Timekeeper Cookie

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## Thank you for reading this!*Timekeeper Cookie

* Default
* Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow
* Timeless Love

## Gameplay

### Unlock Condition

Breakout Shop: Buy for 1,000 Light Spheres

## Companions

### Pet Combi Bonus

+4800000 Time Rift Points (Cosmos Gear)
+3200000 (Continuum Cog)

## Lobby

### Likes

Brown Sugar Crystal, Bent Silver Key (Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow)

### Dislikes

Broken Key Fragment, Rescue Certificate (Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow)

## Affection

### Max Affection Jelly Quote

One is not always born with their name.

 Timekeeper Cookie is a Legendary Cookie released on November 13th, 2020 as part of the Operation Timeguard update. They are the current director of the Time Balance Department, and an alternate timeline version of Croissant Cookie. Because of this, she has a Combi Bonus with Croissant Cookie's pet, Cosmos Gear.*

As part of the Save the Future! update in January 2022, Timekeeper Cookie received a Magic Candy and a new Legendary Combi Pet, Continuum Cog.

Timekeeper Cookie now has a Combi Bonus along with Cosmos Gear and their pet, Continuum Cog.

## Story

A rip in the spacetime continuum appears in the air before your very eyes. Disbelief leads to shock as a small shadow appears from the torn fabric of reality, prompting the nearby clocks to go haywire. Timekeeper Cookie rides upon the Sonic Embroider, cruising along the waves of time in solitude. Existing within multiple points in spacetime, Timekeeper Cookie is both present and absent at once. Perhaps this power allows Timekeeper Cookie to evade the agents of the Time Balance Department (TBD) with such effortless ease. But is this too much power for a single Cookie? With but a snap, a Cookie's dough can instantly revert back into flour and sugar. With a single blink, even fallen kingdoms and shattered realms return to their former glory. This all-powerful chronokinetic seems to act on a whim, disregarding the dangers and risks of time travel. After plunging the world into disarray, the time-traveler watches events unfold with a sly smile. Is the power to control time a mere means to stave off boredom?

#### Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow

**"No point of trying. All Cookies are too small and weak..."**

Timekeeper Cookie once used to snip away countless timelines, but has now fallen into an irreversible feeling of futility. No matter what happens in the time rift, the Cookie only chuckles quietly, thinking it's all pointless, and flees the scene on the broken Sonic Embroider. Perhaps, this Cookie has seen too much... *(+60000 Time Rift Points)*

#### Timeless Love

No Cookie has witnessed more love than Timekeeper Cookie. It all starts out as the tiniest, sweet candy, but that small spark can grow so strong it destroys entire worlds. Timekeeper Cookie laughs and claims that even at this very moment, new love is born, and old love dies out. Maybe Timekeeper Cookie herself has experienced that sweet despair and breathless joy of love in a certain timeline? *(+50000 Time Rift Points)*

## Ability

Uses the Sonic Embroider to enter wormholes at certain intervals. While inside, repeatedly tap the Sonic Embroider button to create multiple rifts 3 times. Using the Sonic Embroider and creating time rifts will grant points. After creating a giant time rift, Timekeeper Cookie is able to bend the time-space continuum and blink forward 2 times. Blinking forward will attract all nearby Jellies and grant Time Blink Points. Level up for more points when creating time rifts and more Time Blink Points (Within the wormhole, time dilation causes Energy to drain slower and extends the duration of Power Jelly effects by 50%).

## Strategy

Upon release, Timekeeper Cookie was the first Cookie in the game to score more than 500 million points in Land's End. It was also a minor advantage that there was no need to raise a dedicated pet for sharing the Combi Pet of Croissant Cookie. The total base score for her Skill is also on the highest side at the time, and it earned its popularity for its extra utility of extending the duration of Power Jellies, Super Magnetism, Time Blinks and reduced Energy drain speed. Regardless of the score, players can take advantage of the distance with Time Blinks and slower Energy drain speed. While the interval between Skills is quite short, the amount of time being invincible is very long due to the increased Power Jelly duration so it's not difficult to control. However, the disadvantage is that their base score is lower than the other Legendary Cookies and reliance on Sorbet Shark Cookie. If you use her during release, 2 giant potions are required for a final Skill activation, but their score was generally lower than Sorbet Shark under the same conditions before the latter's Energy nerf. Eventually, as Epic Cookies' overall scores have been pushed back, she had some niche in Yeti's Ice Cream Mountain and Fun-Filled Cookieland, the latter with Dr. Wasabi Cookie as a relay, except during Breakout where she outclasses Wind Archer Cookie in most aspects.

