#might replace him with crimson coral since i just recently got her

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Uh so this might be at least a little bit OOC, but I was talking to my friend about my team in Cookie Run: Kingdom and I wound up making this silly little thing in ms paint to explain my headcanons about how I think my team would interact

So, like... headcanons be upon ye

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I’m just gonna put my predictions for Cookie of the Year 2023 for Kingdom out there right now, since I’ve been thinking about it

Note that I’m probably gonna be pretty wrong because I’m pretty bad at reading other people and understanding what they like, as well as who’s more popular than who. Also I’m only working with what I know from here on tumblr, where the community seems largely English speaking, so I have no clue on the Korean side of things or any other group for that matter

Also this is not counting anything that may come from the next update, though frankly I don’t expect any sort of curveball other than Frost Queen possibly getting more popular

So if I had to say who I think would make it to the top 3, it’d probably be Golden Cheese, Black Pearl, and possibly Stardust. Golden Cheese because her release has been hyped up for so long now, not to mention it just came out, Black Pearl because she’s already very popular and won last year, and she got her update explaining her backstory also pretty recently, and Stardust because people really liked him when he came out

Though I will say Pitaya’s also a pretty strong contender, and they could possibly replace Stardust on the list. I’d say they could have equal opportunity, or at least they should probably both make it to the top 5 or so

Moonlight however I think will be in last place of the new Legendaries/highest tier Cookies (you know what let’s just go with Legendaries for now for brevity’s sake). Not that she won’t be high up, I’m sure she will, but her update was quite a while ago now and I think Stardust ended up overtaking her in popularity by the end of it

As for the other new Super Epics, other than Capsaicin (and probably the other Triple Cone Cup contestants), I don’t see them making it as far, considering by the time Shining Glitter rolled around, people were getting pretty sick of the constant Super Epics. Mozzarella might have a better chance than Shining Glitter and Crimson Coral, but still

As for the pre-existing Super Epics/Legendaries…well I wasn’t thinking about them, only this year’s (and also Black Pearl), so I’m not sure. As far as I’m aware none of them are particularly hated, so they should be fine

As for everyone else, again aside from Kouign Amann and Prune Juice, who I can see going relatively far considering how well liked the Triple Cone Cup story and trio is…I don’t think they have much of a chance. Unfortunately there’s far more a bias towards Super Epics and Legendaries and while yeah sure, it’s unfair, we all know it’s reality

While having the list only go up to Epic would be nice, it’s technically not fair since the higher Cookies are playable too, and they deserve a chance too (not to mention Kingdom’s released a lot this year). I mean, I suppose not unless they made 2 polls, one for Super Epic+, and one for everything below it, but I don’t think they would. At least not for a while with Kingdom

But yeah I guess those are my thoughts/predictions on this year’s Cookie of the Year