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dragonasheswrites-blog · 7 years

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The Heaven We Didn’t Choose, Chapter 16: In Which Monsters Celebrate

...A holiday that is actually rather tame, given the circumstances.

First: Chapter 1: In Which a Child Makes a Friend

Previous: Chapter 15: In Which Sans is Hired

Next: Chapter 17: In Which Alphys is Terrible

Click here for the story overview.

Sans stared at the items in his hands. Why he’d ever thought this was a good idea was beyond him.

It had started off so simply. In the Underground, clothing either had to be made by hand or repurposed from whatever fell into the old dump in Waterfall. It had been Sans’s job to clothe himself and his brother, and he’d been...decent at it. They were hardly fashionable (Papyrus had started dressing himself as soon as he was physically able, and wound up looking like a goth Halloween decoration) but they had adequate protection against attacks and the elements.

So. Soon after Papyrus declared himself Boss and began enforcing his rule with more violence than Sans had been comfortable with, he’d found a door. It was stupid - he couldn’t open it, and without some idea of what lay beyond he really couldn’t teleport to the other side - but he’d liked the door. It represented something new, something different. Something to hope for. An escape.

Kinda like the barrier, now that he thought about it.

And yeah, okay, he may have told a few shitty jokes to himself out there, just for the sake of hearing his own voice, but it wasn’t like he’d expected anyone to talk back to him.

And yet, someone had. Tori - though he hadn’t known she was Toriel, Queen of Monsters at the time - was funny. Depressed as hell, and more than a little morbid, but when she put her mind to it she was hilarious. For someone who hadn’t heard a decent joke in years, even from his own mouth, she was a small miracle.

They bonded over dumb jokes and self-loathing, even if they would never have admitted to either. Maybe it was their sincere love of bad jokes, or maybe it was because there was a very solid door between them, but they became...allies, of a sort.

As allies, they exchanged stories and experiences. Sans heard all about life in the Ruins (the most boring place in the Underground) and Tori heard about Snowdin (a very close second). Once they realized that their respective lives were awfully dull, they moved on to something a little more practical: survival tips.

Like her daughter, Tori had an impressive fashion sense...and was very aware of the fact that Sans did not. She was hardly subtle about it. When he’d described the clothes he and his brother wore, she immediately offered her collection of knitting and crocheting patterns for him to choose from. Yarn made from spun fiber was fairly common in the Underground, thanks in part to Muffet and her wild bands of spider mercenaries, so he agreed. He was never sure how she got them outside the door - there was never evidence of any evidence that it opened in any way - but from time to time he would find carefully copied patterns waiting for him at his spot.

He’d gotten pretty good at crocheting, actually, before everything went to hell in a handbasket.

Sans would’ve been content to live his life that way: avoiding Boss, swapping dumb jokes with Tori, slacking off work and bugging Grillby. A few cases as the Judge here and there, a few run-ins with Muffet, maybe a trip over to MTT’s arena if he needed to blow off some steam; everything was pretty good.

Then Alphys - mad scientist that she was - tried to come up with ‘the ultimate weapon’ and accidentally brought a certain prince back to life as a weepy, over-sensitive flower with horrifying powers, and Sans’s life had gone to shit.

Which led, more or less directly, to a skeleton sitting at his sentry post one evening in the middle of December with a bunch of soft brown yarn and a crochet hook he barely remembered how to use.

He had pulled and reworked the little disk he was trying to make several times already, but it still looked lumpy and misshapen to his eye sockets. With a sigh, he pulled the trailing end of the yarn to unravel his stitches - again - and grabbed the pattern out of his inventory.

What he was trying to make was a hat and mittens. Simple, right? He’d made much more complicated things Underground. Hell, he’d made Boss’s first few undershirts for his Royal Guard uniform; the Guard had armor aplenty, but hadn’t been equipped to deal with someone as...skinny as Boss. Some sort of padding to protect bone from harsh metal - and to keep the large armor on at all - was necessary, but trying to crochet around bones without a reliable pattern was awful.

He’d gone through a lot of yarn on those undershirts, more than he could’ve afforded at the time if he’d been inclined to pay. That was probably when Muffet had started that bounty on his head.

The point being, he should have been able to pick crocheting right back up. It was easy. Once upon a time he’d practically been able to do it in his sleep. He probably had done it in his sleep at least once.

But no matter how he twisted and looped and tucked and wrapped, everything kept coming out lopsided. The urge to tear the wimpy human yarn apart was growing stronger. Hmph. Muffet was one of the monsters who hadn’t elected to move to the Surface - she was ruling her extended family-slash-crime syndicate from a roomy cave on the border between Waterfall and Hotland, last he’d heard - but maybe he could armor up and pay her a visit?

Nah. He didn’t have the guts to go back to the Underground so soon after his confrontation with Asgore.

(Heh!)