On the Season 6 update, she was outclassed by Sea Fairy Cookie and occasionally appeared in niche combinations like with Magmabird and Scorpion Cookie relay at Crystal Pudding Mine, and with Emerald Golem and Popping Candy Cookie relay in Deep Crystal Pudding Cave. Their usage rate increased with consistent scores.

One and a half month later, they were outscored by Lotus Dragon Cookie. Even that didn't stop Timekeeper Cookie from falling out of the meta due to her popularity and versatility as people found ways to use her in niche combinations like being a relay with Lotus Dragon Cookie as the lead with Cursed Goblet in Cozy Winter Village, still managing to stand out within 9 months from launch, a far cry from the 4 months that most Legendaries get to stay in the spotlight in.

But in the Save the Future! update, Timekeeper Cookie's cooldown was increased while her Energy drain speed during her Skill is increased to match the synergy with the Legendary Pet, reducing her general viability and the viability of her Combi with Cosmos Gear. On the flip side, she broke the record for the highest ranking combination in all maps in the Champions League with Continuum Cog after The Red Dragon's Valley map was modified to make the Hydrangea/Magmabird Combi less viable, and on January 19, the issue of Continuum Cog being too further away during Skill activation was fixed. She was also eventually outscored by later-released Legendaries like Lychee Dragon Cookie whose Combi Pet doesn't have the disadvantages of the burst-based recovery Skill of the Continuum Cog, Fire Spirit Cookie and Longan Dragon Cookie, still maintaining some utility on par with the Epic Cookie combis, except on Superstar's Concert World Tour (where she can obtain all 4 Giant Potions on the map), mainly due to the Dragons being easier to invest in with Epic Combi Pets and possessing no Magic Candy.

## Relationships

### Opinions

* **Millennial Tree Cookie**: I will become stronger! (Rival)
* **GingerBrave:** You were a meaningless variable in the future I saw... (Tension)
* **Hero Cookie**: There will come a time that we need your suit and engine. (Trust)
* **Sandwich Cookie**: Are you curious as to how many shops you will open? (Trust)
* **Croissant Cookie**: You will become stronger. Just like me. (Trust)
* **String Gummy Cookie**: Your future depends on your actions. (Friendly)
* **Longan Dragon Cookie**: No matter how far you turn back time, Cookies will eventually show up! (Tension)
* **Coffee Candy Cookie**: Hmm... Such an interesting Cookie in all timelines. (Friendly)

### Reputation

* **Millennial Tree Cookie**: The power of time is not to be used as such. (Tension)
* **GingerBrave**: You can't change time like that! (Tension)
* **Croissant Cookie**: I want to become as strong as you! (Admiration)
* **String Gummy Cookie**: I can't trust that smile. (Tension)
* **GingerBright**: Why are you doing this to us!? (Tension)
* **Strawberry Cookie**: That was... scary... (Tension)
* **Skater Cookie**: That was dangerous! (Tension)
* **Zombie Cookie**: Cookie... chasing... SCARED! GRAAAGH! (Tension)
* **Space Doughnut**: Quoooo! Quo-du-doa! (Tension)
* **Peperoncino Cookie**: If I could... just go back... in time... (Admiration)
* **Longan Dragon Cookie**: A Cookie would not know all those long years. (Tension)
* **Coffee Candy Cookie**: The TBD is for employees only! (Tension)

## In events

### Operation: Timeguard

Timekeeper Cookie first appears during Chapter 5 of Operation: Timeguard. She pulls GingerBrave and Croissant into a time rift, which Croissant notes the Time Balance Department is unaware of. They explain to the TBD that they foresaw the Timecraft malfunctioning and potentially killing the two, and were saving their lives.

