Cookie Run Kingdom: Cursed Souls AU Main Post + AU directory
Main explanation and plot
This AU's goal is to explore the Beasts and Ancients as characters rather than focusing on intense action and war. In this AU:
The Soul Jams are cursed items due to the large amount of power they hold. Their power is enough to slowly corrupt the user's mind over time, heavily exacerbating their flaws and negative emotions. This power can be neutralized if their component soul jam stays in close proximity.
Dark Enchantress Cookie was never reborn after the Dark Flour War. Pure Vanilla Cookie erased her using Dark Moon Magic, in exchange for his and White Lily Cookie's memories. They roamed the world without their memories until the Gingergang brought shards of their destroyed soul jams to them. After White Lily regained her memories, she set off with the Gingergang to find the other Ancients to make amends with them.
Eventually, White Lily and the other Ancients come to Beast-Yeast in order for them to meet with Elder Faerie, which is when they witness the Beasts escaping the Silver Tree and reforming their bodies. And although the Ancients all end up coming into conflict with their counterparts, hope is not lost for the Beasts to find some sort of peace and redemption, aided by the fact that the Beasts and Ancients can calm each others' minds and neutralize the corrupting aspect of their soul jams just by being in each other's presence.
Some other major changes from canon
The Witches are neutral beings who just do not see the cookies as important. They stopped watching over the cookies some time after the Virtues were created, losing interest in them and trusting them to run their own society. The First Cookies do not exist and therefore did not create the Beasts.
The St Pastry Order- or at least the religious group that would go on to become the Order- was founded much earlier.
Extra things, AU acknowledgements, and content warnings
For full transparency, this AU was made as a fix-it AU in response to Beast-Yeast 15 and Act 2. This AU does not account for any plot past Beast-Yeast 12, and does not account for anything released after Beast-Yeast 15. (I say this because some aspects of BY 13-15 will be used, but I will not watch Act 2.)
This is a very ship-heavy AU. Every main Beast x Ancient ship (shipped with their counterpart) is canon (with the exception of possibly silentlily because I like other lily and salt ships more and I don't think they'd work with those other ships in mind) as well as some other non-counterpart ships. Some one-sided, unrequited, and ex-partner ships among the Beasts and Ancients as well as non-soul-jam-holder characters are canon. Very Shadowvanilla heavy because they're my favorite.
The AU can be found under the tags:
#ltloofa fix au
#ltloofa crk au.
#cursed souls au
#crk cursed souls au
#cursed souls crk au
If the name changes, the AU's new name will be added to the tags of the previous posts.
This AU will take on a darker and more mature tone than the actual game. This AU is heavily focused around exploring the mental states of the characters and how the trauma they have been through affects them. This AU and its content will contain depictions of:
Temporary major character death
Mental illness
Disordered eating
Physical and mental abuse
Toxic relationships
Physical violence
Cults & Religious abuse
Queerphobia
Misogyny
Racism
Suicide and suicidal ideation
Self harm
Alcohol & Drug abuse
Child abuse, neglect, and abandonment
Post Directory
For now, I'll sort the posts by what character or ship the posts are focused on. Also, to note, the Beasts' names change after they're redeemed, which is why I refer to them by different names in some posts.
The main story will be told through comics, which are sorted in chronological order. Things that aren't ready to be made into comics will occasionally be posted as miscellaneous posts and will be listed in order of when they were posted.
Shadowvanilla
Comics
Inhuman (Fount of Knowledge comic) -> The Fount of Knowledge's Execution -> Seeing in the Lie (Partial Beast-Yeast 8 rewrite)
Misc. Posts
Shining Milk & Post-Awakening Pure Vanilla Profiles
Miscellaneous SDVN characterization
Mourning what was never there (Art + Post Pure Vanilla awakening lore)
Pre-Redemption Shadow Milk, Awakened Pure Vanilla & Pre-Awakening Pure Vanilla designs + design notes
Happy in Imperfection (Shadowvanilla fic)
White Lily & Silent Salt
White Lily post-awakening design
Poly + Miscellaneous Beast/Ancient ships
Misc. Posts
Eternallily + Eternalhollylily with wips for their designs
Non-character focused
St Pastry Order Worldbuilding (with some Shadow Milk info at the top because I didn't want to make it its own post)
Other
Feel free to ask questions about my au! My ask box is open
