Cookie

Cookie is the Goddess of Wolves, but is best known as one of the only peaceful gods. In a world where the gods are known to cause conflicts and wars, most disregarded her as a minor god instead of praising her skills in upholding the peace in her packs.

Ever since becoming a goddess, she's been traveling to learn more about herself, her species, and her place in the world. Eventually, she settled down with her current pack, her pack she considers family. She does what she can to keep them safe, but can she protect them from dangers inside the pack she didn't know existed?

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Cookie is 4'11'' in height and often mistaken for a young wolf pup given her height and slender build. In reality, she's around 122 years old, but she stopped aging around 19 when she officially became a goddess. Her eyes are mismatched colors, her left eye (from her left) is pink, while her right eye is purple. Her hair is moonlight-white and usually wears it down, and has wolf ears instead of human ears, with a small tear in her right ear, with a tail to go with it.

### Clothing

Clothing wise, she chooses to wear something more casual than the other deities, which helps her seem more approachable and is also more flexible to help her in battle if needed. Her wardrobe of choice is a white button-up shirt layered with a black vest and a purple sweater decorated with vines and mushrooms, and a yellow skirt and a brown belt. She also wears a chain on her belt that has a Spore Blossom charm on it, a gift from Bren that matches a Wolf Fang charm he wears as a necklace, which also so happens to match the Spore Blossom she wears in her hair, which is also a gift from Bren.

## Behavior and Personality

Despite her past, Cookie tries her best to listen to everyone's point of views whenever there's an issue. When meeting new people, she's cautious, but tries her best to be open with them in order to gain their trust and understanding. Once getting to know someone and becoming close with them, she considered them apart of her pack, part of her family. She does what she can to keep them safe and make sure they're okay, mentally and physically. While she wouldn't consider herself to be in charge, many view her as their pack leader, at least in a protective kind of way. She doesn't want to come across as demanding or in control, but she does act as their leader if needed since they seem to see her as one.

She often wears armor as a means to protect herself, but doesn't typically carry weapons with her in order to not spook new people that she meets. She's also sworn against violence, and cannot participate in violence and conflict unless protecting those she cares about. But that doesn't mean she isn't a good fighter, many would even say she's the best warrior around, and a real force to be reckoned with. Though she seems small and harmless, she's actually quite the opposite if you get on her bad side.

## Powers

As the Goddess of Wolves, Cookie doesn't have many powers, but that can change later on in the lore. As of right now, her main ability is a physical boost she gets at night powered by the moon, which increases her strength and other senses. She also has the ability to sense the sincerity and true motivations behind peoples' words and actions, making it impossible for people around her to lie or keep secrets from her, even if they don't know that she knows.

## Representation

### Language and Heritage

Even though the culture of Cookie's pack has been lost and long forgotten thanks to the wars brought by her father and his father before him, she does what she can to preserve what she can learn. She's picked up bits and pieces of the language of her people from older members of her pack and other packs she met during her journeys.

> **ⓘ** ***The culture of Cookie's pack is based off of Choctaw, a real life Indigenous tribe. Please keep in mind that in real life Cookie is Choctaw and has done a lot of research into all of the Choctaw bits that she brings into her character's story!***
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### Sexuality

Cookie is Asexual Biromantic, meaning she doesn't experience sexual attraction towards her partners like other people do, but she does still experience romantic attraction to any gender.

## Backstory

### Life in the Pack

Cookie was born as the heir to her wolf pack, daughter of the pack leader, Balduf Conri. Since before she was born, the pack had been at war. Ever since Balduf became leader of the pack, he had gone after every other pack he could find. No one knew for sure where this ruthlessness came from, besides the fact that he followed the teachings of the gods, who thrived in chaos and spread conflict wherever they went. But it wasn't the gods of their ancestors that he followed, but instead the human gods who had come to power and taken over the deity scene. For Cookie's generation in the pack, all they knew was war and violence. Many grew up never knowing of their heritage, something Cookie tried her best to hold on to and preserve, since her father didn't seem interested in keeping the knowledge alive. She never really understood Balduf's reasoning for his rampaging, but everyone else in the pack seemed fine with it and followed along blindly. The only one who seemed to keep Balduf's recklessness under control was his mate, and Cookie's mother, Zalia. She did what she could to try and hold back Balduf before he could make any rash decisions that put the pack at risk, but often times he went through with them anyway. Even so, there were a few times where she managed to calm him down enough to get out of unnecessary conflicts, but it wasn't long before his aggression came back to bite them.

