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Could you write a Cookie Run: Kingdom story request featuring Dark Cacao Cookie and a female reader who is the king's advisor?
The king is secretly in love with her but hides it at all costs.
However, one night during a royal celebration, when the king and the reader end up alone together, he accidentally confesses his feelings for her…
☆ As Fleeting As a Whisper — Dark Cacao x Advisor Reader Fic ☆
Genre: Fluff || she/her pronouns for reader || No warnings needed
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The Cacao Kingdom had a rare moment of joy. The armies had secured a grand victory, and a large supply haul had been brought to the settlements. You, his loyal advisor, had suggested a celebration to boost morale. Dark Cacao had many reservations, but you had never led him astray before. That very night, a grand party was held within the castle walls. Cookies danced and spun, indulged in the comfort of a lull in the usual struggle that plagued the kingdom. It was so unusual for the King, and that was exactly why you'd suggested it. Something new to keep the people hopeful
Looking around, you noticed a certain silver-armored King was missing from the event. You frowned, eyes scanning the crowd. You turned, gently tapping Caramel Arrow's shoulder. She looked over in surprise, before giving a little bow "Ah, sorry! Am I needed for something?" She asks. You chuckled "Not tonight, don't worry. I was just wondering if King Cacao had spoken to you?". "Is something wrong?" Caramel Arrow asked, tension rising. "I'm only curious" You reassured "I can't see him in the crowd". "I think Affogato Cookie last spoke to him" Caramel Arrow answered, pointing you in the shaman's direction. You gave a polite nod and a quick "Thank you" before approaching him
"Affogato Cookie!" You called, and he turned to you, with a mischievous look already on his face. "Oh my, the King's personal advisor. Should I be worried?" He asked coyly. "I'm just wondering where Dark Cacao Cookie is" You said. Affogato gave a hum, his eyes glancing to the hallway adjacent to the throne room "Oh, I shouldn't say. He was in such a mood when he slunk off, he might be cross if I reveal him"
"Affogato." You began warningly, and the other chuckled. "He's right there" He said, gesturing to the just now entering Dark Cacao. His armor was gone, replaced with a much more relaxed and casual attire. Jet black robes hung off of his strong frame, a cape with a very fluffy lining on the neck wrapped around his shoulders, and hair tied up in a high ponytail. Immediately forgetting about the shifty shaman, you sped up to Dark Cacao's side
"Your majesty!" You greeted, his stern gaze softening upon meeting your eyes. "You... look a lot more comfortable" you said playfully. Dark Cacao scoffed, unable to hide the chuckle that followed "Isn't this a celebration, as you insisted? Why shouldn't I play the part?". "I just didn't expect you to want to" You admitted "Usually you're happy just watching over us"
Dark Cacao suddenly went quiet. "...Tonight is different. I feel... lighter than I have in a long time" he said, before turning to you with a thankful smile "All because of your brilliant idea". "You flatter me, your highness" You said softly, hoping he couldn't see the blush threatening to show on your cheeks "But it's your success that brought us here"
"In that case, we should enjoy it" Dark Cacao said, extending his arm. You linked it with your own, trying not to make your surprise visible. With eyes downcast, you let him lead the two of you past all the dancers and to the seats of the banquet table. Time seemed to go too fast and slow down all at once. Eating, talking, joking— such mundane tasks felt like a novelty. Dark Cacao didn't leave your side once. A cherished moment of bliss, held in the comforting bubble of the day that blended to twilight hours
As you both bid goodbye to another group of thankful attendees, Dark Cacao sighed. "I don't know how Hollyberry Cookie does this so frequently," he said "I feel like my dough is aging just from these few hours". You laughed a little, leaning closer to him "Hollyberry Cookie also has an endless supply of juice at her parties" You joked. "Maybe I should write to her soon..." Dark Cacao mumbled "And the others. If I can find some parchment-"
He suddenly felt a nudge on his arm, looking down to see you giving him a look. "What?" He asked. "You're doing it again. Thinking about King stuff" You responded "Tonight is for relaxing, remember?". "Ah, yes" The king said softly "Thank you. I wonder what I would do without you"
"Keep your head in your scrolls, I'd bet" You said. Dark Cacao gave an acknowledging hum "It's good you're here then. I can't imagine having to rule without the one I love". The moment he said it, you froze. Heat flooded your cheeks, and you snapped your head up to look at him with wide eyes. His face had a matching blush, shoulders tense. "I- I meant-" he stammered "What I meant to say-.." he tried, the words falling flat. He abruptly stood and muttered an "Excuse me" before quickly fleeing the room
The remaining Cookies watched with confusion, some glancing to you with worry. For you, however, it felt like time had completely stopped. Your heart was going crazy, butterflies swirling in your stomach. You didn't know whether to be happy that he said it, or panicked that he ran off. For now, you stood stone still, processing it all slowly before a smile grew on your face. The one he loves, huh..?
