DARENK8P

Hi, it's Darenk. I am a storyboard artist, illustrator and VA, but in the internet I post fanarts for fun.

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It's a beautiful day to draw Matcha and Licorice working at the hotel. Well, Licorice at least trying

Actually, why would I deprive you of an absolutely family-friendly image of employed Matcha Cookie??

I feel like I won't be able to collect my thoughts into something coherent...

But! I feel like I have this soft spot for the whole CoD team as a group of outcasts. I love them all dearly, but Matcha is my favorite. It just so happened that I adore this type of (villain) girls: unapologetically rude, furiously determined and pathetically vainglorious... (Pomegranate Cookie is also fits this description, but I respect her loyalty to Dark Enchantress, so I find her more poetically selfless rather than pathetic.)

But Matcha is... Ooh, she has this delicious mix of comedy, little tragedy and story of a small and lost person... I love to see her confused about her existence and in the same time trying to ruin others work of months and days. She can be strategic and quiet, but she can blow the whole lab in the second out of a rage impulse. She has a lot of constructive potential, but stuck in her miserable environment. And as a story goes on, she faces a new reality with an overwhelming feeling of disorientation. And freedom. Weird to know, after all this time, that you can do whatever you want without any need to prove your worth.

I love this. I empathize with this.

Butter Roll is... Oh, I would call him entertaining. When I'll return back to ChakChak's story I will expand one particular side of his character that I already had in mind for long time ago.. But still, I think that I empathize with workaholics, who after every fail says ":D" and moves on. I feel like we don't talk that often about his life before CoD and why he's so enthusiastic about his kidnapping. Does he has that type of reputation that he's not afraid to lose? Eh! Maybe a little bit unpopular opinion, but Butter Roll is not an evil genius as most of the fandom pictures him. If he was he would've been more independent. But he, just like Matcha, is constantly looking for someone's validation (or even patronage like DE/sponsors). I was hoping that I would find the answers when he will interact with Espresso, but that didn't happend. So I'll just play along with my headcanon that BRoll was studying under Espresso's protection.

But in the end, I like every potential in their dynamic. Maybe a little projection of my personal emotions, but I find them both interesting to play with. Maybe I could study other characters too, but at the moment, I don't have enough strength to switch my attention between a large number of ideas and characters.

@haenim0 's Matcha Roll Cookie

Chak Chak is a smart kid, but she's still just a 7 year-old who finds babies ugly and noisy.