Wow it's been a hot minute, I totally didn't disappear off the face of the earth /silly.
(Spoiler kinda?)
I don't know whether or not you're caught up w the update but the most recent will surprise you in a rather sage...y(?!) way! You were lowk the first one I thought of. I hope your sage-rot is still alive and well because C O N T E N T
OH BOY!!!!! YOU DONT KNOW HOW MANY SCREAMS IVE LET OUT WHEN I SAW SAGE LITERALLY BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXACT MOMENT!!!!! I WAS JUMPING IN JOY!! my sage-rot is infact very very alive and well and i do not think itll die soon CUZ ON GOLLY GOSH IM BEING FED!!! sadly theres no new sprites nor is it voiced… BUUUTTTT IM STILL HAPPY HE GOT A CAMEO!!! and the fact that hes the only one who is not been touched by corruption nor is he tainted says everything about how goated he is. Oh boy i cant wait for more gods. also HELLOOOO ITS BEEN A WHILE!!! HOW ARE YOU!!????!!!!?
HI ODI!!! IDK IF THIS IS LATE, IM PROBABLY LATE, BUT STILL!! HAPPIEST HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TO YOU, ODILE!! I HOPE YOU HAVE THE MOST WONDERFUL, SPECTACULAR DAY/NIGHT EVER!! May more birthdays, blessings, and happiness come your way because you genuinely deserve all of it 😭😭 You are honestly one of the best fanfiction writers I’ve ever encountered. Your writing is genuinely magical, and every single time I read your works I end up losing my mind in the best way possible 😭 Thank you for sharing your stories and your creativity with all of us, and thank you for being such an awesome moot too. You genuinely don’t understand how much I brag about being mutuals with you KWAHAHA 😭😭
I hope life treats you kindly always. I hope your days are filled with smiles, laughter, good health, and of course more pineapples to come!!! May all your wishes come true, and may the stars always guide your path wherever you go 💫 PURE VANILLA IS DEFINITELY SMILING YOUR WAY, AND SO IS SAGE!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ODILE!!! 💛💙✨🍍
Late or not late, I appreciate the sentiment! Do people brag about being my moot? I am way out of the loop it seems, well I'm honored people think of me that way. And thank you I really do love writing and constantly am thinking of good ideas I could write!
Life is going to be great I think I am having one of the best years of my life, I have smiles, laughter, good health, and many pineapples in my fridge! I hope the stars align in my favor and my one true wish comes true! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to wish me a happy birthday!
And as well as for everyone else who wished me a happy birthday thank you! I appreciate it so much!
Rumor Has It, He’s Beautiful (Black Sapphire Cookie x Reader)
The first time you heard Black Sapphire Cookie’s voice, you decided you hated it.
The voice that spilled from every radio in the Vanilla Kingdom was unfortunately, smooth. It curled through the streets like velvet ribbon, warm and polished and rich with the sort of charm that should have been illegal.
“Good evening, dear listeners,” it crooned, every syllable dipped in honey and poison. “Have you heard the latest little whisper fluttering through Earthbread?”
You stopped dead in the middle of the market. A few Cookies around you did the same. Heads lifted. Baskets paused mid-swing. Somewhere nearby, a baker nearly dropped a tray of fresh cream rolls.
“Sources say our beloved little hero, GingerBrave Cookie, has been caught sneaking into royal kitchens. Again. But this time, not for snacks. Oh no, no, no. The rumor says he and his merry little band were plotting to replace Pure Vanilla Cookie’s prized vanilla sugar reserves with powdered salt!”
A scandalized gasp moved through the market. Your eyes narrowed.
“That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,” you said.
The voice only continued, delighted with itself.
“And Wizard Cookie? Ah, yes, our scholarly little friend. Allegedly attempting to create a spell that turns all books upside down. Permanently. A tragic fate for literature everywhere.”
You clenched your fists. “Okay, now that one is just lazy.”
“And Strawberry Cookie,” Black Sapphire Cookie purred, “was apparently seen fleeing the scene with a basket full of incriminating strawberry jam, which she claims was, and I quote, ‘for sandwiches.’ Suspicious? You decide.”
