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the devastating part of character writing where you get incredibly attached to the characters knowing what will inevitably happen to them is the worst part of character writing

that is to say that i am incredibly attached to my alphys, dubbed "alpine" or "pines," with an array of other nicknames.

this is not likely to stay the design, as i am still in the mid-first phase of everything. alphys is also really fun to draw in general

i am having a lot of fun coming up with things that i could do with her and other main cast characters. her especially

i will simplify eyes in any way possible because i hate drawing them. also have been in this fandom for an incredibly long time but i dont actually know/remember the reason why people make sans' (and co aus) tongue different colors. i search for actual lore reasons but i also dont have a lot of faith in there being much in universe reason behind it? ive always assumed it correlates to magic

sans doesnt get to be special so everyone gets different tongue colors. she gets blue because blue tongued skinks are cool and she deserves all the cool. the color might change but it wont take away her cool

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background practice posting because im not gonna stop messing with it if i dont post it now. i also dont know if i said it before but i learned that blocking with colors and then shaping it is a lot easier than lineart. i hate lineart

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The most important answer we all need,

Does Dr.Blue like cats, this will decide everything.

(There is only one right answer)

YES!! he may be a little worried about them chewing on wires, but cats will forever be precious little critters ‼️🫶

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I’ve been swayed and enchanted by Dr. Blue.💙

Do you have any silly or fun facts about him? Perhaps personality description? Morals? Relationships and bonds? Experiences?

(As I very discretely write every word down for non malicious and non writing reasons, if that’s alright with you. ✏️)

This makes me so happy to hear!! thank you so much for asking!! I am more than okay with any sort of fan work (it will make my whole year asdhhfb) if thats what you're asking as well, please tag me in it if you create anything!!!

(i've never really been good at personality descriptions but i Will try my best!!) Dr. Blue is very driven by his passions and interests, often breaking a more docile demeanor to celebrate and enthusiastically explore these things. Its actually mostly why he got into being a doctor! After being rejected by the Star Guard (without spoiling too much), he would double down on the belief that technology had the potential to help people. Technology is also one of his special interests and one of the very few things he prides himself in being good at. He tends to be as kind - though assertive - as he can be, even if he is made uncomfortable by his clients. It's kind of like customer service for doctors asdfhb

He often fears looking like his father, through his work, through his personality, and often doubts his abilities to be good at much of anything. He has an incredibly difficult time being very vulnerable around people, including his friends, and would often self-isolate as a means to 'deal with the bad.' This coping mechanism doesn't help the want to be nothing like his father either.

Blue also has a very hard time processing grief or fully understanding it, and in his prosthetic, you'll see a handplate and a large orange band beside a blue one - these are representative of his (dead) brother. If he were to lose anyone else close to him, he would add another band with a color representative of them.

He is a massive computerkisser (which honestly probably helps with how much he treats his job with care and delicacy). He also loves MTT, huuuge fanboy of them - will collect any sort of merch and other of them, though will likely only wear any sort of fan merch thats bigger than a keychain where the setting doesn't call for it (like public situations). Also a big fan of all Portal games!!

Morals!! A huge one is that he refuses to hurt anyone in the name of medical advancements, science, or really anything at all. He believes that many, if not most, situations can be talked through and that everyone deserves to live and have a chance to be understood - that many situations are much more complex than what is visible on the surface.

It's a little hard getting into his current relationship dynamics without spoiling too much of Nightwatch, but he is very close with Dream, Scell, Memory, and Psych - having a familial relationship with Dream and viewing the others as close friends, save for Memory, who he sees as a little strange (and fears for the safety of his technology around). He would also probably really get along with Alphys!

As for some more little fun facts, he gets to keep the fuzzy skull and eye light color communication that the handplates brothers have. Due to this being a handplates AU specific trait, this causes a lot of confusion and misread signals for when he meets characters like Ink, or others with differently colored eye lights outside of his AU for the first time. He will only change eye light colors around those he is very comfortable around as he grows older and get rather embarrassed if he glowed around others (let alone getting FUZZED, how horrible!!).

All of his personal tech (like a phone, tablet, etc) are either very old models (the guy to still use a flip-phone in 2025) or modeled off of old userbases

He would probably be a big fan of artists like Weezer and The Killers (its a really random one but one that i personally think is funny. he's a big loser). He's also a homestuck fan (it's such a non important detail but if you ever brought it up to him, he may be horrified). He doesn't talk a lot about it because it isn't socially acceptable, but he does know the ins and outs of the hospital and all the ways to escape or get into rooms (typically through vents) if a situation called for it. He tends to collect things that other people would deem as trash (broken buttons, spare beads) and create little keychains out of them. He would also be really into underground battle bot fighting rinks, but would get too attached to the robots involved and likely end up heartbroken when one of them inevitably got damaged in battle. He likely has a journal full of old designs for battle bots

thank you so much for asking again, there's a lot for him - i could go on and on and can answer more specific questions if wanted as well!!!! 🫶🫶 there's also some information on his official reference sheet !! including his buddy scell, who he runs a repair shop with