Imagine a situation where R!Reader in both Preluz AUs, Altered Fate, (or even Advisor!Reader), etc., walking in on one of Hunter's "punishments" when Belos is about to strike him or make him flinch and you immediately get in the way to stop him.
The moment you intervene, Belos immediately backs off in shock that you did such a thing. He will either explain it away or tell you to move aside, to stay out of it, and let the boy reap what he sowed. Either way, you're not happy and tell him off for it before taking Hunter out of the room.
If it's before the two of you become close, it taints his image in your eyes.
If it's after, you refuse to sleep in the same bed as him. You're constantly upset with him, disgusted by how you were unaware for so long of how he treated his own nephew. To add insult to injury, you either refuse to give him a child or allow him to see his own children until he changed.
In both situations, he could manipulate Hunter to go to you and try to convince you to drop it. It only makes things worse for Belos when you hear that this is what happens when Hunter fails, regardless of how often he fails.
He ultimately will have to make you forget it happened through memory destruction since no amount of apologizing is going to make you let it go. What's worse? He gets Hunter to go into your mind to retrieve the memory and destroy it since your inner self would attack Belos at first sight for the stress this whole thing put on you. He knows Hunter believes Belos blames him for the rift between him and his spouse so he'll do ANYTHING to fix it...
Charged as in both the reader and Belos need to touch grass- maybe EAT it at this point. Then they have an encounter in the hallway that just sets everything off
Brain: Don't say rage sex, don't say rage sex, don't say rage sex
... You two will have one hell of an argument in front of everyone... It sounds violent with the way the two of you are verbally attacking one another but neither of you would raise a hand to one another... Kikimora did try to intervene, mainly to tell you off but she got yelled at to stay out of it by Belos which backed her down and he went back to arguing with you.
Brain: Good.
Then you guys go hard behind closed doors to the point of ripping clothes, biting, and pulling hair before you end up on some flat surface having rage sex.
Brain: MOTHERFU-!
And, once it's out of your system, the two of you will lay there trying to remember who even initiated that, to begin with. At least the two of you feel better, albeit bruised. You definitely have bruises on your thighs in the shape of his fingertips.
I bet that bad mood came when Belos/Philip saw Hunter holding baby wittebane and overheard Hunter saying that he would be by their side and never give up in them.... a similar promise Caleb made to little Pip long ago.
And of course, baby is being a baby and smiles and giggles at Hunter.
Hunter is head over heels for his new little cousin because that means his family is actually growing and it eats at Belos at times.
When Belos does take Baby Wittebane from Hunter, he bitterly reminds him of his duties as the Golden Guard and that he shouldn't have time to mess around.
Now, when the baby gets used to Hunter, anytime they're taken away from him, they start to get fussy if it's not their mother taking them, which royally pisses Belos off.
Not sure if my ask was eaten but, I remember I sent an ask about this potential angst/fluff: suppose baby came around before Kings tide event, and Hunter got to meet baby wittebane.
