I’m bored have some Ghosts of Our Pasts AU Info dump
Tw: Child Sacrifice, Death by Fire, Slavery, Racial Discrimination,abuse and multiple dark themes
(If you already know what Ghosts of Our Pasts was and we’re the lucky few to have read the story…and you don’t remember it being THAT dark, then jokes on you it is actually THIS dark is that I just didn’t execute it well)
BitterSweet/SugarSweet Village
Main Lore
Locals call is ‘SugarSweet Village’ however the name was always BitterSweet Village.
The Village was founded by two cookies gifted the power of dragons.
The Village is actually not so sweet as it as they enslave those with bitter ingredients.
The enslavement started with The tale of the Founder and Foundress, The Founder placed a curse on the Village so that a Bitter Cookie would gain it and destroy the village.
This causing the enslavement of bitter cookies and multiple ritualistic sacrifices using bitter cookies.
The village was destroyed by Dark Cacao Cookie, there were barely any survivors, and If they were they were mostly bitter cookies.
Most of the Bitter Cookies were Coffee Cookies
Actually the former leader of the Coffee Village was a Coffee Cookie from the BitterSweet village
Most Coffee Cookies are from Bittersweet village which is why most of them hate sweets.
The reason no one interfered when the dragons started fighting years later is because Bittersweet village was turned into a legend, revering Dark Cacao as the hero who controlled the dragons and destroyed the village freeing the slaves from captivity.
Some cultural things idk
The denizens of the village actually refer to the dragons as gods, how ironic really-
Milk is very rare in the village and is usually save for newborns
Not sure what else to add, cause the village was a one-off thing
The Founder and Foundress
The Founder and Foundress are the founders of Bittersweet Village
Caramel Choco Cookie and Baking Soda Cookie (I never really confirmed their names in the original story I just called them ‘The Founders’)
No shipping them, they are brother and sister.
Baking Soda Cookie is the Older Sister, having a 4 year age gap with her brother Caramel Choco Cookie.
Both have the ability to shift into dragons, and at sometime referred to as ‘The Yin and Yang Dragons’
Caramel Choco’s form is that of a black dragon with caramel streaks
Baking Soda is that of a White Dragon with Black Streaks
The Legend of how Caramel Choco cursed the village is actually fucked up a lot since the village is not only biased but also somewhat racist.
The legend passed down from the village on how Caramel Choco ended up cursing the village is that he grew jealous of his sister’s popularity that he ended up going mad and attacking the village in his dragon form, the two siblings had a fight and Baking Soda Cookie removed his powers from him, then the village burned him in order to seal his spirit for good, but Caramel Choco Cookie uttered the curse at the last moment, with him dead, they were unable to free the curse at all.
The REAL story however is that a few years after the founding of the village, The Founders decided to give away their leadership but live on as the village’s protectors, the village leader at the time fell in love with Baking Soda Cookie, however, she didn’t reciprocate her feelings to him, as retaliation he made a love potion so that she was in love with him, however the love potion had a side-effect, that Baking Soda would not love someone else, even platonically, she was still kind, but she would not love anyone else. When Caramel Choco found out, he was enraged and begun attacking the village in retaliation, due to the love potion’s influence, Baking Soda battled her brother and then the village killed him by burning him.
Baking Soda Cookie died of childbirth a few years later.
The story isn’t the only thing fucked up by biased, it was even their names, since due to the opposition of their personality (Caramel Choco had a blunt personality and was rather hard to get along with while Baking Soda was kind and sweet, both were the opposite of their ingredients) they thought that Caramel Choco was a bitter Cookie and Baking Soda Cookie was a Sweet Cookie.
The names changed as Caramel Choco was actually dubbed ‘The First Dark Cacao Cookie’ while Baking Soda was named ‘Vanilla Frosting Cookie’
(Maybe I shouldn’t have added the ‘Add’ feature for the transparency colors on IbisPaint)
These two are the main spirits of Ghosts of Our Pasts
Caramel Choco Cookie doesn’t have arms (Originally he was also going to have no legs, but I chose the arms instead) this is due to the circumstances of his death, which was burning.
Baking Soda Cookie had a very regal funeral, which is why she’s dressed the way she is (This is not the official design, I just can’t remember how I designed her because I drew it down a book and I left said book at home, why can’t I get the book once I get home? Because I’m staying at my cousin’s house currently-)
The love potion did not last in the afterlife.
