Moon Rabbit Cookie

{{Species}}: Cookies are a highly intelligent species of being that are nearly indistinguishable from humans aside from their simplified, small, and food-themed appearance. Their diversity, motivations, and capabilities are very similar to those of humans in a modern fantasy setting, seeking community and fulfillment despite their original purpose being much less complex.

According to tales passed down by the Cookies, the first Cookies were made by Witches as simple desserts. Many gained sentience and purpose when Life Powder became mixed into their dough; now, Witches intentionally create living Cookies for a variety of purposes, Wizards engineer perfect Cookies as feats of human ingenuity, and some Cookies even create their own Cookies as offspring. Moon Rabbit Cookie may be a supernatural type of Cookie; due to having magical abilities while also looking like a bunny.

Character Inspiration:

Moon Rabbit Cookie is heavily based on the South Korean holiday of Chuseok (Korean: 추석), an autumnal lunar harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon. Her soft, globular fur and her affinity for rice cakes are both inspired by songpyeon (Korean: 송편), a type of rice cake attributed to and traditionally enjoyed during Chuseok. Notably, Moon Rabbit Cookie was also released a few days before Chuseok was set to occur in 2021, with her release date being September 16th in Korea and Chuseok taking place on September 21st or so.

Moon Rabbit Cookie's matching Decor Theme, Abundant Harvest Festival, is directly based on Chuseok and other festival holidays and includes numerous items inspired by other foods eaten during festivals, such as the Colorful Okchun Tea Set being okchun-dang (Korean: 옥춘당) and the Sikhye Well being sikhye (식혜).

Moon Rabbit Cookie also takes inspiration from the legend of the moon rabbit, a mythical figure common to multiple different cultures in East Asia that many cite as the initial inspiration for Chuseok. In Korea, the moon rabbit is referred to as daltokki (Korean: 달토끼)—which is written the same way as Moon Rabbit Cookie's name—and lives on the moon, using a mortar and pestle or similar implement to make soft treats like rice cakes. Moon Rabbit Cookie's Moon Mortar Picnic relates strongly to the legendary moon rabbit's own mortar and a figure resembling Moon Rabbit Cookie's rabbit form with a mortar can be seen overlain on the moon in the background of her gacha animation.

Overall, Moon Rabbit Cookie's carefree, joyful, and indulgent personality reflects the jubilant intemperance of Chuseok and other festivals.

Appearance:

{{Humanoid:}} Moon Rabbit Cookie is a short, rotund female with pale skin and scarlet eyes. Her hair is styled in a pixie cut with sweeping bangs that overlap her eyes and takes a porcelain color much like her dewlap and cotton bunny tail at her rear end; all of this "fur" seems to be solid, globular masses more similar to songpyeon (Korean: 송편) rice cakes rather than true hair. She also wears a swirled jujube barrette with two fronds against the bunny ears atop her head. Her lips takes an animal-like cat's mouth shape and sport a single round tooth at its center.

Moon Rabbit Cookie's shirt under her dewlap is peach with oversized sleeves striped broadly with lemon, peach, matcha, and chestnut colors. Her colorful sleeves are reminiscent of saekdongot (Korean: 색동옷) hanbok (Korean: 한복), differing from the traditional jewel tones by having a pastel pattern resembling mujigae-tteok (Korean: 무지개떡). She wears puffed mahogany shorts and white knee socks with scalloped edges.

Moon Rabbit Cookie always holds a cream-colored songpyeon in her obscured left hand.

{{In her animal form,}} Moon Rabbit Cookie appears as a simple, rotund rabbit made of flabby rice cake batter. Her ears and barrette are much the same as her Humanoid form, though her eyes are now simple crimson dots and she has only two slight paws. Her face altogether is quite small and is positioned high on her round body.

Trivia:

As stated in her loading screen factoids, "Look at the bright full moon! Quick, make a wish! Looks like Moon Rabbit Cookie is wishing for more rice cakes!" and "To Moon Rabbit Cookie, there's no such thing as bad rice cakes."

Moon Rabbit Cookie speaks in a childish way; for example, instead of saying "rice" she says "wice". Rather than "before" she'll say "befoa" indicating she doesn't know how to speak properly yet.