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To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

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/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

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au writing update and ranting

hey, because its currently in writing and i am scoping out a little bit more of my character things

i am going to start with i hate the "dead dove: do not eat" tag for the fact that its often used for proshipping or otherwise romanticization of serious topics / situations. as i saw it previously, was a way to emphasize seriousness about content warnings in media. however i will not be using it for the aforementioned reasons. that being said: memorys story (in writing / art experimenting progress) will be both a comic and a piece of written fiction and will in varying (but mostly explicit / heavy) detail display topics such as medical trauma (including ableism, and i hate calling it "body horror" but graphic descriptions of watching your body dissolve as an example, amnesia) religious trauma and other mental health topics such as dissociation, depression, other traumas ... (i also dont know the interest in this creature, but i will note that i am very excited to release it. theres a lot of working behind the scenes to do some connections. i dont want to spoil too much though)

dr blues story, if written, will also follow similar routes but he gets a much happier life when he makes it to the greater nightwatch storyline. (let me know if theres interest in his story?)

now for the more sentimental stuff, both of their stories mean a lot to me in general but especially for the ableism they face. as a disabled person, i think its incredibly important to address these kinds of issues and show the affects it has on people. its been on my mind, especially as of recently and at the moment

as its known, both @/thaltro and i are writing for these characters and i want to take a second to heavily applaud him for writing them as gracefully, accurately, and in character as he does. he is the only person i fully trust to write these characters and hes done a lot of amazing work (and even that undersells it)

now this is the largest audience that i have ever had (375 followers, thank you so much :^)). i will be honest in saying that its a little scary to have anyone know what youre doing in an amount larger than a handful of people.

while i dont intend on using this page as much more than writing my self indulgent passion projects and being relatively lighthearted when its not about character stuff, i do enjoy breaking that convention sometimes and want to say;

to anyone, but specifically with disabled people in mind, i am very proud of you. do not let anyone tell you what your limits are, especially when you have been doing your best and fighting to stay alive. that is enough. keep fighting and rest where you can. fuck ableism. stay safe out there, even if/when the future looks scary and dull

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Mid run killer

This is pre nightwatch killer, suffering from being controlled by a speedrunner and lore digger. Passive corruption is crazy man

Lazy drawing ik but I’m tired

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my faithful army and the prison breakout spoon from several months ago when we were inmates

i love femtanyl. her music does things to my brain and my pvp game skills. girl hell 1999 i love you

also very freeing to draw and not really care whether or not the results look good, i always end up feeling better about my art when i do

psych belongs to @thaltro i love you 💙 (also some bg details in memorys for you specifically but i pixelated them to hell and back so idk if itll be noticeable)

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i love femtanyl. her music does things to my brain and my pvp game skills. girl hell 1999 i love you

also very freeing to draw and not really care whether or not the results look good, i always end up feeling better about my art when i do

psych belongs to @thaltro i love you 💙 (also some bg details in memorys for you specifically but i pixelated them to hell and back so idk if itll be noticeable)

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my son 🙂🙂💙💙💙 dr blue 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶. thank you so much for drawing him and including him, ive been so happy with what youve been doing with him and your changes to his design. you do so much justice to him. aperture science logo

i love you. i love scell. i love them both so much. kisses for them kisses for you

i also (not so) formally request if anyone ever ends up shipping them together their name is stemscell

came to check your page post-comm to find out you're getting discouraged from posting original content?? i came to your page cause i LOVE that stupid little sans au that you made. it literally made me love your art. idk if this'll get buried under asks but nightwatch content is super appreciated by so much more ppl than you think i was literally on vc with my friend a few hours ago and they were like "YEAH I LOVE THALTROS ART... I LOVE NIGHTWATCH SOOO MUCH I WISH THEY'D POST MORE" LOL just wanted to say i hope you dont think people "hate" your art now cause of the artstyle change -- i actually really like it and i think your art has a very certain charm to it. soz its 2am and im extremely blind while writing this (no glasses) but i literally only wish you the best bro. bless

This cheered me up thank you sm 🙁 in return I know you like Blue and fell so here is some art of my versions (and @bawmbo)

Thank you sm I’m just going to keep going and making nw content- I get really nice asks like this encouraging me too.

Here’s my blue and red or scell and dr blue in nightwatch. I love them dearly, they both met each other in the omega timelines college program and stayed friends since.

