#shadow milk au

[onesacrificiallamb]

Hiii heyyyy hiiii hiii I’m finally throwing my outrageously large hat into the ringer of shadow vanilla possession hiii. He’s been in my pocket but I feel like I really need to talk about him before the funny people phase goes out of style so. Soooo.

Welcome to True Knowledge / Melty Dough au!

Be nice about the name I’m not a namer

Sooo. Basic premise: ever since the tree issues settled down, pure vanilla and Posse ran back home to settle down and make sure nothing happened, and that everything was safe. If you can guess: pure vanilla gets watched by shadow milk through the staff. This plays in with my headcannon that the staff can already speak to pure vanilla, so that will be in part here hhaha

Shadow is very, very weak. He barely has a voice or an eye to watch or to speak from. So, what does he do? Do what he did first of all. His main goal is to poke the back of vanillas mind so that vanilla falls into evil like he did. This starts with small pokes, small itty bitty things. Just the smallest tinge to lie more, hold more secrets, learn more things than he knew previously. It grows and snowballs, continuously, until something happens.

Vanilla starts to unlock more of his soul jam. While this hurts shadow in turn, he’s losing his grip on his side of the jam, he also takes it as an opportunity. If vanilla takes more, he can slip in and take him over fully. While he unlock more of the soul jam, his jam starts to /burn itself inside out/. That’s a /lot/ of power. And he was only built for one half of the soul jam, not the entire aspect of knowledge. Just truth.

They struggle for a while, before shadow ultimately grabs hold of the entirety of him as he melts further and further, taking his body as his own and causing general mayhem for a while. But vanilla’s soul is stuck in the background, watching, horrified of everything shadow is doing. He’s still melting in the back of their mind, but he repurposes the melting. He angles it at shadow, taking his ability to cope and swapping them both. This results in Spoiled Milk.

Vanilla manages to take hold of his own body, still drippy and melty himself but learning and working with his body and parts taken from shadow to change and adapt to hold it all.

Therefore, taking shadow’s original location as The Holder Of Knowledge. There’s more but also I am not a good writer HAHA

#art #my art #chrome rambles #shadow milk fanart #shadow milk crk #shadow milk #shadow milk cookie #pure vanilla #pure vanilla cookie #pure vanilla crk #au #shadow milk au

[wreckrinho]

a girl in my class told me to draw the "blue clown" (she calls shadow milk like that lol) being REALLY evil, and then I thought: oh, why not? :)

I did it a little lazy because I was tired from so much studying, but I think it turned out cool in the end!

inspiration:

#fanart shadow milk #shadow milk au #shadow milk fanart #shadow milk crk #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk #crk kin #crk art #crk fanart #cr kingdom #crk #crk shadow milk cookie #crk fallen heroes #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #fanart cookie run kingdom #artists on tumblr #traditional drawing #traditional illustration #traditional art #traditional sketch #scketch #classmates #my art #fan art #artwork #fandom #silly vanilly

[groovyfrog420]

SV Redeemed AU

INTRODUCTION / DISCLAIMER

First things first, these designs for Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla are FAR into the future. Quite literally end game phase of the story, the “they grow old together and live happily ever after”. There's a long way to get there, and while I will write some of my thoughts about their journey, I'm a shitty writer. There's no single thought-out plot, it's just bits and pieces of my thoughts in one place. 

I don't think I'd be making a tag or naming this AU anything specific. I'm still calling it an AU because there is a bit of canon divergence, but I don’t have a start-to-finish story. (EDIT: wellp that lasted long. new name is #False-Truth AU because I like the oxymoron. I still don't think I'll do much - maybe a few short comics, which you'll be able to find under that tag on my profile)

Keep in mind that these are just my own interpretations, if you imagine these cookies acting differently, that's ok! This is just my own made-up alternate version

LONG POST UNDER THE CUT - don't say I didn't warn ya

I’ve tried to divide it into sections, so if you are looking for just smth specific / only care about one of the characters, you can skip right to it!

