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- That day, having spoken with you, I already knew our goals were aligned.
- — Silent Salt Cookie to Elder Faerie Cookie
ElderSalt is the slash ship between Elder Faerie Cookie and Silent Salt Cookie from the Cookie Run fandom.
Canon[]
Silent Salt Cookie and Elder Faerie were close friends, having known each other for quite some time when Silent Salt was uncorrupted, and known as the Salt of Solidarity. The two bonded over their shared mission of bettering Cookiekind, both holding immense trust and respect for each other. Silent Salt would often disappear from his people for long periods of time to visit Elder Faerie Cookie in secret, to work towards their mutual goal.
The pair first met in the Faerie Kingdom when Silent Salt was searching for a way to harness new virtues, having recognized the growing corruption within him and the other divinities. Together, they planned the creation of new Virtues; a spell was crafted, then planted in the form of a seed. It would be nurtured into a Silver Tree (named the Guardian Tree) which would then go on to grow a new set of virtues free from corruption. Silent Salt Cookie would pour half his strength into the tree in hopes of speeding up the process, with Elder Faerie warning him of the effects and appearing concerned over him. Silent Salt disregarded his friend’s concern, instead stating that he only hopes that evil had not spread too far by the time the spell is complete.
After arriving in the Great Barren, Silent Salt Cookie would be caught in the midst of a surprise attack by the other armies lead by other rulers of Beast Yeast, betrayed by the Cookies he had once protected. After the Kala Namak Knights, along with several Cookies were all killed in the battle, Silent Salt Cookie would corrupt into the Devil of Silence and slaughtered every Cookie in the Great Barren.
Broken in both mind and heart, Silent Salt Cookie returned to the Faerie Kingdom. When he encountered Elder Faerie Cookie, Silent Salt asked him if he would still greet him after what he’s done, covered in jam and crumbs. Elder Faerie Cookie apologized to Silent Salt Cookie, saying he witnessed what had transpired in the Guardian Tree. Disheartened, Silent Salt asked Elder Faerie to kill him, fearing he will fully corrupt. The latter appeared distraught and instead switched the subject.
After Elder Faerie revealed to him that the other Divine Emissaries had corrupted and turned their backs on Earthbread, Silent Salt became enraged at their betrayal and swore to destroy them. Elder Faerie told him to calm down and that it is not too late to restore their world. Silent Salt Cookie would then ask for Elder Faerie Cookie's help one last time; to bind him and the other beasts into the Silver Tree.
Elder Faerie became hesitant at this, warning Silent Salt that if the spell succeeds, he too will be sealed away. Silent Salt replied that he has nothing left to give Cookiekind. After agreeing, albeit with some hesitance, to obscure Silent Salt’s role in sealing away the beasts, Elder Faerie would assist his friend once again in his plan, using Silent Salt’s Soul Jam to perform magic powerful enough to overcome the other Emissaries. After completing the ritual, Silent Salt and the other beasts would become sealed within the Silver Tree, preventing them from unleashing chaos into the world.
Elder Faerie Cookie would continue he and his friend's legacy as the Guardian of the Silver Tree, protecting the seal along with other members of the Faerie Kingdom, upholding the wishes of Silent Salt Cookie. He would never reveal the truth to anyone, even in the time leading up to his death, and only passed away after entrusting the guardianship of the Silver Tree and the Faerie Kingdom to Silent Salt Cookie's successor, White Lily Cookie.
Quotes[]
- Elder Faerie – “You always appear without warning. You know well enough that we consider it improper to keep our guests waiting at the gate.”
- Silent Salt – “Yet, not once have you kept me waiting. Not even that first time.”
- Elder Faerie – “A Cookie of few words you may be, but your silver tongue leaves me disarmed every time.”
- Silent Salt – “Will you greet me even now, when I’m covered in jam and cookie crumbs?”
- Elder Faerie – “I am sorry. The Guardian's Tree has shown me all that transpired in the Great Barren.”
- Silent Salt – “Then end my life by your hand. For I have lost my virtue.”
- Elder Faerie – “What are you saying…!?”
