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Cookie Run Kingdom is down for maintenance again, but my friend got a screenshot of one of the loading screens and I knew what I had to do

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I was wondering about what Silent Salt Cookie will look under their helmet and then I thought it would be really cute if they had salt or pepper freckles and then... I ended up making this and some lore ideas too XD. Accidently made OC /hj

Info and alt designs below!

This is Salted Pepper Cookie, the second holder of the Virtue of Solidarity. After Silent Salt Cookie crumbled Salted Pepper took up the mantle and hid their face with Silent Salt's helmet. Only the other four will be Beasts knew they were not actually Silent Salt Cookie.

Silent Salt Cookie crumbled in an incident that left Salted Pepper Cookie badly burned. Salted Pepper was burned directly on their throat as well and was left mute. Some one needed to be the new Virtue holder and the light accepted Salted Pepper Cookie. While they were honored, they also felt undeserving. They decided to pretend to be Silent Salt Cookie and say that Salted Pepper Cookie was the Cookie that crumbled, not Silent Salt. They knew Cookies would've been happier if Silent Salt was the one who survived anyways

I don't know what might have drawn them to Silence yet. Since it was Solidarity and took the form of Freedom as a Soul Jam, my guess is that Silent Salt Cookie was some kind of freedom fighter. Either fighting other Cookies or the forces of nature. Regardless, looking for a better life.

The idea of being mute goes with the name Silent Salt Cookie. I was thinking what if that was more literal.

The small snippets of what Silent Salt looked like before they turned to a Beast from Beast-Yeast teaser trailer vaguely looks like only the top of the helmet is there, suggesting that Silent Salt's face used to be showing.

For the burn, I thought Silent Salt's new hair/helmet tuff thing looked much more fiery so I thought what if they were burned and that's part of the reason they wear a mask?

I also think having Silent Salt actually not be the original Silent Salt would be a good parallel to White Lily being split as herself and Dark Enchantress Cookie. Both Salted Pepper and White Lily feel like imposters to themselves...

I really liked the peppered look, but I still wanted to keep them as Silent Salt at first, so here's my mix and match from all salt to all pepper

The other versions:

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Guess who decided to make the Black Dragon and White Dragon into Cookies?

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I'm really proud of this! I studied the dragon Cookies in both their Cookie form and dragon form thoroughly to make a good and accurate Cookie form for these two dragons. I even gave them both a horn and a half of the Black and White Dragon :3

These two dragons look so much like oreos to me, but I didn't want to call them Oreo Dragon Cookies lol. My next thought was cookies and cream, but Cookies and Cream Dragon Cookie is not only a mouthful, but also feels weird to have cookie in the names twice. So, I've settled on White Wafer Dragon Cookie and Black Wafer Dragon Cookie.

Little menaces /lovingly

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I mean, am I wrong?

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Sad Vamp

There is context, but you're not getting it XD

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I can't stop seeing these two as oreo dragons.

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So there are three main types of grapes, red grapes, white grapes, and black grapes. This made me think of what if there was a third grape sibling of the remaining grape. (Not a head canon, just having fun)

Plague Doctor Cookie, formerly known as Black Grape Cookie. They/them. The estranged middle sibling of Alchemist Cookie and Vampire Cookie.

Plague Doctor Cookie is the older sibling of Alchemist Cookie and younger sibling of Vampire Cookie. They spend their time practicing 'ulterior medicine', believing that the cookies of the past had the right idea. If you're ever in a jam and need some strawberry jam, Plague Doctor Cookie can provide. For the right price that is.

Also. Don't ask where they got the jam...

Mask off (I think I'll scrap the leaf)

Black grapes are apparently smaller grapes, so when Alch fully grows up, Plague Doctor will be the shortest

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Just a little sprite edit mockup/idea of the grape siblings when they were younger. We know Cookies can change their name, so these are my headcanon of their past names too.

The was inspired by Alch's Rookie Mistake costume which mentions green being a rookie color. Red grapes are green when unripe. (Some types of red grapes) they turn a bright red before a purpley color. I like to think her hair used to be green when she was younger.