An enemy pack had decided to strike first against Balduf before he could attack them, and attacked the pack when they were least expecting it. Balduf and his warriors were able to put up a good fight, even managing to drive the other pack off and win the fight. Despite the pack's victory however, they weren't able to come out of the conflict unscathed, and innocent lives were lost, Zalia's being among them.

After her death, Balduf's rampage went unchecked. He was even more reckless with his attacks, and was even aggressive towards his own daughter when she didn't meet his expectations. Ever since she was old enough to hold a sword, Balduf had tried to teach Cookie how to fight, believing her to be the pack's next greatest warrior. He was persistent to raise Cookie in his own image so she would be able to take over the pack when he was gone, but she was never interested in fighting, and saw his wars and conflicts as pointless. While her mother was alive she sided with Cookie, doing what she could to keep Cookie's training to a minimum, and mostly focused on self defense. But after she passed, Balduf was less forgiving when Cookie avoided her training. Many of the other pack members her age made fun of her for her lack of interest in helping to protect the pack, which led her to feeling isolated and alone in her own family. It seemed that no one really saw her for who she was, but instead as an extension of Balduf to keep his legacy alive for longer, which was to cause destruction everywhere he went in order to please the gods.

Seeing as the gods were known for being the cause of all conflicts, Cookie was never a big fan of them. She much preferred the teachings of the ancient, long forgotten gods of her people, but there was nothing she could do to bring them back and restore the balance in the world they had once held. Instead, she thought she would shoot her shot at becoming a god herself. Her goal was to be a peaceful goddess, to prove to the world that not all gods were reckless and craved violence, even though most people saw her species as aggressive and dangerous. She also wanted to prove to her own people that they were more than just killing war machines, and to revive their faith in their own culture instead of turning to human practices and conforming to their way of life. Maybe one day, she would be able to put a stop to all of the wars her pack found themselves in, and to help them live a more normal and peaceful life. The way the human gods ruled left the world in a state of chaos and unbalance, threatening all life as they knew it. Hopefully one day through becoming a goddess, she would be able to restore the world to balance before it's too late, like the ancient gods of her people that came before her.

### Becoming a Goddess

Eventually, Cookie couldn't take the pressure anymore. She understood why her father was hard on her, and why he was desperate for her to be the warrior he wanted her to be, but that wasn't who she was. It was upsetting her to see that he refused to see her for who she was, but instead of trying to convince him of her point of view, she left. She had tried to talk to her father before about the idea of her becoming a peaceful goddess in order to help their people, but he just laughed at her. To him, peace was pointless, and believed that the pack would be much happier once they were in control of the entire world. If Cookie were to go become a goddess in order to push the imbalance in their favor and help him take over the other packs, he would have agreed, but he didn't believe in such thing as a peaceful god. Balduf would find someone else to take over the pack in her absence, someone more suited for the job than she was, but this was something she needed to do.

There had been many stories of mortals becoming gods, but all of them were stories of *humans* becoming gods, and many were believed to be myths. But regardless, Cookie had to try. The location of the gods was not well-known, and was said to only appear to those who were worthy of taking on the challenges of becoming a god. So when Cookie finally found it, she knew that what she was doing must be worth it.

She soon found herself face to face with Ajax, the King of the Gods. It was a formal meeting, with all of his children, the other major gods, present as well. She knew that he was required to hear her out before turning her away, and that this meeting didn't mean she was guaranteed the goddess position, but she had a goal in mind and she was going to follow through with it, even if that meant there was a possibility of her being struck down, and most likely killed, if he didn't like what she had to say.

