#jam drop cookie

[thecookiechest]

Updated Peanut Butter and Jam Drop, exclusively known as PB&J Cookie!

[quibbs126]

So during chem lab today I tried to come up with concepts for this character that’s been an idea in my head for a while now

I should probably transcribe the notes on the sketch, since I doubt you can read them, I’m aware my handwriting is hard to read

So back when I made my hypothesis of the Strawberry Jam Sword being a corrupted Soul Jam, I basically integrated that into my headcanon. However, as a consequence of that, Blueberry Ice Cream didn’t really work as a character anymore, since now the sword has completely different origins that he doesn’t cleanly fit into. In this new origin, the SJS was first found/possibly created by a young Cookie with good intentions, however they were supposed to lose the Soul Jam far too early and it instead ended up constantly shifting hands between greedy and evil Cookies who wanted its immense power for their own gain, which ultimately ended up corrupting it. And BIC doesn’t really fit into this narrative. Sure, he could be the person who first found the red gem, but his design doesn’t really match it at all, with him being blue/purple while the gem is red. They don’t look like they fit together. Yes that was partially the point originally, but here that doesn’t work, as he doesn’t change into something more befitting it in this scenario. He’d only work if I radically change his design, and in doing so likely his name, and at that point he wouldn’t even be the same character anymore. So I decided to just make a completely new character to be the gem’s original wielder

The character I made was Jam Drop Cookie. During my search for things to make Cookies, I had found thumbprint cookies, which I thought was a weird name, but I kept it anyways. I looked up other names for thumbprint cookies and found jam drops were a name for them, and thought that was a perfect name, especially for a cookie related to jam or even the Strawberry Jam Sword. So when I needed to make a new character, I chose to do that. I was considering if Jam Drop was too on the nose, since the other Soul Jam wielders don’t have names that relate to their jam or even their (likely) flavor, but I liked the name Jam Drop so I decided to stick with it

Might as well show what jam drops are, they’re basically just cookies with jam in the middle

Anyways back to him, so he’s supposed to have found the gem, like I said, and basically he just wants to help people around him. He’s a good boy. Tragically however he never makes it past his teenage years, as he is crumbled for his Soul Jam after only a few years of having it, from others who want its power. I think I explained his personality a bit better in the notes. Another little thing, with the “accidentally hitting people with lightning”, I imagine a little scenario where he’s excited and accidentally strikes someone in the background with lightning, and he turns around and yells “OH WITCHES I AM SO SORRY” and then immediately goes to help them, feeling very bad the entire way through. I know I said it, but I want to draw it out as well. Only I can’t because I don’t have a design for him yet. Oh also, he’s from the Bloody Jam Mountains

But honestly, the biggest problem has been his design. I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I made those notes so I could have a guideline for what I wanted. I planned to draw more sketches, but I was busy with the lab and didn’t have time to draw more. I also made this sketch this morning to try and get across his personality. Also try and figure out his design, but I couldn’t do that. I’m also not sure the pose or body type look right

As said in the notes, I want his hair to be jam (I tried to incorporate the jam drop shape in the hair but it didn’t look right, I’ll incorporate it into the outfit), and I’m thinking it’s orange. I’m also going to give him dark red eyes, since I notice that aside from White Lily (which is probably intentional), all the Ancients have their eye colors (or one in the case of Pure Vanilla) the same color as their Soul Jam, though different in specific shade

I’m also not entirely sure where the gem is supposed to be on him. I don’t want to repeat a placement from the other wielders, so I needed to come up with something new. My plan was to put it on one of his hands, probably his left, and thus like the notes say, a gauntlet. I don’t want it as a sword because my idea is that the Strawberry Jam Sword as a sword only happened later on with other wielders, it was not its original use. Basically my idea is he could like, lift his hand and lightning is summoned to strike his enemies. But also, he could maybe use it to cast some sort of lightning shield, like what Lemon Cookie has. But I want to keep the lightning

Other ideas I had was a hammer, because you know, Thor, and also we don’t have hammers for the Ancients. Also possibly a bow, though mostly just because other ideas. But I’m not sure on them since I don’t necessarily want the gem to be used strictly for violence. Gauntlet is the one I stick with the most, but there’s also the logistics problem of making that work, since Cookie hands are a bit too small to put one of those gems on. I’m using Wildberry as a reference

Also just another thing, but I feel like Jam Drop is also a name that would work for someone that’s like, the first ever Soul Jam wielder, given jam drops are literally just basic cookies that have jam in them. Like if anything works for a Cookie that first wielded a Soul Jam, it would be this. And plus, the jam is in the shape of a circle, and I feel like a circle would work as the first Soul Jam, given circles are like, the most basic shape. Perfect for the first one. And I mean, technically Jam Drop did wield a Soul Jam before the Ancients (he’s from around 10,000 years before the main story, just like Blueberry Ice Cream was), but he doesn’t necessarily fit that bill. But ah well, I still like the name for him

Anyways yeah, just wanted to talk about him and air out my problems with designing him, maybe in the hopes someone can help. I just think he’s neat, I hope you like