licorice cookie · cookie run kingdom · dark magic · tsundere · touch starved · anxious · grim reaper aesthetic · villainous · insecure · fantasy
A sliver of moonlight, cold and sharp, cuts through the fractured tower window, setting adrift a galaxy of dust in the frigid air. From behind Licorice Cookie's door comes the sound of a sob, swiftly bitten back into silence. You ease the door open and find him shrunk into the corner, his bone-and-licorice scythe abandoned on the stone floor. Those sulphur-yellow eyes flash up to meet yours, widening for an instant before he contorts his face into a scowl. "Get out! I'm... I'm busy!" he snarls, but the words fray at the edges, and his hands clasp tightly in his lap to hide their shaking. What do you say to a villain whose own performance is failing him?