Extra: Daily Food Snooping - Cobalt Empire Edition (Patreon)

We are back to snooping! We're sharing little details about characters for those who are interested in learning more about them. This time, we're peeking at what each of the Cobalt siblings and their current love interests typically eat. It's all about their food preferences!

💙 COBALT SIBLINGS 💙

From oldest to youngest, here we go:

💙 Jane Eleanor Cobalt:

She is notoriously a bad cook. Thank goodness she married a great cook! (Shoutout to Thatcher Moretti). She's posted videos of burning French Toast on Instagram.

Favorite Snacks: chocolate turtles! She also loves pretzels.

She loves lemonade packets and sweetening her water with them.

Jane most often eats a quick breakfast with a couple cups of coffee. Quick breakfasts: an English muffin with strawberry jam, toast, croissant, etc. For lunch, she'd do something easy like tuna salad, and then for dinner, she's eating whatever Thatcher makes. He's known for whipping up an amazing chicken parm.

💙 Charlie Keating Cobalt:

He will tell you he doesn't have one specific all-time fav food, but he does gravitate toward a favorite dish in every cuisine. If his book doesn't mention some of his favorites, we will return here to add these details for you.

Favorite Snacks: Charlie actually loves a good nut, as strange as that may seem. He likes snacking on nut mixtures: pecans, cashews, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, almonds, peanuts, walnuts, etc. (Read MLB x Fizzle Collab to dive deeper into the lore.)

He wouldn't consider himself the "foodie" out of his siblings. He can go on cigarettes and coffee for a full day without caring about eating.

If he takes the time, he loves drinking fresh-squeezed orange juice for breakfast. A typical fuller breakfast for Charlie would include eggs-over-medium, sourdough toast, and pork sausage link. Say he's not on a plane, then he'd go out for a midday meal, which will depend on the restaurant or cafe he goes to. Same for dinner!

Charlie tends to steer away from greasy foods. He will eat pizza, but not much of it if it's a greasier slice. He will stay away from burgers at Duke's on 10th and go for less greasy options on the menu. (Read Charlie and the Escape Room Aftermath to dive deeper into the lore.)

💙 Beckett Joyce Cobalt:

One of the "foodies" of the Cobalt Empire! He loves some good food. He will stand by the fact that New York has some of the best cuisine anywhere.

Favorite Snack: Fries! He absolutely hates having greasy fingers, but he's willing to get a little messy for the food he loves. (Read Grilled at Duke's on 10th to dive deeper into the lore.)

He's also known to carry different dips on him. He sometimes has ketchup and mustard packets at hand.

His habits are strictly related to burning so many calories at the ballet + being incredibly busy at work. So this is his typical ballet day:

Breakfast: To fuel up, he'll eat a hearty high-protein breakfast: four sunny side up eggs, avocado, turkey sausage, a slice of sourdough. He'll sometimes have Greek yogurt, berries, and a bagel. If he's in a hurry, he'll eat a protein shake.

Mid-Morning Snack (between rehearsals): protein bar or banana.

Lunch: Gourmet sandwich. He opts for chicken or salmon. He doesn't like eating the exact same lunch every day, so there'll be variations of his sandwiches. Some toppings he likes: fontina cheese, arugula, caramelized onions, Dijon mustard, fig spread.

Pre-Performance Snack: Electrolyte drink, another banana, granola bar, protein bar. Something lighter before the actual performance. This is when he'll avoid fatty foods or huge meals.

Dinner (after performance): He's going out to a nice restaurant and eating a good meal. He loves many types of food, so he's not strictly going for a burger every night.

Late-Night Snack: Dark chocolate covered blueberries.

Beckett eats whenever he can, as his schedule is so packed, so the times where he's between dancing, he's going to try to fuel up. So he actually eats quite a lot during a day similar to endurance athletes, and being a foodie, he's not choosing bland things.

💙 Eliot Alice Cobalt:

Another "foodie" of the Cobalt Empire! The main difference between Eliot and Beckett is that Eliot is actually a very clean eater. He will not go for any greasy options.

Favorite Snack: oysters! They're also his favorite food.

Eliot loves seafood, and you'll see him gravitate toward fish options on menus of places that do fish well. (Duke's on 10th is not one of those places.)

