#carachocolico

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For that other AU lol

I'm genuinely enjoying this AU so much for no reason. So if some more context.

-Licorice has been hiding in the ruins of his village this whole time.

-Poison Mushroom gets to be here bc I love my lil shroomie dealer so much. they literally just followed Licorice home one day and never left.

-PM is the one who goes into the Milk Village to trade for food and other stuff with potions Licorice makes or fish caught from the sea. Licorice waits just outside for him where he can't be seen bc he's paranoid.

-Dark Choco sneaks out dressed as a Watcher sometimes. He and Caramel Arrow try to help out the kingdom doing this. It's during one of these times he sneaks out alone he notices Licorice and PM by the sea. This gives him an idea.

-Choco only remembers things about the Licorice Tribe from his studies and what others say about them. But he wants to help his kingdom and knows his dad needs to reopen the gates to do so. So his brilliant plan is to either find a Licorice Tribe member or something in their village to help control the Sea that's been acting up the past few years.

-Caramel Arrow wants to do her job but she can't just let her prince wander out into danger. (Bonus points, Dark Cacao genuinely just tells her to follow him just in case. He's confident in his son's ability, but unexpected things can happen and Choco is still young compared to him.)

-Caramel Arrow and Dark Choco are big sweeties and genuinely wanna help their kingdom somehow. Both are very distraught with Licorice and PM's living situation.

-(in reference to the sketch) Dark Choco is getting desperate so he is willing to use any method to do something about the kingdom's current affairs. Also he genuinely thinks it could work.

-Licorice's only contact in years has been PM. So he gets overwhelmed very easily by the two new Watchers who just randomly barged into his life (and home).

-Licorice genuinely does not know he's talking to the prince of the kingdom when he insults the pair or the royal family. Caramel Arrow gets very upset with this but has to bite her tongue because Dark Choco insisted on using fake names. He'll probably have a panic attack when he finds out he's been hitting the prince with sticks and calling him useless and stupid to his face.

-Before they confirm Licorice is in fact from the Licorice Tribe, he also gave them a fake name. Both parties agree the other is suspicious bc their names sound completely fake.

-Not sure how I'd tie the cursed sword in but I kinda wanna and kinda don't (bc I have that power it's my AU).

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More AU doodles for the "Prince Dark Choco and Caramel Arrow try to win over the last Licorice Cookie but are just bad at it" AU

[cookierunslut]

I'm in a mood tonight so consider these two AUs with me:

Cursed Redemption AU

The sorta dark sorta goofy AU I been doing doodles for. Starts with Licorice learning about Dark Choco's curse and slowly starting to see the bad side of the COD he's been brushing off and excusing for the cruelty it actually is since it now directly impacts someone he's kinda claimed as one of his people. Eventually building to a point where he no longer feels safe and takes off with Dark Choco and his other ppl.

But of course it's Licorice, and he's pretty broken down from the constant disrespect and even mockery of his abilities. Plus Pomegranate having consistently torn him down for the smallest mistake. Or the literal extinction of his entire tribe. Or how much fear/hate/caution the other clans and tribes of the Dark Cacao Kingdom held for his tribe and their abilities/ connection to the Licorice Sea. And he kinda forgot how badly other cookies look down on black magic. It doesn't take much for him to reconsider his choice to leave and potentially play double agent as he struggles to remove Dark Choco's curse from him.

??? AU (no name for it yet)

A completely non-canon human/humanized fantasy mashup thing ig? Also a weird ship maybe but it's CaraChocoLico slowburn (yeah, Caramel Arrow, Dark Choco, and Licorice... Idk man, I just think it's kinda cute?) And it focuses a lot on the Licorice Tribe/Sea too (it feels so eldritch coded or has the potential to be to me and I love that. Leave me alone)

Basically, it's either:

1) Dark Choco and Caramel Arrow go to explore (read CA follows Choco when he sneaks out of the Citadel against Cacao's orders) the old Licorice tribe village ruins. However, they soon notice signs of someone still living there. At first they assume it's probably a traveller looking for a place to stay for a while and decide to wait it out until the person returns so they can give the warning that the Citadel is in lockdown after the Licorice Tribe went extinct and could no longer calm the Sea.

No one returns, so they search in case the person is wounded. They find Licorice out cold by the Licorice Sea and rush to bring him back to the Citadel in an attempt to save him.

2) Paranoia leads Dark Cacao to distrust the Licorice Tribe and fear an attack from the Sea so he shuts the gate to all. This action unintentionally leaves them open to the other tribes or clans, who blame them and attempt to wipe them out. (This just pisses the Sea off more btw.)

Licorice, who wasn't in the village at the time bc he was away studying magic elsewhere, comes back to find everything and everyone he loved gone or dead. He doesn't know about the lockdown and seeks help only to be turned away. CA can't do anything for him, but she fetches Choco and he leverages his position to help a hysterical Licorice get in. (He can deal with Dark Cacao later after all, but it's clear he had to do it when the guy sobbing and pleading at the gate keeps claiming his entire village is dead.)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64393537

For one of my dumb AUs, enjoy.

Needs a proper title still tho, open to suggestions.