Chocolat

Chocolat Cracks is a party member of the mudman race in Magical Vacation, and is a student at Will-o'-Wisp Academy who can cast Stone Magic.

Personality
Chocolat is very quiet and keeps to himself. He is very childish, clueless, and enjoys observing woodland creatures.

Appearance
As all mudmen are, Chocolat's body is earthen and egg-shaped with two large arms and stumpy legs. His face is comprised of three circular holes, and small plant growths cover his head and shoulders.

Backstory
Chocolat was long thought to be just a rock in the earth. On a hill near the academy, he stayed half-buried in the soil surrounded by grass, so nobody thought he was a living creature.

20 years ago, construction for a new road began on the hill where Chocolat was buried, and the mudman groaned when a worker accidentally struck his head with a pickaxe. At that very moment, he was finally recognized as being alive. Upon being discovered by the construction crew, Chocolat had trouble moving out of the ground until he got scared by dug-up earthworms. The mudman finally started to move, but he was so slow that the earthwormsworms caught up to him.

As time passed, Chocolat began to feel nostalgic towards the sensation of worms crawling on his earthen shell, often digging holes in the ground to relive the good old days. He also took a liking to small animals, especially birds and lizards who now call his body home.

Prologue
Chocolat's first appearance in the game is when everyone is boarding the Magic Bus. He is one of the last to join as Miss Madeleine struggles to push him on board. On the drive to Valencia Beach, his classmates ask questions about his past, to which he responds in single-word answers. Blueberry helps explain Chocolat's life and how he was enrolled into Will-o'-Wisp by Biscotti two decades ago.

Light Realm
After the Enigmas warp the students away to the Light Realm, Chocolat is not seen again until the protagonist, Blueberry, Lemon, and Peche leave Cold Honey Palace through its back gate. There, he is accompanied by a suspicious dwarf named Quattro Fromaggi, but they are out of sight when the students try to chase after them. They assume Chocolat was taken through Rekcarc Quarry to Ufot Village, where only dwarves are allowed.

Since the road to the Ufot Village is guarded, they take another road that leads them to the southern end of Rekcarc Quarry. They find Cassis by a river and explain what happened, so he sets off to find Chocolat while the party looks for Latte in Ville de Souris. On his hunt, Cassis eventually finds himself in Ufot Village following the party's arrival at Iko Domnag, only to be caught in a fight and taken to the Dark Realm alongside Candy, Cider, Cabernet, Olive, and Ganache. Chocolat and Sesame were sent there as well.

Grenadine helps the students in Iko Domnag by upgrading Latte with a Magic Power Generator. They uses it to send the Magic Bus back to Will-o'-Wisp in the Material Realm, and Balsamico suggest they use Latte's new device to reverse-engineer the school's summoning machine. By doing so, it allows the protagonist, Latte, and a chosen party member to shift into the Dark Realm. Before they arrive, Ganache and his companions kill an Enigma in Spollacs Swamp Edge. Unsure of what is to come, they leave to find Sesame and Chocolat.

Dark Realm
When Peabee Anjay offers his guidance to the party, they stumble upon Cassis swearing revenge against Quattro Formaggi, who still has Chocolat captive. The dwarf explains that he wants to borrow Chocolat's power, and they flee once again when Cassis's classmates enter the scene. Quattro Formaggi reveals his ability to warp, which Cassis finds odd since dwarves are a magicless species. This is because an Enigma, Dab Hasnel, is possessing Quattro Formaggi's body and using it as a disguise.

With Cassis on the team, they venture into Masala Chai Village where an argument breaks out between the kids and Cider. The Beauty mage reveals that Ganache, Olive, Candy, and Cabernet went south to the Enigma Forest, which implies that Chocolat may be there too.

Before they can go south, the party sails to Ice Island to find a cure for the Ooze Fever. They save Mace inside the island's Gelato Cave, then are met with Quattro Formaggi once again; however, he shows up solo. Cassis demands to know Chocolat's whereabouts, but the Enigma possessing Quattro Formaggi exposes its true form. Luckily, Cider shows up in time to attack it and save everyone. Dab Hasnel, still disguised, takes his prisoner to yet another place. This time around, they take refuge in the Dark Realm's eastern regions.

The party continues to venture through the Dark Realm in search of their missing friends, reuniting with Sesame and Miss Madeleine along the way. They soon make it to the Eastern Forest where Ganache and the remaining students' friendships grow tense, especially the bond between Olive and Candy. Ganache hears Chocolat's cries for help in the distance, so he and Cabernet leave to help their classmate; Candy and Olive follow them too. As for the party, they are rejoiced to see the Magic Bus shift into the Dark Realm, effectively bringing thirteen out of the sixteen students back together.

Meanwhile, Ganache and Cabernet run into a pyrite from Abos Village, who says that it saw a mudman being taken to Mt Morbier. Ganache wonders why Dab Hasnel would settle in a volcano, and the pyrite answers by explaining that a mudman's chest cavity holds their jewel "heart". By boiling Chocolat and crumbling his body, it would allow the Enigma to take the jewel and absorb its power.

Dab Hasnel drags Chocolat through the fiery cavern and is nearly caught by Miss Madeleine, but not before running in further. The party catches up with their teacher, then watch her use Spacelight twice to kill Quattro Formaggi. Miss Madeleine bids farewell to both spirits and wishes them a happy reincarnation. Once the tension subsides, she calmly asks her students to return to the Magic Bus so she can bring everyone back as a group. Unfortunately, it takes a turn for the worst when a pyrite says that Ganache and Cabernet have entered the Toptoh Mines while trying to find Olive and Candy. With a new destination in sight, Chocolat joins the party as their elemental of Stone.

Epilogue
"After graduating, Chocolat spent his days on a hill near the academy to enjoy the sensations of wind and birdsong."

Relationships

 * With Biscotti: "Biscotti's favorite."

Name origin
Chocolat's name is the French spelling of "chocolate".

Trivia

 * Chocolat scores at 9.9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, making him almost as hard as diamonds.
 * The plants growing on Chocolat's head are a type of snakeweed native to Kovomaka.
 * Chocolat grows two millimeters yearly.
 * His favorite food is durians.