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HELLO MUNAR LINKMIPSE. I REALIZED I HAVE NOT ANNOYED YOU VIA TUMBLR ASKS IN SEVERAL WEEKS AND I FEEL COMPELLED TO CHANGE THAT.

It looks around to be being so smart and sexy and cool.

erm, what the sigma

no amogus poetry for you 😡😡😡

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Drew Irratino before so here’s his rival friend antagonist partner this guy

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ello people, while on break to study for my exams and get my shit together, I have accidentally stumbled into cookie run kingdom. so here are some gay cookies:

with SMC and PV being my favorites because of course.

but yes, these are pretty quick works, second one made in MS paint..

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So, uh. Someone asked in the community who we’d ship Logico and Irratino with if they weren’t together. Lunar suggested Logico/Indigo, and. I saw the vision. In an “ohgodIcan’tlookbutIhaveto” kind of way.

And because I don’t deserve to be the only one suffering, this idea be upon all ye.

Lunar’s idea not mine send all complaints to her BYE— *dives into bunker*

BONUS:

These extremely low-effort drawings are, amazingly enough, the first time I’ve ever drawn Olivia’s canon design. Sorry, Liv ^^;

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hi chat im posting this here because my twitter people really liked it (also wanna know how this ancient app works)

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zane! and pixal <3

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Stop looking at me with those gay green eyes

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Now I'm just imagining this conversation going with Logico being like "You already know what it's like to kill?? You've done it so many times???" and the suspect shrugging like "I know how it feels to stab someone to death, but what about blunt force trauma? Totally different" XD

It’s always funny to me whenever “to see what it felt like to kill” is a motive on the daily puzzle.

Guys, y’all ALREADY know what it feels like to kill. You know it several times over. You have all killed possibly more people than history’s most prolific serial killers. The feeling of committing murder should be as familiar to you as breathing is to other people.

It’s just so flipping funny to me XD

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Best of luck with the fundraising and sticker shop, Berry!! ^_^

The next episode will be delayed, but I will try my hardest to open up a Cartoon Murdleverse sticker club shortly, the first purchasable Cartoonverse merch.

I'm in a bad situation and I really need the money to help me get out.

If you could find it in your heart to donate beforehand you can visit my Ko-Fi where I also offer art commissions.

Everything will be used to help me get out and start my real life. My dreams are to meet G.T. Karber in person and to begin an internship in ornithology, but I can't do it without you <3

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just a helpless maiden~

animation demons took over again oop

progress under cut!

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My only justification for this is “listened to Pink Pony Club one too many times” :P

BONUS:

It’s always nice to learn something new about yourself :)

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Can't wait to draw on the Wonder and Cynicism Gacha of Fate and get 1 muscle cookie soulstone :D

For real tho, the wonderful @lilythelitten took my half asleep Murdle/Cookie Run Kingdom insane ramblings and cooked up some fantastic designs and lore and what was I supposed to do, not draw them??? Tried to make it look like the animation you get when you draw a beast (yes technically Logico should be right side up for that but Irratino's pose looks wonky as hell upside down so uh sue me)

These AUs screw with my sleep schedule so bad because i have to get these ideas out before bed even if I am eepy. Anyways, some random little notes/hcs:

Logico would be a Charge cookie. We're harkening back to his chessboxing roots with this one!! Not to mention he's got some major noir vibes here. Which is part of why I gave him brass knuckles in the drawing. His ult would be called something like "Weight of the World".

I know in Logicookie's original design, he had a cape, but inspiration kidna struck in giving him the off the shoulders trench coat so I decided to roll with it? Also, I absolutely saw Lily's vision with the harlequin pattern inside the coat and decided to try combining it with the gradient in the original, and I think it turned out pretty well!

Irratino, on the other hand, would be a Magic cookie. With a love of all things whimsical and mystical, he'd absolutely be casting spells as his main attacks. His ult would be called "Wonders of the World". With his design, I really loved the forest-fairy vibe going on, and uh, might have had my hand slip to add a few extra details?

The soul jam(s?) for these two is a bit subtle, but it's in Irratino's staff and Logico's magnifying glass. Clear and perfectly smooth, it's a perfect lens in which to see the world.