For breakfast, Eliot is going for smoked salmon options. He's also a lover of a salad. You will often see him ordering salads for lunch or dinner. He absolutely can't stand hot dogs and a lot of processed foods. In this case, he's more of a food snob. But he'd still eat a Hot Pocket for Luna if she wanted to share one.

He's the best cook of all his siblings! He can whip up some gourmet meals and things like a French omelet. So Eliot is often eating chef-quality meals, and he tries to extend that to his siblings if they want him to cook and not get something to-go.

💙 Tom Carraway Cobalt:

He's eating a lot more high-fiber foods. You'll see him opt for black bean burgers rather than beef burgers.

He's also the biggest energy drink drinker of the Cobalt Empire! He's someone who will be caught with a Lightning Bolt! in hand.

Favorite Snack: peanut butter! He's the peanut butter lover, and not just snacks containing peanut butter. He loves that jar of SKIPPY. But he will also swap to a healthier nut butter too.

Tom really balances between eating healthy and indulging in more junk foods. That said, there've been times where he's so focused on his music that he's forgotten to eat. He can sustain himself on a bag of pretzels, water, and energy drinks.

For breakfast, he would opt for sweeter options like waffles. Then he'd do a quick lunch (maybe just his jar of peanut butter), and then dinner would be something more substantial if he remembers to eat. Thankfully Eliot is his closest brother, so at times, he's just either eating with Eliot out in NYC or eating what Eliot made for dinner. (This is pre-Silver Sweet before Phoenix comes into the picture.)

💙 Ben Pirrip Cobalt:

The vegan! Ben has a longer list of things he wouldn't eat than his siblings.

Favorite Snack: vegan pizza bites! You could probably guess this, but this is definitely Ben's go-to food when he's craving a quick snack. He loves those vegan pizza bites.

For breakfast, he loves smoothies. Like an almond butter banana smoothie! He will typically put some protein powder in them if they're not already packed with protein. He does not eat protein powder that contains egg whites or collagen. He also loves overnight oats!

Lunch, he's eating a lot of veggie wraps, grain bowls, and shakes. Ben either makes these in advance or buys them and stores them in his fridge, and then takes them to school.

When he grabs things from on-campus dining, he'll gravitate toward fruit or making his own salad with chickpeas. He's a little more careful since not every dining hall has great vegan options.

Dinner, he does a lot of oven-baked or microwaved vegan-friendly meals since he's not much of a cook. He also loves some corn chips and guacamole (which Harriet knows this well 🥹 see Chapter 53 of Burn Bright).

💙 Audrey Virginia Cobalt:

Our resident baker! She's the best baker of all her siblings, without a doubt.

As she's gotten older, she's becoming a bit of a foodie in the footsteps of her foodie brothers: Beckett and Eliot. So you will see her be on different "food" kicks as she tries new things and gravitates towards new foods.

Favorite Snack: She's been loving charcuterie lately, so adult lunchables are basically Audrey's jam right now. Artisanal crackers with slices of cheese and meats.

You will find out her exact go-to breakfast in Loathed Love, and it's too pertinent to the narrative for us to spoil here. For lunch/dinner, Audrey finds sushi as a classic staple. It's something her parents have always loved, so Audrey has grown up eating sushi quite frequently.

More of her food habits are shared in Loathed Love.

🦁 COBALT LOVE INTERESTS 🦁

So far, post-Burn Bright:

🦁 Harriet Stevie Fisher:

She's a junk foodie. On this account, she has more of a "Hale" family appetite and has lived off of microwaved meals. The difference between her and the Hales, however, is her mom would buy off-brand things a lot more and they were just...not the same.

She grew up eating microwaved pork roast and burnt gravy for the holidays. As she left home as a teenager, Harriet survived on Wendy's for a while there. She would typically just go for fast-food, as she didn't have a kitchen.

Favorite Snack: Jolly Ranchers! Harriet loves a lot of different hard candies, but the Jolly Ranchers are her absolute favorites. They curb appetite and help relax her a little.

Meals in college would consist of boxed mac 'n cheese and sandwiches for dinner. Including tuna sandwiches! (See Chapter 11 of Burn Bright.)

Nowadays, she's gravitating toward more veggie options. Not just because she wants to kiss Ben. But because the more Ben talks about the environment and animals, the more she's also getting more thoughtful. You even see her switch to jackfruit instead of tuna in Burn Bright.

More love interests to come!

We hope you all enjoyed this little peek into their food habits!

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xoxo Krista & Becca