Vamp's was inspired by is Blanco costume. I like the idea that he used to be white grape themed before he was turned into a vampire and it caused his hair to turn red and spikey.

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Eyes-Cream Cookie it/its Yes, this was made purely because of the pun.

Made from more ice cream than dough and a whole bottle of colorful candy eyes, this Cookie looks much scarier than it really is. While Eyes-Cream Cookie can see through each of it's candy eyes, it has very poor sight. What does it look like under all that vanilla ice cream?

I might come back to redesign it later. I could make it look a little cuter.

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This... this has to be a joke, right?

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I wanted to make more common cookies as epics, but since GingerBright isn't even in Kingdom yet, so I decided to make her a Legendary cookie instead. I think I made her an idol by accident XD

The idea is that she's The Cookie of Brightness to parallel The Cookies of Darkness. She brings sunshine and cheers wherever she goes.

Notes: The anklet puff is only on her left leg, but the bracelets are on both arms. She also has a fade since on her normal sprits her hair ends early, but it looked awkward with no hair there.

Isolated background and cookie.

I used her picture form Witch's Castle as a pose reference and gave her that pink dollop in her hair as a nod to her Ovenbreak pet, Cheese Drop. This is also where the yellow comes from in her outfit.

She is a support rear cookie. Her skills boost the effects of all other cookies on the field making her more powerful the better your cookies are. (There will definitely be more specifics, like having effect on 'protection based cookies' AKA support, healing, magic, and defense. There might also be a matching buff like if the team all share a topping or if there is more than one type of class/role)

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I recently saw again the post of what if Wizard Cookie was an epic cookie (again) in kingdom where they used his Arcane Mage costume from Ovenbreak. This made me think of what if other common cookies were epics.

Note: He has a third skull pin that's purple, but it's hidden by his leg

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These are the costumes I was mainly inspired by

I used his kingdom gacha art pose

His April Fools 2022 look helped me decide on the shirt and pants

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I had to. This fits them so well and they have a matching chess themed costume set! It basically wrote itself!

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Woops my hand slipped

Edit of the last pic. A smooch

Marxolor Week, Day 1 - "Meeting"

Getting a really late start on Marxolor Week '24... N-No, I didn't give the event a really long late submission period just because of myself! >.>;;

Anyway, I had this idea early on for "Marionette's Pavane" to end each chapter with a little joke about how the story would progress differently if they were orbs and NOT gijinka.

Would Magolor have still picked up the unconscious Marx without the other's frail, sickly, elven looks to persuade him? ...Probably, yeah. He was desperate for someone to talk to at!

(Gotta get used to drawing their new outfits in comic form. I switched because I found the old 'fits annoying but the new ones have their own challenges ^^; )

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So, I'm taking Noir's loss well

I know Noir isn't my OC, but I still really care about him. Sigh I really wanted him to win the tournament

Noir... Noir win please...

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Noir... Noir win please...

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I'm eating this lore up like a full course meal!

NOIR AND ADELEINE ARE HALF FAIRY!?

They have an aunt who is twins with their da- wait. Is... Is Bridge the queen of Ripple Star!? They do look similar...

They mentioned old Earth, did they return to Shiver Star or was this not the first time 'Old Earth' was discarded to make a 'New Earth'

Also! We got names for the parents!

Munch munch munch munch

Noir! Do you by any chance know of a being that was called IDF-87?

"And here we are..."

[I assume you mean F-86 but either would trigger the same reaction]

"...ID...F8...?"

"...Ghhh...?!"

"M-My...head...!!"

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"And here we are..."

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"We'd like to thank you for volunteering to lead humanity's future." "It says here your hobby is...singing?"

"Yes. Since I was a child." "I even had an agent, for a short while."

"So, you were a professional?"

"Not really. My career never took off." "But...that's how it is with DREAMS."

"Not a household name, then?

"Surely not!"

"Good, good. Very good."  "...That is to say, you seem like a good candidate for our work."

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"And here we are..."