- Silent Salt – “Tainted by Silence, I can no longer walk this path with you. I must not tarnish the future of Cookiekind.”
Fanon[]
The ship first emerged on March 2025, as a crackship; as the fandom only knew their relationship was of Salt being sealed by Elder Faerie. ElderSalt gained a very small boost of popularity after the Battlefield of Passion update and the retelling of Sugarfly Cookie’s story on the official CookieRun Kingdom Twitter page. Before Silent Salt’s update, the ship was leaning more towards a fanon rarepair since its heavy reliance on theories. After Silent Salt’s update revealed canon information about the two, its popularity would boom, primarily on TikTok and Twitter.
The ship used to have 5 fanfics on AO3, until the update with their interaction came out, having writers produce 100 new fanfics for the pair in just a few days. As of October 2nd 2025, it currently has 105 fics. This growth is extremely fast for a Cookie Run ship, the only other time this speed happened, was with ShadowVanilla.
Silent Salt’s concept art had him be an ant, and is still arguably inspired from an ant, while Elder Faerie is inspired from a butterfly, which has some fans making a bug AU with the two.
It rivals with SilentLily and ElderLily. Though most fans instead opt to sort the three into a polycule, ElderLilySalt.
Theories & Headcanons[]
Distinguished Guest!Silent Salt Theory[]
ElderSalt, as a ship, heavily relies on the theory of Elder Faerie Cookie’s guest being Silent Salt Cookie back when he was known as The Salt of Solidarity. The main reason being the emphasis on the word silence in the line “silent as the wind,” said by Sugarfly Cookie, when talking about the guest, and Silent Salt Cookie's imagery in relation to the beast-binding ritual.
Silent Salt Cookie has a reoccurring celestial theme, repeatedly using moon and the eclipse as symbolism, most importantly the massacre where Silent Salt Cookie splits the moon in half. This imagery possibly relates to the Lithuanian Myth of the sun and the moon, where the thunder also slices the moon in half for being disloyal, meaning that Silent Salt Cookie (as the sun and thunder) could have done such actions as Elder Faerie Cookie’s punishment.
Silent Salt!Elder Faerie Theory[]
In some cases, ElderSalt also refers to the theory of Silent Salt Cookie and Elder Faerie Cookie being the same cookie. Some versions of this theory views them in a way that parallels White Lily Cookie and Dark Enchantress Cookie in a way that Silent Salt Cookie, as The Salt of Solidarity, experienced a major event leaving him to corrupt and for Elder Faerie Cookie to be created (presumably as a rebaked version of The Salt of Solidarity). Other versions of the theory believe that Silent Salt Cookie is Directly Elder Faerie Cookie, meaning that Elder Faerie’s death was a facade. The main evidence for this theory are the multiple instances where Silent Salt Cookie does similar actions to Elder Faerie, mostly though having similar poses.
Some people who believe in ElderSalt as a theory also ship ElderSalt, viewing the ship as selfcest.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Elder Faerie Cookie/Silent Salt Cookie tag on AO3
- Elder Faerie Cookie & Silent Salt Cookie tag on AO3
- TIKTOK
- ElderSalt tag on TikTok
- ElderSalt posts on TikTok
- SilentFaerie tag on TikTok
- SilentFaerie posts on TikTok
- TUMBLR
- ElderSalt tag on Tumblr
- ElderSalt posts on Tumblr
- SilentFaerie tag on Tumblr
- SilentFaerie posts on Tumblr
- ElderSalt hashtag on Twitter
- ElderSalt posts on Twitter
- SilentFaerie hashtag on Twitter
- SilentFaerie posts on Twitter
Trivia[]
- Elder Faerie has a pair of butterfly-esque wings. In real life, butterflies are attracted to salt.
- Elder Faerie cares deeply for the tree he and Salt planted together, acting as if it were his own child at times.
Elder Faerie hugging the tree affectionately
- The only time Elder Faerie ever smiled on-screen, was when he was with Silent Salt.
Gallery[]
Variations[]
- ElderLilySalt refers to the ship between the two with White Lily Cookie
