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Turns out I really liked your idea @lovelyprivatealcove

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Lol I just realized SJD!Milk would lowkey downplay Choco’s banishment because, to him, heirs going on soul searching journeys before talking leadership roles is just normal to him. That’s what he’s doing right now after all

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Oh yeah he absolutely did lol

I’ve only got pen sketches to share right now but the lore part of it is figured out below the read more.

The Black Citadel and its surrounding city have this old old law pertaining to children the requires any child within the Citadel/city to be a ward of the King. It’s a practical law and also incredibly selfish on Cacao’s end.

The Citadel/city is right by the Licorice Sea and gets attacked constantly, not to mention the rest of the environment. It’s not a safe place to raise children at all, the most dangerous place in he kingdom arguably, but there still are children there. A lot of married soldiers stationed at the Citadel will raise their kids there after all.

Legally, Cacao doesn’t have any say over how his wards are raised unless they have no parents or other legal guardians alive. In which case he (read: his staff) has to step up to raise them. Otherwise, being a ward of the King comes with a pretty hefty “allowance” and guaranteed education; which tempts a lot of people to want to send their kids to the Citadel. However, the Licorice Sea and death rates of the soldiers stationed there usually curbs most from acting on those temptations (along with the fact that 99% of these wards become soldiers and never leave the Citadel). I’m not figuring out numbers but there’s always a couple hundred wards at one time, and very few only have Cacao as their only guardian. There’s one guy in an office somewhere that manages all this shit and he’s probably the best paid person in the whole kingdom.

The selfish reason for this whole thing is Cacao trying to rebound from banishing Choco. I headcanon Choco as semi immortal just normally (and to me he’s just older than most people depict him as) so it’s a law at least 20 years old (over 45 in Soul Jam Descendants). Cacao went from one very loved baby to one dead banished baby in an afternoon so it’s not surprising he’s disconnected from his people. A lot of the advisors hope that eventually a kid will come along that’ll break Cacao out of his slump and get him engaged with the people again.

Chip got really close.

Chip was found orphaned and raised half feral by wolves, and whoever brought him back to the Citadel was kinda being an asshole about it (“ooo~ animal son for animal king”). Chip would NOT stick with the Citadel tutors and caretakers that monitored the wards that just had Cacao left. The kid got fed up with whatever smelt like “big scary monster” and tracked the smell down himself, finding Cacao and immediately trying to fight him.

Cacao had bite marks up his arm when he returned Chip to the tutors, but he also had a newfound interest in the kid. He started monitoring Chip’s education and eventual military training personally, even suggesting him to the Monster Defense Corps when Chip was already an adult (and thus not actually Cacao’s problem anymore so he really didn’t have to care about Chip getting a good job). Cacao would’ve gotten closer, maybe even claim Chip as family, but he’d always remember Choco and close off again.

Caramel Arrow had it less glamorously for sure. She moved to the Citadel and her uncle Second Watcher became her legal guardian after both her parents died, but she still got the allowance and education befitting Cacao’s wards. Her incredible archery skills eventually put her on Cacao’s radar but she was almost an adult by that point. She’s way closer to her Uncle but eventually started seeing Cacao as a more guardian figure after she becomes First Watcher, funny enough.

The Young Cookie from the Mountians from episode 13 actually becomes one of Cacao’s wards during that episode. Despite how Affagato turns her away, she is let inside and set up with the other wards who don’t have any other guardians.

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Sorry I haven’t been posting, I was super caught up in art fight and burning out and stuff, here’s some Dark Choco angst. I have this headcanon that after the Strawberry Sword incident with his father he ran away until he couldn’t run anymore, coincidentally he ended up in the Hollyberry Kingdom where he was discovered in the palace gardens by Royalberry Cookie who was shocked to see him and more shocked at the state he was in.

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Do we want dark choco stuff next?

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He’s so well adjusted, guys. Trust me

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people will see a fandom thing and be like "why isn't this a fanfic" "why is there no fanfic about this" my brother in christ, because you're not writing it

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QUICK GIMME YOUR DRAGON CACAO HCS

HI WHAT IF I ANSWERED THIS TWO YEARS LATER!!