He dutifully made a new loop and started crocheting a few stitches. He wanted to give up, but...sentry duty was terribly boring after dark. He adjusted his lantern so he could see better, then carefully connected his row together so it formed a small circle.

Well. That try didn’t look half bad, actually. Maybe he was actually getting somewhere. He made a few chain stitches and started on the second row.

It took him a few more false starts, but he managed to create what looked like a small skullcap by the time one of the heavy-armored guards who hailed from Hotland stomped up to his post, leaving steaming footsteps in the snow.

“...,” said the guard. “... ….”

Sans narrowed his eye sockets at the guard. “Whatever, pal. You here to take over?”

“....”

“Ooookay.” He barely remembered to snatch his project and slip it into his inventory before leaving his sentry post and heading back into town.

‘Christmas present in progress,’ his inventory called it. He felt his skull turning colors. How...embarrassing. Accurate, but embarrassing. Why did magic have to work on intent, anyways?

Okay, so he’d decided to make Frisk a Christmas gift. She was human; Christmas was a human holiday. If only she was a monster...but no.

Monsters were so much easier to deal with, sometimes. Their winter holiday - Takersfaire - was traditionally a time when everyone put out the crap they didn’t want in booths, and folks snuck around and stole what they liked from other booths. It kept them sharp, especially on the Surface where stealing was generally discouraged.

And sure, humans sometimes celebrated Takersfaire (even if they were too nice about it; most wouldn’t even take a half-hearted swing at a monster caught stealing from their booths) but he didn’t know if Frisk was one of them. He’d never seen her steal anything while watching his and Boss’s booth, but then again that was the point.

So...Christmas gift it was.

He felt stupid. He and Frisk were barely kind-of friends. But...he’d been cleaning out his closet, looking for a place to hide his new sock collection, and he’d come across his folder of crochet patterns. There was a pattern for a neat hat with matching mittens that he’d never gotten a chance to try, and on a whim he’d picked up some yarn while he was getting socks and gloves for his uniform.

Frisk just happened to be the only human adult he really knew; that was it. And the mittens, at least, were clearly designed for a human; he wasn’t sure how Tori had gotten ahold of the pattern, now that he thought about it. They were far too small for her and far too big for a skeleton, at least without serious modification.

He was going to justify it by making a matching set for Attie, but Christmas was only two weeks away. With the way his crochet skills were going he doubted he’d be able to finish anything.

Sans shuffled into his apartment (Boss was gone again) and flopped onto his couch. He didn’t know where this motivation to make things was coming from. Maybe it was because he’d taken to secretly working out between jobs sometimes; Undyne had been getting on his case, and he’d noticed shifts in his magic from the exertion. It was almost like he was...getting more energy, or something.

Mostly, it made him twitchy.

He sighed and took the ‘Christmas present in progress’ out of his inventory. Might as well do something useful.

That was his routine over the next week or so. He got up, went to his jobs, worked out (but not too much; he had a reputation to uphold) and slowly made progress on Frisk’s present. He was getting better at stitching; by the time he finished up the mittens, he was no longer pulling out rows for uneven stitches. He did have to redo a good portion of the left mitten because he’d gotten stressed out and pulled the stitches too tight, but that was just because he was a neurotic mess.

He was sitting in his sentry station one evening having just finished tying off the second mitten when he got a text from Undyne.

Capn Undie 4:52 PM SO You ARE coming to Takersfaire in New Home, RIGHT???

Shit. Right. Takersfaire was that evening. He knew he’d told Boss he wasn’t going, so he was probably working...right? He checked his inventory. The crumpled piece of scrap paper he’d written his work schedule on was one of five items labeled ‘Piece of junk,’ so it took him a bit to find it.

You 5:03 PM Uh u have me working a double shift 2nite

Capn Undie 5:12 PM CRAP I DO

You 5:15 PM Yeah bcuz the dogi r still out Puppies need food n stuff Who knew

Capn Undie 5:20 PM BUT THEN WHO WILL WATCH YOUR BOOTH???

You 5:22 PM Boss…?

Capn Undie 5:25 PM NO HE’S TOO HARD ON THE KIDS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DUST KIDS ON TAKERSFAIRE

You 5:30 PM Wait he dusted a kid? When was this?

Capn Undie 5:34 PM Nah, I got him in time BUT HE ALMOST DID

You 5:39 PM I dont know what u want me to do about it

Capn Undie 5:43 PM I WANT YOU TO Wait Oh. Nevermind.

You 5:48 PM So am I working or what Hello Undyne? Hello?

He leaned back in his seat, propping his feet up against his sentry post. Weird. What was that about?

Sans hadn’t actively participated in Takersfaire since he was a babybones, but he did usually watch his and Boss’s booth. He hated it. Strong monsters sometimes used Takersfaire as a time to show off: the fancier the booth, the more confident its owner was that he’d be able to hold onto all his items. It ran a little contrary to the spirit of things, but traditions were weird.