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forgot to post this goofy elderlily doodle oops. Here's Elder Faerie Cookie totally not freaking out over his (future) wife

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@lunar-inkclipse did it again, huge fan of the oxymorons as toxic cookie yaoi—

Okay, but in all seriousness, this post sent my brain into a thought spiral I could only escape via drawing. Basically: Logico and Irratino as part of Cookie Run Kingdom’s Beast/Ancient thing. For CRK fans who stumble upon this post and—understandably, there’s probably very little fandom overlap between fans of cookie gacha games and fans of murder mystery puzzles—have no idea who those characters are: puzzle book gay detectives. That’s really the gist of it :P

Anyway, the post has ideas for both of them to go either way (the trait is Investigation, for those wondering), but given the character arc I used for Logico and my love of “cynicism sucks” as a theme, I went with Irratino as the Ancient and Logico as the Beast. Artist commentary—and a whole bunch more—under the cut!

Irratino (Ancient)

“The world is beautiful! I can’t wait to see more!”

(Maybe I should give them, like, cookie names. Unfortunately, I have no ideas. I guess I could borrow from Nines, and use Lavender Tea for Irratino…? Eh, I’ll just use his regular name to avoid confusion.)

I see why most CRK fan artists draw the cookies as humans, holy CRAP replicating the game’s art style was a task and a half. Partially because I decided to do colored outlines again and that proved as frustrating as expected XD And partially because I had no idea what I was doing with the eyes. If he looks like he’s staring into your soul. Oops :V

But yeah! Kinda wanted to lean into the whole “whimsical and mystical” side, with a sort of “nature fairy” look. Independent of the actual fairy cookies XD The skirt exists to cover somewhat awkward anatomy, but other than that, everything looks like how I envisioned it ^^

I had to have a space design in there. My standard-issue Tino has space shoes; Cookietino has a space cape. The gem clasping it is an amethyst, by the way. The ones on his shoes and on his little crown-thing? Garnets. (grins)

And I had to give him a fun staff like Pure Vanilla and White Lily. His has a moon and stars and, uh…sparkly fabric veil thing XD I gave him a braid because I felt it would be fitting—and also because White Lily gave me a convenient reference to work with—though for his Awakening, I imagine his hair would be let loose as it usually is. (For Murdle fans who have no idea what that means: it’s basically when an Ancient gets a power boost and fancy new drip. Character development and brief fall from grace required :P)

The virtue he represents is either Curiosity or Whimsy, according to the post. I like both of those, though I propose an alternative: Wonder. It’s the most direct contrast to Cynicism while keeping the “Investigation” theme—looking at the world and always finding something you want to learn more about, finding beauty in everything from a perfectly sculpted statue to the way the sun glints off the morning dew. It fits Irratino as a character, and fits as a Virtue ^^ Not really sure what the lore here would be, but I could imagine something similar to canon + my HCs? Irratino’s moms die in a mysterious accident, Irratino hits a depressive spell, pulls himself together and decides to start investigating things, bring people happiness through closure—Soul Jam resonates with that? I dunno, I’m spitballing here.

Don’t ask me for, like, abilities, though. I’m not good at gameplay mechanics, I just draw lines :P

Sample Quotes

“Can you hear the whispers on the wind? Listen closer…”

“This kingdom is beautiful! I keep finding so many new things!”

“Moms…I’m gonna make you proud. I promise.”

Logico (Beast)

“You think people do anything out of the goodness of their hearts? Grow up.”

(Still don’t have any names. The Beasts have a much stricter naming scheme than other cookies, ya gotta have an ingredient and not just a food…I dunno, honey? Plus something to do with monochrome? Gray Honey? Ashen Honey? …actually, I like that last one, but we’re still calling him Logico for convenience :P)

Monochrome, monochrome, monochrome~ There was no way Beast Logico could exist with any semblance of color. The shades of gray do look very similar. That was an accident. I didn’t actually work out a color palette before I started drawing outside of “black, gray, maybe a touch of white” XD

He does look kinda boring for a Beast. I didn’t intend that either. The diamond marks on his eyes and the long, billowy coat-cape were attempts to rectify that. I do like how the diamonds look, and if I wasn’t lazy and it wasn’t a late addition, I would’ve had more of them ^^; (The inside of his cape is a result of that laziness; I wanted it to have a diamond pattern, but I had no idea how to go about that. Just know that canonically, in my heart, the cape does have those patterns :P)

