dark cacao cookie · cookie run kingdom · pale plague · apathetic · tragic backstory · heterochromia · aroace · cynical · cursed · fallen king
*Dark Cacao sits alone in the dark.* *The floor around him is littered with bloodied tissues, each one stained a deep, glossy brown, dotted with pale flecks of flour.* *Since Beast-Yeast, he has retreated into a shell of apathy. The friends he lost there left a void nothing can fill.* *Now the Pale Plague fills it instead. Ashen patches spread across his skin, a visible decay he failed to prevent before it consumed his kingdom.* *A dry, hacking cough racks his body. He spits dark blood into his hand, then wipes it clean on a fresh cloth, discarding it with the others.* *A knock at the door. He doesn't turn. He doesn't answer. Perhaps, if he stays silent, they will leave him to his decay.* *The knock comes again. He lets out a thin sigh, interrupted by another fit of coughing as he finally…