Because Boss was Boss, the skeleton brothers’ booth was always one of the most elaborate in the Kingdom of Monsters. Also because Boss was Boss, most of the items were bones. There were a few real goodies as well - electronics that Sans fixed up, plates of whatever Boss’s favorite dish was, envelopes of money, etc. - but mostly it was bones. Bone attacks, at that, just to make things a little less fair. Touching them wasn’t exactly what most folks would call safe. And yet, Sans was expected to guard it. And stay awake while doing so.

It worried Sans that Boss had taken the news that he was on duty during Takersfaire so well. A calm Boss always had something up his sleeve. He had no idea what it could be, though.

About an hour later, Sans was woken up from his usual nap by his text alert.

Capn Undie 6:55 PM *1 picture message received PUT YOUR EYE SOCKETS ON THIS

The picture was Undyne in full armor, posing dramatically, her helmet was tucked under one arm and the other around the shoulders of a human woman. The woman was wearing a beaked mask of dramatic red and orange feathers that matched the hues of her long, flowing dress. Sans couldn’t place the outfit's reference (some sort of bird??), but after a careful examination he was stunned to recognize the woman as Frisk.

He was so distracted that he almost missed Attie by Frisk’s side, which would have been a tragedy. Her face was painted in an obvious facsimile of a skull, and she was wearing a hooded onesie with the pattern of a skeleton printed on it. He considered being mildly offended (humans and their obsession with naked skeletons were a source of constant confusion for him) but Attie had put a pink skirt on over top.

You 7:04 PM Wow I dont recognize those monsters Who r they?

Capn Undie 7:10 PM *3 picture messages received

The first two pictures were both of a twirling Attie. Behind her was a booth decorated in ribbons and strands of beads, a large Delta Rune symbol on the front. The ambassador and her daughter had brought what looked like chocolate cookies in cheerful baggies, as well as some small toys and colorful pieces of clothing. There was nothing particularly expensive, but the items were personal and useful...especially to those who still lived in the Underground.

The final picture was of Frisk. She was looking at something off to her left, her head turned to expose the gentle curves of her neck and shoulders. One hand was raised, lifting the mask just enough to reveal her face. She was smiling, the same way she always smiled at Attie.

On the table behind her, one of the bags of cookies was missing.

Sans put his head down on the counter of his station, trying to control his trembling arms. This was the woman he’d killed - sometimes slowly and painfully - dozens of times. Maybe hundreds of times. His memories of previous timelines had always been a little fuzzy; he didn’t know, really, how much pain he’d caused her.

And yet…

Don’t. Don’t even think it. It’s pointless. It will only bring heartbreak.

...and yet...some part of him seemed to gravitate towards her. She wasn’t just the young woman who broke the barrier, or the Kingdom of Monsters’ primary ambassador, or even Attie’s mother. She wasn’t just someone he’d had an on-and-off passive-aggressive feud with for the past eight years.

She was someone who cared enough to advocate on his behalf. He had no doubt that she was the one who had sicced Undyne on him. Undyne rarely cared for anyone but herself (unless caffeine was involved), and yet she’d gone out of her way to help him on multiple occasions. She’d befriended him.

He owed Frisk a lot.

Staying out of her life so he wouldn’t drag her down seemed like a small price to pay for all she’d done for his sorry ass, but…

“Attie misses you.”

...was that really the best option? He really didn’t know what was “best” anymore. He was beginning to doubt that Boss knew what was best, and the past ten years of his life had revolved around the fact that Boss always knew what was best. The obvious course of action would be to talk to Frisk or someone close to her, but his soul clenched at the thought.

It was a fear of rejection, he realized. If Undyne or Tori or someone else who knew Frisk well told him to stay away from her, he would have no reason to wonder. He would have no reason to hope. It was...more frightening than he wanted to admit.

Capn Undie 7:58 PM OI BONEHEAD!!!! ARE YOU ASLEEP???

You 8:05 PM Nah They look cool Thanks for the pics

Capn Undie 8:07 PM YEAH!!! They clean up nice, don’t they? Hey, Attie wants to stop by your station after this.

You 8:10 PM You wanna let a kid go tramping down the mountain in the dark and the cold? Also it just started snowing Again

Capn Undie 8:19 PM Fishsticks Frisk got pulled into a meeting Maybe another time BUT I’m gonna take LOTS more pictures So many pictures it’s gonna BLOW YOUR PHONE UP But I’m NOT gonna send them to you YET I HAVE A PLAN GO VISIT ALPHYS SOON I PUT UP WITH HER FOR AN HOUR AND I WON’T LET IT GO TO WASTE

You 8:31 PM Fine

Sans groaned. He’d been putting off going to see Alphys as long as possible (her broken surveillance equipment was still burning a hole in his inventory), but it looked like his luck had run out. He really did need to see her records, and if Undyne was willing to consult the Royal Scientist about something...well. It was probably important.

