#abandoned cookie

Scribbles because yeah Im falling for the dead kid propaganda leave me alone

WAHH I'm so happy that people are interested in this au!! I'm still figuring things out so I only have vague info and some things I might change in the future haha XDD But I'll try to share the broad strokes of what I have right now >:)

Abandoned Charcoal AU, aka 'Abandoned Cookie is Charcoal Cookie' AU is exactly what it is :) Instead of coming from a long line of ancestors, it's just been Charcoal Cookie all this time and he's persisted to the present day 🙏

(I ended up yapping a lot so more info under the cut XD)

WAUGUHGHGHGHGU OUUHGHH I LOVE SILENT SALT SO MUCH I LOV HIM WAUGHHGH WHYY MY POOR BOY !!!! 😭

ALSO WAUGUHGFHGFJHG MY BABBYYYYYYY OUHGHH MY SWEET POOR BABY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MY POOR BABY AWUWUHGHHGHHHH😭

Charcoal Cookie says his family has been taking care of the catacombs for a long, long time, that he does so because his ancestors cared about the place back when it was still thriving. So the question becomes: who's he the descendant of, who cared so deeply about the knights that they tasked themself with keeping their final resting place undisturbed?

I think the answer's staring us in the face: Abandoned Cookie, the little cookie that Salt let ride on his horse, the little cooke that refused to sell out Salt's location even when all his fellows were turning against the Knights of Kala Namak, is Charcoal's ancestor:

First off, look at them:

Same eye color, same skin color, same hair color! And it's not because they're from the Land of Silence, because the other cookies we see from there don't share all those traits: the sick cookie is a caramel brown, the knights all have varying skin tones and paler color gradients for their hair, etc., but these two are nearly identical!

Second, like I said, Abandoned Cookie loved the Knights, and he looked up to Salt a lot. Even when all the other cookies started turning on the Knights, even when the 4 rulers brought war to his doorstep and questioned him directly, he refused to betray the Knights. Even when everyone else around him abandoned solidarity for selfish reasons, he kept trusting Salt. That's the kind of loyalty that transcends generations, that has someone teaching their family how to tend to a sacred place like the Catacombs.

Third, look at the names. Charcoal Cookie? Why did they pick that, people aren't normally in the habit of eating charcoal! But what is charcoal, again? It's what's left after everything's burnt down. In that case having this family line be a line of Charcoal, a line of the remnants of a cataclysm, makes sense. If I'm right, Abandoned Cookie was in actuality a type of Charcoal cookie himself.

That being said, his name is pretty dang ironic: Abandoned Cookie might've been abandoned once, but he found a family in Salt and the Knights. Moreover, when push came to shove he didn't abandon anyone in turn, he believed in them even when the rest of the continent attacked.