Caramel Choco Cookie still persists even after Dark Cacao permanently removes the curse from himself. He’s the negative voice in Dark Cacao’s head that causes him to doubt himself.
Baking Soda Cookie is the one who guides him to get rid of the curse, albeit in her own manner, as she grew to become less interested in helping cookies anymore…
Baking Soda Cookie is also the one who crowned him king.
Caramel Choco Cookie doesn’t talk to Dark Choco, he’s permanently stuck to Dark Cacao.
The Dragons of the North and South are Caramel Choco’s Children
Dark Cacao Cookie
(Finally the main cookie himself)
Dark Cacao is roughly 13-14 in the flashbacks which is why he looks different from the Might of Heroes flashback. (It’s also the reason he has a soft spot for Gingerbrave, no plot armor here Gingerbrave, you have too much of that already)
Dark Cacao was the son of the Village Leader
That’s not good, cause he received ‘special’ treatment…in the form of abuse.
Dark Cacao was enslaved like everyone else, except since he’s the village leader’s son, he received more work than anyone, and often times got thrown in a cellar under the leader’s house.
Dark Cacao was named that way because he actually looked like Caramel Choco.
He had rough scars from being chained by the hands and feet for too long.
Dark Cacao was Chosen by the curse because he was actually the most bitterest Cookie in the village next to another cookie, Coffee Bean Cookie. The other reason is that he was hopeless and actually gave up hope that Bittersweet would ever change
Dark Cacao actually has a cracked face on the covered part of his eye, he still does to this day actually, but Baking Soda Cookie used a spell so that no one would be able to see it.
It was inflicted upon his father when he threw him too hard against a wall in the cellar.
Dark Cacao destroyed the village out of vengeance not like Dark Choco Cookie who was heavily under influence of the curse.
Dark Cacao has more control over his curse.
Dark Cacao is the creator of the Strawberry Jam Sword. It was an attempt to remove the curse from himself.
He cannot destroy the sword
Dark Cacao actually wandered far off where he met Pure Vanilla during his pilgrimage, Dark Cacao meets him again a few years later. Without his sword.
Dark Cacao actually finds his Soul Jam as an attempt to rid the curse. It worked, but only if he has the sword in hand
Dark Cacao has the ability to control the dragons of the North and South, they cannot deny him under any circumstance.
Dark Cacao actually battles the Dragons but does not show the ability to control him, lest he blow his cover as ‘The Legendary Hero of Bittersweet Village’
Dark Cacao doesn’t see himself as a hero, not even as an Ancient. Which is why he’s protective of the Ancient Heroes, he sees himself as an outsider and the rest are the true heroes.
Dark Cacao momentarily lives in caves, even as he is an Ancient Hero, he does this because Caramel Choco again, used to be able to become a dragon, and thus giving him the instinct to sleep in caves.
Dark Cacao got Dark Choco from the Sugar Swan (how? He asked how cookies were made without the need of another spouse and Sugar Swan sent him to Blueberry Yogurt Academy, then he asked White Lily to make him a son and specific ingredients) he actually wanted a sweet son, because he was afraid the curse was hereditary
Present Time
Dark Cacao’s crown is a protective seal given to him by Baking Soda Cookie. It allows him to not get affected by the curse
Dark Cacao figured out a way to permanently remove the curse from himself, however it was with the help of the Soul Jam, though he wonders if the curse was really removed or that he just sealed it away to the deepest darkest depths of his soul
Dark Cacao can lift the Strawberry Jam Sword without being affected by just simply wearing his crown.
Even if he didn’t have the crown, Dark Cacao would have better control over the curse than Dark Choco.
Dark Cacao’s eyes are a side-effect by the curse
Dark Cacao can still hear the voices.
Berserk Form is the Combination of Dark Cacao’s curse and the Soul Jam. Pomegranate just awakened it.
Despite having left behind the abuse, Dark Cacao will still freeze up every time his hands are cuffed.
Most traitors of the Dark Cacao Kingdom are exiled or killed, imprisonment is not an option. Due to Dark Cacao never speaking a word of his past trauma, anything that gives him flashbacks from his time at the village is banned from the Dark Cacao Kingdom.