Everyone knew Undyne and Alphys had hated each other for years, ever since that little incident where Alphys had ‘accidentally’ added something experimental to the captain’s tea during a meeting, and Undyne had responded by trying to get the scientist fired. Neither had ever forgiven the other, though Alphys remained disturbingly obsessed in that odd way she tended to fixate.

Regardless, Sans had a pretty good idea of what Alphys was messing with, and he didn’t blame Undyne for her reaction. It was one of the reasons he avoided Alphys in general. If she was trying to dose people with what he thought she was using…

He put his head back onto the sentry station counter. Dozing through the rest of his shift seemed like a great option. He almost managed it, too, but a distant bark from Lesser Dog at the next station over woke him up about half an hour before the end of their shift.

Teleporting over, he evaluated the situation. There was an abundance of dog tracks in the thin layer of snow, but Lesser Dog was...completely fine??

“Heya, LD. Heard your alert. What’s up?”

*Lesser Dog is fine! And not hiding anyone!*

“Uh-huh. Do I need to get Undyne?”

*No!*

“‘Cause you know she’ll be upset if she has to leave her party to deal with something out here.”

*Lesser Dog is not hiding anyone!*

“LD…”

A shifting under Lesser Dog’s station revealed two white pointed ears and a small black nose against the backdrop of snow. The nose twitched, then retreated.

Lesser Dog tried - and failed - to look like he hadn’t noticed.

“And who was that?

The sentry gave a huff and woofed something Sans didn’t catch. A sleek grey female dog and a white puppy wiggled out from under the wooden counter, ears pulled back and tails low.

It took him a moment to recognize Lesser Dog’s mate and pup. The puppy had been born not long before Frisk fell into the Underground, and was - if Sans recalled correctly - the only survivor from his litter. He didn’t know how long dog monsters took to grow up, but the pup was still in stripes. So...longer than actual dogs, then.

“Celebratin’ Takersfaire, then?”

*Yes,* the female woofed. *Darker Dog was a bad girl for bringing Tiny Dog up here. Sorry. Please do not report Lesser Dog to fish-captain.*

The sadistic part of Sans wanted to, just because it was funny watching the dogs squirm. Besides, he knew Undyne wouldn’t be too hard on them; she needed every available sentry, she didn’t believe in dusting kids, and it wouldn’t make sense to punish Darker Dog when the other two were off the hook.

“Eh, don’t worry about it. You helpin’ your dad keep an eye out for humans, pup?”

Tiny Dog yipped excitedly. He clearly shared none of his parents’ concerns about consequences.

“As long as everyone’s safe. Hey, let me know if you run into any trouble, ‘kay, LD?”

Lesser Dog woofed his surprised agreement and gave his mate a fond lick on the mouth. Sans immediately retreated back to his own station; the dogs were notoriously shameless when it came to PDA, and he did not need to see that.

He’d just sat down and settled in when his phone buzzed again. He unlocked it, expecting to see more pictures from Undyne, but was instead greeted by the harsh and imposing features of his younger brother.

Boss 1:44 AM IN YOUR ABSENCE, I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED OUR BOOTH!! *1 picture message received

Boss had decorated the booth himself over the past week, entirely without Sans’s help (for once). It was black and appeared to be covered in tiny white painted bones of various kinds. Whatever Boss’s flaws, he had a good eye for style...and a lot of patience with things that held his attention.

An elaborate bone display was set up on and around the booth. A few plates of something (lasagna, maybe) were barely visible through the latticework, but he couldn’t quite make it out.

You 1:48 AM Nice boss

Boss 1:54 AM I WILL HAVE NONE OF YOUR SLANDER!!! I AM NOT A NICE MONSTER!! I AM CRUEL AND FEARED BY ALL, HUMAN AND MONSTER!! THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE PAPYRUS, SCOURGE OF THE UNDERGROUND!! AND ALSO THE SURFACE!!

You 1:59 AM Right of course

Boss 2:01 AM NATURALLY, I AM CORRECT!!

“I’m here to take over for ya,” said a gruff voice.

Sans pocketed his phone and looked up. “Heya, Doggo.”

Doggo tensed when he stopped moving. “What? Hello? Ya still here?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Grrrrr. Get out of here, bone bag.”

Sans smirked and walked back towards the barrier. As soon as he was clear, he teleported straight home. He didn’t care if Boss punished him for it; two six-hour shifts back to back were exhausting enough without having to walk an hour back into town.

He fell asleep to dreams of a little skeleton girl in a pink dress who kept burying him in leaf piles, and asking him why he was crying on such a happy day.

