YOU'LL WAKE UP FROM THIS SCARY DREAM

This blog and story is run by exactly three of us; Floof ( @floppa-whoppa ) , Cheshire ( @ratiosilence ) , & Lock ( @thegreatlock )

So what even is this thing? Well, essentially imagine Cookie Run: Kingdom but you zombiefy everything and add a bit of extra drama (and OCs) into the bunch.

We plan to post art, (possible) comics, story/writing sections, responses to both in character and out of character QnA’s, (possible) character statuses, headcanons/fun facts about characters, OC content, and the occasional shitpost.

As for outside viewer interaction, like mentioned in the list above, you are free to ask questions to both us as the AU developers and to or about the characters themselves! Questions are very, very encouraged!

DISCLAIMER(S..):

- WE ARE NOT POSTING THINGS IN ANY SPECIFIC ORDER … Whatsoever! We just draw & write whatever we feel like that day.

- We will likely be very slow with posting! Motivation can definitely be at a lot of ups and downs, causing slow posts and less interaction. There is a high chance that there will never be a confirmed schedule for posting due to this!

- This AU is in a heavy work in progress phase, and we are still developing a bulk of the story and worldbuilding. There will be plenty of plotholes and deviations from Kingdom’s original story, and some parts may be removed entirely. Keep in mind that these will most likely eventually be fixed as we develop the AU itself more!

- ..On that note, there will be a lot of our own personal headcanons on the canon characters themselves. It is expected that they won’t be exactly the same as they present in canon. This can mean two characters you wouldn’t expect being friends becoming friends, or can range to shipping and mentions of romance. Shipping (if posted about) will be tagged accordingly, though!

Gold Leaf, coming back to his senses from the.. sudden outbreak, was met immediately with memory loss. He has barely any recollection of those around him, those he once knew, or what even happened after he went in for his voluntary ‘appointment’. Yet, he remains optimistic, as he doesn’t necessarily know the true situation at hand, and doesn’t know his own involvement in it-only that he has odd symptoms that are displayed by others who have been bitten or attacked (and how the Jellywalkers have a tendency to completely ignore him, for some reason). He was picked up by a group of survivors and was left at one of the only bunkers, filled with various others-and is slowly recovering bits and pieces of his memory that he abruptly lost after the event occurred.

He actually finds Charcoal Toothpaste and offers to let him join the band of survivors (even if they were rather offset at the idea), once again completely in the dark to their past relations due to his sudden loss of memory. Gold Leaf also faces an influx of remembrance of his memories due to this-along with facing worsening symptoms. He is not getting better.

As for Charcoal Toothpaste … Living with the idea that you started the apocalypse isn’t exactly a … Nice thing ! However, still petrified with the idea of death, he decides to hide away and obscure his identity as best he can. But don’t be mistaken, he doesn’t just sit there and pray it all ends — being the head scientist of the whole project in the first place, he’s still interested in researching the Jellywalker Infection, even if it is … More grotesque than he may of initially thought. He usually does this by making deals with other survivors, making them do his dirty work of going out in the open and taking images, recording information, things like that in exchange for — say, supplies! Simple and effective, really. And if they die doing it ..? Oh well. (Okay maybe it isnt an “oh well”… The amount of guilt he feels from day to day is abysmal.)

^^ And it practically doubles when Gold Leaf finds him. He was under the impression Gold Leaf was fully infected this whole time. And not only is he … Not, but he also lacks the memory while Charcoal Toothpaste doesn’t.

(Dramatic Clearing Of Throat. We all came together to answer this.)

Silent Salt - Silent Salt is like.. for lack of a better word, very narrow minded about her own goals. They don’t necessarily see their goal as locked onto getting rid of a specific person or a specific group-their goal is moreso widespread than anything else. Yes, she wants the Soul Jam back from White Lily, as it’d make things 10x easier, but is she going to focus specifically on getting that? Not at all.

She attacks Jellywalkers if they’re too loud or annoying (typically large groups), so she’s kind of like a middle ground in the overall situation. Helpful in some aspects, detrimental in others (like attacking groups of survivors). Honestly, in the bigger situation, she’s almost like a support for the other Beasts to do larger damage

Her name is fitting even in this story. Silent Salt. She’s a silent killer, a silent watcher-she’ll strike and then leave naught a trace apart from the split bodies of Cookies-infected or survivor alike. She doesn’t HAVE much of a goal other than to bring silence to an already decaying world. Put an end to its lasting reign, start anew-with the Beasts ruling over obedient, silent, and willing to listen Cookies (those who she does not kill).

Eternal Sugar - Eternal Sugar seeks her own happiness! By plunging the world into an eternal slumber and granting themselves unwavering power / immortality (through stealing the life powder / magic of other cookies). The apocalypse massively aids her with this plan; desperate cookies will easily fall victim to sugar-coated lies and 'promises' of paradise, and are more likely to fall asleep when under Eternal Sugar's spell, which is what allows her to drain them of their strength in the first place. When Hollyberry Kingdom is .. well, annhilated, it not only allows her to take over the Kingdom for herself, but also allows them to lure Hollyberry closer. Having the Soul Jam back would help her strengthen and spread the word of eternal paradise!

Admittedly, she does "pity" the Jellywalkers. They can't be blessed with sweet dreams and have very little sustenance for her to take from. But she can't deny how useful they are! Especially if a couple of cookies just quite can't fall asleep yet.

Shadow Milk - Unlike Salt, Shadow Milk is almost COMPLETELY, STRICTLY focused on slowly chipping down the mentality of Pure Vanilla. Of course, like most of the others — his main motivation is getting that other half of the soul jam back so then he can just have the absolute most fun with the chaos of the world literally falling apart. Seeing it deteriorate as much as it already is is GREAT, yes … But what’s a little more, huh?

His methods are a little less .. Straightforward, I’d say. With the Pure Vanilla kingdom being the only relatively Jellywalker free place in earthbread, he uses this fact + the stress of not knowing how the other ancients are doing down there + ANYTHING ELSE THAT COULD POSSIBLY CAUSE HIM STRESS to literally mentally torture Pure Vanilla. The ultimate goal? To put it bluntly, make Pure Vanilla go down below and practically kill himself so getting the souljam is truly “as easy as it can be”.

In other words, he uses the stress of the apocalypse to slowly-but-hopefully-surely chip down at Pure Vanilla’s mentality until he gets what he wants out of him. Hehe~

Burning Spice - HE. WANTS. POWER. THRILL. Any and ALL of it! At the time of his whole .. Thing , Golden Cheese Cookie is actually still within her digital kingdom . Burning Spice , instead of personally breaching it himself … quite literally just … Uses the jellywalkers — or moreso waits for them to fully take down the digital world themselves , while HE on the outside (in what’s left of her real kingdom), Destroys it to practically nothing so she “has a surprise to come back to”

Of course, since the beasts aren’t immune to the aggression of jellywalkers, he’ll gladly kill any who get too “feisty” with him or whatever, but overall in terms of “using the apocalypse to their advantage“, Burning Spice uses the mindless violence of jellywalkers, treating them like brainless minions of sort to cause further harm and destruction to things around him; perhaps quicker at that. If he makes GC’s kingdom on the outside a literal hell while the jellywalkers are busy messing up her digital kingdom, then it should be a piece of cake to get that souljam back and get absolute power once shes out, right? A good presentation, fight, AND reward!

HOW DOES A JESTER DREAM ?

"IT TOOK YOU A SECOND THERE, VANILLY!"