💛✨。.. Golden Cheese Cookie ✧

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Golden Cheese Cookie has a golden burst of hair and baked-brown dough. Her eyes are also golden with white outlines and eyebrows, and a green pattern underneath them. She boasts a pair of golden arc-shaped wings with a green triangle pattern on their edges.

She wears a golden headdress on her head that contains her Soul Jam, with a perfect cheese triangle topping it and two longer triangles on the sides of her head. Her upper half is half-covered by a wide gold and green collar with outward spokes, while her lower half is covered by a linen skirt with an orange belt. She wears golden bracelets on her hands and wields a spear with two triangles on its ends pointed in the same direction, with the triangle on the point sporting holes similar to Swiss cheese.

Golden Cheese Cookie wields the Light of Abundance due to her desire for a prosperous future and willingness to share that future with others. Even long past the time she was the queen of the real Golden Cheese Kingdom, and having no subjects besides the Cheesebirds, she remained true to her beliefs, her love for her subjects and treasures, as well as her status as a fabled hero who valiantly protected those around her. Once she learned of the new threat that Burning Spice Cookie posed to her kingdom, she revived Smoked Cheese Cookie in order to take the Soulcheese of Mozzarella Cookie and Burnt Cheese Cookie to safety, even after his betrayal and plot to overthrow her. She fought and defended herself alongside him when it was needed, putting trust in him, and she selflessly saved the Young Kulfi that was dangerously close observing the fight against Burning Spice Cookie, even at the grim and painful cost of her victory.

Golden Cheese Cookie was... challenging.

[...] [Her snarky and cynical demeanor] created a problem of [her] chemistry with the other Ancient Cookies, known for their noble, selfless spirits. [...] Golden Cheese Cookie striving to surround herself in opulence, however well-intentioned, was looking too selfish and greedy. We realized that our initial idea, portrayed in The Art of CookieRun: Kingdom, was a bit too unfavorable. [...] For example, the book says that upon each of the many festivals held in the kingdom, the denizens were supposed to donate their gold to their queen.

[...] During a concept meeting for the Golden Cheese Kingdom, one of the artists asked us, "Why is such a vain, selfish Cookie called a hero?" [...] How could we portray "greed," typically a negative quality, in a way that our players can empathize with? [...] In the end, our team came up with a completely new idea of greed and desire for opulence, and [...] it suited Golden Cheese Cookie perfectly and transformed her into a very likable character.

Golden Cheese Cookie's character traits as implied in The Art of Cookie Run: Kingdom were significantly changed in between this original conceptualization and her proper release. Cookie Run: Kingdom's creative team felt that Golden Cheese Cookie's initial personality was far too "unfavorable," especially when compared to the other outwardly selfless and noble Ancient Heroes: she was manipulative and overreaching towards her people, being largely only concerned about herself. Developers described her as "cynical," "ill-willed," and "vain."

At first, the team attempted to remove her hunger for opulence entirely, and then to have her regret her former avarice. In the end, to make her more apt for the title of "hero" and to render her overall likable, Golden Cheese Cookie's deep greed was reinterpreted from authoritarian theft to a wish for abundance and comfort in her people and the conviction to achieve such. Her grandeur and arrogance remain in her final iteration, but they are now warranted by her stalwart protection of her most treasured assets—the Golden Cheese Kingdom citizens—and her lack of apprehension towards redistributing her wealth to those who desire and deserve it. Relatedly, Golden Cheese Cookie was also given a sympathetic angle in the Dark Flour War genocide of her people; this trauma provided players with a reason to root for her while instilling in her character a legitimate reason to disappear from the narrative—as the Ancient Heroes all did at first—and a reason to care at all about defeating Dark Enchantress Cookie.