#spring gaster

[zelphin124]

SeasonTale - Chapter 7

TW: Slavery, sickness, abuse I'm not sure how much of this I'll continue. I don't think it'll be as good as my other writing, but I do hope to get all the lore out to you guys sometime. This is not me rejoining the UnderTale fandom. Masterpost

~o0o~

Papyrus was barely alive. 

Undye took it upon herself to protect his dying soul from dusting. The time that passed that week was all a blur to Spring, and his anger that he once felt quickly sunk into a deep despair as he could do nothing about the situation. 

The managers beat them ruthlessly, using their whips and fists to double their workload. The fire from the unhealthy habits of the factory only worsened the air quality. Each day, someone got sick, and they were beat for it. 

It didn’t make any sense to Spring!Sans. Why would they hurt someone for being sick? As far as he could tell, he couldn’t control when he felt unwell. 

Which was all the time, now. 

Spring held a small piece of bread in his hands as he stared at Spring!Papyrus, laying on a bed as his skull was half-dusted. Spring!Alphys held his soul together for hours. Spring thought he heard her and Undye conversing about the workload, with Undye doing twice as much so Alphys could keep Papyrus alive. 

His brother wasn’t breathing. He sat there, his bone slowly reforming and dusting as his chest barely moved. His soul didn’t beat, either. The white heart was clasped in another monster’s hands. Had Alphys let go, he would be nothing but a pile of dust. 

Spring glanced at the bread in his hands before he rested it in one of Papyrus’ hands. “You need it more than me,” he sighed, tears streaming down his face. “Please be okay, brother…” 

There was no reply. Spring!Alphys glanced at him with worry. “Kid, you need to eat that.” 

“I’m not hungry.” 

“That wasn’t a suggestion,” Sp!Alphys insisted. “Eat it.” 

There was another whip crack outside the room. Spring shook his head and gently crawled out of the space, trying not to be spotted by the whippers as he returned to his post, fiddling with the wires. 

Cries of pain and hopelessness echoed through the air, but they were often broken by the crack of whips. They were more prominent than usual, as if their work hours were not enough, they increased them, allowing little time for rest and food. More and more of the workers got sick. Spring had attended to most of them; Papyrus had taught him a thing or two about keeping people healthy, and no one was in these conditions. 

Slavery never allowed for such luxuries as health. 

Spring couldn’t help the tears that fell down his face as he thought of his brother. They fell onto the wires, quenching their sparks. It’s my fault... I’m the reason he’s almost dead... 

He listened closely to Spring!Temmie and Spring!Mettaton’s conversation. They talked about how the ‘big boss’ was coming today. They became hushed about the topic when Spring drew closer to listen in more. The only thing he caught was the big boss being a Gaster of sorts. 

Could it be the same one who sold him for a piece of bread? 

Perhaps the pressure of said inspection is what caused the whippers to be more hostile and picky with the work that was being done by their slaves. It was almost unreasonable and insane to expect better work in worse conditions, but there was no consideration of such a fact. 

Spring gently taped the wires together on the outside of another machine as he coughed the smoke out of his lungs. His hands and feet were hurting again. He was covered in black tar and ash. It burned his skin worse than the flames themselves. There was no time to clean up, however. He had spent his free time checking up on his brother, and he had to face said consequences.

This can’t be all there is... Spring wiped his face, feeling his stomach getting nauseous. He knew he was about to hurl. He stepped away from the wires and walked over to the edge of the platforms, resting his head over the edge as he vomited into the fire. For a solid minute, his stomach desperately tried to search for any nutrients, and when it found none, it shot the acid out of his mouth. 

Spring’s cries of pain were disturbing. He could hear some of his fellow slaves approaching him, but they were pushed aside as the familiar, horrifying steps of a whipper came along. “Get back to work, kid!” The monster grabbed Spring by the scruff and lifted him up, turning him to face him. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?!”

Spring covered his mouth, trying to withhold another puke. No, please, not now—he couldn’t. His body gagged, and his vomit covered the whipper’s face as Spring coughed, tears streaming down his eyes. He looked at the whipper in horror as the goo ran down his face. What have I done? “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I—” 

“You imbecile!” The whipper threw Spring onto the hard pavement, scraping his face. He hurriedly tried to wipe the acid off his face in disgust, cracking his whip. “How dare you defile me?!” 

The whip cracked against Spring’s skull. He cried out in pain as he curled up on the floor, trying to block the whips. Instead of his face, the whips struck his hand, ripping the bones apart as the whipper continued. Blood poured out from them, and Spring whimpered, unable to put his pain into words or a cry for help. 

The whippings suddenly stopped as a loud thud could be heard. Spring hesitantly looked up through the water building up in his skull. 

Spring!Muffet had just punched the whipper in the face. 

