#undertale hyperfixation

[o-sunny-day]

Oh right. The other one.

CW: Undertale rant/analysis

Ive played Undertale- hundreds of times. and lately ive reflected on how the game is supposed to make you feel IN THE MOMENT- since ive kinda forgotten a lot of that. Because of the aforementioned ✨“hundreds of times”✨

Everything ofc still feels just as captivating, but nothings surprising because im not playing it from the perspective of someone who has absolutely no idea whats going to happen next. Sometimes I overlook and forget how the little details are supposed to make you feel/think about the characters. Like how Undyne is implied to be an abusive boss. After you get to know her, then replay, you hear how Papyrus talks about her at first, and see their interaction as you enter Waterfall, and you completely understand!

But BEFORE- youre like “oooohhh she’s threatening him-“

On this topic, I rewatched some playthroughs, and saw their first reactions to geno papyrus death, and I realized. that this room placement. IS SO COOL!!!!

Normally its like- yep! I just befriended/beat papyrus, time to continue on my way- oo hi sans! sure, ill go to Grillbys with you! Even on replays, you’re not really excepting him in any room hes in, im just like “oh yep, theres the man.”

But when you kill Papyrus for the first time, usually on a geno route. That same thing kicks in. You’re not predicting him to be there cause youre focused on the room youre in currently, but when you GET THERE youre like “oh yeah and thats where Sans is” but he’s NOT THERE and you stop for a millisecond and go “oh, no yeah, that makes sense.”

…the silence doesn’t help either.

Its worse that he’s all over the underground too, not just in the start of Waterfall. Even not seeing him in front of the mtt resort is just a slap in the face 😭

If youve gotten to the phase of killing people on purpose to see what will happen, youve also gotten to the phase of KNOWING theres gonna be consequences, so Sans not being there shoudnt hit as hard as it does BUT IT DOES (at least for me)

The typical reactions to Monster death in general that you cant avoid are Undyne and Sans’ speeches, and neutral run phonecalls. DIALOGUE. things that appear because of what you did. But with Sans its not what he does or says (up until the judgment hall) its what he doesn’t do.

He doesn’t bother to show up, to say anything to you because what is there to say??? Ignoring how personal it is for a sec- Sans knows this isnt your first time playing, but doesn’t comment on it (much). Right now he still believes the anomaly just wants to be happy, so gives the benefit of the doubt.

That is until you kill the dude that is impossible to kill on accident, or argue in self defense.

Now Sans knows the anomaly just wants to know what will happen. Doesn’t care if its bad or not, they’re just curious, so theres no point.

STILL he wants them to reset and do something ELSE so he halfway pleads with them in the judgment hall to rethink what they’ve done. The fact that he asks an answerable question feels important to me, like hes searching for something, ANY reason. But maybe hes trying to make you see that- there was no reason. Youre DUMB and you should RESET because- WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS????

What I also find really powerful even on replays, is the silence after he drops lines like this. Especially the judgment hall question. Sometimes I do sit there and soak in the silence like- “jesus. Yeah, why DID i do that?”

My main point of this entire thing is, I LOVE this game, I LOVE Papyrus and his impact on the game even when he isnt there, and I wish I could play it for the first time again, and fall in love with it all over again, but alas, hitting myself with a rock to screw up my memory only works 17% of the time,

so im happy enough sticking with changing my perspective, and taking a moment to remember what it felt like to accidentally kill toriel and realize your actions have consequences, to beat Undyne the Undying, to hug Asriel, to hear that Undertale was getting a “sequel”, and to hear that dreaded line, “Then why did you kill my brother.” all for the first time again.

[vinefilledarchways]

I don’t post often, but I felt like this was an important thing to post. I found an old cartridge in a garage sale that seemed to be a knock off of undertale?? I havnt played it yet but me and @banesberry-anomoly are gonna be posting about it, so keep an eye out :))

[inactivecam]

only the ogs remember when i was autistic abt undertale

[sunsestart]

I JUST REALIZED I CAN COMBINE MY CURRENT HYPERFIXATIONS WOHOOOO

Btw I made Papyrus and Gaster the same person because of personal preference and because I like the concept a lot but you can all pretend this is regular Gaster and that Papyrus is Shermie or something idk

ALSOOOOO the kids and the skelebros are OBVIOUSLY not related, my idea on why they're there is because the families are close and trust each other :D or something like that

Okay that's it AND YEAH THE PLAYER IS A CHARACTER AND I STAND WITH THAT

Gaster would definitely make a connection between the Player's world and his world (COUGH COUGH deltarune) so it fits!!!!!!!

[otp-more-like-killmeplease]

[remxedmoon]

yeah i don’t really know how we got here either.

hey uh. something occurred???? so yesterday i decided to try and resprite ralsei for funsies and i got really carried away. there’s 16 of these now. my friends are actively on their way to grab and shake me like orange juice. i have no self control.

this was partially a style test? i’ve got to get to the isat redraw sprites at some point (i promise i haven’t completely dropped the project) and i didn’t really like how Derivative the old mockups were? i wanted to figure out my pixel art style! and i think these helped! so that’s a win in my books. anyways go my sprites. there’s two because i didn’t have room for chara.

