Favourite Things

[melove_cookies]

The Plaza is a nice place to meet new people and to sit down with a huge plate of cookies. This is what Cookie is deciding to do as most walking past will now spot a blue furry monster devouring a plate load of chocolate chip cookies. His large fluffy hands picking up the cookies and shoving them into his large black gaping maw of a mouth. No teeth just a large hole.

"OMNOM OMMMMNOM OMONOMONOMOM!

Bits of cookie flying everywhere as the monster's large googly eyes focus on the plate of cookies. Almost as in a state of frenzy Cookie finishes the whole plate which now stands empty. All gone. He had to get more! But from where? These ones had been given to him by a nice person. Maybe Oscar the grouch knew where to get more cookies unless---Cookie baked his own. That was an idea too.

"What favourite thing for you? Mine cookies. What yours?"

The blue monster now sitting with an empty plate of crumbs asking passers by because he was a curious creature. Asking questions was good and helpful since it helped Cookie learn and learning was good.

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[melove_cookies]

Cookie loves meeting new friends and right now he was seeing all these kids coming towards him. Was he famous here too? It would seem so. The furry monster waving and his eyes spinning around wildly at all the attention. Then, a tall man was behind them coming into view. Maybe he was their dad?

"Hug? Of course. Cookie like hugs."

The blue monster held out his arms and waited for the kids to hug him if they wanted. Back home he got lots of hugs and Cookie was taught to be friendly and nice to people. His friend Ernie hugged him and so did Grover. Big Bird also gave hugs even though he was very tall. Oscar---not so much.

"Banana pudding? Me love cookies! Choco-late chip favourite. Oh boy I do love dem! Do you have any?"

[coldsong]

Trust a Sesame Street monster to be happy to see children. There's always the possibility of weird and dangerous alternates, of course, but in this instance the appearance does not belie the reality. Loki smiles and nods his approval for a hug exchange. Eindrid more or less crashes into him in his embrace. The girls are enthusiastic as well, but more controlled, and in the end, even Agnarr comes closer, pets Cookie on the shoulder to see how soft his fur is, and gives him a brief, gentle embrace.

It's nice to live in a place where friendly blue googly-eyed monsters are real, and the bad kind of monsters don't show up quite so often.

"I bet you could make cookies that taste like banana pudding," Una says.

"Yes, but it already has cookies in it," Sigrid lectures, and turns to Cookie. "It's pudding, with bananas on top and vanilla cookies on the bottom. You might like it too!"

"We don't have any cookies at the moment, I'm afraid," Loki says. "But we've been known to bake them. Personally, I quite like caramel shortbread, but chocolate chip is hard to argue with."

What? He likes a little whimsy on occasion, too. So sue him. He offers Cookie a handshake or armclasp.

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"Ban-nana pudding? Never tried dose cookies before. What like? Cookie want to try doh with new friends!"

The tall man had Cookie looking up and couldn't believe how tall this man was. The dad? He must be as the furry monster took the hand and shook it rather vigorously; his large googly eyes spinning around madly for a few seconds. All these new friends he was making today!

"You tall man. What name? What name kids too? Me Cookie Monster."

He looked back at the children and wanted to know their names so he could get to know them better. It was polite to use someone's name as Big Bird told Cookie once. Not just calling people "Cookie friend" or "You dere."

[coldsong]

"It's very sweet," Sigrid says helpfully. "And kind of cool and creamy." And then she looks up at Loki very pointedly. Clearly they need to help out their new monster friend by introducing him to this treat!

As a consequence, when Cookie does look up at Loki, he's fighting laughter. Four precocious children and a monster! He deserves this sort of chaos. He leans down and gives Cookie a gentle hug, as well. "I'm Loki."

Pointing to each of his children in turn, he introduces them. "Agnarr, my oldest. He speaks in sign language." Sesame Street monsters might know sign language? That would be interesting.

"Sigrid, my little banana pudding fiend. Una, a warrior princess. And Eindrid, my youngest and your biggest fan."

"And yes, I happen to know we have some bananas at home, so we can make pudding if you insist, Sigrid."

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"Maybe Cookie and new friends here cook together! We make cookies or bake stuff! Does the tall man say yes to dis? Cookie good chef."

Cookie as a "good chef" was somewhat debatable but he was a child monster so this could be excused. The mess in the kitchen? Well, that was usually involving a big clean up but that was for adults wasn't it?

"Sign language? Cookie know some maybe."

The monster proceeding to sign the word cookie out to Agnarr. It might be harder since the monster's hands were furry and his fingers were stunted but he was trying! Children at Sesame Street signed when they couldn't hear. Cookie knew this.

[coldsong]

Can a child monster safely use an oven? Loki isn't certain enough to let them run about unsupervised, but after a thoughtful glance at his two older children, he smiles and gives a helpless shrug. "All right, but you let me put things in the oven and take them back out. You may be a good chef, but your fur looks flammable."

Agnarr blinks and watches cookie sign, then grins. His laugh is quiet, almost a whisper, but he signs back cookie, and then hello, cookie monster.

[melove_cookies]

Who knows if Cookie can safely use an oven? Cookie certainly wanted to bake with his new friends though! Chef Cookie had happened before when he'd cooked with Grover and Big Bird. They all made cookies!

"Fur is flam----what word? Not know. Tall man speak words Cookie not know."

The blue furry monster then looked to Agnarr when he saw the signing. Cookie doing his best to sign back with his thick furry fingers. Hello, new friend! Me Cookie. Do you like cookies? What best flavour for you?