Eventually though, Ajax agreed to take her on as a Goddess in Training, but only after she agreed that she would never take up arms or participate in conflict *unless* it was to protect those she considered to be apart of her pack. This was quite unusual for gods, because they were seen as symbols of conflict, but Cookie knew Ajax feared her because of what she was. With raw strength alone, her kind was more powerful than humans, so as a god she would be able to easily overtake the other gods in a heartbeat. This compromise was to save himself and his power over her, but she didn't mind. She wanted to be a peaceful goddess anyway, and this oath just contributed to that image.

But there was something else unusual about her training as well, and that was the god that trained her. For most other gods in training, they were trained by the eldest god, Tempest, unless their powers were more suited to another god. Cookie was named the Goddess of Wolves, and so her training was given to Terraco, the God of Fauna and Flora. Not only that, but Terraco was the youngest, and the most peaceful of his siblings, so he was often considered the weakest. She believed that Ajax had hoped that training under Terraco would limit her even more, and so he chose Terraco to oversee her training instead of Tempest.

During Cookie's training, she and Terraco grew closer and got to know each other a bit better. Oftentimes, Terraco was asking Cookie questions about her upbringing, and even her motivations to become a goddess. She was hesitant to tell him at first, especially after seeing the way she was treated by Tempest and Ajax, and was terrified Terraco was trying to get this information out of her to use against her. But as they grew closer, she realized that just wasn't true, and he was genuinely curious about her motivations and passions, so she told him everything. Something changed in him after that day, but Cookie couldn't quite place what, until he told her a few training sessions later. He told her that her story made him realize something about himself, and he opened up to her about the realization he had made. All his life he felt that he was different from his siblings, but he couldn't figure out why. But when he heard Cookie's story and why she wanted to become a goddess, he realized he felt the same way she did. He also did not understand the reasoning behind his sibling's violence and why the world had to be so focused on it all of the time, and wanted to do something about it. Especially, he wanted to do something about the imbalance his father had set in place when he took over as the new King of the Gods, destroying the old balance the Ancient Gods had set in place in order to protect the world and its inhabitants. Ajax claimed to care about his creations, when in reality all he cared about was staying in power. Suddenly, an alliance was formed, and a plan was set in place. A plan to take down Ajax, and any of the other gods that stood in their way.

Terraco continued training Cookie, but went behind his father's back to teach Cookie how to fight. If Ajax were to find out, the excuse would be that Terraco was teaching Cookie how to fight in self defense, which was partially true. Cookie mostly already knew how to fight from her father's lessons, but had also often avoided them, so the extra reminders didn't hurt. Besides, she would need the knowledge in order to properly protect her pack, even if Ajax didn't want her to be taught at all. After Cookie's training as a goddess was complete, she would go out into the world to see what she could do about her own goal, to find and protect her people, and make them gain faith in their own heritage again. In the meantime, both Cookie and Terraco would be looking for ways to take down Ajax, and stop him before he caused the downfall of the world.

### Finding Her Pack

After completing her training, Cookie immediately set off to visit her pack again. She was determined to prove her father wrong, and to show him that she could become a goddess to make a change in the world. But when she arrived, she found her pack was gone. Her father, and the rest of the pack, were dead.

At first, she was lost. She believed that she had failed in her goal, and that she was possibly the last of her kind alive. Terraco had mentioned something about how before humans were created, Ajax had ordered Tempest to wipe out all of the ancient species that had come before them, including Cookie's species. Apparently, Cookie wasn't even supposed to exist, and the fact that she and the rest of her pack did angered Ajax. Even so, she continued on her journey, in search of other packs like her own, hoping that if Ajax had gone after the other packs, that they had somehow gone into hiding and survived. Eventually, she did find them. And to her surprise, they weren't all corrupted by Ajax's teachings like her father had been. Many still believed in the old gods, even though they could feel that their presence was gone, and many still spoke their native language, even if they were forced to learn English in order to communicate with those outside the pack. Through her travels, Cookie learned a lot about her kind, where they came from, and even picked up fragments of the language as well. Once she leaves these packs to find her own way, she does what she can to keep using what she's learned so she doesn't forget it. What she doesn't know, is that she left an impact on everyone she spent time with and grew close to, and many considered her as a symbol of hope, and was often referred to as the Goddess of Peace and Safety, even though the title never really stuck until later.

