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Errortale: a summary.

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It took some repetitive efforts. Frequent reminders. But he was receptive to the attention and truly does have exclusive access to some indispensable informants from... beyond.

"Errortale," as they call phenomena like him, could be a subtype of outcode in its own right.

There is a place like the Omega Timeline. A somewhere that's nowhere, with no features of its own but endless expanses of white except for what you bring yourself, no entrances or exits except for those who already know the way.

What sets this antivoid apart from the Omega Timeline is... the effect it has on anyone who, by some unfortunate glitch or botched cheat, gets stranded in it. Time behaves differently there, so it is difficult to say how long it takes, but staying there too long there eventually causes some kind of data corruption.

It begins with restlessness. Then, somehow, it causes the affected to develop involuntary clairaudience. (Note: It was not found that this "divination," for lack of a better term, could be attributed to hallucinations, plurality or a hivemind between others affected due to how "the voices" are capable of knowing/perceiving things the listener(s) could not, and the presentation of this condition does not align with ▢▢▢▢▢▢.)

This is, as far as we know, the point of no return before it is irreversible, as the effects begin to accelerate. The appearance of "ERROR" alerts over their bodies. Memory loss. Personality changes. Mental instability. Glitch artifacts. Colors changing and inverting. The final stage seems to be the development of completely new magic– which first presents after extreme distress and may leave a permanent pattern on their bodies– exclusive interactions with the antivoid, such as using it as displays or portals to different times and places across the multiverse, and a compulsion to return to it and resume isolation.

(Note: data corruption seems to plateau past this point. Hypothesis: failed data conversion?)

This happened to...

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He'd been testing his abilities. He was warned it was risky. It was true, and something did happen. ▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢

...By the time he could escape the antivoid, he barely remembered his own his name. And when he did escape, he didn't know he'd gone to not just the wrong timeline, but the wrong universe. He tried to reintegrate as if he'd gone back to his underground days of back-and-forth knock-knock jokes with Toriel. But when he discovered he'd landed in a Tale where all monsterkind were ghosts... he had a violent breakdown, and his eyesockets filled with blue strings that fell like tears and left stains on his face.

And then Spectertale was torn apart.

Perhaps it's because of this revelation's impact on him, or perhaps it's because of which Sans he used to be and what thoughts filled his skull when he was corrupted. But ever since this incident, he has been driven to do the same thing over and over again: find deviations from the Alpha Timeline and analyze the extent of these deviations before deleting them.

But it is as Core!Frisk has said: for every iteration destroyed, a duplicate iteration is also spared due to how intersecting timelines behave.

Of course, this does not stop "Error!Sans" from using his strings to puppeteer people by their SOULs, or steal people from their timelines to kill immediately, to hold hostage or to keep their SOULs as trophies. He has especially done this to Frisks to prevent them from Resetting after he wreaks havoc... just like... like...

like what almost happened in... Aftertale.

... ... ...

At some point. I saw this. They didn't see me but I saw that when... when Error!Sans... when he went to a common Underswap variant, he took his alternate self hostage after using the strings to pit him against his brother.

...He couldn't remember the details, but the voices did. The stolen Sans nicknamed "Blueberry" tried to appease Error!Sans, to get his guard down, learn more about him. And he did learn about Error!Sans' affection for Undernovela as if it were a TV show, about his escape from the antivoid, about Spectertale. "Blueberry" hoped to escape, yes, but he also hoped to get Error!Sans the help he needed, thus reducing the threat he would continue to pose. And Error did begin to trust the alternate from Underswap, but "Blueberry" tipped his hand and lost what little control he had over the situation. Error didn't kill him, but he left him in the antivoid. And Error came back too late.

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"Blueberror" was (justifiably) angry, but would ultimately let go of Error before his outrage similarly caused permanent damage to his mental state. He would instead offer his services to the Frisk in charge of the Omega Timeline, employing his "starry" powers and even letting an uncorrupted version of himself take his place so his timeline's Papyrus wouldn't be alone. He is unstable, but he is not dangerous like Error. And especially not like Error!Undyne.

Error is not as proactive as he claims, but Error!Undyne had been looking for... me? Yes. That's right. she was looking for... me. And she and an Error!Papyrus with her who could hold SOULs hostage in bubbles... they had an uneasy agreement with Core!Frisk not to interfere with each other. But Errors can be set off by upsetting revelations, and that's all it can take to drive them to indefinite vengeance.