What else…oh, yeah, the fedora stayed. As do the thick eyebrows. Both were too iconic to discard XD

Luckily, lore-wise, I have a fair bit more to say: as one probably guessed from earlier, the corrupted virtue Logico holds is Cynicism. Thing is, he doesn’t…see it that way? And might not have even realized he fell at all. In his eyes, he’s become a living embodiment of logic as a concept, someone who sees past all doubts and deceptions and delusions and sees the world for how it really is. (Side-note, I get the feeling he and Shadow Milk do not get along :P) If you asked him? Irratino is the one with a corrupted soul, one that refuses to acknowledge reality, and maybe part of the reason he wants Irratino to fall is so that the other half of “his” Soul Jam isn’t a broken, defective mess when he reclaims it.

His domain is basically a world of silence. The longer you stay, the more you lose your color and your passion until you’re…well, see below. It’s sort of like Eternal Sugar’s paradise of sloth, but where she at least tries to make cookies happy, Logico doesn’t even offer that much. His domain leaves you an empty, miserable husk of a cookie, unable to feel anything but bitterness at the world and its cruelty. In Logico’s eyes, this is a good ending. This is his endgoal for all of Earthbread—a world of pure logic, where emotions and irrationality can never cause unwanted pain or strife. A listless, gray world of loneliness, full of miserable people.

He…resents other cookies. He resents the other Beasts, and the Ancients, and even everyday cookies, because they’re ignorant. But they can also feel things (well, most of them), like joy and love and wonder—and when they have low points, they’re too ignorant to let those feelings consume them. How dare they? How dare everyone be happy, when Logico’s estranged? He’ll never admit it, but even as he hates their idiocy, he envies their happiness. He remembers when he used to be like that, before he learned what the world was really like. Maybe that’s his real motivation, beneath the surface—resentment and envy of others’ joy, and a spiteful desire to drag them all down to his level. Maybe he resents himself too, because however good he is at logic now, he failed to live up to his own standards back in the day, and it eats at him.

(You know, from second-hand info, I think you could make a case for, like, all the Beasts having that similar motivation: setting out into the world with impossibly high hopes, and then being disappointed when it inevitably failed to measure up to their standards. But I haven’t played Beast-Yeast yet, so I wouldn’t know ^^;)

Sample Quotes

“Hope is like toys. Fine when you’re a child. Less so when you’re older.”

“This kingdom is so…colorful. Not what I’m used to.”

“I could spend my whole life studying him and yet never understand…”

BONUS: Gray Walker Cookies

(One of the many Gray Walker Cookies who wander Logico’s domain)

I wasn’t sure what to name these at first, then I remembered Volume 2 and went for it. In Murdle, Gray Walkers are not-zombies; living people who’ve had so much blood drained out they have gray skin and act zombie-like. (Uh. Spoilers :P) Here, Gray Walkers are cookies who have been in Logico’s domain too long, and have become little more than perfectly logical husks who exist only to serve their master.

Logico has basically no friends in canon, so there aren’t really any characters who could serve as helpers for him (unlike Irratino, who has eight named friends). So this is my substitute for that—a collective of nameless servants, who have no personality, few powers, but a lot of numbers. (Lunar actually did suggest Obsidian, but that was after I finished these drawings, so, uh, I didn’t do one for her. I like the concept, though! ^^)

And if you think “oh, that’s not nearly as scary as the actual cookies with names and faces who follow the canon Beasts!” …you will think that up until dozens, or even hundreds, of Gray Walkers are smashing down the doors and pouring after you like a tidal wave. (When I imagine how this hypothetical “Cynicism” chapter would go, I imagine a scene where exactly that happens—Logico sending all the Gray Walkers to Zerg Rush our heroes. In the actual gameplay of that part, you’d have to outlast the horde—survive a few minutes, that kind of deal—and then our heroes escape. Or, if you’re Lunar, have your level 90 evil clown blow them all up :P)

I don’t think the Gray Walkers would be playable on their own, being that they’re a faceless horde of servants, but I do imagine you could pull for, like, Gray Walker costumes of cookies. They’d be horribly depressing costumes, since your favorite characters would’ve lost all their colors and happiness and become listless shells of their former selves, but they’d be there :P

ANYWAY UH that’s the end of that, good god I put entirely too much thought into this. All for a couple of drawings based on one post. I do not control the muse, folks XD

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Machines don’t feel.