#grapejam

[fab-food-4-all]

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[cacaocottonbeloved]

Get you a wingwoman like Caramel Arrow

[empty-emmy]

Cookie odyssey with Personalized Soul Jams in a Nutshell:

(Clotted Cream is OOC on purpose, I'm sorry to every fan of him, I made it purely for humour)

Grapejam and Dark Cacao are not impressed xddd

[interstellarwizard2019]

Don't you find it amusing when you're casually minding your business with your chicks, constantly surviving near-death experiences on a daily basis while trying to find food and shelter, but then suddenly a gigantic king-shaped object gets air dropped a few feet away from you and crashes through the snow? Just another Tuesday at the Dark Cacao Kingdom!

But I all seriousness, that old coot survived getting knocked off the wall by his own son and then just walked off as if it was nothing...

Also...one of the Pinecone Chicks fell into the Cacao hole by accident...oops.

[little-luna-llama]

Also I'm seeing a lot of "oooooo dark choco is gonna sacrifice himself for dark cacao or get hurt"

Consider:

Dark Cacao sacrificing himself for Dark Choco, because he's realised that resolution doesn't die with him. Dark Choco taking up the grapejam chocoblade in his father's stead, and cacao gets that whole "awakened form" (it better be a magical girl moment I swear) by learning the true meaning of resolution and its role against apathy.

Literally giving enchantix.

[bunstories]

Dark Cacao: *holding up Pure Vanilla*

Choco Waffle: What are you doing with Ama?

Pure Vanilla: I told him since he can lift his grapejam sword which requires 3 cookies to lift he can lift me as easily and now he won't put me down

Dark Choco: you gayass put him down

Dark Cacao: no

[cortlandkaard]

SWORD

didn't have much energy today, so i just made a quick doodle. imagine a second panel where royal icing is being thwacked into tomorrow like a wiffle ball (because they are one)

imagine how my dumb ass looked googling "baseball batter at the ready" on my school computer during study hall

also, today i learned that the first thing to show up when you google "grapejam chocoblade" is a genshin mod. that was very confusing.

[badlydrawnbeastcookies]

What are your souljams made out of? Like I know the “purified” ones are called stuff like grapejam but what are yours called? If you know I will know what they taste like

- feral anon

"Mine is blue raspberry jam!"

"Which isn't even real! It's just regular raspberries. Anyway mine's cranberry jam."

"Mine is apricot jam."

"Mine is rose apple jam, and Silent Salt Cookie's is Blackberry Jam!"

[cookie-per-day]

In honor of this blogs first post, today's cookie of the day is:

Dark Cacao Cookie!

"The last bean, devoid of any sweetness, fell down from a withered branch of a lonely cacao tree growing above the edge of a cliff. Lying there in frozen soil, enduring snow and wind, this bean wasn't aware of its destiny to become the main ingredient for the cold and reclusive Dark Cacao Cookie. A warrior of unheard strength, Dark Cacao Cookie wielded the Grapejam Chocoblade. This sword was so heavy it required three average Cookies to even budge it. With each swing, the skies erupted into thunder and lightning, avalanches tumbled down countless mountains. Dark Cacao Cookie was known as a Cookie of few words but great principle. After the Dark Flour War's sorrowful events, the warrior locked himself away in the solitude of his own castle.... Will anything be able to melt his frozen soul once again?"

[sundove88]

Reunited- A Cookie Run Kingdom Oneshot

Synopsis: Dark Choco finally decides to return to the Dark Cacao Kingdom, but what he finds there is most unexpected…

Based on This Art By Me

ChocoPearl Cookie belongs to me.

As the light of the morning sun shone upon the black citadel of the Dark Cacao Kingdom, the King and his wife couldn't help but feel a bit of sadness in what was usually a time for everyone to start getting ready. The reason why is that they had not seen their son, Dark Choco Cookie, for years, and the last time they met him, he nearly endangered the kingdom. Needless to say, ChocoPearl Cookie, the queen consort, was still distraught by what her husband Dark Cacao Cookie had done to their only son- even if he had been possessed.

