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How would cookies from the era of the Virtues and Beasts describe that said era as?

Perhaps they would call it "paradise"?
They also might have called it "Doomsday".
How about "Hell on Earthbread"?
Or maybe even "The year the harvest was bountiful, but the skies turned red".

There were many mixed opinions about the Five Virtues of Knowledge, Volition, Change, Happiness and Solidarity, who turned into the Five Beasts of Deceit, Apathy, Destruction, Sloth and Silence. Some say that during their reign, nothing could have been better. Others would remark in the records that having the Five Beasts in the world existing at their prime reportedly "turned the skies red and scorched the whole of Earthbread". Though none lived long enough to tell the tale, there was one cookie, whose Life Powder cycled through the world after she died, and retained some of her memories, though it was still incomplete. That cookie was the Sixth Virtue, the Virtue of Innocence and Hope.

According to the many records located in Elder Faerie Cookie's archive, the former Virtue of Hope prevailed through the fight against the darkness and transcended beyond her current limits to gain a power far beyond her former ability called "Innocence". She was never named in many records, though many cookies speculated grandiose names such as "Pure Yeast Cookie" or "Shimmering Yeast Cookie", she was not even a Yeast Cookie at all! On the contrary, she was...

Just a flower cookie. A flower cookie known as "Pure Daisy Cookie". It was also said that everywhere she stepped, no matter how barren or snow filled the land she travelled was, there would always be daisies seen where her footsteps had once landed. There was some evidence that Pure Daisy Cookie had gone almost everywhere in Earthbread though, due to the amount of Sugar Daisy flower seeds that could easily be found around the whole of Earthbread.

However, that was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the story of the Virtue of Innocence and Hope. The question was, how did her story end?

It was... a sad ending, for such a pure being in this land of betrayal and pain.

While the other Virtues turned and succumbed to darkness, Pure Daisy Cookie had prevailed over it with new power, but fighting against her brothers and sisters as the youngest was something her heart could not take. She also did not want to kill them, and went to the Witches, begging them to seal her siblings instead of killing them. It was said that the Witches were adamant about their decision, but Pure Daisy Cookie had somehow managed to convince the Witches to seal instead of kill.

However, it was this choice that doomed the Virtue of Innocence and Hope to her fall.

When trying to distract her siblings in a battle, she had severely underestimated how powerful the darkness had turned her beloved older brothers and sister's powers, twisting and warping them into something even Pure Daisy Cookie could not deny was of an unholy descent.

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"Hehehehe... HAHAHAHA! Come on, my dear sister~ the darkness made us stronger than ever! You could join us in overthrowing the Witches, and we would be the masters of our own fate! The world would turn into our very own stage!"

"No! Blueberry Milk Cookie, you have to fight it! Fight the darkness, please! We are meant to protect and guide the world! Not to lie to the world or rule it!"

"Why even bother with protecting this... futile world, little sister? It is simply... helpless. Besides, cookies are such breakable creatures. Everything they do to satisfy their endless greed is in vain, and we simply should assist in making them realise that."