Overview |
I wished to seek the truth...
White Lily Cookie (Korean: 세인트릴리 쿠키, seintu-lilli kuki, "Saint Lily Cookie") is one of the five Ancient Heroes in Cookie Run: Kingdom. She was the final Ancient Cookie to become playable, releasing in the Secrets of the Silver Kingdom update (v5.0) alongside 
Silverbell Cookie. She is of the 
Bomber type and her position is prioritized to the 
Middle.
She plays a pivotal role in the events of Cookie Run: Kingdom, being 
Pure Vanilla Cookie's treasured close friend and an honored figure of the Faerie Kingdom, seeking out secrets for the good of Cookiekind. She carries the Light of Freedom in her Soul Jam and is the counterpart to Silent Salt Cookie's Light of Silence.
Game Description[]
A solitary beam of moonlight shines in the twilight. Like a pale lily touched by the gentle drops of rain, a Cookie silently entered the world. Her petals might look soft, and her dough frail, but nothing could stop her steps as she explored every corner of Earthbread, seeking a safer and happier future for all Cookiekind. Alas, at the end of her journey, all she found was the dark truth of this world. That truth painted her faith and curiosity with despair and anger, awakening a terrifying darkness deep within. Will White Lily Cookie find her lost voice once again amidst the deafening silence? With a seed of hatred and despair in her heart, will she walk towards the light once more?
Soulstone Description[]
Skill[]
Lily Bud
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- White Lily Cookie begins the battle with 1 stack of
Lily Restoration. - White Lily Cookie is surrounded by six greyed-out leaf symbols. One leaf symbol will shine for every 3 stacks of Lily Restoration she has, starting from the top row.
- The skill's Extra DMG cap can be reached when White Lily Cookie has at least 34 buffs.
- The Lily Bud will not be interrupted even if White Lily Cookie is defeated while using her skill.
Changelog[]
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Appearance[]
White Lily Cookie is a partially tall, spindly Cookie with pale brown dough and dark fuchsia eyes, with eyelashes underneath them. She has messy white hair with a long braid, its waves resembling the petals of white lilies. She wears a vine headband with a white lily and few leaves on her hair.
Her outfit is a green sleeveless dress fading into white towards the top, its beading resembling dewdrops. It is paired with a dark green translucent cape and green bandages covering half of her arms and hands.
Her flower staff is green, with a fading white pointed tip at the bottom. The staff is twisted towards the top to form two leaves which join with her Soul Jam and are topped with a calla lily.
White Lily Cookie before finding the Light of Freedom
Young Appearance[]
Between her receiving the Soul Jam and her days in the Blueberry Yogurt Academy, White Lily Cookie lacked her vine headband and arm bands. Her hair was parted to the side, rather than having a segment in between her eyes. Her dress was much simpler, being completely green instead of fading to white and having the lines and beading. Her cape more resembles a cloak or mantle with a raised collar. Her staff lacked its white fade or twisted top, and its calla lily had yet to bloom.
Personality[]
White Lily Cookie is soft-spoken and thoughtful yet resolute in her ideals. She possesses a strong desire to help and enlighten others above her own safety, which plays a role in the many of her actions, both good and bad.
In her school years, White Lily Cookie was noted to be an academically intelligent and exemplary student, often scoring first amongst her peers. Because of this, she would skip class in favor of her personal research, as she felt that she gained little from the education taught in her classes. White Lily Cookie is full of curiosity, stopping at nothing in the pursuit of answers, especially in regards to the subject of the creation of Cookies. Her curiosity, however, led her to cross moral boundaries and taboos, which would ultimately lead to the creation of 
Dark Enchantress Cookie. Upon remembering what she'd done in the present, White Lily Cookie realizes the immense pain that her actions had brought, viewing herself as unforgivable once she realizes where her path had taken her.
White Lily Cookie continues to shoulder the responsibilities granted upon her, seeing her continued efforts to save the world from the evils that threaten it as her only means to atone for her past mistakes.
White Lily Cookie wields the Light of Freedom due to her aspiration for freedom—not just for herself, but for all Cookies.
Character Inspiration[]
White Lily Cookie takes inspiration from the white lily, or Madonna lily (Lilium candidum), with the petal shape throughout her design and the flower adorning her head resembling this specific flower. Along with other generic plant motifs like beading of her dress resembling dew drops, other types of lilies can be seen referenced in her design: namely, her staff resembles a calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) and the end of her hair braid may be a subtle nod to a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis). Interestingly, a number of the lilies used in her design are only lilies in name and not true lilies, such as the calla lily of her staff—this may allude to White Lily Cookie's identity struggles regarding her worth as an Ancient Hero. White lilies are also representative of both (re)birth and death and, as an extension, grief. This can relate to both the mystery of White Lily Cookie's birth and the tragedy lacing her backstory and history.
White Lily Cookie's character may be inspired by Saint Mary of Christianity. White Lily Cookie possesses the hallmark traits of a virgin-archetype character, like outward purity, modesty, and devotion. All of these qualities are likewise attributed symbolically to white lilies, which are often referred to as Madonna lilies ("Madonna" originating as an alias for Saint Mary). Additionally, her Soul Jam bears the shape of a fleur-de-lis; the fleur-de-lis, meaning "flower of the lily" in French, is closely associated with Christianity and Saint Mary in particular. White Lily Cookie's focus on repentance is something also related closely to Christian practices in general.