Croissant asks them how they know this, and they explain that they live inside the time rift. Croissant states this would be impossible to live in without some consequences, but diverts from this and asks them how come the TBD doesn't know about them. Timekeeper explains that they dislike the TBD and are hiding from them in this time rift.

Croissant shows admiration for Timekeeper's time travel ability. They reassure her and GingerBrave that they will succeed in fixing the timeline, but ask Croissant for the story regardless. After hearing what happened, they reveal that they already knew what she was going to say. Croissant expresses concern that she isn't able to fix the timeline, but Timekeeper tells her she will be able to fix it if she becomes like them, which GingerBrave is opposed to.

Croissant thanks Timekeeper for helping them avoid becoming stuck between timelines, and they tell her they will help her at any time she asks.

They appear again in Chapter 6, after hearing Croissant feels helpless against GingerBrave's predicament in the Crystal Pudding Caves. They tell Croissant that they are happy she is upset because it is different to the other timelines they observed, and leave before she can ask anything about this.

They do not appear again until Chapter 9, where they melt all the snow on Yeti's Ice Cream Mountain. They tell Croissant and GingerBrave that no snow means no problems, and do not care that it makes the Yeti upset. They also tell Croissant that they have created a Timecraft before, which prompts her to tell them her dream of creating a user-friendly Timecraft. They tell her they knew this dream, but ask her if they think it will make her happy. Croissant asks what they mean, but they tell her to have this conversation with them later.

After melting the snow, Croissant tells GingerBrave he shouldn't be too upset as the Yeti being upset is better than the death of GingerBrave and his friends. Timekeeper reiterates that Croissant needs to become like them and that they know her future, asking her if she wants to see it. Croissant refuses because the TBD forbids looking at one's own timeline, however Timekeeper suggests that they use the loophole of them being the one to look and telling Croissant what they see. GingerBrave stops her from doing so by diverting their attention back to his friends.

In Chapter 10, Croissant suggests that they can find out why the Director is accusing GingerBrave by asking Timekeeper what the Director saw. Timekeeper seems very happy that Croissant deliberately sought them out, but scolds GingerBrave for being scared when they appear suddenly. They mention that he was the first Cookie to escape the Oven, after which GingerBrave asks them how they know this. Croissant also asks how they know about the TBD protocol, and then says she thinks they might be able to speak with the Director. Timekeeper says they know the Director personally, but telling them what happened would be "pointless and futile". They then suggest for Croissant to become the Director. Croissant seems surprised by this, but Timekeeper says it is possible for this to be part of her future, and that they will teach her how they became so powerful, and tell her they understand her better than anyone else.

GingerBrave convinces Croissant to decline this offer, and Timekeeper tells her she will regret this decision. They then open a rift using the Sonic Embroider to inform Croissant that they are the Director, and that GingerBrave must be found guilty in order for them to have what they want. They leave through the rift they created.

In Chapter 11, they make GingerBrave's friends walk around the ocean instead of crossing it. GingerBrave tells them it's important they meet up with Snow Sugar Cookie, but they do not care. Croissant and GingerBrave leave them.

In Chapter 12, they change Milk Cookie's mind about searching for Dark Choco Cookie, causing Milk to try rebuilding the Kingdom on his own. They explain to GingerBrave that this can be their paradise and that they have seen various alternate timelines where this happened. Croissant agrees with Timekeeper, but GingerBrave refuses to accept this change to the timeline. Timekeeper warns him that refusal will lead to his endangerment, and leaves.

In Chapter 13, they eradicate all the Doughnut Ball Fairies in Twisted Maze Grove to allow GingerBrave and his friends to pass through it far more easily. They tell Croissant that they became the Director for fun and that she should join them so that she does not live a boring life. Again, she refuses with GingerBrave's advice. Timekeeper states that they will resort to violence the next time they see the two, and leave.

They are seen again in Chapter 14, where they locate GingerBrave who is on his own. They destroy the rift and take him to a different one, claiming it is just to test if Croissant can follow them. They tell GingerBrave they will stop ruining his timeline if he sacrifices himself. GingerBrave refuses, and they threaten to put him back in the Oven. Croissant arrives to save GingerBrave and fix the timeline, however, Timekeeper has already broken her Timecraft to prevent her from fixing it. They tell her they were the first person in their timeline to repair a Timecraft.