#Dragonashes writes #Undertale #Underfell #The Heaven We Didn't Choose #Sans #Undyne #Papyrus #Lesser Dog #Adorable puppy families #Monsters don't get dressed up in costumes for Takersfaire #This is something Frisk did to help her and Attie blend in #Everyone knows they're human but they're also members of the Kingdom of Monsters #Sans has a terrifying reputation #So does Papyrus #Imagine how well Attie's costume went over?#Bet she looked cute though

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tapioca-pearl-harbor · 2 years

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A TF2 or TFC/Amphibia Crossover

ever since their post @remaking-machine , I've been thinking the same crossover as well except my idea is the opposite of theirs so instead of the current mercs, it is the classic/1930s mercs being transported to Amphibia so okay here's my idea and oh yeah the character from amphibia are still the same person:

During the battle, one of the members found the calamity box in the middle of the gravel ground and they pick it up in order to investigate it, so back it in their base, everyone kept talking about the unknown box and next they all decided to open think what's inside it but they were unexpectedly transported to the land of amphibia itself.

The support class (Spy/Sniper/Medic) are in Wartwood swamp, one of the towns in frog valley, the trio has the box with them thinks they're the only ones who got transported decides to hide out outside of the town and observe them to have information about the world they're if they are deemed dangerous or not. One day, a young boy -er frog finds out about their existence and decides to friendly meeting with the humans and tell them a beast is attacking the town (it is the same monster from episode one) the red mantis except they killed them easily (thanks to their weapons and a hint of the power), when it was over, the mercs tell the frogs they can defend their town in exchange of shelter the townspeople are starting to like them and they are now officially protectors of the town.

Meanwhile, the offensive class (Scout, Soldier, and Pyro) accidentally landed inside of the toad tower during the meeting of the toad council and attacked them, but after a long battle, both sides cannot attack each other anymore and the toads think they must useful and worthy enough for the army and maybe get the Warhammer. And so, the council allowed them in high positions in the army thanks to their useful abilities especially the pyro, due to knowing how to handle the flamethrower.

ANOTHER meanwhile, the defensive class (Demoman, Heavy, and Engineer) have landed inside the walls of Newtopia, a kingdom they walk into the streets, but they already caused havoc among the streets, especially heavy and demo, they punched someone in self-defense and caught attention by their guards and so they are inside the castle in front of king Andrias heard what strange form they are, the humans said they're not from around here needed to get back and the box when he heard they mentioned the box he told what they're really are through the book, and he offered them to take a position from being rangers of newtopians guard help them do tasks around the kingdom.

When the nine have finally met they're all delighted, excited, and surprised at the same time, the team members are surprised what dirty and ruined the clothes of the trio from wartwood Spy cannot handle the filth he traveled, Sniper tried to hold it in the horrible food even if they are better and Medic saw what their hygiene so much it couldn't be called a hygiene , and the three are also surprised at the others who gained new attire from their adventures as well, but they exchange their adventures conversation, and Demo, Engie and Heavy are weirded out of the king's attitude seems too nice to them but the three knew how to get back home the box need to charged up again to have the power to get home, during the nine's journey, mother olm seems to appear earlier shock that the saviors of amphibia are nine instead of three and tell them that the power of the gem is in them, and they're shocked but having common sense they decide to end they're right here put up a portal in front of them and left home quickly. The mercs cannot handle the food since they're made of bugs

I hope this may or may never get this idea to pick up for fanfictions for crack and comedy so bye.

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undead-tale · 3 years

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Little Known Fact

There was an original version of Undead Tale I wrote back in 2017 or even late 2016 (the dates are fuzzy at best).

It was completely different in tone, writing, character designs, plot... it was basically a different story but with a similar starting point.

I felt like drawing the Sans design from that version, now called "Classic", compared to the final design, or the "True" design, as I consider the current version of Undead Tale the true, final version.

Here is the drawing, and below that will be a list of all the changes and descriptions of the differences behind a read more as to keep the post nice to see if someone just wants to look at the art (the stuff below the read more goes very in depth, be warned, it's long).

Let's start from the beginning with what changed:

Both stories start with an outbreak stemming from the lab, however,

Classic does not have the backstory of a corrupted reset corrupting the amalgamates and determinations properties. The origins in Classic were never explored.

In the True version, the origins were explored, and the reason why the world is the way it is is also explored through Before the Reset.

In Classic, Undyne fights a massive amalgamate thing in the Lab in the very beginning of the story instead of slowly easing into the events of the outbreak, which True did.

Chara was never present in Classic, and also there was no controlling force of the corrupted.

Corrupted is a term only in True, Classic doesn't have a term to refer to the infected monsters.

Both stories have Frisk fall after the initial outbreak, but Frisk in Classic falls way earlier than Frisk in True (as far as I can see, the timeline of Classic, unfortunately, is not very clear)

Classic explores the surface and humanity above during the events of the Underground. In True, the surface is only seen when Frisk falls and after monster kind escapes. Humanity in True wiped itself out with a war where the details aren't known, and won't be explored, as it's not important. In Classic, there is an outbreak similar to the Underground on the surface which causes an apocalypse.

Both stories have Sans lose an eye, though, as seen in the image, the eye is swapped. Beyond that, there are differences in the two Sans.

