Licorice Cookie (Korean: 감초맛 쿠키, gam-cho-mat kuki) is a major antagonist of Cookie Run: Kingdom and an Epic Cookie available since launch. He is of the Magic type and his position is prioritized to the Middle.
He appears as an antagonist in much of World Exploration and plays a supporting role in the Dark Mode storyline.
His Pet and companion is Bat-Cat, who always accompanies him in his grand schemes. Schwarzwälder is another cohort of his, usually appearing as Licorice Cookie's underling.
Description[]
With a great portion of the blackest licorice extract in his dough and a grim-looking scythe, this Cookie is up to no good. From a young age, Licorice Cookie dreamed of becoming a wizard but never received the recognition he so rightfully deserved. Eventually, he turned to the forbidden arts of Black Magic. With time, Licorice Cookie assembled a small army of Chewy Licorice Servants raised to do his bidding. On his dark path, he met Dark Enchantress Cookie. The might of the sorceress astonished Licorice Cookie, and it didn't take long before he swore his allegiance. Now, the Cookie is working flat out to earn his new mistress's favor. And it seems like Dark Enchantress Cookie is not easily pleased, as Licorice Cookie's diary filled with everyday rants and complaints could fill up a library.
Appearance[]
Licorice Cookie is a sickly-thin Cookie of average height and ashen dough. He has pale yellow eyes lined in chocolate, taking a mischievous and crooked expression. His hair, taking defined, globule strands of deep indigo, shrouds his right eye while the rest is hidden in a hood.
The necromancer wears a oversized and threadbare slate grey cloak with wide stitched bell sleeves, a shady cowl ending in a point, and a length of violet twine tied around his waistline. His neck is wrapped by a string of sugar skulls and he carries a grim scythe of bones and swirled licorice.
Licorice Cookie's appearance is similar to that of the Grim Reaper, the anthropomorphic personification of death, sharing with it a dark cloak, an oversized sickle, and an overall gloomy aura.
Personality[]
Long before swearing alliance with Dark Enchantress Cookie, Licorice Cookie was once a diligent aspiring wizard from the Licorice Village. However, his lack of recognition for his talents despite working for ages led to the unholy road of Black Magic. Licorice Cookie is a loyal servant of Dark Enchantress Cookie, even though he often complains about his plans' failures and Pomegranate Cookie.
Considering with the current information revealed of him, Licorice Cookie seems to be presented as arrogant, yet his ego seems to be fairly fragile despite it being quite large. He seems to have a massive admiration towards Dark Enchantress Cookie, due to his quotes towards her seeming all positive, proving he thinks quite highly of her. As well as this, he seems to try and and exaggerate with his boasts about himself, but his large amount of ego always seems to be easily knocked down by others, leaving him somewhat unsettled, or just make him a mess, emotion wise.
As implied in Chapter 13, his past was not certainly the best due to the fact of how he claimed the Licorice Tribe was "A shabby town to begin with," now left completely in ruins. To add onto this, he had always had a lack of recognition as he was always never taken seriously, which had obviously affected him a lot due to the way he acts now, with his little egotistical facade. However, since not much is revealed about his past, it is quite hard to say if there were any other causes that may have encouraged him to act like this.
As mentioned earlier, Licorice tends to complain about his failures and Pomegranate Cookie. It is quite obvious that Licorice has obtained some sort of heavy hatred towards her, as the reason usually portrayed is because Pomegranate tends to outshine him in multiple occasions, letting her get the recognition from Dark Enchantress Cookie. It is safe to assume his hatred towards Pomegranate is linked with jealousy, as he always strives for recognition from Dark Enchantress Cookie, only for Pomegranate to intervene.
During his time in the Licorice Tribe, he has seemed to gain some smaller abilities such as sewing. This can be confirmed from an image from the official Cookie Run: Kingdom account, where the image contains Licorice sewing Choco Werehound Princess (Schwarzwälder)'s outfit. From this, we can infer that Licorice has learned skills such as sewing, assuming as a way to support himself during his not-so-easy past.