#listen the creature is either a nameless thing or an original design for the show but hhhh creature design

[olessan]

[skelimagines]

Alright, here we go.

because some people wanted it, I’m going to ramble about at least 11 of my 12 AUs {one’s just the fell version of another so not a large ramble there} in order of which I thought of them. {I also would prefer any questions about them to be sent to @the-lightest-shadow} ~Mod Feral

{My} Amalgamitetale

Excluding Asriel dying, the story to pre-Frisk is very similar. Up until Alphys tests the Determination, that is. Y’see, in this universe, the effects of Determination take a lot longer. So much so that Alphys was able to feel confidant in both letting the original subjects go and got to be part of the brainstorming that led monster to believe if every monster has Determination, maybe they can slip through the barrier.

By the time they knew the consequences, every monster that could arrive got injected with Determination. {Really, the only upside to this outcome was that there’s not an overpopulation problem anymore}. There were only 3 humans to fall between Chara and Frisk, but since the monsters don’t want to leave anymore because of their condition, they let the humans go.

Our main cast of the underground is Poltergust {mostly The Blook family}, Toxic Fuzz {mainly Toriel, Asriel, and flowers}, Bone Mass {Mostly Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster}, Double Scale {Mainly Alphys and Undyne} and Final King {Mainly Asgore. Smallest Amalgamite in size}

The AU has a lot of unnecessary atmosphere in my mind. I have shared the prototype designs a while ago here

Feraltale

My namesake and the main one I focus on. All monsters are a little more ‘monstrous’ in appearance, and a lot more instinct-based in actions. There’s a lot of little personality differences to everyone too that I’ll get more into in the comic I’m making for it. One big thing, however, is that some, like Flowey, have unexplainable abilities that they don’t actually have in the canon game.

There also were a lot of negative thoughts that humans have that have branched from the stories that became popular on the surface. Think you usual stories about monsters from before the internet, double there amount, and make a few worse.

The majority of this AU’s facts can be found both at @feral-tale-au and in the feraltale tag here

Feralfell

The fell version of Feraltale. Not too much different in main description besides, well, just that. It’s a more violent and, surprisingly, more dangerous world. I’d need to draw the designs for the characters for me to properly describe what’s different.

Pyrotale

To start off the explanation of this one, it’ll start with that it’s influenced by this song right here. I also think I’d have an easier time describing it via a pre-game story of sorts.

“Long ago, two races ruled the Earth: Humans and Monsters.

One day, war broke out between the two races. In the midst of the battle, someone discovered that monsters were more flammable than a normal creature, and the humans used that to their advantage.

Fires roaring, they managed to chase the remaining monsters underground and seal them with a powerful spell.

Many years later, the fires on the surface still burn on occasion. The world monsters once knew and that humans fought to have had changed...

Mount Ebott

Those who climb it haven’t ever returned.”

All of the fallen humans, even Chara and Frisk, had some sort of mask on to filter out the smoke and ash. In fact, it’s required children where such items on the surface. The in-game story and the monster designs are no different than with the canon for the most part. The differences come in both how you kill monsters in a Genocide route {catching them on fire and making the underground burn} and the fact you have two choices at the end of the Pure Pacifist route.

Nameless

The creative reason for the name of this AU is that “the story we are covering remains... Nameless” but the real reason, tbqh, is that I just called it my ‘Nameless AU’ so much that it stuck.

This AU runs off of the thought of “What if, for one reason or another, Frisk wasn’t the last fallen human. What if they never climbed Mount Ebott and some other child did?”

I decided that what would happen in that, without a human to show the monsters that humans can be good and caring and helpful, without a human that reminds Flowey of his conscious, when the monsters are finally freed, the planned war gets going.

It’s now 5 years after the monsters got out. Every now and then they still fight with the humans on a full-scale war. The area around Ebott has been labeled as monster country and humans avoid it when they can. Papyrus is overly emotional because his dream job isn’t what he thought, Toriel is running dangerously low on hope, and many others seem to have lost themselves.

One young adult decides to revisit their old home, despite the warnings.

Originally, I was going to have this a semi-ask blog AU, similar to AFAC, but I don’t have the energy for that.

