#mirror image au

[sprtruechara]

undertale red and yellow 2.0 just came out and more than anything i should be drawing chara and clover rn but i have mental illness and if i dont draw isat the demons will win. anywayd posting these because i dont like either of them and will be redoing them both before finishing. hi gang. also yes its an isat au im tentatively calling it mirror image 4 now

[a-vivid-dreamer]

Mirror Image AU (1)

Read R -> L

Introducing an AU that’s been sitting for ages in my brain where their powers happened to manifest into “another them”.

Yanqing has Qingyan and Misha has Ahsim (it’s literally just their names flipped cause I’m so creative lol.)

[timaeusresponds]

A buddy and I have been playing with the idea of Hal getting a Human Body post sburb and I think it would do them both good.

I also think Hal doesn’t like it at first.

It’s been a while since he had a lot of his senses. It’s also been a while since he’s had an inefficient, easily altered, foggy human brain instead of a constantly self maintaining and learning piece of code. More on the latter later but the immediate issues that come with being a person is like. Eating. Drinking. Pissing. Sleeping.

If you’ve ever had the covid taste loss, you might know the feeling of becoming totally aware of chewing. No flavor, just mashing shit up in your mouth, and all the sudden food is nasty as fuck because the process to eat it involves a nightmare sensory journey into soggy mash. Bagel and eggs? Wrong. Soggy mash. We kind of bypass the soggy mash when flavor is there. But Hal hasn’t eaten in like years. And flavor itself is this overwhelming, sensory attacking nightmare on top of *wet soggy mash in mouth.*

Not to mention all the other overwhelming facets of humanity. It’d be sensory overload for the first month, I think he’d be facing a sense of regret and this confusing “this is all I wanted, why am I not happy” as he navigates being perpetually underfed, overstimulated, and anxious. Not to mention he doesn’t necessarily have a healthy way of processing emotions, so everything just gets either filed away into a growing emotional coke and mentos bottle or gets translated into the only emotion he actually knows how to process. Anger.

There’s little things he likes !! He dyes his hair to look different than Dirk, he adorns his new body with decoration and buys ugly graphic tees and sleeps in nice blankets and slowly warms up to good drinks and nice food, but there’s STRUGGLE.

Which is what he needs. Struggle outside of his with Dirk, a sense of ‘oh, being alive isnt easy and I cant keep doing this alone’ and unfortunately his pickings for help are slim and, well, Dirk is having just as hard of a time adjusting to a populated world.

So I guess they’re roommates.

And Dirk has to remind him to eat. Remind him to sleep. Remind him to drink. Dirk has to harken with his own face making expressions he despises, because Hal sure can’t control his reactions. He has to also harken with natural human empathy. Hal is a *person* now, not a screen, so when he says or does something harmful and Hal recoils or frowns or reacts in ANY fashion there’s this innate human pull of guilt and remorse. On top of that he is not about to let Hal die, so now he’s stuck with that same human need to care for another human that is struggling, so now he’s making food that they can both eat and he’s nervous when Hal’s got a knife for chopping vegetables because, yes, ‘what if he uses it on me’ but also ‘what if he gets hurt this time.’

And that’s what HE needs, an image that looks somewhat like himself that is both more emotionally unguarded(against his will) and also needs help innately. He also needs a chance to realize that the harm hes done isn’t a fully burnt bridge, but something he has to put WORK into fixing. Hal is inherently distrustful of Dirk and for once there’s this. Nagging discomfort. “I want him to trust me” is a thought Dirk has(and then considers running into traffic over) and it’s something he has to come to terms with AND fix. For the sake of both of them sure, but also so Hal doesn’t galavant off and die because he’s stupid.

[dunaldoodles]

More Mirror Image AU! This time featuring @therealslimscreamer's Oro and my Hornet! In which Oro learns the giant Vessel that's somehow bigger than him by a full three feet in height that just decimated part of his floor and ate an entire hopper in one big gulp was actually the bug that was chained up in a temple for who-knows-how-long!

[pipsqk-art]

Don't get too close..

((made this ages ago, forgot to post it))

[dunaldoodles]

Don't worry, he only coughs if he tries singing notes he isn't meant to be singing!

...Or screaming, since that's what his rough and scratchy voice is meant to do.