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"Oh!?"

"Hmm? Is something wrong?" "Feeling pain from the treatments?"

"No. I was just wondering..." "Is the alien...is it asleep in there...?"

"Yes. Deep asleep." "...Why? You didn't hear anything, did you?"

"I didn't. Just the buzzing of a machine. It's so noisy in here..."

"...Good. It's a very tense work environment here at the lab." "Some people can't take the pressure. They start to hear 'voices.'"

"Those poor souls..."

"It's no surprise. The whole planet's counting on us, you know." "We can't fail them. Not like previous generations did." "But you came from Old Earth, so you would understand."

"...Yes. Yes, I do."

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"And here we are..."

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"You're...putting it on display? Like a...circus animal?"

"The government gets stingy with their contracts." "And the entertainment industry has proved profitable for us so far." "I expect it'll be even more so after your new single."

"About that..."

"You're not having second thoughts, are you?"

"...No! I still believe in the work we're doing. It's just..."

"Just...?"

"Oops!" 

"...Sorry about that! Clumsy me!"  "Big old glasses and I still can't see where I'm going!"

"...Rim..."

"Was I...interrupting something by chance?"

"Not at all! Here, let me help you with those!"

"Ah, there's no need for that, Ms...?"

"...Neichel. And please." "One favor deserves another." "Where do these go anyway?"

"Just to my office! Let me show you where it is."

"General? Sorry about the thrilling conversation but..."

"....It's fine, actually." "I was thinking that you two really ought to meet." "Take all the time you need to...get acquainted."

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"And here we are..."

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"Everything I am now, was made into...is 'sleeping' in that tube." "...And I don't know how I feel about that. About it..." "You're a scientist here. What even...are they?"

"ID-F86... An aggressively hostile alien species and threat to all life on this planet. Only by subduing and studying them can humanity ready themselves for the dangers the greater galaxy holds."

"But, speaking personally and...off the record..." "...I think of them as...just a wandering traveler, lost." "Trapped, far away from home. Waiting rescue?"

"Haha... No wonder I sympathize with them so much!" "You too, I imagine...?"

"Yes! Though...I may also feign myself as...a rescuer...?"

"Why am I not surprised to hear that from you?" "You and your big HEART has saved me a number of times." "In a lab full of people who've seemingly sold their souls for progress...It's like you come from a different planet!"

"Ms. Neichel..."

"Please, Rim! Surely we're friends by now!" "Just call me Neichel."

"...Do you believe in fairies, Neichel...?"

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"And here we are..."

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"Did you think we wouldn't find out? That you were another?!"

"RIM!!" "Please, don't hurt h...hgh!"

"Neichel?!"

"T-The..."

"...Let him go to her."

"But sir, he's... He's an ALIEN!" "And a bloody saboteur too!"

"It's all right. This is what we've been waiting for."

"What is it? What's wrong, Neichel?!"

"...The...baby...!"

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"And here we are..."

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"And...of course the door's locked." "...I always feared being the next one put on display." "Sigh... What are we two caged birds to do...?"

"About a name? I've already thought of a few."

"...Oh, Rim. You never lose that optimism, do you?"

"Made you smile though?"

"You did." "...And? Let's hear those names." "'Scarf?' 'Beret?' Your twin sister's name was 'Bridge,' right?" "Should we stick with the glasses theming?"

"Not if fairy names sound as 'odd' to humans as you've told me!"

"I was thinking...we could name our daughter 'Adeleine.'" "That's 'canvas' in your language, right?""A bright canvas on which any kind of future can be painted!"

"Oh...! That's a lovely name! But, Rim..." "...We're having a little boy, remember?"

"Ah, right!"  "I was already picturing little Noir in my head so strongly that...!!"

"......'Noir'......?"

"Yeah, 'Noir.'"  "It means..."

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...It means 'unstoppable.'

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AND HERE YOU ARE

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AN: I hope this gives a clear-ish answer to most of the questions about the birth of Noir and Adeleine, as well as the story of their parents! Or... did it just create more questions? ^^;

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