She looked at her hands as if she couldn’t believe what she had just done, but that didn’t stop her words from snapping at the abuser. “Pick on someone your own size!” She dared to say. “You’re pathetic for picking on a helpless child! Be a man and choose someone stronger than he!” 

Spring’s eyes widened in fear as he reached out to her. “Muffet, no—” 

The whipper clearly did not find her challenge amusing. He stood up, grunting as rage fumed in his eyes. He cracked his whip to the side. “Own size, eh? Someone like you, then? You know what happens to challengers like you, right?” 

Spring!Muffet’s eyes widened as she raised her hands into fists, all six of them. “To fight for a kid’s life, yes.” 

The whipper raised his whip. It was as if time had gone in slow motion as he slowly brought it down on the monster that saved Spring—

BOOM!

A bright flash of light filled the air. There was a strong gust of wind, sending the whipper flying into the lava below, screaming all the way down. Muffet was also blasted back, barely catching onto one of the railings. Spring was pushed into the wire system, grunting as he tried to stand up, but his hands hurt too much. 

Before him, in the direction that caused a blast, was a bright, white fire. It burned the wood nearby as if it were the sun itself. Who walked out of the fire was someone Spring had never seen. It was too difficult to see, but she looked like Toriel, a similar, shorter type of goat. Her gaze was flat, and she walked with grace. Everything about her glowed like starlight, something Spring had only heard about until now. 

The shouts of the whippers were blurred. They yelled about the hole in the factory before charging at the intruder. “It’s her!” one of the muffled shouts rang through Spring’s ears. “Kill her!” 

One by one, the goat slayed every person that dared to come her way. Despite being hit with some of the whips, they disintegrated on touch. Her hands were surrounded by a white fire, and when she fired at the whippers, they turned into ash immediately. Dozens of them swarmed her, but they were no match for her skills. 

Behind her came a large dragon. It was white, with long eyes, and its head shaped like a gaster blaster. It munched on any whipper or opposer that approached the goat. It was as if it was made from starlight itself. Its gaze turned toward everyone else, turning around to reveal someone on his back. 

Spring’s eyes widened as he observed the little skeleton on the back of the dragon. He… He looks like me. 

The battle waged on, but it was something Spring was in too much pain to notice. He glanced up one more time to find the slaves cheering at some proclamation the white goat gave. She gently approached Spring as everyone rushed out of the factory. 

“Little one,” her voice was more soothing than a thousand ice packs. “Come with me; let me nourish you back to health.” 

Spring weakly looked up at her, his body trembling in pain. He couldn’t form words as the white fire that burned the factory blinded his sight. He reached out his hand, trembling. “B-Brother…” 

“Spring!Papyrus, will be alright. Come with me; you are being rescued and set free.” 

Spring felt her hands wrap around him as she hoisted him up over her shoulder. He didn’t resist as he watched more whippers being reduced to ash. Something about the sight eased his mind, as if they were getting what they deserved. 

The goat climbed up onto the large dragon, saddling it as if she rode it. She held Spring in front next to the other little guy. “Hold on,” she commanded before taking the reigns and flying off. 

Spring watched as the factory went out of sight, getting smaller and smaller as the dragon ascended into the sky he had never seen. His eyes widened in wonder, resting on the beauty of the world before him. The sun greeted him willingly, and suddenly, his soul felt lighter and more at ease. 

Spring had felt hope. 

His hands trembled as he held onto a lower part of the reigns. It took a moment for him to process what was happening, but the cool air felt so good against his skin, he never wanted to leave it. He turned his gaze to the other small skeleton in front of him. The little guy had bruises and thin, snowflake eyes. He was staring right back at Spring the entire time the dragon flew off into the air under the cover of the clouds. He nodded slowly. “Greetings.” 

Spring stared back at him in awe, as if he were looking at himself in a mirror, but a different version of him. Everything was so new, he didn’t know how to process anything that was going on. 

But that didn’t stop him from being polite. His hand trembled as he lifted it in greeting. 

“H-Hello…”

[beewritesstuff]

You'd never been scared of a monster before you met him.

A little spooked sometimes? Sure, especially at the one that also shopped Saturday morning at your favorite grocery store, the one that looked like a sentient inkblot test. That fellow took a bit of getting used to.

A little human-ly disturbed? Absolutely, particularly by the ‘liquid horror amalgamation of Dogs that screamed in thirteen voices’ who you often saw with their family members at the park you ran at. After the first few times they'd barreled towards you shrieking a greeting, you'd started to almost get used to them, mostly thanks to their brothers and sisters who came sprinting behind them with horrified expressions to try to intervene.

All in all, you didn't really understand the societal horror of monsters that some humans clung to, even after so much time. Sure, they were inhuman… but obviously they were going to be, what else did people expect? And with your lack of fear came business opportunities galore.