"Do you still wish for our little boy's return?" She questioned her husband as she walked out onto the balcony and brushed the snow off of a nearby cherry tree, her purple hanbok glimmering in the morning light.

"Somewhat... How I wish I understood him better. How we would often enjoy the times we sparred together... And how we would get caught up in the many stories and folktales about our kingdom." Dark Cacao said as he made his way towards his wife, the Grapejam Chocoblade sitting near his throne. "I miss those times, too. If only he was here to share them with us..." ChocoPearl said and let out a sigh. But just as those words escaped her mouth, Crunchy Chip Cookie ran over.

"Your majesties. Someone's at the gates!" he replied frantically. The King and Queen ran over to see that Crunchy Chip was indeed right- there was someone at the gates. Needless to say, they opened up right away, and the stranger walked in. "I think that he looked like a certain someone you two may know." Crunchy Chip replied.

Not too long after, the royal couple hurried to greet the cloaked stranger. Taking off his hood- he revealed that the stranger was indeed their son- who had changed by a lot. Dark Cacao and his wife gasped. Was this really their son?! “Father… the last time I was here, I slashed you across the chest, ran away at your will, returned with the Cookies of Darkness, destroyed the wall, abandoned my former allies… and I have now been wandering Earthbread to try and atone for what I’ve done. If that makes me unworthy of being your son, I don’t know what will.” Dark Choco confessed to his parents, his head hanging down in shame as he thought of a public execution awaiting him moments later.

But however, instead of angry expressions, his parents eyes filled with tears. Dark Cacao slowly got up and wiped away his tears, with his wife following behind him. “We’ve missed you, son. Your mother and I have longed for the day you’d be with us once again… and here we are.” He said as he and his wife embraced their son. “Just know that we always love you no matter what.” ChocoPearl said as she wrapped her arms around her adult son.

Dark Choco, flabbergasted by what his parents did, reluctantly returned the hug, tears forming in his own eyes. "You have proved that you are more than worthy of being our son..." Dark Cacao began. "...and that we couldn't ever ask for an even greater honor." ChocoPearl finished. Dark Choco gave a genuine smile as he slowly succumbed to the unconditional love of his parents. He had finally shown he was worthy of being the hero he had always wanted to be, and he wouldn't want it any other way.

The End

[quibbs126]

So today I decided to redraw my versions of the North and South Dragons as Cookies, whom I call Choco Creme and Milk Creme respectively

Yeah I basically completely redesigned them, but to be honest I quite like these new designs. I also like the old ones too, but I think I’m gonna more retool them for their normal Cookie disguises. Also I may or may not have stolen the diamonds in the eye thing from @deadshadowcreature ‘s designs of the dragons, which I found recently and really like

With the hair, I was planning on giving them the same hair, but I had two different ideas and I wasn’t sure which one I liked more, so I just gave them each different ones. They’re supposed to just be me trying to interpret their hair/scales/whatever as actual hair

I wanted to draw these guys again because of the Might of the Ancients thing in the recent update mentioning them again, and giving us a bit of lore surrounding them and Dark Cacao, as well as confirming their powers. From what I can gather, their powers are black lightning and the snow/cold, though it’s not entirely clear which controls what. I assume though it’s the North Dragon with lightning and the South Dragon with the snow, just given the corresponding colors. Funny enough, I actually headcanoned that one of them had power over snow, so I was surprised to have actually gotten that right. I said the other one controlled ice since I thought they’d both have a “cold” motif, but eh, I still got one of them, so that’s something

If you want to hear my personal headcanons for these guys, I’ll just tell you here, since I’ve thought about it a bit more since I last talked about them

So Choco Creme and Milk Creme are twins dragons, both being born from the same egg. Their parent was whom I call the Cookie Creme Dragon, a gargantuan dragon who laid to rest on the northeastern part of Crispia, and their body eventually became the Giant Icing Ridge (this was mostly due to me misinterpreting something about Dark Cacao splitting the two apart as being literal and they were once one dragon, then me just working with that idea). Thankfully they are nowhere near the Cookie Creme’s size (at least not yet). Originally I said that Choco Creme was older, but given they hatched from the same egg, I’m pretty sure they’re the exact same age. But Choco Creme still acts like the older one. Also, Choco Creme is a girl while Milk Creme is a boy

