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AFFOGATO COOKIE ANALYSIS! +some art

Affogato cookie, my favourite in the game and one of the most underrated… and hated, for decent reason.

He also stands as one of the most mysterious, with little to nothing being given regarding his core motivations or past. As a result, this is my psychoanalysis of Affogato Cookie, and what his past may look like!

Starting off with evidence we can draw from the main quest, we can easily surmise that:

- Affogato is intelligent, cunning and manipulative. He knows what to say to sway people to his side, and make their opinions into his. He holds a subtle disdain for Dark Cacao through his dialogue when conversing with and about him, as if he has to force himself to say the words ‘My Lord’ and such.

- He shows an apathy towards the people of the kingdom, and yet also shows respect. He is quick to turn away villages desperately seeking need, but quick to reward those who follow him. Despite his cruelty regarding everything, he states his wish as a ruler is to “Make all cookies in this Kingdom able to spend their days happy and free.”

- Regarding his past he says, “Most of my life I was down on my knees. Even the moments I was allowed to sit in a chair, none of them were spent in comfort.”

- And, when sharing delicacies, he seems to favour the priests most.

Evidence outside of main quest:

- His description says: Affogato Cookie spent restless years without a place to belong until he came up with a simple solution: to create a land of his own once and for all! He appeared out of nowhere on a frigid night in the Dark Cacao Kingdom and has been busy earning the trust and favour of the locals with the help of his strange concoctions and mysterious chants.

- One of his ascension quotes is: "The Coffee Village? I barely remember my time there... "

- And his loading screen trivia reads: "After leaving his home, Affogato Cookie wandered the land and learned a lot about magic and witchcraft."

With all this evidence compiled, this is my theory for his past and motives!

It can be believed he grew up in the coffee village, spending his childhood years there. Since, however, he hardly remembers his time there, it can be assumed it was destroyed long ago, from a rough timeline of Affo’s pre-teens to young adult years. The description for its place on the map says ‘the only known home location has been left abandoned and in disarray.’ This means the villagers must have left in a hurry, so it can be theorised that something must have attacked, possibly some wild animals, especially since something similar happened to the Milk Tribes village.

He said he spent his time without a place to belong, suggesting he was travelling alone. Because of how destroyed the coffee village was, and how little we’ve seen of other coffee tribe residents, we can make the assumption Affogato cookies parents, caretakers, and/or other family died in the attack, if they weren’t already dead prior to the destruction of the village.

My belief is this event made him want to become ruler of the kingdom, so he could prevent it from ever happening again, and could protect all other tribes and villages in the area. I also believe that as time went on, this belief became distorted, until he began to prioritise his own role as leader as the most important thing. I still do believe he desired prosperity within the kingdom, but we’ll discuss that later!

Following his travels we know he learned many things about magic, witchcraft, and manipulation tactics. However, there aren’t many other specifics to fill this large gap of time in his life. From comments such as “Most of my life I was down on my knees”, his knowledge of ‘mysterious chants’, his favour of the priests, and even his decor, where he burns incense and prays, it can be surmised he was a priest or at least performed religious rites. Whether or not this is something he did as a kid, and then continued to do as a way to make money or simply devoted himself to such a thing, or if it’s something he picked up along his travels and then decided to utilise is unclear, but we know it’s a talent he picked up. It also suggests his ‘strange concoctions’ may be a form of apothecary, and that this may also be a job he picked up or pursued, perhaps even both at the same time to make ends meet and further his skills?

Finally, his lovely entrance into the Dark Cacao Kingdom itself! It says he appeared on a frigid night, quite possibly using a vulnerable day as a way to make himself appear as a sort of angel, helping them at their most desperate, and earning their trust. He probably started as a helper, earning the affection and approval of the locals (which was probably easy even without manipulation, because he had first-hand experience of the difficulty of surviving without security!), before working his way up as an apothecary, priest, (these are both implied in: ‘busy earning the trust and favour of the locals with the help of his strange concoctions and mysterious chants’) and finally becoming the king's right hand man. Then it continues on with the events we already know from the main story.

From my theory of his past, these are what I surmise as his motivations: Following the destruction of his village, he wished he could become ruler so other villages could stay protected and be safe forever. Along his journey of furthering his skills, he began to lose sight of this goal and instead wished to become ruler of the land and have everyone under his rule. However! My belief is when he became ruler, he looked back on his previous wish of safety, and thought while safety is important, comfort should be valued above all. Spending his life on his knees and in discomfort, he wishes for everyone who went through similar things to no longer have to suffer the way they always have. He begins to slow the security of the walls surrounding the kingdom because he prioritises his subjects happinesses before their security, the complete opposite of Dark Cacao.

Dark Cacao and Affogato parallel each other in a way no one else seems to realise, with Affo growing up in harsh environments and wishing for no one else to experience the same, sacrificing their security to do so, and Dark Cacao, following the dark flour war, became so terrified of losing his citizens that he put all his focus into security, sacrificing their happiness to do so.