After decades of traveling and learning about the world around her, she stopped when she came across a beautiful village that had been decorated with some of the plants from Lush Caves, such as glow berries and spore blossoms. It intrigued her, so she stayed for awhile to learn about the village and the people who lived there, which led to her meeting Trinity and Jenna, who were currently living next door to the village. During Cookie's stay, she grew rather close to both of them, and even considered settling down herself, or at least making a home she could consider her home base that she could come back to between her travels. But before she could make her decision, another traveler named Bren found his way to the village.

He was immediately drawn to the spore blossoms, and decided to make his new home there at the village where he could be close to the spore blossoms. Cookie never really understood his obsession with the flowers, but it soon became an after thought when she found herself wanting to get closer to him, and soon fell for him. Like Bren, she decided to settle down in the village. Little did she know, one of the factors that played into Bren's decision to stay was that he had fallen for her the first time he saw her, and thought she already lived in the village, and wanted to try and get to know *her* better. Their interactions were awkward at first as they tried to talk to each other, but eventually they managed to tell each other how they felt, and officially started dating. But at the time, Bren did not not that Cookie was a goddess.

As they settled down and started building their homes, other travelers found their way to the village in search of the spore blossoms, since rumors about the flowers had been spread throughout the world. Evie and Vivian soon both arrive at the village with their own interest in the spore blossoms. Likewise, Bren's interest in the spore blossoms seemed to increase as time went on, which doubled when he had other people to "advertise" the spore blossoms to. It worried Cookie, but at the same time she didn't want to take this away from him if it made him happy, so she watched from the sidelines to wait and see if the obsession would become dangerous before stepping in.

### A Long-Lost Friend

After living in the village for a few months, Cookie picks up her travels again, deciding to visit more villages to see what she can learn about the gods' effect on humanity. She had almost forgot about her part in her plan she had made with Terraco, and hoped he wasn't upset with her about the time that she had wasted. She promised her friends, who she now considered her pack, her new family, that she wouldn't be gone for too long, and then set off on her mission. But on her travels, she came across a village that was under attack. Her oath made it impossible for her to intervene, so she just stood by and watched, taking in the horror of what played out before her.

That was, until she heard a familiar voice. Suddenly overcome with a strong feeling to protect them, she rushed in to figure out who it was she heard, and why they had seemed so familiar to her. It wasn't until she ran into him, the figure running away, sobbing, from a burning house, that she realized who it was. It was Terraco, her mentor. But something about him was different. He didn't carry himself in the same way she remembered, like he didn't realize how important and powerful he was. She wasn't really sure what had happened to make him forget who he was, but she tried to hide the fact that she recognized him so she didn't confused him or scare him off.

Before he could even notice Cookie was there, however, he collapsed. Terrified for his safety and not knowing if the threat that had attacked the village was still around, Cookie took him to a nearby cave to let him rest. When he awoke, it was obvious he didn't know who Cookie was, so she tried her best to calm him down as she talked to him without revealing that she knew him from before he had lost his memory. He hadn't revealed a name to her, so she tried her best to not refer to him by name as they talked. That was until he told her the name his adoptive mother, the woman he had lived with in the village, had given him: Spencer. He told her about how he had lost everything, after not knowing who he was he finally had finally found a place he could consider home, and now it was gone. He was lost, a feeling Cookie knew all too well. She offered for him to come back with her, to stay at the village with the others until he was feeling better and was able to get back up on his own two feet. He was hesitant at first, but eventually agreed and followed her back home.

Upon arriving at the village, Cookie immediately introduced Spencer to the rest of the village. She could tell he was nervous at first, but hoped he would eventually be able to warm up to everyone and hopefully see them as his new family, as she did. But little did she know that trouble was brewing inside the village while she was gone, and something would soon hit them that she wasn't expecting.

## Plot

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