Overview |
White Pearl Cookie.
Embrace the silence of the abyss!
Black Pearl Cookie (Korean: 블랙펄 쿠키, bullaekpeol kuki) is a Legendary Cookie released alongside 
Captain Caviar Cookie in the Legend of the Duskgloom Sea update (v3.6). She is of the 
Ambush type and her position is prioritized to the 
Middle.
Formerly known as White Pearl Cookie, Black Pearl Cookie is the vicious sovereign of the Duskgloom Sea, impartially dragging countless vessels down into the abyss for her own enjoyment. She sits atop a foul throne of sunken wreckage and silently seethes over both the destructive nature of Land Cookies towards the sea and the long-ago betrayal of a Cookie once dear to her.
Black Pearl Cookie is the youngest sister of the Gem Mermaids: 
Crimson Coral Cookie, 
Aquamarine Cookie, 
Gold Citrine Cookie, and 
Mystic Opal Cookie. She was once attended to by 
Frilled Jellyfish Cookie before becoming her current self.
Game Description[]
"There is something out there, hiding amidst the thick fog. Something ominous, capable of swirling all-consuming whirlpools and raising gigantic waves on a whim... The tale of Duskgloom Sea is true, you see, and its dark waters will reach every grain of sugar in your dough and silence your last scream..." It will be wise to avoid these treacherous waves—for their ruler can toss and wreck even the mightiest of ships as if they were mere toys. It is said that kind-hearted mermaids once served as the ocean's caregivers and protectors, but here in the Duskgloom Sea, you will find only dark grudge(sic). Nobody knows the reason behind Black Pearl Cookie's century-old wrath, but with her on the underwater throne of wreckage, the Duskgloom Sea has gained its notoriety as the abyssal graveyard. She does not seek affection nor understanding, but then what is it that Black Pearl Cookie is looking for? What can pacify her cries of desperation?
Soulstone Description[]
Rainbow Shell Gallery & 
Guild Medal Shop.
Skill[]
Duskgloom's Sovereign
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Lightning
Whirlpool
 Terror of the Abyss
Lightning
Whirlpool
Terror of the Abyss
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Gameplay Notes | |
Healing Down cannot be dispelled.
Crystal Jam Skill[]
Duskgloom Hatred
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Rally Effect
Predator of the Abyss
At +10
At +20
At +30
★1A Effect
★2A Effect
★3A Effect
★4A Effect
★5A Effect
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Gameplay Notes | |
- Black Pearl Cookie has a Hatred gauge that fills up by 1 stack for every second she is alive. When the gauge is full, her skill becomes enhanced.
- Starts the battle with the enhanced skill.
- Water Cage pauses the target's Cooldown for the duration.
- Lividness cannot be dispelled.
Changelog[]
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Appearance[]
In her standard Cookie size, Black Pearl Cookie is an average-height and thin-yet-curvy mer-Cookie, though she scales up to be multiple stories tall in her true form. The mermaid has sickly light grey-blue dough and inky, full eyelashes with matching reflective eyeshadow. Her pupils are menacing black slits and her eye color is a powder blue. She wears a sadistic white smile and is usually seen putting her hand coyly near her mouth. As a sea-dweller, she has ear-like slate blue fins on either side of her head, being webbed with three points each. Black Pearl Cookie's hair is a pearly white and takes a curly style that resembles sea foam. She has middle-parted bangs which curl upwards and reveal the caliginous pearl on her forehead. Instead of legs, she has a glittering fish tail in an onyx and stone blue gradient.
The Duskgloom Sovereign's torso sports an obsidian, skintight bustier with a large, white scallop shell at her chest. On her arms are black opera gloves with off-shooting bat wing embellishments, and about her hips sits a tulle pannier skirt that shines in the light and resembles the bell of a jellyfish. Being the ruler of her domain, she wears a webbed black crown atop of her head with five sharp spikes.
Black Pearl Cookie's main implement is a vicious Aegean-blue trident. One of its prongs extends and curves upwards like a fish hook, and it is fashioned with gleaming obsidian insets on its face and the end of its shaft.
Personality[]
Before she became the monster she is now, Black Pearl Cookie once was a kind Gem Mermaid under the name of White Pearl Cookie who harbored insecurities over her lack of special powers compared to her sisters. Still, it didn’t stop her from doing the right thing as she saved the life of Lord Oyster, the young heir of House Oyster, and entrusted him with her pearl to protect him.
White Pearl Cookie conceding to her rage
When she saw how Land Cookies attacked her home, how Lord Oyster sold her pearl after she had given it to him for safekeeping (despite his efforts to get it back), and the apparent death of her closest friend and servant to the Gem Mermaids, Frilled Jellyfish Cookie, she was both devastated and hurt to the point that she transformed into something monstrous. She vowed to obliterate anyone or anything that would prevent her from achieving her desire of solitude in a sea where she could hear nothing but the currents, without any ship to disturb her. What was once her kindness and innocence was twisted into wrath and hatred for all the Cookies who dwelt on land.
Age Notes[]
Black Pearl Cookie's age is not confirmed. However, the following details relate to her age and can be used to draw inferences on how old she may be.
- Black Pearl Cookie has not aged between her White Pearl Cookie appearance in A Mermaid's Tale and said Story's present-day epilogue.