It’s sort of tragic, two people who at their core want what’s best for the kingdom, but can’t seem to find a mix between protection and comfort like they should. I genuinely think if they worked together they could make the kingdom as great as it could— (gets dragged off stage) “”HEY HEY!!!! I WASN'T GOING TO RANT ABOUT AFFOCAO— DON'T BOO ME????””

Regardless, I really hope they do expand on Affo’s character!! If you have any alternate theories or headcanons you wanna add on feel free to hit up my inbox or add your own tags to the post!

I just had a major brain blast while well going through my daily brain rot!

So we know that Golden Cheese Cookie still has tension with White Lily Cookie...What if Burning Spice Cookie somehow manipulates Golden Cheese into attempting to attack White Lily Cookie!

Being the cookie of destruction doesn't necessarily mean he's the one who's destroying. Golden Cheese Cookie always wants her subjects to indulge in their desires, to be as greedy as possible so that she may fulfill their wishes. What better way to twist her way of life then to manipulate her into following her desires...for revenge!

Even if it's not purely directed at White Lily Cookie, there's still the other ancients who have their kingdoms unlike her. Dark Cacao Cookie and Hollyberry Cookie never had to face such tragedy like Golden Cheese Cookie had to go through, with Pure Vanilla Cookie being the exception out of the ancients. However, Pure Vanilla Cookie may have had a similar experience, but he at least had the architecture and history of his land...All Golden Cheese Cookie had was ashes and crumbs.

And this could also make a relationship between Burning Spice Cookie and Capsation Cookie (But even if it doesn't it's still a nice idea)

Assuming back then that burning spice really wanted... To join his ancestors in the spice storm we'll say, What better way to do that than have a successor? Assuming he was still a good person when this happened, he could have made Capsation Cookie to become the new hero of change and also crumble him, that way the soul jam of change could stay in good hands... At least once that could take the burden of being a soul jam bearer.

Of course, we all know Capsation Cookie cares deeply for what he destroys, So it definitely wasn't going to work... Maybe Capsation Cookie got his fear of hurting others from Burning Spice... If your own creator made you just to crumble them, I imagine it would give you some sort of complex.

Spoilers for Burning Spice Cookie, feel free to not read fully until later.

I think burning spice might...want to be crumbled. If you look at his character description along with some of his dialogue, He seems to be somewhat envious of things being able to be destroyed. Growing bored with things always changing and wanting to break that cycle.

"Nothing lasts forever. And yet... I am" He may claim destruction doesn't have a reason but I think he's secretly has one that He doesn't recognize.

He's the common trope of someone who has immortality, but realizes the pitfalls of it. He's still grows bored, but he also envies the ability to change the world around him has. As someone who has to embody a certain trait, He never had the CHOICE to change. At least that's what i think.

Ooooooh, that’s interesting, completely different from what I thought

God this is like the Adversary from Slay the Princess all over again, to some extent

yknow i’ve been wondering about this, too. it’s weird, but it also kinda makes me wonder if PV is going to be, or is apart of, something bigger that’s going to happen.

Maybe it will involve the Avatar of Destiny, too, since they look very, very similar in almost a disturbing way. or it could be that PV never actually fully earned his soul jam, which might come up in a full confirmation with SM, or another thought/theory that i just thought of when i saw this post.

is it possible that a soul jam might be physically moldable? or maybe able to be cut like a gem?

perhaps the light of truth is simply in its purest form by being a raw, unshaped jam. it could also be a symbol for how subjective and changing truth could be. and with how complex PVs character is and how much it’s implied he struggles with an inferiority complex, this could be the case.

as we know with the light of freedom, jams can shatter. implying they have a crystal-like structure to them. with this information it can be thought and theorized that each soul jam has been cut into a specific shape, similarly to cutting a gemstone, at some point perhaps. this is supported by what we see previously with the beasts, and that the jams are the same shape. just situated upside down against the heroes, who we presume that their jams are faced downside up.

maybe he might be the last hero to face his beast equivalent because of this, or there might be more to PV than we thought. so much to think about…

Guys, sudden offtopic

Has anyone even noticed that the Light of Truth is radically different from the other Lights of the other Ancients?

(we will omit the fact that the light of Freedom is broken here; if it were collected, it would glow exactly the same as the others)

So I have a theory, these are pictures from the Cookie run: The Darkest Night trailer:

After looking through the lore of Witches Castle we have seen so far (Royal Mike u da best) and looking at that statue we see Gingerbrave standing in front of, I have a theory that Gingerbrave and Dozer (as mentioned) are reincarnations, or at least baked with parts/ingredients from one of the First Batch Cookies, specifically a Gingerbread man looking one

And that at some point at the end of Cookie Run Kingdom, Gingerbrave is going to have some form of Awakening of sorts, and gain a massive power boost.

And here is another thing I noticed:

5 beast

5 Ancients

And 5 Protagonists

That that brings up another theory that Gingerbrave, Wizard, Strawberry, Chilly Pepper, and Custard III, are going to be the next Ancients.