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Pavlova Cookie;

History I play Pavlova with quite a few headcanons, partly because we simply don’t know much about the specifics yet and partly because it’s just fun to play him that way, and his history section here is a product of that. Just an acknowledgement up front that the information here may be incorrect or outdated as time goes on.

Pavlova was baked prior to the Beasts’ fall by both the then Fount of Knowledge and Bringer of Happiness. His “purpose” at the time was simply as a son for Eternal Sugar since she had been struggling with her own issues at the time and wanted someone she could take care of. He was too young through most of the Beasts’ descent to process what was going on. He happily played in the garden, went for brief flights in the forest, listened to his father’s stories until he fell asleep… It didn’t really click for him until his mother began giving more and more cruel punishments for those who expressed discontent or desire to leave, and his father slowly stopped visiting.

As his small world became smaller and he was ushered away from the outside world, he became increasingly uncomfortable and scared of what his mother was becoming. When he tried to reason with her, he received the first and only warning he’d needed to keep from attempting that again. Now with the knowledge that the statues in the garden had been real, living people before and with much shorter wings, he was on his best behaviour in front of his mother. At least to a point. He was quick to figure out where the line was that she would tolerate and kept carefully at the edge of it, never tipping over, but treading it lightly while desperately wanting to leave.

He doesn’t get the chance to attempt fleeing by the time the Witches intervene. In an attempt to preserve her utopia, Eternal Sugar tucked him and as many of the residents of the garden into her jewelry box as she could manage, and there they sat for the hundreds of years that followed, never aging, never changing. Waking up was a different kind of torture, because while he was free of the box, he still wasn’t free of his mother. The world had changed drastically, the area outside the Garden now part of a wild and dangerous region called “Beast-Yeast”. He learns of the Beasts’ reawakening, of Dark Enchantress Cookie and of the Ancients that now possess halves of their soul jams, and he’s given one simple duty. He’s allowed to go outside the garden every now and then to look for someone called Hollyberry Cookie, and his one job is to bring her to Eternal Sugar.

Personality If you were thinking the angel coded little boy was going to be sweet and innocent you’d be wrong. He can be sweet when he wants to be, but he can just as easily get petulant or petty if he’s upset or annoyed. He isn’t above taking his frustrations out on other people if he feels they are partly to blame for it, as in the case of him getting huffy with Hollyberry’s retinue after he gets in trouble for trying to warn them not to leave.

That said there is a part of him that does genuinely want to help others. It’s become a little bit warped over the years as he tried to cope with what was going on around him. He started to use his ability to see the hearts of others as a means to ease his own boredom with the never-changing paradise his mother created. He’d spend hours upon hours reading the love lives of others and nudging them at each other according to his whims, citing his job as a herald of love and blessings to excuse it. It’s the only form of play he really had short of sleeping for hours. There’s only so much to do in an eternally peaceful garden.

Despite being a child, he does have a surprising amount of maturity for his age. He’s able to understand suffering on a deep level both because of his own experiences and the experiences he’s read over the years. He’s got some empathy burnout, but that care for people isn’t gone. He just needs some time to recover himself before he can worry about others.

Appearance This is mostly just for his more humanoid appearance, since his cookie form is just his official appearance here. The style of his hair is the same for the most part, with the distinction of it being hair and notably kind of unruly with all of the curls. Very soft, and he takes very good care of it. Same for his wings and feathers. The feathers on his wings are scarily soft, with the exception of his primaries which end abruptly, and if one were to feel along the edges of the feathers they’d feel how they had been cut and now have a bit of a jagged edge to them. It’s hard to tell just from looking at them.

His skin is peachy and leans more pink than is normal. His cheeks are prone to flushing, and he blushes a lot whenever he’s excited or angry or upset. This also means when he’s scared it’s pretty obvious as he gets very pale. He stands at about 4’11” and makes up for how small he is by mostly just hovering or flying so that he is on the same level as whoever he’s talking to.