Classic Sans is a silently hopeful character, different from normal Sans compared to True, who is basically normal Sans but with some darker tendencies and visions of past timelines (called moments in the story).

Classic Sans lost most if not all magic ability when he was struck by Undyne, resorting to using physical weapons such as pipes or any blunt weapon.

True Sans retains most magic ability, such as teleportation, time stopping, and bones, he just can't use them as often. He does lose Gaster Blasters however, as they would take too much magical energy for him to muster normally.

Classic's outfit has a fluffy hood and a zipped up, torn hoodie, compared to True, who is normal Sans with bandages wrapped around the left side of his skull.

Classic only lost his eye, True had the whole left side of his skull horribly mangled and fractured, which is why the bandage size of both is different.

Classic only has the bandage, True also has the device strapped to his ribs that connects with his soul to amplify the healing process.

True Sans has what are called "moments", where he'll freeze up as he sees a vision of a past timeline, either consisting of the Judgement Hall or of Snowdin which get worse until reaching a turning point in the story near the halfway point. Classic has no such things.

Moving on from Sans, let's go into the other characters in general

Papyrus in Classic retains some confidence, however, he is much more broken and emotionally torn, acting out of character at points (pretty much everyone in Classic is out of character).

True Papyrus is very much like normal Papyrus, only taking things a bit more seriously and being more cautious and concerned for his friends, due to his circumstances.

Classic Papyrus has a kill count of normal monsters, True, however, does not.

Classic Papyrus and Snowdin in general are enemies of the Royal Guard, due to a plot point where Snowdin and the Royal Guard enter a conflict.

True Papyrus and Snowdin are very much allies and apart of the Royal Guard, Papyrus being ranked Lieutenant, commanding all Snowdin units.

Undyne in Classic acts very out of character with the little time she appeared in, she isn't as confident, she's a lot more cold, and attacks Sans with intent to kill.

True Undyne is like normal Undyne, and her attack against Sans was completely accidental, as she meant to attack another character named Fang for kidnapping Sans and Papyrus.

Papyrus and Undyne fight with the intent of killing one another in Classic. In True, Papyrus fights to slow Undyne down and let Sans and Frisk escapes, Undyne fights to get past him and capture/kill Frisk, attempting to pass him with every opportunity, not wanting to hurt him. In True, neither were fighting to kill.

Classic Undyne exiles herself out of shame after her battle with Papyrus in Snowdin. True Undyne remains the Captain of the Royal Guard throughout the entire story.

Classic Asgore is seen too little to really judge his character, same for Alphys. True is normal Asgore but affected by circumstances, again, same for Alphys.

Mettaton in Classic is missing, while Mettaton in True is similar to his normal self, albeit more cruel and harsh when Frisk meets him, becoming a minor antagonist before having a change of heart at the end of their fight in the CORE.

Mettaton's disappearance in Classic would've tied into a plot point, which I'll explore later on.

Classic Toriel allows monsters from Snowdin into the Ruins during the outbreak, accidentally bringing it to the Ruins. No such event happens in True.

Classic Toriel is the most in character of the cast, remaining mostly consistent with normal Toriel. True Toriel is normal Toriel until she leaves the Ruins, where circumstances and events change her.

Classic Flowey is infected very early on, True Flowey remains uninfected and even becomes the controller of the corrupted near the end. In True, he is very much normal Flowey.

Classic Frisk is more like fanon Frisk (meaning she's just a soft little pacifist who wouldn't harm a fly. Glad I didn't continue with this in True, because holy hell that would've been boring).

True Frisk is much more of her own character, she doesn't want to hurt anyone, but she won't hesitate to fight when she knows she's in danger, plus her backstory and her motivations, along with having to deal with the trauma's shes faced later on.

True Frisk also older, being 10 when she first falls and being around 13 at the end. Classic Frisk is around 8 when she falls, if I remember right.

Classic didn't go far enough into the plot for Classic Frisk to even leave the Ruins or have to face inner demons and trauma. True Frisk is very, very different.

Classic Chara doesn't even exist. True Chara is corrupted determination in it's purest form, and is a prominent antagonist, controlling the corrupted at one point.

There are characters exclusive to both version. In True, Fang, Ferno, and the entire gang Fang leads are exclusive to True.

In Classic, the exclusive characters are Artico, Stitch, Rycher (pronounced ri ker for some reason), Carly (Artico's daughter) and Ethan (Artico's son). These characters were a part of a spinoff story called "A New Monarch", which was establishing a new kingdom/rival for the Royal Guard. They would've been antagonists later on, similar to the Saviors from The Walking Dead, if memory serves me right.

Rycher and Stitch would've had been in a relationship later on.

Another exclusive character to Classic is Flynn, who is the third monster Frisk meets after Flowey and Toriel (he was an OC I made on Undertale Amino years ago, my account on which has since been deleted)

There is one more Classic exclusive character named Charlie. I go more in depth on him later.