I said before that I headcanon the two dragons as being Dark Cacao’s older siblings. Now granted, nothing in the new Might of the Ancients implies that Dark Cacao knew the dragons prior to the story (I feel like it’s supposed to be when he stopped their fighting and founded the Dark Cacao Kingdom, but at the same time I’m pretty sure he had the Grapejam Chocoblade at that point, and as we see in the flashback, Dark Cacao doesn’t have that yet, so I’m not entirely sure when it’s supposed to take place). However, technically there’s nothing that disproves it, so screw it I’m still sticking with it. Basically at some point when the two were young, they were exploring the wilds of the land during a blizzard, when they found this thing lying in the snow, which was a very young Dark Cacao Cookie, unconscious. They were curious about it, so they picked it up and took it back with them. Eventually it woke up and after that point, as it didn’t seem to want to leave, they decided to keep it, eventually becoming their youngest brother, as well as their smallest (when taking on Cookie form, they intentionally make themselves at least slightly taller than Dark Cacao, just to be petty)

Edit: about the whole Might of the Ancients, I watched a collection of the cutscenes, and okay no it seems to all be just before they did the thing that ended up founding their kingdoms, and watching Dark Cacao’s cutscene, yeah I’m pretty sure he’s never seen them before this. So what I say here is kind of invalid by canon standards, but eh. Maybe this is an au or something. Or I’ll tweak the backstory to fit canon better. Or I’ll just stretch things and keep it how I have them

As for whether or not Dark Cacao is a dragon or just a normal Cookie, I’m still not sure, and no one here really knows, all they know is that he and his siblings aren’t syrup related

As for the dragons themselves, Choco Creme is a rather cold individual, known for never smiling. She’s kind of the one Dark Cacao inherited the grumpy attitude from. In contrast to her brothers she is not one for violence, preferring to settle things with words (mostly because she just doesn’t see the point in all that effort). However that’s not to say there isn’t an end to her patience, and when she reaches that, all hell breaks loose. As for Milk Creme, he’s probably the most upbeat of the three, but that isn’t really saying much as the bar for that is that he actually smiles semi-regularly (young Dark Choco had them all beat). But he also can be pretty friendly and looks for excitement. He’s also one of the quickest to violence, whether it’s out of anger or he just wants to. He probably taught Dark Cacao about the usefulness of violence, something he toned down but still definitely finds use in.

I’m thinking now that the two do from time to time take on normal Cookie forms, just to see how things are going in the kingdom. They don’t have that much interest in the prosperity of the kingdom itself, but they like to see how their brother’s running it. Unfortunately recently they haven’t felt much want to. I’ll draw those normal forms at a later date, but I’m thinking they either choose to closer resemble Dark Cacao or they choose to look more like regular citizens of the kingdom, being chocolate and milk based respectively. I’ll try it out and see what works

But yeah, I think that’s it. Hope you like them!

[fab-food-4-all]

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[o-wyrmlight]

In all seriousness though. At least the vast majority of my AUs have Dark Cacao experiencing chronic pain to one degree or another. If it isn't the injuries that Dark Choco gave him, it's his back. And if it isn't his back, then it's both that injury and his back.

He can use the Grapejam Chocoblade, after all, but doing so has serious consequences on his body. It takes multiple regular cookies to lift up that sword, and yet we expect Dark Cacao to be able to lift this weapon without any ill consequences? No.

To me, the weight of the Grapejam Chocoblade represents the weight of having the kingdom bear down on your shoulders. It represents the weight of every single soul that has died in the name of preserving this kingdom and keeping the lands safe. This sword is a sword about resolution--if you are resolved enough and determined enough to use it in battle, you're resolved enough to be recognized as its king.