Prepare for the ramblings. 

PURE VANILLA'S DESIGN 

more relaxed now - doesn’t need to keep up perfect appearances and the image of a hero, so he can lay back a bit more. (messier, less perfectly styled hair - more like his younger years. comfier clothes.) 

focusing on herbology - with less power now (why explained below) and trying to not overwork himself, he’s taken to different healing methods, as well as taking on gardening as a hobby

slightly more open eyes - (heavily elaborated on bellow) 

different staff - due to being able to use his own eyes more now, as well as staying more on the low, he’d decided to retire the famous staff. Since it’s a flower, it was planted somewhere and allowed to blossom and grow freely - fitting symbolism for a new beginning, I think. The lantern light glowing blue makes it easier on his eyes.

PV STORY BITS 

In this AU Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla retire together. I think PV would still like to teach, but would focus more on the medical and practical side of things, like herbs and healing practices. (He’ll leave telling tales about the past  to Shadow Milk, though he might throw in his own comments from time to time…) He mostly offers advice and shares every-day methods for protection of different kinds with those who ask, but may take on an apprentice or few to fully pass down his healing knowledge to. He uses magic sparingly now. 

This way with not focusing on a variety of subjects and many, many students, he’s able to rest more and doesn’t have to split himself between multiple worries. He can focus properly and give his students more individual attention, to make sure his knowledge will be retained for the future. 

Eyes

(don't jump me pls read the footnote) 

I've decided to take the closed/covered eyes motif PV has in a bit more symbolic way *. I want to interpret it as PV being blind (=ignorant) to the world around him, choosing to see the world and his own actions in an idealized light, and to look away from anything that doesn't fit that idea. Light sensitivity would be very ironic yet fitting - since his own powers are very light-based, by using them to help others he’d be blindinding/hurting himself in the process... 

Over time, he realizes how futile it is. Even if he turns his eyes away from the wrongdoing in the world, from his own mistakes and imperfections, they will still continue to happen. He begins to understand that he has to accept that neither he nor the world is perfect, to stop wallowing over the past and start fixing the present. To keep moving forward and keep working on himself, not hide his imperfections under literal and figurative wraps. 

With the help of Shadow Milk, he begins to open his eyes more and more and accept the real truth, no matter how imperfect it is. 

*I’m not sure how confirmed it was in canon that he’s blind (from what I’ve seen it was mostly implied, but still). I'm not erasing that - for the sake of this AU, I'd like to say that he has partial issues with sight (including the mentioned light sensitivity), but now he learns to accommodate them rather than ignore them and hurt himself more for the sake of others. No, he doesn't magically gain full sight now, but he's more comfortable, healthier, and more honest about the world around him with all of its imperfections. 

Burnout

I believe SM and PV complete each other so perfectly because they can help each other grow in areas where the other is lacking/struggling. With PV, I’d like to focus on burnout, false ideas, and how the pressure he’s constantly under has affected him. He was very much just a normal guy before receiving his Soul Jam. Years beyond a normal cookie’s lifespan of hard work and trying to be the perfect leader, to always ensure the happiness of all his people (whether that be as king or otherwise) are bound to take a toll on anyone. Obviously he'd never admit that, always putting everyone else before his own needs, and he’d likely run himself into the grave. That's where I think Shadow Milk would be helpful - he’d make him realize how unsustainable what he’s doing really is. He wasn’t built for handling immense power for all of eternity, he’s just a single cookie and whether he likes it or not, he can’t save everyone or make every single one of his people happy... Being selfish isn’t entirely wrong, sometimes might even be necessary. 