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Owen Gaster - Spring 1998 RTW

[cosmicgreyhound]

i forgot i had a tumblr account for a sec

i originally slapped this on my insta but decided to put it here as well because whynot

[n4rval]

he would give them this type of shit

just straight up vsauce curiosity box contents

consider: mad genius who's also a very kind and lonely old man

actually adores children and connects with them better than most people because they are both openly candid, creative and curious

struggles with the asexual conundrum of wanting a spouse and offspring but ultimately Sucking So Much Ass at building intimacy with another person he skipped that part altogether and mad scienced his way into a family

[undertalethingems]

Okay, I've noticed that some people are not too happy that Sans ditched Frisk to Gaster... BUT! Sans' blaster is probably now awake, and as seen in previous chapters is very protective of Frisk so it might go for Gaster once it sees Frisk in danger.

I don't know, I'm just speculating on what's going on.

heh, yeah, tbh? i had a feeling this wouldn't be a popular moment for some people... we always want our favorite characters to make the right choice, the best choice, but it probably won't serve the story if that's all they do every time.

Sans leaving is certainly a mistake on his part--but, when he never tries to stop you from killing monsters, even his own brother, in canon... Well, it's clear he's not the type to spring into action even when horrible things happen all around him.

But, this isn't the last we've seen of him. When it comes to what he, or his blaster, may do now--well, we'll get there eventually... :>

[blueishspace]

Lucky Life session 3

Blueishspace (He/Him) + @a-sociopath-do-your-research aka Oli (Xe/Void/It): 💛💛

@bendy8me aka Bendy (She/Her) + @juno0n aka Juno (She/Her): 💚💚💚

@raeistrying aka Rae (She/Her) + @silverorchideon aka Orchid (He/They): 💚💚💚

@communistcatboi aka Catboi (He/They) + @theblackglitch aka Glitch (She/Her): 💚💚💚

@kazanfamily aka Kazan (He/They) + @max05nb aka Max (They/Them): 💚💚💚

@twisttea aka Twisttea (She/Her) + @cowgirlginger aka Ginger (She/Her): 💛💛

@italianbiscuit aka Manu (She/Her) + @lizzlylou aka Liz (They/Them): 💚💚💚

@thatoneloudintrovert aka Floracica (She/Her) + @not-ready-for-gaster aka Bee (She/They): 💛💛

@whats-she-gonna-post-next aka Starfall (She/They) + @frostywisp aka Fros (They/Them): 💚💚💚

@the-local-pineapple aka Tessa (She/Her) + @spectresharmony aka Ari (She/Her): 💚💚💚

@astoriagalaxy aka Astoria (All) + @3-pots-of-soup aka Soup (Any): 💚💚💚

Session 3 time!

This is the wheel for this session:

Twisttea, Ginger, Glitch and Catboi meet up. Glitch and Ginger keep bonding over hating Kazan for the whole wolf stunt. Twisttea and Catboi just... akwardly third and fourth wheel the two for a while before discussing a possible alliance.

Tessa and Ari visit the Fros/Starfall/Bendy/Juno group...it doesn't go well, they attempt to scam them, they get into a discussion, they are forced to leave.

Kazan pranks their allies Manu and Liz by re-arranging all the items in their shared base. The other two end up not noticing tho as their chests were never organized to begin with.

Orchid and Rae attempt to find some resources by mining but find themselves falling in the deep dark and barely manage to survive.

Oli accidentally looks an enderman in the eyes, void don't get to safety in time and get mauled to death. Blue (Me) dies to the soulbound immediately after. The game from now on changes. ❤️ (Murder and Trap chance increases)

Soup and Astoria scam Floracica with an offer of liberating her from her soulbound, they don't actually have plans to get rid of Bee, they are lying.

Max encounters Bee, they are quick to offer her the powdered snow. Bee refuses.

Glitch is sparated from the others as night comes and is shot by a skeleton too many, dying and bringing Catboi down with her. 💛💛

Manu, knowing Liz is going to be the first target for the red lives considering previous...horse shenanigans... And begins trapping their base.

Kazan visits Blue and Oli's base in an attempt to steal from them, the two catch him in the act and a good aimed shot from Oli takes their first life. Max respawns immediately after. 💛💛

Ari and Tessa meet up with Twisttea and Ginger to discuss an alliance but it doesn't go anywhere as the two are afraid of the others turning red in the near future.

Astoria stumbles onto Bee, they take pity on her and offer them an alliance. Bee is unsure but agrees.

Soup meanwhile is absolutely killing it in the Nether, like genuinely getting all kinds of things...including 2 wither skeleton heads.

Floracica manages to do something no one else could, she gets to the deep dark and steals the enchanting table.

