LORE/CONTEXT 1
It's 3:23 AM. I'm feeling a bit thirsty, so I wake up and walk out of my room into the hallway. As I'm walking, I hear a high-pitched rattling sound. "It's... her toy," I say to myself. I follow the noise to its source, which is coming from a pitch-black room in the hallway, barely illuminated by the night light in Grit's room across the way.
When I enter the room, I find Cookie, small and alone in the darkness, holding her bottle in one hand and her sun rattle in the other. She looks up at me, and because my eyes haven't adjusted to the dark yet, I can't clearly see her face. However, I can tell she is scared by my presence, as I hear her drop the rattle from her hand. From her perspective, I must've looked like a tall, dark humanoid shadow.
(HuoTao pulls out his phone and captures this eerie photo)
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LORE/CONTEXT 2
HuoTao: "Cookie? What are you doing here? It's 3:24 AM; you're supposed to be asleep..."
Cookie: ... (no response)
HuoTao: "It's bedtime. Everyone else is asleep."
Cookie: ... (stands up)
Cookie: ... (she raises her empty bottle at me, shaking it back and forth)
HuoTao: "Mob?" (points at her bottle)
Cookie: ... (walks closer to me, quickly shaking her head up and down)
HuoTao: *sighs* "Okay, let's get you some more mob then."
HuoTao: *Tick-Tick* (makes a clicking sound with my tongue)
Cookie: ... (hurries to grab her toy and bib, throwing them into a cloth container beside her, then jogs toward me)
(They walk through the living room to the kitchen.)
(They arrive at the kitchen.)
HuoTao: *checks the refrigerator for reserves* *sighs* "It looks like I'm going to have to make you some more mob."
HuoTao: *picks up Cookie and places her on the counter*
(Cookie can't drink regular milk, so I have to make her "mob" using powdered milk formula.)
(Cookie watches as I make her "mob" with a milk dispenser machine.)
(I pour the milk into her bottle and hand it to her.)
HuoTao: *pats her head* "Don't drink too much; you still have to go back to sleep."
(Minutes later, at 3:35 AM, I bring Cookie back to her bed.)
((This is a Unreleased render created in 2024, The "Character" models shown above are outdated))
ORGANISMS
HuoTao (cameraman) | Cookie |