Kumiho Cookie

Always playing coy, Kumiho Cookie is a mystifying fox who enjoys seducing others with her feminine wiles and spiritual shapeshifting skills.

{{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.

Type: Shapeshifter Cookie.

Powers/Abilities: •Kumiho Physiology •Enhanced Beauty •Fox-Fire Manipulation •Multiple Tails °Tail Manifestation •Shapeshifting (Fox to Humanoid.) •Acrobatics •Sex Magic

Character Inspiration:

Kumiho Cookie is based on her namesake, the kumiho (구미호) of Korean legends. The kumiho is a deceptive fox spirit which shapeshifts into a beautiful woman in order to seduce unaware men into a vulnerable position. It takes advantage of their lowered guard to attack them and devour their heart and/or liver.

Kumiho Cookie's line, "What a yummy little Bear Jelly...", references her ability in Cookie Run: OvenBreak in which she charms Bear Jellies and eats them immediately afterwards. This in itself references the kumiho's tendencies of enticement leading to violent consumption. Kumiho Cookie's 999-day journey to gain her transformation powers is a reference to how kumiho who abstain from eating human flesh for 1,000 days become human.

Unlike the kitsune (狐) and huli jing (狐狸精) who can be anywhere from good to evil to somewhere in-between, the kumiho is almost always malignant-leaning in nature.

In general, Kumiho Cookie is very heavily based on Korean culture and appears quite often in game content centered around the nationality.

Appearance:

Kumiho Cookie is an average-height female and slim with red-undertoned, medium-dark skin. She possesses foxlike, piercing red eyes halved upwards in a cunning expression. Her scarlet lips form a coy smile and are framed by two white fox whiskers on each side.

Her hair is icy cyan and situated in two long, framing twintails tipped with snowy white. Her bangs are minimal and shortly drape upon her forehead in two rounded masses. Occasionally, Kumiho Cookie is seen with one to nine fox tails trailing from underneath her skirt that appear identical to her long hair.

Kumiho Cookie's outfit consists of a hanbok (한복) heori-chima (허리치마) waistbanded skirt. The heori-chima's jureum (주름) outer layer begins at its top with a darker sanguine shade and fades downwards to a lighter cardinal red. The skirt as a whole is situated with a white heori (허리) band about its wearer's chest from which a simplified cream danjak norigae (단작 노리개) sporting an orange floral paemul (패물) is suspended. Under her chima skirt, she wears white stockings with no distinguishable shoes. In her left hand she totes a solid fuchsia hapjukseon (합죽선) hand fan.

In her animal form, Kumiho Cookie is a simple marshmallow fox with a pelt of the same colors as her Humanoid form's hair. Much like her tail(s), her pointed ears and paws are tipped with white with her underside to the tip of her snout taking this same white. Kumiho Cookie's fox form's eyes and mouth are the same red shades as her Humanoid form and are also framed by whiskers, though she now also has a brown button nose.

Personality:

Kumiho Cookie is highly charming who knowingly feigns a coy and demure front. She often acts unassuming and harmless while seamlessly flattering others, sweet-talking her peers with names like "sweetheart", "honey", and "cutie pie", to ensure that she is seen as both an overall non-threat and something lovable. This facade overlaps with her seductress tendencies, of which she is notably proud and confident—the vixen spends much of her dialogue mentioning how others can't seem to resist her allure. Kumiho Cookie even goes so far as to inject certain carnal implications to her words, imploring others to "come closer", "count her tails", and "be gentle with her". Though the results of her seduction are mostly left unseen in Kingdom, Kumiho Cookie's social confidence seems warranted as she is greatly adept at beguiling Bear Jellies in OvenBreak. The effect is likely compounded further by the fact that she is canonically considered to be attractive and can render others love-struck with a simple glance based on her in-game description.

As for the motivation behind such behavior, it remains unclear based solely on canon materials (particularly because she is not often addressed much at all in depth in the Cookie Run series). However, Kumiho Cookie's deception seems to be implied to be something malicious and exploitative when her kumiho (구미호) origins are considered; as stated in the Character Inspiration section, kumiho are notorious for using their wiles and the illusion of a beautiful woman's form to dine on the innards of unwitting, lustful men. It should be mentioned that she also subsequently eats the Bear Jellies she seduces in OvenBreak. Even besides these possible ends to her acts, though, Kumiho Cookie appears to simply enjoy the attention garnered from her ploys.

Amongst her wanton conduct, Kumiho Cookie makes certain to infuse her speech with certain notes of mystery to, naturally, lure in curious listeners, but also to mask her "true" identity. It is said that Kumiho Cookie's true form is that of a wintry marshmallow fox—this vixen underwent 999 days of survival on only butter and flour to master a spiritual spell which allows her to transform into a gorgeous Cookie at will. It's quite unclear why the fox wished so strongly to be a Cookie; perhaps she had wicked intentions, but, at the same time, she may have only wanted to live among Cookies. Ironically, Kumiho Cookie seems spellbound with the Cookies in general, as even now she wishes she could be "a real Cookie" and refers to the species as "fascinating". Despite her strong will and confident air, she seems to harbor some insecurity about her not being a "true" human, as she refers to her fox form as a "secret" and reacts strongly when the player discovers the form in her Shroomie Shenanigans transformation. Even then, it seems Kumiho Cookie isn't above using her unique abilities and features like her spirit flames, somersaults, and many tails to beguile an unsuspecting passerby—so long as the situation doesn't cut too close to the bone of her identity.

Trivia:

Her exclusive loading screen states "If you surprise Kumiho Cookie, you might be able to catch her in her fox form."