Introducing BurningPeach

Peach Ambrosia's History

Before the Beast

Once known as Golden Peach Cookie, she had been an explorer who sought to learn about the past and help others with that knowledge. However, this often put her at odds with the very cautious elders of Peach Valley, who attempted to curb this enthusiasm and redirect her to more quieter, less dangerous pursuits. With her love for history, and especially the Wild Spices, all Golden Peach could do was reassure her elders before making yet another journey into the dangerous sands.

She was one of the few to survive one of Burning Spice Cookie's rampages as he had become the Beast of Destruction. She had managed to sneak around the ruins and avoid being spotted, but she had seen him, and sketched him in her notebooks. She was deeply fascinated, rather than afraid, although she knew that there was no way she could approach without being crumbled.

However, despite the experience, she remained brave and continued her work until she heard of a strange object that could help others: a Soul Jam. She tracked down the location of where it was said to lie, only to become transformed by it...for it was incomplete, corroded in a way that changed her very dough beyond repair.

After the Transformation

After Peach Ambrosia Cookie had returned to Peach Valley, she was attacked due to her recent transformation into a Beast. She crumbled a large number of Cookies in the Valley, before giving the remaining survivors an offer: serve her or crumble like their peers. In the meantime, Peach took over the Peach Valley Temple, once a home for the elders of the village, now her own abode where she began to claim most of the rooms within as her own space for curation.

During the time after her transformation, she became known as both the Beast and the Mistress of Peach Valley. She allowed Cookies who weren't actively in her service (such as those raising children) to remain in the nearby village, while she ensured that the Cookies who served her were safe and able to have time to themselves. She wasn't cruel, despite the massacre she had performed; instead, she was stern, blunt, and patient in ways that her servants found both assuring and unnerving.

When she first met Burning Spice, it was when he'd hunted her down after some of his Spicelings reported an unusual fruity scent in the Wild Spices. He confronted her when she was picking through one of the ruins he left behind, leading to a fight where they were eventually forced into a standstill. Peach was irritated that her work had been interrupted, despite knowing of her past self's fondness for the Beast that she had avoided dying to; for his part, Spice hadn't seen her before, and was immediately interested considering both her resilience and her lack of fear toward him. Future meetings would either lead to fights or debates, depending on Burning Spice's mood each time.

After a while, she allowed Burning Spice to visit her temple as a guest, then allowed him to court her (not realizing, of course, that he had been courting her for longer than she'd "allowed"). It wasn't easy, of course, considering her own feelings regarding what she'd done and her perspective on herself, but she eventually fell in love right back.

The two would eventually have a daughter, Scorched Blossom Cookie. (I need to actually do more with her, haha.)

Dr. Peach A. Ride

Of course, Peach Ambrosia wasn't heartless. She'd slaughtered most of her people in a brutal fashion--while it was self-defense, there was no denying that she felt extremely guilty for her actions. She positioned Golden Peach as being a more ideal person than herself, believing that her past self would've hated what she'd become.

This also led to a belief that she herself wasn't worthy of preservation.

Thus, at the end of days, as Earthbread was falling apart, Peach Ambrosia saved Burning Spice by sealing him within a preservation blossom...but chose not to seal herself.

Cut to modern-day Earth. No gods. No Cookies. No Earthbread.

Dr. Peach Ambrosia Ride, director and head curator of Main City Historical Museum (in a fictional city in South Carolina), gained the opportunity to go to a dig in India. The enigmatic Tomb of the Destroyer had recently been discovered, and it was time to see what it had.

Of course, she didn't expect a man in the sarcophagus--not a skeleton, a whole-ass man.

And Burning Spice could recognize Peach Ambrosia's soul in the woman who'd opened the sarcophagus. Her appearance being a dead ringer of Peach Ambrosia's also helped, of course.

So it gets fun~.

Obviously, Dr. Ride is a very indulgent AU for me. Where Peach Ambrosia is cool as a cucumber and wry in her humor, Peach Ride is where I get to write a more sassy and modern-age Peach. Also, I'm a sucker for reincarnation plots.