...There was a chance encounter between her and Error!Sans when he was wearing glasses. They couldn't have been my current frames, but... but that... that was... that was what she saw them as... and from that moment on, there would be no calming her. Blueberror was able to find and convince... Error... to face off against her, if only he already held contempt for her. They were able to deal with Error!Undyne together, though Error!Papyrus had been lost track of, and the alliance between Error and Blueberror broke off soon afterward as... as Error... ...as 🅶🅴🅽🅾 vanished again.

...Blueberror came back to the Omega Timeline, and has been staying here ever since then.

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I will have to gather my thoughts on this.

I have to... I have to... I have to...

...I...

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I've been thinking on and off about Dreamtale for months, the way it left off with the twins perpetually clashing and how it adds to their mythological vibe... and I guess my mind couldn't let it go until it came up with a way to offer their story closure.

And that's how I got stuck on the idea of Dream and Nightmare always being two halves of a whole, Dark Crystal style, until I came up with a fusion– the guardian of emotion.

Maybe Nightmare ripped the golden fruit from Dream, maybe Dream got desperate and tried to separate Nightmare's SOUL from the black fruit, but either way, after they were absorbed or absorbed by the apples, maybe their SOULs would also involuntarily absorb each other if given the chance. Like they were always meant to succeed their sacred tree.

I really like interpreting Nightmare's tentacles as roots, leaving Swap!Dream's feathered wings to be the leafy branches.

Their motif would be an eclipse to combine Dream and Nightmare's motifs, and as for a name... Wake? Dawn? Psyche? Psyche... Psyche.

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quick doodle before bed of the newest guy I'm obsessed with...

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Going once, going twice!!

Commit to one or make your argument for other in the notes. If it depends, make your argument. If it's multiple of the above, make your argument. If it's "op you forgot ___" make your argument. If you wanna "well actually" and get historical or multicultural or multifandom about it, tell us which one or few should be the standard and make your argument.

Have strong opinions. Pick a hill to die on. Give a slideshow presentation for why your take is the right one. Go to war with your mutuals and die in each other's arms on the battlefield over it.

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I haven't drawn Alphys in years and need to get more of a feel for how to draw her body.

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File name: Entry ▯.txt

When I left ▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢, it wasn't long until I had to consider the possibility of finding another 🆂🅰🅽🆂 with the same eyesocket. Not to mention, if he's still alive, it could've healed after he went missing, especially if his SOUL ever made a full recovery, or he could've found ways to cover it if his disappearance were for some reason voluntary. So □□□□ might no longer be identifiable those ways.

So many ifs and maybes...

...But all the lookalike Sanses here with a yarn hobby have been knitters with normal vision; and most of them are from Underswap, apart from maybe one...

That one is of particular interest. He's like the other I saw before.

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He doesn't seem to notice my presence more times than anyone else, but strangely, he also seems to have contacts that I can't perceive. Contacts with access to valuable information.

I would like help corresponding with him until he can see or hear me, please. I want to know more about him.

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COREtale: a summary.

To review, if you were to find an angle at which you could inspect our reality close enough, or from an extradimensional angle, you would find expanses of code. Within this, you would find a segment designated "UNDERTALE" that assigns specific parameters to a specific location at a specific timeframe, which correlates with Frisk's tour inside Mt. Ebott as the eight fallen human.

Due to both inside and outside influences, multiple versions of this reality fan out from that point. Those that comply with all the aforementioned parameters can collectively be called the Alpha Timeline. It is like a highway, some lanes taking several laps before continuing along the same track; but if a lane takes an alternate route– if it deviates from this timeframe or certain details about its contents– that is when it is counted as an alternate.

Most alternates can be classified as ATs (alternate timelines), AUs (alternate universes) or UAs– universe alterations– which may be either of the two. There are also APs– alternate phenomena. This classification includes outer environments that aren't their own complete universes, events that occur across universes, and outcodes– universary exiles. Outcodes may be orphaned from retracted timelines, survivors of lost universes, or outsiders in origin.

To better understand the multiverse and our place in it, it is time to examine "COREtale."