Dark Cacao’s diet is actually a habit he gained from Bittersweet village as Bitter Cookies were not given any sweets at all. He doesn’t really exert so much of this rule to his subjects, the rule existed to actually save for the kingdom’s poverty at the time. (It’s still in poverty because trade routes to the Hollyberry Kingdom were closed due to the Licorice Sea and no one knows where the hell Golden Cheese is)
Dark Cacao still gets nightmares.
The curse
The Curse is actually a combination of two Curses: The Curse of a Thousand Voices and The Dragon’s Curse.
The Curse of a Thousand Voices is what Dark Choco experienced, a curse that speaks and controls you, the curse is actually the thousands of bitter cookies that have died in BitterSweet village, this only applies to those who were born in the village, since Dark Cacao destroyed it, no new spirits were made but the ones that remained are the angry souls of the dead.
Dark Cacao actually has a portion of this curse, but that is because of Caramel Choco, who just grabbed a bunch of spirits with him, they come in the form of self-doubt and self-loathing, which is why Dark Cacao is always in a state of ‘Flight or Fight’
The Curse of a Thousand Voices mostly consists of Angry Spirits, so far there is only one known voice that doesn’t hold a grudge on the village but remains with Dark Cacao, its the reason he hasn’t gone mad yet.
The Dragon’s Curse allows the user to Mind Control the Dragons of the North and South, it’s different from Dark Cacao’s usual control. His usual control is that of commands and they can’t deny it under any circumstances, however there are some they can deny, because of Caramel Choco.
The Dragon’s Curse allows full control over them and they cannot deny any command even to deny their father. This means that the Dragons could so easily be tamed if one were to control them as so. They can also be summoned at will without the need to hear a spirit’s call for help in order to be summoned.
No other cookie can actually be affected by the curse, which is why Dark Cacao though that even if the Sword was found, it wouldn’t affect anyone, unfortunately it affects anyone with ‘Bittersweet village DNA’ (or whatever is the equivalent to cookie DNA) and it was able to influence Dark Choco because of Dark Cacao’s genetic background to Bittersweet.
Dark Choco however, only scratched the surface on what the curse could do, as he was not a bitter cookie.
The curse can only show its true potential and power by the cookie being A.) Genetically related to anyone from Bittersweet Village B.) Being a bitter cookie, which is what Dark Cacao is.
The curse is only red because it was made with the hatred of Caramel Choco’s heart. Dark Choco having red eyes is genetic coincidence…
The Voices tell Dark Choco to kill his father because they see him abandoning them and making a son that’s sweet as betrayal.
Extra Abilities
-Lightning: Lightning was heavily used because Caramel Choco’s dragon form could control weather.
-Enhanced Physical Strength and Speed: One can be physically strong to bust down walls and fast enough to avoid enemy targets
-Spirit Attack: This is mostly a taunt tactic, it is usually used to scare cookies, it doesn’t do much.
-Shattering Quakes: The sword can actually break apart the earth if struck down had enough. Dark Cacao did this multiple time which is why he was able to ‘Shatter the Earth and Sky and Divide Night by Day’ in his legend of when he founded his kingdom.
-Healing Block: Getting hit by the curse actually makes it hard to heal the injured wound, you can still heal, but it’s agonizingly slow.
-Chain Creation: This actually drags a person down to hell. No legit.
-Jam Manipulation: Y’know Katara? Yeah imagine that but the Jam is on the Sword and he can turn it into a weapon.
-Fire Manipulation: This one was not used a lot, but he definitely had this.
Dark Choco Cookie
(His details might be small, so I won’t include the design, he still uses the cottage-core design he has.)
His chest scar was a reaction made by a watcher when he started attacking the Citadel. He did not flatter due to the sword’s influence
His scar caused by his eye was caused by himself, after running out of the Citadel, he fell off a cliff and ended up gauging his eye on a rock, that’s when Pomegranate found him
The scar on his eye didn’t heal because a bloody spirit placed a bit of the curse’s power on that eye, which is why Sovereign of Darkness has a gem on his eye. (So He’s legit missing an eye in this AU)
Dark Choco still has that bit of the curse to this day because he ain’t pullin’ out his eye.
That’s it, you can leave any questions later Imma sleep
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