Clothing-wise he tends towards light and airy clothes. He likes shorts and robes and anything with ruffles. This preference for robes and the like is in part because it’s a lot easier to account for his wings that way, but they’re also a lot more comfy than more restrictive clothes.

Interests Love, for one, but he also loves reading. He could read for hours and not get sick of it. He loves getting lost in a good story and he also enjoys writing when he gets the chance to. He’s written a lot of short stories in his time and he likes to take notes for himself about plotlines and twists for characters based on the messes he finds in real life. Another interest of his are animals! He loves animals a lot and can often be found talking to them as though they can understand him. Whether they actually can or not depends on the animal really, but he’s successfully nudged relationships together between animals before and he’d do it again. It was his main source of entertainment through the years he couldn’t leave the Garden. He’s also fairly good at different kinds of art because there simply wasn’t anything else to do.

Family
Father: ~~Blueberry Milk Cookie~~ Shadow Milk Cookie

Mother: Eternal Sugar Cookie

Siblings: This depends heavily on if one considers Candy Apple and Black Sapphire to be Shadow Milk’s children. Pavlova doesn’t know about them regardless, and he doubts they would know about him either.

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Pavlova Cookie Opt-Out

Pavlova Cookie is a bit annoying with his penchant for sticking his nose into everything with little regard for if it’s wanted or asked for, so that is something that people may want to avoid, but the main reason for this opt-out is his primary ability. Pavlova has the ability to essentially look into a person’s heart and see their relationships. This is not limited to romantic relationships, as he can see both romantic and platonic relationships, as well as being able to sense if a person wants certain relationships. If it has to do with their relationships in any form he can find it out from poking around long enough. From unrequited love to lies people tell themselves in relation to their perception of their relationships, he can see it all. If he focuses hard enough he can even read the story of a particular relationship. It’s a very specialized power, but it’s also very powerful. So I’d like to know if for one reason or another you’d like him to Not Do That. Or if you’d like to opt out of interacting with the little shipper entirely. The descriptions offer suggestions for people opting in, but opting out is always alright, and you can just put “No” into all of the sections. You can also just put what he can sense and nothing else if there are parts and pieces you don’t want him picking up on.

Opt out: Yes/No
Relationships he can read: This is the fun part! Tell me aaaaall about your character’s relationships. All of the important ties they have! This can be as detailed or simple as you like, or as you feel befits the importance of the relationship. If your character has a billion and one friendships with npcs, you can just say that. Have fun with it!
Beliefs they hold: Essentially, what parts of their relationships are they misinterpreting or lying to themselves about. Have they been willfully ignoring someone’s advances because they’re nervous the other isn’t serious about it? Have they been arguing with a friend over a total misunderstanding? Do they think that a relationship they want won’t work out for some reason? Do they want romance but don’t think they’re cut out for it because of their occupation or situation or something? He can sense that! Put it in!
Tropes: He is the CRK equivalent to a kid who reads fics on Ao3 to stave off depression. If you want him to call your character cringe I can see what I can do to make that happen. He’s already wrapping his head around Shadownilla Toxic Yaoi. This is also a less intensive option for those who don’t want him peeping their whole romance.
How does their heart look: I often like to embellish my writing with things like this, so sometimes I might refer to a character’s heart as though he is seeing a representation of it tangled in its relationship strings. Are there a bunch of severed ones hanging there? Are the strings squeezing it too tightly? Are the strings threatening to break? Loose? What are the strings made of? What does the heart itself look like? Is it like glass? Literally walled off? Drained of color?
Additional considerations: Anything you think is important that might not fall under the prior sections! His "knowledge of relationships" is very vague in it's scope so if you'd like him to learn something specifically to call them on it, this would be a good place to note that.
May I contact for more info: Yes/No. This is just here in case things change organically over time and/or i’m writing something specific and want to double check about the specifics of something mentioned above. “No” is for those who only want him referencing what is mentioned and nothing else.