Juno and Starfall separate from their respective soulbounds as a safety precaution, telling them to eat food if their health lowers, as they venture into the Nether once again. They meet Soup which tries and fails to hide the wither heads.

Fros and Bendy, meanwhile, dig tunnels under the map and accidentally find the already looted mineshaft. They set up a secret emergency base inside.

Max attempts to get in the deep dark to find the enchanting table only to discover it has already been taken. He does find a skeleton spawner however.

Orchid and Rae stay behind to fortify their base.

Middle of session event (Ooh lore, big wow #2):

Kazan has been blessed by the all seeing eye with regeneration for the rest of the session.

Fros goes to Liz and Manu's base but accidentally springs the trap they placed earlier this session and gets blown up taking Starfall down with them. 💛💛

Manu panics and when cornered pretends she didn't place the trap and that instead it was Bee who went insane by not having a soulbound.

Tessa, while mining, finds Fros and Bendy's secret emergency base and, without knowing who it belongs to, robs them blind.

Soup encounters Glitch as she's stealing from Kazan's base, they try to stop her but fails and inadvertently ends up killing one of Kazan's wolves. Glitch then kills the other before running off.

When Kazan reads the death messages he's sneakily following Catboi, when they do read them they get angry and attack Catboi before setting fire to Glitch and Catboi's base.

Astoria, while deep in the mines, finds a creeper spawner which immediately turns into a very rough gunpowder farm.

Starfall sees Kazan as they are running from the burning remains of the base they just burnt. They offer him protection with ulterior motives.

Bee ventures into the nether and manages to get a wither skeleton head, Floracica sees them and accuses Bee of being insane and wanting to summon a wither.

Bendy attempts a late monopoly on sugarcane by stealing It from Soup and Astoria, unaware that they have more on them and that Oli and Blue have some too.

Astoria meanwhile is done with mining and is instead fishing.

Juno finds and kills Catboi's zombie villager before he gets a chance to cure him.

Ginger and Twisttea meet up with Catboi who seeks to strenghtem the alliance against Kazan, Twisttea is now the only member without some reason to hate Kazan.

Oli manages to corner Liz, Oli and Liz have a long fight and when Oli is amost dead Blue joins in as well killing Liz and with the soulbound Manu.💛💛

Orchid explores the Nether with very little success.

Rae and Max go in the Nether soon after Orchid and manage to find a curse of binding book which they use to prank Orchid by binding leather leggings to him.

[xenith-eats-stars]

me and my buddy @cartoon-leafe came up with a ton of those “she [X] on my [X] till i [X]” memes, so here’s all of them

under the cut bc it’s a pretty long list

she 5 on my nights till im at freddy’s

she asriel on my photoshop till i flowey

he old on my man till i yaoi

she megalo on my vania till im stronger than you

she W. on my D. till i gaster

she tomo on my dachi till i life

she spring on my lock till i failure

she insane on my clown till i posse

she scott on my pilgrim till i defeat her 7 evil exes

she team on my fortress till i 2

she nagito on my komaeda till her rhinestone eyes are like factories far away

she tally on my hall till im hidden in the sand

she I/ on my Me/ till i Myself

she cicada on my days till i pack my stuff

she ink on my machine till i bendy

she X on my men till i mutate

she dwell in my vault till i fallout

she W on my M1 till i believe in magic

she Jack on my Skellington till im the pumpkin king

she amazing on my digital till i circus

she Honda on my Odyssey till i get chills, theyre multiplying

she Hazbin on my Hotel till i get redeemed

she Monty on my Gator till i wanna rock and roll

she pound my head till im against the kitchen floor

she hammer on my car till i explode

she pyramid on my head till im silent

she dungeon on my dragon till i roll a nat 20

she 9 on my 11 till i never forget

she laplace on my angel till i hurt people? hurt people!

she poké on my balls till i catch ‘em all

she rock and roll on me all night till i party every day

she lady on my bug till im miraculous, simply the best

she Miles on my Morales till im like what’s up danger

she ink on my splat zone till i splashdown

she calamari my inkantation till i stay fresh

she ebb on my flow till i dont get cooked

she anarchy my rainbow till i catch her later

she [[HYPERLINK BLOCKED]] on my [[KEYGEN]] till i become a [[BIG SHOT]]

she birds are singing on my flowers are blooming till kids like you burn in hell

she autism on my spectrum till i disorder

she obsessive on my compulsive till i disorder

she golden on my freddy till it’s me

she appreciate my skeleton till i can feel my mind unweave again

she animation on my meme till i headbop

she Chappell on my Roan till im hot to go

she azumanga on my daioh till i america ya!

she project on my diva till i mega mix

she little on my shop of horrors till i feed her to a plant

she watt on my pad till i lemon

she pop on my team till im epic

she fire on my paw till i alone will save our clan

she legends on my arceus till i make the first pokédex

she ponder my orb till i ruminate

she migrate my coconut till i swallow

she stardew on my valley till i farm

she visit my friend till im the visiterrrr

she my on my little till i pony

she swipe left on character ai till i ask her a question

she Mandela my Catalogue till i will know her greatest fear

she scarlet on my violet till i time travel

she star on my platinum till i the world

she hatsune on my miku till im the #1 princess in the world

she miracle on my musical till im alone at the edge of a universe humming a tune

she harpy on my hare till i bury all her children

[sabianandocs]

Do you have any interpretation about grillby or is he just a regular guy

Two for one!

