#'Cus civilization's so far away y'know you probably won't make it-

[makerofmadness]

(For your cookie run AU) I'd like to know more about the town milk grew up in like traditions and stuff

(Warning: I typed out A Lot Of Stuff and it's almost 3am so I hope this is coherent enough djdjdjdjjd)

well like I said this AU is basically "Milk is raised in a cult"

and I'm not entirely sure how I ended up going with this specifically (idk it was midnight and I was playing minecraft) but somehow I just went "fxck it they worship a tree now" and you know what I'm sticking with that

I'm gonna hope this isn't two stupid 'cus the two people I've talked to about this so far haven't thought that soooooooo basically i misremembered this one detail about the milk village in kingdom that this is based on (though to clarify: yes this is an ovenbreak au) where I remembered there was a mention of the milk tribe there being known for their special milk that has like healing properties. Somehow I thought they got it from a well though I don't think that was mentioned on the wiki page I read about this on (I haven't gotten far enough in kingdom yet djdjdjdn). I think I just thought it was from a well because that's how you get milk in your kingdom.

Screenshot from my own kingdom.

I still don't know how a tree got into this but I ended up with "they think the tree's magic and its roots somehow give the ground extra special nutrients (basically the opposite of what roots actually do djdjdjjdkdmd) and that's what makes the milk so good"

though in this AU it may just be regular milk that they're convinced must have healing properties idk I haven't decided yet

either way they worship the tree because of that

There's a LOT more to it (like they believe the tree is sentient and can be communicated with but that it will only have active conversations with the select few village elders who are basically in charge) but that's like. The origins of this so far.

Oh yeah and another tidbit: they still enforce that if you are to confess something to the tree you have to write it down on paper and sign your name and put it in a box next to it (the excuse they use is basically that you will only be forgiven if you are fully admitting to the crime) but the elders often just read the papers and in certain cases will confront those who wrote the notes about it depending on what they confessed (they claim that the tree told them) and more often than not this will end in punishment

(yeah reminder that this is a cult and manipulation and behavior control and shxt are all over the place. If it were just "haha funny tree worship whispy woods religion" this wouldn't be a problem)