Memorytale

This is a very simple, straightforward one to describe: “What if the ones who remember resets and the ones who didn’t flipped?”

Basically, and because of the logic this AU uses, Flowey, Frisk, and Sans don’t remember past timelines, but everyone else does. The problem? The last timeline was a Genocide one, but Frisk doesn’t remember that and is going Pacifist.

Envytale

Like with Pyrotale, this one was influenced by a song. This time it’s this song right here.

Humans who fell previously weren’t killed and just live in areas of the capital you don’t visit. Chara lived for a long time and ultimately died about 3 years before Frisk fell. Everyone grew very attached and fond of Chara and can’t help but compare Frisk to Chara.

Frisk first gets jealous, which evolves into envy, which then becomes violent rage.

This is a Genocide route only story idea that has the final boss be Asriel and not Sans, but you still fight Sans and he’s still extremely hard {just not as hard as in canon}

RWBYtale

I nice mix/crossover AU of RoosterTeeth’s RWBY and Undertale. It focuses more on a team {Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Toriel} than Frisk. Most of the main cast from Undertale that I have set to appear are Faunus, with the exceptions of Frisk, Sans, Papyrus, and Mettaton.

I mainly made this as a way to have fun thinking of weapons, outfits, and for Soriel reasons when it came to main focus, but Mod God kinda sorta started to co-own this one with me. ;;

Incomplete

This one’s title is this because “Incompletetale” just sounds weird to me and I don’t want to use a different word.

This is a Chara-focused AU based off of this song right here. After dying, Chara realizes no one can see them. They figure this has to do with the fact that their SOUL consists of two oddly sized shards. No one can see them, that is, until the second fallen child. The child saw Chara while dying and reached out. The second contact was made a strange pulse went through Chara and the child died, their Green SOUL leaving their body.

Except the SOUL was missing a shard, and the shard had been added to Chara’s.

Fast forward to Frisk falling, and Chara has forgotten who they are, because they hold the memories of the other fallen children. For Frisk and the monsters, nothing’s different for a Neutral Route. It’s the Pure Pacifist and Genocide Routes that are different. Including your final fight being a form of Chara.

For Pure Pacifist, you have The Ultimate Child Angel, a form of Chara as a result of all of the human SOUL shards reuniting with their SOULs, including the tiny, dust-sized ones of Charas that were found in the monsters. Frisk’s goal, remind Chara of who they are, allowing them to free the underground.

For Genocide, however, you have to deal with True Demon Chara, a Chara that’s the result of monster dust and SOUL fragments filling the last of their missing pieces. They remember who they are right as Frisk kills Sans, and they aren’t going to let them go through with their plan of annihilation.

Legend of Eclopp

What started out as a design only thing of me using this pony generator to make pony versions of Undertale characters became an AU.

I have a full outline in my head, but ultimately it’s just rewriting the official Undertale story to work with the MLP universe. I wish I could say more but there’s not a lot to say on this one unprovoked.

I do have the designs shared over here, though.

Stories After the Dust

This is the most WIP-y of the bunch, but it’s going to be a fanfic style AU where I take the concept of Ghost Whisperer and make it into a multi-AU story with Undertale.

Frisk is able to talk to the dead, and works very, very hard to help them. Being one of the only people who can see monster’s spirits, they get a lot of those instead of humans.

In my mind I only have the Fell one thought out completely. I’ll be able to do the other 3 {Swap, Classic, and Swapfell} after I decide who I want dead in them.

Undersight

When I first was working on this, I just wanted designs. Designs that came to me while I was listening to creepypasta or other horrors. It went from a design only one to a full AU.

Monsters have always had a rough time getting along with humans, but this is because, for some reason, monsters can only interact with humans normal if either A), they have enough humans that try to befriend them B), they have a human SOUL or C), they’re a child. The way they must interact may change with circumstance, but it’s rare when they can break that without filling the above requirements.

However, when the sealing underground happened, one of the wizards actually had a close connection with monster-kind, and, instead of using their power to put the final bit of strength to the barrier, they made a second barrier around the area of Mount Ebott. Monsters could now slip into the main area around Ebott, but not leave that. In fact, nothing could leave that area; only barrier A {the one sealing monsters in the underground for the most part} could be broken. When it breaks, so does barrier B.

