Cocoontje

**cocoontje** (formerly known as *saltedegg*) is one of the Cowie founders. She has a few pseudonyms, including her old usernames, saltedegg, and saltedeggcaramel. She was the fifth person joining the group.

## Character

As a child, she has always preferred to spend most of her time inside her own head, filling it with different thoughts, questions, and scenarios—something she still often does even after becoming an adult. Thanks to this, she often appears clumsy. She is often characterised as reserved, preferring to quietly observe from the sidelines rather than being at the centre of the action. Her workmates described her as hardworking, curious, quick learner, and also as the one who lifts the others’ mood, offering comfort when things are tense. She’s someone who’s on a good term with almost everyone, but is close with almost none.

Being a deep thinker, she always seemed more mature than her peers at young age, which made her often choose to sit with adults during gatherings than with the other kids. This trait also often makes her seem cold and distant as when she’s in her thinking mode, she would basically ignore the people around her. However, when she’s being present, she can be a pretty sensitive person as her emotions are easily influenced by her surroundings. She could usually sense someone’s mood. While generally patient, she could be ruthless as well, choosing to “delete” someone from her life if their presence became excessively draining for her to handle.

Having a habit of giving others close to her a nickname, **neeaclyne** develops 'doccu' name for cocoontje because she's the doctor of the cowie, and the doctor of neeaclyne both mentally and phsically. neeaclyne appreciates cocoontje as one of her closest friends, a considerate and smart girl. Countless times, neeaclyne expresses her gratitude of cocoontje's born in this world.

## History

### Early life

cocoontje was born in 1996 in a small coastal city as the oldest of four siblings. She spent her childhood in the same city, residing there until she earned her secondary school diploma. One month before graduation, she temporarily moved to another coastal city for her studies. In late 2014, she moved to Hamburg and lived there for a short period of three months, before moving further east to yet another coastal city. A few years later, she started to study human biology at one of the oldest universities in Germany, but stopped during her bachelor thesis due to personal reasons. She’s currently residing in another coastal city in Belgium. In her words, *“I don’t know how it feels like to live far from the sea; having moved four times, all five cities I’ve called home are all coastal cities. What are the chances?”*

### Interests

Growing up, cocoontje has always been interested in various forms of art, but the one art form she spent the most time doing was music. When she was in the fifth grade, she was chosen to join her school’s music group as one of the recorder players. Around this time, she also started to get piano lessons, but she eventually stopped after about a year. In her seventh year, she joined another music club at her school. About two years later, she began to play piano again as she felt called to help the music department in her church. Later she also started to learn to play guitar and violin, although she stopped not long after, saying that both instruments didn’t sit right with her, and she felt like she couldn’t connect with them, unlike with a keyboard. Besides music, she also loved crafting things, although she didn’t have many opportunities to do it as a hobby. And although drawing wasn’t her strongest suit, she would often doodle during her classes. She started to try to draw more in 2020, during the pandemic. And it was only after she moved to Belgium when she started considering to put more time on it, thanks to her partner’s and his family’s support.

One of the things she loves is reading, especially fairy tale books. Her love for fairy tale books stemmed from her father, who often bought her story books when she was little. Many times, she would hide to read story books instead of her school books. Growing up, she began to develop interests in other genres as well. Some of the books she loves are *Little House Series, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Alchemist, The Chronicles of Narnia,* and many more. Probably because of this hobby, she also developed an interest in writing. She attempted several times to write during her school years, but it wasn’t until 2022 when she started to do it more seriously. cocoontje doesn't identify as a hardcore gamer, but she does find occasional enjoyment in gaming. *Harvest Moon: Back to Nature*, one of her favourite games, played an important role in inspiring the cowieowiemooing project.

### Career

> *“My life has always turned in ways I didn‘t expect, but those twists have been the source of many valuable experiences I wouldn't have encountered otherwise.”*
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During her university years, she accumulated work experience in three different places: an Asian restaurant, a laundry service, and a fast-food chain. After relocating to Belgium, she spent a year in hotel room service before transitioning to the hotel’s bistro. Initially hired as a washer, she later became a barista, and most recently, she was appointed as a pastry chef at the same bistro.

She’s still holding tight onto her dream to release a farming game and write a book.

## Works

At the beginning, she contributed in making a few of the character’s theme songs. After she began to draw again, she also started to help in designing a couple of things necessary for the game project.

* Where Forever Began (in progress)
* Olivier’s theme song
* Elise’s theme song
* Reanne’s theme song
* Yummi’s theme song
* Winter theme song
* Sad theme song
* I forgot what else ahahaha
* Creator of the Kunos and the Pummels, as well as several other characters.

## Trivia

* The name *cocoontje* came from the word cocoon, added with the suffix -tje. Cocoontje is a nickname her partner has given her, thanks to her habit of wrapping herself in a blanket, resembling a cocoon.
* In Dutch, “-tje” is a diminutive suffix that is added to the end of a noun to indicate smallness or endearment. It is similar to adding “-ie” or “-y” in English. For example, “huis” means house, and “huisje” would mean a small house or cottage.
* Besides english, she also speaks german and dutch. In total, she can speak four languages. Despite being able to communicate in four languages, she humorously claims that she speaks them all like a six-year-old.