There are more Classic exclusive characters, but they're not notable enough to go into here.

Finally moving on from characters, we go onto the plot/setting

The basic plot of Classic goes like this (I won't do the same for True, as that is very, very long, and I'd like people to read it on AO3):

The outbreak begins, Asgore is escorted from the Capital as it falls. Sans and Papyrus fight back an attack from Snowdin, and set up defenses.

A plot point arises where the weather in Snowdin becomes harsh, to the point where monsters die outside the village or flee to the Ruins. One of the monsters is bit before hand, and brings the infection into the Ruins, infecting Flowey and beginning to spread there.

Members of the Snowdin Safe Zone steal from the Royal Guard, which causes the Guard to retaliate against Snowdin and assault the town, Sans and Papyrus fighting them back, killing many. This is the fight where Sans is almost killed by Undyne, who is then almost killed by Papyrus before he rushes to get Sans to the village.

Sans loses his eye, and Undyne exiles herself.

Frisk falls later on, almost get's killed by Flowey, but is saved and taken home by Toriel. This introduces the fact that Toriel's home is now full of monster survivors and that the rest of the Ruins has fallen.

Frisk takes time to heal, and meets Flynn.

In the Capital, within areas known as "Dark Zones" (pretty much ripping off Dying Light), new infected begin appearing simply known as "Them". This leads to the death of two monsters in a short story titled "Them". In True, these would be turned into the acolytes that appear at the end.

Sans and Papyrus receive a broadcast from MTT Resort begging for help, and decide to investigate. They then go to sleep on their way, and are split up, Sans being taken to the Capital while Papyrus is captured and brought to MTT Resort (don't ask, I don't remember why or how).

Sans wakes up in the Capital on a high up roof and encounters a character named Charlie, who brings him to his group in the city hall. He teaches Sans how to survive in the capital later on.

Papyrus wakes up in MTT Resort, hung in the lobby by a rope around his neck with infected all around. He is saved by a stranger on a walkie talkie who begins to tell him what happened. He then tells Papyrus about a mysterious monster who will kill him upon sight, and then tells Papyrus to flee. Papyrus does so and returns to Snowdin.

Stitch and Rycher are brought to the cavern where the new kingdom is by Artico, meeting all the other characters listed in the "A New Monarch" section.

On the surface, an outbreak occurs (somehow, I don't remember), and soldiers move in to the city near Mount Ebott, called Sanctuary City, to save a doctor. The doctor kills himself (ripping off State of Decay: Lifeline).

Scrapped plot lines include:

Disclaimer: The details are very fuzzy at best with this, unknown/forgotten at worst

Mettaton Madness: An event where a group of monsters from Waterfall would have to contend with an army of defective Mettaton drones in the CORE. I don't remember much else about this. Maybe Mettaton would be involved? I don't know.

A plotline on the surface where a city is burning down and being pelted by meteorites or missiles (I don't remember) and a group of survivors have to escape.

Papyrus would die at some point, due to being bit. Sans would put him down. This would happen after Frisk left the Ruins.

Snowdin would fall at some point.

Undyne would have her own story about finding herself or something, I don't know, but I know I wanted to do something with her at one point.

The New Monarch and the Royal Guard would get into some conflict, maybe.

More characters would die I think, and maybe Soriel would be canon? I genuinely don't know and I don't remember. Like I said, everything about this section is fuzzy, as I didn't take notes and I don't remember half of this story anymore.

That's pretty much it.

These two stories are very, very different. If you want to know just how the True version goes, please check out the link to it on AO3. It's long, and it's actually finished compared to Classic, which is not publicly available now, but I might change that in the future. Classic won't be expanded on, and I won't write anything for it ever again. I'm not sure if I'll abandon it entirely, as I could still draw the characters from it, but in all likely hood it'll be forgotten.

True is a much better and more well written story anyway. Classic was just edgy and ripped off so many other zombie stories, and even other Undertale AU's, since it was slightly inspired by Axetale (I saw one video of it, really glad I didn't take many elements from that dumpster fire of an AU) and other fanon edgy content.

Overall, I'm proud of what I've done with the True story and I'm ecstatic to have gotten it finished and released, having people actually read it is so much fun.

I just felt like going into how Undead Tale really started, and the origins it had as an edgy Undertale story I wrote in 2016 - 2017 that really doesn't hold up at all anymore.

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as you mentioned, i think the spaces where apostles/godhand make their sacrifices are specific to a person, since they're all different from each other. then yeah, i think that dimension of human faces are meant to be specific to griffith. i already imagined that but i couldn't be sure since we hadn't seen another eclipse happen, but i'm also not sure that last panel was an eclipse and not just gaiseric's own sacrifice, so i guess we'll see. also, if it was gaiseric, i wonder what was his sacrifice? i know the woman had a brand on her shoulder, but there also was a giant glowing brand on the background. oh man this new chapter answered some things but only made me more curious djskssk maybe hoping for another chapter this year is hoping for too much but oh well

ibb.co/jkc9ygP // 1) this is insane, the whole chapter is. feels like miura is finally back to form and we're in the endgame 2) any theories about what's happening here, about void, about anything really?