At first he would be nervous around the child as it's technically the heir, but reader encourages hunter to hold and spend time with them as they are the baby's cousin.
Belos/Philip would have Hella conflicting emotions seeing Hunter, a grimwalker of his brother, care and love his cousin and acts like an older brother to the baby
It probably got eaten, honestly. I've been having issues where I'll see an ask pop up but when I go to look for it to reply, it's gone. |[ Tumblr's being an ass to me right now. Or I'll send a message to drafts only to find it never saved and got lost.
The baby probably looks exactly like baby Philip too so it's like a blast from the past for Belos. And Hunter finds that the baby absolutely adores him.
At one point, Belos/Philip does take the baby from him when it puts him in a bad mood and he just locks himself away. Hunter gets scared when he does this because he knows that his uncle has uncontrollable outbursts with his "curse" so he'll run off to get you immediately for the baby's sake. Of course, Belos is angry Hunter dragged you into it, but he does acknowledge that he could accidentally harm his precious little one.
When you find Adrian after he was bodily yeeted from the Owl House by the resident worm demon, he was busy pulling twigs and such from his hair and dusting himself off while ranting about going back and putting Eda in her place. His back was to you so he did not see you walk up. He let out a sigh before rubbing the back of his neck.
"Great. How am I going to convince them I actually want to help? If I wanted to take them back, I'd have already ordered a strike on the house..."
His grumbling sounded genuine enough that you cleared your throat.
"If you want to help so badly, you can start by leaving Eda alone."
You have never seen Adrian jump like a startled cat before or whirl around so fast it looked as if his head would spin.
"Y/N-! How-?"
"By some miracle, you convinced me. Now, let's go."
Adrian stumbled over his words as you walked past him.
"L-Latissa, right?"
"Yes. And keep up. I am not wasting any more time so I won't be waiting for you. I'm on a time limit," you explained but then paused and turned on him with a glare. "I find out you're lying about wanting to help me despite what you pulled back there, I'll have Belos skin you alive for it."
The head witch of the Illusion Coven swallowed hard and nodded. He wasn't exactly sure if Belos would do that or not.
"O-Of course! On our way then!"
From there, the two of you started off toward Latissa, not before stopping in Bonesborough for a couple of supplies.
Okay, so we saw what your powerless reader looks like. What about the reincarnated reader? Advisor reader? Captain reader?
Usually, @siro-cyll does the drawings and I don't want to bother them with making another Reader unless they're up for it. I gave up drawing ages ago to focus on writing. Once in a very long while, lightning will strike and grant me something good enough to show.
Captain, Advisor, and all the other readers are mainly blank slates since a lot of them come from requests and they need a title to explain their position. I'll let a little of my personality show, but other than that, it's supposed to focus on the character they are with doing most of the heavy lifting.
However, the more I work with a Reader insert, either for a fic or for what we've done with Reincarnated!Reader, I tend to work part of my personality into it over time.
After the "Al Bundy" comment and looking back at everything I wrote for the Reincarnated!Reader, I guess I put more of myself in the Reincarnated!Reader than I realized. The whole protectiveness over Luz comes from real-life experience with siblings and my nieces, especially my eldest niece who shares a lot in common with me. Beloved, I molded more from what the time period would be than anything else, knowing how serious and dangerous it would have been if she/they acted out as a woman in the 1600s.
So far, I've given Reincarnated!Reader an intimidation factor (have been told this IRL due to resting bitch face), protective stance when it comes to kids, sarcasm, antagonistic behavior, and has a few eccentrics, including useless facts on dark topics and a stare that would unnerve stone. I would imagine they'd be a type of goth (NOT PASTEL. Maybe Hippie, Traditional, Soft or Romantic(Dandy). Just black. Lots of blacks. No makeup.), and every time you open their door, you're either being blasted with metal or classical metal (I adore Ode to Joy).
