#quichein talks

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❥ snrk!

hm, i wonder what he’s laughing at.

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pick a prompt(s) + a character and i'll write a drabble for them!

(you can send multiple asks if you'd like—yknow what they say, the more the merrier!)

"You're blushing." Prompts

“You’re blushing.” “Yeah, so? Never seen anyone fall for your charm before?”

“Are you okay? You look a little…” “I’m fine!”

A tries to hide their blush from B by turning their head away, but the latter doesn’t let them.

“I can’t help it (when you look at me like that).”

“Are you actually blushing?” “No! Shut up.”

“You, uhh… You… Sorry. I didn’t mean to make you… I mean…”

A smiles fondly when B starts to blush and draws them closer, allowing them to hide in their embrace.

“Awww. Did I fluster you?”

“This never happened, do you understand?! If I find out you mentioned this to anyone, I’ll…”

It appears A made B blush, and in response their own cheeks heat up.

“Stoooop. Stop making me all…” “All… what?”

“Just admit that…” (e.g. you like when I look at you like that.)

A has never blushed when they asked that question/made such a comment before. (Before what?/Has something changed?)

“… You’ll never let me live this down, will you?”

A touches their own heated cheeks (, maybe to confirm that they really are blushing. Not that they didn’t already know.)

“Why am I blushing?!”

A and B try to figure out who can make the other person blush first/the hardest.

“I call bullshit. There’s no way you never blush. No way.”

“Months/Years later, and you still make me blush.”

“I’m not blushing. It’s from the cold.” “Yeah. Sure.”

“Sorry. I just... like seeing that I have an effect on you, I guess.”

“God. You look adorable/etc. (when you’re blushing).”

A is curious/confused/etc. Once, they easily were able to make B blush. Nowadays, it seems almost impossible.

“You’re blushing.” “So are you.”

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I'm just laughing while imagining Y/N's reaction when they find out the people they were talking to were monsters😭😭 I'm just imagining them being like "what the fuck."

LMAO, ive been thinking about it for SO LONG (i promise im still writing mixed signals 🙏)

sans: welp cats out of the bag.

alphys: y-yeah…

y/n (stunned): what the fuck.

sans (amused): language.

y/n: let me get this straight—you guys are monsters…

y/n (baffled): AND YOU DIDN’T THINK TO TELL ME SOONER??

sans: didn’t wanna rattle ya

y/n (baffled 2x): HOW ARE YOU GUYS EVEN TALKING?

alphys: w-well actually, biology d-doesn’t really matter to—

sans: raw skill.

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just wanted to say how much i love your fanfic. it's SO hard coming across a fic that is so spot on on sans' character! i can't wait to find out what happens in the story and i can't wait for the new update!!! :D

arrghh—THANK YOU MY DEAR READER!!

i love getting bc asks on my fic and seeing what you guys think/suggestions you want to see implemented—it makes me emotional just thinking about how you guys are just as invested as i am in my concept 🥹

ive also been struggling recently to find motivation to write (the thoughts are all there but my brain no want to produce on paper 😓), so this support really, truly means the world to me

so, again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for submitting this ask—i’ll try to get this next update done soon just for you, anon!

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HELPPP—ive infatuated myself with an underfell fic idea

BUT MIXED SIGNALS IS STILL ON THE BRAINNN GRRAAHHHHH

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HE’S FRENCH????

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can someone explain the utmv to me pls (or send links/docs that explains it).

ive been getting some rq to write underfell, dreamtale, etc., but i don’t want to mischaracterize them 😭

i REALLY wanna be able to love all the different blorbos like everyone else but i never really got into the utmv

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got a new pc and the notes i had for dialogue didnt get transferred

DAMN ITTT

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was doing research for my fic and—

UNDYNE KNOWS/PLAYS THE PIANO????

some other cute tidbits i found:

defo expect references to this info in the next chapters lol

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HOLY SHIT MA I MADE IT

also big thank you to both anons that read my fic and put it here 💟

For the latest lost fics post on January 1st: for the anon with the “I found this funky fic the other night that wasnot very popular. The reader is a computer nerd and hacks into the undernet and becomes online friends with Sans. He nicknames the reader snooper. The formatting was really unique and I havent seen anything like it.

I accidentally closed the tab and lost it though. Do you think you can find it? Take your time, there is no rush. Thank you” I think you may be looking for Mixed Signals by Quichein.

Thanks for the recommendation! The fic being recommended is…

Mixed Signals by quichein (Not Rated, Incomplete)

Something peculiar catches your attention. Among the usual digital noise of pings, blips, and messages, there’s a single, errant signal — an unfamiliar one, weak but persistent, almost like it’s hiding. It’s coming from somewhere around Mt. Ebott, of all places. Intrigued, you start digging deeper. You scan through layers of old, obscure encryption until you uncover a database. Instead of typical phone numbers, each contact is labeled with a unique string of characters—a mix between IP addresses and phone numbers, almost like email addresses but with a strange, glyph-like composition. S-TS79fb: who are you and howd ya get my UC? You: y/n, and i was given it by a friend You: also, what's a UC? i dont chat a lot haha S-TS79fb: heh, youre funny. S-TS79fb: "a friend" huh? S-TS79fb: didnt think id get a signal from a buddy up top.