I think he's just a regular guy, probably. Somebody has to be!

I've seen & appreciate headcanons that make him like, a war veteran from the Human/Monster war, but I personally prefer just letting him hang out. lol.

In contexts where he's being shipped with Sans, it makes the most sense to me for them to both be in their 30s/40s, and headcanons that have Grillby as a veteran would make him... at least a hundred? Probably more? Which would make it weird to ship him with Sans since the age gap would be so large (If we're going off the idea that Sans was 'created' in the Underground, by Gaster, at some point after the Core was created or in the process of being created.) (Same reason I don't super ship Soriel; she's just so much older than him (in my hc). Can totally see where people get it from though.). All these ideas obviously kind of rely heavily on other headcanons, so none of this is to say any other ideas are bad or wrong! Just how things look in my interpretation of the information I have and how I've extrapolated it.

But yeah my Grillby interpretation is that he was born in the Underground, grew up in Hotland (Established in the 2023 Spring newsletter!) and then moved to Snowdin to start his business- probably because Hotland & the capital were already pretty well-established in terms of food places/bars and Snowdin was not- when he was in his early 20s.

He's just doing his best to keep his bar running and live a humble life. All he really wants or needs is nice food, nice drinks, good company, maybe a good book. I'll have to do more thinking on hobbies and such for him, but I do think he probably enjoys watching House MD specifically because of this ask I got the other day. Maybe some old discs or VHS tape recordings of the show ended up in the junkyard and made their way to him somehow (I have my own idea for a shop that I've inserted into my Undertale stuff (in my head, has not made it into any art or anything yet) that gathers things from the dump and sells them in Snowdin).

I can see and understand interpretations that make him a dad (specifically to Fuku Fire), but my own personal biases kind of incline me to say he's just on his own. Partly because, come on, just cuz they're both made of fire doesn't mean they're related, they aren't even the same kind of flame- And they live in far separate ends of the Underground- But I digress.

I think he's just sort of hanging out by himself enjoying the simple comforts and pleasures of life.

Here's some baby Grillby and additional bits of lore!

(Transcript, because my handwriting isn't great:

Baby Grillby

Sometimes would be a little lion (favorite animal as a kid)

Eats combustibles as well as 'regular' food Paper for a quick boost (like an energy drink) Wood for a more filling meal

It is normal for elementals to experiment with their shape/form as kids/teens! Some elementals decide to stay in animal-style forms their whole lives, some stay humanoid, & some go back and forth. Grillby stays humanoid most of the time but might change form if he really wants to.)

[magsterforever]

springtime 🧡🥕🌻

it's spring where i live, so now is the perfect time to get them some new appropiate clothes <3 Gaster's overall has little carrots!! hehe

[zelphin124]

So... You wanted the SeasonTale Gasters...

Spring Gaster by @zucchiyeni

Summer Gaster by @mingmeng-pspsps

Fall Gaster by - @ims0ma

Winter Gaster by - @moki-blogs

Gosh all that's left is the Grillbys 👀

[beewritesstuff]

Spring Cleaning, Chapter 4

The finale...unless we all decide there needs to be a final bonus course;)

…

For a moment, he felt nothing. And that was what worried him- he knew it was the calm before the storm.

Then it started, first as a trickle, then a stream, then a faucet. Magic, flowing directly into his Soul, feeding from it into the infinitesimally small channels of power that flowed through and around his body. The sensation wasn't foreign; he'd often tried to circulate his weakened magic through his own body, trying to maintain some semblance of resilience and strength in his arcane systems. But there were two differences between that, and the exponentially increasing spellwork he was experiencing now.

Before, he'd been in control. He'd known what the limits of pain and discomfort were, and despite any blowhard's claim, most people were unable to inflict pain beyond a certain level on themselves, him included.

The second difference was that he'd had very little magic to do it with to begin with.

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Owen Gaster - Spring 1998 RTW

[undertalebabbleblog]

UTDR 9th Anniversary Newsletter Musings

(Here's a link to the newsletter if you haven't already read it: Autumn 2024.) (It's spring right now where I am...) (Eh, oh well.)

First of all, Tori blowing fire to light the candles, very cool, might have to draw that.