The crown is heavy, the armor is heavy. But the sword is a weapon that cannot just be wielded with reckless abandon. It is the most heavy artifact that Dark Cacao owns, as using it comes with the most responsibility and the most burden. If it is used incorrectly, it can have dire consequences. And even when it isn't, those consequences leave their footprint.

So yes. Dark Cacao Cookie might have an almost... inhuman-like strength on the surface, wielding that weapon in the name of protecting his people. But it doesn't come sans negative effects on his body. It doesn't come without muscle strain and pulled tendons. It doesn't come without pain, and it doesn't come without consequences for using a sword that rocks the mountains. And when your body is broken down from its repeated use, someday, you might not be able to use it at all.

But what are you supposed to do, when the general public has come to see this sword as a gift? When they don't tend to understand that the sword itself represents weight, grief and determination? When they see the sword as the ultimate promise that will protect them and the mainland from the creatures of the sea, without realizing how much it breaks their king down to use it with how much chronic, agonizing and lingering pain it brings him?

How do you think they feel when the king stops fighting alongside them because of that pain? When the king realizes that he cannot--he cannot rely on this weapon alone, because if he continues using it so generously, it might end up killing him in the end?

The king realizes that it isn't a weapon to be used day-to-day so much as it is a failsafe for emergencies. So seal it away and keep it safe, and only when something truly terrible and dangerous happens will he rush to retrieve it. But what now? The effects of the sword continue to last. His back and his body remains untreated, and he is a king of a nation of warriors who finds it difficult to fight nowadays. What does he do? What does the kingdom do?

(Worry.)

What does his son do?

(Misunderstands.)

And when the cursed blade cuts deep into the King's dough, and it leaves the shrapnel of his armor imbedded in it, and it leaves him nearly dead and in heart-wrenching shock? When he has to exile his son for the safety of the kingdom? When he knows he has to pick up the pieces and put himself together to maintain face for the kingdom, and continue fighting alongside him?

He tries to resolve himself to this. But the injury is further pain and agony, whether the metal is picked out, or whether or not it heals--scars leave impressions of agony upon the body, after all. The phantom pain does not merely go away. It's more pain to deal with.

It makes it impossible to fight. And if not impossible, it makes it very, very dangerous.

But don't worry the kingdom. You don't want the kingdom to worry. Don't tell anyone of all of this outside of personal consorts. But you can't leave the castle for long periods of time, cannot do anything that would aggravate your scarwound or your back too badly. Cannot sit up straight for too long, cannot hunch over, cannot do battle with weaponry or do something so simple as notch an arrow and send it flying. How agonizing that is, to not be able to help as you used to, to not be able to stand beside your people as you once did. How shameful. How stupid of you to have let it get as bad as it is.

It's been many years coming. It could have been prevented. Maybe... maybe. But he learned recklessness from his father. He learned to sideline his personal health for the sake of his kingdom from his father, and it... well.

It's led to these consequences in the end, didn't it? Consequences that he suffers from. Consequences that he cannot recover from quickly, and that he can't recover from alone.

It's really, really difficult to give yourself the time to try when everyone is looking toward you and wondering if you've changed. Have you forgotten them? Have you forsaken them? Have you left them to die?

(No, he promises quietly, I haven't. Please worry a little less. I have not forsaken you. I have not forgotten you. I long to fight by your side again, but I cannot anymore. I cannot tell you this, because I don't wish for your morale to fall. But I still love you. I love you. I love you. Be patient, please. I love you.)

...And yet, in cases of emergency... he would fight anyway. Even when it hurts unspeakably afterwards.

Chronic pain Dark Cacao is an avenue of character portrayal that fascinates me. Just consider all of this. Blorbo from my kitchen.

[empty-emmy]

So idk if anyone did that before but here we are! Personalization of Soul Jam! And imma gonna start with Dark Cacao's Soul Jam since he's my fav ancient.

Meet Grapejam Cookie!