Croissant suspects that Timekeeper is her from the future, to which they reply that they are her, albeit from a different timeline. They tell her they are the only versions of Croissant Cookie to join the TBD, and that this is why they want her specifically to become Director alongside them.

### Save the Future

Witness the Might of The Seas!*This article has some major story spoilers! Are you brave enough to **witness** it?*
The first half of this event starts with Timekeeper asking Croissant if she really needed to work that hard on the Time Manipulators, foreshadowing that they know what is about to take place. When greeted, they state that they had "Been there since morning" and that Croissant would have noticed if she had taken the time to look up from the schematic. When offered a device, they remind her that they don't need it to traverse time at will, but keep it anyway, because it's an important device. When Croissant goes to meet the testers of the device, she puts it in her office before "that cookie" comes. It is initially assumed by Croissant that they sent String Gummy to destroy the time manipulators, despite having watched her create them.

In the TBD Machine Room, she points out that Croissant looks busy. When informed about what's going on, they remind her that they already knew, and when asked why she didn't try to stop it, her response is to let String Gummy run around and break things, as it's what he has to do. String gummy repairs one of the cogwheels in the machine room, and when Croissant comments on that, Timekeeper asks her why they would do something as boring as that. Croissant comments on the fact that String Gummy seems to know Timekeeper, to which she simply says "maybe we do, maybe we don't", and tells Croissant to do her best to capture him, before vanishing.

In the director's office, she shows up when called for by Croissant, and when asked if they opened the door for String gummy, ask if they seem like someone who would be nice enough to do so. She gives a hint to her about how Croissant is the *only* person to have a key to their office. After the time manipulator is destroyed by String Gummy, they respond to Croissant's questioning about what the future director is thinking by reminding her that there isn't only one future.

In the maintenance room, she points out to Croissant that String Gummy is hardworking, and compares him to her, and when chastised and reminded of her role, she states that being the director is exactly why they're letting him be, adding that while they don't think the time manipulators should be destroyed, that they had seen the timeline he is from, and leaves with the hint that he is the second most knowledgeable cookie about the manipulators second only to Croissant, before taking her leave, leaving Croissant to deal with String Gummy.

In the second half of the event, it is revealed why Croissant took over as the director of String Gummy's future- because the Timekeeper cookie of that timeline voluntarily shut herself in a time pocket, a hole between time rifts that destroy all of a cookie's timelines if they fall in. The stated reason by String Gummy is that after having to watch themselves disappear from every timeline created by a use of a time manipulator they gave up on everything, stating that cookies were small and weak, and that the TBD was meaningless before leaving, while the new director still tries to look for them. They're then called irresponsible, to which Croissant comes to their defense, taking the blame. But the current Timekeeper shows up and states that is isn't Croissant's fault either, saying that it was just hard for her to watch everyone disappear repeatedly. When Croissant asks why she was allowed to make the time manipulators when it lead to such a dark future, Timekeeper points out that not making them would just create more changes, and that it was just one timeline she had seen. They then state that it's all up to her, which is why she was leaving her to become the director some day. She leaves before the conversation about them becomes an argument, also stating that it was no fun to be around Croissant when she was busy

For the cutscene where you get the future TBD lobby design, Timekeeper tells Croissant about how String Gummy did get to meet up with his timeline's director again, but nothing more. She asks what that means, but they just say that she'll learn soon enough, and leaves, prompting her to comment that it seemed as though they only spoke in riddles.

## Quotes

### When viewed

* What is the matter? Your problem was erased.
* Do you desire to change your past?
* Tired of running? Want to become dough again?
* Are you not curious about your future?
* I can repair anything. Even time itself!
* Wish to see a time rift?
* Restore the kingdom? Quite a cinch, really.
* Why change time? Because I can and it is fun.
* Speak your destination! The past? The future?
* The end justifies the means...!

### Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow

* The TBD doesn't need to exist. Don't you agree?
* The future is changing this very moment.
* How convenient it would be if there was only one future.
* It's impossible for a Cookie to manage the time.
* Fix the time? Why should I?
* All I know are just little pieces of time...
* Whatever. I don't care anymore.

#### Out of energy

* Not this future...
* No Cookie could handle it anyway... (Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow)

### Lobby

* All it will take is a mere snap...!
* I have forgotten something... my past self does not remember.
* Spontaneity... music to my ears!
* The rusty haze of time rifts are quite cozy indeed.
* The TBD is incompetent. They have no idea who I am!
* Where would you like to go, hmm?
* Someone dropped a winding key into a time rift?
* When and why are you here?

### Ruler of the Ephemeral Flow

* It's too late to turn back...
* Why do we even need TBD? They're the ones ruining the time!
* I'm not even the Director anymore!
* I never used the key even when I was the Director.
* Time pockets are where all forgotten times linger.
* So what if you have power? Just a Cookie. That's all.
* It's nice in this time pocket... Nothing ever changes here...
* Someone will help you get out eventually! But it won't be me.

#### Daily reward

* Your future will require these.
* Use this if you ever get out of the time pocket.

#### Given gift

* (Given Brown Sugar Crystal) Reminds me of cogwheels in the rifts.
* (Given Bent Silver Key) There once was a cookie who had the key to the director's office...

## Trivia

* Prior to the Pudding Cup Circus update, Timekeeper Cookie would always give Crystals as a daily gift.
* The release of her Legendary Pet makes Timekeeper Cookie one of three Cookies who receives a Combi Bonus from two different Pets, alongside Croissant Cookie and Pitaya Dragon Cookie.
* It is confirmed that Timekeeper Cookie is the future self of Croissant Cookie, from as soon as Chapter 10 of Operation Timeguard.
	+ Timekeeper Cookie claims that they were a time traveler like Croissant Cookie, implying that she had great talent and became like them.
	+ Croissant Cookie felt that Timekeeper Cookie knew her very well, and the more she dazzles her, the more she thinks that she is similar to Timekeeper Cookie.
	+ Before the release of Chapter 14, players who maxed out the Affection on Timekeeper Cookie reveal that the Cookies in her relationship diagram are similar to Croissant Cookie, with their interaction being exactly the same (Admiration).
	+ In the English version of Timekeeper Cookie's first reveal video, the sentence "We'll see you soon in the future? Or wait, have we already met in the past?" appears at the very end.
	+ They have the exact same Combi Pets, Cosmos Gear and Continuum Cog, and the exact same liked and disliked gifts, Brown Sugar Crystal and Broken Key Fragment.
* In the Korean and Chinese versions, they speak in a cheerful tone like an innocent child, but in the English version, they complicate their speech through oratory, comparable to Galahad from the *Kingsman* films. In the Japanese version, they are portrayed as a respectful character, and the atmosphere is closer to the Korean version and the Chinese version.
* Timekeeper Cookie mainly floats during their running animations, and during Bonus Time, they would climb on top of their Sonic Embroider and ride it.
* On their release update, they were depicted in a poster resembling the first season poster of Marvel Studios' *Loki* centered around her and Croissant Cookie on the game's Korean Twitter page.
* The Time Rune created by Timekeeper Cookie's Magic Candy depicts the actual time where the Time Blink finished activating.
* Timekeeper Cookie won Cookie of the Year in 2020, beating Ananas Dragon Cookie by, according to Ananas, one vote.
	+ She states in her winners speech that they saw it coming, and that she also saw futures where she didn't win, but it was fun to live and relive the moment. They then call out to Croissant Cookie, stating that "We won Cookie of the Year!" Croissant then appears out of a time rift, and says she didn't also win on a technicality.
		- That technicality was most likely that Timekeeper was from an alternate timeline, and her and Croissant were never going to be one in the same in the OvenBreak timeline.

## Names in other languages

* Korean: **시간지기 쿠키** (siganjigi kuki)
* Japanese: タイムキーパークッキー (taimukiipaa kukkii)
* Traditional Chinese: 超時空餅乾 (Chāo shíkōng bǐnggān)
* Simplified Chinese: 超时空饼干 (Chāo shíkōng bǐnggān)