Overview |
Everything shall return to flour...
Mystic Flour Cookie (Korean: 미스틱플라워 쿠키, misutig-pullawo kuki) is one of the five Beast Cookies of Cookie Run: Kingdom. She is the first to be released, being made playable alongside 
Cloud Haetae Cookie in the Awakening of White Apathy update (v5.5) after briefly appearing in a Secrets of the Silver Kingdom update (v5.0) cinematic. She is of the 
Healing type and her position is prioritized to the 
Rear. She serves as the antagonist of the Realm of Apathy chapter of the Beast-Yeast storyline.
The master of the ancient Ivory Pagoda, Mystic Flour Cookie answered the wishes of countless Cookies in ages past. As time progressed, the avarices and uninterest from her followers prompted her to adopt a doctrine established on futility, believing that all aspirations are inconsequential and that the endgame for the world's growing pains is for Cookies to relieve themselves of their crumbly bodies and return to floury dust.
Mystic Flour Cookie wields the power of Apathy,[1] a corrupted side of the Virtue of Volition she once held. She was the original owner of 
Dark Cacao Cookie's Soul Jam, being stripped of it upon her descent into villainy.
Game Description[]
An absence of color. Pure, undistilled white flour that symbolizes freedom, enlightenment... and futility. When magic first blessed these lands, Mystic Flour Cookie was revered as a saint—capable of granting wishes both big and small. Yet, as the crowds faded away, she was left with only apathy. Her once radiant light tarnished, leading her to join forces with the fallen Beast Cookies. Despite everything, Mystic Flour Cookie neither feels anger nor sadness, as wishes are nothing but mere illusions, and all worldly desires are destined to disappear one day. A world of nothingness. A world where every Cookie is liberated from burden. That is the perfect world she envisions. Once reaching that enlightenment, one shall open their eyes to the blinding truth: Apathy.
Soulstone Description[]
Skill[]
Whispers of Apathy
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Gameplay Notes | |
- Regular healing heals the three lowest HP allies by 44.6% of ATK.
- Mystic Flour Cookie's immunity to incapacitating debuffs includes debuffs that bypass Immunity or resistance to interrupting effects, such as Petrification or
Light Cage. It also grants immunity to Pull effects. However, it does not prevent Silence, Knockback effects, or Flying effects.
- Mystic Flour Cookie still receives debuffs inflicted onto targets immune to certain incapacitating debuffs, such as Drowsy or Chilled.
- Mystic Flour Cookie still receives debuffs inflicted onto targets immune to certain incapacitating debuffs, such as
- Realm of Apathy
- Mystic Flour Cookie becomes immune to ATK SPD changes and resists interrupting effects while using the skill.
- Mystic Flour Cookie remains in place while using her skill unless used out of combat, and becomes immune to most displacement effects while Realm of Apathy is active.
- DMG Resist granted to self from this skill is undispellable.
- Cocoon of Futility
- Cocoon of Futility is indicated by a white border overlaying the HP bars of affected allies. Any additional effects visible on the HP bar such as Shining Glitter Cookie's Glittering Rock Spirit or Injury are hidden until the effect expires.
- Cocoon of Futility purifies any Apathy debuff on the Cookie and prevents its application, but cannot recover any HP reduced by Apathy.
- Pale Plague
- The Pale Plague debuff applies a floury-dust overlay on targets that it affects.
- The initial effect that increases Cooldown is separate from the Pale Plague debuff, and can be applied to targets with Immunity or Invulnerable.
- If the Pale Plague debuff is blocked by Immunity or Invulnerable, the Cooldown-increase effect triggered by purifying Pale Plague from the target will still be activated.
- Cooldowns cannot be increased beyond their post-Cooldown Reduction-calculated value.
- A separate ATK SPD Down debuff is applied on targets without Cooldowns, including Cookie enemies.
- Lantern of Apathy
- At the beginning of the battle, Mystic Flour Cookie summons the Lantern of Apathy to accompany the team. It is uninteractable with any other units or effects.
- If Mystic Flour Cookie is defeated then revived at a later time, the extra effects for Lantern of Apathy are reverted.
- DMG Resist gained from Cooldown and Max HP Up are undispellable.
- -38% Cooldown is needed to reach the maximum DMG Resist.
- External cooldown reduction from sources such as Treasures or game mode effects will not increase the DMG Resist gained from this effect.
Changelog[]
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Appearance[]
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.
Personality[]
Cookies invading The Grand Temple after their demands were not promptly fulfilled.
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 encasing, witnessing the despair and suffering brought upon by fleeting desires. From this revelation emerged a twisted philosophy within Mystic Flour Cookie: 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 harbor a great deal of spite and some twisted remnant of her original benevolence, as her main goals are to spread her message of apathy across the world and reclaim her original Soul Jam in the process. While this spite has mostly been directed towards 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.
A stalemate
Ultimately, Mystic Flour Cookie contrasts Dark Cacao Cookie like how a white cloud would contrast a black stone. Attuned to the heavens and untouchable by any blade, she espouses the spiritual and divine at the cost of the physical and mundane, now believing that all Cookies must forfeit the latter to attain the former. Instead of standing as a bulwark against conflict, she envelops others in a fog of visions to obscure their path forward and render them helpless, until they have no choice but to acknowledge their own futile actions. But though a cloud can never be harmed by a stone, a stone can never be moved by a cloud in return; similarly, Mystic Flour Cookie's apathy can never directly force an obstacle from its path, not without the firm, worldly strength of Resolution that she now lacks. Unmoored from both real life and the suffering of Cookies, her philosophy now moves without purpose and substance, capable only of enveloping those who would fall into its clutches with endless notions of their own meaninglessness.