Your jaw dropped. Beside you, an elderly Cookie lowered their shopping bag with grave concern.
“Do you think it’s true?”
“No!” you snapped. Then, remembering your manners, you softened your tone. “Sorry. I mean, absolutely not. GingerBrave Cookie and his friends are a chaotic bunch but none of them are criminal masterminds.”
The radio crystal gave another crackle. Black Sapphire Cookie laughed. It was a low, musical sound, the kind that made nearby Cookies lean in despite themselves. Like he was letting everyone in on a private joke.
You hated that too. You hated that his voice was good. You hated that it had rhythm. Timing. Texture. A silky little sway that made every terrible thing he said sound like a secret worth hearing.
“Remember, dear listeners,” he said sweetly, “truth is often boring. But a good rumor? Ah. A good rumor has flavor.”
The broadcast ended in a flourish of static. The market erupted at once.
“GingerBrave Cookie would never!”
“But what if he did?”
“Salt in the vanilla sugar? How dreadful!”
“I always knew that Wizard Cookie had suspicious magic.”
You inhaled deeply through your nose.
Then exhaled. With the dignity of someone who was not about to start fighting a radio in the middle of the Vanilla Kingdom.
“I hate him,” you announced.
A few Cookies turned toward you.
“I do,” you continued, mostly to yourself now. “I hate him. He spreads lies for fun. He makes innocent Cookies look bad. He turns everyone into a gossiping mess and then acts like he’s some refined little artist of slander.”
You pointed at the now-silent radio.
“And his voice is too smooth. That is a crime on its own.”
A familiar voice called from behind you.
“Uh… are we talking about crimes?”
You turned.
GingerBrave Cookie stood there with Wizard Cookie and Strawberry Cookie, all three of them carrying paper bags from the bakery. GingerBrave looked confused, Strawberry Cookie looked like she wanted to hide behind both of them.
Your anger instantly softened into concern.
“Oh my gosh, are you okay?”
GingerBrave blinked. “Yeah? We just bought cream buns.”
“He said you were plotting kitchen sabotage.”
GingerBrave’s eyes widened. “What?! Who!?”
“Black Sapphire Cookie?...” You replied in confusion.
Wizard Cookie groaned and dragged a hand down his face. “Not again.”
Strawberry Cookie hugged her bakery bag closer. “Did he say something about me too?”
You hesitated.
Strawberry Cookie’s face fell.
“He did, didn’t he?”
“He said you had suspicious jam,” you said gently.
Strawberry Cookie stared at the ground.
Wizard Cookie lifted his staff. “That is a gross misuse of dramatic storytelling.”
“Exactly!” you said. “Thank you!”
GingerBrave puffed out his chest, trying very hard to look brave and mostly succeeding. “Don’t worry! We’re used to rumors. They can’t keep us down!”
You frowned. “You shouldn’t have to be used to it.”
That made him pause.
For a second, the market noise faded around you. GingerBrave gave you a softer smile, the kind that reminded you why cookies followed him into impossible battles.
“Thanks,” he said. “Really.”
Your heart squeezed. These poor kids.
Then Wizard Cookie ruined the moment by muttering, “Also, for the record, an upside-down book spell would be extremely difficult and completely useless.”
You stared at him. He adjusted his hat. “I am not saying I tried it.”
“Wizard Cookie.”
“I am saying that if I had tried it, it would have been for academic reasons.”
Strawberry Cookie sighed. “That doesn’t help.”
You laughed despite yourself.
For the rest of the afternoon, the four of you wandered the Vanilla Kingdom together, trying to undo the damage where you could. GingerBrave cheerfully denied the kitchen sabotage allegations. Wizard Cookie gave increasingly annoyed explanations about magical ethics. Strawberry Cookie quietly showed her actual jar of strawberry jam to anyone who looked suspiciously at her bakery bag.
You remained furious.
Right up until you saw him.
The afternoon sun had turned soft and golden, spilling over the pale stone paths and frosting the rooftops with warm light. The air smelled like vanilla blossoms, baked sugar, and the faint crispness of fountain mist.
