Mystic Flour Cookie

Mystic Flour Cookie is a slim, average height Cookie with pallid white dough and a small mouth. Her eyes contain thin, vertical white pupils with gray sclerae that occasionally become pure black at her will. Each eye is each fringed with prominent, powder-white eyelashes, with the upper lashes fading to a slightly more tan shade on the outer edges. She is often seen with her eyes either closed or only partially opened. Mystic Flour Cookie has long white hair with soft, curved bangs angled inwardly and parted in the center by the wheat-shaped ornament containing her Soul Jam. The back sections of her hair are divided into two long tassels with a light brown cap covering the ends, resembling dripping dough and perhaps hearkening back to the elongated earlobes of the historical Buddha and of Bodhisattvas, which usually reflect spiritual authority. The upper section of her hair is tied into a bun on the top of her head, giving her veil its height and a place to rest.

Mystic Flour Cookie wears a hanfu (Simplified Chinese: 汉服; Traditional Chinese: 漢服) beizi suit (Chinese: 褙子套装) of pure white aside from her tan waist skirt, with her pibo levitating in the air around her and above her arms. She also wears a plain, off-white veil with one beige tassel on either side, resembling wheat kernels. The veil, secured by her hair, does not come into contact with her sides or arms and is long enough to rest against the floor. Mystic Flour Cookie's only other accessory is a golden necklace with three diamond shapes at the front. She does not appear to wear shoes.

Aside from discrepancies created by movement, Mystic Flour Cookie's attire and facial features are almost perfectly symmetrical. She is hardly even seen smiling or frowning, always wearing a neutral expression. She almost always maintains the abhayamudra hand gesture.

Mystic Flour Cookie's convictions of continuous suffering, impermanence, and emptiness coincide closely with the teachings of Buddhism, in which the three marks of existence are duḥkha/dukkha (Sanskrit: दुःख; Pali: dukkha; Chinese: 苦, kǔ) (unease, suffering), anitya/anicca (Sanskrit: अनित्य; Pali: अनिच्च; Chinese: 無常, wúcháng) (impermanence), and anātman/anattā (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्; Pali: 𑀅𑀦𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸; Chinese: 無我, wúwǒ) (a state in which living things have no true soul, essence, or "self"); her wish for all beings to be freed from "the fear and pain of the perpetual cycle of being baked and crumbled" aligns with Buddhists' seeking of an escape from the cycle of saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) through an attainment of nirvāṇa (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; Pali: nibbāna; Chinese: 涅槃, nièpán), or enlightenment. Additionally, Mystic Flour Cookie's Light of Apathy more accurately translates from Korean (허무의 빛, heomu-ui bich) as the Light of Nothingness, Futility, or Emptiness, which directly correlates anattā/anātman—"the self" and the "essence" of living beings have no meaning nor existence, thus being "empty." Where Mystic Flour Cookie's ideology differs from Buddhism, however, is that she seeks to prematurely cut off the lives of every being regardless of their deeds; true Bodhisattvas of Buddhism seek to guide beings into attaining their own righteousness with the time they are given in life.

Regardless of her methods, Mystic Flour Cookie's actions still remain akin to the responsibilities of the Bodhisattvas—both seek to free sentient life from the mortal coil and influence them towards what they consider to be enlightenment.

Trivia According to her loading screen trivia, "If you find yourself surrounded by thick white fog, and things begin to seem meaningless... It might already be too late." Mystic Flour Cookie's Light of Apathy's original Korean name (허무의 빛, heomu-ui bich) more directly translates into English as Light of Nothingness/Futility. The Recruit Adventurers subpage of the 3rd Anniversary of Cookie Run: Kingdom website, being published on January 5th, 2024 at around 2:00 pm GMT +9, accidentally included far more information on Beast-Yeast and the Faerie Kingdom than was intended. Here, Mystic Flour Cookie, alongside Silverbell Cookie, Mercurial Knight Cookie, Elder Faerie Cookie, and the other Beast Cookies, was revealed. This content was swiftly removed and reinstated on the site's main page about 4 days later with slight changes. Mystic Flour Cookie is occasionally referred to in the game's files as "mystic flower." This misnomer occasionally appears in English promotional content as well, such as in the initial title of the English Awakening of White Apathy update (v5.5) trailer. She is the first Beast Cookie to have two Legendary Costumes. Despite being the first Beast Cookie, Mystic Flour Cookie is the last Beast Cookie to get her own assigned Resonant Topping Type. Mystic Flour Cookie's Japanese voice actress, Inoue Kikuko, is the mother of Red Osmanthus Cookie's Japanese voice actress, Inoue Honoka. Mystic Flour Cookie's Thai voice actress, Natchapoj Phatrayuttawat, is the mother of Sea Fairy Cookie's Thai voice actress, Wachira Permsuriya. maybe she was the master of the Ivory Pagoda