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[jesterlies]

Player Information

Player Name: Jami
Pronouns: they/them
Age: 30+
Preferred Means of Contact: takatorabatta, maplecoffee at disco
Invitation: Link
Do you have any plans for this character in the game? I've taken him from a very, very vulnerable point in canon where he might be given the best opportunity to try and start fresh. He's still Shadow Milk of course, but after having lost pretty much everything, had his plans fall apart around him, have his Soul Jam depleted, and have the knowledge that he'd been betrayed by one of their own, and then got locked in his own mind long enough to be tortured by The Voices, he's been metaphorically smashed with a hammer. Time to put him back together!

Character Information

Character's Full Name: Shadow Milk Cookie
Character's Pronouns: He/Him but frankly there is not an ounce of gender in this clown.
Character's Canon: Cookierun: Kingdom
Character's Canon Point: Post Chapter 14 (Dark Enchantress War)
Character's Age: 10,000 +
Did your character willingly come to Iyashikei? If yes, why? He definitely answered "Yes" sarcastically and Found Out.
Will they need any special accommodations upon arrival? Pure Vanilla both took care of his injury and is PROBABLY handling his accommodations, so he should be all set.


Character's History: Link!

Character's Personality:

Questions:

1. Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them. How would your character act once someone got to know them?

The consensus is colorful, annoying, and never stops talking. He absolutely has to command the attention of the whole room, and he is selfish and self-serving. Just an all around rotten little guy.

Most of this remains true, but he can be more affectionate to people he likes, and if his guard is truly down, his jester act will come down with it, showing someone much more even-keeled and eloquent, but this is a very rare thing to have happen. Something else people will notice is that despite his Heehee silly clown act, he does have a nasty temper and a violent streak when set off vacillating wildly between emotional extremes. Of course, it's important to note, that as of his canon point, he is somewhat more subdued.

There's an exhaustion that wasn't there before, and while his act keeps up the facade well, anyone who knows him better will find the look in his eyes a little more far away than it used to be.


2. What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?

Shadow Milk, despite his elaborate clown act, is a scholar at his core, and even though he has long renounced his title and duties as the Fount of Knowledge, there is still the heart of a teacher deep down, and someone who finds satisfaction in guiding others. Candy Apple Cookie has voicelines where she talks about a special book Shadow Milk gave her, a textbook teaching her Deceit step-by-step, and in the Spire, Shadow Milk gets incredibly invested in teaching Truthless tarot to the point that his minions comment that they haven't seen him that happy in ages.

It's proof that there is still something of the Fount there buried deep down, or perhaps the First Headmaster who once oversaw an academy of mages.

Shadow Milk can also pop his head off and juggle it! That's pretty cool!

3. What does your character think their flaws are? What do they think their strengths are? What are their actual flaws and strengths?

He doesn't think he has any flaws and would proclaim himself the foremost master of all magic on Earthbread. He knows everything and has taught everything and he is good at EVERYTHING. Of course this is another layer of lying to himself, and perhaps if he were capable of answering honestly, he would tear himself to pieces over being the Master of Deceit and getting duped TWICE. His monologue while locked in Silent Salt Cookie's spell of silence was incredibly illuminating, where Shadow Milk tears himself down, calling himself pathetic in the face of both the revelations he was just given.

Shadow Milk's actual flaws are. Sure something. He's temperamental and emotional, often driven by impulse even though he considers himself a chessmaster. He lacks empathy and cares about very few people other than himself. He's committed countless atrocities all for his one single-minded goal, and he's deeply emotionally stunted from being created fully formed as an adult and tasked with being Cookiekind's ChatGPT. He has some of the most catastrophic emotional disregulation, often venting emotions by destroying or hurting others. He's a goddamn wreck.

His Master of Deceit act is also a much thinner veneer than we could have guessed. Shadow Milk has lied to no one better than he has lied to himself, as he desperately copes with how cruel his own Truth has been, after having seen it for himself, at the bottom of the Milk Lake. He's so deep in his own lies that he truly can't tell them apart anymore, and that is certainly how he has been duped as many times as he had, despite being someone who should have been able to see both Pure Vanilla's gambit and Silent Salt's betrayal coming a mile away.

4. What is a common misconception other characters have about your character?

Shadow Milk is a character that touts himself as someone who has wrought and desires chaos, that he gleefully burns things to the ground without rhyme of reason. That he is beyond sanity and everything he does is violent and unpredictable. While he definitely doesn't dissuade such a thought, because lies are fun for him, this isn't totally true.

Shadow Milk is a control freak who has plans upon plans upon plans and if something falls out of his carefully written script, he looses it. Though he gives the vaneer of a bringer of wanton chaos, everything he's done has been calculated and manipulated for his goal, which is to create enough catastrophe to garner the attention of their silent Gods. He does not act without purpose, unless something has set him off emotionally.

Character Abilities: Okay, so here's the deal. I am voluntarily nerfing him using the state of his Soul Jam from his canon point. The reason for this is because Shadow Milk's full blown abilities are straight up god-like, and the kind of stuff he can do (Rewriting memories, tormenting people with psychic powers, warping reality, altering TIME) is a permissions nightmare. I am scaling him waaaay down to where most of his magic is at a cantrip level in power. He can create small illusions, shapeshift, read minds but NOT rewrite memories, conjure his strings but they're breakable depending on the permissions (i will never use this ability without permission), and cast some minor offensive spells (he has a fire ball spell in one of his boss fights for example).

He will have the ability to learn new magic, and learning the setting magic is what I will be focusing him on more than regaining his canon abilities. Let me know if that's okay! I can always scale him further down/change something so he's less of a nightmare for the setting.

Player Opt-out/Opt-in Permissions post: I'll have this here


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