“ Aah, have you come to learn more about this harsh land at the very edge of this continent? „
Strange Cookie (Korean: 꺼림칙한 쿠키, kkeolimchighan kuki, "Worrisome Cookie") is an NPC introduced in Invitation from the Slumbering Moon update (v4.0).
They are a mysterious hooded Cookie that Dark Cacao Cookie encounters in his youth on his journey to address the anomalies happening in the northern part of the continent.
Personality[]
The Strange Cookie contrasts Dark Cacao Cookie's philosophy, believing that anything too difficult to change is nothing worth doing anything about. To them, the cold and barren state of the north is not an anomaly to fix but a fact of life that cannot be helped. They care not that other Cookies are crumbling due to the spreading blizzards, as they see themselves as having no power to do anything about it in the first place.
Although they know that dragons dueling for dominance over the land are causing the spreading storms, they instead find the battle beautiful, and remain in the area primarily to bear witness to it.
Trivia[]
- Strange Cookie appears to be a mudang (Korean: 무당) based on their triangular cowl and bell-stick (Korean: 무당방울, mudangbang-ul).
- Strange Cookie is currently the only instance of a Cookie in the Dark Cacao lands wearing primarily white clothing.
- Strange Cookie was originally named "Reluctant Cookie." Their name was changed to Strange Cookie in the update following their introduction (v4.1).
- "Reluctant Cookie" is a clear mistranslation of their Korean name (꺼림칙한 쿠키, kkeolimchighan kuki). The term 꺼림칙한 (kkeolimchighan) in their name translates to words like "worrisome," "unpleasant," "doubtful," and "suspicious"—in other words, it refers to something which causes worry or reluctance. Strange Cookie's initial inaccurate English name likely drew from the implication of reluctance in the word, casting the Cookie as someone who experiences reluctance rather than one who causes reluctance.