Not any human SOUL can break the barrier, however. Only bright, powerful, single-colored SOULs can. These are rare. On top of that, the barriers make it to where monsters are even more limited in how to interact with humans.

When a human climbs Mount Ebott and falls underground, almost every monster goes rushing in and, depending on where the human is and what the monster’s interaction limits are, try to get the human to show their SOUL, and then decide what to do after. Some kill the humans, and some expose them to so much magic that, because they have the weaker SOUL type for humans, causes their SOUL to change shape and turn the human into a monster.

I have the designs for almost everyone made as well as a vague-a poem for this that I haven’t shared anywhere yet. Very Creepypasta-esque in atmosphere and storytelling hopefully.

There we go. That’s all of them for the time being. I hope you all enjoyed and, like I said before, please send any questions involving these AUs to @the-lightest-shadow or, if it’s Feraltale/Feralfell related, to @feral-tale-au. Thanks for reading! ~Mod Feral signing off again just in case

[jcmorrigan]

Who were all the Old Ones glimpsed in Discord's slideshow during Ch. 44 of Elements of Harmony?

ALL RIGHT, LET’S BREAK DOWN THE GRAND REVEAL. This was not necessarily ALL the characters I planned to add to the stew, but this is a fairly good representation, including the actual final villain I planned for the entire story, who I guarantee NO ONE had guessed.

“The images were terrifying. There was Mirage, along with ablue winged cat.”

Obviously Mirage from Aladdin: The Animated Series, who had been established as an Old One before. And where there is Mirage, I had decided there must also be Chaos, also from ATAS. I’d introduced him briefly at the end of the Seven Deserts storylet, but Rainbow Dash never met him, so he’s nameless here. He was going to be Discord’s little brother who Discord considered inferior to him in every way.

“There was a gigantic black creature, somewhat like a gargoyle,with bright yellow eyes and a horned head, rising from a mountain in thedarkness.”

Chernabog from Fantasia. Bummmmm, bummmmm, bum bum ba DAAAAAAA, DA DAAAAAA…DADADADAAAAAA…DADADADA! DA!

“There was a tall, thin, humanoid man, with no face—just blankwhiteness—and arms that branched into writhing tentacles; he wore a neat blacksuit.”

The infamous and memetic Slenderman. There was a time when I was REALLY into the Slenderman mythos, and I figured he made a good addition to the team.

“There was a golden two-headed dragon whose body was that of a gigantic marblestatue’s head.”

This is Fortitudo from Bayonetta. I eventually wanted to introduce a theme that Darkness was not always evil, and Light could be just as bad. Fortitudo and the other Cardinal Virtues were the most Light-associated characters I could think of to hand to the Old Ones to show that they could encompass both Dark and Light and ultimately be aligned with neither.

“There was a red-orange mass that erupted from the ground into alumbering body and a head with sharp teeth.” 

I actually don’t remember? This might be Pyros from Disney’s Hercules. While he was too, well, destroyed in zillions of pieces to join the Titan force that assembled upon the first visit to Olympic Greece, he and the other three (I wasn’t counting the Cyclops) were going to be put back together.

“A slim red creature withslicked-back black hair and a teasing grin.” 

HIM from The Powerpuff Girls, who was going to have an epic broTP with Discord. Nergal from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was going to round out their trio, though Nergal was just a god, not an Old One. I think I WAS going to have Nergal be the son of Chernabog, though.

“A black sphere from which protrudedan enormous hand, and at its center, through layers of black metal, a tinyglass sphere containing a green larva was visible.” 

Yami from Okami. If we’re going to have the Cardinal Virtues representing Light, we’re going to have Yami be the Darkness. 

“A man wearing black hornedarmor, impossibly gigantic and casting a hungry shadow.”

…Well, gosh darn it, I knew all these characters when I put them in this fic and now I can’t remember who some of them are now, including this one. I’ll probably remember him at 3 a.m. next Thursday.

“Another man, bound inbandages, with black and white striped hair.”