You were walking beside GingerBrave, still complaining.
“I just think there should be consequences,” you said. “Not violent consequences. Obviously. But consequences. Like… public corrections. Or maybe he should have to personally apologize to everyone he’s lied about.”
Wizard Cookie nodded. “A fine suggestion.”
“Or,” GingerBrave added, “he could help clean the royal kitchens!”
Strawberry Cookie gave a tiny smile. “With no salt.”
“Exactly,” you said. “No salt. Just him, a mop, and shame.”
Then a voice behind you said, “How deliciously specific.”
Your entire body went still.
The voice was not coming from a radio this time.
It was close. Too close. Silky, amused, and unmistakably real.
GingerBrave turned first.
Wizard Cookie’s grip tightened around his staff.
Strawberry Cookie made a very small noise.
You turned around.
And every single thought you had ever had in your entire life immediately dropped dead.
Black Sapphire Cookie stood beneath the shade of a vanilla-blossom tree, one hand resting lightly on the handle of his floating microphone as though it were a cane, a companion, and an audience all at once.
He was tall and elegant. His black suit was tailored. A white cravat sat perfectly at his throat, bright against the dark fabric. Oval jewels gleamed at his ears and chest, catching the sunlight with small, dangerous flashes. His fluffy, obsidian-violet hair fell over one side of his face, hiding one eye completely, while the visible one watched you with a sly, lavender-slit gleam.
And the wings.
Dark, bat-like, purple-tinted things folded behind him, shaped almost like the tails of a formal coat. They made him look less like a Cookie walking through the Vanilla Kingdom and more like a rumor that had dressed itself for the theater.
Your mouth opened. Nothing came out.
Black Sapphire Cookie smiled.
Sharp teeth. Perfectly confident.
“Do continue,” he said. “I was quite taken by the mop.”
You stared. GingerBrave glanced at you.
“Uh… you okay?”
You made a sound. It was not a word. Wizard Cookie looked from you to Black Sapphire Cookie, then back to you.
GingerBrave waved a hand in front of your face. “Hello? Earthbread to you?”
You still could not speak. This was impossible. This was insulting. This was a betrayal by the universe itself.
Black Sapphire Cookie was supposed to be annoying. He was supposed to be a nasty little gossip gremlin with a microphone and too much free time. He was supposed to look punchable. Or at least mildly inconvenient.
He was not supposed to look ethereal.
He was not supposed to stand there like a velvet nightmare dipped in starlight. He was not supposed to have cheekbones that made your moral convictions wobble.
Black Sapphire Cookie tilted his head.
“My, my,” he murmured. “And here I thought I had made an enemy. How heartbreaking to discover I have rendered them speechless instead.”
That brought you back by exactly half an inch.
“I’m not speechless,” you said. Your voice cracked.
Wizard Cookie winced. GingerBrave patted your shoulder. “You kind of were.”
“I was thinking.”
“About what?” Wizard Cookie asked suspiciously.
You looked at Black Sapphire Cookie.
Black Sapphire Cookie looked at you.
The microphone beside him blinked its eerie eye.
You looked away.
“Justice,” you said weakly.
Black Sapphire Cookie laughed.
Your soul tried to leave your body out of pure embarrassment.
Wizard Cookie stepped in front of you like a tiny, furious wall. “Do not be fooled. This is exactly how malicious performers operate. First they charm, then they deceive.”
Black Sapphire Cookie placed a hand over his chest. “Malicious performer? What a flattering title. I must write that down.”
GingerBrave crossed his arms. “You spread a rumor that we tried to sabotage the royal kitchens!”
“Did I?” Black Sapphire Cookie asked lightly.
“Yes!” you snapped, finally regaining enough sense to be angry. “You absolutely did!”
His visible eye slid toward you.
The full force of his attention landed on your face, and your anger immediately had to fight for its life.
Strawberry Cookie, quiet until now, leaned toward GingerBrave and whispered, “They’re turning red.”
“I am not,” you said too fast.
GingerBrave squinted at you. “You kind of are.”
“I’m angry.”
