Red Velvet Cookie X Licorice Cookie

Red velvet and licorice cookie? That's such an oddly specific 'Cookie Run' request, but I get it. Honestly, your absolute mainstay is gonna be AO3. The tagging system is just built for this; you can filter for the exact ship and the 'Cookie Run' fandom. Wattpad has a ton of stories too, but the quality can be really hit-or-miss and finding them is a chore without proper tags. I've seen a few surprisingly heartfelt ones there, buried under a mountain of unrelated stuff. Sometimes I think Tumblr has more meta and headcanon posts than full stories, but you can find amazing threads and drabbles if you know which blogs to follow. DeviantArt is a bit of a ghost town for newer fandom content these days, though some older artists might have story comics. Twitter used to have threads, but that's harder to navigate now.

For discovery, AO3 is your best bet by a mile. Sort by kudos or bookmarks to find the good stuff. Some authors cross-post to Tumblr or Carrd sites, so always check their profiles.

which is surprisingly tricky given 'Cookie Run: Kingdom' has such a huge fandom presence.

Most of the well-known, multi-chapter stories tend to pop up on Archive of Our Own. The tagging system there is a lifesaver, letting you filter for 'Red Velvet Cookie/Licorice Cookie' and sort by kudos or comments. There's this one author, SyrupyScribe, who writes these fantastic slow-burn political AU things that feel completely in-character.

You also can't ignore Tumblr, honestly. It's less of a formal archive and more of a sprawling network. People will post snippets, headcanons, and short one-shots directly, or link out to their AO3 posts. The real-time interaction is where you find the WIPs and the super niche AUs that haven't gained massive traction yet.

Wattpad has a different vibe entirely—lots of reader-insert stuff and shorter, more trope-heavy stories mixed in. I found a pretty fun coffee shop AU there, but you have to wade through a lot of unrelated Cookie Run content to find the specific ship. It's a bit of a dig.

Honestly, my biggest tip is to not rely on just one. I bookmark my favorites on AO3, follow specific writers on Tumblr, and occasionally check the ship tag on Wattpad when I'm feeling particularly patient. The best stuff gets cross-posted, but sometimes you stumble on a gem that's only in one place.

So, I've been thinking about this pairing lately, and it's such a weirdly compelling dynamic. Red Velvet is the reformed villain, right? He's trying to be this noble knight now, but that darkness is still there under the surface. Licorice is all-in on the evil magic, fully embraced it. I think the trope that fits them best is 'Redemption Through Love,' but with a twist—it's less about Licorice redeeming Red Velvet and more about Red Velvet's 'goodness' becoming a strange anchor for Licorice. The tension is whether Red Velvet's influence softens Licorice's edges, or if Licorice's cynicism and dark magic start to pull Red Velvet back toward his old, easier paths. You could spin it as a 'Forced Proximity' thing, maybe they get stuck on a mission together, or a 'Reluctant Allies' setup. The real meat is in the character conflict, not just fluffy romance.

Honestly, I'm less interested in pure fluff for them. A 'Mutual Pining' where they both think the other despises them could work, given their opposing sides. Licorice might see Red Velvet's chivalry as a judgment on his own life choices, while Red Velvet could interpret Licorice's snark as genuine contempt. The resolution has to be messy. Maybe a 'Hurt/Comfort' scenario where one is actually vulnerable, breaking down those defensive walls. The potential for angst is honestly through the roof, and I'm here for it.

I usually find shipping characters from 'Cookie Run' pretty amusing, but this one always strikes me as an interesting choice because it's less about sweetness and more about a genuine clash of systems. Red Velvet is a stern, rule-abiding knight commander from the Red Velvet Kingdom, while Licorice is this chaotic, resentful necromancer obsessed with dark magic and overthrowing the order Red Velvet represents. Their dynamic isn't just 'opposites attract' in a cute way; it's about fundamental worldview conflict. Red Velvet stands for duty, honor, and protecting a certain structure, even if it's flawed. Licorice actively wants to burn that structure down because he feels it rejected and hurt him.

That tension creates a space where fanfiction can dig into some really compelling themes. I've seen fics explore the idea of Red Velvet trying to 'rehabilitate' Licorice, which becomes a messy power struggle about who's actually corrupting whom. Other stories flip it, with Licorice trying to tempt Red Velvet away from his rigid path, asking if his loyalty is truly virtue or just fear. The appeal isn't in them smoothing over their differences, but in the friction itself—the harsh debates, the moments of unexpected understanding amidst the hostility. It’s a ship built on ideological battlegrounds, not shared hobbies.

Honestly, the best fics I've read don't even end with them together in a romantic sense. They just leave them in this unresolved, charged stalemate, which feels truer to their characters than any forced reconciliation.

Red velvet and licorice are two of those characters that, on the surface, seem built for direct opposition. But the fanfiction I've seen digs into that and usually pushes it way past simple antagonism. It's rarely just a fistfight or a shouting match. The rivalry becomes a framework for this intense, almost obsessive mutual focus. They're the only ones who truly understand the other's level of dedication, even if their goals are opposed. That shared understanding is the core of most fics.

A common thread is using the rivalry as a vehicle for forced proximity tropes. Captor/captive scenarios are huge, for instance, where one of them has to keep the other imprisoned. All that time spent in close quarters, trying to outwit each other, inevitably bleeds into something else—a grudging respect, or more often, a very charged and complicated attraction. The power dynamics are everything.

I think the appeal lies in that tension between their canon roles—one a redeemed former follower of dark enchantress, the other a loyal servant—and the fanon desire to see what happens when those rigid lines blur. Does Red Velvet's internal conflict about his past make him see something of himself in Licorice's unwavering loyalty? Does Licorice's frustration with his own perceived weakness turn into a twisted admiration for Red Velvet's strength? The fics that explore those questions, where the rivalry is less about defeating the other and more about dissecting them, are the ones that stick with me. They often end up in a messy, morally grey place that the main game story doesn't have time for, which is exactly what I look for in fanworks.

Red velvet and licorice? That's a pairing I always thought would be better as friends, but some writers have convinced me otherwise. The contrasting aesthetics are obvious—gothic elegance versus chaotic punk—but the real appeal in good fics is their parallel outsider status. Red Velvet is shunned for his creation, Licorice for his necromancy. Fics that dig into that shared loneliness, maybe where they're the only two who don't judge each other's 'monstrous' sides, hit hardest.

I stumbled on one where they ran away together and opened a cursed pastry shop, and the domesticity mixed with dark magic was weirdly sweet. Avoid the ones where it's just 'enemies to lovers' for the sake of it; their conflict needs more nuance than simple dislike. The best pairing for them isn't always romantic—some of my favorite stories are gen fics where they form a grudging, pragmatic alliance that slowly becomes genuine respect.