Onto the idea of false truth - Pure Vanilla has a very idealized view of a lot of things and people. He’s trying to see everyone in the best light, but he also holds a high standard for himself - that he must be the ideal, shining and caring hero and a beacon of perfection . Shadow Milk is likely to pick that image apart - probably not in the kindest way, saying that in trying to be perfectly selfless, PV is putting himself on the pedestal above everyone else while still being just a single cookie with limited capabilities. He’d likely call this image egoistical, and while PV would argue that he’s doing it for the good of others (he is helping after all, right?), Shadow Milk wouldn’t be entirely wrong - this way of thinking, that he’s the one who must take care of everyone else, is harmful for both him and the ones he’s trying to protect. 

Shadow Milk would show him that truth is relative, that “pure truth” doesn’t exist, for anyone could interpret it differently. That PV isn’t (and doesn't have to be) the perfect blameless hero. That his people aren’t as good or pure as he’d like to give them credit for, but neither are they helpless. 

Shadow Milk metaphorically and literally helps him open his eyes - he slowly learns to lay back, to accept the reality and “truth”, whatever it may be, and is no longer blinding and burning himself out by trying to help everyone at once. With a new mindset and outlook of the world, he can allow himself to retire, and leave a calmer, out-of-the-spotlight life. 

Retirement

Ok, controversial idea, but I think the ancients will have to one day retire and pass down their SoulJams. Yes, I played Cookie Odyssey, I know how important it is to them, but hear me out. As I said above (which is shown in the game btw, but correct me if I'm wrong), they were just normal cookies before taking on the roles of the Ancient Heros. Cookies with high achievements, yes, but still. They aren’t The Beasts, baked specifically for the purpose of handling the Soul Jams, and even then, The Beasts weren’t perfect. I’m not saying they’re bound to get corrupted like their predecessors did, but I am saying that this role is bound to take a toll on them. Not even just from the perspective of power, even just handling so many responsibilities with running their kingdoms is going to be extremely draining mentally. (Physically likely too, even if they’re said to stay “always young” thanks to the Soul Jams - many stories teach that you can’t mess with nature and that nothing lasts forever...)

I don’t know who they’d pass the Soul Jams along too - whether that’d be Gingerbrave and his friends, or a new batch of heroes, that is to be decided. The point is, they have served their purpose, they have (from the perspective of this AU) defeated Dark Enchantress, and deserve to now leave the rest of  their lives in peace.

SHADOW MILK'S DESIGN 

“mellowed out” a bit - continues to be eccentric and dramatic, but less manic

still unsettling - most level-headed cookies upon meeting him immediately get a feeling that there's something.. off about him, even if they can't put their finger on it. (I purposefully left some of his corrupted design elements or callbacks to them, like the marking over his eye, for that reason) 

vibrant, colorful, very extra in both behavior and looks, everything he does he does with drama and flourish 

quiets down when out of the eyes of the public, or alone with Pure Vanilla 

peacock elements - fitting for someone with such a vibrant personality. also the eye connection is perfect - if you look closely at the feather he's wearing, you might even notice a familiar symbol in its “eye”

a playful bard - (elaborated heavily bellow) - an identity allows him to enjoy his favorite activities, while also being a slight callback to his academic past 

SM STORY BITS

The bard 

While spending more time with Pure Vanilla, PV encouraged him to pursue his creative interests. Partly to have smth to get SM’s mind off of causing chaos, and partly because they let him indulge and express himself without causing any serious damage. Now he’s joined PV in retirement, though still not fully stepping down from the stage.

Being a bard allows Shadow Milk to indulge in everything he likes most: being the center of attention, dramatics, theatrics, mischief, a tasteful dose of lies and half-truths, but also, in a way, calling back to his past self: for while a lot of his stories are made-up tales, he can also share the history of Earthbread that he’s witnessed. Yes, he may do so through over-dramatic performances or behind caricatural characters, but every tale holds a grain of truth, does it not? Whether his audience chooses to believe him or not is their choice to make.

Referencing the fact that a big part of human history survived through word of mouth, and how storytellers play an important role in preserving it, I think it’s only fitting to make him a bard.