Hmm, that's a lot of a certain number... You know what, I don't even have to go into this, we all know what it's referencing.

An interview with Sans, heck yeah!

As I expected, it's a joke, but... uh... just me, or does it seem like it might be talking about something else? Not entirely sure what, but I'm sure there's already plenty of theories despite it literally only coming out today. In any case, it was very amusing and some classic Undertale humour. Also

Jeez, Tori, it's been years, you've already made your feelings about Asgore's actions clear. Give the poor guy a break. (Link to the full interview if you wanna read it: Sans: What do you think about the number nine?)

...Toby? Toby, what does this mean? TOBY WHY DO YOU MAKE THE MOST INNOCUOUS STATEMENTS THAT HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL MEANING BEHIND THEM ...This is... ominous, to say the least, given the Snowgrave route and the fact that Toriel might join us in the Dark World in Chapter 3... ...I'm just overthinking this, right? ..........right???

Toby, this is the Undertale fandom you're talking to. Since when have we ever been responsible with Sans or his AUs? You should know better than to trust us with this skeleton by now. *Proceeds to use cup for strawberry milkshake* ....Dammit, now I want to draw him with a bunch of different-coloured eyes... just because...

Never misses a chance to do this sort of thing, does he? (It has my real name in it, which I don't really want to show, so have some badly edited screenshots instead.) I have made butterscotch cinnamon pie before and it was genuinely delicious. Would love to bake one in that Toriel pie tray. ...I wonder how a fish and chips pie would actually taste, though...?

PERFECTION

I would buy every single item of this kitchen merch if I had the money.

*vibrating intensely with excitement*

Very nice, always cool to see unused stuff and concepts.

. . .

*Well, there is a man here. *He might be happy to see you. *What do you think?

...I overthink these things too much.

And finally, we get a letter.

My best friend's favorite number is nine. It's because there isn't a number that's higher. 9. 99. 999. 9999. If everything gets high enough, You become invincible. Nothing can hurt you anymore. Nothing can hurt anyone anymore. But isn't it scary, to think there's a highest number? That, if you made 99 good memories, you couldn't hold anymore. So I don't like to keep count of the flowers we pick, or the times that they laugh, or how many scary faces they make. I just hope we'll be friends for 999 more years.

(Couldn't screenshot the whole thing because it was too big, so I just copied the text. Here's a link to the original: Letter) On one hand, the spacing is kind of reminiscent of what we assume is Gaster. But on the other hand, it's not in all caps, and the language is different, and from what we know of the mysterious scientist (which is quite frankly very little), it wouldn't make sense. There is, however, someone else that would make a lot more sense.

*I'll go get the flowers. *I should have laughed it off, like you did... *Okay, [Name], are you ready? *Do your creepy face!

And most telling of all, "My best friend"...

It's. It's Asriel. IT'S GOTTA BE AZZY OKAY COME ON, THERE'S THE MENTION OF THE SCARY FACES AND EVERYTHING

...Ahem.

My hypothesis is that it's Asriel Dreemurr.

Aaaaannnddd... that's it for this newsletter! I needed somewhere to dump my thoughts on it, and that's kinda what this blog is for, so yeah.

A very happy birthday to my favourite game of all time.

If you have any theories or observations about the newsletter, I'd love to see them!

See ya next time, Pup

[chaos-le-mieux]

Arctictale: River Person and Temmie

River Person and Temmie

River Person: Using the River Systems, River Person will ferry people around around the crater, for a small fee of course. They have a great wealth of knowledge on the residencies of the crater, seemingly knowing too much. And their connection to the Skele-brothers and Gaster is suspicious. Overall, they're generally friendly towards others, and enjoy small talk (and gossip).

Temmie: This peculiar feline(?) runs the Tem Shop near the Hot Springs. She hates the cold, so staying close to somewhere warm is only logical. Rumors say she has connections to a higher being, though no one seems to know what that means

Arctictale World: New Home Castle

While the bulk of Monsters live in New Home. The King and Queen live in the castle grounds. Complete with Throne Room, Court Yard, the iconic Judgement Hall, and everything that comes with it: Keep, Ward, Gatehouse, Barracks, etc, etc. The gates are always open to the citizens, and can enter and leave freely.

Enjoy~

Undertale © Toby Fox Arctictale © Me

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It's Fictional Throwdown Friday!

This Week's Fighters....

Sans vs Noelle Holiday!

Conditions:

Noelle as of Chapter 2 of the Weird Route.

Scenario:

The Player mods the game to put Noelle into Undertale to recreate the Weird Route. Sans stands in her way.

Analysis: Sans

The man. The myth. The legend. It's the King of Tumblr Sexymen himself: Sans.

