TW: some blood imagery!
But I made a quick animatic in one night for some backstory for my version of Timekeeper Cookie and how she slowly snapped over time.
For a very TLDR version of context:, the younger version y'all are seeing is named Levain Cookie! I like to think she's a separate cookie from Croissant, and blatantly lied to her to toy with, and convince her to become the next Timekeeper. They're not at all the same cookie.
Hope y'all like the animatic tho! Worked real hard on it! :)
Explanation for the AU under the cut! TW for death n' murder, there's quite a bit o' crime involved.
So! Pain Au Levain Cookie, or just Levain Cookie for short, is my au version of Timekeeper. She's been around almost as long as the TBD has. A young wizard, following in the footsteps in the creator of time magic and the TBD, Cinnaswirl the Great.
Over years and years, she thrived, grew, and learned more and more about the power and potential of time magic. However, seeing Cinnaswirl having the reach that she never could with the power of the Timeweaver's Scissors, she grew... jealous. This unending hatred and burning anger for the man. The stagnant, monotonous everyday life wasn't enough for her. She wanted what he had. She wanted that power at her fingertips, and she was going to get it.
She slowly began to hatch a plan. By the end of it? She would be the Director of the TBD, and no one would ever suspect a thing.
In the dead of night, she killed Cinnaswirl in cold blood with his own invention in his own office.
For a moment, she was in shock and disbelief at what she had done, yet she felt a rush she had never felt before. The thrill of breaking something, destroying something, because of the power in her own hands.
With the Scissors now in her hands, she finally had everything she wanted. That thrill was permanently in her grasp. Endless possibilities, endless fun, and in her mind? Not a single consequence that a cookie could punish her for.
Taking the goggles atop her now crumbled mentor's hat, she finally made her leave, sealing away Cinnaswirl's office in a time pocket forever.
With everything she'd ever wanted, she did all as she pleased, destroying timelines, toying with whatever cookie she liked, and simply disposing of them when she grew bored. None of the TBD suspected a thing, all under the guise that Cinnaswirl had passed his role onto Levain.
And as years and years passed? She had given herself a new name.
Timekeeper Cookie.
This version of her never did get redeemed, and remains a villain. She disappears on her own little adventures for months at a time. In her absence, the TBD seems to function just fine without her.
my sister let me borrow her apple pencil and im not too happy with how this came out but at least it was fun :] this was kind of just. Testing a lot of stuff (pen pressure, shading/lighting, textures, art style, brushes, etc)
if you're still doing those pride flags with characters pfps please could you do one like the timekeeper pfps but with their ruler of the ephemeral flow costume and the trans flag?