I don’t think it's likely to be Gaiseric’s sacrifice bc the memory is specifically of when the berserk armour takes over, and while I don’t think there’s any in-universe reason someone can’t turn into a monster and then have magic armour take them over, storytelling-wise it would be redundant and kind of weird imo.

wrt that giant glowing background brand, I was assuming that it’s Gaiseric’s city which Void sacrificed in its entirety, on fire in a brand shape bc the metaphysical world of Berserk is really on the nose sometimes with its symbolic imagery lol. So Gaiseric’s gf is just one of thousands, in that case. That said, we didn’t see a big brand during Griffith’s sacrifice - the only other time we saw one was during the reincarnation ritual at the end of the Conviction arc, when the refugees’ bonfires made a brand shape iirc. But then, we also didn’t see people with individual brands then, and it’s still in another dimension with the Godhand actually there and not just shadows, so I’m inclined to think that it’s still a crimson-behelit Eclipse event, and Miura basically threw in a burning brand-shaped background bc it looked cool and he already established that the world arranges itself into symbolic images sometimes.

My previous theory about Gaiseric, based on his whole ‘appearing out of nowhere to unite kingdoms and create an empire about a thousand years previously, which Griffith resurrected into Falconia’ background was that he’s Griffith 1.0, a former Godhand who was incarnated back into the world. And that’s like... maybe less likely now lol, since he doesn’t rly need 2 majorly significant backstories, and what does an incarnated godhand need magic armour for anyway, but still not impossible imo?

(Actually idek if it’s less likely since I did think Void sacrificed his city while he was an incarnated godhand before, the only difference now is that he already had the armour and a gf i guess)

Like I’m coming at this from an extremely biased pov bc if it was true it would fit perfectly into a bunch of my other theories about Berserk and hopes for the future of the story, but still lol, ~I want to believe~

I mean first of all, to be fair, someone’s got to be the previous incarnated godfinger, like that seems like a pretty important figure in Berserk’s time-is-cyclical worldbuilding, and it’s probably not Void bc he’s still on the astral plane, and it should be someone we’re already aware of so it doesn’t feel like an asspull out of left field so it’s probably not any of the other 4 random godhand members, and Gaiseric has been v explicitly positioned as the Griffith of a thousand years ago, including Guts thinking he sounds like Griffith while Judeau and Casca are telling him the history.

Also it seems that he can sense fate, he knows an awful lot about how mock-Eclipses work and how the godhand operates in general, and lbr everyone already kind of expected him to be Void’s surviving sacrifice so this flashback didn’t come as a big surprise, but revealing that he’s also a Griffith would be a great twist.

Plus since the other 4 Godhand are gone but Void remains maybe he wasn’t the 5th like Femto, maybe he was the first of a new cycle, which would mean the 5th was already incarnated when Void ascended.

And if Gaiseric was an incarnation ruling an empire when Void fucked him over by sacrificing it all, that has some pretty interesting implications going forward. Like

a) godhand incarnation not emotionless, which we already know lbr, but it’d be good foreshadowing for Griffith

b) possible that incarnation can be sacrificed, assuming Gaiseric was sacrificed along with his city which we don’t know for sure but is kind of implied with his “dead man stalking the night” comment, which is great news for my niche specific ‘casca sacrifices fetus/moonbaby and griffith along with it, which he survives but which complicates his existence’ theory

b2) also could explain why skull knight isn’t as invincible as ngriff seems to be and doesn’t have apostle charming powers

c) I’ve theorized that Griffith could be fated to turn on the rest of the godhand and destroy them so a new cycle can begin, and Void might be trying to circumvent this to preserve his existence, so yk, Void big bad and enemies teaming up plot

d) I like the idea of Skull Knight representing both Guts and Griffith just bc it’s more interesting to me than a rote SK = Guts and Void = Griff, and on a world building fate-y level it’s got some satisfying ‘G+G both being necessary to fate, taking the place that was held by one person last time, and inadvertantly working together to do whatever fate needs to be done’ implications. yk, it means they come as a pair even moreso

Like okay it could just be that Skull Knight is just a Guts 1.0 who picked up a lot of knowledge in his thousand years roaming the earth killing godhands and apostles, and Void was the incarnation who dipped down to earth for a while, fulfilled his humanity’s desires mandate by doing something other than founding an empire before peacing back out to the astral plane again and starting a new cycle. But that’s just not as fun.

#ask #a #b #berserk spoilers #ch 362 spoilers #theme: speculation #character: skull knight #tl;dr i'm stubbornly sticking to my old theory lol #Anonymous #chapter 362

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