Here's sketch version and colored version(did colored one just to decide the colors. Ik, looks kinda bad, but I did it just to decide which color palette Grapejam gonna have)

If he was in a game he'll probably was a Super epic. His class would've been magic, and his skill would've been focused on giving many debuffs such as injury and zap. He also will be stronger if Dark Cacao is in the team, and if he very close to death, he'll turn into Berserk ghost form for a while(like Cacao did under pomegranate curse) to deal massive damage.

Another one but standing!

Grapejam is a definition of "Still waters run deep". Seemly calm, he resonates with resolution. He chose Dark Cacao as his owner because of his stoic will and unbending spirit as he was able to defeat two dragons all by himself.

He was with Dark Cacao for a very long time - most of Cacao's life. Being there all the time. He was watching from sidelines as Cacao developed friendships, built family, prosperous kingdom. He watched as his own son nearly ended him. But didn't do anything. He never did.

Unless something happens... Something that requires his presence.

Edit: now AU's name is Personalized Soul Jams!

[coraxtheclown]

once upon a time x crk:

an au

been dwelling on this for a while so here we go!

(spoilers for the show if you haven’t watched it!)

note: the game doesn’t exist here cuz it’d trigger a lil too much memory. sorry devsis in once upon a time au :’3

It’s kinda the same: dark enchantress cookie and the cookies of darkness cast a spell to get everyone sent to the Milky Way. i believe that Earthbread would be in another galaxy, while they’d be taken to our Milky Way ofc. here they’d all be humans, and alt Earthbread would span across multiple towns with the Vanilla Kingdom being a town, Hollyberry Kingdom as another, and so on. the Crème Republic would also be a town, a very different town with a very upper/lower class system kinda like the actual Crème Republic. the ancients here are mayors of their towns.

sometimes there will be dream-like flashbacks for certain characters about some game events, like Espresso remembering saying that the coffee tribe left long ago. they have much more casual names here, but they keep their personalities and certain character traits. there will never be a dream strong enough to trigger their full memory. just dreams that confuse and taunt them.

regarding magic, though it exists in the cookies born with it, they don’t remember anything about it or about using it. the things with magic are locked away in dark enchantress cookie’s “abandoned” warehouse in the forest, as well as Snapdragon’s egg which hasn’t been hatched yet. wizards and mages are switched to be scientists, and the practice of magic in general is switched to the study of different sciences.

everyone still has all their past relationships, but they don’t remember their cookie lives of the relationships, like burnt cheese cookie and golden cheese cookie would still have that bodyguard-idk friendship, but they wouldn’t remember having that as cookies

also, there is no “savior” child. no no. i don’t want interference from other people. it’s rare, but they can come inside. they just don’t always leave if ykwim :0 but it’s okay! accidents happen 🫶🏾

another thing, there is a way to get back to Earthbread. but that has something to do with the soul jams, dimension hopping, and portal making. problem is the soul jams, which are, ofc, locked up much more securely than all the other magical items.

when all 5 ancients get back their memory, the curse breaks. i’m thinking something prominent in their past lives to bring it back (ex for dark cacao cookie the grapejam chocoblade)

with the main things of true ancients like all over the place (still no soul jams) BUT it’s not really a hunt cuz they don’t know they’re looking for them. new problem with this: each item is in someone else’s town (ex. holly’s shield is in golden cheese cookie’s town somewhere like an abandoned gold mine that’s set to collapse any day now)

once an ancient gets their shit back (say pure vanilla and the vanilla orchid staff) they get their memory back, but ONLY them. saying anything to anyone without being 2000% sure they’re aware as well is a one way ticket to the mental hospital.

and i’m not sure if i mentioned this, but the cookies of darkness retain their memory. they just pretend not to know anything, even when someone comes to them with the truth :3

dream memories can happen in sync. if pure vanilla is having a dream about dark cacao, dark cacao can have the same dream if he is sleeping at that time. if not, he’d probably have the same dream later when he is asleep, or just have a completely different dream when he’s asleep. just like us, they don’t dream every night. so these dreams are scattered across days and weeks. completely random and inconsistent.

the knights and such are police officers. i feel like i don’t need to elaborate cuz i think we know how the police works. i will if needed!

there’s still SO much to add and so much i might be forgetting to address, so ask me anything about the au :D (stuff about characters, the past, ANYTHING!!)

edit 1: added tags :p

edit 2: pinned cuz i will definitely be posting stories with this nd if somebody comes across this it’ll be confusing, added some new tags too

[basil-except-writing]

Good Ending/Reunion AU

(daddy issuesn't AU)

Chapter 8 (part one)

Guys I'm normal I swear

AU by: @future--ghost

Name and Help by: @iheardasimplesong

(Soo uhhh how ya doin?)

