Oh Yeah That Makes Sense, Especially Since James(?) Doesn't Have Natural Healing?? So It's Natural The

Oh yeah that makes sense, especially since James(?) doesn't have natural healing?? So it's natural the S-0 Gems would be cautious for him. I'm sure he appreciates it deep down.

But now that we KNOW this... any hurt/comfort moments where he actually got significantly hurt and scared the gems?

Figured I’d answer this one in a text/one-shot since I have zero idea what to draw for this ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (For reference, Larimar kinda flip flops around being called by his gem name or just Dan. Also I’m not that good at writing battles soooo…)

It was supposed to be just a simple mission. In and out, 20 minute adventure.

God forbid anything goes as planned.

But James knew he could handle it. He always has. He earned himself a few scratches and cuts already, but that never stopped him before. Why now?

James, Squid, and Dan embarked on a small mission to a colony-turned-(now abandoned-) rebel safehouse. Justin found what seemed to be an SOS signature in the area, and the three volunteered to go check if there were any gems still in one piece… or not corrupted. It was rare to see more than one gem going into a mission that menial, but none of them could agree on who would go, so they all went.

it turned out that signature was a faulty reading. There wasn’t a single live gem in the area, just shards and the corrupted.

speaking of the corrupted, the place was crawling with them. Combine that with the sharp, slimy, parasitic nuisances that are Crystal Shrimp, and before the squad knew it, they were surrounded.

“Stars, just HOW many Crystal Shrimp are crawling in this place!? I’m half convinced there’s a neat nearby,” Squid exclaimed, using water to slam a corrupted gem into a nearby wall.

“THAT’S what you’re worried about!?” Dan yelled as he poofed a few smaller ones, their gems clinking onto the ground like dropped jewelry. He took the time to bubble them and send them off before going to the next enemy.

“Yeah, like, they’re so small, how could these things hurt yo-AGH! GET OFF!” James scoffed before jumping back as a shrimp bit him in the ankle. He was so busy getting the swarm off of him and keeping them from chewing through his jacket, that once he got the last one off, he was painfully launched into a wall and pinned there by a large quartz monster. He was gonna feel that one in the morning.

“JAMES! Hang on, give me a second!” Larimar struggled while fighting his own beasts, but got an opening to fire a projectile of ice into the quartz’s leg. It simply shook it off as if it was just some dust bunny on its fur, but turned back to James and slashed his shoulder before trying to bite him. He held back the creature’s powerful jaws with his Destabilizer Rod.

“Nrrgh-! Bad gem! Bad gem!”

James kicked it back before getting on top of it and trying to wrangle it to stay still. It was a dumb idea but the only idea available. It thrashed him about as he desperately gripped on its thick hide.

“Guys!! A little help here!?”

Squid ran over and let his water tentacles get a firm grip on it, but not before the monster bucked James off and drove him into the ground. While squid attempted to hold it back, he motioned for Dan to check on James. “Are you alright?- Oh stars, you’re bleeding!” Dan freaked out in concern as he helped an extremely battered and bruised James to his feet.

“I- I’m fine… I’m good…” James mumbled in a half- daze.

“You’re clearly not. Just let us finish this off and you sit out.”

“What? No! You guys can’t take that thing on alone!”

“DAN’S RIGHT, JAMES! WE’VE GOT THIS UNDER CONT-“ Squid was cut off by being thrown to the side by the large quartz.

James huffed, but then picked up his staff and said, “screw it.”

“James, don’t you DARE-“ Dan tried to stop him, but James was already too close to the beast. He toughed through numerous slashes towards him and flanked the beast. He dug the operating end of his destabilizer rod into the hide of the beast, holding strong as he was thrashed around, until finally, it poofed.

Larimar and Squid immediately ran to James, and their gems nearly shut down when they saw he was bleeding, scratched everywhere, and wasn’t moving.

“James!? JAMES!? No no no, c’mon, wake up, buddy!” Squid said as he tried to shake him awake, but to no avail. Dan checked his pulse.

“He’s still alive, just unconscious.” Dan confirmed and both gems let out a sigh of relief, that is before that relief turned to annoyance.

“What the hell was he thinking!? He could’ve died!” Squid growled.

“We’ll talk to him about it later,” Larimar gently picked him up (bridal style, which is the way he subconsciously picks everyone up, but never associates it with love,) “For now, we take him back to base and let Taaffetite deal with him.”

“Yeah, Tiff’s always got the best stuff for humans and gems, I think she can handle him if he’s a mix. So who do you think she’s gonna be more mad at when we drag him back home, him or us? I’d say him.”

“Don’t bet on it.” Dan chuckled softly.

Wait, unless that was just for the sake of the comic, why is Dan trying to use Diamond powers in his Larimar form? Like, it makes sense on a tactical standpoint, but surely having and using Diamond powers would make at least one or many members of the group go "Ok, now that can't be normal, right?"

He thinks they would be convenient to have. Bro wasn’t used to feeling relatively weaker at the start and not being able to do things like that. It was more of just a habitual tendency or just wanting to feel some sort of power again in the moment, and if he ever tried to use them he would do it while he was alone. He sometimes (rarely, because he’s rarely ever truly mad,) used trying to do his diamond tricks in his Larimar form to let off steam.

…He eventually got out of that habit.

Short answer: lil bro was peeved that he got hella nerfed at the start and was NOT vibing with it

Oh look, just as fast and dirty as any other April 1st gag bit. Matt, Staff, Automattic, etc, FIX YOUR HEARTS. And do some work on the real problem on here.

The mention of Chryscolla having a humanish system got me thinking... Do the rest of the group ever worry about James since he's half human?

His human half means he has things like bones that can break, and he won't just poof like the others if he's badly injured.

That combined with the fact that he can't breathe underwater plus them potentially needing to be somewhere in the middle of the ocean that can flood, that could be a recipe for disaster if they're not careful.

Yeah. The team focuses on their main objective on most missions, but since James is arguably the most physically vulnerable, keeping him relatively unharmed is like a subconscious priority. (Emphasis on relatively. It’s not like he’s not allowed to get bruises and cuts here and there.) I just drew this comic because the image came into my head as soon as I saw the ask and I went for it because it’s funny.

The mere second I saw this string I had to, you’re like my favorite cookie run artist ever dawg @cosmicwhoreo

oooooooo caviarrrrr you wanna eat this whole cake so badly oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[yes i drew this whole ass cake. let my wife eat]

It's bad enough his diet has been nothing but meat and alcohol for the past 30 years. But then his dumbass went and downed a whole ass chocolate cake- He gonna be feeling the effects sooner rather than later is what I'm sayinnn

Nautical Cookie Run Kingdom oc: Flying Fish Cookie 🐟🫧🪽

Not shady oaks SMP related like usual but I saw a bunch of people making Ocean/pirate based CRK OCs so uhh *Throws them at you like a paper airplane and runs*

@cosmicwhoreo @rawdough @80bitesofsweets y’all were a huge inspiration for this and I love your CRK art SO MUCH AUGH