⭐Pure Vanilla Cookie/PVC💛🌀

"Sometime, you need the darkness to see the light."

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Name:

"Pure Vanilla" otherwise known as "Compassionate" He is the third Ancient Hero to Awaken. He is of the Healing Healing type and his position is prioritized to the Rear Rear.

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Awakened form:

After nearly losing himself to the whispers of Shadow Milk's Deceit and becoming the Truthless Recluse, he realizes that the real Truth he had been searching for his whole life has always been in front of him — Shadow Milk, for he will never stop walking towards it. Thanks to the help of his friends, he tricks Shadow Milk Cookie, reclaims his Soul Jam and Awakens.

Awaken appearance:

As always, his single-lashed eyes are often closed in reverence and lie upon rosy cheeks, though they exhibit a dual tone of daisy yellow and pale blue when opened. The terracotta mark upon his forehead has blossomed from a diamond to a full starburst—it is indicative of his expanded understanding. He often wears a small smile, choosing to be happy in spite of the terrible truths to which he fell as the Truthless Recluse. His hair, once shaped like orchid petals, has grown since his transformation and flows to his feet in cornsilk waves.

When Awakened, Pure Vanilla's attire pays homage to his themes of Christianity even more directly than before, reflecting the appearance of a grand prelate or even pontiff. His overwhelmingly white and gold color palette reflects his newfound purity and enlightenment plus his mastery of White Magic while matching the white worn by high-ranking Christian clergymen. Compassionate Pure Vanilla's outfit heavily utilizes layers; its innermost garment is a pristine white alb with a wide, billowing hem and sleeves, both of which display a golden crown border pattern. Above this is a mantle so voluminous that it extends past his arms. The mantle's outer fabric is milky with vertical striations for definition and its hem is finished with an exaggerated inverted scallop edge in bisque yellow. Each apex of this edge is topped with a six-pointed star like a spur. The cape's shrouded interior is the antithesis of its white shell and one of the few instances of coolness in the design: it is a navy void filled with stars and shut eyes, resembling the empty Dark Side of the Moon in which Pure Vanilla was sealed long ago. This mantle, a focal point of the outfit, embodies the inextricable bond between White Magic and Dark Moon Magic through its dichotomy of textiles.

On the outermost layer of Compassionate Pure Vanilla's shoulders sits a plain stole with coronal symmetry; notably, the "V"-shaped stole is most often seen on lesser clergymen, perhaps indicating Compassionate Pure Vanilla's selflessness even in his grandeur. The stole supports his triple ice cream-shaped Soul Jam, secured in a gilded filigree brooch like a pectoral cross. Though usually sky blue, the Light of Truth shines so brightly in this appearance that it now takes a periwinkle tone highlighted with vibrant cobalt and cyan. Pure Vanilla's final bodily accessory is an expansive aurelian scroll acting almost as another stole, though more papal than that previous. Hovering around its wearer, it starts upon the ground and rests on his arms before rounding his neck and returning to the floor on his other side. The parchment glows with arcane scrawlings and symbols that correlate with various types of magic which, though indecipherable, communicate their wearer's vast knowledge of the world's secrets.

Compassionate Pure Vanilla's Orchid Staff seems to have Awakened alongside its owner—though apparently at the cost of its sentience. Once a rustic flower, it is now transformed into a gilt key-staff resembling a crozier; though the six-petaled bloom remains at its top with additional leaves, its eye socket has been hollowed out entirely and replaced with a whirling burst of light. The staff's vines are replaced with a forked ribbon that circles its shaft, and its bottom holds the teeth of a skeleton key. This key motif in particular is evocative of Shadow Milk own lock-and-key theme present in his past self and in Sage of Truth, similarly casting Pure Vanilla as a gatekeeper of knowledge. Despite the Vanilla Orchid Staff's visual upgrades, it no longer shows any reaction to stimulus like it once did.

Upon Ascension, a disc of gold and cobalt is placed behind Compassionate Pure Vanilla's head like a halo. It is born as a mere lattice of two concentric circles holding a star like a compass rose, its blue filling appearing at higher Ascension levels. The halo completes itself with auric spokes which orbit a blinking blue eye similar to the Dark Side of the Moon-opening in Pure Vanilla's hood; alternating small diamonds and sigils of the Light of Truth top the points of the compass rose's cardinal directions. The circular frame of the mechanism spins perpetually amongst speckles of light. hood resembles that of his base design, though it is modified to fit his ascended theming. It maintains the tall waffle cone shape, though it is now white at its base and lightly banded with gold similar to the lattice texture seen in its previous iteration. Among these lines are a starburst near the hood's tip and three tall points at the nape of the wearer's neck. The rim of the hood is similar to that of before, though it is now wrought in pure gold and shines like rays emitted from a beaming sun. The northernmost tip of the king's crown extends into a cross shape similar to that which holds his Soul Jam, though this segment instead carries a lozenge opening which peers into the same other-realm as the mantle's lining.

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Compassionate Pure Vanilla to Shadow Milk relationship:

Pure Vanilla: "I want to understand you. And I want to set you free from these chains that bind us both."

Shadow Milk finds this notion "pathetic" as he feels it's impossible to understand him. Pure Vanilla claims that when they were connected in Shadow Milk's other-realm, he felt it but is interrupted by a yelling, enraged Shadow Milk, saying that just because he spent time in his-other realm doesn't mean Pure Vanilla gets to act like he GETS him (Shadow Milk). Shadow Milk gets further enraged and sends Pure Vanilla even deeper into his other-realm daring him to show he really understands him and how he's willing to do it.

Pure Vanilla: That dark shadow that looms over you... Could I see what it hides... ? This illusion of azure... Ever-changing, terrifying... Yet somehow, at times, strangely alluring.... When we were connected as one, albeit briefly, I felt more certain of my powers than ever before. What is this shadow that lies at the edge of Truth and Deceit? What is this that I almost feel within my grasp, yet always slips away like smoke?

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