#I wanted his trash form to mirror the actual NEO design from DR

[doctorsiren]

Spamton NEO for my Royal Caretaker AU :)

Spamton DOES have some background in science or robotics, but like I said, he’s not super qualified for the job of Royal Scientist. So instead of helping Gaster with the Core, the little narcissist works on building a giant robot of himself. He’s doing so to finally be tall and feel like he has power. However, the project got abandoned once Gaster fell into the Core and Spamton needed to figure out how to solve that issue. Once Spamton himself jumped into the Core, the NEO body was tossed, ending up in Waterfall.

When Spamton came out from the Core, a chunk of time had passed, but it felt very short for him due to being inside of the Core. He found Tenna, already powered off, and also found his NEO body. He starts to try and sell junk to fix both Tenna and NEO, since he *does* have that background in robotics, but nobody wants to buy his garbage. He wants to fix NEO to at least use that body and its strength to pick up Tenna and take him out of Waterfall so he stops getting water damaged. However, he doesn’t get to this point on his own.

In any route where Tenna gets repaired, it is done so by Alphys after Frisk informs the doctor about the TV’s state. However, in either pacifist route specifically, Spamton will help by using the damaged NEO body. Unlike a ghost being able to possess a robot, like Mettaton, Spamton isn’t incorporeal. Yet, the Core altered him, making him able to rip his own soul out of his body (Kris Style) and shove it into the giant robot. His own body sort of just rag dolls, but it’s fine and is there for Spamton to return to it (because yeah I didn’t wanna deal with that can of worms of his body turning to dust lmao ALSO he’s just built different now due to what the Core did to him soooooo)

Spamton NEO will pick up Tenna and slowly take him from Waterfall out to the lab in Hotland, but he collapses once he reaches the lab, as the NEO body is not in great condition either. While Tenna is being repaired, Spamton has to make his way back to Waterfall with limited energy and return his soul to his own body, after which the NEO body becomes unusable.

In a genocide route, after Tenna’s death, Spamton will panic and use the NEO body to fight the human, but is able to be defeated due to the withered state of the robot.

Anyway yeah I just wanted to make big robot design :3 oh and the NEO body was defo on the vision board for making Mettaton haha that’s why there’s similarities