About visual choices

I made his redeemed design less chaotic and asymmetrical, but still vibrant and based mostly on his current color palette, rather than the one from Blueberry Academy. That's because while he may be rediscovering his interests from the past, he’s not the person he was before corruption and never will be again. Instead, he too is learning to rediscover the world in a new light, with a new identity. 

Visually I’ve tried to keep some elements from his current design, if slightly toned down: a wide collar, puffy sleeves, a flowy cape. Elements of his corruption are also still there: different colored sclera (= his one eye being black), the sharp teeth. He may have settled down and calmed down slightly, but he remains as playful as ever :)) 

He still causes local chaos once in a while or resorts to pranking unsuspecting cookies nearby (the slight charring at the bottom of PV’s robe is a result of one of such pranks getting out of hand), and PV has accepted that he'll never be a calm, put-together cookie he once might have been. However, SM's learned to not be a danger to others for the sake of the one he cares about the most, and that's enough for the both of them. 

And that's all for now! If you've managed to get this far, thank you SO much for your patience, I hope you've enjoyed my thoughts and brainworms <3

#funny how this turned into an essay on accident #shadowvanilla #pureshadow #vanilla milkshake #shadow milk #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk cookie run kingdom #shadow milk crk #pure vanilla #pure vanilla cookie #pure vanilla crk #shadow milk au #cookie run au #blorbo-time #False-Truth AU

[tongues--and--teeth]

Wanted to try my hand at Pre and Mid corruption designs of Shadow Milk!

I KNOW IT’S NOT CANON I KNOW IT’S NOT CANON I JUST WANTED TO HAVE FUN AND BE SILLY

THIS IS WHAT I THINK HE’D ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE AND WHY OKAY??

#I love male whores guys #I think he gets to show a little hip. as a treat #might make. a secondary post about my HCs for his corruption #like either a comic or just a list. depending on how motivated I am #anyway I love body horror and this bitch is no exception #im making his skin curdle off and his guts solidify #anywayyyyyyyyy perhaps corruption as a last resort to stave off the anger of a vengeful god? #crk #teethart #cookie run fanart #cookie run kingdom #fanart #my art #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk crk #shadow milk au #shadow milk fanart #digital art #artists on tumblr #anyway why does PV always get involved with satan parallels who go evil after learning the truth of their creation? /j #only in my au….. #I really should post more about my Crk lore bc I’ve been into this game for 2 1/2 years and I have so much it’s obscene #mostly about the DCK but like. expected from me.

[shadqw-milk]

Alternate Universe Cult of Lamb, starring Vanilla and Shadow Milk respectively, my cute kitty's idea: @silly-vanilla Love them

#cookie run kingdom #cult of the lamb #au #pureshadow #shadow milk cookie #pure vanilla cookie #digital art #crossover #fanart #shadowvanilla #vanilla milkshake #Cat - Shadow Milk and Sheep - Pure Vanilla

[scarapanna]

This animatic has finally been finished!!

The quality took a big hit thanks to kinemaster's gigantic watermark, but at least that annoying thing is gone hsndfdb

Oh well, I guess it adds to the aestetic/silly

#intertwined opposites au #ahh took my sweet time with this animatic jsnfdn #gonna add more context to the AU's name on the infodump post as i'll focus on it now that this is done #cookie run kingdom #beetle's art #pure vanilla cookie #shadow milk cookie #crk au #The song is “this day aria (reprise)” #my mlp brainrot is infecting my other obsessions/silly

[sunseed-fandump]

Fellas, I don't think he's having fun.

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #wizard cookie #shadow milk cookie #cookie run fanart #au #my art #devil's encore

[silly-vanilla]

cycle of madness

#cookie run kingdom #pure vanilla cookie #shadow milk cookie #swap au

[sleepyflowershead]

i thought such idea like this after seeing so many pv, sm

pining this so lil intro for my concepts that just become a freaking au-

edit : yall seem uhh to like it so here something for the this one, edit again to make 2 lil more make sense, his name “jester”

shadow milk possessed pure vanilla mhm but he somehow make themselves bound together forever in mind, soul, mental, physical and got physical appearance change, pv can still like fight back but it won’t be enough (edit : finally it got edit of my mind, they pretty much a “mixed” as part of side effect)

2. white lily have tough time thinking be ofc that one 3rd choices but it also result pure vanilla getting seal away with shadow milk too, clock is ticking

she have no choices.

