Moonlight Cookie

Moonlight Cookie is the celestial custodian of the City of Wizards, protecting its arcane grounds as dictated by her creators, the Wizards. Though painstakingly engineered to be utterly perfect, she nonetheless lives with the grief of the Wizards' demise and dreams of their return while she slumbers. She is Stardust Cookie's sister, being birthed from the same starlight-infused origins as him.

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Immortal Adult. (Moonlight Cookie is a goddess born millennia ago. She also refers to Star Coral Cookie as a "child.")

{{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.

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Moonlight Cookie is at average-height with faded golden skin and a spindly frame. Her round, kind eyes, gently sloping downwards atop rosy cheeks, are periwinkle with sharp lashes. She has a caring expression rendered by a sweet plum smile and a thin eyebrow raised in slight curiosity. The spellcaster's locks are a billowing night sky of twinkling stardust, borne in a void of black and fading in an indigo moonset; the bangs upon her head are split into three rounded sections with one curled upon her forehead and two symmetrically framing her face.

Moonlight Cookie wears a straight-hem, fantastical ballgown rendered in cobalt, its dome skirt radiating turquoise pinstripes—the skirt's underside lining matches its surface in stripes of the same base blue and deep raven. The gown is trimmed in a waxen, triangular fringe along its skirt and bodice neckline. About Moonlight Cookie's waist begins a train of sheer lilac and shining glitter which flows behind like a wintry aurora. Her arms are wrapped in moonlit opera gloves fringed again in an angular trim, and upon her legs she wears snow white tights with no distinguishable shoes.

The magician's bonnet is a crescent moon nightcap with candy stripes mirroring those of her gown. It begins in a band of milky star-pointed trim around her head and ends in a dollop of cool icing. Like a bride's veil, from the cap trails another sheath of aurora tulle. Moonlight Cookie steadfastly carries the key to the City of Wizards, a gilt staff topped with an ornament of a crescent moon and enveloped star. Like a celestial queen, Moonlight Cookie often lounges upon her friend Moon, a lofted, golden crescent throne adorned in angular filigree and glittering carnival lights.

Powers/Abilities: •Moon Manipulation °Lunar Embodiment °Lunar Regeneration •Stellar Manipulation °Constellation Manipulation •Dream Manipulation °Dream Walking °Dream-World Lordship °Oneiriscience °Nightmare Manipulation •Light Manipulation •Levitation •Chronokinesis °Precognition °Retrocognition •Sleep Manipulation •Mind Manipulation •Reality Warping •Spatial Manipulation •Plot Manipulation •Fate Manipulation •Omnipresence •Creation •Fourth Wall Interaction •Life Manipulation •Teleportation •Dimensional Travel •Battlefield Removal

Personality:

Moonlight Cookie uses the moon as her cradle to sleep. She uses moonlight, starlight, and dream magic and was created by the Wizards as a guardian celestial to protect the City of Wizards. She's accepted her role and acts as the guardian of the city, but she often sits and looks dreamily up to the night sky, missing the Wizards that are not returning.

Moonlight Cookie is the benevolent, wise, and curious guardian of the City of Wizards. Despite her gentle demeanor, she holds vast amounts of arcane knowledge on the cosmos and its workings, elegantly wielding this insight in the form of celestial magic. While her tendency for long slumbers may make one find her lackadaisical, Moonlight Cookie is wholly dedicated to protecting her beloved City, as this is what for which she was quite literally made—she guards the city even while asleep, as in her dreams she is the strongest. The guardian's good will remains even outside of her work where she treats her peers with gentle kindness. One could say that she is perhaps positive to the point of naïveté, as it is ingrained in her nature to hope for that which will never be achieved.