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Man, I just love the idea of Mixed Signals. Online penpal type relationships are fun. Also I love Alph being a creep and trying to hack the webcam. Totally on brand and accidental on her part for creepiness. I was wondering, will YN start posting on the Undernet? It'd be funny if she accidentally became a minor undernet celebrity via shitposting or something. Sharing surface memes to the underground. But I suppose the struggle to not post incriminating evidence that shes human might get tricky

thanks for all your kind words!!

and OMG, i can totally see snooper becoming an accidental internet sensation—smth about an anonymous shitposting page would definitely do numbers on there!

i was planning to have some more undernet interactions, so i might include something similar to this!

anyways, thanks again for taking interest in my fic :’) hope to see you again next chapter!!

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Sorry if this counts as a spoiler; but will Flowey have an appearence/be an important character in the Fic? I would love to see snooper interacting with him somehow (there's not enough Flowey representation out there 😔)

YESS THERE WILL BE, semester is basically over so i can get back to writing!

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omg, I just finished catching up on Mixed Signals and I have to ask if you have any suggestions/tips on how to write as well as you do? I swear your writing is so fluid, feels really natural, and I love the way you describe things (like environments, the character's voices, etc.).

I'm not even a writer and yet you're still an inspiration to me. I'm also impressed with the way you're writing this story and I'm super curious where this will all lead to. you honestly deserve way more hype for this story it's so unique.

sorry the message is so long, and I'm pretty sure you've heard these things before, but I just had to write you!

im working right now but this ask genuinely made smile so wide. i really believe this is one of the biggest compliments you could give a writer, and it’s an honor that youve chosen to bestow it upon me 🙏

im not exactly sure how to answer your ask so im just going to tell you my writing process :]

quichein’s guide to writing a chapter:

STEP 1: OUTLINE THAT SUCKER

i tend to outline what i want a chapter by making a list that looks something like this:

CHAPTER XX — (insert main purpose of chapter - e.g. sans reader bonding + undernet word building)

OPENING SCENE: Reader wakes up disoriented after falling asleep the night before

SCENE ONE: Undernet shenanigans

SCENE TWO: Reader makes a post

END SCENE: Reader and Sans have a late night call

STEP 2: FLESH OUT YOUR OUTLINE

put in pieces of dialogue and detail you want to include

CHAPTER XX — sans and reader + undernet worldbuilding

OPENING SCENE:

Reader is jolted awake by a notification from Sans

Text reads "mornin' snooper. (insert chapter related pun)"

Morning banter: "please spare me today" "no promises."

SCENE ONE (UNDERNET CHAOS):

Scrolling through posts + comments

“ANNOYING DOG IS AS OLD AS THE QUEEN???”

caption: “DO THE GUARD DOGS USE DOG YEARS OR MONSTER YEARS OR BOTH???”

“IS ANNOYING DOG IMMORTAL?”

SCENE TWO (READER'S POST):

Alphys pops in the group chat to check on the reader

They nerd out a bit about Alphys' latest projects

Insert Sans' jokes/puns/remarks here and there

Alphys eggs on the reader to make a post and reader reluctantly gives in

Reader's post is some half-baked pun

CONNECTING SCENE:

The messages eventually stop coming through and it's getting quiet (MAKE IT REFLECTIVE, ALMOST LONELY)

Sans keeps the reader company throughout it all

Sans offers to call the reader after a bit

END SCENE (LATE-NIGHT CALL):

Starts light, allow the moment to build (talk about daily life, grievances, etc.)

Their conversation leans towards more personal anecdotes and reader gets more of a feel for Sans under all the jokes

"So you basically raised Pap all on your own?"

"yup." Sans says casually, the shift in his tone almost imperceptible. "used to be us against the world."

End the chapter with them talking until late into the night

STEP 3: WRITE

essentially just flesh out your fleshed out outline (ik, it's a lot)

STEP 4: REVISE REVISE REVISE

(please note that this is the step im the most picky on and it takes me like a week or more b/c im rereading line by line to fix COMMAS if the sentence flow is off)

some things i personally do during revising:

ask "does this chapter meet the goal i set?" if not, add more scenes that work towards the goal OR delete redundant scenes to make room for more impactful ones

reread to see if scenes and dialogue transition smoothly into one another. fix flow and timeline as needed

tweak for clarity

STEP 5: EDIT

FINAL STRETCHH—fix any punctuation or grammatical errors

STEP 6: BASK IN YOUR CREATION

YAYYY YOU MADE ITT!! now you can read and reply to all of your wonderful readers' nice comments. makes it all worth it, huh?

all jokes aside, please never apologize for writing long asks. interacting with all you guys brings me a special kind of joy and it brightens up my whole week. thank you so much for writing to me, and im sorry updates are taking so long

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YAAYYY!!!

—Chapter 19 & 20 are up, slight nsfw warning for both of them :)

He’d caught himself doing it before—showering after Vivi, her scent lingering in the steam like an invisible ghost, curling into his senses. Her shampoo, her body wash… and that subtle, unique undertone that was just her. 

He didn’t mean to breathe it in, but it always left him feeling warm, like it was somehow seeping under his bones.

But last night? That scent, mixed with the heat of the memory, clung to him. He hadn’t dared to sneak a peek—he wasn’t that kind of guy—but his imagination had painted a vivid enough picture all on its own. 

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i have so many papyrus and undyne quotes sitting in new-dialogue-notes™

but alas, it is much too soon and i have to finish this next chapter before we get to fun part

AND IM TIRED OF THE FLUFF, I WANT WAR AND ANGUISH

(which is one of the bigger reasons why these next chapters are taking so long)

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i want to write. i really do.

but alas, i have a writing tick where i can't write unless someone is sitting in call talking to me. my go-to is asleep.

send help.