For everyone who's been living under a rock since 2015, let me give you a quick rundown. Sans is a Skeleton Monster who lives underground in the town of Snowdin. He works as a Sentry with his brother Papyrus on the look out for humans, though Sans puts considerably less effort into it than his younger brother. He appears to be nothing more than a lazy bag of bones who simply can't be bothered to try to capture Frisk.

In truth though, he's much more than meets the eye. Sans had some kind of relationship with the Underground's previous royal scientist Dr. Gaster and is strongly implied to be an accomplished scientist himself. He's aware of the effects of DETERMINATION and knows that Frisk can reset time at will. Knowing that all of his decisions can be reset by some alien entity at a moment's notice has turned Sans into an apathetic nihilist who can't bring himself to do the bare minimum of his job anymore.

As such, Sans instead acts as the Judge, watching the human from the shadows and observing their actions. Sans remembers every friend they make and sees every life they take, and he will hold them accountable for each. Though, it's only when the human makes it clear that they're a threat to absolutely everything and everyone, everywhere, that Sans steps into the ring himself.

Sans is the weakest enemy in the game. 1 attack. 1 defense. Maybe even 1 hp. And despite all of that, he's still more than capable of kicking your ass. Firstly, his attacks directly hit both body and soul, to the point of completely destroying the soul in seconds as he ignores your physical durability. Secondly, his attacks come from nearly every direction simultaneously, putting the Player through hell as they have do dodge attacks that spring out of the ground beneath them, alongside lasers that spin all around them from his summonable Gaster Blasters. And third, Sans is remarkably fond of abusing his teleportation. Not to dodge mind you, as he's fast enough to side step everything Frisk throws at him, but to attack. He doesn't need to touch his foe to teleport them around the battlefield, even into his other attacks if need be.

It helps that he is easily the fastest monster in the Underground, capable of dodging attacks from a Sea Tea amplified Frisk even in his sleep, who can dodge lightning.

But the most damning ability in his arsenal is his KR. KARMA is a soul poison that infests the target's soul as soon as they make contact with any of Sans' attacks. The common theory is that it does more damage to the opponent depending on how many people they've killed, as implied by the name and the text when you get hit by it "You can feel your sins crawling down your back".

Sans also has Blue Mode, where he increases gravity on the target's body and soul to pin them down and make them easier to hit. Sans uses these in conjunction his blue attacks, attacks that only do damage if the target is moving when they get hit, do disorient and rapidly obliterate his foe before they can think. Overwhelming assaults are the name of Sans' game and he'll pull any trick he needs to in order to win. Including things that are.... hard to quantify.

See, Sans is somehow capable of attacking you... even when it isn't his turn. He completely ignore the rules of the RPG world he lives in to attack you on the menu screen. Which, as you can imagine, is a hard thing to translate to a non-rpg fight. Do I just assume all encounters monsters follow rpg-rules? There's genuinely an argument that can be made for it, I suppose. One thing I am willing to give him however is his ability to pause the battle by just... not taking his turn. Even when all his other tricks fail, Sans can force a deadlock by just doing nothing until you give up and go away... unless, of course, his opponent is capable of doing the same kind of meta bullshit that he is. When Frisk also breaks the rules by attacking twice in one turn, Sans is caught out by it and dies. Which leads me into Sans biggest weaknesses...

He's still the weakest monster in the game. Monster Kid is stronger than he is. For all his memetic qualities, he's physically the weakest fighter to appear on FTF thus far. Not to mention, his own apathy keeps him from fighting unless he absolutely has to and his laziness completely tanks his stamina.

Even with those factors though, Sans has earned his memetic reputation as a ballbustingly hard boss. When you hear those first few notes, you know you're fucked.

Analysis: Noelle

Noelle Holiday does not have a happy life, to put it mildly. While this cozy little hometown, lovingly called.... Hometown, may feel serene on the surface, but there's a tragic undercurrent that the entire town is dancing around the topic of. Noelle and the Holiday family is right in the center of it.

Noelle's sibling went missing some time ago. Disappeared without a trace. Leaving behind an empty hole in Noelle's family that looms over the entire town. This has only gotten worse in the modern day, with her dad Rudy bedridden in the hospital. For as much as he puts on a happy face, it's clear he's not getting better any time soon.

All of these issues are brought to the surface when Noelle and her friend Berdly are dragged into a Dark World within the local library, a magical realm formed by a Dark Fountain where all the inanimate objects within are brought to life. The library computer became the Queen of this Cyber City took Noelle and Berdly in to be her minions. Well.... mostly just Noelle. Berdly's just kinda there.

Queen took a motherly role over Noelle. An overbearing mother with incredibly high expectations. Genuinely loving but smothering all the same. Queen sees the well of potential in Noelle's proficiency with ice magic and wants to nurture it to cover the Light World in darkness.

