Cookie Man

A watchful, "high order" entity who is the former and original therapist of hhgregg

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(Negative) Sephiroth - He resents Sephiroth and is completely frustrated with both him and how nothing seems to get resolved about it. When Sephiroth was first teleported to hhgregg, CM thought that Sephiroth COULD be helped. He tried his best to help Sephiroth manage his violence and was planning to help him with his severe phobia of rats. He noticed Sephiroth was starting to get better, and was really proud of him. However, he decided to try out how “facing your fears” would work out. It didn’t. CM exposed Sephiroth  to rats which caused Sephiroth to spiral, grow even more unstable, and snapped. Despite CM’s attempts to calm him down, apologize, and give him space, Sephioth refused to. After setting the building ablaze and beheading/(temporarily) killing CM, CM felt frustrated, confused, and a bit betrayed. He does blame himself for the therapy going awry, but he can't help but feel angry about the whole situation. It got worse when Hhgregg demoted CM, giving Sephiroth the therapist job. Nowadays he sort of fucks with Sephiroth out of spite, and holds a lot of guilt for- as he thinks- being the reason any of this happened.

(Positive) Sho - Probably the person Cookie Man’s most concerned about considering how similar he is to Sephiroth. It’s hard to look at the two of them and not see like 70% the same person and considering CM both hates and is somewhat scared of Sephiroth… it concerns him a lot. He’s scared for Sho mostly, and wants to try to help Sho for the sake of him not ending up like Sephiroth did. He can get frustrated at Sho, especially in the beginning when Sho was constantly antagonizing him, and he’s probably retraumatized by the whole getting betrayed by Sho and stuck in a dorm fire. Despite all that though he can’t bring himself to blame Sho for all that and is still completely willing to help him. Did he have a crush on Sho at some point? A small one yeah but he stopped relatively early on since he focused all his attention on the murders helping him and the others. He also does have a habit of just like. Watching Sho from a distance but that’s just him having trouble with social interactions. Just like me fr (I ACCIDENTALLY JUST STARE AT PEOPLE ALL THE TIME IN SCHOOL IT'S TERRIBLE)

(Neutral-Positive) Minazuki - He just generally respects Minazuki and feels nothing strong towards him. CM is generally intrigued by how Minazuki exists as a separate entity from Sho, though he just leaves it to general hhgregg being hhgregg.

(Neutral-Negative) Hhgregg - He’s always been close to Hhgregg and probably considers him his best friend. However, at the same time, CM’s very conflicted on how he really feels about Hhgregg. On one hand, he’s been with CM for almost the entirety that CM has existed in the Hhgregg, he’s his best friend, and he knows that Hhgregg DOES care about him. However, on the other hand, Hhgregg is selfish, completely oblivious to the pain of others, and is the reason why EVERYONE is in the position that they’re in. CM is still confused on how to feel about him, the conflicts really only starting when tha greg gave Sephiroth his therapist position, but for right now, he still thinks fondly of the mascot.

(Positive) Yosuke - While he’s not AS focused on the position Yosuke’s in as he is with Sho, he is still concerned about Yosuke as he is with any of Sephiroth’s current clients. However, he does sort of respect him for how resilient Yosuke has stayed in his identity despite the constant betrating from both Sephiroth and Akechi. They did also bond a bit during the vacation in Australia, with Yosuke happily hanging out with CM while he was still malding over the whole dorm fire with Sho.

(Neutral) 1g0r÷xxx A!g?s:-I - Basically the same as Yosuke, though he does feel worse about Igor’s current state than the former’s. Considering he was only in one day of therapy and already attempted to escape and had a mental breakdown, he’s scared that it’s only going to spiral from here and Igor’s just going to get worse and worse.

(Positive) Teddie - He is actually really good friends with Teddie considering how different they are. They've known eachohter for the near entirety of eahcother's existances, so they've grown pretty close during that time. He is intrigued by Teddie since some bits about Teddie remain a mystery like "why does he suddenly shift demeanor and his eyes go all crazy sometimes out of nowhere." They don't talk much anymore but when they do, Teddie is actually decently respectful and genuine towards him (despite actually being a bit off putting and shit) so it's nice.

(Positive) Miku - THEY'RE BUDDIES!! One of his favorite clients back when he was the therapist. Trusted her with a bit more knowledge than he'd let other people know. Still decently close and still acts as an advisor to her, or even the other way around. 

(Positive) Four - BUDDIES !!!!!

(Positive) Adachi - Only knew him from his short time working at the infinite Ikea not too long after losing his therapist job, but just from that he sees Adachi as a buddy since he sort of helped him sort through the initial feelings around the whole situation.