Asura from Soul Eater. 

“Another black sphere, with noremarkable features other than an impending sense of danger.”

Mr. Shadow from The Fifth Element.

“A grinning god—orsomething more powerful, the father of gods—flanked by hulking masses ofelements, fire, ice, wind, shaped vaguely like living beings.”

Okay, so that earlier thing can’t be Pyros, because here are Pyros, Lythos, Hydros, and Stratos with Kronos.

“An aged man incrimson robes, with bright crimson eyes.”

The Crimson King from Stephen King’s Dark Tower books.

“A soil-colored dragon chewing upon theroot of a tree, hoping to cause its toppling and with it an entire realm ofexistence.”

Nidhogg from Norse mythology, who I equated with Melvin from Odin Sphere. He actually made his debut a couple storylets later!

“A creature that shifted from human woman to mare, but kept constanttwo black buttons for eyes.”

The Other Mother from Coraline. She has a pony form here because the Coraline storylet was going to be the Mane Six entering a warped version of Ponyville where everypony had button eyes and everything seemed to be perfect. I can’t remember if I was planning on having the OM take the form of Celestia, cycle through the bodies of the six’s mothers, or just be a mare with an original design who claimed to rule over this supposedly perfect Ponyville.

“A blue-skinned woman with silver hair—her head washacked off by an invisible blade then and there, but it kept on smiling.”

Jenova from Final Fantasy VII.

“A manwho seemed unremarkable, resembling perhaps a politician or an office worker,but whose shadow writhed as he held up a vial of what seemed to be deadlypoison.”

Okay, everyone listen up, because THIS IS ACTUALLY THE MOST PIVOTAL PIECE OF THE PASSAGE. I mention a certain Lovecraftian god later, and I put an emphasis on that side of Cosmic Horror, so I imagine most of my readers were guessing the final boss of EoH would either be a Lovecraftian god, Discord, or Maleficent. The answer is none of the above. It’s this guy. This is Khattam-Shud, from the book “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie. Which everyone reading this post needs to go read RIGHT NOW because it’s so good. Khattam-Shud is the physical incarnation of “The End,” and in a world where stories originate and are sent out for mortals to tell, he wants to destroy all stories so that they will reach The End and there will be nothing left. He is intentionally described as very ordinary, and uses that to work influence on the mortal plane, occasionally acting as an agent of chaos to bring real-life events to tragic ends. (I won’t spoil how it goes down in the book.) Well, since EoH was going to be a crossover of ALL FICTION EVER and I was going to eventually touch on the fact that THESE WORLDS ARE FICTIONAL, I felt like Khattam-Shud was the best possible final boss. The endgame was going to be the Old Ones breaking down all the worlds into a chaos dimension where everything was mixed up and characters died like crazy. As heroes and villains alike allied to make a final stand against them, only too late would the Old Ones, especially Discord, realize that Khattam-Shud set them all up and is not using their powers to cause chaos, but rather to OUTRIGHT DESTROY EVERYTHING, intending to finish it off by destroying the other Old Ones and finally himself so there would be NO STORIES LEFT. EVER. And I actually wanted to get it down to the Mane Six vs. Khattam-Shud as the only seven beings left in the multiverse; the six would have sort of a magical deus ex machina (perhaps a subject for another post?) that would have allowed them to reverse Khattam-Shud’s power and bring back all the worlds and their friends and enemies alike. 

“A being as tall as a mountain, with a green face, sharp white fangs,and flames for eyebrows.”

Aku from Samurai Jack. A note: I had only seen a couple eps of SJ at the time; I just knew that Aku was exactly what I wanted, and I had plans for him. I was going to do the whole show before getting to that storylet, of course. WELL, NOW I’VE ACTUALLY DONE THE WHOLE SHOW AND EOH IS DEAD AND I NEVER GOT TO USE HIM AND HE’S A REALLY GOOD VILLAIN. BLARGH.

“A monstrously huge being, green as the sea, withtentacles protruding from its face.”

And, as promised, this is Cthulhu. Put last to, again, fake people out to think he might be the Bigger Bad when in fact, it’s Khattam-Shud everyone needs to watch out for!