way too!

also: a rough chart of where the kingdom cookies could fall in terms of classification. this isnt really final or super concise

#bc i posted this at 1am . reblog tgeres a lot of info in here

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