#I do not want the cancer that is the Western fanbase finding my posts

[theliterarywolf]

Okay I gotta know- what the *fuck* is this Cookie Run thing? And why are they dressing up anthropomorphized dough in a belly dancer getup???

Cookie Run is a gaming franchise owned and developed by the South Korean development company DevSisters. The IP originally took the form of Kakao Cookie Run, a Korean social-media platform. It then spread to Cookie Run: Sweet Escape Adventure, a now-discontinued version of the game made for the service LINE.

The core game now takes the form of Cookie Run: Ovenbreak, a free-to-play endless runner/platformer game that incorporates gacha mechanics and RPG-elements along with a story that initially started, back when the game was in its early stages over in Kakao, as 'oh, you have to help the cookies run away from the Witch who wants to eat them, ha ha' to its latest story elements that include murder, dealing with mental health issues, a long-standing feud between good and evil, the destruction of several kingdoms, gentleman thieves, existential crises, unrequited love, more murder, dead children, wars, time-travel shenanigans, and so much more that I could go into but not here!

... There's also quite a few side-games. The now-defunct Cookie Wars that dealt with the characters trying to survive a zombie-apocalypse, Cookie Run: Puzzle World, a much more cozy, cute experience that eschews the heavy story-elements of the core game for cutsey match-3 fun~, and Cookie Run: Kingdom where we see more in-depth development of the franchise's universe... That delves much deeper into themes of death, religion, destroyed kingdoms, etc.

Phew! Now that that's out of the way, we can talk about Lilac. Lilac is the diligent bodyguard of one Yogurt Cream

And the 'bellydancer'-esque costume is in the common viewpoint when discourse is mentioned, Lilac originally looked like this

The special costume he got upon being made playable (after so fucking long, DevSis, seriously) is meant to tie into the oasis motif of the current story campaign, since the original story campaign dealt with Yogurca (their home kingdom) being assaulted by blizzards.

Although, in my mind, all I can think of with Lilac's new costume is a scenario of Yogurt Cream laying in bed going 'Lilac~ It's Friday night~ You know what that means~' And then Lilac just silently leaves the room and comes back in his special costume.