I can’t understate how nice asks like this are thank you thank you 😊

@bawmbo look at the art mr boar- it’s your son

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happy new year 2005

@thaltro

lighting a sparkler on your momdads face soul (who isnt on screen because i had a hard time drawing them. so i made them take the picture instead)

i think it looks finished enough to post, but this isnt fully finished

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Before I sleep here’s Nightwatch Nightmare (Atrophy) Ref sheet

I changed his outfit because the browns made it a little to hard to look at so I gave him a white suit. I don’t want to reveal too much about him but he’s probably my favourite character. I love him/neg

King of his own hellscape, and parasite of resting souls. <3

Goodnight

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OMG!! Love your nightwatcher au!! I love it when people make a different take on the multiverse mechanics, so the characters change with them. I’m SO looking forward to the comic!! Also, I have a question; what kind of parent is Error? I saw that he’s the one that raised Pj and Gradient, instead of Ink. I found that really interesting, and I honestly have no idea how that would work lol. Thank you guys for the art!! Don’t forget to rest!!

Ah Nightwatch Error

when the creators divine punished him and ink with two kids, Error immediately nabbed them. Ink was paralyzed from the divine intervention because it took out all his active magic, Dream found him and gave him his vials- so they eventually caught up with Error and the kids. This created an issue,

1) Error liked them because they were cute and looked like him

2) Ink did not want them but also didt think Error destroying the multiverse and raising kids would be healthy for their development

Ink argued that if error was too busy with his “hobby” of destruction, he won’t be able to be present, error was surprisingly understanding of it.

So they came to a truce: As long as the children are alive Error will be “temporarily retired” from destruction and instead focus on parenting, in exchange for keeping them Ink will continuously supply error with all necessities. (Little does Error know the children are immortal, this was tactical for Ink to keep him out of his way forever)

Error goes onto raise these kids for 12 years at the beginning of night watch, his idea of parenting comes from whatever he watches on tv (grand gestures, he dresses like a stereotypical father, he takes his kids on fishing trips, is grilling 24/7) he even got a job because all fathers he saw on the tv have a job. It was hard to get one since he’s a corrupted and a level 0 citizen- only one establishment would allow hiring him and it is a shitty pizza establishment (Friday Freshtastic Pizza) ran by his least favourite person ever (Fresh). It’s clowned themed.

At work he’s has to dress as his child entertainer clownsona “don’t touch me I don’t like you” and at home in the void he tries his best as a dad. He’s not perfect- he’s possessive and helicoptery but he does try his best. He’s definitely not a main character but a reoccurring side character. His two stupid kids love him.

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i dont have art but i have fun facts that i wont clarify if are canon or not. this is memorys theme (more accurately probably just its ring tone for everything. alarms. calls.)

@thaltro tagging you for the dumbass even though i could dm you

waddle on

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i love you and playing morning flower

i dont have art but i have fun facts that i wont clarify if are canon or not. this is memorys theme (more accurately probably just its ring tone for everything. alarms. calls.)

@thaltro tagging you for the dumbass even though i could dm you

waddle on

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i dont have art but i have fun facts that i wont clarify if are canon or not. this is memorys theme (more accurately probably just its ring tone for everything. alarms. calls.)

@thaltro tagging you for the dumbass even though i could dm you

waddle on

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memory was not written as a character with autism in mind but ended up having a lot of our own traits / experiences, and struggles with it in the end. i can also further elaborate on them 🙂

also hi i love you. im dissolving you in acid

Is anyone in nightwatch au autistic by any chance👀?

Yes purposely written autistic and accidentally coded

Psych, Ink, Dr Blue (swap sans), and Error are intentionally wrote as autistic by me Which looks like a lot but theres a lot of characters (most the ship kids too because they are related to ink and error)

Memory is mostly written by the demented fucking pig @bawmbo and from what I know he was accidentally written autistic but the author is comfortable with just calling him that

If people find other characters I wrote autistic that’s fair, because I too am I biased writer. \

Important note though! Those labels don’t exist in the scientific community in nightwatch.

Human scientific discovery isn’t equal to monster discovery! Monster scientific discovery has evolved around magic, and in their modern era the discovery of codes. Most undertale societies are at a scientific point where they identify code abnormalities within the soul.

The most recent discovery is the mind, an additional part of the soul that holds more specified codes. Studying the mind has been very very new with the first experiment Project Psychology to the newest research like the Manual of Corruption. Also monster minds are very different then human ones in general.

All this to say, while I do purposely write characters to be coded autistic, it won’t be said or identified as autism in their world. Same goes for the characters who are coded with Npd, schizophrenia, bpd, adhd, ocd, udd, c-ptsd etc because I don’t really want my works to water down the human meaning of those disorders. (I also don’t want to use real labels so people don’t use and demonize those real disorders) I see people slap human disorders on characters without accurately portraying the symptoms, instead I’ll just portray the symptoms and that’s it. Maybe now and then I’ll say if I intentionally coded them but yeah.