RedPastry

RedPastry is the het ship between Red Velvet Cookie and Pastry Cookie from the Cookie Run fandom.

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During the events of the Tower of Sweet Chaos, Red Velvet Cookie was a child who had lost his arm through unknown means while Dark Enchantress Cookie was awakened. She gifts him an arm made of cake, and offers to show him a better world. Red Velvet Cookie was taken under her wing and soon became a commander of the Cake Monsters, taking a Cake Hound he named Chiffon for his own.

Pastry Cookie is someone who is unconsciously afraid of her doubts of the institutionalized religion she’s been a part of for at least a good part of her life. Her ending exchange with the Reverend Mother ends with a note of finality: Pastry Cookie accepts that she must keep the faith-shattering secret of all Cookies’ purpose to herself, unaware that if she were to even step out of line or demonstrate a single moment of rebelling against the Order’s rules, she would be taken out of the picture by the Order’s own members.

She learns that Cake Monster taint has been nested within the sacred halls of the Godly Banquet, so she goes to investigate. There, she meets some cake hounds. She starts to beat them until Red Velvet appears. Pastry is surprised that a cookie is using an arm of a cake monster, which she suspects it's the intruder she was told about. Red Velvet asks Pastry if she wants to work for him. That way, he would be merciful enough to forgive her intrusion. She declines, and then asks him if he really is a Cake Monster and if he was the one who reduced the holy shrine to this state. He says that he was responsible for the Cake factory, and Pastry isn't happy about it.

She suddenly beats him, saying this was a doing of her Fork of Judgement, said to be a weapon that cannot hurt an innocent being. Red Velvet insults this conspiracy, saying that she shouldn't believe that she has all the powers to judge someone's right to live just like the witches. They are about to fight again when Red Velvet sees that his pet Chiffon has been hiding in fear of the situation. He calms it down and Pastry tries to shoot it off.

Red Velvet exclaims that she was delaying his death because she sees that he is a cookie just like her, but he has no sympathy for her and that he was no different from the beasts she crushed, and that he was born in that tower. She is shocked by the statement, asking if god really created him that way.

Pomegrate cookie appears and confirms what he said, adding that her master, Dark Enchantress cookie, who is later revelead to be White Lily, was also created there. Pastry cookie ends up suddenly falling into the Ultimate dough which leads to her learning about the backstory of Dark Enchantress cookie and the truth of the world, which was very different from the teachings of her Order. She asks them what they are planning to do with with this world then, and Red Velvet cookie says that they want to rebuild it for the despaired and fallen, just like the monsters she encountered before, who also had the will of continuing living.

Red Velvet Cookie notices that Pastry Cookie looks exhausted, and that she could use both “accommodations and sleep.” In Pastry Cookie’s loading screen and opening dialogue, we learned that she has a difficult time getting up in the morning, and when she’s praying in the chapel in order to make up for oversleeping, Reverend Mother Cookie praises her for her “diligence.” The events of the story, especially the ending, led to believe that Red Velvet cookie could help Pastry cookie to escape her abusive environment and onto a path of recovery.

Quotes
"You there! Do you wish to work for me? I can be merciful enough to pardon your foolish intrusion!"

Fanon
has about 130+ works on AO3, being one of the het ships with the most works. The reason why the ship’s fanbase is as widespread as it is is because of their interactions in "Tower of Sweet Chaos". The appeal in their relationship, romantic or otherwise, lies in the story event’s commentary on religious trauma, indoctrination, and the ship’s headcanon of escaping both.

The dynamic of enemy to lovers is another thing that drived alot of people to the ship, but also the main reason to drive some shippers away. Most of the people that dislike the ship have been known to voice their concerns about the fact that Pastry Cookie tried to kill Red Velvet Cookie and that their views are completely different, leading to some arguing in the community. It is mostly compared to ships such as AffoCara, or in some cases, Espresseleine, which are also enemies to lovers ships.

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Trivia

 * There is an unused artwork for an official Cookie Run love test (the infobox image for this article) for Valentine's Day who featured both characters.