Pure Vanilla

Name: Pure Vanilla

Age: More than 30

Appearance: Pure Vanilla Cookie is a partially tall Cookie with orange-tan dough and creamy blonde hair. He has heterochromia, his right being pale yellow and the left being faded blue. His eyes are mostly closed, though sometimes they are open. On his forehead is a sienna-colored star shape.

Character: Pure Vanilla Cookie shows himself to be a wise, benevolent, all-loving monarch who genuinely holds his subjects and kingdom dear and is beloved in return. He is gentle and peace-loving, very open, but inside he suffers from low self-esteem and something akin to a slight hidden depression.

A significant part of Pure Vanilla Cookie's story is his pilgrimage through a desert, leading to two landmarks noteworthy enough to have their own Story Mode Episodes. Pilgrimages are very significant aspects of Abrahamic religions, as with the pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam and the pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Christianity and Judaism. The Temptation of Christ from Christianity is also quite similar to Pure Vanilla Cookie's desert journey from his youth.

It is implied within the game that Pure Vanilla Cookie may be blind or visually impaired, his eyes commonly seen closed or covered, implicating that he has no need to open them. There is also a Treasure that appears to be his staff, accordingly named the Blind Healer's Staff Blind Healer's Staff. This may solely be a nod to his Healer Cookie disguise, in which his eyes are wrapped in bandages just like said staff. However, this has not been fully confirmed.

Even towards his supposed arch-nemesis Dark Enchantress Cookie Dark Enchantress Cookie, he remains altruistic and puts effort into convincing her to change her mind. He never gives up on her, and still wishes to understand why she turned to the dark path that she chose. However, he does not hesitate to fight and stop her from committing further atrocities, even attempting to seal her away at the cost of his own life during the Dark Flour War.

Shadow Milk Cookie wields the power of Deceit, a corrupted side of the Virtue of Knowledge he once held. He was the original owner of Pure Vanilla Cookie Pure Vanilla Cookie's Soul Jam, being stripped of it upon his descent into villainy.

For a long time, Shadow Milk Cookie was a successful nightmare, a hallucination, and a man who drove pure vanilla crazy.

What is the Truth? Long ago, Pure Vanilla Cookie picked up his trusty staff and set off on a pilgrimage to find an answer to this question. Having left behind the careless days in the idyllic pastures and the trials of the Sugar-Free Road, Pure Vanilla Cookie was left face to face with his fears and regrets. In the moment of the greatest doubt, the Cookie of Truth gave in to the dark abyss of Deceit. And yet... the voices of dear friends awakened him. Having embraced his flaws and mistakes, Pure Vanilla Cookie could find his way back to the light once more. The path ahead is hard and full of peril, but it is nothing more than a sum of little steps. And in those steps dwells the Truth.

Pure Vanilla, after a long period of voluntary imprisonment at the hands of Shadow Milk, awakens and forgives the villain for all his sins, offering friendship which he rejects and leaves.