Wizard Cookie nodded sagely. “Anger can cause redness.”
“Thank you, Wizard Cookie.”
Black Sapphire Cookie’s smile widened. “How touching. Your little friends have formed a rescue committee.”
“They are not a rescue committee,” you said.
“We kind of are,” GingerBrave admitted.
“GingerBrave!”
“What? You looked like you were about to forgive him because he sparkles.” Gingerbrave grumbled.
“I was not!”
Black Sapphire Cookie lifted a gloved hand and examined one of his rings with idle interest. “For the record, I do not merely sparkle.”
You hated him. You really did. You hated the arrogance. The lies. The way he carried himself like the entire kingdom had been built to provide him with flattering lighting. And unfortunately, the lighting was flattering.
“I know what you do,” you said, forcing yourself to stand straighter. “You spread rumors that hurt people. You make it sound entertaining so everyone forgets there are real Cookies on the other side of your stories.”
For once, Black Sapphire Cookie did not immediately respond.
His smile stayed, but something in his eye sharpened. Not guilt. You would not give him that much credit. More like interest. As if you had finally said something worth airing during prime time.
“How earnest,” he said.
“Do not say that like it’s an insult.” You spouted.
“Oh, it was not an insult.” He leaned slightly on his microphone, elegant and easy. “Earnestness is very useful. It makes Cookies predictable.”
Wizard Cookie bristled. “You are so conniving.”
“I have been called worse by better-dressed Cookies.”
GingerBrave stepped forward. “You should apologize.”
Black Sapphire Cookie looked at him.
“For what, precisely?”
“For the rumor!”
“Which one?”
“All of them!”
“That could take quite some time.”
“We have time,” you said.
Black Sapphire Cookie turned back to you, and there was that little glint, that amused gleam that made it seem like he knew exactly how badly his face was sabotaging your principles.
“Do you?” he asked.
You narrowed your eyes. “For an apology? Yes.”
“For resisting my charm?”
Your brain tripped.
GingerBrave made a disgusted strangled noise.
Strawberry Cookie covered her eyes with her hood, flustered on your behalf.
Wizard Cookie slammed the end of his staff against the ground. “Do not answer that.”
“I wasn’t going to!”
Black Sapphire Cookie smiled like a cat who had discovered an unattended dessert table.
“Of course not.”
Your face burned hotter.
“You are the worst, you are a liar, and so, so weird” you said.
“So I have heard.”
“Mostly from me.” You were always disagreeing with his stupid broadcasts.
“How devoted.”
You pointed at him. “Not devoted. Opposed.”
“Passionately.”
His smile turned delighted. For a terrifying second, you realized he was enjoying this.
Not just in the cruel way he enjoyed chaos or because he had embarrassed you. He seemed amused by your refusal to let him slide away from the accusation, by the way you kept dragging yourself back to your anger every time his appearance knocked you sideways.
It made him look even more insufferably pleased. You hated that too.
GingerBrave gently grabbed your shoulders and turned you away from him.
“Okay,” he said brightly. “Let’s breathe.”
“I am breathing.”
“Like you’re about to explode.”
Wizard Cookie stepped beside you. “Focus. Remember the facts. He is a slanderer. A servant of deceit. A theatrical nuisance.”
Strawberry Cookie nodded. “And he was mean.”
“Yes,” you said, gripping onto that like a rope. “Yes. He was mean.”
Behind you, Black Sapphire Cookie sighed dreamily. “Such a harsh review. I may never recover.”
“You’ll live,” Wizard Cookie said.
“Tragically, yes.”
You turned back around, steadier this time.
Black Sapphire Cookie still looked unfairly beautiful.
But GingerBrave’s hands were on your shoulders, Wizard Cookie was glaring on your behalf, and Strawberry Cookie was giving you an encouraging little nod.
You could do this.
You could look directly at the most gorgeous rumormonger in Earthbread and still have morals.
Probably.
“You owe them an apology,” you said. “GingerBrave, Wizard Cookie, and Strawberry Cookie. Not a performance. Not a fake little charming half-apology. A real one.”
Black Sapphire Cookie hummed.