- Black Pearl Cookie refers to Sorbet Shark Cookie as a "child,"[1] implying that she is not one herself.
Character Inspiration[]
Black Pearl Cookie bears resemblance to the sirens of Greek mythology. While sirens have been depicted in numerous ways, they are most widely known as mermaids capable of luring sailors to their deaths with their voice and songs similar to Black Pearl Cookie's tactics of mimicking a helpless Cookie to lure her prey. She also bears some resemblance to Umibōzu, a yōkai from Japanese folklore that takes the form of a giant black humanoid whose appearance at sea turns a calm ocean into a furious shipwrecking storm.
Black Pearl Cookie may also draw inspiration from Ursula the sea witch from Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989). In the Legend of the Duskgloom Sea Story, Black Pearl Cookie mentions a "silly, naïve child who wanted to become a Cookie," referring to 
Sorbet Shark Cookie and implying that she is responsible for their ability to transform. In the film, Ursula gives Ariel a pair of legs in exchange for her voice, similarly to how Sorbet Shark Cookie is unable to speak coherently while in Cookie form. Her spontaneous extreme growth as a result of her transformation and rage is similar to Ursula doing the same with the power of Triton's trident.
Black Pearl Cookie's name may be inspired by the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's titular ship, the Black Pearl. Remnants of the Black Pearl are cursed to be undead, possibly alluding to 
Candy Diver Cookie's appearance. Furthermore, Black Pearl Cookie's powers seem to be based on Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, who is also able to upsize their appearance as well as summon maelstroms and lightning.
As a whole, the rumors of curses and ghosts surrounding the Duskgloom Sea may be a reference to the urban legend of the Bermuda Triangle, where numerous ships and planes are thought to have vanished out at sea.
Trivia[]
Black Pearl Cookie's loading screen featuring the Silent, Captain Caviar Cookie's temporary ship
- Black Pearl Cookie is the second Legendary Cookie made exclusively for Cookie Run: Kingdom, the first being Frost Queen Cookie.
- According to her loading screen trivia, "Old sailors say that when a mermaid loses her pearl, she will be cursed to descend into the lightless abyss." Another loading screen active during the Legend of the Duskgloom Sea update (v3.6) states, "Be cautious navigating the Duskgloom Sea: these treacherous depths are more than eager to lure another careless captain..."
- Black Pearl Cookie's Appearing Cookies section in A Mermaid's Tale reads as such:
- Consumed by wrath and hatred, she no longer remembers her dreams and wishes from when she was young.
- The Duskgloom Sea became part of Black Pearl Cookie the moment she consumed the Sea Fairy Tear.
- Black Pearl Cookie is all alone in the Duskgloom Sea, but she has never felt lonely, for she feels her power surging within.
- It would seem like Black Pearl Cookie has lost her family, her pearl, and her love, but perhaps the Sea knows something we don't know.
- She sometimes finds herself talking to the Sea during the lunar eclipse, but she has never been answered.
- In her lobby, Black Pearl Cookie will very occasionally suddenly swim into a Cookie-width black whirlpool appearing on the floor below her, making her disappear from the screen. The water out the window turns darker, nearly black, then, her gargantuan "true form" bolts across just outside the window, completely obfuscating anything previously seen outside as she swiftly swims past in a fraction of a second, with only part of her body able to be seen at any one moment. As the water outside turns back to normal, she returns from the black whirlpool as her normal self, settling and resuming her idle animation.
- This is the first instance of a Cookie having a special animation on the Cookie info screen other than their touch animation.
- This, however, is not available in any of her Legendary Costumes.
- Black Pearl Cookie is currently the only Legendary Cookie to not be considered one of the Elemental Cookies. Consequently, she does not appear as one of the guardians in the Wind, Vanquisher of Darkness Story.
- Black Pearl Cookie was the first Legendary Cookie to not release alongside a Cookie Decor of her own. Her Cookie Decor, Phantom of the Depths, released over two months after her initial addition in the second part of the Braver Together update (v3.9).
- Black Pearl Cookie has the most Legendary Costumes at 3. However, those are also her only costumes if her Mystic Sovereign of the Abyss is excluded.
- It implied in The Legend of the Duskgloom Sea Story that Black Pearl Cookie is responsible for giving Sorbet Shark Cookie their Cookie form.[1] This was later confirmed in her Cookie Interaction with Sorbet Shark Cookie, where she references taking their voice in exchange for them being able to live on land.
- Black Pearl Cookie is the only Cookie so far to reach the top 3 in two different Cookie of the Year polls.
- Occasionally, Black Pearl Cookie and The Legend of the Duskgloom Sea update itself are referred to as "bingo" in the game's files.
- Black Pearl Cookie's English voice actress, Erica Mendez, also provides the voice of White Lily Cookie.
- This is the third instance of two playable Cookies sharing an English voice actor, the first being Pastry Cookie and Tails Cookie, who are both played by Colleen O'Shaughnessey, and the second being Mint Choco Cookie and Eclair Cookie, who are both played by Zeno Robinson.
- This is the third instance of two playable Cookies sharing an English voice actor, the first being
- Black Pearl Cookie's Taiwanese voice actress, Long Xianhui, also provides the voice of Mala Sauce Cookie.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Legend of the Duskgloom Sea, Black Pearl Throne: "To be frank, you're the first one to come here ever since that silly, naïve child who wanted to become a Cookie."
