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The prince, now known as the elder prince, became physically and mentally weak as he aged. A pity that in his last minutes of his life he was taken back to those moments when he was dominated by darkness...

The idea was inspired by the user @orderdchaosthings2

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based off of this

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I think they should fight to the death and then kiss

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Just learned the second half of this phrase

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LMFAO

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More of this

I wanted to show more of their relationship while they are in their reconciliation moment.

At Choco's age he has become a bit carefree, happy to come home and be with his father. Meanwhile Cacao is more worried about his son as he is at a stage of increased fragility and vulnerability (also regretting not having been in his son's life enough)

bonus: I did this so this wouldn't be too depressing

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When you found out your son is not immortal as you are lol-

Now seriously

I thought this fandom would take this concept and over-exploit it. It's perfect for adding more angst between these two.

I was inspired by several fanfics in which Dark Cacao would be willing to wait for Dark Choco to return to the Citadel. But what if many years go on and Choco comes back turned into an old man but his father still looks the same as always?

It would come as a great shock to Cacao and he would realize his consequence as an immortal being

I ask again.

Why no one has taken advantage of this concept?

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NEW CRACK SHIPP

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ArtFight2025 attack for MrSpeckles

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saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

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Do you have any berserk dark cacao headcanons, I just love how you drew him so much bwaah

OH DO I???

BESERK CACAO BE UPON YE 🫵

Long ass yap session post incoming

Okay warning first of all:

These are my own INCREDIBLY self indulgent headcanons so please don’t yell at me if anything isn’t totally accurate to crk lore because I’ll cry.

Thank you.

I like to think this form is the product of something close to a malfunctioned awakening. When Dark Cacao first takes this form, it’s due to the fact that Pomegranate cast some sort of spell on him during the CoD’s attempt to retrieve his soul jam. Now, personally I don’t believe the spell was ever intended to turn him into a monster simply based on the dialogue used during this scene.

Rather it was a spell similar to the ones previously used on Dark Choco that temporarily incapacitate the afflicted through the use of hallucinations/memories. However, due to Dark Cacao being an ancient hero he would have a higher tolerance to this than most, leaving him still somewhat conscious and aware but still actively fighting the effects.

This combined with the stress of almost having his throne usurped, a near death experience, and (somewhat) reconciling with/nearly killing his estranged son would just essentially lead to him reaching his limit and having a breakdown. And in an unconscious response, the soul jam goes hay wire in a last ditch attempt at self preservation, connecting with the power of the sealed twin dragons and turning Dark Cacao into whatever the hell that is.

While in his beserk form he’s still somewhat conscious, just not entirely in control of his actions (probably due to the fact that you have two ancient dragons that hate each other and an emotionally unstable old man piloting the same form.)

As well as displaying emotions emphasized to an extreme extent. Leading to easily spurred on fits of blind rage, or severely overprotective tendencies. I also think this is just a fun parallel to Dark Cacao’s usual controlled demeanor.

I know CANONICALLY beserk Cacao was just a one time thing but like COME ON

Lasting spell effects???

THE POTENTIAL?????

In my heart his claws get a little bit sharper whenever he’s having a bad day <\3

In Conclusion

This creature has genuinely been one of my favorite little tidbits from the game ever since the heroes of dark cacao update dropped in 2022 and Im ecstatic I finally got to dump all my thoughts about him into a post.

Thank you for reading! :D

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I just need to do this. I use Tumblr more for support than posting anything, so I didn't know how to deliver. I'm a big fan of your comic. 🙏

(Sorry if the tag bothers you; I'll delete it as soon as you say so. I didn't know how to add the video to the questions on your blog)

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