His microphone floated closer, its eye blinking lazily. The jaw-like pieces around its head clicked as though it were whispering to him.
Black Sapphire Cookie tapped one finger against the microphone’s handle.
Then he looked at GingerBrave.
“My dear GingerBrave Cookie,” he said, voice smooth enough to make several nearby Cookies slow down to listen, “I apologize for implying that you would commit culinary sabotage.”
GingerBrave blinked. “Oh.”
Black Sapphire Cookie turned to Wizard Cookie.
“And to you, Wizard Cookie, I apologize for suggesting your magical ambitions are limited to inconveniencing books.”
Wizard Cookie hesitated. “That is… acceptable.”
Finally, Black Sapphire Cookie looked at Strawberry Cookie.
His voice softened just a fraction.
“And Strawberry Cookie, I apologize for casting suspicion upon your jam.”
Strawberry Cookie looked down at her bakery bag. “It really was for sandwiches.”
“I believe you.”
You stared at him, suspicious.
“That was almost decent.”
“How painful for me,” Black Sapphire Cookie said. “Do not tell anyone.”
GingerBrave beamed. “Great! Then maybe you can stop spreading rumors about us.”
Black Sapphire Cookie gave him a beautiful, terrible smile.
“I said I apologized. I did not say I was retiring.”
Your eye twitched.
“There it is.”
Wizard Cookie groaned. “I knew it.”
Strawberry Cookie sighed.
GingerBrave, somehow still optimistic, said, “Well, it’s a start!”
“It is not a start,” you said. “It is a decorative pause.”
Black Sapphire Cookie pointed lightly at you. “Now that was a good line.”
“Do not compliment me.”
“But you make it so tempting.”
Your friends immediately reacted.
GingerBrave tightened his grip on your shoulders again.
Wizard Cookie stepped directly between you two.
Strawberry Cookie took your hand and gently tugged you backward.
“Nope,” GingerBrave said.
“We are leaving,” Wizard Cookie declared.
“But I was winning,” you protested.
“You were blushing,” Strawberry Cookie whispered.
“I can do both!”
Black Sapphire Cookie watched as your friends physically guided you away from him, his smile gleaming beneath the vanilla-blossom shade.
“How cruel,” he called after you. “Leaving so soon?”
You twisted around despite Wizard Cookie’s warning hiss.
“This is not over!”
Black Sapphire Cookie bowed, one hand over his heart, microphone floating beside him like a wicked little moon.
“I would be disappointed if it were.”
Your face warmed again. GingerBrave turned your head forward with both hands.
“No looking back.”
“I wasn’t.”
“You were.”
Wizard Cookie marched ahead. “We need to discuss your vulnerability to aesthetics.”
“I am not vulnerable to aesthetics.”
Strawberry Cookie gave your hand a comforting squeeze. “It’s okay. He was very sparkly.”
“Thank you, Strawberry Cookie, but that does not help.”
GingerBrave laughed. “At least you still hate him, right?”
You glanced back one more time. Black Sapphire Cookie was still standing beneath the blossoms, watching you with that sly, glittering eye. When he noticed you looking, he lifted his hand in a graceful little wave. Your stomach flipped.
You immediately faced forward.
“Yes,” you said.
A beat passed.
“Mostly.”
Wizard Cookie made a noise of absolute despair. GingerBrave burst out laughing. Strawberry Cookie smiled behind her bakery bag. And somewhere behind you, soft as static and sweet as poison, Black Sapphire Cookie’s laughter drifted through the Vanilla Kingdom air.
A/N Hey guys it's been a minute, it's my birthday in 5 days!!! I am so excited, also so sorry for the inactivity it is finals season and I've been busy studying away I haven't had too much time to come online and chat! Well everyone take care and enjoy this one-shot because I LOVE THE NEW COSTUME FOR HIM!!! I have a confession to make...I love black sapphire cookie almost as much as PV, but never more.
This has been in my head for so long ever since I read that fanfic last year, but hear me out-- I think ‘Hello My Old Heart’ and ‘Like the Dawn’ by The Oh Hellos fit MC and SMC really well!!
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