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   Chiaroscuro by Cinnamoncandyy

   Fandoms: Cookie Run (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Pure Vanilla Cookie/Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Black Raisin Cookie & Pure Vanilla Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Shadow Milk Cookie & White Lily Cookie | Saint Lily Cookie
   • Black Sapphire Cookie & Candy Apple Cookie & Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Black Raisin Cookie & Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Pure Vanilla Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Black Raisin Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Candy Apple Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Black Sapphire Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Ancient Heroes (Cookie Run)
   • Clotted Cream Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Partially Blind Pure Vanilla Cookie (Cookie Run)
   • Shadow Milk Cookie Redemption (Cookie Run)
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Dissociative Identity Disorder
   • The cast for this is actually rather large but I don't want to write a paragraph of tags
   • Cookie Run Characters Are Ambiguously Cookies or Human
   • Pure Vanilla Cookie Needs a Hug (Cookie Run)
   • probably not canon compliant because the timeline CONFUSES me but I promise I am doing my best
   • PolyAncients if you SQUINT
   • Sort of a mix of KR and EN characterization here
   • Dialogue Heavy

   Summary

   "In art, chiaroscuro (...) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition." (Wikipedia).

   How long can a lie remain a lie before it becomes a justification to linger? For how long can one lie about motivations before the lie becomes their truth?

   Shadow Milk Cookie makes good on his threat that Pure Vanilla Cookie's kindness will be his undoing. He arrives in the Vanilla kingdom asking for help, lying that his followers have turned on him and his magic is gone. This lie wraps him up in itself until he is completely enmeshed, unable to tell where the lie ends, and where his true motivations begin. That lie becomes an excuse to linger.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Chiaroscuro

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   116,298

   Chapters:

   19/19

   Comments:

   349

   Kudos:

   499

   Bookmarks:

   98

   Hits:

   13,034

   Bookmarked by fourtunate_soul

   27 Jul 2025

   Bookmarker's Tags:

   • Cookie Run Kingdom
   • Pure Vanilla Cookie/Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)

   Bookmarker's Notes

   PEAK OMG THEY ARE IN LOVEEEEE AWAKENED SHADOW MILK OMG