Age Notes[]
Mystic Flour Cookie's age is not confirmed. However, the following details relate to her age and can be used to draw inferences on how old she may be.
- All Beast Cookies were some of the very first Cookies created and exist now in largely the same forms as they did upon their creation. They are impervious to the effects of aging.
- Mystic Flour Cookie rules over a region and oversees staff in the Ivory Pagoda.
- In Strawberry Crepe Cookie's Cake Shop, Mystic Flour Cookie refers to Cloud Haetae Cookie as "the little haetae," or 작은 해태 (jag-un haetae) in the original Korean text, with 작은 often also meaning "young"/referring to only children. An instance of 작은 (jag-un) being translated as "young" lies in Young Shepherd Cookie (Korean: 작은 목동 쿠키, jag-un mogdong kuki).
Character Inspiration[]
A depiction of Guanyin
Mystic Flour Cookie is most likely based on Guanyin (traditional Chinese: 觀音; simplified Chinese: 观音), the Han Buddhism version of Avalokiteśvara (Sanskrit: अवलोकितेश्वर)—especially in her White-robed form. Guanyin, to which she will be referred for brevity's sake, is a pure-white Bodhisattva—and, eventually, a Buddha—who is closely related to compassion and mercy. She is often called upon during times of strife, pain, and suffering.
At surface value, Mystic Flour Cookie's appearance clearly mirrors that of Guanyin: the Bodhisattva often is depicted with snow white hanfu (traditional Chinese: 漢服; simplified Chinese: 汉服) and skin, a golden necklace akin to that of Chinese royalty, a tall headpiece sheathed in fabric and adorned with an icon, and a halo of light around her head, all while being positioned in a blooming lotus[2]. Where Mystic Flour Cookie's design differs from Guanyin's common depictions, however, is that she also bears a floating pibo (Chinese: 披帛)—a "celestial raiment" often seen in depictions of Chinese mythological or religious figures[3]—and that her halo of light only appears after a certain promotion grade. Additionally, Guanyin is often associated with dragons[2]; this may relate to Mystic Flour Cookie through the Black and White Dragon of the Dark Cacao region along with the dragon seen in her gacha background.
A parallel between Mystic Flour Cookie's modus operandi of reducing beings to flour dust, along with her overall flour theming, can be seen in portions of the White-robed Guanyin Mantra (Chinese: 白衣大士神咒):
Mystic Flour Cookie's convictions of continuous suffering, impermanence, and emptiness coincide closely with the teachings of Buddhism, in which the three marks of existence are duḥkha/dukkha (Sanskrit: दुःख; Pali: dukkha; Chinese: 苦, kǔ) (unease, suffering), anitya/anicca (Sanskrit: अनित्य; Pali: अनिच्च; Chinese: 無常, wúcháng) (impermanence), and anātman/anattā (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्; Pali: 𑀅𑀦𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸; Chinese: 無我, wúwǒ) (a state in which living things have no true soul, essence, or "self"); her wish for all beings to be freed from "the fear and pain of the perpetual cycle of being baked and crumbled" aligns with Buddhists' seeking of an escape from the cycle of saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) through an attainment of nirvāṇa (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; Pali: nibbāna; Chinese: 涅槃, nièpán), or enlightenment. Additionally, Mystic Flour Cookie's Light of Apathy more accurately translates from Korean (허무의 빛, heomu-ui bich) as the Light of Nothingness, Futility, or Emptiness, which directly correlates anattā/anātman—"the self" and the "essence" of living beings have no meaning nor existence, thus being "empty." Where Mystic Flour Cookie's ideology differs from Buddhism, however, is that she seeks to prematurely cut off the lives of every being regardless of their deeds; true Bodhisattvas of Buddhism seek to guide beings into attaining their own righteousness with the time they are given in life.
Regardless of her methods, Mystic Flour Cookie's actions still remain akin to the responsibilities of the Bodhisattvas—both seek to free sentient life from the mortal coil and influence them towards what they consider to be enlightenment.
Trivia[]
- According to her loading screen trivia, "If you find yourself surrounded by thick white fog, and things begin to seem meaningless... It might already be too late."
- Mystic Flour Cookie's Light of Apathy's original Korean name (허무의 빛, heomu-ui bich) more directly translates into English as Light of Nothingness/Futility.
- The Recruit Adventurers subpage of the 3rd Anniversary of Cookie Run: Kingdom website, being published on January 5th, 2024 at around 2:00 pm GMT +9, accidentally included far more information on Beast-Yeast and the Faerie Kingdom than was intended. Here, Mystic Flour Cookie, alongside Silverbell Cookie, Mercurial Knight Cookie, Elder Faerie Cookie, and the other Beast Cookies, was revealed. This content was swiftly removed and reinstated on the site's main page about 4 days later with slight changes.
- Mystic Flour Cookie is occasionally referred to in the game's files as "mystic flower." This misnomer occasionally appears in English promotional content as well, such as in the initial title of the English Awakening of White Apathy update (v5.5) trailer.
- Mystic Flour Cookie is the only Beast Cookie to not have her own assigned Resonant Topping Type.
- Mystic Flour Cookie's Japanese voice actress, Inoue Kikuko, is the mother of Red Osmanthus Cookie's Japanese voice actress, Inoue Honoka.
- Mystic Flour Cookie's Thai voice actress, Natchapoj Phatrayuttawat, is the mother of Sea Fairy Cookie's Thai voice actress, Wachira Permsuriya.
References[]
- ↑ Mystic Flour Cookie's power in the original Korean text (허무의, heomu) more directly translates into English as Nothingness/Futility.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guan Yin — Nations Online Project
- ↑ Magical Floating Shawl — TV Tropes
