Author's POV#7: Reincarnated as a Cookie
[Disclaimer: Contents edited for brevity and added dramatization. The chats are real. Added effects are… well, added effects.]
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For all her life, Cel_T had never thought of becoming a cookie. Who knew that the opportunity came in a virtual cookie fight in a chat group?
It was in the afternoon when Cel_T was eating her home cooked Thai Green Curry for lunch. She checked out the Webnovel Writer's chat group out of curiosity. It had become one of her hobbies as of late.
Alison35: I never had acne... *sparkle emoticon*
Mr. McGuffin: ... lucky
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon* Thanks *sparkle emoticon*
Cel_T touched her face and felt the little bumps on it.
'How lucky,' she thought as she sighed. She remembered a childhood friend who never had acne as well. That friend would show off her smooth face and boasted that she only had to rinse her face with regular water. Cel_T's heart ached. Only she herself knew how many different types of cleansers and remedies that she had tried on her face.
Cel_T turned her attention back to the chat and saw that Alison35 and Mr. McGuffin were engaging in an emoticon spamming contest.
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon*
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: Burns your cookie
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon*
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon*
Mr. McGuffin spammed five *eating cookie emoticon*s at once.
Alison35: Burns your face as well stop sending cookies *Sparkle emoticon*
It seemed that Alison was fed up with the multiple emoticons and asked Mr. McGuffin to stop. However, it was ignored by Mr. McGuffin. He sent two cookie emoticons to taunt Alison.
Mr. McGuffin: make me
Alison35: Fight me *sparkle emoticon*
Cel_T saw that a fight was brewing and tried to remedy it. As usual, Alison used her sparkle emoticons. It seemed that Mr. McGuffin liked using the eating cookie emoticon. Seeing that, Cel_T associated Mr. McGuffin with that emoticon just like how Alison was with the sparkles.
Cel_T: Ok McGuffin is the cookie blob
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon* KAY
Alison35: Yeashh *sparkle emoticon*
Strawberry_Pancake: if only i knew, i could be a cookie
Yes, Strawberry_Pancake, if only you knew that your statement was one of the triggers for Cel_T's transformation in the future.
Alison and Mr. McGuffin continued their emoticon banter. In the writer's chat group, emoticon spams and roleplaying were quite common, as long as they did not get out of hand (or when the Mods were asleep).
[A/N: Shhh don't tell anyone… too late! XD]
Cel_T added some random emoticons in between the barrage of emoticons sent by Alison and Mr. McGuffin. She sometimes enjoyed adding fuel to the fire. After a page full of emoticons, Alison finally realized that they were excessive in their use of emoticons.
Alison35: I hope the mods don't mute us YAY *sparkle emoticon*
However, her comment was ignored, and the emoticons continued. Seeing so many cookie emoticons, a random thought flashed past Cel_T's mind. Grinning mischievously, she decided to say something controversial to trigger some response from the others.
Cel_T: don't really like cookie dough
Mr. McGuffin: wha
Cel_T: fight me
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon* OKAY
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon* Already fighting
Hence, the virtual cookie fight between Cel_T and Mr. McGuffin began. Alison spectated the fight on the sidelines while adding some commentary.
Mr. McGuffin: /throws cookie/ *cookie emoticon*
Alison35: Never waste cookies *blob killer emoticon*
Cel_T: /dodges/
Alison35: Sin!!
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: I eat them *sparkle emoticon*
Cel_T nodded her head and agreed with Alison—never waste food. Think about all the starving children! Then, Cel_T did something crucial that would change her life forever.
Cel_T: /catches with mouth/
Alison35: Haha
Mr. McGuffin: better
Alison35: Nomnom
Cel_T: /gulp/
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon* Expired cookie. Poor cel
Apparently, Mr. McGuffin threw an expired cookie. Cel_T paled. Her face then turned as green as her Thai Green Curry. She gagged and tried digging out the swallowed cookie.
Mr. McGuffin: /Sweats seeing that she swallowed../
Alison35: RIP
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon*
Alison35: Hahah. Definitely poisonous *sparkle emoticon*
'You don't say!' Cel_T lamented.
Mr. McGuffin: *eating cookie emoticon* nom nom
Cel_T: /vomits/
Mr. McGuffin: HEATHEN
Cel_T: "Urghh..."
Alison35: No way
Mr. McGuffin: *cookie emoticons*
Cel_T: "Allison... w-why.."