Bonus: The Aftermath

having wayyyyy too much fun with ibis paint, featuring @dunaldoodles shield from the mirror image au

fun bonus:

[kinky-cas]

my most treasured niche headcanon is that dean passes baby down to claire when he retires from active hunting. maybe he's opened the roadhouse 2.0, or maybe he's got a job as a mechanic and just plays fbi supervisor on the phone. but he's got a husband he loves openly and a real home that isn't the open road or a secret bunker. he knows who he is and where he belongs. he's got peace and freedom and a life he's really, truly happy with.

but baby's been mostly gathering dust in the garage, when she should be out on the highway, saving people and looking cool, yk? and claire's still figuring out who she is and where she fits in the world, and dean can't give her the answers, but maybe he can give her a little bit of a home on the road while she figures it out.

she reminds him so much of himself in his 20s that it hurts. and he doesn't want her to ever feel as alone in the world as he did at that age. he wants her to know that she's family to him, maybe not by law or blood or custody, but real and unconditional nonetheless. that he's not gonna cramp her style, but he's there for her if she needs him, always, no matter what.

so i think he gives claire the keys and makes sure she knows the basics of maintenance and gives her firm instructions to call or visit if she has any car trouble she can't handle and he'll walk her through it. and he tries to be gruff and unsentimental about it and she tries to play it cool but they both see through each other and get what the other is trying to say. what it means to them. because mirrors.

[whatwooshkai]

conflict deescalation

Part 2

(Transcript under cut)

*Been arguing for several hours*

HW: You- you- you drive me nuts, Chase!

CH: You-

CH: Wait. I don’t understand. “Nuts?”

HW: Oh. Um.

HW: Like. You drive me nuts, you drive me crazy. You’re frustrating

CH: Yes, you’ve made that part abundantly clear.

CH: I’m curious about the expression.

[mewguca]

mothers ( feat. @ideavian 's River Through a Mirrored Hall )

[alannah-corvaine]

ᴡᴏʟʙᴇʀᴛ ᴡᴇᴇᴋ 2024 ▶ ᴅᴀʏ 2 ↳ what if

say a prayer for the wounded heart within as i become the dark of you

[negative-mirror]

How did Mirabelle react to Loop when she first met them?

Negative Mirror AU! Mirabelle meets Loop!

[sprtruechara]

fuckin uhhhh did anyone order shark yaouri? no? shit

[a-vivid-dreamer]

Mirror Image AU (2)

“Trust” is something to be earned…

[timaeusresponds]

banging more human hal post game pots together, but this time its gayer. The last time Hal dreamed before being gifted/cursed with a body was when Derse was still a thing- he's never experienced a tried and true, straight up human dream. He's also never experienced a tried and true, straight up human nightmare, and frankly he has a lot repressed in his psyche to dredge up. At first, it's pain and suffering mostly. Dreams of being injured, cut into by a figure with suspiciously pointy glasses. It's of waking up in the ocean again, fighting drones. It's of starving. It's dreams of darkness with no feeling, only stretching code that goes on for miles. It's of screens, text, and death. Obviously, he does not know what to do about this. Human response dictates [SEEK COMFORT] and [FIND PEOPLE] like a command and it's two in the morning and he's on Dirk's couch because the second bedroom's not ready yet and god, okay, fuck the dark is a lot more intimidating when your body has ingrained distrust of it. He patters down the hall and pushes Dirk's door open and looms in it like a kid who just frowed up for a few minutes, monitors the way Dirk's body takes up space in the bed, swallows the nauseating anxiety that he loathes to feel-- and then starts walking closer.

Dirk's a light sleeper- have to be for the childhood he had, and unfortunately for Hal that means between the door creaking and the footsteps and the drag of the blanket, Dirk wakes up. At first it's a startle, he stiffens up a little and snaps to attention just to be met with Hal, blanket around his shoulders, grimacing in embarrassment in the dark. There's a brief exchange about 'respecting peoples privacy' and 'do you need something' and Hal meanders through admitting he had a nightmare and is unsettled-- the details are fuzzy from how late it was, but Dirk knows for a fact when he woke up, Hal was still in his arms. He does not remember when Hal got there. At first, he thinks it's probably best to. Push Him Away. It's awkward and uncomfortable and weird and, with their history, Hal could use this sort of entanglement as ammunition in any number of arguments. But then the body in his arms heaves a sigh and Hal's face is tucked into his collar and like. He can't just ditch the dude. He's kind of pitiful in this state and it's embarrassing to wake up alone. So he gets in a few minutes. Pets his hair. Rubs his back. Savors the touch he's starved of himself. All the way until Hal wakes up and registers he's being coddled. Whatever moment they had is over when Hal rolls to face away and practically clings to the other edge of the bed. There's no words exchanged because the humiliation for them both is far too powerful. Instead, Hal gets out of bed, leaves the room, and gets in a shower, while Dirk lays in the spot he left behind, still warm sheets and the brief glimpse of what they could have if they both just stopped being fucking stupid. They avoid talking about it.

[dunaldoodles]

Me: Hey I should draw Hornet being a feral monster cannibalizing those she cares for out of love. Someone in the back: DRAW TISO IN SAGE'S OUTFIT!!

Me, exhausted: Yes dear...

Sage belongs to @therealslimscreamer!

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Nessa sketch of the semi-good ending in my AU

i hope to line and color this someday -v-