Despite the amount of panic going through Dark Choco, he did his best to keep his composure. He stared at the sword that had controlled him for most of his life. The infamous Strawberry Jam Sword and the cookie who used to wield it. More like it used to wield him, he was more or less a vessel for the sword. So many cookies crumbled because of his loss on control over the curse. He felt sick just looking at it. The gem ingrained in the part where the blade and the grip meet. It glowed a much brighter red that Dark Choco knew all too well. "Dark Choco. You can tell me." His father reached out to him. "Just tell me what you know about this strange sword, okay?" His father had his hand on his shoulder. "It's cursed." He said "What? Are you pulling on my leg, why would you use a CURSED sword?" Dark Cacao scoffed. "Why do you think I tried to kill you. What would be the point, I have self-control. If it were my choice I wouldn't have tried to kill you." Dark Choco elaborated. "You did something to anger that curse or what made the curse. It wants you to suffer." His father stared at him in disbelief. "... So why did you do it, why did you take a cursed sword?..." His father all of a sudden became sorrowful. Dark Cacao understood something big must've driven his son to do that. "You taught me that power was everything, and so I sought out for a powerful sword so I could help the kingdom." He stared at the table then looked a little to the side of the room his father wasn't on. "And possibly get some sort of attention or care from my father." He muttered under his breath. "I... I'm so sorry Dark Choco..." His father tried to do his best to comfort his son but to no avail. "You happy now? Just hide that stupid sword so no one can find it." Dark Choco was irritated. "I will but I'd like you to assist in it as well, you know what will be the most effective way to hide it." Dark Cacao started to walk towards the door. "Dark Choco...? Is that you?" A voice that he knew all too well. Sure enough the sword was glowing a bright red color. "I knew you'd come back! Your old man has been so depressing! Let's go have some fun, maybe put him out of his misery?" They teased. "Dark Choco what are you waiting for?" Dark Cacao was at the door turned to face his son. "If it's that dangerous I want to get rid of it." His father looked slightly determined. "It's already started to talk, I think I have a better solution though. I suggest we take the gem out of the Strawberry Jam Sword so it can be studied or propmtly destroyed." He said. "Hiding it in a place where no cookie could find it though would probably have an interesting outcome." He concluded. "Dark Choco, I hope you know I'm not going to tell you which option I'm choosing. I swear to the witches that if I see you in possession of another cursed item I will kill you." Dark Cacao was giving off a threatening feeling to desuade Dark Choco from trying to change his mind. "I'll be right back, dont you dare leave." His father walked away with the Strawberry Jam Sword in hand and left the Grapejam Chocoblade in the room. "what" He thought to himself. "what on earthbread just happened?" Dark Choco was extremely disoriented. His father just questioned him on several different horrendous moments in his life, then pulled out one of the things he finally thought he escaped from, only to leave and threaten him. Dark Choco was genuinely considering just disappearing without a trace, he could move to a place his father wouldn't go on his own will and a place with little importance to the Cookies of Darkness. He considered his options, there was the option of obeying his father's orders, but he despised his father and following his orders would just be a pain. There was also the option of just sneaking out of the Citadel, deceiving his father would be a good course of action, if he made it look like he had climbed through the window and ran on the roof until he reached the outskirts of the kingdom it would leave a golden opportunity to sneak through the Citadel without suspicion.

I WANNA TRY SOMETHING NEW SOOO

You guys decide what he'll do since I'm torn between it.

Will Dark Choco:

Stay and see what happens

or

just straight up leave like nothing happened