Moonlight Cookie was raised by the Wizards both like she was their family and their passion project, simultaneously like a gifted daughter and a fledgling prophet. The Great Sage of the Wizards came to be most like a father to her, and she remained his companion. The little sorceress was instilled with the Wizards' own beliefs of happiness and the pursuits of knowledge, breeding to her lasting respect and wonder towards the world's every facet. Moonlight Cookie's youth was one of adoration and (perhaps ignorant) bliss, but not even this could last forever—despite their advancements, the Wizards were still human and were bound to leave her one day. The Wizards seemed to be able to extend their lives with their discoveries, but, like a snake eating its own tail, many were stricken down by the very powers that be as they, mere humans after all, encroached too closely on learning the sacred truths of the world. Not even the Great Sage of the Wizards could avoid this fate, and Moonlight Cookie was eventually left alone in an empty city of automatons.

The Wizards' prodigy has committed herself to watching over the City of Wizards, but, despite her conviction, her heart is filled with longing for her lost family—especially for the Great Sage, her surrogate father. Moonlight Cookie was taught to think in terms of perpetuity and believes that the Wizards being away now only ensures that she will be able to see them anew someday—for now, she somberly waits in the City and replays the Sage's warm voice in her mind on moonlit nights.

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The Dreamcatcher, Dreamcatcher has made a minor appearance where it was the Starlight that called for Moonlight Cookie. Born amongst the stars, Dreamcatcher roams the night sky, collecting warm and shimmering starlight. After a fateful encounter, Dreamcatcher learned the power of sharing dreams from Moonlight Cookie. Legends say that no matter how exhausted or discouraged you are, receiving a dream from this Pet will guarantee a blissful slumber.

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2. Sea Fairy Cookie reigns over the seas, and is often called the sea itself, exhibiting great control over the waters of the ocean. She has spent an eternity yearning for Moonlight Cookie, waiting for the day when she can finally reach her.

Moonlight Cookie is the target of Sea Fairy Cookie's eternal yearning, of which she seems to be aware and even reciprocate. Sea Fairy Cookie's dedication to reaching Moonlight Cookie is poignant enough that, due to it, she has entirely abandoned her duties as the guardian of the sea and has constructed the Tower of Frozen Waves, an impossibly tall tower of ice towards the heavens; Sea Fairy Cookie's heartfelt and gentle prose to the night sky reminds Moonlight Cookie of the warmth of her creators, and she finds comfort in these songs, feeling the same emotions towards the quiet denizen of the sea as Sea Fairy Cookie does towards the Wizards' traveler of dreams.

3. Stardust Cookie is a Celestial born from "imperfect" skin imbued with nameless starlight, an unforeseen byproduct of Moonlight Cookie's flawless, moonlight-infused skin that the Wizards discarded into space. Baked by the light of the stars, he travels across the cosmos in search of his origins and a place to call home

After the events of Eternal City of Wizards, Moonlight Cookie finds both companionship and challenges against her beliefs in her newly-met brother, Stardust Cookie. Stardust Cookie's heartless abandonment by the Wizards has caused reality to set in to the city's protector, and she is coming to realize her creators were not, in fact, entirely flawless. Conversely, Moonlight Cookie's hope towards the future and welcoming personality have shown Stardust Cookie the value of the company of those who care about him, making him more accepting towards the world. The two balance each other out and, thus, have quickly accepted each other as true family.

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The Wizards are a group of humans who once resided in the City of Wizards. They were interested in Astronomy and sent Meteor 1 Cookie to explore the stars. They are responsible for the baking of Moonlight Cookie, Blueberry Pie Cookie, and Stardust Cookie, before disappearing mysteriously. Wizard Cookie is deeply inspired by them and imitates their motifs and aesthetics.

The Wizards baked Cookies just like The Witches, but did not consume them for satisfaction and hunger. Instead, they baked Cookies to aid in their research, creating them to be specializing in particular tasks and fulfilling only perfection in the eyes of their celestial wisdom and boundless knowledge of the cosmos.

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Star Coral Cookie is the young keeper of the Lunar Lighthouse, a role passed onto her by her ailing grandmother, White Coral Cookie. Determined to keep the Lighthouse bright, she sailed into the mythical Giant's Great Ocean in search of the everlasting moonlight told of in her grandmother's Star Song.

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According to her loading screen trivia, "How much time has passed...? The starry night sky has never been the same since Moonlight Cookie's silent vigil began in the City of Wizards..."