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #pure vanilla cookie #shadow milk cookie #does even reference image like him even counts- #wooooo let go 2 post in one day bruh #she is depressions but i doubt ppl read tags uhhhh maybe? #trapped forever soul au

[art-of-the-sea]

redemption arc au go bbrrrr

#cookie run kingdom #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk crk #crk #shadowvanilla #vanilla milkshake #shadow milk is sealed inside the light of Truth in pure vanillas body #so hes mostly harmless #but pv is soooo done with his shit #lmao #pure vanilla cookie #pure vanilla crk #fanart #traditional art #sketch #our art #prism art #cookie run meme #deceitvanilla #facets of knowledge au

[ashuribbon]

Some fast doodles of the Born Evil AU, both being some angst (and one of them being a concept headshot)!

I imagine that when he was still young, nobody knew why Pure Vanilla Cookie always kept doing that eerie laugh, one that shows signs of sinister intentions... Even he, himself, didn't know why until much later...

Since he becomes Shadow Milk Cookie 2.0, I felt his name would be Wilted Vanilla Cookie!

#ash pone arts #cookie run #cookie #cookies #pure vanilla cookie #white lily cookie #Born Evil AU #CRK #cr kingdom #cookie run kingdom #crk au #fast sketch #shadow milk cookie

[pospoets]

Cookie run AU where Pure vanilla kicks Brave down the Silver tree's cracks and then Gingerbrave becomes Shadow Milk's Vessel. I think that's tasty.

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #gingerbrave #gingerbrave cookie #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk crk #elder faerie cookie #silverbell cookie #mercurial knight cookie #pure vanilla crk #i hope you know pure vanilla is kind of a piece of shit in this au #but not really since he's morally grey

[wreckrinho]

mmMmEEEEE~~!!! SHADOW MILK CCOOOOOIKKKIEEE~

I kin him so bad. Hes on my kinlist now

Everyone praised my drawing at school! Even the teachers thought it was cool... it was the first time that people in the classroom praised me because of a drawing... I'm happy!! and I feel like I'm getting better at traditional drawings

#fandom #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk crk #shadow milk fanart #shadow milk au #fanart shadow milk #crk fanart #crk fallen heroes #crk fandom #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #fanart cookie run kingdom #artists on tumblr #art style #traditional art #traditional drawing #traditional illustration #traditional sketch #classmates #praise #vent #cookie run kingdom kin

[locosquif]

Okay here we go gang..

The struggler.

CREDITS (going from right to left)

@star143gallery , @blueshadowdad/ @fluffshi-wxffle , @juartist (?), @sleepyflowershead , @itzrhymesgamers , @scarapanna , @obernice , @raptor1312

SO MANY OF YOU…. sigggghhh

#cookie run kingdom aus #cookie run kingdom #shadow milk cookie #pure vanilla cookie #utter insanity… #I love this all it’s so fun to interact with thsi fandom GRRAAAAAHHHhello hiii #art #doodle #hope I got everyone #included everybody I saw interact with this.. universe. thing. vanillaverse

[obernice]

I ate episode 2 of Beast-Yeast

in the next post I will show a couple of new frames from the animatic

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #cookie run art #cookie run fanart #pure vanilla cookie #art #pure vanilla crk #shadow milk cookie #au

[shadqw-milk]

ㅤㅤㅤLighty-Whitey! 🃏" Your flawless king, here! "🃏

My AU Shadow Milk who replaces PV and rules like a king, silly little guy (His temper is still just as insufferable). Overall concept with my pancake~

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #shadow milk cookie #digital art #cookie run fanart #au #alternate universe