Alternatively, White Lily Cookie could be an analogy to Eve of Adam and Eve, as her pursuit of forbidden knowledge regarding the truth of the world reflects Eve's seeking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By similarity of name and her eventual fate, she could also be analogous to Lilith; on the other hand, she could perhaps represent even Lucifer himself, adhering to the quite literal fall of a once highly loved and respected hero into the most hated villain.
White Lily Cookie's original name in the original Korean version of Kingdom (세인트릴리 쿠키/seintu-lilli kuki) translates to Saint Lily Cookie in English. While no religions are known to have a notable saint named Lily, there is Saint Kateri of Christianity, who is known as the Lily of the Mohawks. Saint Kateri is a patron saint of numerous aspects such as the environment, exiles, those without family, and the pious, all of which relate to White Lily Cookie. The similarity is likely only a coincidence, but it is substantial enough to warrant noting.
In connection with what is learned in Hall of Enlightenment and Tragedy at the Tower, many notes in White Lily Cookie's design can be seen as allusions to her connection to Dark Enchantress Cookie. This includes features such as her reddish eyes, white hair, and similar shape language/silhouette. Concept art shown in The Art of Cookie Run: Kingdom reveals that White Lily Cookie's visual similarities to Dark Enchantress Cookie were to be far more overt, though they were toned down in her final design.
Trivia[]
- According to her loading screen trivia, "It is unknown where and how White Lily Cookie obtained her trusty lily staff."
- Up until the Theater of Lies update (v5.1), White Lily Cookie was the only Ancient Hero to not reign over a kingdom of her own. She is now the leader of the Faerie Kingdom and the Guardian of the Silver Tree's Seal.
- White Lily Cookie's description on the 3rd Anniversary of Cookie Run: Kingdom website states:
- On a moonlit night, a Cookie blossomed into existence, exuding the essence and fragrance of a pure white lily. All her life, she thirsted for the truth—always within her reach, yet dissipating like smoke when she tried to grasp it… White Lily Cookie herself could not have foreseen her descent into darkness when finally faced with the grim truth… Will White Lily Cookie’s true voice ring out and shatter the darkness one day? And when the fated day arrives, will she choose light over evil?
- White Lily Cookie's Soul Jam resembles a fleur-de-lis, a French heraldry symbol of a blooming lily.
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Paintings of Pure Vanilla Cookie and White Lily Cookie in Roguefort Cookie's skill background
Pure Vanilla Cookie and White Lily Cookie appear to have been hinted a year prior to Cookie Run: Kingdom's reveal, as shown in Roguefort Cookie's skill background. - In Cookie Run: OvenBreak, an event was held to promote the release of Cookie Run: Kingdom. One of the rewards given by this event was a "The Great Kingdoms" Jelly Set, which features the Ancient Heroes as Bear Jellies.
- White Lily Cookie is referred to in the set as "Pure Rainbow Hero Jelly". Its description reads, "Purity of heart, purity of mind can bring great strength."
- White Lily Cookie is tied with Black Pearl Cookie for the longest gacha pull sequence out of any Cookie in the game.
- A humanized, high-schooler rendition of White Lily Cookie known as Lily White appears in Romance Kingdom, a romantic visual novel parody Event which appeared for April Fools Day 2023. There, she is an enigmatic (and perhaps even ghostly) student who secludes herself in the school's science lab and controls the very reality of the school itself.
- White Lily Cookie is the first Ancient Hero—and fifth Cookie overall—to have their own Costume at the same time as their release.
- Much like Golden Cheese Cookie, based on the playable Prologue, White Lily Cookie was originally planned to be placed in the Rear position. White Lily Cookie's original Skill quote had her say "Repent" rather than the current "This is my penitence!"
- Despite being prioritized to the Middle, White Lily Cookie is still prioritized to the Rear Position in the Prologue, likely to keep Pure Vanilla Cookie alone in the middle due to the cutscenes that follow.
- Despite being prioritized to the
- White Lily Cookie's name in the original Korean text of Cookie Run: Kingdom is 세인트릴리 쿠키 (seintu-lilli kuki), which translates to Saint Lily Cookie in English. As no explanation for the change has been given, it can only be speculated that her name was changed during localization to maintain religious neutrality in the series.
- White Lily Cookie's English voice actress, Erica Mendez, also provides the voice of Black Pearl Cookie.
- Mendez is also roommates with Lucien Dodge, the English voice actor of Clover Cookie.
- Mendez is also roommates with Lucien Dodge, the English voice actor of
- White Lily Cookie's Taiwanese voice actress, Zhan Yajing, also provides the voices of Custard Cookie III, Strawberry Crepe Cookie and Weapon Merchant Cookie.
References[]
- ↑ City of Wizards 🏙 Developer Commentary 💬
- ↑ Confirmed; the Ancient Heroes do not age/age extremely slowly after acquiring their Soul Jam. White Lily Cookie has been shown to have been a younger Cookie in the past (Forgotten Academy, Might of the Ancients), and has since aged. She is also the same approximate age as Pure Vanilla Cookie—a confirmed adult—as shown during their school years together; thus, she must also presently be an adult.
