Sure Has Been A While Hasn't It

Sure has been a while hasn't it

Featuring

A girl who refuses to lose anyone she cares about

Saving someone who desperately needed it

Odd...

This wasn't supposed to happen

Pumpkin pie aggressively tells wizard they're gonna be besties

Pretty much

Oh would you look at that I figured out how to get my notebook drawings on Krita and color them

Anyways, here's a quick simple and not that impressive drawing of Wizard Cookie for the AU

Would this just be him before the incident?

Also as far as I'm aware there's not a Cookie Reapers AU (by name) so I'll call this AU by that for now!

The comic creator takes no time at all, huh...

Random AU scenes, featuring:

- Madeline worrying about his neighbor

- "How adorable!"

- geez how many people are gonna parent Wizard now

- Adventurer Cookie and the Dangerous House

- f o r g e t i t

- Get out.

- Classmate Rumors

- Strange kid.

hey look its the one who got me in this fandom--ahem

Not sure if he'll be too important plot wise but

this is Xander Mobus--I mean Bartender Boy

- what do you mean I can't have a day shift

- concern for the grape juice addict

- hey look its Professo Espresso

- friends

- Hoo Hoo Man sus

- Awwww

- adoptive family problems

- can't remember

(from submission)

So I was thinking about Espresso in your au and I have compiled the evidence that leads me to believe Espresso was a reaper in the past or had connections with the reapers at one point, and wanted to share! (sorry for shitty formatting, I’m on mobile.)

First off, Licorice and Espresso’s relationship.

They used to be friends at one point, as stated in one of the recent posts about the au. But in the very first post, there is apparently some sort of process or instructions on what to do in the case of someone who isn’t ready to die accidentally encountering a reaper. Assuming that the process involves making the person who sees the reaper forget that person entirely, it wouldn’t make sense for Espresso to remember Licorice.

So why their relationship?

I’m not sure how the reapers function in this au, but I have two theories.

1. Reapers are the souls of the ones who never had a good life, and then in the afterlife are given the chance to become reapers to help the scared souls find their way into heaven. With this theory Espresso and Licorice might have been childhood friends who passed away and were reborn as reapers, but Espresso ran away later on.

2. People are naturally born as reapers, and Espresso and Licorice grew up and became reapers, only for Espresso to decide he didn’t want to be a reaper any longer and fled, posing as a mortal somewhere where he thought the reapers wouldn’t look for him.

Espresso seems to be familiar with the reaper world as well, with Espresso being frightened by the same throne room we saw Pomegranate and Dark Enchantress talking in, and being in the Soul Crystal cave. He also mentioned multiple Hells in a more recent post (though it may just be Espresso exclaiming and not mean anything plot specific.).

He also has connections with other people who may be reapers, such as Red Velvet, which is oddly suspicious. However it doesn’t seem he has ill intentions, as he genuinely cares for his students.

That’s all I have to say. Sorry for rambling!