Mr. McGuffin: /more cookies thrown/
Alison3535: It's still there in your stomach
Mr. McGuffin: *cookie emoticons*
'It's still in my stomach? No way… I threw up everything from my stomach,' she thought. That, however, was her last thought as a normal person in the chat group.
Cel_T: /drops dead/
Cel_T finally died from the poisonous cookie. Her soul rose into the air, hovering over her body. Even so, she continued reading the chat on her laptop. The two perpetrators continued their roleplay without a hint of remorse.
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon* /Slaps Guffin with cookies./ You killed Cel
Mr. McGuffin: /revives under the power of the cookie God/ *cookie emoticon*
Alison35: *sparkle emoticon* Hahaha *Tearing laughter emoticon*
Mr. McGuffin: her fault she couldn't handle cookie
A bright light shone over Cel_T's soul. It was so bright that her spiritual eyes had to squint. Then, she heard a voice.
"Cel_T… Cel_T! You poor cookie. Wait—you're not a cookie yet"
"Wha—? Who are you?" Cel_T asked, confused.
"I am the Cookie God. Mr. McGuffin summoned me!"
Cel_T was speechless and did not know how to respond. The Cookie God cleared its throat to ease the awkwardness and declared majestically,
"Since you died from a cookie, you shall be reincarnated as a cookie!"
The bright light shone even brighter and engulfed Cel_T's whole room. She did not even have time to process the weirdness of the situation. The bright light faded almost as quickly as the disappearance of the Cookie God. Cel_T noticed that she was back in her body, facing the laptop screen.
Cel_T: /Cel is reincarnated as a cookie/
"What?" Cel_T exclaimed as she stared at the sentence written in the chat.
She tried to check her body but could not do so. After all, a cookie did not have a neck. Wait, how did she see the chat? Cookies did not have eyes, do they?
After looking around for a few more moments, Cel_T decided that she was a cookie after all.
'Well, since I'm reincarnated as a cookie, I might as well act as one,' she thought and rolled her cookie head around. She then began her life as a cookie by typing her first few words using her cookie powers.
Cel_T: life as a cookie
Alison35: Bile juice and HCL reacts
Cel_T: I was born from flour and eggs and milk
Strawberry_Pancake: finally, another food in the chat!
Cel_T: and some choco chips
Alison35: Breaks cookie cel into simpler particles *sparkle emoticon*
Cel_T was startled as she looked at Alison's statement. Who knew that the cheerful Alison had such dark imaginations?
Cel_T took a deep cookie breath and decided to try her introduction again. The first one did not end up so well. She scrolled up the chat and found the picture of the giant cookie that Mr. McGuffin shared earlier in the day. It became her new profile picture.
Cel_T: Hello I'm cookie
Alison35: Lol
Mr. McGuffin: hehe you took my picture
Alison35: She change her pfp. Haha
Mr. McGuffin: thats great
Alison35: Reincarnated as cookie *blushing emoticon*
Cel_T: New story. Stay tuned. lol
Alison35: Happy new life
Cel_T grinned. Her second introduction as a cookie was successful. The chat continued along its course. She looked at the final sentence that she sent into the group: New story. Stay tuned. Lol.
Cel_T had meant for it to be a joke. However, she was tempted to start a new novel based on the idea of reincarnating into a cookie. She licked her dry cookie lips as she thought about this idea. Finally, she gave up on it. She could not even properly manage her current novel—Crimson Gloom. How could she think of writing two novels at the same time?
'Besides, I'm not a funny person. I can't write comedy,' she thought.
Cel_T sighed as she switched back from Discord to her writing program. She stared at the blank screen of the new chapter and then opened her completed chapters. She smiled as she felt accomplished after typing out so many chapters. This was her third attempt at writing out this story that had accompanied her since childhood. The story of the world where she had escaped into when life was not the best.
She wanted to share her little world in her heart to the large world out there. Although her novel did not have many reads, she was content and grateful for the few readers and fellow authors that had supported her with their comments. She vowed to complete her story no matter how long it will take. Even though she had rewritten her novel many times over the years, it will be different this time. Now, she had her fellow authors' support in the Webnovel Writer's Chatgroup.
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The one who wrote this chapter is the author Cel_T
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Elyon
Elyon You'll never fully understand the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a profession until you've tried it yourself.
~Celty