[starlooping]

this song has been stuck in my mind for several months tbh. everyone check out MAL DU PAYS (Monophobia) by @starvingnarcissistmusic (sorry for the tag) . its awesome. does a cool pose.

edit: as someone, who had thsi song stuck in my head for month i still somehow managed to get the lyrics wrong. electric chair for op (me). it's supposed to be '"if nowhere is home". oh well XD

[ochablooms]

good night, chara

[pomeparfait]

so…undertale yellow, yeah?

[saffron-gold-stardust]

A duo of star boys :3

[o-sunny-day]

@forgettable-au you 🫵 you did this 🫵 you did this to me 🫵 you made me do this 🫵

IDK WHAT THE HELL CAME OVER ME i was sitting on the swings listening to some music, day dreaming about some silly Forgettable AU n Undertale stuff, as ya do, and BOOM

extremely vivid drawing appears.

only problem.

I have never drawn a puddle reflection before.

SO A GOOD FEW MENTAL BREAKDOWNS AND PAIN STAKING HOURS LATER I COME OUT WITH THIS PUPPY! at 3 AM (literally)

…So worth it tho

BUT GOD he makes me viscerally upset, this ask introduced me to this song and just JESUSSS

“Maybe this is a result of me finally accepting ill be alone forever. That I deserve forgetting.”

While we’re on the subject of soul crushing Forgettable Songs… I have a few suggestions that I totally dont have vivid amvs in my head for

Shutting Down by SacriStuff

As The World Caves In by Matt Maltese

PRESSURE BOMB by Jhariah (ok its not SOUL CRUSHING but holy shit do i have a great idea for it with Wingdings. Its very Wingdings/Sans. I change POVs for that song often-)

Skeleton Appreciation Day by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might By Giants

Garden Jargon by Madilyn Mei

TV by Billie Eilish

The 30th by Billie Eilish

Our Last Summer by ABBA (i listen to the Mamma Mia version dont kill me)

Andy Youre A Star by The Killers

I have a lot more (I think about this AU/Undertale a lot) (too much) (someone help me)

[keuwibloom]

Happy (late) birthday to the goober that first got me into, and continues to bring me back to UTMV!

I wasn't able to do anything for Ink's birthday last year, but by coincidence I got back into UTMV like a week before his bday this year so ta-da!

Also, I made a speedpaint of this piece over on youtube if you wanna see my art process!

Ink belongs to Comyet

[cheetahf]

Starlo fight in pacifist be like

Og image under cut + alt version

[uvtale]

while i work on the last part of the q&a I'll let you have another redesign!!!!! love raven so much :)

although she's not a main character in the long run, I am very proud of what i did with her character and i think its very interesting to have her be clover's sibling teehee

see you soon with more uvtale :P

[infamouzsky]

What you think of Celeste?

Also, would you do a crossover of Cult of the Lamb with Undertale?

IVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT ONCE AND NOW I CAN ACTUALLY FORCE MYSELF TO IMAGINE IT

Lads, gents, in and out betweens, I present u my married tisms:

GONNA RAMBLE ABOUT IT A LIL BELOW CUZ MY MIND WENT DOODOO THINKING OF THIS:

Narinder was executed after betraying his siblings so his spirit has been haunting the lands for a long time, until the people were forced to abandon it and create their New Home somewhere else. Narinder kept haunting the Ruins until a little lost Lamb fell to his tomb Now seeing themselves stuck in this world, they made a pact with Narinder in order to escape, having to fulfill his desires of revenge by killing his siblings

The Crowns work as Souls here, but only the strongest creatures are able to make them manifest physically as a snake or any other object I drew all of them as snakes here, but now that Im thiking about it, maybe each Bishop could have their own Crowns morphed into an animal companion of their preference, like Heket having a squirrel, Kallamar a fish, Leshy a bird and Shamura a small bat mayhaps 🤔

The Red Crown will work as Flowey here, since it belonged to Narinder, but after the pact was done with the Lamb, it has since then linked itself with Lambert's being in order to guide them through their journey + also serving as means for them to communicate with Narinder In the end, the Final Battle would be with Narinder, after he has absorbed his siblings' souls and others that the Lamb kills. Depending on the Lamb's choice, theyd be able to either fight Narinder out of sympathy for all the creatures that he'd murder in the lands as to complete his revenge, or leave and have Narinder set free to conquer the world maybe with Lamb by his side

Im still thinking of the endings more throughly BUT THATS THE GIST OF IT ALL FOR NOW tysm for asking!! <3

ALSO AS For ur other question, Im not sure which Celeste ure talkng about, is it like a game or character...? :o

[hiccuppop]

chara ... i love ur chara design .. u should draw them again sometime ..

thank you,,,, AND you are so right have a doodle of them