One AT was generated when an iteration of Frisk... ... ...became a goner against their will. They meant no harm reliving the joy their journey underground so many times, but while their Sans did not have Reset-resistant memory like Flowey, he was aware of them enough to grow desperate. While this Frisk was a pacifist every timeloop, the existential dread only needed to make Sans panic once.

On their last loop, after the Barrier was broken, 🅷🅴 🆃🅷🆁🅴🆆 🅷🅸🆂 🆃🅸🅼🅴🅻🅸🅽🅴'🆂 🅵🆁🅸🆂🅺 🅸🅽🆃🅾 🆃🅷🅴 🅲🅾🆁🅴, 🅴🅹🅴🅲🆃🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅴🅼 🅵🆁🅾🅼 🆃🅷🅴🅸🆁 🆃🅸🅼🅴🅻🅸🅽🅴 🅸🅽 🅰 🆆🅰🆈 🆁🅴🆂🅴🆃🆂 🅲🅾🆄🅻🅳 🅽🅾🆃 🆄🅽🅳🅾.

This was not the first or the last Frisk to [▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢], but similarly, it only had to affect one with such omnipresence as to see every loop of every timeline of every universe in our multiverse as they come and go.

It is because of this that a Frisk could discover a deeper truth about our reality. That ours is just one multiverse of many. And relative to some entities, this constellation of multiverses– the omniverse– these realities as a whole are, to these outer influences, Fiction, because they are able to transcribe the aforementioned code and alter it. It is also by the guidance of this "Core!Frisk" that UNDERTALE's Alpha Timeline could be verified as the "original copy" from which all alternates in our multiverse system derive.

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Core!Frisk, ▢▢▢▢ ▢▢, cannot physically exist like they used to– they are not even remembered in the timeline they came from, and for every timeline affected by them is a duplicate timeline left unaffected– but they can show themself, so they have been using their omnipresence to generate more timelines with happily-ever-afters, and to use doors as portals to what they have dubbed the Omega Timeline.

It is anywhere and nowhere. ▢▢▢▢ ▢▢. But it has, as far as even they know, always existed, and the circumstances for access to it are specific– the first prerequisite being awareness of its existence. Core!Frisk found it by virtue of being everywhere, and thus has been able to use it as a refuge for peaceful survivors of peaceless worlds. Some stay. Some go.

...This is where I have been staying while I continue my search for answers.

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I could probably go back to my universe. In a sense. But I can't go back into my timeline anymore.

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Commit to one or make your argument for other in the notes. If it depends, make your argument. If it's multiple of the above, make your argument. If it's "op you forgot ___" make your argument. If you wanna "well actually" and get historical or multicultural or multifandom about it, tell us which one or few should be the standard and make your argument.

Have strong opinions. Pick a hill to die on. Give a slideshow presentation for why your take is the right one. Go to war with your mutuals and die in each other's arms on the battlefield over it.

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File name: Entry ▯.txt

I saw it happen.

There'd been a recent uptick in the rate of new arrivals to the Omega Timeline. Now I know what they were talking about.

I'd seen nothing like it before.

I couldn't watch until the end. I don't know if those strings can touch me and I wasn't about to find out.

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File name: Entry ▯.txt

It's happening again.

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Reapertale: a summary.

As stated before, some AUs seem to run in different formats. "Reapertale" is another such AU, but rather than running as a soap opera, this Tale seems to play out like Greek mythos, positioning monsters as gods.

Toriel, goddess of life and warmth, gave breath to the earthly realm and sprouted humankind... but they were not yet mortals, and as they continued to propagate, so did conflict among them, and the balance of the earth tilted. His majesty Asgore, god of the sky from which he and the other first gods were born, and to which they would return if ever they passed on, turned to Gerson, god of wisdom, for answers. And Gerson, in turn, commissioned Gaster, god of the arcane, to conjure a counterbalance. Together, they used the power of darkness to invent the gods of death– Sans and Papyrus. Their conception deeply offended her majesty Toriel, and she secluded herself on the earth to swear off any further creation.

Though life would continue, sterility and stagnation would break out in the goddess' absence, and humanity's faith in the gods would falter. This brought on the loss of the god of hope– Asriel– as he was reaching to save Chara, a devoted acolyte, from tragedy. He was too late, and when his stardust fell into a pool of their blood, he would be reborn as an emissary of despair... again as a golden flower.