Actual answer (it’s long!) under the cut!-

So my dragon!Cacao headcanons spilt off at the end into two groups: general fanon sandbox headcanons and the stuff that happens in the Soul Jam Descendants AU. Thought there’s a ton of overlap across the board. (General note that I didn’t keep up with the game after the first Beast Yeast update so all this is me doing my own thing atp)

Baked by the White and Black Dragons while they were tearing up the Great Icing Ridge during their fightin’ years. There was a cacao bean that got caught in the middle of their combined flames and baked so hot it made baby Cacao. His crying spooked them so bad they stoped fighting!

Raised as if he was a dragonling during his formative years, then left home around the time he became an adult to adventure Earthbread (still a mortal). Yes, he thought he was just a very weird baby dragon for a loooong time

The same age-ish as Pitaya Dragon, but only when it’s funny

He’s technically not a dragon but an animal cookie who’s animal form is a dragon. Really the only difference from a normal dragon is that he’s comparatively weaker, but dragons haaaate when Cacao calls himself a dragon. Cacao’s moms don’t care though, they actually like him lol

Can breathe fire but also knows lightning related magic (I hc that all dragons regardless of kind/element can breath fire because “fire powers the internal fernace that gives them life” or whatever the fuck)

Can lift his sword because of the Soul Jam not because he’s a dragon, sorry

Like all Icing Ridge Dragons, Cacao has a single large horn at the center of his forehead that branches like a rhinoceros beetle, and a second smaller horn on his chin. They’re meant for grappling and throwing other Icing Ridge Dragons. Only Cacao’s top horn is grown enough for that while his bottom one is still just a nub (he’d file it down regardless though, his cookie anatomy means he’d stab himself in the neck if he let it grow). Old Icing Ridge Dragons like his moms have horns that touch top to bottom in a circle.

Cacao is very young for an Icing Ridge Dragon, or just any dragon in general (hence the small horns). His lifespan has been increased by the Soul Jam though not because he’s a dragon, sorry again

Prefers that half-state pictured above because it gives him the “best of both worlds” more or less, he’s not actually all that fond of being waaay bigger than other cookies

Since he’s technically a mix of the Black and White Dragons, I made him piebald-ish. More fun that way

Yes, he can fly (float??). If he’s in a rush, it looks more or less like Superman flying, if not he actually runs, just in the air (just think the totk dragons)

General sandbox (includes My Baby Again AU):

Became an animal cookie when he was still young and met the other Ancients in dragon form first! (Insert whatever mistaken identity meet cute you feel like here)

Since I hc animal cookie abilities as being something that you can get genetically from your parents, Choco is also a dragon! He was raised as a cookie though so he’s not as good at it as Cacao is

Had an insane cuckoo bananas times with dragon instincts when Choco was born, he nor his kingdom were ready for it. Otherwise he’s really reserved in public and saves all his dragon-ness for family

Soul Jam Descendants AU:

Doesn’t become an animal cookie until the second dark flour war (the game’s plot). I haven’t decided, but it happens either after the war is over or just after Episode 14

Wanted to be a dragon so bad, guys, but never went through with becoming an animal cookie in his youth because he got pulled into becoming a hero, then becoming a king, then fighting the war, then banishing Choco

Him becoming a dragon convinces Choco to do so as well (Choco in this au isn’t a dragon either, since he won’t get it genetically from Cacao)

His moms being the Black and White Dragons is actually a serious reveal in this au, the legends about him stopping their fight got reeaaally out of hand here

If you read to the end then here’s a magic glowy alt version of the top picture. Thanks for reading!

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Ily Nils

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Concept note to myself: crk magicians having a magical counterbalance, which is the fancy term for a lab partner / magic spotter so magicians are less likely to do dangerous stuff alone. White Lily and Pure Vanilla were each other’s counterbalances, obviously.

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I have contracted another illness. Probably won’t have any drawings for a hot minute, sorry gang

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If you're still wondering, "huh...What is Check, Please?"

✨ start reading here ✨ get the book irl

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That Coldplay kisscam outing everybody

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A minute of silence for the boys 🥀💔🪦

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what if we were a demon boy band and we all ran like goofy guys? haha jk...unless? 🤔

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Anyone else remember when that one corner of tumblr got really obsessed with a 20s mobster au of bendy and the ink machine???… Yeah, me neither.