How this plot is supposed to resolve is Noelle finally being forced to put her foot down and stand up to Queen, taking back just a little bit of control over her life when it had otherwise been completely out of her hands. But.... you always have the option to break the game instead.

Enter the Weird Route. A route that should not exist. Noelle's ice powers in the main path are already devastating, but in the Weird Route, the Player, through Kris as their Avatar, is able to mold her into a weapon to use them to their full lethal potential.

Heal Prayer and Sleep Mist are powerful support abilities that allow Noelle to heal herself and allies or put her foes to sleep if they're weaken or tired, but they're not out focus. IceShook is what allows things to start going off the rails. This ability alone is the only one in the game that kills enemies outright, freezing them solid and leaving a lifeless ice statue in their place.

The Player would have Noelle use this ability to systematically kill every enemy in Cyber City, regardless of Noelle's discomfort. Noelle's dear friend Kris is made to pressure her in more and more threatening ways, from breaking puzzles to murdering salesmen to get their items. Emotionally abusing and breaking Noelle into a weapon that gets stronger and kills their enemies without hesitation or remorse.

Noelle is forced to wear the Thorn Ring, a torture device that causes Noelle agonizing pain to make her stronger. Finally allowing her to cast Snowgrave.

Snowgrave is a massive blast of ice that creates a snowstorm. Fatally freezing anyone caught in its wake. Even Noelle's friend Berdly.

Creating a snowstorm that covers an entire city like that would require energy equivalent to 15 Megatons of TNT.

This coming from someone who is fast enough to dodge electricity directly from a wire at near point blank range. A speed feat requiring reactions near 99% light speed, as that's how fast electricity moves through a wire.

Even when awakening from the Dark World, Noelle's actions follow her into a waking nightmare. Berdly doesn't wake up with her and when Kris confirms that everything wasn't just a dream, they don't speak with their own voice. They speak with ours.

How this will effect the overall story of Deltarune in the long run is difficult to say. But one thing is clear. You took Noelle at one of the most vulnerable points of her life and turned her into your subservient weapon. You fucking monster.

Throwdown Breakdown:

This fight is fairly complicated, but in a different way than Sans's usual matchups. The fact that Deltarune and Undertale both play by meta self aware RPG rules means that the usual complexity of translating Sans's abilities to a matchup is negated, but there are still some issues that need to be addressed.

Firstly, Sans should be capable of dodging Noelle's regular attacks just fine. For as fast as Noelle is, Frisk can dodge similar electricity and light based attacks, and Sans can literally dodge them in his sleep if he needs to. Noelle, meanwhile, would be having a lot more trouble.

Noelle is the same girl who needed to have the Dark World's RPG mechanics patiently explained to her the first time she got inti a battle. Sans' cheating bullshit is not something that she would be able to adapt to quickly. Not only are Sans' attack patterns a lot more aggressive and complex than any enemy Noelle has engaged with in Deltarune (Spamton NEO is an exception but he's killed before he even gets a chance to attack her), but she's never dealt with anything equivalent to Blue Mode either. Combine that with the teleport spam and attacking during turns and Noelle runs a risk of getting overwhelmed before she can break out her biggest trump card.

But, said trump card is also this fight's biggest question. Can Sans dodge Snowgrave?

It is important to note that Snowgrave is not Noelle's usual opening move. Even when the Player's control over her is nearly complete, she still pushes back a lot before finally using it. It's entirely possible that Mr "Why Don't People Use Their Strongest Attack First" could overwhelm her before she breaks it out. This is especially true when she's made to fight people she knows and Sans is (an alternate version of) someone who lives in her hometown. She won't be as forced as she was against Berdly, Deltarune Sans has only just moved in and is not someone she's particularly close to, but that resistance will definitely be present.

Would Sans be able to realize that she's being coerced because of this? Maybe if she starts arguing with the Player openly about it, but otherwise doubtful. He'd just find something weird about her facial expression. For as much as he knows about timelines and as smart as he is, Sans does not definitively know he's in a video game and doesn't know that Chara or The Player are even a thing in the Genocide Route. He thinks the anomaly is Frisk. He lacks the frame of reference to fully get what's happening here. Not that it'd really change his approach here.

But to stop dodging the point, a do think it's entirely possible for Sans to dodge Snowgrave. While Snowgrave creates a massive snowstorm, the actual danger zone of the attack is a big wall of ice moving in a straight like. Do think Sans has both the reaction speed and the means to dodge it.

Does he dodge it every time? No. If he's caught off guard by it, he's fucked and he'd have to teleport to avoid it. But I do think he potentially can.

When all of the above is taken in one package, I think Sans wins more often than not. Noelle can absolutely obliterate Sans if she gets her killshot off, but there's too much working against her character wise to get that consistently.

Tl:dr, Noelle gets beaten up by a grocery store clerk.

This Throwdown's Winner is....

Sans!