As it would happen, Chara would be the reapers' first job; but the gods of death were still newly-formed, and the dark magic used to conjure them still leaked from their forms and their scythes. Thus, only a moment's hesitation was enough for Sans' essence to corrupt Chara's SOUL, which was already embittered by the betrayal of mortal and immortal alike. They would escape, adopting the role of a demon in the following centuries.

In his effort to find Chara, Sans instead found Toriel's hidden sanctuary. The two were confrontational at first, but soon it became clear that Sans liked finding somewhere that allowed him reprieve from his thankless job, being the brother in charge of collecting the SOULs of the damned and the restless. In secret, they grew close...

...and then, claiming a role as harbinger of entropy, Chara too found Toriel. Though a god, they struck her down using a scythe stolen from Sans, igniting an Era of Corruption– an outbreak of strife, stagnation and stillbirth.

Undyne, goddess of war, was next to find what was left of the fallen god's hideaway, and confronted Sans before she could see could see that he too was grieving. Papyrus managed to intervene and calm Sans, stopping the spread of his necrotic influence, redirecting Undyne's attention to seek guidance from the father gods.

Of the first gods, Asgore was still in mourning, Gerson had gone quiet, and Gaster had gone to consult an all-seeing mirror. The mirror could show him everything– past present and future– but Chara had found it first, clouding its vision to lure him closer. They trapped him in it, and they shattered the mirror, scattering him and all memories of him with its shards.

In an effort to buy more time to rediscover life, the goddess of knowledge... Alphys... would be tasked with finding alternatives for creation. Her... first attempt involved the willing sacrifice of other gods, but these efforts would be in vain. The second attempt involved making a new vessel for a prematurely disembodied SOUL, and so... Mettaton would be created as a golem, embodying self-love.

What remained of the slain goddess was eventually detected by the opposing reapers at the same time, but Sans was thankfully faster than Chara and took her SOUL into hiding within his and Papyrus' own realm. He procured a stained-glass flower she'd once made for him after his touch withered the live white lily she previously tried to hand him, and he sacrificed the gift to bring her back with the essence of hers it had preserved. Thus, her restoration was secured.

But it would not be until the emergence of Frisk, demigod of mercy, that Chara would be cured of corruption and instead represent faith, and the balance of their world would finally stabilize.

...Seeing that mirror for myself would make my job so much easier if it were still intact...

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archivist

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Okay so... I've been trying to keep posts in the next set of queued reblogs in chronological order... but because I'm going back and forth between one blog's archive and four tags between three other blogs, sometimes I don't catch in time that I missed one that was supposed to be queued earlier.

This should be an easy fix, but much like how on a computer, currently, the draft-autosave feature keeps failing, and you often have to hit "save as draft" twice to get it to work, I... apparently can't reorder the queue like I used to be able to before these bugs. There's a trick where you can saved queued posts as drafts to move them out, but Tumblr remembers the order you saved drafts in, and similarly, it sometimes takes at least twice to delete a draft or queued post. And, uh, even if it were just a month's worth of posts at the end of the queue I had to rearrange...

...at this point, it'd make a bigger mess to try. (I also had to upload this image twice for the same reason.)

So the short version is, unless the site gets debugged in the next few days, some sections in COREtale and Errortale won't be in order of timestamp.

And with that said, COREtale starts tomorrow on @utmvarchive.

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Has anyone been wondering yet who the archivist is btw? :)

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makin' mad progress on @utmvarchive I'm fine btw

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Still doing archival and I came across that Core!Frisk's birthday is February 29th and that they were ~9 when they fell. Depending on the time of year, their birthday might've or might not've passed yet. February's still pretty early into the year, so more likely that it already passed.

So in the Undertale iteration they came from, 201X would've been 2013-to-early-2014 or 2017-to-early-2018.

Take from that what you will, but depending on how closely the surface world in Undertale canon is supposed to line up with the real world, you might also be able to narrow down which real mountain their Undertale would've taken place inside based on how many active warzones at those times included cities/towns near the woods and an inactive lava dome or stratovolcano.

Edit: I found that Core!Frisk's first languages are Slovak and Ukrainian.

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Interlude asks it is!